I can't get DSL or cable modem. I don't even think I can get digital cable. Can't afford satellite (and don't really want it anyway). Phone lines are crappy, so my 56K connects at about 26.4. Yay, Ohio.
If you have a UPS for DSL & a laptop w/ battery, that'll last you a while.
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> Do a google search
I DID a google search and can't find anything that describes the difference. I searched for "DVD-RAM DVD+RAM" and other such +/- combos, but the only thing I got returned to me was adverts & places to buy drives that handle those formats. No real information.
> Next time you might not want to launch into a huff over something I never even said!
Umm, evidently I must not have been talking to you. I responded to a message and pulled quotes out of it to respond to. If they were not your quotes, it was not your message, so you don't have to worry about ir.
What if certain functions could be created by crossing the right chemicals? Such as those claimed by people with ESP and other such unexplained phenomena? I don't really believe that, but I found it odd that no one else had made that connection before.
Heck, maybe everyone has some form of this -- Sometimes, usually when I'm ill, I get the feeling of a cylindrical object with a pretty foul taste and it's kinda' slippery (hey, no sick jokes from the peanut gallery). I always wondered where that feeling came from. I don't usually actually have the taste in my mouth or really feel the "thing" but have a distinct impression of it existing and having those properties. Impossible to explain.
> As I understand it, hallucinogens give you an overwhelming sense of the realness of the hallucinations, > and it's not like you can say, "Ok, I'm just not going to see that right now. > Come back again when you know what you're talking about.
As you know it/As I know it:
Hallucinogens give you a sense of realness, because according to your brain, it is real. But, your logic functions still work (although many times at wildly different speeds and abilities), and you know that what you are seeing is not real.
As for not being able to change it, that is incorrect. If I see something I don't want to see while hallucinating, (if I am able) I will turn my focus to something else or close my eyes and watch the pretty shapes appear. I can also, sometimes, create hallucinations, as long as there is some resemblance/relationship between the real item and the thing I am attempting to see. Doesn't work too well, but it can be very interesting when it does.
> Even if you had it, you might not know what to do with it.
-- Please correct me if I am making absolutely wrong statements.
It may be possible that some people have it and don't even know they have it. If the additional connections are between certain parts of the brain you don't use too often (whatever they would be), maybe you just get an eery feeling -- like Deja Vu? -- sometimes and don't know why.
Just speculation -- I like to think that I'm different (I'm not, really), kinda' like a hypochondriac, it's just that I want the "disorders" -- maybe "differences" is a better word -- and can't get them:)
I've never had a bad trip, per se. I have had a bad time for a short while, but I was able to pull myself out of it. A "Bad Trip," from all personal experiences and experiences others have shared with me, is just a bad time while tripping -- The person was probably not in the right frame of mind to have an enjoyable experience. Of course, I am not a doctor and cannot absolutely prove myself right. Nor can anyone prove me wrong. Therefore, anecdotal evidence is all we really have. Especially on something that is generally viewed as "bad" (which I am not arguing, although I don't see anything wrong with it -- use moderation, just like anything else).
> Mostly I was just letting the original poster [know] that they might not want to count firewire out
Don't take this the wrong way, but that's not what you were doing at all. What you were doing is trying to say that a Mac was better and cheaper than a PC for burning good DVDs. I am not arguing that point because, honestly, I've never burned a DVD on either platform. But your math and reason seems horribly off.
Assuming $300 PC, which sounds reasonable, plus $300 for a DVD burner, which I will have to take your word on, but sounds reasonable. Okay, a PC does NOT need decent sound & video cards. You can get a video card for $50 and a sound card for $20 and unless you are playing cutting-edge games and/or mixing your own techno music, those will do just fine.
You can get a case & power supply for less than $100, and it would probably even be included in the $300 above, unless you are going cutting-edge, which the Mac in question definitely isn't.
As for "bringing it to the level of a Mac," Firewire is highly debateable, so I won't go there, even though many (low-priced) MBs can be found with it onboard. USB is pretty standard on PCs these days, so that's already included, as you said. Then there's the $100 HD
So before the software, you are looking at more like $850-900, not $1700 -- again, assuming you don't "need" a 3 Ghz processor or $400 video card, which is IMO very stupid unless you use CAD or other things like that. That goes the same for Ethernet. 100MBit cards are cheap, Gigabit is pretty much a waste of money for personal use.
Also, your price changed from $2750 (yes, I know that wasn't your quoted price) to $2000 and then down to $1200 all of the sudden. Where did those prices come from (except the first)?
I will agree that Macs probably do it MUCH better and nicer looking (and prolly easier to use too), but I am extremely leery of anyone claiming cheaper. This sounds kinda' trollish, but your argument sounds like the FUD MS arguments againt Linux (costs more in the long-term).
My opinion of Macs is that they are more expensive becuase you are paying for the ease-of-use and less hardware failure.
> get maybe 10% more play length out of an audio CD
Hmm, like 80 minute CDs instead of 74? Okay, so it's not quite 10%... Anyone know if that was the same thing, or did the 74-minute CDs just not have as much recordable space?
Well, first off, it wasn't an article, but a review, and yes, I did read it. The only thing the guy said about burning CDs was that he couldn't burn AACs and MP3s to the same CD from a playlist. So, I ask "Can you read the article? Try making sure you are correct before you open your mouth, err... fingers...uh...before you type.
If it looked undemocratic, that is because you don't understand our process. Britain doesn't look to democratic to me either. I don't think you know enough Americans then, we don't generally show that much respect to our president, really. Maybe you need more for you Prime Minister? Also, you say irrespective of his intellect or character. Then you go on to show acceptance for Bill Clinton who had no character -- also, I would like to point out that the president (Rep or Dem) usually has no real control over the economy, so because the economy went up was not because Clinton was there. It was because of the.com B.S. and he just happened to be president at the time. "Heights never seen before" because they were artificial heights.
Also you say we crucified him for his character flaws. Maybe you got the wrong impression, or your media lies to you like ours does to us, but I don't think he was "crucified" or even judged too harshly. The common public did not have much dislike for him just because he got blowjobs -- Actually, he earned more respect from me, but I didn't like him much to begin with.
I'll stop there, as this thread is getting long and pointless...
> Would It be better if I just gave in and clicked a couple dozen ads a day on a site I liked and wanted to support,
That's all well and good in theory, but probably well over half (I'm being VERY generous here) of the people who say "Yeah, I'd click on ads to support/., even if I don't want the product" are full of crap. Idealism is lots of fun until you have to actually do something with it. (please don't take that personally, I'm not calling you a liar)
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I can't get DSL or cable modem. I don't even think I can get digital cable. Can't afford satellite (and don't really want it anyway). Phone lines are crappy, so my 56K connects at about 26.4. Yay, Ohio.
> ..but your computer and DSL modem aren't.
If you have a UPS for DSL & a laptop w/ battery, that'll last you a while.
> Do a google search
I DID a google search and can't find anything that describes the difference. I searched for "DVD-RAM DVD+RAM" and other such +/- combos, but the only thing I got returned to me was adverts & places to buy drives that handle those formats. No real information.
> Next time you might not want to launch into a huff over something I never even said!
Umm, evidently I must not have been talking to you. I responded to a message and pulled quotes out of it to respond to. If they were not your quotes, it was not your message, so you don't have to worry about ir.
Hey, here's a stupid random thought I had:
What if certain functions could be created by crossing the right chemicals? Such as those claimed by people with ESP and other such unexplained phenomena? I don't really believe that, but I found it odd that no one else had made that connection before.
Heck, maybe everyone has some form of this -- Sometimes, usually when I'm ill, I get the feeling of a cylindrical object with a pretty foul taste and it's kinda' slippery (hey, no sick jokes from the peanut gallery). I always wondered where that feeling came from. I don't usually actually have the taste in my mouth or really feel the "thing" but have a distinct impression of it existing and having those properties. Impossible to explain.
> As I understand it, hallucinogens give you an overwhelming sense of the realness of the hallucinations,
> and it's not like you can say, "Ok, I'm just not going to see that right now.
> Come back again when you know what you're talking about.
As you know it/As I know it:
Hallucinogens give you a sense of realness, because according to your brain, it is real. But, your logic functions still work (although many times at wildly different speeds and abilities), and you know that what you are seeing is not real.
As for not being able to change it, that is incorrect. If I see something I don't want to see while hallucinating, (if I am able) I will turn my focus to something else or close my eyes and watch the pretty shapes appear. I can also, sometimes, create hallucinations, as long as there is some resemblance/relationship between the real item and the thing I am attempting to see. Doesn't work too well, but it can be very interesting when it does.
> > One of my cow-orkers... ;->
> And what exactly is an "orker"?
Come one, everyone knows Mork was an orker. Dude works with Mork's cattle.
> Anybody else ever see these billboards/placards nailed to telephone poles?
Hell no, where? I'd sign up for that in a second. Usually it's the other way 'round... Get paid, then smoke pot -- somehow the pay slowly disappears.
> I often get red using windows...
Wow, I get green. At least my stomach does...
> Even if you had it, you might not know what to do with it.
:)
-- Please correct me if I am making absolutely wrong statements.
It may be possible that some people have it and don't even know they have it. If the additional connections are between certain parts of the brain you don't use too often (whatever they would be), maybe you just get an eery feeling -- like Deja Vu? -- sometimes and don't know why.
Just speculation -- I like to think that I'm different (I'm not, really), kinda' like a hypochondriac, it's just that I want the "disorders" -- maybe "differences" is a better word -- and can't get them
> Then could I, as a heterosexual male, fuck an eleven?
Wait, you say you're hetero AND want to screw 11? Man, that's a weird definition of hetero. Now, that seven is one hot bitch, dude!
And you shouldn't have typed that either, but you did, and so did he. Guess what that means? I shouldn't have type this either! bleargh.
I've never had a bad trip, per se. I have had a bad time for a short while, but I was able to pull myself out of it. A "Bad Trip," from all personal experiences and experiences others have shared with me, is just a bad time while tripping -- The person was probably not in the right frame of mind to have an enjoyable experience. Of course, I am not a doctor and cannot absolutely prove myself right. Nor can anyone prove me wrong. Therefore, anecdotal evidence is all we really have. Especially on something that is generally viewed as "bad" (which I am not arguing, although I don't see anything wrong with it -- use moderation, just like anything else).
> wrote a patch to this filesystem which[...]
I wrote a great patch for all my drivers which makes throughput and capacity nearly infinite... It makes cunning use of the null device.
> 4-byte number telling the number of 1s, you could write a SECOND 4-byte number telling the number of 0s
:P
But then you would double the compressed data created, therefore effectively removing all usefulness. Geez, some people don't think enough...
> Mostly I was just letting the original poster [know] that they might not want to count firewire out
Don't take this the wrong way, but that's not what you were doing at all. What you were doing is trying to say that a Mac was better and cheaper than a PC for burning good DVDs. I am not arguing that point because, honestly, I've never burned a DVD on either platform. But your math and reason seems horribly off.
Assuming $300 PC, which sounds reasonable, plus $300 for a DVD burner, which I will have to take your word on, but sounds reasonable.
Okay, a PC does NOT need decent sound & video cards. You can get a video card for $50 and a sound card for $20 and unless you are playing cutting-edge games and/or mixing your own techno music, those will do just fine.
You can get a case & power supply for less than $100, and it would probably even be included in the $300 above, unless you are going cutting-edge, which the Mac in question definitely isn't.
As for "bringing it to the level of a Mac," Firewire is highly debateable, so I won't go there, even though many (low-priced) MBs can be found with it onboard. USB is pretty standard on PCs these days, so that's already included, as you said. Then there's the $100 HD
So before the software, you are looking at more like $850-900, not $1700 -- again, assuming you don't "need" a 3 Ghz processor or $400 video card, which is IMO very stupid unless you use CAD or other things like that. That goes the same for Ethernet. 100MBit cards are cheap, Gigabit is pretty much a waste of money for personal use.
Also, your price changed from $2750 (yes, I know that wasn't your quoted price) to $2000 and then down to $1200 all of the sudden. Where did those prices come from (except the first)?
I will agree that Macs probably do it MUCH better and nicer looking (and prolly easier to use too), but I am extremely leery of anyone claiming cheaper. This sounds kinda' trollish, but your argument sounds like the FUD MS arguments againt Linux (costs more in the long-term).
My opinion of Macs is that they are more expensive becuase you are paying for the ease-of-use and less hardware failure.
> get maybe 10% more play length out of an audio CD
Hmm, like 80 minute CDs instead of 74? Okay, so it's not quite 10%... Anyone know if that was the same thing, or did the 74-minute CDs just not have as much recordable space?
> it's the +/- crap that is the big hold up there. I'm still not clear on that stuff.
That's what is holding me back too. I can't seem to find any explanation of the difference. So anyone, what IS the difference?
> That she's a lesbian becasue she has male friends and a six pack
I saw no reason to believe the poster was a female, so I don't think he meant to call anyone a lesbian.
> Start using layers in websites
Close to my idea, which is use Lawyers in websites. Grind them up into a paste and they glue all the frames together real nice n' pretty.
> Can you read the article?
Well, first off, it wasn't an article, but a review, and yes, I did read it. The only thing the guy said about burning CDs was that he couldn't burn AACs and MP3s to the same CD from a playlist. So, I ask "Can you read the article? Try making sure you are correct before you open your mouth, err... fingers...uh...before you type.
If it looked undemocratic, that is because you don't understand our process. Britain doesn't look to democratic to me either. I don't think you know enough Americans then, we don't generally show that much respect to our president, really. Maybe you need more for you Prime Minister? Also, you say irrespective of his intellect or character. Then you go on to show acceptance for Bill Clinton who had no character -- also, I would like to point out that the president (Rep or Dem) usually has no real control over the economy, so because the economy went up was not because Clinton was there. It was because of the .com B.S. and he just happened to be president at the time. "Heights never seen before" because they were artificial heights.
Also you say we crucified him for his character flaws. Maybe you got the wrong impression, or your media lies to you like ours does to us, but I don't think he was "crucified" or even judged too harshly. The common public did not have much dislike for him just because he got blowjobs -- Actually, he earned more respect from me, but I didn't like him much to begin with.
I'll stop there, as this thread is getting long and pointless...
> There is unlimited CD burning after all.
Can you rip MP3s from the burned AAC tracks on a CD? That's the next thing the d00d shoulda' tried
> so is there a sales tax on souls?
It is the sales t.. err, souls tax. Taxes steal your soul. Hmmm, may then forcing me to pay taxes is harming my religious freedoms? Muwahahaha!
> Would It be better if I just gave in and clicked a couple dozen ads a day on a site I liked and wanted to support,
/., even if I don't want the product" are full of crap. Idealism is lots of fun until you have to actually do something with it. (please don't take that personally, I'm not calling you a liar)
That's all well and good in theory, but probably well over half (I'm being VERY generous here) of the people who say "Yeah, I'd click on ads to support