Bright ideas such as co-sponsoring SOPA / Protect IP / PIPA? I actively voted against her when she got elected, and I will vote against her again. I don't think she has a single rational idea based on the crap legislation she consistently supports.
I suppose you could discover new bands at home or work on a computer via pandora or last fm or some other streaming music site that does not require a wireless data plan? Maybe you have family or friends who told you about some new band that they saw at the local tavern. Or maybe you go down to the tavern and discover some new band yourself. You could purchase/pirate the bands songs/albums that you dig the most and put them on your iPod, and listen to it in your car. Depending on how much you spend on music a year, and how big your existing music catalog already is, (400+ albums in my collection) the cost in most cases is still significantly less than $700 a year. If everything was pirated, which I don't recommend, the cost is $0.
You could also purchase the hardware and a year of satellite radio for +/- $200. Then it would cost around $120 a year or so depending on the package that you subscribe to.
The internet not only allows you to discover new bands from streaming sites, but you also research your favorite artists to find out who their influences are and then you can check out that music and so on. You can be led down a rabbit hole and come out listening to a genre that you had no idea you liked. In that regard, I certainly agree that to a large extent I've discovered new music via the internet that I may not have known of otherwise. I've had a tough time trying to discover anything new on the OTA radio, what with the same 10 songs by the same 5 artists every hour like clockwork.
The point is that you can discover new bands at a cost much cheaper than streaming music over a smartphone or iPod in the car. Besides, you don't have to have the internet in the car to make 8-10 Clear Channel stations in every city irrelevant. They do a pretty good job of that all on their own.
x video issues here as well. all i get is a blinking cursor on the screen after the reboot when the installation finishes. It won't fall back to the generic drivers. FWIW, puppy linux runs just fine on the same hardware. So does open Suse.
somebody mod this up. i think it's crap that you essentially need to buy a copy of Windows to play any current games on a Mac. Sure you get the occasional RTS thrown your way every now and then. But for the most part OS X is a barren wasteland when it comes to gaming.
I bought a xbox360 the 1st go around mainly due to the $600 price tag of the PS3. I already knew about the RROD issue so I bought the extended warranty from GameStop. Had the thing 5 months in a well ventilated area and I played it around 10-15 hours a week on average. RROD. So I brought it back, traded it in with the warranty, got a new one, and sold it to a guy at work along with the 6 games I played through in those 5 months.
A few months later I bough a 40GB PS3. The only regret I have is that I didn't hunt down a release 60GB with backwards compatibility. But to be honest it doesn't really matter. I stream everything from my Mac using PS3 Media Server which is free. And, I've played some pretty cool games in the process on both systems which was awesome.
That may be it. I followed turorials on how to get it loaded, but it seemed to not stay that way. I'm going to load linux on that old machine tonight and see if I get it to stick now. In reply to the other poster suggesting to buy a different card, all I can say is that this laptop is 6 years old it's not worth throwing another dollar at.
I only mess with Linux as a hobby on this machine as I don't need it from day to day.
I have an old dell laptop, so old in fact it has a separate wireless card the connects in the PCMCIA slot. I've put different flavors of linux on it several different times, but the thing that always makes me go back to putting XP on it is the wireless.
Sure it loads up fine using ndiswrapper, and no it isn't tough to do, but for some reasons the settings never stick and only works until the laptop get shut down. The next time it's booted up you have have to go through the whole process again just to get wireless working. I'm hoping by using what these guys have done that the broadcom card will remain setup. If it doesn't I guess I'll throw XP back on it but if it does, Mint Linux for me!!
As a quality assurance tech, I can vouch for this, at least at my company. Any specs or schematics I've ever seen whether they were created in CAD or not are in PDF format. It's cool because you can just skip to what you want to see, and not have to scroll down.
Good luck getting all of your cheap goods home once you buy them here. I'm sure you'll find the bureaucracy just as pleasing on the way out.
Sorry, I wish I was kidding. I know if I lived outside the U.S. I wouldn't put up with the crap of flying here.
I can vouch for that as someone else who works for a company contracted by Diebold. All of their machines (voting and other types) run Windows CE. And no, that is not a good thing.
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Bright ideas such as co-sponsoring SOPA / Protect IP / PIPA? I actively voted against her when she got elected, and I will vote against her again. I don't think she has a single rational idea based on the crap legislation she consistently supports.
I suppose you could discover new bands at home or work on a computer via pandora or last fm or some other streaming music site that does not require a wireless data plan? Maybe you have family or friends who told you about some new band that they saw at the local tavern. Or maybe you go down to the tavern and discover some new band yourself. You could purchase/pirate the bands songs/albums that you dig the most and put them on your iPod, and listen to it in your car. Depending on how much you spend on music a year, and how big your existing music catalog already is, (400+ albums in my collection) the cost in most cases is still significantly less than $700 a year. If everything was pirated, which I don't recommend, the cost is $0.
You could also purchase the hardware and a year of satellite radio for +/- $200. Then it would cost around $120 a year or so depending on the package that you subscribe to.
The internet not only allows you to discover new bands from streaming sites, but you also research your favorite artists to find out who their influences are and then you can check out that music and so on. You can be led down a rabbit hole and come out listening to a genre that you had no idea you liked. In that regard, I certainly agree that to a large extent I've discovered new music via the internet that I may not have known of otherwise. I've had a tough time trying to discover anything new on the OTA radio, what with the same 10 songs by the same 5 artists every hour like clockwork.
The point is that you can discover new bands at a cost much cheaper than streaming music over a smartphone or iPod in the car. Besides, you don't have to have the internet in the car to make 8-10 Clear Channel stations in every city irrelevant. They do a pretty good job of that all on their own.
iPod hooked up to car sound system: ~$500 up front, then $0 per year.
An iPod can't play Internet radio unless it's in Wi-Fi range. MiFi access is $60 per month. What were you thinking of instead of Internet radio?
An iPod full of music? My iPod classic works just fine in the car.
x video issues here as well. all i get is a blinking cursor on the screen after the reboot when the installation finishes. It won't fall back to the generic drivers. FWIW, puppy linux runs just fine on the same hardware. So does open Suse.
somebody mod this up. i think it's crap that you essentially need to buy a copy of Windows to play any current games on a Mac. Sure you get the occasional RTS thrown your way every now and then. But for the most part OS X is a barren wasteland when it comes to gaming.
I bought a xbox360 the 1st go around mainly due to the $600 price tag of the PS3. I already knew about the RROD issue so I bought the extended warranty from GameStop. Had the thing 5 months in a well ventilated area and I played it around 10-15 hours a week on average. RROD. So I brought it back, traded it in with the warranty, got a new one, and sold it to a guy at work along with the 6 games I played through in those 5 months.
A few months later I bough a 40GB PS3. The only regret I have is that I didn't hunt down a release 60GB with backwards compatibility. But to be honest it doesn't really matter. I stream everything from my Mac using PS3 Media Server which is free. And, I've played some pretty cool games in the process on both systems which was awesome.
This is essentially what they do. What is sad, is that the fact that it's true, and that is what makes it so damn funny.
That may be it. I followed turorials on how to get it loaded, but it seemed to not stay that way. I'm going to load linux on that old machine tonight and see if I get it to stick now. In reply to the other poster suggesting to buy a different card, all I can say is that this laptop is 6 years old it's not worth throwing another dollar at. I only mess with Linux as a hobby on this machine as I don't need it from day to day.
It's easier to moan on slashdot ..
https://launchpad.net/auto-ndiswrapper
I'll try what you posted and see if it works for me. Thanks for the link. I guess valuing my time is considered moaning on slashdot, go figure.
I have an old dell laptop, so old in fact it has a separate wireless card the connects in the PCMCIA slot. I've put different flavors of linux on it several different times, but the thing that always makes me go back to putting XP on it is the wireless. Sure it loads up fine using ndiswrapper, and no it isn't tough to do, but for some reasons the settings never stick and only works until the laptop get shut down. The next time it's booted up you have have to go through the whole process again just to get wireless working. I'm hoping by using what these guys have done that the broadcom card will remain setup. If it doesn't I guess I'll throw XP back on it but if it does, Mint Linux for me!!
As a quality assurance tech, I can vouch for this, at least at my company. Any specs or schematics I've ever seen whether they were created in CAD or not are in PDF format. It's cool because you can just skip to what you want to see, and not have to scroll down.
Good luck getting all of your cheap goods home once you buy them here. I'm sure you'll find the bureaucracy just as pleasing on the way out. Sorry, I wish I was kidding. I know if I lived outside the U.S. I wouldn't put up with the crap of flying here.
See my post higher up the thread. Their ATM's aren't as secure as you think either.
I can vouch for that as someone else who works for a company contracted by Diebold. All of their machines (voting and other types) run Windows CE. And no, that is not a good thing.