Xbox live will go up by 20% and the controller prices as well.
Thanks Microsoft!
I'm letting my "gold" account expire and will be getting a VuDu box or another device to do netflix. I'm not paying $60.00 a year for their barely useful service.
Fine for those that never get up and walk. those of us that walk miles a day wear out shoes fast. The tops of my shoes look like new, the soles are worn out and the insole is crushed. My remedy USedto be a shoe repair to resole and replace the insert. Most shoes nowdays are designed to not be repairable. yes even my overpriced brikenstock dress shoes. My local cobbler cant fix them because of the retarded design to use adhesives instead of real assembly using tacks and sewing.
So now I buy low end shoes that fit well (Key to best fitting shoes; custom made by a grade A cobbler or get some custom inserts made) and simply throw them out every 3 months when the soles wear out.
I still have a pair of custom wingtips I had made, they are fantastic and built better than anything sperry, brikenstock, or other overpriced company can ever make...
Problem is it takes 4 weeks to get a pair of shoes, 1 hour in the store getting sized right, and paying $480.00 for a pair of basic dress shoes. Paying a real artisan, an honest living wage = holy crap expensive. The china made slave market shoes that we buy in stores are simply more profit for the companies that sell them, not better quality.
Overly short and expensive? My last esata cable purchase was $4.95 each for 3 meter long ones. I guess you like the 45 meter $0.01 Usb cables.
Hotswapping... Windows 7 has not problems. my laptop and Desktop both handle it gracefully.
Power : this one is moot as every single USB hard drive I have owned either needed to be hooked up to TWO usb ports to run or needed an external power supply. I see this as a non issue. I have a 2.5" External eSata drive case that has a USB for power... Just like what ALL the usb drives have to use...
Finally.. 1 esata port? My laptop has 1, but my desktop has 2 and I can add another 4 for $19.95 with a pcie card.
My laptop in contrast has only 1 USB 2.0 ports, the rest are usless USB Low speed ports. as far as I am concerned, they dont need to be on the laptop. (Thanks DELL!) but it's on the side and easy to access.. I haven't seen ports on the back of a laptop for years... I wish they would come back though, the octopus of cables out the sides is sucky.
Finally 90% of all external hard drives are added to a PC for storage expansion and left connected to the PC all the time. WTF do you need all those "features that already exist in eSaTa" if they will not be used.
This is the paradox... never sit down = immortality, but you need to poop so a sitting position (Yes squatting = sitting) in order to poo destroys your immortality.
Immortality will never happen, even if they solve the aging problem and disease problems you cant solve the "stepped in front of a bus" problem. until they figure out how to jack a young poor persons body and give the mind over to the rich old guys..
Oh you know that will happen, I'm actually surprised we done see the poor harvested for organs for the rich yet.
It's actually quite a bit of fun. Every morning I stop at the local Catholic church to steal 3 water bottled full of holy water. I then spend my day at the office running around and splashing all the managers screaming "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!" and "OUT SATAN!"
Ok buddy, I did by flipping to the page where I just built one for a MSSQL server that will be serving only 10,000 clients. Oh lookie UNDER $28,000. When was the last time you actually built a server? I ordered 2 of these things last month. a 910 is pretty darn cheap nowdays.
P.S. dont try the BS of giving it 1TB of ram.. Windows Server and all the server apps CANT use that much ram, so it's a waste. It would be useful IF we installed a linux on there and ran a bunch of VM's but then that would be stupid, running a rack full of blades is cheaper and higher performance than a single machine running VM's.
You can keep secrets on ham bands and all shortwave bands. you just use channels not commonly in use and for short burst transmissions, stenography, hidden messages, etc...
Heck, hide in plain sight. Broadcast your "secret" on a SLow Scan old WEather sattelite channel and imbed your information in the image of the earth from the last pass. Chances are that it will be ignored as nobody would say "Hey... that old sattelite went over for this pass already!"
I'm thinking someone is inflating the value of the server.
The price of the top line Dell server with all options is $21,590.00 that is without any software licenses that cant be shot up and destroyed.
So they are claiming $80,000 in lost productivity and backup restoration costs?
That is an insurance scam if I ever smelled one. and if you had lost money due to downtime... WTF are you doing running without a redundant server for hot backup?
Look up "FTA Free to Air satellite "on google. start reading.
you will have to buy new feed-horns and I recommend also getting a decent HD FTA receiver. that can do both MPEG2 and MPEG4.
In about 1 month, you will have all the knowledge you need to find a crap-load of free TV. some strange, some normal, if you are into soccer then all the South america feeds will delight you as it seems there are about 987 channels of nothing but soccer... Oops sorry. Futbol!
the C band dish will allow you to watch some of the older stuff, but you can get a dual feed-horn to put both a C band and Ka band LNB on there to get all channels. add in a high end one that will do both polarization types and you expand your channel choices even further.
That's the beauty of cash... there are no transactions attached to your name.
And no, they will never think of looking for cash buried at some random location. Now a slightly clever, but really stupid thief... He' bury it in his back yard.
The cool part is the technology is there for you to go an bury the cash at a random location and store it's location in a electronic homing device.. The problem is to hide that device or hide the locations that you wrote down. I'm guessing burying those at a location you know well.
all I need is the list of Latitude and longitudes and a GPS.. on the run... I can stop by that $10,000 drop in the national forest to grab some traveling money...
There are lots of ways to securely stash cash. shoeboxes under the bed are not one of them. a run to home depot for a post hole digger, some PVC pipe and caps = a money safe the feds wont find.
Although this guy does not look like the type that knows how to run a complex device like a shovel.
I am betting the hardware attached to the transmitter converts a recording on magnetic tape or even a digital recording in memory into an analog voltage that varies with the amplitude and frequency this super special signal is then fed into the transmitter.
It is not like before "digital devices" people would sit around doing nothing for "downtime".. Before pocket toys that look for our attention people had a list of tasks they had to do. Instead of wasting time sitting there playing plants-vs-zombies they read a book or talked.
My downtime is usually under a car or elbow deep in a motorcycle doing high level brain activity compared to what any digital device causes.
This is all bull-cockey. If anything the digital devices are making people stupid because they dont have to actually work for or retain any knowlege.. they certianly are not causing us to lose downtime, as humans by nature dont do brain downtime. Hell when we sleep we dont even have brain downtime.
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A T1 is 1.5Mbps ALL THE TIME 100% saturate-able for 24/7 in BOTH DIRECTIONS if you bought the right thing and not a burstable cloud connection.
I could NEVER get real full T1 speeds for 24/7 from even the grandaddy Comcast top tier Cablemodem service.
go ahead, try and use 1.5mbps up for even 5 hours.
Xbox live will go up by 20% and the controller prices as well.
Thanks Microsoft!
I'm letting my "gold" account expire and will be getting a VuDu box or another device to do netflix. I'm not paying $60.00 a year for their barely useful service.
Fine for those that never get up and walk. those of us that walk miles a day wear out shoes fast. The tops of my shoes look like new, the soles are worn out and the insole is crushed. My remedy USedto be a shoe repair to resole and replace the insert. Most shoes nowdays are designed to not be repairable. yes even my overpriced brikenstock dress shoes. My local cobbler cant fix them because of the retarded design to use adhesives instead of real assembly using tacks and sewing.
So now I buy low end shoes that fit well (Key to best fitting shoes; custom made by a grade A cobbler or get some custom inserts made) and simply throw them out every 3 months when the soles wear out.
I still have a pair of custom wingtips I had made, they are fantastic and built better than anything sperry, brikenstock, or other overpriced company can ever make...
Problem is it takes 4 weeks to get a pair of shoes, 1 hour in the store getting sized right, and paying $480.00 for a pair of basic dress shoes. Paying a real artisan, an honest living wage = holy crap expensive. The china made slave market shoes that we buy in stores are simply more profit for the companies that sell them, not better quality.
your answer is privoxy. it eliminates ALL traffic from naughty ad hosts. so they cant store anything on my PC.
Overly short and expensive? My last esata cable purchase was $4.95 each for 3 meter long ones. I guess you like the 45 meter $0.01 Usb cables.
Hotswapping... Windows 7 has not problems. my laptop and Desktop both handle it gracefully.
Power : this one is moot as every single USB hard drive I have owned either needed to be hooked up to TWO usb ports to run or needed an external power supply. I see this as a non issue. I have a 2.5" External eSata drive case that has a USB for power... Just like what ALL the usb drives have to use...
Finally.. 1 esata port? My laptop has 1, but my desktop has 2 and I can add another 4 for $19.95 with a pcie card.
My laptop in contrast has only 1 USB 2.0 ports, the rest are usless USB Low speed ports. as far as I am concerned, they dont need to be on the laptop. (Thanks DELL!) but it's on the side and easy to access.. I haven't seen ports on the back of a laptop for years... I wish they would come back though, the octopus of cables out the sides is sucky.
Finally 90% of all external hard drives are added to a PC for storage expansion and left connected to the PC all the time. WTF do you need all those "features that already exist in eSaTa" if they will not be used.
got any real drawbacks to eSata?
It doesn't change that he is a complete and utter scumbag that is more damaging to the United states than the Taliban.
You are trying to convince a fanatical puritan that normal human behavior is good, and violence is bad. This goes against all they believe in.
Puritans love violence. History shows they used it at the drop of the hat against anyone that disagreed with them.
Sex and nudity is a good thing.
Nobody wants to see a cock on their TV.
I beg to differ, Fox News has high ratings and that channel has a Lot of Complete Cocks on it.
Then we also have every public Show that has Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson...
It seems that Americans like seeing Cocks on TV.
And the WHY use USB? eStata is great and perfect for external drive use and is far more common than USB3.0 AND has a higher sustained transfer rate.
USB3.0 is interesting, but useless for external drives. eStata is the right direction for that.
Have you ever tried to poop while standing up?
This is the paradox... never sit down = immortality, but you need to poop so a sitting position (Yes squatting = sitting) in order to poo destroys your immortality.
Immortality will never happen, even if they solve the aging problem and disease problems you cant solve the "stepped in front of a bus" problem. until they figure out how to jack a young poor persons body and give the mind over to the rich old guys..
Oh you know that will happen, I'm actually surprised we done see the poor harvested for organs for the rich yet.
It's actually quite a bit of fun. Every morning I stop at the local Catholic church to steal 3 water bottled full of holy water. I then spend my day at the office running around and splashing all the managers screaming "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!" and "OUT SATAN!"
Ok buddy, I did by flipping to the page where I just built one for a MSSQL server that will be serving only 10,000 clients. Oh lookie UNDER $28,000. When was the last time you actually built a server? I ordered 2 of these things last month. a 910 is pretty darn cheap nowdays.
P.S. dont try the BS of giving it 1TB of ram.. Windows Server and all the server apps CANT use that much ram, so it's a waste. It would be useful IF we installed a linux on there and ran a bunch of VM's but then that would be stupid, running a rack full of blades is cheaper and higher performance than a single machine running VM's.
You can keep secrets on ham bands and all shortwave bands. you just use channels not commonly in use and for short burst transmissions, stenography, hidden messages, etc...
Heck, hide in plain sight. Broadcast your "secret" on a SLow Scan old WEather sattelite channel and imbed your information in the image of the earth from the last pass. Chances are that it will be ignored as nobody would say "Hey... that old sattelite went over for this pass already!"
Hide in plain sight. works great.
I'm thinking someone is inflating the value of the server.
The price of the top line Dell server with all options is $21,590.00 that is without any software licenses that cant be shot up and destroyed.
So they are claiming $80,000 in lost productivity and backup restoration costs?
That is an insurance scam if I ever smelled one. and if you had lost money due to downtime... WTF are you doing running without a redundant server for hot backup?
then paint...
" I'M NOT LISTENING TO YOU!"
on the dish.
That will throw them off.
Up here in Michigan we throw rocks or poke at cornered wolverines.
No, the animal.. not the panzy college students... they just whine in the alleyway when you do that to them... No fun at all.
GO SPARTIANS!
Put a Biquad antenna at the focal point and a wifi usb reciever connected to it... and use it to steal WiFi from the ISS as it flys over.
Look up "FTA Free to Air satellite "on google. start reading.
you will have to buy new feed-horns and I recommend also getting a decent HD FTA receiver. that can do both MPEG2 and MPEG4.
In about 1 month, you will have all the knowledge you need to find a crap-load of free TV. some strange, some normal, if you are into soccer then all the South america feeds will delight you as it seems there are about 987 channels of nothing but soccer... Oops sorry. Futbol!
the C band dish will allow you to watch some of the older stuff, but you can get a dual feed-horn to put both a C band and Ka band LNB on there to get all channels. add in a high end one that will do both polarization types and you expand your channel choices even further.
That's the beauty of cash... there are no transactions attached to your name.
And no, they will never think of looking for cash buried at some random location. Now a slightly clever, but really stupid thief... He' bury it in his back yard.
The cool part is the technology is there for you to go an bury the cash at a random location and store it's location in a electronic homing device.. The problem is to hide that device or hide the locations that you wrote down. I'm guessing burying those at a location you know well.
never said it was in MY back yard.
all I need is the list of Latitude and longitudes and a GPS.. on the run... I can stop by that $10,000 drop in the national forest to grab some traveling money...
There are lots of ways to securely stash cash. shoeboxes under the bed are not one of them. a run to home depot for a post hole digger, some PVC pipe and caps = a money safe the feds wont find.
Although this guy does not look like the type that knows how to run a complex device like a shovel.
I am betting the hardware attached to the transmitter converts a recording on magnetic tape or even a digital recording in memory into an analog voltage that varies with the amplitude and frequency this super special signal is then fed into the transmitter.
November... it was NOT always Nancy.
It is not like before "digital devices" people would sit around doing nothing for "downtime".. Before pocket toys that look for our attention people had a list of tasks they had to do. Instead of wasting time sitting there playing plants-vs-zombies they read a book or talked.
My downtime is usually under a car or elbow deep in a motorcycle doing high level brain activity compared to what any digital device causes.
This is all bull-cockey. If anything the digital devices are making people stupid because they dont have to actually work for or retain any knowlege.. they certianly are not causing us to lose downtime, as humans by nature dont do brain downtime. Hell when we sleep we dont even have brain downtime.