MiniDisc will never die! I love MiniDisc:) It has so many advantages over CD media it's not even funny... Had Sony been more open with the format and made computer interfaces for them (much sooner) I say it would be a big player today.
That has been proven in the past not to be a valid reason. Has everyone already forgotten the shutdown of the @home network? Only reason thousands of people are not out of cable modem right now is the providers that were using @home saw it coming and plopped down money on switches routers etc... There is a big difference between that and launching a satellite... and this wouldn't be the first satellite service to fail..
Not gonna make a rude comment about the car you purchased but... all those non 'cheapy' cars that have the wonderfully integrated stereo components usually don't sound anywhere near good enough to suit me. Which is why I replace or have them never install the stereo when I buy a car so I can put my own speakers, head unit, amps, etc in the car. To get the sound that I like. Not what the bean pushers would allow them to buy 30billion of for the mass production of a car. So loosing the increased functionality is just a fact of life for those that crave better sound. No real loss to install another random box in the trunk to recieve sat signals at that point.
This actually makes a bit of sense to me. I was at a IBM DeveloperWorld conference where the CTO of the weather channel was a pannel speaker. And he was very greatful to IBM and the Apache foundation and all the other people out there who had worked on the software that runs their platform. He seemed like a really decent guy and this might just be their way of saying thanks.
I have yet to figure out why you guys always want to have this monolithic box that does everything under the sun poorly instead of one thing well. Build a box that does the PVR thing well. Buy a nice reciever with nice component switching, buy a consumer DVD players on the market. Which I KNOW will perform better than a hollywood plus. hook all of it up and have a blast.
I had a really nice example typed out using < and > and it told me I violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted. Way to go slashdot, lock it down so that valid comments can't get through! Why not just leave these things to the modding system and let valid content through! I believe this is the last time I attempt to post help on slashdot as I have had nothing but trouble when trying to do so now and in the past.
Actually it's widely known that VHS was the technology of choice because it's what the porn industry embraced and started releasing titles on. And while you can try to ignore it. Porn is a HUGE pull on any media known to man. And has influence in people's decisons.
Actually not trying to be a dick or anything but CD's can be destroyed by bugs.. well really fungi: http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/20010702.html#_Toc5182 06110
There are differences. Doom 3:
- Single player oriented
- Years ahead of the technology of Quake 3, and rightfully so as q3 was released in 99
- Has a story line
Quake 3:
- Multi-player oriented
- Starting to age a bit, but still PLENTY of fun
- has no story line
Doom seems like it will be a more 'realistic' eye candy rich game. Where Quake 3 is a fast paced multiplayer game with more of a fantasy set of physics.
Let Napster die... It will always have a spot in our hearts and a spot on the bumpers of those who ended up with stickers. But, it really is the wrong way to go about it. I am not going to pretend that everybody here uses these things for legitimate purposes so lets get down to the point. If you want to use a service and have it stay around for awhile, you need to find another filesharing method that has been around for years without being pinched off. The number one that comes to mind for me is IRC combined with a real file transfer method (ftp) none of that dcc crap. Well... awhile back I started playing with Direct Connect. And it seems to be a good shot at the "right" way to do it. Anybody can setup a HUB, which is used for chatting and brokers search requests. Hubs can interconnect (like irc) and make a much larger resource base. And clients are the nodes. It has a higher learning curve than napster or kazaa but after you figure it out and find a few good hubs you like you should be set.
I know this is slashdot and very heavily biased in the direction of open source, but come on.... Why the constant barage of completely non-sensical comments about how open source would/could save the day where another closed source solution failed. This seems like a perfect example of where open source has little if no place. I completely agree when the problem domain contains something that open source developers have at home. But when was the last time you went to a friends house and checked out his new air traffic control tower? And furthermore somebody point me out an open source project as complex as an air traffic control program that has had no bugs? While you do get the advantage of peer review of code if it's open source, there are always bugs. And honestly... if somebody posted on freshmeat or slashdot about their new beta air traffic control program, how many of you would do a full code audit? It's not exactly a sexy project or something you could use at home...
Screw something that complex.... with it capped at 15kbps If I am maxing out the download stream or getting close to doing so. I can't ssh somewhere and be productive... because there isn't enough upstream left after all the acking of the recieved packets to have an interactive session. And if my roommate decides to request a webpage from a website while i am playing quake, forget it.. it's all over.
Just figured I would mention... hehe, you make me laugh:) Your not allowed to think before you speak! Otherwise you wouldn't be the one to post the stories or get the in the first few comments posted. I personally think they should randomize the order that the top level comments to a story show up in. It might help with some of the knee jerk comments that pop up constantly.
After seeing some of the recent suits dealing with such things I agree with you, I would like to have somebody explain to me how that is legal though. I thought you could express your grevances against a company or individual unless you were just outright lying and being slanderous. I wish somebody could set me straight on all this...
Having used paypal quite a bit I think I can answer how there could be harm in giving the money back to the original owner. If you define that as letting the original login have access to it. Because if there was indeed a transfer initiated from your account to another account, that would mean that the 3rd party that was playing with your money had your password and account info. Which would allow them access to it once again if it went back into your account.
I am not saying that their process of finding out who you are is not taking too long but the process itself makes sense. Odd transaction, red flag, prove customer is original customer, setup new account/change password on old, release funds. If they were speedy about this I would have no problem with it, but if what you are saying is correct, they are either amazingly understaffed or playing the insurance company game.
Which is another gripe completely but knowing several people who have worked for insurance companies, some of the companies it is standard _unwritten_ procedure to deny claimes the first 1-2 times no matter how valid they are.
I find it hard to believe that an Anonymous Coward posting which speaks very poorly of the company being marked as Insightful much less to a level of +4. I mean come on, we have no way to back this up or for that matter refute it. I would like all of the mods that +'d this comment to contact me, I have a bit of lake front property I have been needing to liquidate for awhile, mabey you will be interested.
Just FYI on the networking for the Xbox. Gamespy came out with a linking software that doesn't require you to h4x0r your linux box into a tunnel with your other geeky friends down the block. They have made it a windows app that ties into gamespy so you can find friends online to play with. Check it out I have been meaning to finish running the network drops to my living room so I can give this a shot. I got an Xbox for free from the big Taco Bell giveaway so I am pumped about xbox:)
while true;do wget http://www.mp3yes.com/free_mp3_finder.exe -O/dev/null; done
I am not suggesting anybody do this as it might be construed as a DoS attempt but if the article is correct that could cost Gator a good bit of money and make them possibly reconsider their software install tactics;)
A month ago I was in the market for a new video card and after looking at the geforceX cards and the Radeon 8500 cards I settled on the Radeon 8500 due to it's price and performance stacked up against the Geforce cards in the same and higher price ranges. After three weeks I am back to my Geforce 256 card and the Radeon 8500 is sitting in it's static bag on my desk. It has to be the worst hardware purchase I have ever made. The hardware itself may be very impressive stacked up to the comparable Geforce models but that isn't the problem.
ATI's inability to write a decent driver has caused this card to be a huge failure in my book. I play a good amount of quake 3 and in the earlier driver revisions it would lock up my computer every round or 2. Then some un-supported beta drivers came out that made it lock up less frequently but messed up the rendering of quake 3 worlds horribly. Version after version of drivers have come out and seem to fix one problem and introduce 3 more.
Issues like the frame rate randomly dropping below 30 and staying there till I reboot. The edges of a world being visible because of gaps in the texture rendering. Random lockups, a few random reboots.
And before I get 30 replies saying that the radeon is a great card and works for me and you have a crappy computer. Any other 3d video card I put in this machine works fine. I have yet to have a framerate, rendering, lockup, reboot, etc problem since my Asus Geforce 256 card went back in. And believe me I tried EVERYTHING I could think of, bios flash, every driver known to man on the system update, os reinstall (2000 and XP) couldn't use linux as a test platform as XFree86 doesn't have 8500 3d support yet.
Well it's easy to attain these things, just go to a swap meet, pawn shop, yard sale, or mabey even antique store. You are asking for things that do/did exist, they have just been "upgraded." You feel free to keep it simple. I am gonna make things complex, yep, my microwave is so damn complex when I wana hit popcorn I hit the popcorn button, then.. it gets better, I wait for it to ding and in the mean time I can go back to reading and furthering my knowledge instead of doing mind numbing things like babying the microwave till my frozen dinner is done.
And as far as the alarm clock, ifyou really want an alarm clock you can forget to set the alarm on I will mail you mine, as long as you pay postage. I need to get a new one neway and I have gotten to work late plenty of times with mine.
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Thats pretty much my only reason for watching the Super Bowl myself... I was pretty depressed when Ad Critic shut down. I almost say I would pay a small _very_ small access fee, because I get a good bit of enjoyment out of the the site and sending me all those movies has to cost them some money...
It's airborne! It's blood borne! It turns out it's script borne
Did you possibly misunderstand arbovirus to be airborne? See this comment for another reference to it being the type of virus not them describing it's transport method. Quick search on google would make that not such a far fetched idea, the fact that it was a vampire instead of an insect is a bit off but... well we are talking about vampires here:
Arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) are a large group of viruses that are spread mainly by blood-sucking insects. In the United States, arboviruses are most commonly spread by mosquitoes.
Mind you, Whistler's now a vampire who is in some kind of hastily unexplained "stasis" for the last few years, so that Blade can inoculate him against the vampire virus and make him human again.
If you follow the dialogue he actually explains it while he is hobbling around surveying the new digs. He states that they would repeatedly torture him till he was close to death, just to put him in the blood stasis thing to heal back up and do it again. He even makes a comment that he wishes they had fixed his leg while they were at it. This might even explain your statement about continuity... If you missed that what else did you slip up on.
I would love to know why you can't view PDF (Portable Document Format) files. I just took a quick look at Adobe's site and there are 23 supported OSs in the pulldown for downloading the free acrobat reader. What kind of setup are you running that doesn't have that ability? I was going to post a link to a pdf2html tool but if you cant run acrobat nevermind.
Are you kidding.... think of the money you could make on internet perverts with that... plenty of people pay to see stuff like that without the user feedback;)
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MiniDisc will never die! I love MiniDisc :) It has so many advantages over CD media it's not even funny... Had Sony been more open with the format and made computer interfaces for them (much sooner) I say it would be a big player today.
That has been proven in the past not to be a valid reason. Has everyone already forgotten the shutdown of the @home network? Only reason thousands of people are not out of cable modem right now is the providers that were using @home saw it coming and plopped down money on switches routers etc... There is a big difference between that and launching a satellite... and this wouldn't be the first satellite service to fail..
Not gonna make a rude comment about the car you purchased but... all those non 'cheapy' cars that have the wonderfully integrated stereo components usually don't sound anywhere near good enough to suit me. Which is why I replace or have them never install the stereo when I buy a car so I can put my own speakers, head unit, amps, etc in the car. To get the sound that I like. Not what the bean pushers would allow them to buy 30billion of for the mass production of a car. So loosing the increased functionality is just a fact of life for those that crave better sound. No real loss to install another random box in the trunk to recieve sat signals at that point.
This actually makes a bit of sense to me. I was at a IBM DeveloperWorld conference where the CTO of the weather channel was a pannel speaker. And he was very greatful to IBM and the Apache foundation and all the other people out there who had worked on the software that runs their platform. He seemed like a really decent guy and this might just be their way of saying thanks.
I have yet to figure out why you guys always want to have this monolithic box that does everything under the sun poorly instead of one thing well. Build a box that does the PVR thing well. Buy a nice reciever with nice component switching, buy a consumer DVD players on the market. Which I KNOW will perform better than a hollywood plus. hook all of it up and have a blast.
I had a really nice example typed out using < and > and it told me I violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted. Way to go slashdot, lock it down so that valid comments can't get through! Why not just leave these things to the modding system and let valid content through! I believe this is the last time I attempt to post help on slashdot as I have had nothing but trouble when trying to do so now and in the past.
Actually it's widely known that VHS was the technology of choice because it's what the porn industry embraced and started releasing titles on. And while you can try to ignore it. Porn is a HUGE pull on any media known to man. And has influence in people's decisons.
Actually not trying to be a dick or anything but CD's can be destroyed by bugs.. well really fungi: http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/20010702.html#_Toc5182 06110
There are differences.
Doom 3:
- Single player oriented
- Years ahead of the technology of Quake 3, and rightfully so as q3 was released in 99
- Has a story line
Quake 3:
- Multi-player oriented
- Starting to age a bit, but still PLENTY of fun
- has no story line
Doom seems like it will be a more 'realistic' eye candy rich game. Where Quake 3 is a fast paced multiplayer game with more of a fantasy set of physics.
Let Napster die... It will always have a spot in our hearts and a spot on the bumpers of those who ended up with stickers. But, it really is the wrong way to go about it. I am not going to pretend that everybody here uses these things for legitimate purposes so lets get down to the point. If you want to use a service and have it stay around for awhile, you need to find another filesharing method that has been around for years without being pinched off.
The number one that comes to mind for me is IRC combined with a real file transfer method (ftp) none of that dcc crap. Well... awhile back I started playing with Direct Connect. And it seems to be a good shot at the "right" way to do it. Anybody can setup a HUB, which is used for chatting and brokers search requests. Hubs can interconnect (like irc) and make a much larger resource base. And clients are the nodes.
It has a higher learning curve than napster or kazaa but after you figure it out and find a few good hubs you like you should be set.
I know this is slashdot and very heavily biased in the direction of open source, but come on.... Why the constant barage of completely non-sensical comments about how open source would/could save the day where another closed source solution failed. This seems like a perfect example of where open source has little if no place. I completely agree when the problem domain contains something that open source developers have at home. But when was the last time you went to a friends house and checked out his new air traffic control tower?
And furthermore somebody point me out an open source project as complex as an air traffic control program that has had no bugs? While you do get the advantage of peer review of code if it's open source, there are always bugs. And honestly... if somebody posted on freshmeat or slashdot about their new beta air traffic control program, how many of you would do a full code audit? It's not exactly a sexy project or something you could use at home...
Screw something that complex.... with it capped at 15kbps If I am maxing out the download stream or getting close to doing so. I can't ssh somewhere and be productive... because there isn't enough upstream left after all the acking of the recieved packets to have an interactive session. And if my roommate decides to request a webpage from a website while i am playing quake, forget it.. it's all over.
Just figured I would mention... hehe, you make me laugh :) Your not allowed to think before you speak! Otherwise you wouldn't be the one to post the stories or get the in the first few comments posted. I personally think they should randomize the order that the top level comments to a story show up in. It might help with some of the knee jerk comments that pop up constantly.
After seeing some of the recent suits dealing with such things I agree with you, I would like to have somebody explain to me how that is legal though. I thought you could express your grevances against a company or individual unless you were just outright lying and being slanderous. I wish somebody could set me straight on all this...
Having used paypal quite a bit I think I can answer how there could be harm in giving the money back to the original owner. If you define that as letting the original login have access to it. Because if there was indeed a transfer initiated from your account to another account, that would mean that the 3rd party that was playing with your money had your password and account info. Which would allow them access to it once again if it went back into your account.
I am not saying that their process of finding out who you are is not taking too long but the process itself makes sense. Odd transaction, red flag, prove customer is original customer, setup new account/change password on old, release funds. If they were speedy about this I would have no problem with it, but if what you are saying is correct, they are either amazingly understaffed or playing the insurance company game.
Which is another gripe completely but knowing several people who have worked for insurance companies, some of the companies it is standard _unwritten_ procedure to deny claimes the first 1-2 times no matter how valid they are.
I find it hard to believe that an Anonymous Coward posting which speaks very poorly of the company being marked as Insightful much less to a level of +4. I mean come on, we have no way to back this up or for that matter refute it. I would like all of the mods that +'d this comment to contact me, I have a bit of lake front property I have been needing to liquidate for awhile, mabey you will be interested.
Games currently supported:
while true;do wget http://www.mp3yes.com/free_mp3_finder.exe -O /dev/null; done
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I am not suggesting anybody do this as it might be construed as a DoS attempt but if the article is correct that could cost Gator a good bit of money and make them possibly reconsider their software install tactics
A month ago I was in the market for a new video card and after looking at the geforceX cards and the Radeon 8500 cards I settled on the Radeon 8500 due to it's price and performance stacked up against the Geforce cards in the same and higher price ranges. After three weeks I am back to my Geforce 256 card and the Radeon 8500 is sitting in it's static bag on my desk. It has to be the worst hardware purchase I have ever made. The hardware itself may be very impressive stacked up to the comparable Geforce models but that isn't the problem.
ATI's inability to write a decent driver has caused this card to be a huge failure in my book. I play a good amount of quake 3 and in the earlier driver revisions it would lock up my computer every round or 2. Then some un-supported beta drivers came out that made it lock up less frequently but messed up the rendering of quake 3 worlds horribly. Version after version of drivers have come out and seem to fix one problem and introduce 3 more.
Issues like the frame rate randomly dropping below 30 and staying there till I reboot. The edges of a world being visible because of gaps in the texture rendering. Random lockups, a few random reboots.
And before I get 30 replies saying that the radeon is a great card and works for me and you have a crappy computer. Any other 3d video card I put in this machine works fine. I have yet to have a framerate, rendering, lockup, reboot, etc problem since my Asus Geforce 256 card went back in. And believe me I tried EVERYTHING I could think of, bios flash, every driver known to man on the system update, os reinstall (2000 and XP) couldn't use linux as a test platform as XFree86 doesn't have 8500 3d support yet.
Well it's easy to attain these things, just go to a swap meet, pawn shop, yard sale, or mabey even antique store. You are asking for things that do/did exist, they have just been "upgraded." You feel free to keep it simple. I am gonna make things complex, yep, my microwave is so damn complex when I wana hit popcorn I hit the popcorn button, then.. it gets better, I wait for it to ding and in the mean time I can go back to reading and furthering my knowledge instead of doing mind numbing things like babying the microwave till my frozen dinner is done.
And as far as the alarm clock, ifyou really want an alarm clock you can forget to set the alarm on I will mail you mine, as long as you pay postage. I need to get a new one neway and I have gotten to work late plenty of times with mine.
Thats pretty much my only reason for watching the Super Bowl myself... I was pretty depressed when Ad Critic shut down. I almost say I would pay a small _very_ small access fee, because I get a good bit of enjoyment out of the the site and sending me all those movies has to cost them some money...
Did you possibly misunderstand arbovirus to be airborne? See this comment for another reference to it being the type of virus not them describing it's transport method. Quick search on google would make that not such a far fetched idea, the fact that it was a vampire instead of an insect is a bit off but... well we are talking about vampires here:
If you follow the dialogue he actually explains it while he is hobbling around surveying the new digs. He states that they would repeatedly torture him till he was close to death, just to put him in the blood stasis thing to heal back up and do it again. He even makes a comment that he wishes they had fixed his leg while they were at it. This might even explain your statement about continuity... If you missed that what else did you slip up on.
I would love to know why you can't view PDF (Portable Document Format) files. I just took a quick look at Adobe's site and there are 23 supported OSs in the pulldown for downloading the free acrobat reader. What kind of setup are you running that doesn't have that ability? I was going to post a link to a pdf2html tool but if you cant run acrobat nevermind.
Are you kidding.... think of the money you could make on internet perverts with that... plenty of people pay to see stuff like that without the user feedback ;)