I seriously doubt that MS shutting down a mod chip store effects their stock in any form.
And screw sony too. Anyone that own's one of their DVD players knows about the infamous C:13 error that you get after about a year of usage. Thousands of consumers have this problem and Sony's only answer is to fix it for a mere 179 bucks.
If you're having the problem, you can try to fix it here
.. but I shudder to think of a world where I couldn't get daily reminders on how to increase my penis size or my breasts. [Most spam sites obviously don't keep gender in their databases]
Pretty funny. I ordered one item from Tigerdirect which I had to cancel because it was out of stock even though their support people were pretty sure it was.. well, a month later and I gave up.
That was about a year ago and I'm still getting the catalogs. What a waste of money printing and sending a catalog to a consumer that will never use their service [again]
I actually do read the catalogs to see what's new and stuff and I saw this Symetac system for about 3k. It didn't seem that bad until I realized the flat screen monitor wasn't included. What a rip.
You're absolutely right. In the old days you could get some noticeable peformance gain in Quake when you overclocked your cpu. However, in my experience, the system wasn't very reliable.
These days, it pays to get a mid level cpu and spend the extra cash on the video card.
According to the estimation of the Ministry of Information Industry the semi-conductor market in China's mainland will witness an annual growth rate of 35 percent before 2005 to reach a scale of 40 billion US dollars with the chips needed to amount to 17 billion pieces. By the year of 2010 China is going to turn out the second large semi-conductor market in the world.
Under the agreement signed by the Automotive Service Association, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, the automakers agree to make the service information available on the Internet by Aug. 31 at a "reasonable price."
Which means that private mechanics will charge more to analyze the codes since they have to pay a "reasonable price" which negates:
Some automakers felt more comfortable giving the information to their dealerships, which must keep the data confidential under franchise contracts. That often meant higher costs to consumers, since dealer labor rates tend to run $10 to $20 per hour higher than independent shops, according to AAA.
Unless, of course, someone creates something like carwarez.com
Director, ConceptLabs; former chief technologist, British Telecommunications PLC
Worst prediction: Voice over Internet protocol technology would fall flat.
Mr. Cochrane says 10 years ago he was extremely skeptical of the voice over Internet protocol systems that let people make voice telephone calls over data networks. He thought the networks couldn't handle it. Now he concedes that it's been successful at least on single data networks, like those used within a company.
Shouldn't he be working on a warp drive instead of making these stupid predictions?!?
.. start a fire or catch a fish, then they would have beaten every person that has been Survivor.
Every season of Survivor is the same with the same cast of idiots starving because all they can find to eat are coconuts that practically fall out of the trees and hit them on the head and maybe some snails that crawled into their sleeping bags.
Pick up the damn fishing pole and catch some fish!
Or, you're just part of my altered reality that is reflecting back to me what I have been thinking all along, that all you people are just part of some experiment, of which I am being analyzed.
I have learned through the years that the first few shows and sometimes the first season isn't always that great. I guess it's partly having the cast and writers finding a groove that makes the show work and also getting to know the characters. A good example is Seinfeld, which I now practically associate everything in my life too. [i know, sad, but what I can say]
I wouldn't say the first episode sucked, in fact, there were some pretty good scenes.
1) The captain kicks the big "russian" dolt into the engine. That was just classic and a refreshing change from the typical captain that would have just let him go
2) When they drugged... damn, I don't know anyone's name, but that was funny. Oh great, now I sound like a freakin' Chris Farley sketch. Anyway, having him slur the lines being half doped was pretty humorous.
3) Not sure what she does yet, but the hot hair brushing chick.. keep it coming.
All in all, I'll definately watch it again, especially if they have those great cgi shots in between. I think next time I'll TIVO it though so I can skip past those annoying commercials.
.. not that you don't actually need to record and save that much TV/Movies on your Tivo, but rather it can be done and Tivo doesn't seem to be preventing it.
What makes Tivo so popular to "hackers" is that Tivo does not seek legal action on every little hack that is developed. Of course, if one would create a hack that bypasses the subscription process; that's a different story, but they seem to be pretty open to hacks such as these.
Too bad we can't say the same for xBox. I would really love it if I could also use my xBox as a MAME console.
Man, all they ask is that you register and answer a few damn questions, all of which you can opt out on.
I'm glad that/. does *not* promote this utility which ultimately fills the NYT db with garbage. You know what happens when they finally get pissed off? bye bye free registration.
pipsqueak.. sounds like something the US can easily overtake in about 2 minutes.;-)
Then when the realisation that through sheer weight of population numbers, land mass & available resources other nations outside of the US are capable of the same achievements (sometimes a lot more effeciently) they get all insular and over-protective (ref: Agricultural, Steel & manufacturing subsidies) to f&ck up those developing nations.
That's just a cop out. The US is world power, partly because of it's location, a good ocean away from it's potential enemies [although Canada has been pissing me off lately], it's mostly because of our freedom and pride which make us a great country. If it was just a case of natural resources making a great country, then Russia should have been a world power 10x the US. I think you feel a little disgruntled because the UK is so small and *does* lack natural resources and is probably limited by it's lack of those natural resources. Absolutely no offense to the UK too. I consider your country to be our greatest ally and respect your ideals and culture immensely.
What you already have is a highly unbalanced, global, political make up where one nations population is using up far more resources than it has at it's disposal and one nations beliefs over represented to the rest of the world. This is at the cost of the rest of the world and every move the US makes is designed to protect that situation.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but someone must have cause you have a score of 3. I think you're telling me that because of America's growth and natural resource consumption, we'll eventually have to seek an expansionist policy, which will lead to US initiated attacks. Personaly, I don't see this happening with the potential advances in science; which hopefully one day will free us from our strangle hold on the need for oil.
History is littered with cases of the side with the biggest and best weapons failing to win.
Turn off the Braveheart DVD! Trying to decide who would win a war with lets say the US vs China is like saying who is better Superman vs Batman. Of course, we all know that superman is.. er.. the one that can fly, not the paralyzed, although making good progress, superman
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I seriously doubt that MS shutting down a mod chip store effects their stock in any form.
And screw sony too. Anyone that own's one of their DVD players knows about the infamous C:13 error that you get after about a year of usage. Thousands of consumers have this problem and Sony's only answer is to fix it for a mere 179 bucks.
If you're having the problem, you can try to fix it here
.. but I shudder to think of a world where I couldn't get daily reminders on how to increase my penis size or my breasts. [Most spam sites obviously don't keep gender in their databases]
It will be a brave new world without spam.
.. i noticed this while trying Google's news search. If you go here:
here
You can find the link here:
here
No registration required.
Pretty funny. I ordered one item from Tigerdirect which I had to cancel because it was out of stock even though their support people were pretty sure it was.. well, a month later and I gave up.
That was about a year ago and I'm still getting the catalogs. What a waste of money printing and sending a catalog to a consumer that will never use their service [again]
I actually do read the catalogs to see what's new and stuff and I saw this Symetac system for about 3k. It didn't seem that bad until I realized the flat screen monitor wasn't included. What a rip.
You're absolutely right. In the old days you could get some noticeable peformance gain in Quake when you overclocked your cpu. However, in my experience, the system wasn't very reliable.
These days, it pays to get a mid level cpu and spend the extra cash on the video card.
the only reason i would pay for this is maybe the warranty
How do you even begin to attempt to warranty a system which you blantantly overclock beyond the cpu's normal parameters.
joe schmoe: "hello tech support, my 2.8ghz overclocked to 3ghz is fried"
tech support: "Why did you overclock it?"
Joe: "Because that's why I paid 4k dollars for an l33t system that I probably could have built for myself for 100 bucks."
Tech support: "Yeah.. I'm going to have to ask you to not call us again."
According to the estimation of the Ministry of Information Industry the semi-conductor market in China's mainland will witness an annual growth rate of 35 percent before 2005 to reach a scale of 40 billion US dollars with the chips needed to amount to 17 billion pieces. By the year of 2010 China is going to turn out the second large semi-conductor market in the world.
Of course, the Ministry of Information Industr had a gun to their head when they made this statement.
They are also quoted as saying "Arr your crip berong us", which, when translated, means: "All your chip are belong us"
.. their dragon chip and renamed it the dr@g0n. I'm almost done with an emulator which will make the dr@g0n run like the x86.
When I'm done with that, I'm going to get xbox to run on the chip and then hack that to run linux and then add Wine to emulate an xbox.
Hold on.. there are guys with red coats at my doo...
Under the agreement signed by the Automotive Service Association, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, the automakers agree to make the service information available on the Internet by Aug. 31 at a "reasonable price."
Which means that private mechanics will charge more to analyze the codes since they have to pay a "reasonable price" which negates:
Some automakers felt more comfortable giving the information to their dealerships, which must keep the data confidential under franchise contracts. That often meant higher costs to consumers, since dealer labor rates tend to run $10 to $20 per hour higher than independent shops, according to AAA.
Unless, of course, someone creates something like carwarez.com
Peter Cochrane
Director, ConceptLabs; former chief technologist, British Telecommunications PLC
Worst prediction: Voice over Internet protocol technology would fall flat.
Mr. Cochrane says 10 years ago he was extremely skeptical of the voice over Internet protocol systems that let people make voice telephone calls over data networks. He thought the networks couldn't handle it. Now he concedes that it's been successful at least on single data networks, like those used within a company.
Shouldn't he be working on a warp drive instead of making these stupid predictions?!?
.. I wish there were some good sites to read about Robert Frost
or if you want to take the road less travelled
.. start a fire or catch a fish, then they would have beaten every person that has been Survivor.
Every season of Survivor is the same with the same cast of idiots starving because all they can find to eat are coconuts that practically fall out of the trees and hit them on the head and maybe some snails that crawled into their sleeping bags.
Pick up the damn fishing pole and catch some fish!
here
.. untiltil we go and get the Pathfinder back so I can take a look at it in the Smithsonian.
Or, you're just part of my altered reality that is reflecting back to me what I have been thinking all along, that all you people are just part of some experiment, of which I am being analyzed.
*creepy*
here
I agree. As PDA's become more Net orientated, a keyboard is a must. Ever try to send somone an instant message through grafitti? Ugh.
I have learned through the years that the first few shows and sometimes the first season isn't always that great. I guess it's partly having the cast and writers finding a groove that makes the show work and also getting to know the characters. A good example is Seinfeld, which I now practically associate everything in my life too. [i know, sad, but what I can say]
... damn, I don't know anyone's name, but that was funny. Oh great, now I sound like a freakin' Chris Farley sketch. Anyway, having him slur the lines being half doped was pretty humorous.
I wouldn't say the first episode sucked, in fact, there were some pretty good scenes.
1) The captain kicks the big "russian" dolt into the engine. That was just classic and a refreshing change from the typical captain that would have just let him go
2) When they drugged
3) Not sure what she does yet, but the hot hair brushing chick.. keep it coming.
All in all, I'll definately watch it again, especially if they have those great cgi shots in between. I think next time I'll TIVO it though so I can skip past those annoying commercials.
I found one that is similar here
.. they decided to throw some fake looking tree branches on a HUGE tower just outside of NYC.
Here is the article, but unfortunately I can't find a picture. Article
I guess it would have slightly blended in if it wasn't 100' taller than the tallest tree.
.. not that you don't actually need to record and save that much TV/Movies on your Tivo, but rather it can be done and Tivo doesn't seem to be preventing it.
What makes Tivo so popular to "hackers" is that Tivo does not seek legal action on every little hack that is developed. Of course, if one would create a hack that bypasses the subscription process; that's a different story, but they seem to be pretty open to hacks such as these.
Too bad we can't say the same for xBox. I would really love it if I could also use my xBox as a MAME console.
Man, all they ask is that you register and answer a few damn questions, all of which you can opt out on.
/. does *not* promote this utility which ultimately fills the NYT db with garbage. You know what happens when they finally get pissed off? bye bye free registration.
I'm glad that
pipsqueak.. sounds like something the US can easily overtake in about 2 minutes. ;-)
Then when the realisation that through sheer weight of population numbers, land mass & available resources other nations outside of the US are capable of the same achievements (sometimes a lot more effeciently) they get all insular and over-protective (ref: Agricultural, Steel & manufacturing subsidies) to f&ck up those developing nations.
That's just a cop out. The US is world power, partly because of it's location, a good ocean away from it's potential enemies [although Canada has been pissing me off lately], it's mostly because of our freedom and pride which make us a great country. If it was just a case of natural resources making a great country, then Russia should have been a world power 10x the US. I think you feel a little disgruntled because the UK is so small and *does* lack natural resources and is probably limited by it's lack of those natural resources. Absolutely no offense to the UK too. I consider your country to be our greatest ally and respect your ideals and culture immensely.
What you already have is a highly unbalanced, global, political make up where one nations population is using up far more resources than it has at it's disposal and one nations beliefs over represented to the rest of the world. This is at the cost of the rest of the world and every move the US makes is designed to protect that situation.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but someone must have cause you have a score of 3. I think you're telling me that because of America's growth and natural resource consumption, we'll eventually have to seek an expansionist policy, which will lead to US initiated attacks. Personaly, I don't see this happening with the potential advances in science; which hopefully one day will free us from our strangle hold on the need for oil.
Cheers and we'll see you in Iraq.
Who you calling a teenager? ;-)
History is littered with cases of the side with the biggest and best weapons failing to win.
Turn off the Braveheart DVD! Trying to decide who would win a war with lets say the US vs China is like saying who is better Superman vs Batman. Of course, we all know that superman is.. er.. the one that can fly, not the paralyzed, although making good progress, superman