If you are going to make it like a TV... they should have gone all the way and put a TV tuner in there - this is the killer app to beat microsoft on and to complete the iLife suite. An Apple (with all the associated easiness) TV center with maybe a grey one for corporate use with no TV.
Sidenote - IBM should bring out said headless box, black alu case like the NeXT with a single G5 in it clocked a 2gighz and a 100% linux compat mobo.... That would soon become a cult item I imagine - but apple would have a fit because it would encorage all the unix geeks on their platform to swap and it would encorage a strong user base of a ppc linux to get going. So, like I say, not going to happen. Actually, can someone enlighten the thread as to who *owns* the G5? Could IBM do this?
I'd even be happy to be able to buy a generic ATX board with a G3 on it.
It wouldn't be a lost sale to Apple, because I'm never buying new Apple hardware again.
Perhaps that's because they are unreasonable assholes?
Maybe they were, but the things that they were upset about and their reactions were not unreasonable
Or could it be that my view is tainted since I'm female?;)
Are you the type of female who has sucked 37 dicks? Have you ever waited until the day you were supposed to leave and called off a vacation with a guy so that you could appear on a dating game clone? Have you ever lead a man to believe that he was the only man you'd ever been with, while witholding information that you had been filled from both ends?
If you can answer yes to any of those questions, perhaps that's why your view is tainted.
Seriously. While I find the movies to be funny, The first three of them have one common thread. Man bashing; making men look like unreasonable assholes because they were upset by things that should upset them.
In Clerks, Dante is made to look unreasonable because he gets so upset when he finds out that his girlfriend has sucked 37 dicks.
In Mallrates, TS is made to look unreasonable because he gets upset when his girlfriend calls off their Florida vacation (ON THE DAY that they're supposed to leave)so she can be on a dating game clone.
In Chasing Amy, Holden is made to look unreasonable because he gets upset when he finds out that his girlfriend, who led him to believe that he was the only man she'd ever been with, had the nick name "fingercuffs" when she was younger because she was in the meat in a MFM sandwitch.
All three of these characters had very legitimage reasons to be upset, but in the Askewniverse they're made to look like unreasonable assholes.
Uh, what hard drive you do have that can do 1.2 gigabytes per second?!?! Without RAID, I've never see a HD read benchmark much above 50 MEGABYTES per second. (+/- 50%. I don't follow hard drives too closely.)
He might actually have one of those elusive Beowulf clusters.
On the other hand, people still post clearly illegal material on Usenet and seem to get away with it. Complicating matters for the RIAA and company,
I'm not ashamed to admin that I download pr0n from the usenet. It takes a little while, but you can get to know who has the good stuff after a while.
Moreover, because a couple of times I downloaded images and looked at them later that appeared to contain underage girls.
I immediately deleted them, naked kids aren't sexy. But because of those experiences I keep all of the usenet pron in a holding directory until I have the chance to check it out. Good stuff gets filed away, bad stuff gets deleted.
I'd like to see this happen in the US. I'd also like to see pressure put on Cell phone makers to open up the system for user created tones.
Or why not just let a phone play a 10 second or so clip of an MP3? The decoder chips are cheap enough now.
I won't use the word conspiracy, but there is collusion between service providers and phone manufacturers to keep the price of ring tones so fucking high.
I haven't touched it in about 6 years, but I still love ZTerm. I used to BBS for hours and hours using ZTerm. The only problem I ever had with it was that it didn't support blinking ANSI graphics.
Political Spam is permitted under Australian Spam Legislation.
Sounds like the perfect setup for a legal Joe Job...
I should email everyone on the planet about this upcoming presidential election. If I can piss enough of the opposition off, my guy will have it in the bag!
I was the victim of a karma bomb a couple of years back. I pissed off someone in a discussion, and as a result this person or persons used multiple accounts to mod down every post I made for several months. I went from excellent karma to being unable to post. After the karma bomb, I have been unable to get mod points.
I misplaced my Half-Life CD case when I needed to freshly install WinXP. I used a key gen to get the game to work. WON's server wouldn't authenticate my bogus key. I was left not playing for about two weeks when I finally found my CD case and put in a legit serial number.
I don't think that Valve is going to use a more lax authentication regimen for HL-2, especially after the "source theft" that happened last year.
This really pisses me off. Normally my submissions wait for 5 or 6 days before they reject them. THIS TIME, I submitted the story 1 hour and 18 minutes before it was posted on the main page and it was immediately rejected in favor of someone else's submission.
I haven't gotten mod points in over a year and a half and all of my submissions are rejected, even when I scoop someone else.
I don't recall analog tape recorders that could take a broadcast, turn it into an MP3 file per song, and tag it and sort it out by artist and album, all automatically.
You must be a youngster. In the olden days we had these things called pens and pencils that allowed us to write the names of the artists and songs on the liner of the cassette tape.
From the article, for those who didn't RTFA "We remain concerned about any devices or software that permit listeners to transform a broadcast into a music library," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said.
Analog tape recorders have allowed people to add broadcasts to their music libraries since before I was born.
All this software does is make it a little more convienent than plugging an analog tape recorder into your XM receiver. It's stupid that they'd even consult their lawyers about this.
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LK
Maybe that's why it's called '8-Socket' at the top of the submission.
LK
If you are going to make it like a TV... they should have gone all the way and put a TV tuner in there - this is the killer app to beat microsoft on and to complete the iLife suite. An Apple (with all the associated easiness) TV center with maybe a grey one for corporate use with no TV.
Yep. We all know how well the Mac TV sold.
Sidenote - IBM should bring out said headless box, black alu case like the NeXT with a single G5 in it clocked a 2gighz and a 100% linux compat mobo.... That would soon become a cult item I imagine - but apple would have a fit because it would encorage all the unix geeks on their platform to swap and it would encorage a strong user base of a ppc linux to get going. So, like I say, not going to happen. Actually, can someone enlighten the thread as to who *owns* the G5? Could IBM do this?
I'd even be happy to be able to buy a generic ATX board with a G3 on it.
It wouldn't be a lost sale to Apple, because I'm never buying new Apple hardware again.
LK
After all, if you wait until a crooked cop retires before you blow his head off with a 12 guage shotgun it's not the same as murdering a cop.
Hmmmmmm...
LK
Give us the ability to back up our software, Jack, and we won't need to bother you about replacements.
We have that ability, stop trying to put us in jail for using it.
LK
What about the fact that it doesn't work with the iTunes Music Store?
So what? It works with Kazaa and iMesh.
LK
Now, XMPCR receivers are going for almost $400 on ebay.
Don't buy one on Ebay.
LK
There needs to be a mod higher than 5 for posts like this.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked my comment; but I would settle for an end to the Karma cap.
LK
Perhaps that's because they are unreasonable assholes?
;)
Maybe they were, but the things that they were upset about and their reactions were not unreasonable
Or could it be that my view is tainted since I'm female?
Are you the type of female who has sucked 37 dicks? Have you ever waited until the day you were supposed to leave and called off a vacation with a guy so that you could appear on a dating game clone? Have you ever lead a man to believe that he was the only man you'd ever been with, while witholding information that you had been filled from both ends?
If you can answer yes to any of those questions, perhaps that's why your view is tainted.
LK
God has answered me a time or two. No problems here.
God please, let the pregnancy test come back negative...
LK
Seriously. While I find the movies to be funny, The first three of them have one common thread. Man bashing; making men look like unreasonable assholes because they were upset by things that should upset them.
In Clerks, Dante is made to look unreasonable because he gets so upset when he finds out that his girlfriend has sucked 37 dicks.
In Mallrates, TS is made to look unreasonable because he gets upset when his girlfriend calls off their Florida vacation (ON THE DAY that they're supposed to leave)so she can be on a dating game clone.
In Chasing Amy, Holden is made to look unreasonable because he gets upset when he finds out that his girlfriend, who led him to believe that he was the only man she'd ever been with, had the nick name "fingercuffs" when she was younger because she was in the meat in a MFM sandwitch.
All three of these characters had very legitimage reasons to be upset, but in the Askewniverse they're made to look like unreasonable assholes.
LK
Am the only one who saw "A small Santa Claus-based company"
Yes. The rest of us can read.
LK
Uh, what hard drive you do have that can do 1.2 gigabytes per second?!?! Without RAID, I've never see a HD read benchmark much above 50 MEGABYTES per second. (+/- 50%. I don't follow hard drives too closely.)
He might actually have one of those elusive Beowulf clusters.
LK
On the other hand, people still post clearly illegal material on Usenet and seem to get away with it. Complicating matters for the RIAA and company,
I'm not ashamed to admin that I download pr0n from the usenet. It takes a little while, but you can get to know who has the good stuff after a while.
Moreover, because a couple of times I downloaded images and looked at them later that appeared to contain underage girls.
I immediately deleted them, naked kids aren't sexy. But because of those experiences I keep all of the usenet pron in a holding directory until I have the chance to check it out. Good stuff gets filed away, bad stuff gets deleted.
LK
I'd like to see this happen in the US. I'd also like to see pressure put on Cell phone makers to open up the system for user created tones.
Or why not just let a phone play a 10 second or so clip of an MP3? The decoder chips are cheap enough now.
I won't use the word conspiracy, but there is collusion between service providers and phone manufacturers to keep the price of ring tones so fucking high.
LK
I haven't touched it in about 6 years, but I still love ZTerm. I used to BBS for hours and hours using ZTerm. The only problem I ever had with it was that it didn't support blinking ANSI graphics.
LK
You must be new here. This is Slashdot. People don't follow links in this joint.
LK
they are all big and heavy devices weighing in at around 3/4 of a pound.
3/4 of a pound is heavy? Don't be such a little bitch. That is NOT heavy.
LK
I prefer to have a phone, a PDA and a digital camera. I can get exactly what I want out of each without needing to compromise.
Or am I just missing the point that it's "cool" to have all of these items in one device?
LK
Political Spam is permitted under Australian Spam Legislation.
Sounds like the perfect setup for a legal Joe Job...
I should email everyone on the planet about this upcoming presidential election. If I can piss enough of the opposition off, my guy will have it in the bag!
LK
I was the victim of a karma bomb a couple of years back. I pissed off someone in a discussion, and as a result this person or persons used multiple accounts to mod down every post I made for several months. I went from excellent karma to being unable to post. After the karma bomb, I have been unable to get mod points.
LK
Two words
"Steam Authentication"
I misplaced my Half-Life CD case when I needed to freshly install WinXP. I used a key gen to get the game to work. WON's server wouldn't authenticate my bogus key. I was left not playing for about two weeks when I finally found my CD case and put in a legit serial number.
I don't think that Valve is going to use a more lax authentication regimen for HL-2, especially after the "source theft" that happened last year.
LK
This really pisses me off. Normally my submissions wait for 5 or 6 days before they reject them. THIS TIME, I submitted the story 1 hour and 18 minutes before it was posted on the main page and it was immediately rejected in favor of someone else's submission.
I haven't gotten mod points in over a year and a half and all of my submissions are rejected, even when I scoop someone else.
This is really starting to piss me off.
LK
I don't recall analog tape recorders that could take a broadcast, turn it into an MP3 file per song, and tag it and sort it out by artist and album, all automatically.
You must be a youngster. In the olden days we had these things called pens and pencils that allowed us to write the names of the artists and songs on the liner of the cassette tape.
LK
From the article, for those who didn't RTFA
"We remain concerned about any devices or software that permit listeners to transform a broadcast into a music library," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said.
Analog tape recorders have allowed people to add broadcasts to their music libraries since before I was born.
All this software does is make it a little more convienent than plugging an analog tape recorder into your XM receiver. It's stupid that they'd even consult their lawyers about this.
LK