everything. Bitch bitch bitch. I think that this is very encouraging. Leaving aside the pain of actually having to watch it on a small screen or having a tv-out card, I think this is a step in the right direction. Of course, a 700 meg download isn't exactly video on demand either....;)
this "crotch top" pda is that it "attaches itself"(!) Look ma! no hands! Watch while this small robot pda crawls down my pants and wraps itself around my mule...'course, if you're a woman it might be a bit more.....invasive...:)
MS first? Please. MS is a giant of a company with lots of $$$ but keeping a reseller like Dell happy has got to be pretty high on their list. And, for all you conspiracy types, it's probably just another piece of MS's grand strategy to beat the anti-trust lawsuit...:)
Well put. I had hoped he wouldn't be this much of a door mat but it seems every other day there's a/. submission about this. Seems that most everybody involved in anything remotely tied to tv/radio/internet/etc has decided that legislation by elected representatives (such as they are) is useless. Instead just get the FCC to mandate it. It's faster and cheaper to just buy off the FCC I guess. In any event, it's not like congress is there to backstop any of this foolishness. Sen. Disney, Tauzin and all the other idiots are submitting bills written by industry interests as fast as the lobbyists can write 'em.
I hope yer right and I think that linux is pointed in the right direction but I think we're a long way away yet in terms of mindset among the linux userbase. I do think, however, that corporate interests (Red Hat, et.al.) will drive it towards the "big red button"...
please. Beyond the recompiling the kernel bit (which is a bit old) I think I have it right on. I've run Linux off and on since about 1996 or so, unfortunately of late it's more off than on - 'bout 3 years or so but...anyways, I recently installed RH7.3 on an HP pavillion machine. Redhat refused to recognize my 3com network card. I searched about and finally realized that I needed an entry in/etc/modules.conf for the 3c509x module. This highlights my comment about the "different approach" - in windows you use the gui tools to do much the same thing. It also illustrates my "mummy" comment as such: 1) the fsck'ing driver was already there but wouldn't load up. 2) Everyone calls these bits of software drivers. Couldn't we call the damn file "drivers.conf" even though we're loading modules? Anyways, my.02
that's who. Can you imagine your average user recompiling the kernel or some such? ha. However, I believe that it is starting to get *closer* in terms of setup, etc. I liken it to the differences between a mac and a pc. Both work, they just require different approaches to solving problems. In terms of "life" though, it's a mummy.
at college. I'm sure that it's very important for Case to have a "leg up" on the bigger universities but is this going to produce better educated students? The teacher can control lights, sound system and link to the web....oh boy. I'm not dismissing the importance of research at universities but damn, isn't 100 mb networking enough for most dorm computers? Wouldn't the money they're spending on this be better spent elsewhere because $400/student isn't going to cover their costs!? The only possible use I can see for this is porn, warez, etc, etc, etc. Although maybe someone could scan one of those $200, 50 page paperback textbooks and make it available....
Go to Maine or something. Down in the south it gets downright nasty in the summertime. The desert ain't bad, hot but not humid. The southeast, however....
I know. The house I grew up in had all of those features you love. Inside the house it was still hot as fuck in the summer, even at night. Can't sleep outside in this part of Virginia as the bugs would drain you dry. I sweated my ass off every summer for 18 years. I don't miss it. 'Course, after I left for college my parents had central AC istalled....BASTARDS...:)
about your LCD, I've been thinking of buying one of those for awhile but was always afraid that it would "smear" the screen in CS, Quake, etc. Do you get any of those effects or is it clear? What kind do you have?
stop terrorists? Really. It might help you identify them if they just strolled about w/o any disguise (neither part seems likely). What about if they used a rented truck to deliver the bomb? You might get some pictures of the thing blowing up but that seems to be about it. What about an airplane? Even in Israel where most bombs seem to be delivered by people, it isn't the head honcho's that are strapping on the bombs. It's a (usually) young guy or girl who walks down the street with a backpack. Not some known and wanted operative that a camera utilizing facial recognition might recognize. The people organizing these little suprises aren't in the vicinity when they go off, they're in a different city, country or contienent.
I suppose that if you're dealing with people actually trying to use firearms to kill some important figure, cameras might help you see them in advance. The vogue among terrorists though, is the bomb and I fail to see how a camera would help you if they had the same sophistication that my 5 year old seems to display.
Be careful about this. I remember seeing something on the news about it. My recollection is that MJ's point of view is the "white recording industry" is ripping off black artists. He singled out Tommy Matola (SP?) for particular criticism. I have 2 problems with this:
1. The music industry seem to me to be fully integrated: they rip off everybody, black, white and other.
2. It's hard to take anything that that child-molesting freak says seriously.
I don't think it's a bad as that. Dell, et.al., are trying to expand their revenue base (diversify if you like). Same reason GE didn't stop with making light bulbs. I do the same thing in my consulting business. Most of my customers that I do maintenance/consulting work for also use my web hosting service. It's not that I'm dying for cash, I'm trying to setup a recurring revenue stream and recurring revenue is a "good thing". No different than these guys. Well, a bit smaller scale....:)
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club or what? I remember reading an interview with Gates a long time ago where he related in reasonable detail the early days of MS. His viewpoint then was that they were lucky to have survived as they were just thrashing about. The more time goes on, the more I think that this is even more true today. They *do* have a bazillion dollars in the bank nowadays but they seem to have adopted the "trial ballon" approach to everything and are still thrashing. I do give them a lot of credit though, once they latch onto something (like the internet) you can forget about it. It only took a couple of months and they where fighting it out with every other company on the planet to see who could get more "internet" into their products.
what digital format will still be readable in 25 years? I've had a couple digital cameras already, the first was a sony mavica - the floppy disk transfer was very appealing then. It shot everything in.jpg format. Will I still have to keep an ancient copy of photoshop running on windows98/2000/XP just to look at my circa 1996 pictures in 2025?
I would agree. To me, the credit stuff would be the most interesting. The last time I saw my credit report was when I bought my house. There wasn't much there but it was at least half wrong.
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everything. Bitch bitch bitch. I think that this is very encouraging. Leaving aside the pain of actually having to watch it on a small screen or having a tv-out card, I think this is a step in the right direction. Of course, a 700 meg download isn't exactly video on demand either....;)
editors weren't happy with the discussion in the previous thread(s).
True. And the worst part is that the "loggers" down there will knock down a hundred pissant trees to get just one giant cocobolo.
this "crotch top" pda is that it "attaches itself"(!) Look ma! no hands! Watch while this small robot pda crawls down my pants and wraps itself around my mule...'course, if you're a woman it might be a bit more.....invasive...:)
MS first? Please. MS is a giant of a company with lots of $$$ but keeping a reseller like Dell happy has got to be pretty high on their list. And, for all you conspiracy types, it's probably just another piece of MS's grand strategy to beat the anti-trust lawsuit...:)
Well put. I had hoped he wouldn't be this much of a door mat but it seems every other day there's a /. submission about this. Seems that most everybody involved in anything remotely tied to tv/radio/internet/etc has decided that legislation by elected representatives (such as they are) is useless. Instead just get the FCC to mandate it. It's faster and cheaper to just buy off the FCC I guess. In any event, it's not like congress is there to backstop any of this foolishness. Sen. Disney, Tauzin and all the other idiots are submitting bills written by industry interests as fast as the lobbyists can write 'em.
Can't decide if this is a troll. gotta be. never mind.
I hope yer right and I think that linux is pointed in the right direction but I think we're a long way away yet in terms of mindset among the linux userbase. I do think, however, that corporate interests (Red Hat, et.al.) will drive it towards the "big red button"...
well put, if a bit vitriolic...:)
please. Beyond the recompiling the kernel bit (which is a bit old) I think I have it right on. I've run Linux off and on since about 1996 or so, unfortunately of late it's more off than on - 'bout 3 years or so but...anyways, I recently installed RH7.3 on an HP pavillion machine. Redhat refused to recognize my 3com network card. I searched about and finally realized that I needed an entry in /etc/modules.conf for the 3c509x module. This highlights my comment about the "different approach" - in windows you use the gui tools to do much the same thing. It also illustrates my "mummy" comment as such: 1) the fsck'ing driver was already there but wouldn't load up. 2) Everyone calls these bits of software drivers. Couldn't we call the damn file "drivers.conf" even though we're loading modules? Anyways, my .02
that's who. Can you imagine your average user recompiling the kernel or some such? ha. However, I believe that it is starting to get *closer* in terms of setup, etc. I liken it to the differences between a mac and a pc. Both work, they just require different approaches to solving problems. In terms of "life" though, it's a mummy.
at college. I'm sure that it's very important for Case to have a "leg up" on the bigger universities but is this going to produce better educated students? The teacher can control lights, sound system and link to the web....oh boy. I'm not dismissing the importance of research at universities but damn, isn't 100 mb networking enough for most dorm computers? Wouldn't the money they're spending on this be better spent elsewhere because $400/student isn't going to cover their costs!? The only possible use I can see for this is porn, warez, etc, etc, etc. Although maybe someone could scan one of those $200, 50 page paperback textbooks and make it available....
Go to Maine or something. Down in the south it gets downright nasty in the summertime. The desert ain't bad, hot but not humid. The southeast, however....
I know. The house I grew up in had all of those features you love. Inside the house it was still hot as fuck in the summer, even at night. Can't sleep outside in this part of Virginia as the bugs would drain you dry. I sweated my ass off every summer for 18 years. I don't miss it. 'Course, after I left for college my parents had central AC istalled....BASTARDS...:)
about your LCD, I've been thinking of buying one of those for awhile but was always afraid that it would "smear" the screen in CS, Quake, etc. Do you get any of those effects or is it clear? What kind do you have?
stop terrorists? Really. It might help you identify them if they just strolled about w/o any disguise (neither part seems likely). What about if they used a rented truck to deliver the bomb? You might get some pictures of the thing blowing up but that seems to be about it. What about an airplane? Even in Israel where most bombs seem to be delivered by people, it isn't the head honcho's that are strapping on the bombs. It's a (usually) young guy or girl who walks down the street with a backpack. Not some known and wanted operative that a camera utilizing facial recognition might recognize. The people organizing these little suprises aren't in the vicinity when they go off, they're in a different city, country or contienent.
I suppose that if you're dealing with people actually trying to use firearms to kill some important figure, cameras might help you see them in advance. The vogue among terrorists though, is the bomb and I fail to see how a camera would help you if they had the same sophistication that my 5 year old seems to display.
will be $120/day for the truck along with a $15k deposit....:)
when they get the drivers straightened out, I'll think about buying one.
Be careful about this. I remember seeing something on the news about it. My recollection is that MJ's point of view is the "white recording industry" is ripping off black artists. He singled out Tommy Matola (SP?) for particular criticism. I have 2 problems with this:
1. The music industry seem to me to be fully integrated: they rip off everybody, black, white and other.
2. It's hard to take anything that that child-molesting freak says seriously.
I don't think it's a bad as that. Dell, et.al., are trying to expand their revenue base (diversify if you like). Same reason GE didn't stop with making light bulbs. I do the same thing in my consulting business. Most of my customers that I do maintenance/consulting work for also use my web hosting service. It's not that I'm dying for cash, I'm trying to setup a recurring revenue stream and recurring revenue is a "good thing". No different than these guys. Well, a bit smaller scale....:)
club or what? I remember reading an interview with Gates a long time ago where he related in reasonable detail the early days of MS. His viewpoint then was that they were lucky to have survived as they were just thrashing about. The more time goes on, the more I think that this is even more true today. They *do* have a bazillion dollars in the bank nowadays but they seem to have adopted the "trial ballon" approach to everything and are still thrashing. I do give them a lot of credit though, once they latch onto something (like the internet) you can forget about it. It only took a couple of months and they where fighting it out with every other company on the planet to see who could get more "internet" into their products.
what digital format will still be readable in 25 years? I've had a couple digital cameras already, the first was a sony mavica - the floppy disk transfer was very appealing then. It shot everything in .jpg format. Will I still have to keep an ancient copy of photoshop running on windows98/2000/XP just to look at my circa 1996 pictures in 2025?
eat me. I fully intended to do something but ran out of time.
awhile ago. In a flash of inspiration, I even registered walkaroundgames.com. Somehow, I never really got around to doing anything though.
I would agree. To me, the credit stuff would be the most interesting. The last time I saw my credit report was when I bought my house. There wasn't much there but it was at least half wrong.