I've had several sounds card die within the 1 year warrnaty and then the refurb they send dies within a year as well but they don't support the replacement card.
I buy a lot of them too. I've tried switching to other brands such as diamond but other companies always seem to go under and then I get near 0 product support.
All along, I've been thinking these carvnivore type systems are a total invasion of privacy and that they are un-called for, but after more thought... Are they that bad?
It's definately an invasion of privacy and that sucks, but we should be able to trust the FBI and know that our private information isn't going to get into the wrong hands.
I mean, what NEW information are they going to get on us? Our ISPs already know where we browse the web.
If there were some extreme control that could be put on this sort of project I don't know that I'd be intimidated by it.
For instance, if they had it in place everywhere but were only authorized to use it on a case by case basis after getting a warrant and having good reason, what bad could come from it?
If they catch a bunch of terrorists or a bunch of child molesters and don't interfere with my rights, more power too them.
I guess a lot of the slashdot crowd is worried about "hackers and crackers" being caught.
Well, I guess I'd be a little worried about them going overboard in that area. If they catch crackers, more power to them. Keep them out of my bank account please. However, I can see them abusing this power when it came to situations where people would stand up against the DMCA, etc.
What other real world situations prove that this truly is a bad idea?
Any application I start, opensource or not, I always seem to go back and redo it a dozen times before it's right.
Am I just a poor coder, or am I not putting enough effort into planning or is this normal?
Lately I've been better about it, but I can go back and look at projects I did 6 months ago and think, "What the heck was I thinking?" and redo it 10x better.
I've never done it or seen it successfully activated, but there is one website that has a key combination for it and all the rest of the tricks and tips have been accurate.
http://www.game-revolution.com/games/codes/ps2/t ek ken_tag_tournament.htm
The only other trick I haven't been able to accomplish is suppossedly if you set the high score under bowling you can bowl as Dr. B.
I'm up to about 220, but I need to beat 268.
Oh, I also haven't beaten the game in less than 5 minutes 30 seconds. I've only gotten 5 minutes 48 seconds. Suppossedly it unlocks some special Heihachi character.
I actually use it for remote desktop control more often than video conferencing.
If you're at all interested in remote desktop control, I'd check out VNC. It is cross platform and it's probably the next best thing to netmeeting.
As far as video conferencing... Until there are more drivers for all the cheapie usb webcams out there, I don't think video conferencing will be a realistic possibility under linux.
This is what we need... Or better yet, has anyone developed an answering machine that runs under linux and has caller ID features built in?
All these companies building appliances ought to build something useful like a high quality digital answering machine that has callerID built in and you can check your messages across the network.
Also, you could play different messages based on the callerID information.
I would pay big money for such a device. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists?
Attorney General Jay Nixon implemented this program this summer and I've only received one telemarketer call since compared to the 10+ a week I was receiving before.
I highly recommend that you try to convince your state reps to mimic this program.
Now people will start getting in shape!
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They'll start running around whenever they need a little extra power. I can seriously see this as a huge motivator for people to excercise.
The first time I heard ogg I could hear it clipping from time to time and I thought it sucked, but later on I downloaded a bunch of different encoders and did some tests to see how stuff came out and compare file sizes and honestly, the tests I did they sounded the same and the file sizes weren't significantly different.
While I think that's b.s. and we won't be THAT affected by Anthrax. This could be good if it would force lawmakers to get off their lazy butts and pass some decent anti-spam laws.
Or just pass a law that says it's illegal to forge headers. That would be a start. Then I could handle spam in my own ways.
How can a dsl company possibly stay in business if they have to compete with the phone company? The phone company should not be allowed to sell the service. That gives them too much control on the market. If they'd simply put lines in and let everyone else sell the service then we'd have fair competition and the phone company couldn't promote it's own agenda as easily.
Northpoint had excellent service. I wish they could have stayed in business, would have saved me thousands of dollars over the T1 that I have now. Both lines were actually with Savvis. T1 is just dang expensive for a small company. It's more than my house payment!
They were going to make a killing at everyone else's expense.
Since cybersquatters can no longer hold trademarked names it would be worthless for them to go out and register every trademark domain name.
They should quit releasing one extension at a time to create extra demand. They should release tons of extensions all at once and let buyers be creative. If they want to setup certain rules for certain extensions that's fine, but letting people buy the rights to be in an auction just doesn't seem right.
I've written and emailed my Missouri representatives about starting an anti-spam law similar to Washington has. I get little to no response and the response that I did get told me it was a good idea but they weren't sure if it would actuall work.
If it worked, I bet smaller bands could use this.
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Think of all the bands that can't afford to fly their equipment around. Now they could.
I bet there is some really interesting things that could be done with this technology.
For instance, could you change the response of the speakers by adding more air pressure inside of the enclosure? Seems like you could easily tune for each song if you wanted to.
We converted Bridge.com to unicode a couple of years ago. I don't remember all the specifics. We had to change encoding on a few characters. It wasn't that big of a deal. The only catch I remember is that for one of the Chinese translations we couldn't use Unicode for some wierd reason.
You're right. I shouldn't be speaking for everyone.
Here's my simple explanation of why I think it's a bad idea...
1. Employers... I'm self employed but if I worked for a company, I wouldn't want my company knowing that I'm searching for another job or even researching bad information about my company during my lunch break.
2. The government doesn't need to know how I spend all my time on the web just so they can run my browsing habits through a script that decides if I'm a bad guy. For instance, what if I'm searching for crop duster information, they log it and show up at my door the next day wanting to know why I'm trying to find out info about crop dusters when I never have before.
3. In the U.S. Anonomousity is one of the many freedoms that we have earned. No one should take that away.
4. Too much risk of security holes. So they want to install a crypto backdoor in EVERY computer... Can you imagine the chaos as soon as it was cracked? yikes!
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I've had several sounds card die within the 1 year warrnaty and then the refurb they send dies within a year as well but they don't support the replacement card.
I buy a lot of them too. I've tried switching to other brands such as diamond but other companies always seem to go under and then I get near 0 product support.
Interpret the BSOD - Coming soon to video game stores near you!
Publisher: Microsoft 2001
Retail: $79.95/year license
EULA: You agree to the terms inside the package by opening the package.
I'm not sure about the other package, but Webtrends leaves much to be desired.
All along, I've been thinking these carvnivore type systems are a total invasion of privacy and that they are un-called for, but after more thought... Are they that bad?
It's definately an invasion of privacy and that sucks, but we should be able to trust the FBI and know that our private information isn't going to get into the wrong hands.
I mean, what NEW information are they going to get on us? Our ISPs already know where we browse the web.
If there were some extreme control that could be put on this sort of project I don't know that I'd be intimidated by it.
For instance, if they had it in place everywhere but were only authorized to use it on a case by case basis after getting a warrant and having good reason, what bad could come from it?
If they catch a bunch of terrorists or a bunch of child molesters and don't interfere with my rights, more power too them.
I guess a lot of the slashdot crowd is worried about "hackers and crackers" being caught.
Well, I guess I'd be a little worried about them going overboard in that area. If they catch crackers, more power to them. Keep them out of my bank account please. However, I can see them abusing this power when it came to situations where people would stand up against the DMCA, etc.
What other real world situations prove that this truly is a bad idea?
Why not charge for the PCs and more for internet access to cover their costs and still be a good deal for the employees?
I know people that have it and love it. I'm sure they'd be willing to pay more for it.
Any application I start, opensource or not, I always seem to go back and redo it a dozen times before it's right.
Am I just a poor coder, or am I not putting enough effort into planning or is this normal?
Lately I've been better about it, but I can go back and look at projects I did 6 months ago and think, "What the heck was I thinking?" and redo it 10x better.
It would see how pissed off I was at doing a 12 second 0 to 60, then it would cry as I powershifted it through every gear repeatedly.
He should be traceable. The authorities in the area that the checks were cashed should assist the buyers.
I've never done it or seen it successfully activated, but there is one website that has a key combination for it and all the rest of the tricks and tips have been accurate.
t ek ken_tag_tournament.htm
http://www.game-revolution.com/games/codes/ps2/
The only other trick I haven't been able to accomplish is suppossedly if you set the high score under bowling you can bowl as Dr. B.
I'm up to about 220, but I need to beat 268.
Oh, I also haven't beaten the game in less than 5 minutes 30 seconds. I've only gotten 5 minutes 48 seconds. Suppossedly it unlocks some special Heihachi character.
I can't believe they give it away for free.
I actually use it for remote desktop control more often than video conferencing.
If you're at all interested in remote desktop control, I'd check out VNC. It is cross platform and it's probably the next best thing to netmeeting.
As far as video conferencing... Until there are more drivers for all the cheapie usb webcams out there, I don't think video conferencing will be a realistic possibility under linux.
I've never played the games mentioned in the article, but I'd love to have a keyboard that had a gamepad built in.
Why limit yourself to an 8 button gamepad?
I'd assign every key to a Tekken Tag 10 hit combo.
And I'd figure out how to play as the creature when using unknown and assign that to a key as well.
This is what we need... Or better yet, has anyone developed an answering machine that runs under linux and has caller ID features built in?
All these companies building appliances ought to build something useful like a high quality digital answering machine that has callerID built in and you can check your messages across the network.
Also, you could play different messages based on the callerID information.
I would pay big money for such a device. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists?
Could someone post the NYTimes user and password?
For some reason, even though the link is to partners.nytimes.com it still prompts.
http://www.ago.state.mo.us/nocallfaqs.htm
Attorney General Jay Nixon implemented this program this summer and I've only received one telemarketer call since compared to the 10+ a week I was receiving before.
I highly recommend that you try to convince your state reps to mimic this program.
They'll start running around whenever they need a little extra power. I can seriously see this as a huge motivator for people to excercise.
The first time I heard ogg I could hear it clipping from time to time and I thought it sucked, but later on I downloaded a bunch of different encoders and did some tests to see how stuff came out and compare file sizes and honestly, the tests I did they sounded the same and the file sizes weren't significantly different.
What is the best Ogg encoder?
While I think that's b.s. and we won't be THAT affected by Anthrax. This could be good if it would force lawmakers to get off their lazy butts and pass some decent anti-spam laws.
Or just pass a law that says it's illegal to forge headers. That would be a start. Then I could handle spam in my own ways.
How can a dsl company possibly stay in business if they have to compete with the phone company? The phone company should not be allowed to sell the service. That gives them too much control on the market. If they'd simply put lines in and let everyone else sell the service then we'd have fair competition and the phone company couldn't promote it's own agenda as easily.
Northpoint had excellent service. I wish they could have stayed in business, would have saved me thousands of dollars over the T1 that I have now. Both lines were actually with Savvis. T1 is just dang expensive for a small company. It's more than my house payment!
NeuLevel was in the wrong.
They were going to make a killing at everyone else's expense.
Since cybersquatters can no longer hold trademarked names it would be worthless for them to go out and register every trademark domain name.
They should quit releasing one extension at a time to create extra demand. They should release tons of extensions all at once and let buyers be creative. If they want to setup certain rules for certain extensions that's fine, but letting people buy the rights to be in an auction just doesn't seem right.
I've written and emailed my Missouri representatives about starting an anti-spam law similar to Washington has. I get little to no response and the response that I did get told me it was a good idea but they weren't sure if it would actuall work.
Think of all the bands that can't afford to fly their equipment around. Now they could.
I bet there is some really interesting things that could be done with this technology.
For instance, could you change the response of the speakers by adding more air pressure inside of the enclosure? Seems like you could easily tune for each song if you wanted to.
We converted Bridge.com to unicode a couple of years ago. I don't remember all the specifics. We had to change encoding on a few characters. It wasn't that big of a deal. The only catch I remember is that for one of the Chinese translations we couldn't use Unicode for some wierd reason.
I would have modded this funny. Sorry don't have any mod points right now.
Check out savvis. Top notch service and a faster network than exodous.
If they stay in business I have no doubts that they'll soon be one of the largest players around.
You're right. I shouldn't be speaking for everyone.
Here's my simple explanation of why I think it's a bad idea...
1. Employers... I'm self employed but if I worked for a company, I wouldn't want my company knowing that I'm searching for another job or even researching bad information about my company during my lunch break.
2. The government doesn't need to know how I spend all my time on the web just so they can run my browsing habits through a script that decides if I'm a bad guy. For instance, what if I'm searching for crop duster information, they log it and show up at my door the next day wanting to know why I'm trying to find out info about crop dusters when I never have before.
3. In the U.S. Anonomousity is one of the many freedoms that we have earned. No one should take that away.
4. Too much risk of security holes. So they want to install a crypto backdoor in EVERY computer... Can you imagine the chaos as soon as it was cracked? yikes!