What's the real loss here? It'll kill theatres, which make most of their profits selling what exactly?... not... movies.;) It's that stale popcorn, carbonated sugarry water, and stank nasty hotdogs.
I haven't been to a theatre in a while, and I used to go once a week for almost a decade. I prefer watching it at home on the couch with a good stereo system ( a few hundred dollars) and an okay tv.
Some things still should be seen on the biggie screen. But it doesn't have to be everything.
We could seriously use this change. ANd I'd love for DVD's to come out on day 0. Hell, I'd buy more DVD's.
I was thinking "3-way"... as in 2-way or 4-way... and going nuts trying to envision a board with 3 processors...;)
arg...
Good to see ABIT's still knocking them down. I've been away from building with Abit for a long time. Though my first board, a KT100, is still ticken quite well.
I've been building asus or gigabyte for desktops and workstations and tyan for everything else.
Still would like to see multiway boards someday. As in, mix and match processor boards. With dual core it's getting closer... but not close enough yet.;)
I'm a realist who always had to wipe redhat from the dells we got and install debian to get it to actually work.
I'm also a realist who has had enough issues with windows and doesn't trust it as a stable, viable OS, without severe tweaking.
I'm also a system manager with about 40 machines in my hands. All of which run pretty well. Behind a rather hardened firewall, which works to keep wierdness out.
"dedhat" was actually an accidental typo. "winblows" wasn't.;)
Want link you to my mature and tasteful howto on getting debian running on some Dell Precision 650n's which came preinstalled with a completely disfunctional (read: dead) version of redhat enterprise?
I do use CentOS for my personal dedicated server. And I miss my Dell Latitude cpia 300XT laptop. The new low end dells I've touched have been crap in comparison. (We've stopped buying them after sending 4/6 back every few months.)
But not that big. Sure, you could get Dell's with dedhat before.
I may get one actually, since I need a good laptop with linux running on it. I've had a lot of luck buying a winblows machine and then rolling my linux install, but sometimes vendors play too shifty with components.
Which is why I'd stillbe concerned about this one. The vendor I've had the most issues with *shifty* components lately is dell.
I actually *forgot* that winMX was a p2p tool. Saw it on a persons machine while despamifying it. He asked if I'd get it working for him, since it hadn't worked right...
I was thinking... winamp... sure... So I start. And then realize it. Ack!
I gave him itunes and then showed him the internet radio feature. He's happy for now. WinMX got deleted.
You know all that help Redcross and disaster peeps are getting from Amateur radio ops in LA right now? It's a lot. And you know what'll happen after BPL goes main stream: Kiss Ham's good bye. Cause the hobby will go down the tubes as most of the people in it will find they can't use the air waves that they're licensed to operate on anymore like they should.
And to call up Johnny Nem.... Last thing we pretty much need at this point is more crud coming out of our electronic devices.
I'll go shiver at the thought of my plugged in powertools being gremlined. Microwave? eh... Stove... Can opener. Coffe grinder! eh GadS!
I've got the seventh edition. It's not quite as bad as the 5th. But, I could make $100 in a few mintues... Do you have his email? I've a tex document with problems and fixes.;)
I'm working in IT, and not using my ChE degree yet, so yeah; I'm looking to make about an extra $20K.
I've had to pull 4 GB of rm -rf *'d data off a drive before using some tools and vi. Worked well, took hours, and I got 90% of his files back.
I also got several versions of each file, some of them dating back over a year. Scarry...
But if you dd a drive... it's gone from all the tools I had at my fingers. And I had a *lot* of tools.
I've also done the "platter swap" thing once successfully (in a shower clean room) (twice failed) and several controller swaps. There's ways. But if the platters be stuck, and data important, take em out and bake em hard.
I have a strange feeling the main reason, besides low power consumption laptop chips, that apple is doing this will be seen in the next 1.4 years. All of a sudden, "windows" only software will start running with no hitches in mac.
And I seriously doubt the x86 version of mac will only run on branded hardware. I don't think apple wants it to only run on branded hardware.
This will get them market share of the desktop OS arena, and for all the right reasons. While at the same time they'll be increasing their hardware sales.
Soon to come: sub $800 iBooks and $450 mid sized desktop cases built from good hardware at a good price with a good OS. That also run more software, since software makers will have an eaisier job of making their stuff portable.
1. Ability to make coffee: insinkerator hot water tap (replaced our bunson burner and fleaker.) We still use a glass funnel with coffee filters. Fresh grind and then pour 190 deg F water over them in a careful method. Perfect concentrated brew. 2. Multimeter. *vital*.... never leave home without it. 3. Complete screwdriver/torx set. 4. Spare towles for laptop disembowlment operations. 5. Stack of "fresh" drives. Never trust an old drive! 6. Rubermaid container full of untouched, pristine, NIB IDE cables. Another must have. I tend to swap out IDE cables when ever I get a box just in case. It's saved me a lot of problems. 7. Trusted powerspuplies. 8. iPod hooked to sony stereo system. 9. KVM. 10. 19" LCD Samsung 930b + Sony trinitron E400. 11. Laptop cooling pad. 12. 7pt USB hub. 13. 8 pt netgear switch (home bench) and 24 pt gigabit switch (foundary) at work. 14. Safety gooooogles and electrical tape. (I guess for sledge-o-matic operations safety.) Must have my PPE's. 15. Swingline stapeler. (Not red.) Vintage. 16. TI-89. 17. Perrys Handbook for Chemical Engineers. (DOn't ask why I have it near my comp workbench.... you don't want to know.)
You can buy some stuff called "Moly Coat" from grainger and other places. It's a spray on coating used on gears in teletypes in the 70's to keep them from wearing out. I've been using it on maglight lenses and some optics stuff to keep things from scratching.
About $10/can, but it'll stop those scratches on the metal. I've used it on laptops more resently and seems to really help.
I was just getting defensive of apple over comments that they were stealing unix with MacOS X... (ah... by the way... watch out for the case sensitiity when going in and out of CLI using samba with Mac OS X!!! )
The theft of the idea for Lisa and the mouse was pivital. But not really relavent. I mean, mice have been around for a few thousand years.;)
I'm thinking like the NFS sponsored papers and such. Papers go out blind to a blind panel. Comments are made, stuff is judged. It takes a few months usually.
If there's a lot of people in the field, it makes sence thate you'lle have ae cleare answere.
For this case: Creative's pattent would have gone out to something like: 2 mp3 makers at random, 2 computer peripheral makers at random, 2 music distributors at random, 2 music artists at random.
Take this case: Amazon 1-click buy pattent: 2 web based sales business: buy.com, cdw.com 2 manufactures of Amazon's products: (book publisher, electro distrub.) 2 Electronic payment/security agencies (paypal, verisign?) 2 consumer representitives.
The smaller the field, the more likely the pattent will go through unscathed with this system. (IE, if you're making co-polymer resins for bonding BCC matricies to HCP surfaces in a new and neat special way, than that's the way it is.
I like it... The review by peers part. I could juyst see corperations getting too bad. I mean, think about the whole domain name fiasco. But extend that to patents which *are* what people make their livelyhoods from.... yikes.
No... Apple took a BSD core and built ontop of it. They dind't reinvent. And they gave props right back to the peeps making the core in the first place.
This is a completely different story.
I do expect to see a crippled commandline, and some horrible snapins that do the job in the next windoes... But it will be a reinvention. And not enough people will notice that they've been muching code and playing things close.
XP never crashed? lol... I've never touched a winXP machine that didn't try to send in an error report from Internet Explorer blowing up.
Not to mention it has very buggy autohide code for the task bar. I can't use a laptop without autohiding task bar enabled (linux in kde for years, and for the past two, mac os X.)
The autohide bar on my fresh install Toshibe S2 worked for a bout a week, and then went unstable. And then about a day later, it started randomly *not* hibernating or sleeping. It would just power cycle.
And this is a very clean box that's barely got anything installed and has had a hardened firewall in front of it every time it was plugged in.
As someone whose ran darwin on intel for weeks in testing, it's sweet. I'm already planning on replacing my win2k machines with Vista when it gets here. I'm just pissed that win2k's now essentially eol. I don't want to touch XP with a pole. (The only 4 XP machines here are flakey, and they have the best hardware in our shop! Dual xeon's and a nice dual amd MP machine. )
Hey... it's not that bad. There's some loopholes for iPods. 1. They don't primarily play mp3's (aac anyone?) 2. They could be modified eaisily to display MP3 names differently than covered by the patents. 3. They could be arguably "personal digital assistants" and thus not covered in the pattent anyways.
iPod picture versions are primarily picture viewers...not mp3 players.... And they're PDA like (iCal and address syncs...)
I think it'll be tough for creative to hold this and get $$'s off such a stupid move.
This is as bad as Ford trying to patent round objects that rotationally translate. Or measuring devices which exibit velocity vector components in a radial method.
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The server's burning... the man's burning... the server that is burning is hosting the review of the burning man...how is this off topic?
Good review, I just wanted to see the pictures. I coul;dn't so I posted such.
What's the real loss here? It'll kill theatres, which make most of their profits selling what exactly? ... not... movies. ;) It's that stale popcorn, carbonated sugarry water, and stank nasty hotdogs.
I haven't been to a theatre in a while, and I used to go once a week for almost a decade. I prefer watching it at home on the couch with a good stereo system ( a few hundred dollars) and an okay tv.
Some things still should be seen on the biggie screen. But it doesn't have to be everything.
We could seriously use this change. ANd I'd love for DVD's to come out on day 0. Hell, I'd buy more DVD's.
I was thinking "3-way"... as in 2-way or 4-way... and going nuts trying to envision a board with 3 processors... ;)
;)
arg...
Good to see ABIT's still knocking them down. I've been away from building with Abit for a long time. Though my first board, a KT100, is still ticken quite well.
I've been building asus or gigabyte for desktops and workstations and tyan for everything else.
Still would like to see multiway boards someday. As in, mix and match processor boards. With dual core it's getting closer... but not close enough yet.
Looks like we're smoking a server too. ;) /.'ed before 40 posts!
I'm a realist who always had to wipe redhat from the dells we got and install debian to get it to actually work.
;)
I'm also a realist who has had enough issues with windows and doesn't trust it as a stable, viable OS, without severe tweaking.
I'm also a system manager with about 40 machines in my hands. All of which run pretty well. Behind a rather hardened firewall, which works to keep wierdness out.
"dedhat" was actually an accidental typo. "winblows" wasn't.
Want link you to my mature and tasteful howto on getting debian running on some Dell Precision 650n's which came preinstalled with a completely disfunctional (read: dead) version of redhat enterprise?
I do use CentOS for my personal dedicated server. And I miss my Dell Latitude cpia 300XT laptop. The new low end dells I've touched have been crap in comparison. (We've stopped buying them after sending 4/6 back every few months.)
But not that big. Sure, you could get Dell's with dedhat before.
I may get one actually, since I need a good laptop with linux running on it. I've had a lot of luck buying a winblows machine and then rolling my linux install, but sometimes vendors play too shifty with components.
Which is why I'd stillbe concerned about this one. The vendor I've had the most issues with *shifty* components lately is dell.
And I like AMD/s.
then stop surfing for pron. ;) [jk]
something's wrong Feyr... seriously.
I'll stick to my tabed browser. Mozilla/firefox has been good to me for a while.
I actually *forgot* that winMX was a p2p tool. Saw it on a persons machine while despamifying it. He asked if I'd get it working for him, since it hadn't worked right...
I was thinking... winamp... sure... So I start. And then realize it. Ack!
I gave him itunes and then showed him the internet radio feature. He's happy for now. WinMX got deleted.
Um... you kind of need to turn "off" the water afterwards. Then let it settle.
/. a few years ago about how to replace your HD cover with plexiglass. Works great. (IE, 1/3 of the time.)
We followed the howto posted on
Forget the sauna... Try the hottub...
You're right...
Also ponder this:
You know all that help Redcross and disaster peeps are getting from Amateur radio ops in LA right now? It's a lot. And you know what'll happen after BPL goes main stream: Kiss Ham's good bye. Cause the hobby will go down the tubes as most of the people in it will find they can't use the air waves that they're licensed to operate on anymore like they should.
And to call up Johnny Nem.... Last thing we pretty much need at this point is more crud coming out of our electronic devices.
I'll go shiver at the thought of my plugged in powertools being gremlined. Microwave? eh... Stove... Can opener. Coffe grinder! eh GadS!
Ah so you noticed! I was wondering what Microsoft was doing with my hardware all these years...
I've got the seventh edition. It's not quite as bad as the 5th. But, I could make $100 in a few mintues... Do you have his email? I've a tex document with problems and fixes. ;)
I'm working in IT, and not using my ChE degree yet, so yeah; I'm looking to make about an extra $20K.
What if the drive wont spin up?
But you're right if they do.
I've had to pull 4 GB of rm -rf *'d data off a drive before using some tools and vi. Worked well, took hours, and I got 90% of his files back.
I also got several versions of each file, some of them dating back over a year. Scarry...
But if you dd a drive... it's gone from all the tools I had at my fingers. And I had a *lot* of tools.
I've also done the "platter swap" thing once successfully (in a shower clean room) (twice failed) and several controller swaps. There's ways. But if the platters be stuck, and data important, take em out and bake em hard.
I actually don't eitnrely agree...
I have a strange feeling the main reason, besides low power consumption laptop chips, that apple is doing this will be seen in the next 1.4 years. All of a sudden, "windows" only software will start running with no hitches in mac.
And I seriously doubt the x86 version of mac will only run on branded hardware. I don't think apple wants it to only run on branded hardware.
This will get them market share of the desktop OS arena, and for all the right reasons. While at the same time they'll be increasing their hardware sales.
Soon to come: sub $800 iBooks and $450 mid sized desktop cases built from good hardware at a good price with a good OS. That also run more software, since software makers will have an eaisier job of making their stuff portable.
Cheers.
1. Ability to make coffee: insinkerator hot water tap (replaced our bunson burner and fleaker.) We still use a glass funnel with coffee filters. Fresh grind and then pour 190 deg F water over them in a careful method. Perfect concentrated brew.
2. Multimeter. *vital*.... never leave home without it.
3. Complete screwdriver/torx set.
4. Spare towles for laptop disembowlment operations.
5. Stack of "fresh" drives. Never trust an old drive!
6. Rubermaid container full of untouched, pristine, NIB IDE cables. Another must have. I tend to swap out IDE cables when ever I get a box just in case. It's saved me a lot of problems.
7. Trusted powerspuplies.
8. iPod hooked to sony stereo system.
9. KVM.
10. 19" LCD Samsung 930b + Sony trinitron E400.
11. Laptop cooling pad.
12. 7pt USB hub.
13. 8 pt netgear switch (home bench) and 24 pt gigabit switch (foundary) at work.
14. Safety gooooogles and electrical tape. (I guess for sledge-o-matic operations safety.) Must have my PPE's.
15. Swingline stapeler. (Not red.) Vintage.
16. TI-89.
17. Perrys Handbook for Chemical Engineers. (DOn't ask why I have it near my comp workbench.... you don't want to know.)
It's waiting for Vista sp2_64.
You can buy some stuff called "Moly Coat" from grainger and other places. It's a spray on coating used on gears in teletypes in the 70's to keep them from wearing out. I've been using it on maglight lenses and some optics stuff to keep things from scratching.
About $10/can, but it'll stop those scratches on the metal. I've used it on laptops more resently and seems to really help.
It's also slashdoted...
LOL!!!
I love this site. hehe...
I think we've lost track here...
;)
I was just getting defensive of apple over comments that they were stealing unix with MacOS X... (ah... by the way... watch out for the case sensitiity when going in and out of CLI using samba with Mac OS X!!! )
The theft of the idea for Lisa and the mouse was pivital. But not really relavent. I mean, mice have been around for a few thousand years.
I'm thinking like the NFS sponsored papers and such. Papers go out blind to a blind panel. Comments are made, stuff is judged. It takes a few months usually.
If there's a lot of people in the field, it makes sence thate you'lle have ae cleare answere.
For this case: Creative's pattent would have gone out to something like: 2 mp3 makers at random, 2 computer peripheral makers at random, 2 music distributors at random, 2 music artists at random.
Take this case: Amazon 1-click buy pattent:
2 web based sales business: buy.com, cdw.com
2 manufactures of Amazon's products: (book publisher, electro distrub.)
2 Electronic payment/security agencies (paypal,
verisign?)
2 consumer representitives.
The smaller the field, the more likely the pattent will go through unscathed with this system. (IE, if you're making co-polymer resins for bonding BCC matricies to HCP surfaces in a new and neat special way, than that's the way it is.
I like it... The review by peers part. I could juyst see corperations getting too bad. I mean, think about the whole domain name fiasco. But extend that to patents which *are* what people make their livelyhoods from.... yikes.
...
Peer review is the solution.
No... Apple took a BSD core and built ontop of it. They dind't reinvent. And they gave props right back to the peeps making the core in the first place.
This is a completely different story.
I do expect to see a crippled commandline, and some horrible snapins that do the job in the next windoes... But it will be a reinvention. And not enough people will notice that they've been muching code and playing things close.
I would have rpefered Apple going with AMD opteron's or contracting one of their other beefy 64 bit chips. Why intel?
;)_
I like the g5 chips, and sure the intel ones are okay. But it just seems like AMD would have been a better match for Apple.
Oh well, I'll take what I can get.
And I can't wait to move over a bunch of older intel's to mac os X.
XP never crashed? lol... I've never touched a winXP machine that didn't try to send in an error report from Internet Explorer blowing up.
Not to mention it has very buggy autohide code for the task bar. I can't use a laptop without autohiding task bar enabled (linux in kde for years, and for the past two, mac os X.)
The autohide bar on my fresh install Toshibe S2 worked for a bout a week, and then went unstable. And then about a day later, it started randomly *not* hibernating or sleeping. It would just power cycle.
And this is a very clean box that's barely got anything installed and has had a hardened firewall in front of it every time it was plugged in.
As someone whose ran darwin on intel for weeks in testing, it's sweet. I'm already planning on replacing my win2k machines with Vista when it gets here. I'm just pissed that win2k's now essentially eol. I don't want to touch XP with a pole. (The only 4 XP machines here are flakey, and they have the best hardware in our shop! Dual xeon's and a nice dual amd MP machine. )
Hey... it's not that bad. There's some loopholes for iPods.
1. They don't primarily play mp3's (aac anyone?)
2. They could be modified eaisily to display MP3 names differently than covered by the patents.
3. They could be arguably "personal digital assistants" and thus not covered in the pattent anyways.
iPod picture versions are primarily picture viewers...not mp3 players.... And they're PDA like (iCal and address syncs...)
I think it'll be tough for creative to hold this and get $$'s off such a stupid move.
This is as bad as Ford trying to patent round objects that rotationally translate. Or measuring devices which exibit velocity vector components in a radial method.