I might be somewhat unusual, but my computer is about a foot from my bed when I sleep, and I actually like the quiet drone it makes. Its not loud, its just right, and it lulls me to sleep. Its just a standard Antec full-tower with all the fan bays used and a stock intel heatsink, so its not loud at all.
I really could care less about the moral bullshit surrounding this. If it weren't for some people cracking open some skulls well before most of us were born, we wouldn't be able to perform surgery the way we do now. I'm not saying we should grab someone off the street and start experimenting on them, but growing almost 100% human brains in a sheep and then experimenting on it does not bother me. Unfortunately, there are far too many people who whine about this and make noise. I really hope the research is going on without anyone knowing, and we gain knowledge without having to answer to some religious crackpot protesting that some damn sheep has a human heart.
I don't know what you're doing, but I have several optical drives that have lasted well over 6 to 8 years. One being the 8x Compaq CDROM drive which came in my first computer which has a place of honor in an old server. Next being my TDK 24x CDRW drive that is actually a rebadged Plextor, I believe its about 4 years old. My DVD-ROM drive in this computer is a Pioneer that works perfectly, I've had it about 4 years as well. I sold a SCSI Yahama 6x CDRW drive to a friend and that's still kicking. Its about 6 years old.
What are you doing to your drives?! From what I can guess is you're buying piece of shit components and expecting them to last the long haul. If you notice, besides the Compaq drive, I buy somewhat quality components and they last and last and last. I don't expect a $20 bargain bin CDRW drive to last me more than maybe a month or 2 of heavy use, but all my plextor drives have lasted me.
One thing is for sure, however, you have a Sony. Every single SOny drive I've ever used, or every DVD player that they make has been crap. Sure it looks all pretty and may work with normal DVDs, but put a burned CD in there or maybe use your DVD player once a night and it will 'burn out' in less than a month or so. That's the case in my experience. With their DVD-ROM drives, they simply stop working well after a week. So my friends and I stopped buying them.
While in Las Vegas, I had T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. T-Mobile blew. Sprint was decent, and Verizon had perfect signal absolutely everywhere I was, in almost any building.
Here in Michigan, Verizon also has the best coverage, with Sprint in second. My brother has Verizon and I can use his phone in my basement just fine, however, my Sprint phone doesn't work as well.
One caveat about Verizon, they never release phones that I want in a timely fashion. Thus, they lost a sale on the Treo 650 to Sprint.
Not to sound like an ingrate, because this is really cool, but I'd love to see a video tour of this. Growing up in the 80's I have fond memories of randomly catching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and watching him tour some factory. I'd like to see that in the factories today.
I'm a bit demanding in my PDAs. First, I look for a speedy CPU. I like the capability of looking at pictures on a SD card that I just took. Second, expansion. What kind of expansion does it have? Is it worth the investment? Will this be rendered obsolete by the company a month after release? *coughSonyCliecough* Then, a high res screen is just necessary. I enjoy reading e-Books and playing high-res Bejeweled on my PDA while waiting at the doctor's office or a long line. Then I look for wireless connectivity. Bluetooth or WiFi basically, with capability to connect to a cell phone or have the cell phone integrated. I look forward to the Treo 650 for that.
Manufacturers may not release the firmware, but others may develop their own firmware. OpenWRT is a good example, for Linksys WRT54G(S) routers. Perhaps a nice little package for it.
There really is no need more than what the instruction booklet that comes with the iPod and a google/Apple KB search for everything else.
If all of that confuses you, you probably should stick to a discman, sans MP3 support.
I have problems justifying books anymore when a search online yields information faster and usually more accurate than a book ever could. So if some kind of information dark age ever did come about, and there was no Internet, I ask that someone put me out of my misery...
I've never seen such a ghetto, half assed way of integrating it. I expected a dock or something that you would slide it into, like a drive bay thing. Most of the DIY docks people have done look better.
This move by MS is really stupid. They're shooting themselves in the foot. Nintendo didn't exactly do this (N64 -> GameCube), but at least they have a sufficient market of games that people actually want to play. The only thing that Xbox really has going for it is perhaps Halo 2, it basically dropped out of the sky with no existing franchise of games to base itself upon.
If the PS2 did not have the backwards compatibility, it would have prevented a lot of people from purchasing it right off the bat. I almost ditched my PS1 instantaneously right after the first price drop. I play a lot of the older titles for PS1 on my PS2, with the PS2 games mixed in. I do miss my hardware Gameshark though.
Your basic DSL for $26.95 for 384kbps - 1.5Mbps. I was getting 1.2Mbps. Now I have the "pro" package for $36.99 a month and am getting 2.5Mbps download. I used to have some service outages because their PPPoE server would be down and not authenicate me, but it been quite reliable so far this year.
Unfortunately, I'm paying something like $80 a month for a 3Mbit DSL connection, and this is through Sprint. I hate Sprint...
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Dammit, meant "in spite of"
Despite this long repair window, you'd think these companies would install some sort of redundant system to fail over to when the cable is cut....
I wouldn't put it past Disney these days, releasing straight-to-video sequels...
Direct links to a podcast at work is irritating. Guess I should look at the status bar more often.
Anywho, I'd adopt IPv6 if more straightforward and simpler guides existed, or I just can't find them.
I might be somewhat unusual, but my computer is about a foot from my bed when I sleep, and I actually like the quiet drone it makes. Its not loud, its just right, and it lulls me to sleep. Its just a standard Antec full-tower with all the fan bays used and a stock intel heatsink, so its not loud at all.
Yeah, mmhmm, going to throw away my dual-Xeon server and my 3 GHz P4 just because it has spyware. Yep. Makes perfect sense to me.
I really could care less about the moral bullshit surrounding this. If it weren't for some people cracking open some skulls well before most of us were born, we wouldn't be able to perform surgery the way we do now. I'm not saying we should grab someone off the street and start experimenting on them, but growing almost 100% human brains in a sheep and then experimenting on it does not bother me. Unfortunately, there are far too many people who whine about this and make noise. I really hope the research is going on without anyone knowing, and we gain knowledge without having to answer to some religious crackpot protesting that some damn sheep has a human heart.
I don't know what you're doing, but I have several optical drives that have lasted well over 6 to 8 years. One being the 8x Compaq CDROM drive which came in my first computer which has a place of honor in an old server. Next being my TDK 24x CDRW drive that is actually a rebadged Plextor, I believe its about 4 years old. My DVD-ROM drive in this computer is a Pioneer that works perfectly, I've had it about 4 years as well. I sold a SCSI Yahama 6x CDRW drive to a friend and that's still kicking. Its about 6 years old.
What are you doing to your drives?! From what I can guess is you're buying piece of shit components and expecting them to last the long haul. If you notice, besides the Compaq drive, I buy somewhat quality components and they last and last and last. I don't expect a $20 bargain bin CDRW drive to last me more than maybe a month or 2 of heavy use, but all my plextor drives have lasted me.
One thing is for sure, however, you have a Sony. Every single SOny drive I've ever used, or every DVD player that they make has been crap. Sure it looks all pretty and may work with normal DVDs, but put a burned CD in there or maybe use your DVD player once a night and it will 'burn out' in less than a month or so. That's the case in my experience. With their DVD-ROM drives, they simply stop working well after a week. So my friends and I stopped buying them.
Actually, I've found the opposite to be true.
While in Las Vegas, I had T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. T-Mobile blew. Sprint was decent, and Verizon had perfect signal absolutely everywhere I was, in almost any building.
Here in Michigan, Verizon also has the best coverage, with Sprint in second. My brother has Verizon and I can use his phone in my basement just fine, however, my Sprint phone doesn't work as well.
One caveat about Verizon, they never release phones that I want in a timely fashion. Thus, they lost a sale on the Treo 650 to Sprint.
Not to sound like an ingrate, because this is really cool, but I'd love to see a video tour of this. Growing up in the 80's I have fond memories of randomly catching Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and watching him tour some factory. I'd like to see that in the factories today.
Its a move in the right direction, but to the bigger telcos, $15,000 isn't that big of a hit. Especially when doing something blatantly unethical.
Its about 5000x easier to just go to Title 38 on a DVD player than wrestling with the Interactual player bullshit and IE.
I believe some interview with Gabe Newell said that their inspiration for HL2 was to be an eastern european city. I think they did an awesome job.
I'm a bit demanding in my PDAs. First, I look for a speedy CPU. I like the capability of looking at pictures on a SD card that I just took. Second, expansion. What kind of expansion does it have? Is it worth the investment? Will this be rendered obsolete by the company a month after release? *coughSonyCliecough* Then, a high res screen is just necessary. I enjoy reading e-Books and playing high-res Bejeweled on my PDA while waiting at the doctor's office or a long line. Then I look for wireless connectivity. Bluetooth or WiFi basically, with capability to connect to a cell phone or have the cell phone integrated. I look forward to the Treo 650 for that.
Manufacturers may not release the firmware, but others may develop their own firmware. OpenWRT is a good example, for Linksys WRT54G(S) routers. Perhaps a nice little package for it.
I for one welcome our inerplanetary overlords.
(Just to get it out of the way...)
In Soviet Russia, the water flows you!
Or something...
Especially considering I despise having to use Linux as a workstation yet I listen to more electronica. Guess they need to do a better study.
Quickly! Apple must integrate something like this into 10.4!
Justify that $100+ we're going to spend on an OS upgrade!
I try to use perfect grammar in IMs and don't text message from my phone; I SMS through my PDA.
Not doing so wreaks havoc whenever I try to type up a paper or any office emails.
There really is no need more than what the instruction booklet that comes with the iPod and a google/Apple KB search for everything else.
If all of that confuses you, you probably should stick to a discman, sans MP3 support.
I have problems justifying books anymore when a search online yields information faster and usually more accurate than a book ever could. So if some kind of information dark age ever did come about, and there was no Internet, I ask that someone put me out of my misery...
I've never seen such a ghetto, half assed way of integrating it. I expected a dock or something that you would slide it into, like a drive bay thing. Most of the DIY docks people have done look better.
This move by MS is really stupid. They're shooting themselves in the foot. Nintendo didn't exactly do this (N64 -> GameCube), but at least they have a sufficient market of games that people actually want to play. The only thing that Xbox really has going for it is perhaps Halo 2, it basically dropped out of the sky with no existing franchise of games to base itself upon.
If the PS2 did not have the backwards compatibility, it would have prevented a lot of people from purchasing it right off the bat. I almost ditched my PS1 instantaneously right after the first price drop. I play a lot of the older titles for PS1 on my PS2, with the PS2 games mixed in. I do miss my hardware Gameshark though.
Your basic DSL for $26.95 for 384kbps - 1.5Mbps. I was getting 1.2Mbps. Now I have the "pro" package for $36.99 a month and am getting 2.5Mbps download. I used to have some service outages because their PPPoE server would be down and not authenicate me, but it been quite reliable so far this year.
Unfortunately, I'm paying something like $80 a month for a 3Mbit DSL connection, and this is through Sprint. I hate Sprint...
Because when I had SBC's DSL in Michigan, it was way oversold and sucked.
One word comes to mind (well, compound one):
Clusterfuck