To me that's comes through loud and clear as "*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* napster(etc)!"
Oh hell it napster's heyday TCI was running commercials actively PROMOTING their cable modem service as to be used for Napster.
(err, TCI was bought out, heh, kinda explains why I guess. . ..)
Of course the 6 o'clock news was also showing tutorials on how to download files from Napster as well so. . . . heh. (that was kinda when I realized that the entire Napster thing had gotten waaaay out of hand)
I'm talking more about using your nice DVD player and surround sound stereo system.
Err, that would, err, beh, running through my computer. . ..
Imagine the joy of $3.99 for a d/l that takes X number of hours (with X increasing by the number of users signed up for this service).
For some reason I think that warner brothers (or whatever service provider that they choose to use) can afford a decent pipe.:-D
Though at my old @Home speeds of ~2MegaBytes per second, heh. . . . SWEEET!:-D As it is I will have to be content with a mere 300 or so KBp/s. ^_^
Then all you can do is watch it on your computer.
E-Bay so rocks for buying big screen CRTs on.
That and my Matrox G400 card does TV-Out, and those 42inch Plasma screens are quickly coming down in price. . ..
You don't think MS would let you output the image and sound to your big screen TV and super stereo system did you?
How the fuck are they going to stop me? After it leaves my Sound/Video card the signals mine baby, bleh. Well except for those damned copy protected LCD thingies, but, err, heh, kind of awhile until market saturation is high enough to allow for MS making the usage mandatory. ^_^
I can debunk this silly notion with 2 words: Starship Troopers. Anybody who has both read the book and seen the movie based on it knows exactly what I mean.
I have 5 PCI cards and 4 IDE devices, and I am trying my best to get some more stuff. . ..
Now if some new bus interconnect method was made up that involved a connector edge a tad wee bit smaller then that of PCI (heh, hasn't technology advanced at least a wee bit since the early/mid nighties?:-D ) then sure, but. . . .
I was thinking more like Windows XP but hey, whatever. . ..
DIVX is really such a poor example, the marketing explanation of it did no make to much sense, the way MS spins stuff. . . . everybody will want it, good OR bad.
Remember this is the same company that has managed to get many users to start using WMP audio files, the WMP7.x program, and who when users hear about MS's latest EULA rights steal, say "well they would never actualy do anything bad with it!!!"
Oh well, it's no use. Nobody will read this message. Well, I did. Sorry I don't moderate. Also feel sorry for the guy who "joked" and the people who went out of their way to explain the situation. Ah well, it's a thankless world. /.'s loss, if somebody doesn't chuckle, isn't my fault, I tried my best.:-D
If everyone starts producing DRM hardware, repair services and "vintage" computer parts will be "all the rage
Your forgetting, most people will, even when presented with royal assloads of logical evidence to the contrary (and even if on some level they AGREE with the evidence and how it is presented), still opt to buy the newest latest coolest looking model of a gadget rather then the more functional slightly older model.
Not willingly, I keep on trying to lose the damn thing.
I keep it off at all times though, the way I see it the only reason that ANYBODY would EVER want to contact me is if somebody in my family is in the hospital and then quite frankly I don't really want to hear about it until I absolutely have to.
If I want to call somebody I find a nice quite niche to hide, blush deeply, and talk VEEERY SOFTLY.
I also make sure that all calls are purely functional, formal, quick short and to the point.
Then again I hate 'social calls' any ways, if I want to socialize I'll meet somebody face to friggin face and talk to them.
About the only long phone conversations that I ever have are the ones to my friend who I have known since I was in the first grade, ever 3 to 6 months one of us calls the other one up and we talk for an hour or two. So freakin sue me, that is about all the telephone time I get in period. Well except for time on hold calling businesses for various things. . . . eeesh and ick!
Cell phone suck, period. Annoying buggers, NO REASON TO HAVE THEM OUT WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICALLY MOBIL. Sit your ass down or stand still, find some little niche, AND GIVE THE REST OF US SOME PEACE AND QUIET YOU DUMB FUCK.
Oh yah, and kids on cell phones? Dumb fucks, every last one of them. Time wasted socializing is time that would have been better spent studying.
Of course I say that about all social events so. . . . heh.
--- is in the 'school dances should be banned' catagory.
Women want men who can be good fathers and this means - most of all - good providers.
Unfortunately evolution leaves off when the entire personality judgement thing comes in;
see, rich, successful, sure, nice criteria;
more important? Loving, caring, dedicated to the children. Poor or middle class men who love their kids and wife are better fathers then some asshole rich guy whose off all the time having sex with who ever'll sleep with him.
I SOOO wish I had like written this up formally years ago.
I mean fuck, I figured out that one in like 9th grade, so freakin obvious, sure implementing it is a bitch, but, err, the concept of how to do it is simple. I mean hasn't everybody kinda thought up of this as being lik the No Duh way of becoming invisible?
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Oh yeah, I forgot, all those great ancient African civilizations no one has yet been able to find proof of hidden deep in the jungle.
Do your research, "civilization" found them, and then shot them. They where taking up valuable forest land you know. . . .
Building regulations in England and Wales ban light switches in bathrooms. There is a loop-hole in that pull-cords and dimmer switches are okay.
Umm, WTF???
Here in the states if we want a switch some place we go down to the damn store, buy a switch, and shove it in where ever the hell we want it.
Hell man I have freakin electrical SOCKETS in the bathroom, not to mention light switchs + lights above the sink, heater/fan/light switchs on the sied wall, and so forth.
Why the hell wouldn't a bathroom have a switch in it? What the freak is so dangerious about a switch???
Dude, the freaking printer spooler takes up nearly 4 megabytes of RAM.
When IN ACTIVE.
SVhost, which should be (if I recall correctly) just a cache of DLLs, hey somewhat useful right, well under 2K you had one, maybe two copies of it running.
XP has three, four, sometimes five copies of it running. Taking up 32, 16, 8 megabytes. I have seen all of the various incarnations of SVhost together taking up well over 100 megabytes cumulative on an XP box!! (this was on a fresh install of XP pro mind you)
!
Just DLL caches.
100 megabytes.
WTF
The problem is not the features, the problem is that all of those features could have been implemented with far less overhead
And of course as a bonus, an order of magnitude or so less code would mean a less likely chance of bugs as well.
Heck BeOS proved that you can have an advanced and kick ass looking operating system without taking up multiple gigabytes of HD space and hundreds of megabytes of RAM, but thing is, MS doesn't care, they just get the code out as easy as they can and profit as much as they can from it. Quality or efficiency does not enter into it.
Then again, a whirring full-tower with loads of blinking lights next to the entertainment center might make quite a conversation piece for the living room...
Why bother with the entertainment center when you have a PC? Seriously, if you have the cash (by which I mean LOADS of it) just go all PC man.
Good high end sound card with decoding of whatever you want, HDTV or just plain old TV in, and go for one of those sweet 42inch plasma monitor outs (or component out to whatever display unit you already have running, heh. I guess a $16k screen would be a bit, err, hehe, over the top.:-D That is for the computer model of course, the regular TV resolution 42inchers are cheap(er).:-D )
The computer can handle the DVD easy as can be, and even VCR is not that much of a problem (I got my generic BT Chipset TV-In card for $20 at a computer swap meet, hehe. S-Video in and all)
Really no need to/have/ an entertainment center, quite frankly the latest multi-gigahertz CPU from who ever will be able to decode/encode/transcode whatever you need to where ever you need it far better then any other piece of kit you'll be able to buy. And since it is all (or at least mostly) software based, any quality issues can be fixed with something less drastic then a new $x00(0) receiver
My own search for my own name yielded more and (possibly even) better results then google.
More results yes, but the ranking and relevancy numbers. . . . . rather, err, odd.
A search for Com2Kid on Google turns up my homepage as the first result.
A search for Com2Kid on Alltheweb turns up, err, well a lot of stuff, but my homepage is not on the first 4 pages (and I do not really feel like checking much beyond that, nor would anybody actually searching for me)
The rest of the search results are ordered in a very funny way, where as Google has a strong tendency towards grouping results from a site together in the search result listings, Alltheweb seems to be content with pretty much spreading things around quite randomly. (well sure there is some algorithm being applied, but the usability of the order of the returned links is pretty much akin to them being randomized)
It's just a clean interface to search, not a 'portal'.
True, but it appears to be using absolute rather then relative text sizes, thus resulting in the majority of Internet users (IE5.x+) being unable to change the size of the text on the page. That they are using a fairly small font size to begin with does not help matters any either.
Oh yes, and if I search for a site address, Google gives me the option of retrieving further information about the site, searching for pages that contain that term, showing me a list of pages that link to that site, or showing a list of pages that is simular to the one given.
If the page is not within Google's database it tells me so and just asks me if I want to use that address as a search term instead.
Alltheweb just, err, well. Uses the site address as a term to begin with. Hardly as powerful or usable. Not to mention it does not even tell me if the site exists within their database or not.
Oh, and no cache means I just won't use it period. As it is I do a goodly percent of my browsing solely through the Google cache now, a lot quicker and all that, I do not even bother to click on the main links anymore.
I have seen reviews of these things that say that we should all throw away our full towers and buy one of these instead.
Like hell.
My A/V PC has 5 PCI devices and 4 IDE devices, my 3D workstation has 5 PCI back plates used up (various extenders from other cards) and 3 actual PCI slots in use, along with a mere 3 IDE devices (it is going to get a CDRW so make that 4 IDE devices soon now), and;
oh yah;
each one of my steel full muthafucking tower cases?
Scary thing is it took some dude with too much time on his hands and a microscope to find this out. Somebody was bored enough to bother finding out if a bacteria was IMPLODING or EXPLODING upon its death.
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To me that's comes through loud and clear as "*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* napster(etc)!"
.)
Oh hell it napster's heyday TCI was running commercials actively PROMOTING their cable modem service as to be used for Napster.
(err, TCI was bought out, heh, kinda explains why I guess. . .
Of course the 6 o'clock news was also showing tutorials on how to download files from Napster as well so. . . . heh. (that was kinda when I realized that the entire Napster thing had gotten waaaay out of hand)
I'm talking more about using your nice DVD player and surround sound stereo system.
.
:-D
:-D As it is I will have to be content with a mere 300 or so KBp/s. ^_^
.
Err, that would, err, beh, running through my computer. . .
Imagine the joy of $3.99 for a d/l that takes X number of hours (with X increasing by the number of users signed up for this service).
For some reason I think that warner brothers (or whatever service provider that they choose to use) can afford a decent pipe.
Though at my old @Home speeds of ~2MegaBytes per second, heh. . . . SWEEET!
Then all you can do is watch it on your computer.
E-Bay so rocks for buying big screen CRTs on.
That and my Matrox G400 card does TV-Out, and those 42inch Plasma screens are quickly coming down in price. . .
You don't think MS would let you output the image and sound to your big screen TV and super stereo system did you?
How the fuck are they going to stop me? After it leaves my Sound/Video card the signals mine baby, bleh. Well except for those damned copy protected LCD thingies, but, err, heh, kind of awhile until market saturation is high enough to allow for MS making the usage mandatory. ^_^
Well at least the server hosting up the image file(http://www.fragnetics.com/) got toasted! w00t!
hehe, Hmm, I can not quite /beat/ that per say, but I think I can match that.
:-D )
Saw both movies;
together;
entire family.
(Yah we are all Sci-Fi nuts.
Also own the Rocky Horror Picture Show LP, hehe.
I can debunk this silly notion with 2 words: Starship Troopers. Anybody who has both read the book and seen the movie based on it knows exactly what I mean.
.
*looks puzzled*
Huh?
I liked the movie. . .
Then again I also liked waterworld so. . . heh.
I like big, thank you so very much.
.
:-D ) then sure, but. . . .
Besides.
I have 5 PCI cards and 4 IDE devices, and I am trying my best to get some more stuff. . .
Now if some new bus interconnect method was made up that involved a connector edge a tad wee bit smaller then that of PCI (heh, hasn't technology advanced at least a wee bit since the early/mid nighties?
I was thinking more like Windows XP but hey, whatever. . . .
DIVX is really such a poor example, the marketing explanation of it did no make to much sense, the way MS spins stuff. . . . everybody will want it, good OR bad.
Remember this is the same company that has managed to get many users to start using WMP audio files, the WMP7.x program, and who when users hear about MS's latest EULA rights steal, say "well they would never actualy do anything bad with it!!!"
Oh well, it's no use. Nobody will read this message.
/.'s loss, if somebody doesn't chuckle, isn't my fault, I tried my best. :-D
Well, I did. Sorry I don't moderate. Also feel sorry for the guy who "joked" and the people who went out of their way to explain the situation. Ah well, it's a thankless world.
Back about a year ago,
It was that long ago?
cruuuuuddddd
There goes any more chances for free tacos.
If everyone starts producing DRM hardware, repair services and "vintage" computer parts will be "all the rage
Your forgetting, most people will, even when presented with royal assloads of logical evidence to the contrary (and even if on some level they AGREE with the evidence and how it is presented), still opt to buy the newest latest coolest looking model of a gadget rather then the more functional slightly older model.
Not willingly, I keep on trying to lose the damn thing.
I keep it off at all times though, the way I see it the only reason that ANYBODY would EVER want to contact me is if somebody in my family is in the hospital and then quite frankly I don't really want to hear about it until I absolutely have to.
If I want to call somebody I find a nice quite niche to hide, blush deeply, and talk VEEERY SOFTLY.
I also make sure that all calls are purely functional, formal, quick short and to the point.
Then again I hate 'social calls' any ways, if I want to socialize I'll meet somebody face to friggin face and talk to them.
About the only long phone conversations that I ever have are the ones to my friend who I have known since I was in the first grade, ever 3 to 6 months one of us calls the other one up and we talk for an hour or two. So freakin sue me, that is about all the telephone time I get in period. Well except for time on hold calling businesses for various things. . . . eeesh and ick!
Cell phone suck, period. Annoying buggers, NO REASON TO HAVE THEM OUT WHEN YOU ARE PHYSICALLY MOBIL. Sit your ass down or stand still, find some little niche, AND GIVE THE REST OF US SOME PEACE AND QUIET YOU DUMB FUCK.
Oh yah, and kids on cell phones? Dumb fucks, every last one of them. Time wasted socializing is time that would have been better spent studying.
Of course I say that about all social events so. . . . heh.
--- is in the 'school dances should be banned' catagory.
Women want men who can be good fathers and this means - most of all - good providers.
Unfortunately evolution leaves off when the entire personality judgement thing comes in;
see, rich, successful, sure, nice criteria;
more important? Loving, caring, dedicated to the children. Poor or middle class men who love their kids and wife are better fathers then some asshole rich guy whose off all the time having sex with who ever'll sleep with him.
I SOOO wish I had like written this up formally years ago.
I mean fuck, I figured out that one in like 9th grade, so freakin obvious, sure implementing it is a bitch, but, err, the concept of how to do it is simple. I mean hasn't everybody kinda thought up of this as being lik the No Duh way of becoming invisible?
Oh yeah, I forgot, all those great ancient African civilizations no one has yet been able to find proof of hidden deep in the jungle.
Do your research, "civilization" found them, and then shot them. They where taking up valuable forest land you know. . . .
Building regulations in England and Wales ban light switches in bathrooms. There is a loop-hole in that pull-cords and dimmer switches are okay.
Umm, WTF???
Here in the states if we want a switch some place we go down to the damn store, buy a switch, and shove it in where ever the hell we want it.
Hell man I have freakin electrical SOCKETS in the bathroom, not to mention light switchs + lights above the sink, heater/fan/light switchs on the sied wall, and so forth.
Why the hell wouldn't a bathroom have a switch in it? What the freak is so dangerious about a switch???
How to use that spare CD burner to build an etcher (etch trophies, metal ID tags, etc...)
:-D
Hrmmm, I know that it has been made to burn designs on to CDRs, close enough for ya?
Dude, the freaking printer spooler takes up nearly 4 megabytes of RAM.
When IN ACTIVE.
SVhost, which should be (if I recall correctly) just a cache of DLLs, hey somewhat useful right, well under 2K you had one, maybe two copies of it running.
XP has three, four, sometimes five copies of it running. Taking up 32, 16, 8 megabytes. I have seen all of the various incarnations of SVhost together taking up well over 100 megabytes cumulative on an XP box!! (this was on a fresh install of XP pro mind you)
!
Just DLL caches.
100 megabytes.
WTF
The problem is not the features, the problem is that all of those features could have been implemented with far less overhead
And of course as a bonus, an order of magnitude or so less code would mean a less likely chance of bugs as well.
Heck BeOS proved that you can have an advanced and kick ass looking operating system without taking up multiple gigabytes of HD space and hundreds of megabytes of RAM, but thing is, MS doesn't care, they just get the code out as easy as they can and profit as much as they can from it. Quality or efficiency does not enter into it.
Take a moment to read that sig before moving on, please.
:-D
-Michael
Why do you think the writting style is so disjointed?
Then again, a whirring full-tower with loads of blinking lights next to the entertainment center might make quite a conversation piece for the living room...
:-D That is for the computer model of course, the regular TV resolution 42inchers are cheap(er). :-D )
/have/ an entertainment center, quite frankly the latest multi-gigahertz CPU from who ever will be able to decode/encode/transcode whatever you need to where ever you need it far better then any other piece of kit you'll be able to buy. And since it is all (or at least mostly) software based, any quality issues can be fixed with something less drastic then a new $x00(0) receiver
Why bother with the entertainment center when you have a PC? Seriously, if you have the cash (by which I mean LOADS of it) just go all PC man.
Good high end sound card with decoding of whatever you want, HDTV or just plain old TV in, and go for one of those sweet 42inch plasma monitor outs (or component out to whatever display unit you already have running, heh. I guess a $16k screen would be a bit, err, hehe, over the top.
The computer can handle the DVD easy as can be, and even VCR is not that much of a problem (I got my generic BT Chipset TV-In card for $20 at a computer swap meet, hehe. S-Video in and all)
Really no need to
My own search for my own name yielded more and (possibly even) better results then google.
More results yes, but the ranking and relevancy numbers. . . . . rather, err, odd.
A search for Com2Kid on Google turns up my homepage as the first result.
A search for Com2Kid on Alltheweb turns up, err, well a lot of stuff, but my homepage is not on the first 4 pages (and I do not really feel like checking much beyond that, nor would anybody actually searching for me)
The rest of the search results are ordered in a very funny way, where as Google has a strong tendency towards grouping results from a site together in the search result listings, Alltheweb seems to be content with pretty much spreading things around quite randomly. (well sure there is some algorithm being applied, but the usability of the order of the returned links is pretty much akin to them being randomized)
It's just a clean interface to search, not a 'portal'.
True, but it appears to be using absolute rather then relative text sizes, thus resulting in the majority of Internet users (IE5.x+) being unable to change the size of the text on the page. That they are using a fairly small font size to begin with does not help matters any either.
Oh yes, and if I search for a site address, Google gives me the option of retrieving further information about the site, searching for pages that contain that term, showing me a list of pages that link to that site, or showing a list of pages that is simular to the one given.
If the page is not within Google's database it tells me so and just asks me if I want to use that address as a search term instead.
Alltheweb just, err, well. Uses the site address as a term to begin with. Hardly as powerful or usable. Not to mention it does not even tell me if the site exists within their database or not.
Oh, and no cache means I just won't use it period. As it is I do a goodly percent of my browsing solely through the Google cache now, a lot quicker and all that, I do not even bother to click on the main links anymore.
I have seen reviews of these things that say that we should all throw away our full towers and buy one of these instead.
Like hell.
My A/V PC has 5 PCI devices and 4 IDE devices, my 3D workstation has 5 PCI back plates used up (various extenders from other cards) and 3 actual PCI slots in use, along with a mere 3 IDE devices (it is going to get a CDRW so make that 4 IDE devices soon now), and;
oh yah;
each one of my steel full muthafucking tower cases?
Doubles.
As
A stepladder.
BIZZOOOOOOTCH!
Next time, when you post a story that's clearly going to cause paranoia and misunderstanding, try to be a bit more adult about it.
/. now wouldn't it? Yee freakin gads, if a person just checks /. for all their news then yah they are gonna be screwed.
/. has a comments section, want more info/discussion on/about a story? Go to comments. Oh look, you are already there, congrats.
Take all the fun outa reading
Then again, err,
Scary thing is it took some dude with too much time on his hands and a microscope to find this out. Somebody was bored enough to bother finding out if a bacteria was IMPLODING or EXPLODING upon its death.
Wow. That must have been a slow night in the lab.
My amp is five years old, but even that is able to correctly autoselect decoding, what kind of archaic hardware have you been using?
As I said, it is selecting between PCM and RAW out on the DVD player, no idea WTF that has to do with anything.
The AMP is about 3 or so years old.