Forklift Operator #1: Uh-oh! You got oil in my de-gassed water! Forklift Operator #2: No... You got your de-gassed water in my oil!:)
-Zane
Hmm.. Standard XP Install hangs w/o floppy drive.
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Dell Dropping The Floppy
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· Score: 2, Informative
Last time I tried to install XP without a floppy drive in the system it would hang during the hardware detection (the quick one at the very begging of every NT/XP boot up sequence). The odd thing was it would boot/detect just fine if I enabled floppy support in the bios without attaching the floppy drive.
What do you mean not for sale? I bought mine at CompUSA over 6 months ago and I'm absolutely LOVING it. A quick search on pricewatch brings up 3-4 online vendors selling it.
Well, you could spend $300 on two P3's and a dual P3 motherboard or you could spend LESS than that on an Athlon XP 2200+ and a good MB (total of about $250) and get better performance. *shrug*
What's scary is the possibility of someone hacking your display. If it paints directly to your eye at a high enough resolution and color depth you might not notice even the more obvious changes. Even if your wearable PC doesn't have remote access someone could still get physical access to it.
The consipiracy theorists will have a field day.:)
Cable Tech: "How are your downloads, are they still fast?"
You: "They're a little slow but I still get around 60-100k/s or so..."
Cable Tech: "Ok then, everything's fine, we don't garuntee ping, just fast downloads."
Seriously. I went through the EXACT same thing when I was having VERY high pings to my gateway (200-300ms at times) and some packetloss. Luckily buying a DOCSIS modem (Cox@Home has two seperate networks, the standard proprietary and the DOCSIS one) fixed my problem.
I only hope that any law maker that tries to use this horrid attack as a platform for the 'Evils of Technology' will realize that this whole attack was carried out with airplanes siezed by men with knives and fake bombs. All of which existed LONG before the Internet and easy personal encryption.
There ONLY effective reform for a case like this is heightened in-aircraft security (seperate pilot cabin, possible sleeping gas capsules in the passenger area, etc..) and/or possibly stricter immigration checks.
-Zane
Compression - Tool of the Devil
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DivX;) Goes Legit
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· Score: 2, Funny
You know it occurs to me that piracy in all it's forms has depended HEAVILY on compression. If software was distributed in an uncompressed form and compression was declared illegal then the entire piracy problem would cease to exist!
(obligitory sarcasm disclaimer here for the sarcasm impaired)
The same kinds of relationships between illegal activities and VERY USEFULL tools or commodities can be found all throughout every day life. It's pretty hard to smoke pot without oxygen or commit a drive-by without cars yet still oxygen and cars are freely available. Perhaps we shouldn't tell congress.:)
Doh, I was just thinking to myself "Ok, no more buying Sierra or VU products! Those evil bastards!" but then I read Arcanum is being published by Sierra. Argh!:)
I'm sorry but there are just too few really good games out there to avoid purchasing one just because of the publisher.
Damnit, I'll boycott after Arcanum, really, I will.:P
True, but spending $700 on chairs when perfectly acceptable ones can be had for a fraction of that price
Perfectly acceptable chairs can NOT be had for a fraction of the price. Most 'acceptable' office chairs cost about $500+, so while $700 is a bit high it's not a huge difference from $500. Also, quite a few companies lease their office equipment instead of buying it, so the monthly price difference really isn't that much.
Those $50-200 chairs at Office Depot or where-ever ARE NOT acceptable. I have yet to find even one of those chairs that has a back that tilts seperately from the chair seat. If the back and seat tilt at the same time the seat lifts up your legs and cuts off the circulation, this is VERY uncomfortable. Also, the quality of most of those chairs is very lacking, most are very flimsy self-assembled chairs.
If you want a good quality, semi-ergonomic, pre-assembled chair you're going to be paying $300-400+.
There's a chair shop around here that ONLY sells chairs, the cheapest chair they had cost about as much as the Aeron and their most expensive was about $1200, none looked anywhere near as nice as the Aeron and the cheap ones were lacking many of the features. I personally haven't sat in an Aeron but most every review I've seen of the chair says it's very very comfortable.
"It's never been done before: Nobody has ever lifted heavy objects like this before," he said about known research. "The power that we're getting out of a kite is tremendous."
Except by the egyptians thousands of years ago supposedly.:)
I love the arrogance of the/. community. Yes, YOU have discovered the flaw in your 15 seconds of deep thought that peer reviews and publication have not already revealed to the scientific community. All praise you and your infinite intellect. Please, stop insulting us and the scientist by spouting your half-baked 15 second theories on why their theory is incorrect.
Definately go with a Harman Kardon or Onkyo reciever. Both make a model around $500 that has two AC3 (optical) inputs and 3-4 video inputs (svideo and rca). Both are also high current amplifiers meaning they put out very nice full spectrum sound, they'll pump more bass through your front, rear and center channel than normal recievers. The HK sounds a little better and looks nicer IMO but the Onkyo has more features.
As for the speakers I'd go with (and have gone with:) the Infinity IL series (IL30's for the front, IL10's for the rear, IL25 for the center). With one of the recievers above the sub isn't really necessary if you're living in apartments. If not go with the Entrasub. Total cost for this setup will be about $1750 total without the sub and about $2050 with. A little more than you were thinking of spending but well worth it.
Prices broken down (assuming you find a good internet deal, which shouldn't be hard):
$500 for the reciever
$600 for the front speakers
$400 for the rear
$250 for the center
$300 for the sub
This is the exact setup I've got in my apartment (except I use the old Reference series of Inifinity, IL wasn't out yet) and it sounds awesome.
Somewhere an alien is eavesdropping on our society and has just determined that humans are a threat to all civilized races in the galaxy. Thanks, you've garunteed our destruction.:)
if an interviewer asks you your marital status in an interview tell him/her to suck it, it has no basis for why you're there, and is illegal to ask/consider.
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it still happens. Besides, I was speaking of promotions of current employees. In that case the manager is likely to know at least the simple details of his underlings lives (such as wether or not they're married). Normally they wouldn't say anything about that affecting their decisions but it does. When I was 18 I was billing at $90/hour for Unix work and $60/hour for standard tech work. I was the only one in our shop of 4 or 5 that could do Unix consulting yet I was paid $6.50/h while the rest of the shop got around $9.25/h. When I asked for a raise I was told that I didn't need the money, I wasn't married and didn't have a family, and besides, I was 18 (the same age as their son). Still illegal but it happens.
Needless to say I didn't stick around that shop too long after that.:)
It seems the general consensus among white, male tech workers is that they belong in the industry. If they are up for a promotion against an equally skilled minority, of COURSE they should get the promotion, because they're automatically more skilled. Because the majority of tech managers are ALSO white, this attitude is perpetuated.
This comment is just as racist as the attitude you're trying to portray. Any generalization about a race is racist. (Well except maybe "All white people or white." etc.:) As someone else mentioned, the attitude generally is 'I'm the best there is.' not 'I'm better than all those [insert race here] people.' Arrogance is indeed rampant in this industry (and in most knowledge based industries).
I don't deny that racism exists in this industry, it exists in EVERY industry to some degree. Guess what, racism (in general) will probably never completely go away. Someone will always find a reason to hate another group of people (be it race, country or what-not). I do believe people that are more commonly victims of racism have a tendancy to become overly sensitive though.
If you're competing for a job with 5 other white people and you feel you're the best one for the job and you don't get it would your first assumption be that you didn't get the job because you're black? Perphaps your own perceptions of your skills and the skills of other is skewed (it usually is, even mine I'm sure). Perhaps you didn't get the job because the other guy was married and had kids and you were single so he needed the job more (I've been on the shit end of the stick on that one). My point is, racism is only one of a large number of reasons why you could be passed over for a promotion that you think you should've gotten.
Um... The whole point of my post was just to correct the statement that Windows has no X like functionality. I'm not arguing about wether or not it's innovative (It's not, I agree 100%) or cost effective (it can be in the right configurations, but then MS is ALWAYS trying to rape you;).
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*forklift collision*
:)
Forklift Operator #1: Uh-oh! You got oil in my de-gassed water!
Forklift Operator #2: No... You got your de-gassed water in my oil!
-Zane
Last time I tried to install XP without a floppy drive in the system it would hang during the hardware detection (the quick one at the very begging of every NT/XP boot up sequence). The odd thing was it would boot/detect just fine if I enabled floppy support in the bios without attaching the floppy drive.
What do you mean not for sale? I bought mine at CompUSA over 6 months ago and I'm absolutely LOVING it. A quick search on pricewatch brings up 3-4 online vendors selling it.
Well, you could spend $300 on two P3's and a dual P3 motherboard or you could spend LESS than that on an Athlon XP 2200+ and a good MB (total of about $250) and get better performance. *shrug*
What's scary is the possibility of someone hacking your display. If it paints directly to your eye at a high enough resolution and color depth you might not notice even the more obvious changes. Even if your wearable PC doesn't have remote access someone could still get physical access to it.
:)
The consipiracy theorists will have a field day.
Ummm... Have you seen Legend of the Rangers? Any pedestal this guy was has long since been yanked out from under-neath him. Ugh.
"I just lawyered the fsck outta you!"
The Solar Plexus is so 90's...
LOL, your post was modded down as redundant. Oh the irony. :)
-Zane
Where did your wallet go today?
-Zane
Basically how this call will end up is:
Cable Tech: "How are your downloads, are they still fast?"
You: "They're a little slow but I still get around 60-100k/s or so..."
Cable Tech: "Ok then, everything's fine, we don't garuntee ping, just fast downloads."
Seriously. I went through the EXACT same thing when I was having VERY high pings to my gateway (200-300ms at times) and some packetloss. Luckily buying a DOCSIS modem (Cox@Home has two seperate networks, the standard proprietary and the DOCSIS one) fixed my problem.
-Zane
It was posted later in their forums that the 420-D (or 440-D or whatever :) was indeed tested with 2 128MB DDR-SDRAM chips.
-Zane
I only hope that any law maker that tries to use this horrid attack as a platform for the 'Evils of Technology' will realize that this whole attack was carried out with airplanes siezed by men with knives and fake bombs. All of which existed LONG before the Internet and easy personal encryption.
There ONLY effective reform for a case like this is heightened in-aircraft security (seperate pilot cabin, possible sleeping gas capsules in the passenger area, etc..) and/or possibly stricter immigration checks.
-Zane
You know it occurs to me that piracy in all it's forms has depended HEAVILY on compression. If software was distributed in an uncompressed form and compression was declared illegal then the entire piracy problem would cease to exist!
:)
(obligitory sarcasm disclaimer here for the sarcasm impaired)
The same kinds of relationships between illegal activities and VERY USEFULL tools or commodities can be found all throughout every day life. It's pretty hard to smoke pot without oxygen or commit a drive-by without cars yet still oxygen and cars are freely available. Perhaps we shouldn't tell congress.
-Zane
Now you're +5 Funny. :P
Doh, I was just thinking to myself "Ok, no more buying Sierra or VU products! Those evil bastards!" but then I read Arcanum is being published by Sierra. Argh! :)
:P
I'm sorry but there are just too few really good games out there to avoid purchasing one just because of the publisher.
Damnit, I'll boycott after Arcanum, really, I will.
True, but spending $700 on chairs when perfectly acceptable ones can be had for a fraction of that price
Perfectly acceptable chairs can NOT be had for a fraction of the price. Most 'acceptable' office chairs cost about $500+, so while $700 is a bit high it's not a huge difference from $500. Also, quite a few companies lease their office equipment instead of buying it, so the monthly price difference really isn't that much.
Those $50-200 chairs at Office Depot or where-ever ARE NOT acceptable. I have yet to find even one of those chairs that has a back that tilts seperately from the chair seat. If the back and seat tilt at the same time the seat lifts up your legs and cuts off the circulation, this is VERY uncomfortable. Also, the quality of most of those chairs is very lacking, most are very flimsy self-assembled chairs.
If you want a good quality, semi-ergonomic, pre-assembled chair you're going to be paying $300-400+.
There's a chair shop around here that ONLY sells chairs, the cheapest chair they had cost about as much as the Aeron and their most expensive was about $1200, none looked anywhere near as nice as the Aeron and the cheap ones were lacking many of the features. I personally haven't sat in an Aeron but most every review I've seen of the chair says it's very very comfortable.
-Zane
"It's never been done before: Nobody has ever lifted heavy objects like this before," he said about known research. "The power that we're getting out of a kite is tremendous."
:)
Except by the egyptians thousands of years ago supposedly.
That's one hot laptop! :)
-Zane
I love the arrogance of the /. community. Yes, YOU have discovered the flaw in your 15 seconds of deep thought that peer reviews and publication have not already revealed to the scientific community. All praise you and your infinite intellect. Please, stop insulting us and the scientist by spouting your half-baked 15 second theories on why their theory is incorrect.
-Zane
Definately go with a Harman Kardon or Onkyo reciever. Both make a model around $500 that has two AC3 (optical) inputs and 3-4 video inputs (svideo and rca). Both are also high current amplifiers meaning they put out very nice full spectrum sound, they'll pump more bass through your front, rear and center channel than normal recievers. The HK sounds a little better and looks nicer IMO but the Onkyo has more features.
:) the Infinity IL series (IL30's for the front, IL10's for the rear, IL25 for the center). With one of the recievers above the sub isn't really necessary if you're living in apartments. If not go with the Entrasub. Total cost for this setup will be about $1750 total without the sub and about $2050 with. A little more than you were thinking of spending but well worth it.
As for the speakers I'd go with (and have gone with
Prices broken down (assuming you find a good internet deal, which shouldn't be hard):
$500 for the reciever
$600 for the front speakers
$400 for the rear
$250 for the center
$300 for the sub
This is the exact setup I've got in my apartment (except I use the old Reference series of Inifinity, IL wasn't out yet) and it sounds awesome.
-Zane
Somewhere an alien is eavesdropping on our society and has just determined that humans are a threat to all civilized races in the galaxy. Thanks, you've garunteed our destruction. :)
-Zane
if an interviewer asks you your marital status in an interview tell him/her to suck it, it has no basis for why you're there, and is illegal to ask/consider.
:)
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it still happens. Besides, I was speaking of promotions of current employees. In that case the manager is likely to know at least the simple details of his underlings lives (such as wether or not they're married). Normally they wouldn't say anything about that affecting their decisions but it does. When I was 18 I was billing at $90/hour for Unix work and $60/hour for standard tech work. I was the only one in our shop of 4 or 5 that could do Unix consulting yet I was paid $6.50/h while the rest of the shop got around $9.25/h. When I asked for a raise I was told that I didn't need the money, I wasn't married and didn't have a family, and besides, I was 18 (the same age as their son). Still illegal but it happens.
Needless to say I didn't stick around that shop too long after that.
-Zane
It seems the general consensus among white, male tech workers is that they belong in the industry. If they are up for a promotion against an equally skilled minority, of COURSE they should get the promotion, because they're automatically more skilled. Because the majority of tech managers are ALSO white, this attitude is perpetuated.
:) As someone else mentioned, the attitude generally is 'I'm the best there is.' not 'I'm better than all those [insert race here] people.' Arrogance is indeed rampant in this industry (and in most knowledge based industries).
This comment is just as racist as the attitude you're trying to portray. Any generalization about a race is racist. (Well except maybe "All white people or white." etc.
I don't deny that racism exists in this industry, it exists in EVERY industry to some degree. Guess what, racism (in general) will probably never completely go away. Someone will always find a reason to hate another group of people (be it race, country or what-not). I do believe people that are more commonly victims of racism have a tendancy to become overly sensitive though.
If you're competing for a job with 5 other white people and you feel you're the best one for the job and you don't get it would your first assumption be that you didn't get the job because you're black? Perphaps your own perceptions of your skills and the skills of other is skewed (it usually is, even mine I'm sure). Perhaps you didn't get the job because the other guy was married and had kids and you were single so he needed the job more (I've been on the shit end of the stick on that one). My point is, racism is only one of a large number of reasons why you could be passed over for a promotion that you think you should've gotten.
-Zane
Um... The whole point of my post was just to correct the statement that Windows has no X like functionality. I'm not arguing about wether or not it's innovative (It's not, I agree 100%) or cost effective (it can be in the right configurations, but then MS is ALWAYS trying to rape you ;).
-Zane