Did I say 1800+? I meant 1900+. And the CD-RW drive is actually 40x12x48 (the ASUS CRW4012A). Also got a nice 80 GB HD and a 250 MB Zip Drive and other nice stuff.
$1500? I just paid about $1000 yesterday for a retail AMD 1800+, slick retail motherboard (from Elitegroup), 40x12x32 CD-RW drive with an included OEM version of Nero Burning ROM, DVD ROM drive, great Radeon video card and great live sound card and 3 speakers, a 512 stick of RAM from Crucial, an optical mouse, a very ergonomic keyboard, and lots of other parts making up a complete state of the art system excepting the monitor and printer (there's a $150 laser jet printer I'm gonna get and I can probably find a 17 inch monitor for $100 or $150 if I wait for a good CompUSA deal). Subtract $90 if you don't want the OEM Windows XP license. I just got that so I can run games and stuff, but I'm gonna try out Mandrake and later Debian since I'd like to learn them. Plus I could save a few more bucks various places if I spent more time searching out other parts. $1500 is much more than necessary for a state of the art PC.
If you are suggesting that you're a West coaster, you wouldn't have really checked with Slashdot before watching it, would you? I think after last time it was doubtful that they would do the same again. That thing has been beaten to death by now.
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I agree that it was the worst X-Files finale ever. Of course, it was the only X-Files finale, so it couldn't be the best. And it definitely wasn't the worst episode ever, given all those cheesy ones a couple years ago with zombies and genetic weirdos. Still, it wasn't really a finale, given that they will bring the show back in the theatres. Plus, given all that has happened with the X-Files, what good way was there to finish it? The only comparable thing I can imagine was that time they had all the cars and people meeting together when they were attempting to get away from the aliens, and the aliens killed them. That episode could have been the finale if something different happened. Also, that episode where Mulder found someone who knew his father was quite good.
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Lol, after last time, do you really think anyone on the West coast is going to be checking Slashdot until after the ending? I mean, it was rather obvious that Slashdot was going to write an article about this. They have learned their lesson about this by now though. The only thing that surprised me was that article about The Lone Gunmen being possibly alive, based on a picture of them in the movie. Given the number of flashbacks in these episodes I doubted that they would be alive to begin with. Plus, how would they have survived that? It was very clear how they died, as opposed to other characters who died in more mysterious fashions, thus leaving it possible to bring them back.
I very much didn't like the ending. The rest of the episode was good but the ending ranked high on The Cheese Factor (TM), and it didn't answer anything. The rest of the episode summed up things well, but it definitely didn't sum up the ending. I think they left things open ended in large part due to the movies that will come out. I bet there will be some kind of final movie with Mulder and Scully against the alien invasion. My expectations aren't too high for that though. The X-Files was a great series, but a lot of it feasted on leaving things open to the imagination. Once they answer everything, it just becomes something like the movie Independence Day.
I guess I might be against the river flow on this one, but I thought that that was a very good episode. I mean, it had the classic X-Files struggle between the conspirators and the truth, along with the normal dosage of action and science fiction. The only major weaknesses I found were that the deputy director (the guy Skinner reports to) switched, since I would deem that highly unlikely after all he went through, the smoking man returning (he was a good character but I think if anything his coming back raised more questions than answers). Also, the end scene with Mulder and Scully was cheesy, and a couple of explanations were not very good.
It was still a good episode though. As a series finale it could have improved, but since they have already stated that a movie is coming out, this definitely is NOT the last chapter.
At first, this article concerns me. "Search engines" like Overture that charge for listings seriously affect the quality of the services, as well as their integrity. Google, though, has clearly distinguished advertisements as what they are, labeling them as such and using different backround colors from them. For this reason, I respect Google, and have continued to use it (as well as for the fact that it is the best search engine and is closely integrated with the ODP, which I sometimes edit for).
The few key points that prevent me from worrying me about this are these:
Google also intends to maintain strong firewalls between the business and search sides of its operations.
"We take our editorial integrity very seriously, just like a newspaper does," Kordestani said.
Google will display up to eight advertisers on the far right-hand side of its Web page under a shaded section labeled "sponsored links."
They will continue to distinguish between search engine results and advertisements and keep the ads separate from the results, to the right side of the screen. For this reason, that article and the title of this on SlashDot seem to be alarmist and misleading. Google is maintaining its integrity, at least for now.
One might also note that Excite, which published this article, uses Overture for its results, and labels them "Search Results for: [term]." Might they have a bias?
How do you know that time is going forward? If it was going backward we wouldn't notice. I mean really, all we can see is the present. All those years spent studying and you would unlearn everything you will know, gradually becoming stupider and stupider until you were unborn!
Once you've built a time machine, you can go back in time and hand yourself the blueprints.
Yeah, but then you wouldn't waste time trying to develop time travel and it would not get discovered in the future. Thus, it would be impossible to bring it back to the past, since it has not been invented in the future.
What we really need is a nice, free, high quality and open source standard. Then, anyone can use it without paying the license fees, and it will be able to run on any platform. Whereas music files have converged to mainly MP3 and OGG Vorbis files, videos are heavily divided between MPEG, QuickTime, DiVX & AVI, RM, and ASF. It is really annoying to use so many different players to play simple videos, I use at least four different ones regularly. Plus, I haven't found anything that can play RM except for RealPlayer, which is unfortunate since some of them have not been displaying correctly on my computer.
Nah, I'd have to say that the stuff about calculators ruining people's math abilities is a bunch of hype. I mean, I don't have my TI-89 with its Computer Algebra System on me, but it doesn't take a calculator to tell me the answer to that is 200.
If anything, I think that computers encourage creativity. If you have a fast mind, the computer might be the only thing that can keep up with you, and think of all the possibilities on a computer! Coding lets you do nearly anything, and you could do graphic design or play imaginative games (I still remember playing Cosmic Osmo several years ago, a game by the creators of Myst that let you explore worlds)! I think it would be ok to do other things *in addition* to computers, but definitely not instead!
Man, what is with all this hype for everything lately? Everyone is saying "this will be the best game/movie/music" before it even comes out! It happened before with Harry Potter and LOTR, which were both good, but received automatic 10 ratings / two thumbs up before even coming out!!
I say we wait until something comes out, and *then* applaud it.
To be quite honest, while I love shows like The Family Guy and Futurama, I question how much petitions like this do. True, they gave it a terrible timeslot, but the real "petition" is to watch it (although without a Nielsen box it doesn't do much).
A bit hard to take this seriously, especially considering how little effort it takes to sign a petition. A bigger noise would be made by sending postcards, that would fill their mailboxes.
So, what you really want to do is put their company name followed by 10 quasi-random characters, and to write them down. That way they can't be guessed, it is sorta like a password.
And one of my friends set up a funny system to counter spam. Check out the email link at the bottom of his site page, he used PHP to set it up with the person's IP address and time at the beginning of the url. Apparantly he got some spam through this and found the spammers' IPs.
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..what ever happened to JonKatz?
Did I say 1800+? I meant 1900+. And the CD-RW drive is actually 40x12x48 (the ASUS CRW4012A). Also got a nice 80 GB HD and a 250 MB Zip Drive and other nice stuff.
$1500? I just paid about $1000 yesterday for a retail AMD 1800+, slick retail motherboard (from Elitegroup), 40x12x32 CD-RW drive with an included OEM version of Nero Burning ROM, DVD ROM drive, great Radeon video card and great live sound card and 3 speakers, a 512 stick of RAM from Crucial, an optical mouse, a very ergonomic keyboard, and lots of other parts making up a complete state of the art system excepting the monitor and printer (there's a $150 laser jet printer I'm gonna get and I can probably find a 17 inch monitor for $100 or $150 if I wait for a good CompUSA deal). Subtract $90 if you don't want the OEM Windows XP license. I just got that so I can run games and stuff, but I'm gonna try out Mandrake and later Debian since I'd like to learn them. Plus I could save a few more bucks various places if I spent more time searching out other parts. $1500 is much more than necessary for a state of the art PC.
How did they "lone gunman" the thing? They told nothing of the plot, just a link to the timeline. Move along, nothing to see here.
If you are suggesting that you're a West coaster, you wouldn't have really checked with Slashdot before watching it, would you? I think after last time it was doubtful that they would do the same again. That thing has been beaten to death by now.
I agree that it was the worst X-Files finale ever. Of course, it was the only X-Files finale, so it couldn't be the best. And it definitely wasn't the worst episode ever, given all those cheesy ones a couple years ago with zombies and genetic weirdos. Still, it wasn't really a finale, given that they will bring the show back in the theatres. Plus, given all that has happened with the X-Files, what good way was there to finish it? The only comparable thing I can imagine was that time they had all the cars and people meeting together when they were attempting to get away from the aliens, and the aliens killed them. That episode could have been the finale if something different happened. Also, that episode where Mulder found someone who knew his father was quite good.
Lol, after last time, do you really think anyone on the West coast is going to be checking Slashdot until after the ending? I mean, it was rather obvious that Slashdot was going to write an article about this. They have learned their lesson about this by now though. The only thing that surprised me was that article about The Lone Gunmen being possibly alive, based on a picture of them in the movie. Given the number of flashbacks in these episodes I doubted that they would be alive to begin with. Plus, how would they have survived that? It was very clear how they died, as opposed to other characters who died in more mysterious fashions, thus leaving it possible to bring them back.
I very much didn't like the ending. The rest of the episode was good but the ending ranked high on The Cheese Factor (TM), and it didn't answer anything. The rest of the episode summed up things well, but it definitely didn't sum up the ending. I think they left things open ended in large part due to the movies that will come out. I bet there will be some kind of final movie with Mulder and Scully against the alien invasion. My expectations aren't too high for that though. The X-Files was a great series, but a lot of it feasted on leaving things open to the imagination. Once they answer everything, it just becomes something like the movie Independence Day.
I guess I might be against the river flow on this one, but I thought that that was a very good episode. I mean, it had the classic X-Files struggle between the conspirators and the truth, along with the normal dosage of action and science fiction. The only major weaknesses I found were that the deputy director (the guy Skinner reports to) switched, since I would deem that highly unlikely after all he went through, the smoking man returning (he was a good character but I think if anything his coming back raised more questions than answers). Also, the end scene with Mulder and Scully was cheesy, and a couple of explanations were not very good.
It was still a good episode though. As a series finale it could have improved, but since they have already stated that a movie is coming out, this definitely is NOT the last chapter.
The few key points that prevent me from worrying me about this are these:They will continue to distinguish between search engine results and advertisements and keep the ads separate from the results, to the right side of the screen. For this reason, that article and the title of this on SlashDot seem to be alarmist and misleading. Google is maintaining its integrity, at least for now.
One might also note that Excite, which published this article, uses Overture for its results, and labels them "Search Results for: [term]." Might they have a bias?
How do you know that time is going forward? If it was going backward we wouldn't notice. I mean really, all we can see is the present. All those years spent studying and you would unlearn everything you will know, gradually becoming stupider and stupider until you were unborn!
Plus, time travel is impossible.
Seeing as to how three separate people didn't see my invisable sarcasm tags, of course I'm not serious, lol. Thought it was obviously a joke. :-)
What's the url for this virus? The link to "Go To http://www.masenko-media.net/cool.html NoW" wasn't clickable. Please fix this, /. admin!
What we really need is a nice, free, high quality and open source standard. Then, anyone can use it without paying the license fees, and it will be able to run on any platform. Whereas music files have converged to mainly MP3 and OGG Vorbis files, videos are heavily divided between MPEG, QuickTime, DiVX & AVI, RM, and ASF. It is really annoying to use so many different players to play simple videos, I use at least four different ones regularly. Plus, I haven't found anything that can play RM except for RealPlayer, which is unfortunate since some of them have not been displaying correctly on my computer.
If anything, I think that computers encourage creativity. If you have a fast mind, the computer might be the only thing that can keep up with you, and think of all the possibilities on a computer! Coding lets you do nearly anything, and you could do graphic design or play imaginative games (I still remember playing Cosmic Osmo several years ago, a game by the creators of Myst that let you explore worlds)! I think it would be ok to do other things *in addition* to computers, but definitely not instead!
Man, what is with all this hype for everything lately? Everyone is saying "this will be the best game/movie/music" before it even comes out! It happened before with Harry Potter and LOTR, which were both good, but received automatic 10 ratings / two thumbs up before even coming out!!
I say we wait until something comes out, and *then* applaud it.
To be quite honest, while I love shows like The Family Guy and Futurama, I question how much petitions like this do. True, they gave it a terrible timeslot, but the real "petition" is to watch it (although without a Nielsen box it doesn't do much).
I mean, looking through the petitions on petitiononline.com, we see:
1337 sp3ak in 5(}{00l !!
A petition to the WWF in honor of the Undertaker
Let's Import Japan
A bit hard to take this seriously, especially considering how little effort it takes to sign a petition. A bigger noise would be made by sending postcards, that would fill their mailboxes.
It's too late, they already are selling them on eBay!
& item=2002127196
& item=2002287424
& item=2002160653
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem
They should just license the food to the shelters under the BSD license! Here is food...do what you will with it.
So, what you really want to do is put their company name followed by 10 quasi-random characters, and to write them down. That way they can't be guessed, it is sorta like a password.
And one of my friends set up a funny system to counter spam. Check out the email link at the bottom of his site page, he used PHP to set it up with the person's IP address and time at the beginning of the url. Apparantly he got some spam through this and found the spammers' IPs.