I work in a simliar situation myself, and the pay isnt great. On the other hand I live in a cheap quality apartment, my wife gets cut rates on her schooling, and they are paying for all of my technical certifications. And one other great thing, about half of the people I knew from my days in the CS classes are laid off and looking for anything that isnt working in a mall or fast food, meanwhile I have a steady job. And even if they did have jobs still, they were working 50-60 hours a week, and I was doing 40 with almost no commute. Had plenty of time with the wife, and was able to volunteer for all sorts of great things around campus, and still had time to get piss drunk with all my friends.
I know your first thought is to say why would you want a cd mp3 player for jogging, but I have one, take it jogging, and have zero problems with skipping. and this is with CDRW and 192 kbps files. Its sturdy, fits well in my hand and has the best interface I've seen in an mp3 player besides the iPod.
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Sorry, but counting cards is not illegal, its not cheating. Its just a highly developed way to play blackjack. Now the casino's have the right not to let you play for what ever reason they decide, but they can't arrest you for counting cards, they can only kick you out and ask you not to come back. Considering its one of the only ways the house can be beaten legitimately, I say more power to anyone that does this.
The best reasoning is a combination of two things. If you can fire something to the moon, you can definately hit any place on earth. It extends your sphere of infulence much futher than just the Indian subcontinent. Also you have a country that has little to draw it together. Most regions historically were not ruled by the same ruler until the british showed up, so anything to foster nationalism of any kind helps the Indian governments goals.
I watch your show quite a bit, and one thing, and in one show (the souffle one) you mention that most plastic has a similar structure to fat, so fat has a tendency to stick to it. My question is where do you get your scientific info? Do you have a background in science to find this out yourself, or do you have friends who have a chemistry background that gives you chemical reasons why cooking is done the way it is?
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The guy worked for creative, the live software has a crappy interface, their video card drivers have absolutely horrid interface and dont even talk to me about the infra drive software. So take what he says with a grain of salt.
One small problem, it is GSM, but its not the same frequency as the rest of the world. I have heard of dual frequency GSM phones that can do both US and the rest of the world GSM, but I havent seen them myself.
Ok, I think TNN is trying to setup a competitor to Cartoon Networks Adult Swim, and have unedited Ren and Stimpy be the showcase piece for it. Great, but dont forget that Viacom already has another great cartoon on Nickelodeon that sorely needs a switch to a more adult audience, and more freedom for its creators, Invader Zim. Take it off of Nick's hands, and let TNN have its shot with it, please.
BZZZZ.... wrong. the resolution is the same. The change is from interlaced to progressive for the gamecube. Most games support 480 progressive on HDTV, whereas standard tv is 480 interlaced.
My wife has an iPod, and I have a iRiver slim 350 mp3 disc player. Both surived our 18 day backpacking trip around europe fine. Although for battery life, the iriver kicked the iPods ass. I ony charged it once on the trip, but that was with the add on battery pack that takes 2 aa batteries. Both however worked flawlessly for the entire trip and are in great shape.
I married a singaporean of chinese descent, and that is a major concern of her parents. She doesnt believe in it herself, but to reduce family tensions, she tends to follow it anyways. It doesnt bother me too much, but it does sometimes get annoying. Her culture has quite a superstition about talking about death as well, and while I got addicted to Six Feet Under, she had real troubles watching it, because of the ingrained belief structure that she had grown up with. She knows I think its a bunch of BS, and tends to agree with that, however it takes generations to get rid of that belief structure.
And its the games that lost it, Sony just locked up GTA till 2004, and EA decided that its online components for its games will only work on PS2 (they had some problems with xbox live), and the FF series is only on ps2 (or pc for 11). Stick a fork in it, its done.
In its most basic form, Phantasy Star Online was just Diablo in 3d. The game is probably the only reason I havent pulled out my ethernet adapter and sold it on ebay . It seemed to work well for sega (although much like the original Diablo, hacking made the game alot less than it should have been). Still, a keyboard is pretty much nessecary for the game. The chat software was really cool, but its just easier to grab the keyboard to type in a couple of lines instead, and thats one of the selling points of a game like that, communication with teammates. And with the sims, communication will probably become a major part of the game as well. USB keyboards arent that expensive, and I'm sure almost every online game Sony has its hands in will have keyboard support.
Interesting thought, but then you throw in the concept of a Greatest Hits low cost library like Sony has (and I'm sure nintendo has every want to replicate that, they had their million seller game program too, however they only dropped the prices to $40) and the theory goes to pot. Then the price of the software has to drop, and MS has to lose even more cash to keep up. MS could bleed all of its $40 billion cash reserves, and not make a dent in Sony or Nintendo. MS maybe an 800 lbs gorilla, but its in a fight with a 900 lbs and a 1000 lbs gorilla.
One serious question is the fact that MS has competing sports products, NFL Fever and NBA Inside Drive. Now if you are creating servers for your online games, do you really want to give control to a competing company? I'd be willing to bet MS makes considerably more on their first party games than it does on third party licensees, so with the xbox online network, you have both the means, and the motive from microsoft to screw over EA. I'm not saying that it would occur, just that it is possible.
I should have been more clear on what I meant by my geforce comment. I should have said that a brand new geforce 3 was $400 last year, and can be had new for much less now. The cost of the card used would be depreciation. As for deflation vs. devaluation because of increasing technology, thats exactly my point. The net effect is the same on either case. Of course it probably isnt as big of a benefit for microsoft as the tax breaks.
That Geforce 3 you bought last year for $400 is now worth $100. Its like that in all of the tech industry. If that sort of thing extends to the rest of the economy, having huge reserves of cash on hand makes a lot of sense. Because of deflation, that sort of liquid reserve effectively grows above and beyond any bank interest. Of course if they are betting wrong, and we end up with inflation, its an incredibly stupid move.
Ahh yeah... the beer of the gods. I take a case home with me on each trip to montana. its still better straight from the brewery in the 64 oz growlers though.
I love ogg vorbis, it sounds great, and it being free makes it even better. I will be sooo happy when I can flash upgrade my iRiver Slim X and my wifes iPod to play them, but that may be awhile. The one aspect of Ogg that seems to be the killer app for me is the automatic bitrate reduction. I rip all of my stuff at 320 mp3 for use on my desktop machine, but when I'm jogging, the Slim X has a tendency to skip when playing files of that bitrate. I long for the day when I can downsample the file automatically to 128 for skip protection. Its part of the implementation of ogg vorbis from the beginning, but noone has made an app to do that. For me that would be Ogg Vorbis's killer app, and something that would get me to re rip my cd's into ogg.
While I agree that the mp3 piracy most probably will continue even if they did that sort of plan, I personally would pay a quarter a track for a high bitrate mp3 or ogg vorbis file. Secondly, the tracks I get off of the trading services have a bad habit of being cut off early as well. If they give me high bitrate and guaranteed download, thats worth a quarter to me. In fact thats the main reason I still buy CD's, 128 sounds like garbage to me on both ogg and mp3, and 160 is barely usable on ogg, and I always know when I do my own rips, that I am getting the full song. The record companies have to market themselves differently, they have already lost the price war, so the only thing they can market themselves with is quality, but they will be carried kicking and screaming down that path.
KDE 2.2.2 , 3.0 prolly wont make into unstable until 2.2.2 has passed to testing. Its the same situation with Xf86 4.2.0, untill 4.1 makes it into testing, then there is no 4.2.0 for unstable.
I don't know it worked pretty good for Radiohead too, as well as Phish. Do you think Kid A would have sold anywhere near as many albums had people not heard the album on Napster first? If anything file sharing gets rid of the one hit wonders, which I really dont have a problem with.
Sorry, I wouldnt bet on it. although GSM is finally in america, the frequency used everywhere else isnt available here. Personally, the one thing that irks me is having to go through AIM to message anyone off of the sprint pcs network.
Back in the NES days I would use my index and middle fingers for the b and a buttons, the genesis controller was designed so I could do the same. But once shoulder buttons started to be on all controllers, from the SNES onwards, I couldnt pull that off. Now that the GBA has shoulder buttons, I cant think of a game system that you can reasonably use all the buttons with out using your thumb as the main button presser
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I work in a simliar situation myself, and the pay isnt great. On the other hand I live in a cheap quality apartment, my wife gets cut rates on her schooling, and they are paying for all of my technical certifications. And one other great thing, about half of the people I knew from my days in the CS classes are laid off and looking for anything that isnt working in a mall or fast food, meanwhile I have a steady job. And even if they did have jobs still, they were working 50-60 hours a week, and I was doing 40 with almost no commute. Had plenty of time with the wife, and was able to volunteer for all sorts of great things around campus, and still had time to get piss drunk with all my friends.
I know your first thought is to say why would you want a cd mp3 player for jogging, but I have one, take it jogging, and have zero problems with skipping. and this is with CDRW and 192 kbps files. Its sturdy, fits well in my hand and has the best interface I've seen in an mp3 player besides the iPod.
Sorry, but counting cards is not illegal, its not cheating. Its just a highly developed way to play blackjack. Now the casino's have the right not to let you play for what ever reason they decide, but they can't arrest you for counting cards, they can only kick you out and ask you not to come back. Considering its one of the only ways the house can be beaten legitimately, I say more power to anyone that does this.
The best reasoning is a combination of two things. If you can fire something to the moon, you can definately hit any place on earth. It extends your sphere of infulence much futher than just the Indian subcontinent. Also you have a country that has little to draw it together. Most regions historically were not ruled by the same ruler until the british showed up, so anything to foster nationalism of any kind helps the Indian governments goals.
I watch your show quite a bit, and one thing, and in one show (the souffle one) you mention that most plastic has a similar structure to fat, so fat has a tendency to stick to it. My question is where do you get your scientific info? Do you have a background in science to find this out yourself, or do you have friends who have a chemistry background that gives you chemical reasons why cooking is done the way it is?
The guy worked for creative, the live software has a crappy interface, their video card drivers have absolutely horrid interface and dont even talk to me about the infra drive software. So take what he says with a grain of salt.
One small problem, it is GSM, but its not the same frequency as the rest of the world. I have heard of dual frequency GSM phones that can do both US and the rest of the world GSM, but I havent seen them myself.
Ok, I think TNN is trying to setup a competitor to Cartoon Networks Adult Swim, and have unedited Ren and Stimpy be the showcase piece for it. Great, but dont forget that Viacom already has another great cartoon on Nickelodeon that sorely needs a switch to a more adult audience, and more freedom for its creators, Invader Zim. Take it off of Nick's hands, and let TNN have its shot with it, please.
BZZZZ.... wrong. the resolution is the same. The change is from interlaced to progressive for the gamecube. Most games support 480 progressive on HDTV, whereas standard tv is 480 interlaced.
My wife has an iPod, and I have a iRiver slim 350 mp3 disc player. Both surived our 18 day backpacking trip around europe fine. Although for battery life, the iriver kicked the iPods ass. I ony charged it once on the trip, but that was with the add on battery pack that takes 2 aa batteries. Both however worked flawlessly for the entire trip and are in great shape.
I married a singaporean of chinese descent, and that is a major concern of her parents. She doesnt believe in it herself, but to reduce family tensions, she tends to follow it anyways. It doesnt bother me too much, but it does sometimes get annoying. Her culture has quite a superstition about talking about death as well, and while I got addicted to Six Feet Under, she had real troubles watching it, because of the ingrained belief structure that she had grown up with. She knows I think its a bunch of BS, and tends to agree with that, however it takes generations to get rid of that belief structure.
Netscape? yeah, real? nope. Winamp 3 will most probably be their choice for media players. Nullsoft is owned by AOL.
And its the games that lost it, Sony just locked up GTA till 2004, and EA decided that its online components for its games will only work on PS2 (they had some problems with xbox live), and the FF series is only on ps2 (or pc for 11). Stick a fork in it, its done.
In its most basic form, Phantasy Star Online was just Diablo in 3d. The game is probably the only reason I havent pulled out my ethernet adapter and sold it on ebay . It seemed to work well for sega (although much like the original Diablo, hacking made the game alot less than it should have been). Still, a keyboard is pretty much nessecary for the game. The chat software was really cool, but its just easier to grab the keyboard to type in a couple of lines instead, and thats one of the selling points of a game like that, communication with teammates. And with the sims, communication will probably become a major part of the game as well. USB keyboards arent that expensive, and I'm sure almost every online game Sony has its hands in will have keyboard support.
Interesting thought, but then you throw in the concept of a Greatest Hits low cost library like Sony has (and I'm sure nintendo has every want to replicate that, they had their million seller game program too, however they only dropped the prices to $40) and the theory goes to pot. Then the price of the software has to drop, and MS has to lose even more cash to keep up. MS could bleed all of its $40 billion cash reserves, and not make a dent in Sony or Nintendo. MS maybe an 800 lbs gorilla, but its in a fight with a 900 lbs and a 1000 lbs gorilla.
One serious question is the fact that MS has competing sports products, NFL Fever and NBA Inside Drive. Now if you are creating servers for your online games, do you really want to give control to a competing company? I'd be willing to bet MS makes considerably more on their first party games than it does on third party licensees, so with the xbox online network, you have both the means, and the motive from microsoft to screw over EA. I'm not saying that it would occur, just that it is possible.
I should have been more clear on what I meant by my geforce comment. I should have said that a brand new geforce 3 was $400 last year, and can be had new for much less now. The cost of the card used would be depreciation. As for deflation vs. devaluation because of increasing technology, thats exactly my point. The net effect is the same on either case. Of course it probably isnt as big of a benefit for microsoft as the tax breaks.
That Geforce 3 you bought last year for $400 is now worth $100. Its like that in all of the tech industry. If that sort of thing extends to the rest of the economy, having huge reserves of cash on hand makes a lot of sense. Because of deflation, that sort of liquid reserve effectively grows above and beyond any bank interest. Of course if they are betting wrong, and we end up with inflation, its an incredibly stupid move.
Ahh yeah... the beer of the gods. I take a case home with me on each trip to montana. its still better straight from the brewery in the 64 oz growlers though.
I love ogg vorbis, it sounds great, and it being free makes it even better. I will be sooo happy when I can flash upgrade my iRiver Slim X and my wifes iPod to play them, but that may be awhile. The one aspect of Ogg that seems to be the killer app for me is the automatic bitrate reduction. I rip all of my stuff at 320 mp3 for use on my desktop machine, but when I'm jogging, the Slim X has a tendency to skip when playing files of that bitrate. I long for the day when I can downsample the file automatically to 128 for skip protection. Its part of the implementation of ogg vorbis from the beginning, but noone has made an app to do that. For me that would be Ogg Vorbis's killer app, and something that would get me to re rip my cd's into ogg.
While I agree that the mp3 piracy most probably will continue even if they did that sort of plan, I personally would pay a quarter a track for a high bitrate mp3 or ogg vorbis file. Secondly, the tracks I get off of the trading services have a bad habit of being cut off early as well. If they give me high bitrate and guaranteed download, thats worth a quarter to me. In fact thats the main reason I still buy CD's, 128 sounds like garbage to me on both ogg and mp3, and 160 is barely usable on ogg, and I always know when I do my own rips, that I am getting the full song. The record companies have to market themselves differently, they have already lost the price war, so the only thing they can market themselves with is quality, but they will be carried kicking and screaming down that path.
KDE 2.2.2 , 3.0 prolly wont make into unstable until 2.2.2 has passed to testing. Its the same situation with Xf86 4.2.0, untill 4.1 makes it into testing, then there is no 4.2.0 for unstable.
I don't know it worked pretty good for Radiohead too, as well as Phish. Do you think Kid A would have sold anywhere near as many albums had people not heard the album on Napster first? If anything file sharing gets rid of the one hit wonders, which I really dont have a problem with.
Sorry, I wouldnt bet on it. although GSM is finally in america, the frequency used everywhere else isnt available here. Personally, the one thing that irks me is having to go through AIM to message anyone off of the sprint pcs network.
Back in the NES days I would use my index and middle fingers for the b and a buttons, the genesis controller was designed so I could do the same. But once shoulder buttons started to be on all controllers, from the SNES onwards, I couldnt pull that off. Now that the GBA has shoulder buttons, I cant think of a game system that you can reasonably use all the buttons with out using your thumb as the main button presser