Cost? About $10 - $20 depending on how much you have lying around. Best thing? It lets you use any headphones you like instead of being stuck with the inferior quality of many noise cancelling headphones.
I've done it and it compares well to most sub $100 noise cancelling headphones.
>Well exept the cd-logo is a LOGO and not a label that says anything.
No, the CD logo is a Trademark, and carries the same weight as a UL or CSA Trademark. It means that this product meets all the licensing requirements of the people owning that logo. With the CD logo that means it is playable in a computer.
More importantly, even if this CD bears no logo but is placed in with other CDs that clearly do, and under a sign that says "CD -- XYZ/Various", it will be VERY difficult for the store to get themselves out of trouble with a judge. Its like having a "new car" section at a dealership and sticking a used car in that section. If you buy that car and the dealer doesn't say "Oh, we made a mistake, that isn't a new car" first then they are practicing deceptive advertising (probably a felony).
The minute that isn't true, watch out for knockoff electronics killing people that still have a CSA/UL logo in the "safety products" aisle.
>I dont think you could bring it back saying "Man it hade the little USA flag on the back. I though it was in english".
I bet you could when you point out the sign above the rack of CDs that says "English CDs". Now, if a music shop would rather label their CD section with "Shiny round music discs" than "CDs" they are welcome too. Until then, they are attempting to deceive me into purchasing a clearly inferior product.
Besides, any smart manager would realize that having someone shouting "You are selling me fake CDs that can't be played in standard equipment" would scare away more than enough business. And no, you can't just tell someone to leave and expect them to. And you can't force them out. You need to wait, and wait, and wait for the good 1/2 hour or two it takes for the police to respond to the least important of calls -- tresspassing. Or at least Cops says so.:-)
If you enter my theater carrying a cellphone a security guard will take it off you and purposely crush it into little tiny bits. Thank you for visiting *MC.
Sorry, I don't think you can destroy someone's equipment on purpose even if you display disclaimers, unless, of course, the entire purpose of purchasing someone's work would be to have something destroyed (ie: Getting a car crushed at the junkyard). I don't think anyone walks into a CD shop saying "What CD will destroy my computer fastest".
>Thanks for posting that really current world record.
The last time I saw typewriting listed in the GBoR was in the 1999 edition.
Typewriting Gregory Arakelian of Herndon, Virginia, USA, set a speed record of 158 wpm, with two errors, on a PC in the Key Tronic (sp) World Invitational type-Off on 24 Sept 1991.
You see, that lady is actually the "Poster Child" for the Dvorak keyboard, since she has typed faster with it than anyone else on earth, ever. Sure it was 17 years ago, but so what?
>That seems reasonable to me--but technologically its not quite there yet.
Oh, its there...
If you watch expressvu you can (almost) see them switching from American to Canadian programming on the "american" stations, like FOX. When Global (for example) repeats a FOX TV show, Bell repeats the Global repeat over the FOX channel. This way you get "Canadian content" and "Canadian advertising" on the FOX channel.
>They might just understand what people really think about TV content. I thought we had some crap on TV here (UK) until I went to the states, I feel really sorry for you guys there, the ammount of dumbing down, commercials, and daily repeats just made it unwatchable for me, I had to resort to talking to my wife instead!
I was just about to say the same thing about UK TV!
4 channels of schlok! Lets watch the news on 100% of our channels at the same time! And lets all have a breakfast show on at the same time! And lets make sure we have mentally retarded shows like "The Buzzcocks" on daily! And do I even need to mention Banzai!
I've never actually read so much on TV until I was over in the UK. Teletext helped keep the pain of nothing good on TV away!
It's hard to have a repeat when you only get 4 channels. And if you don't want dumbing down, try an educational channel! Where I live I get two over the air (just think, that's 50% of your total over the air programming): PBS and TVO. I got 0 educational programs in the UK.
And, the last straw that breaks the camel's back -- I don't pay by the year to get TV, so if it sucks, I'm only out the cost of the set (almost nil if your neighbour gives you their old one). In the UK I'm out over 100 pounds! That's the cost of a basic cable subscription here, and basic cable gets you 500% - 1000% more channels.
Fortunately, in my multi-satellite universe, if you look through enough guides, there's _always_ something new on. Hell, I'll watch FSTV for the rest of my life over the Beeb.
...causes brain damage, I question how he was ever able to wash? Most sensitive electronics, such as what has been described, don't react kindly to warm soap baths.
If he can turn off the equipment for 10 minutes and still stand up in a slippery shower, I put it to you that he can stand up for 12 hours a day outside the shower.
And if you were a double uber genius you'd realise that Iomega has been sued (and has lost) for being, in general, a shitty company to deal with. [They still owe me a free $5 tech support call from the last class action suit they lost. Judge was so mad he made 'em post the decision on their website.]
A triple uber genius would realise that a shitty company won't help you out when the crunch comes.
A quadruple uber genius would realise that if no ones there to help you with your propreitary box when it gets sick, your boss gets really mad.
The ultimate genius would realise that the boss wouldn't blame the purchasing decision on himself, his peers, or those above him. Instead the genius would realise that the blame would fall on him.
Sometimes a "frankenclone" is truly the best choice. As far as iOmega goes, a pen and paper is the best choice.
BTW: "Iomega sued" returns over 1,400 hits on Google, whereas their once strong competitor Syquest receives a paltry 334.
>wouldn't you like to know that companies customer service policy included such features as pretending the flaw didn't exist, refusing to issue RMA's on the defect, etc. ad nauseum?
Don't forget having to call long distance and stay on hold for 105 minutes to get an RMA number (if you were lucky enough to convince them to do it). I may as well have trashed my drive. My phone bill was about the same price as it ($300 at the time).
We are (or at least I am) discussing, in this thread, that if KaZaa were open source it wouldn't be full of such malware for very long.
I only mentioned about the legality of doing so because there have been many "open source" projects that only allow one to distribute patches. This could make distributing the hacked binaries of a hypothetically open source KaZaa illegal, should they choose the coward's method of open source.
Sure, it takes a high-school CS student to figure out what to comment out, but once its re-compiled and distributed on KaZaa, the modified version will spread like wildfire.
If the license is truly open source, this wouldn't even be illegal (not that KaZaa users really worry about that anyways).
Well, there is a lot of success with this board for people who own it. Out of the box many K7S5As are not 1.4 ghz capable (check my other posts, usenet, or google).
However, knowing their history (which is easily verifiable by doing a search for stolen/illegal/fake and PCChips on deja) I just think this product deserves a bold caveat emptor.
This person seemed to think installing a hacked BIOS would solve the problem. It did. A perusal of ECS' site shows they've improved upon PCChips service (they provide BIOS updates for the K7S5A, so I'm assuming they didn't pirate this BIOS, or they've learned to hack it properly), but as of December/January ECS motherboards with the incompatible BIOS were still streaming into the store I worked at. The K7S5A BIOS support page doesn't list a specific 1.4 ghz fix, but it looks like they fixed it just in time for this year (BIOS V.01/11/09). I guess 3 months waiting time isn't too bad.
Perhaps with the BIOS fix this board isn't junk, but long-term reliability is definately not a trait associated with PCChips products, IMHO.
A lack of testing advertised features (and XP support was advertised on these motherboards) is sure proof the company doesn't care for its customers. This occasionally happens to name brand companies (Abit comes to mind) but is, in my opinion, the status quo for PCChips and their cronies. Maybe ECS will eventually escape the bad name of their suppliers -- they are providing far more support for their products than I expected to see.
As with all things, only time will tell. Perhaps in a year or two I might be able to forgive ECS prdocts for being PCChips knockoffs. We'll just have to see!:-)
Anyways,
Whip out that soldering iron and fix it yourself the manual way if you choose.
The FAQ will probably help explain this problem better than myself.
>I built 20+ systems with this board by ecs and I never had a problem.
I've built 50+ systems by ECS and I can guarantee you anything PCChips is shit. All ECS stuff included.
Don't believe me? Throw in a 1.4 Ghz processor in their K7S5A and tell me its quality.
>The main problem is, that with this board people tend to use cheap RAMs and cheap PSUs (because the motherboard was so much inexpencive) and that is what this motherboard just doesn't like.
The people are using PCChips PSUs made by the motherboard's manufacturer. Yes, it is partly related to the power supply being crap. But what can you do? One would expect parts from the same company to work together properly!
If the abductors were thinking, do you really think they wouldn't have thought twice about the prison sentence following their crime?
Its funny how people suggest criminals would "think twice" if there's more cameras, police, whatever. Most criminals _aren't_ thinking properly when they are commiting their crime, they are just doing whatever they want, screw the consequences.
So, to sum it up, if you were thinking you'd be caught you wouldn't do the crime.
This problem could so easily be solved by satellite transmission of the videos to the user, similar to Pay-Per-View on most DSS stuff now, but in a format computers could understand that obeyed regular standards, like DVB.
They could easily send down 100 videos a day in full DVD quality on just one satellite.
Since more than one person can tap into the same stream at a time the bandwidth problem is solved.
>Sure, I'd prefer if copying were legal, but that just ain't gonna happen.
Why not talk to your neighbours up north? For only [soon to be] $21/gig you can copy any CDs you like as long as you do it in the residence of the owner.:)
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>That's my karma line.
Sorry... which line exactly? If its my sig, I only changed it yesterday when I got bored reading this.
Build this.
Cost? About $10 - $20 depending on how much you have lying around. Best thing? It lets you use any headphones you like instead of being stuck with the inferior quality of many noise cancelling headphones.
I've done it and it compares well to most sub $100 noise cancelling headphones.
>Well exept the cd-logo is a LOGO and not a label that says anything.
:-)
No, the CD logo is a Trademark, and carries the same weight as a UL or CSA Trademark. It means that this product meets all the licensing requirements of the people owning that logo. With the CD logo that means it is playable in a computer.
More importantly, even if this CD bears no logo but is placed in with other CDs that clearly do, and under a sign that says "CD -- XYZ/Various", it will be VERY difficult for the store to get themselves out of trouble with a judge. Its like having a "new car" section at a dealership and sticking a used car in that section. If you buy that car and the dealer doesn't say "Oh, we made a mistake, that isn't a new car" first then they are practicing deceptive advertising (probably a felony).
The minute that isn't true, watch out for knockoff electronics killing people that still have a CSA/UL logo in the "safety products" aisle.
>I dont think you could bring it back saying "Man it hade the little USA flag on the back. I though it was in english".
I bet you could when you point out the sign above the rack of CDs that says "English CDs". Now, if a music shop would rather label their CD section with "Shiny round music discs" than "CDs" they are welcome too. Until then, they are attempting to deceive me into purchasing a clearly inferior product.
Besides, any smart manager would realize that having someone shouting "You are selling me fake CDs that can't be played in standard equipment" would scare away more than enough business. And no, you can't just tell someone to leave and expect them to. And you can't force them out. You need to wait, and wait, and wait for the good 1/2 hour or two it takes for the police to respond to the least important of calls -- tresspassing. Or at least Cops says so.
This is a little closer to the mark:
If you enter my theater carrying a cellphone a security guard will take it off you and purposely crush it into little tiny bits. Thank you for visiting *MC.
Sorry, I don't think you can destroy someone's equipment on purpose even if you display disclaimers, unless, of course, the entire purpose of purchasing someone's work would be to have something destroyed (ie: Getting a car crushed at the junkyard). I don't think anyone walks into a CD shop saying "What CD will destroy my computer fastest".
>Thanks for posting that really current world record.
The last time I saw typewriting listed in the GBoR was in the 1999 edition.
Typewriting
Gregory Arakelian of Herndon, Virginia, USA, set a speed record of 158 wpm, with two errors, on a PC in the Key Tronic (sp) World Invitational type-Off on 24 Sept 1991.
You see, that lady is actually the "Poster Child" for the Dvorak keyboard, since she has typed faster with it than anyone else on earth, ever. Sure it was 17 years ago, but so what?
>That seems reasonable to me--but technologically its not quite there yet.
Oh, its there...
If you watch expressvu you can (almost) see them switching from American to Canadian programming on the "american" stations, like FOX. When Global (for example) repeats a FOX TV show, Bell repeats the Global repeat over the FOX channel. This way you get "Canadian content" and "Canadian advertising" on the FOX channel.
>250 WPM is not uncommon among most commercial secretaries
The world record holder for typing would have issues with your ideas of maxiumum typing speed.
>They might just understand what people really think about TV content. I thought we had some crap on TV here (UK) until I went to the states, I feel really sorry for you guys there, the ammount of dumbing down, commercials, and daily repeats just made it unwatchable for me, I had to resort to talking to my wife instead!
I was just about to say the same thing about UK TV!
4 channels of schlok! Lets watch the news on 100% of our channels at the same time! And lets all have a breakfast show on at the same time! And lets make sure we have mentally retarded shows like "The Buzzcocks" on daily! And do I even need to mention Banzai!
I've never actually read so much on TV until I was over in the UK. Teletext helped keep the pain of nothing good on TV away!
It's hard to have a repeat when you only get 4 channels. And if you don't want dumbing down, try an educational channel! Where I live I get two over the air (just think, that's 50% of your total over the air programming): PBS and TVO. I got 0 educational programs in the UK.
And, the last straw that breaks the camel's back -- I don't pay by the year to get TV, so if it sucks, I'm only out the cost of the set (almost nil if your neighbour gives you their old one). In the UK I'm out over 100 pounds! That's the cost of a basic cable subscription here, and basic cable gets you 500% - 1000% more channels.
Fortunately, in my multi-satellite universe, if you look through enough guides, there's _always_ something new on. Hell, I'll watch FSTV for the rest of my life over the Beeb.
...causes brain damage, I question how he was ever able to wash? Most sensitive electronics, such as what has been described, don't react kindly to warm soap baths.
If he can turn off the equipment for 10 minutes and still stand up in a slippery shower, I put it to you that he can stand up for 12 hours a day outside the shower.
And if you were a double uber genius you'd realise that Iomega has been sued (and has lost) for being, in general, a shitty company to deal with. [They still owe me a free $5 tech support call from the last class action suit they lost. Judge was so mad he made 'em post the decision on their website.]
A triple uber genius would realise that a shitty company won't help you out when the crunch comes.
A quadruple uber genius would realise that if no ones there to help you with your propreitary box when it gets sick, your boss gets really mad.
The ultimate genius would realise that the boss wouldn't blame the purchasing decision on himself, his peers, or those above him. Instead the genius would realise that the blame would fall on him.
Sometimes a "frankenclone" is truly the best choice. As far as iOmega goes, a pen and paper is the best choice.
BTW: "Iomega sued" returns over 1,400 hits on Google, whereas their once strong competitor Syquest receives a paltry 334.
>wouldn't you like to know that companies customer service policy included such features as pretending the flaw didn't exist, refusing to issue RMA's on the defect, etc. ad nauseum?
Don't forget having to call long distance and stay on hold for 105 minutes to get an RMA number (if you were lucky enough to convince them to do it). I may as well have trashed my drive. My phone bill was about the same price as it ($300 at the time).
Wuh?
We are (or at least I am) discussing, in this thread, that if KaZaa were open source it wouldn't be full of such malware for very long.
I only mentioned about the legality of doing so because there have been many "open source" projects that only allow one to distribute patches. This could make distributing the hacked binaries of a hypothetically open source KaZaa illegal, should they choose the coward's method of open source.
Allow me to explain by example.
/* doSpyWare();
void main()
{
doDownloadFiles();
doUploadFiles();
doSpyWare();
doDistributedComputing();
}
becomes
void main()
{
doDownloadFiles();
doUploadFiles();
doDistributedComputing(); */
}
Sure, it takes a high-school CS student to figure out what to comment out, but once its re-compiled and distributed on KaZaa, the modified version will spread like wildfire.
If the license is truly open source, this wouldn't even be illegal (not that KaZaa users really worry about that anyways).
Well, there is a lot of success with this board for people who own it. Out of the box many K7S5As are not 1.4 ghz capable (check my other posts, usenet, or google).
However, knowing their history (which is easily verifiable by doing a search for stolen/illegal/fake and PCChips on deja) I just think this product deserves a bold caveat emptor.
>I have a 1.47Ghz processor on my K7S5A...
:-)
You're lucky then.
These people haven't been so lucky.
This person seemed to think installing a hacked BIOS would solve the problem. It did. A perusal of ECS' site shows they've improved upon PCChips service (they provide BIOS updates for the K7S5A, so I'm assuming they didn't pirate this BIOS, or they've learned to hack it properly), but as of December/January ECS motherboards with the incompatible BIOS were still streaming into the store I worked at. The K7S5A BIOS support page doesn't list a specific 1.4 ghz fix, but it looks like they fixed it just in time for this year (BIOS V.01/11/09). I guess 3 months waiting time isn't too bad.
Perhaps with the BIOS fix this board isn't junk, but long-term reliability is definately not a trait associated with PCChips products, IMHO.
A lack of testing advertised features (and XP support was advertised on these motherboards) is sure proof the company doesn't care for its customers. This occasionally happens to name brand companies (Abit comes to mind) but is, in my opinion, the status quo for PCChips and their cronies. Maybe ECS will eventually escape the bad name of their suppliers -- they are providing far more support for their products than I expected to see.
As with all things, only time will tell. Perhaps in a year or two I might be able to forgive ECS prdocts for being PCChips knockoffs. We'll just have to see!
Anyways,
Whip out that soldering iron and fix it yourself the manual way if you choose.
The FAQ will probably help explain this problem better than myself.
>I built 20+ systems with this board by ecs and I never had a problem.
I've built 50+ systems by ECS and I can guarantee you anything PCChips is shit. All ECS stuff included.
Don't believe me? Throw in a 1.4 Ghz processor in their K7S5A and tell me its quality.
>The main problem is, that with this board people tend to use cheap RAMs and cheap PSUs (because the motherboard was so much inexpencive) and that is what this motherboard just doesn't like.
The people are using PCChips PSUs made by the motherboard's manufacturer. Yes, it is partly related to the power supply being crap. But what can you do? One would expect parts from the same company to work together properly!
Well, if they want to spam snail mail addresses and phones, give them some addresses to spam to!
Enter these in your home/work preferences, and only turn off the email spams:
Yahoo! Canada
106 Front Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1E1
Phone: 416.341.8605
Fax: 416.341.8800
------------------
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94089
Tel. (408) 349-3300
Fax. (408) 349-3301
Tel. 408-349-2000
I'm sure yahoo would LOVE to hear from their advertisers any day!
>and quite frankly, don't need to see a picture of yet another cat.
Sure they do.
>It might have made the abductors think twice.
If the abductors were thinking, do you really think they wouldn't have thought twice about the prison sentence following their crime?
Its funny how people suggest criminals would "think twice" if there's more cameras, police, whatever. Most criminals _aren't_ thinking properly when they are commiting their crime, they are just doing whatever they want, screw the consequences.
So, to sum it up, if you were thinking you'd be caught you wouldn't do the crime.
Just look at what they did for Cyrix!
Oh... erm... wait a minute...
>His Scully and Xena skins were sporting wangs.
Exactly, that would make perfect sense for someone in the computer programming profession.
>I bought a $9 6' digital coax at the hardware store.
:)
Heh, you could have gone even cheaper, like me.
6 ft. extension cord with a broken prong: Free.
Two RCA jacks: $0.50.
Solder: $0.10
Knowing that people don't believe you: Priceless!
Now that's strange. Solar powered milk using devices.
And here I was always thinking that leaving milk out in the sun was a _bad_ thing...
This problem could so easily be solved by satellite transmission of the videos to the user, similar to Pay-Per-View on most DSS stuff now, but in a format computers could understand that obeyed regular standards, like DVB.
They could easily send down 100 videos a day in full DVD quality on just one satellite.
Since more than one person can tap into the same stream at a time the bandwidth problem is solved.
>Sure, I'd prefer if copying were legal, but that just ain't gonna happen.
:)
Why not talk to your neighbours up north? For only [soon to be] $21/gig you can copy any CDs you like as long as you do it in the residence of the owner.