Back on to my foes list, then, is it? No problem then. Why did I ever take you off? You're already a foe of a friend of mine. Why not compound the issue?
Where do you get off being such an asshole, anyways?
>Too bad you're a moron. Copyright holders don't "own" anything. They have a limited and exclusive right to distribute a work. Well, until retards like yourself start convincing others that it's ownership, senatards might decide to remove the "limited" clause.
Fuck, you just don't get the whole satirical play on words thing, do you?
You see, companies like Disney and groups like the MPAA and RIAA want to think of copyright as ownership. That's why they want copyright to last forever.
So, if one is to think of downloading pirated music in their terms it's communism.
But since you're too thick-skulled to figure that out for yourself, I've had to splay it all out publically instead. Now others will laugh at you for being unable to make that simple connection. Had you not been a dickhead, I wouldn't have done it. But since you clearly are, FYVM.
It isn't about what you (I'd say "and I", but God knows I still wouldn't want to be associated with you if you were the last man on earth with a life boat and I was on the Titanic) think for this joke to work. It's about what they think, and just how ludicrous it really is.
I give up. They say satirical comedy is low on the list of quality humour because it's easy to make up. Unfortunately for some, it appears that just because it's easy to crack a sarky remark for some it isn't equally easy to get the punchline. If only encryption worked this well.
I bet you read the Onion and wonder why the hell all that shit isn't actually happening!
And now, to defend what I said:
"'cause if everyone pirated everything, nobody would have true private ownership of anything pirateable."
The last shred of anything that identifies a work as your private item that you control distribution of for your entire life+ is removed if it is pirated up the wazoo. I'd ask if you catch my drift, but it's clear you couldn't even catch a cold.
Let me leave you with a piece of advice: Cold calling others morons and retards will increase your foes list. Give it up with the attitude and you'll get a lot further in life.
>No one uses copper for connectors, it's FAR too fragile - usually it's something like Nickel - so Gold plating actually makes a good deal of sense.
In this case I'm talking about these silly things. Don't buy them -- just put the cable in bare. Do it right and it won't fray.
They're great for pro (as in not audiophile or consumer) audio when you've gotta move your stuff around all the time, but on your home stereo, don't bother. It's just another part to break.
When I do need connectors I usually buy the chrome/nickel ones. The resistance you'll experience over the short distance of the plating is infinitessimal!:-)
>But you probably won't need the heavy, 8-gauge stuff that's available. Most system that pump out about 150w RMS per channel should have about 12- or 14-gauge on it. Monster Cable's XP line should be more than adequate, and isn't too expensive. Anything more than that, and you should probably be looking at 8-gauge, though.
Very right, but hell, I'll prove it with science before the audiophiles get here.
A little math using our good old friend Ohm's law into an 8-Ohm speaker. To do this we need a table of accepted wire resistances or one hell of an ohm-meter.
IMHO, 18 gauge wire is overkill for 150 watts. Let's see if it is, though!
Assuming your speaker is 10 feet away from the stereo (your room isn't a concert hall, is it?) we calculate loss as such:
6.6 Ohms / 1000 feet = 0.0066 Ohms per foot = 0.066 Ohms in 10 feet.
To push 150 watts through an 8 Ohm load (speaker) we need:
I = (150 / 8) (sqrt) = 4.33 Amps.
Now, to calculate the loss to heat caused by the resistance of the cable:
P = 4.33^2 * 0.066 = 1.24 watts.
Which likely couldn't even muster a measly 1 or 2 degrees temperature change in an 18 AWG 10 ft. heatsink.
Therefore, by using the crappiest SPT-2 lamp cord you can find, you can have a fire-resistant, UL approved sound system that pumps delivers a full 99% of it's power to speakers at 150 watts. And any normal person will find 150 watts of RMS power total overkill for anything but a sub.
BTW: Don't waste your money on gold plated junk unless you live in an area that gets a lot of corrosion. Gold is a poorer conductor than copper, and therefore is a detriment to efficiency.
Personally, though, I try to use 16 gauge cable. 18 gauge tends to be too thin to be durable enough for me. Oh, and I happily push over 250 watts RMS through 16 gauge wire without even the slightest tinge of warmth on the cable.
By the way, lamp cord is usually a lot more flexible and easier to route than that horrible, unapproved crap they call "speaker cable". Which is why it usually costs a little more than the bargain basement stuff, but heck, it's worth it in reduced effort!
One day I'll print this out really nicely and stick it up next to the stereos at Best Buy/FutureShop.:-)
Buy metal window screening. Here's a sample for those of you who live in countries that, for whatever reason, don't use this stuff. [ I hate going to England during the summer -- this is one of the reasons. ].
Cut to cover plexiglass.
Ensure there is no paint on inside of case. Scrub it off if there is.
Sandwich window screen between case and plexiglass (you will have to remove the plexiglass to do this).
Enjoy full radio EM sheilding. Be happy that your neighbours don't hate you.
>What you really need for a physically secure device is an IBM 4758 CryptoCard.. of course, for it to be useful, you need it protected against key recovery attacks.
That card still isn't invulnerable against being picked apart by electron scannining micrographs and other handy (expensive) physical analysis.
You might consider this impractical, but this is exactly how certain digital TV services in Europe has competed, by hacking each other's cards at any expense.
The only true way to have a secure system is to make it two way, or use a one time pad. That way they need to break into the uplink facility as well as into a consumer receiver...
So, if someone who is a devout catholic/christian/mormon/believing-in-bible-type- guy finds someone like me, an atheist, and tells me that I'm to worship God, not material items (idols), and I tell him to fuck off, by the bible he's right to penalize me by killing me.
Because, once warned, twice killed.
And people wonder why I don't believe in that baloney anymore. Moses == mass murderer through fanatical dogma.
>By the way, that commandment is properly translated "You shall not murder". Murder is not the same as killing.
It seems you're telling me that if laws were dictated by the commandments that there would be no punishment for manslaughter? Sweet! I think I'll get loaded and drive tonite! Whoopie!
Unlike yourself, I've actually been to Sellafield. So stuff that up your jumper. The tour there actually features a history of the power plant, including the fact that it partially melted down a few decades ago (when it was called Windscale).
And I thought Americans were arrogant. You, sir, take the cake. How can you be struggling with problems from Sellafield when you are in Norway? Please don't give me some bullshit about the water somehow carrying contaminants a thousand miles across the ocean to you -- it's just too stupid an idea to comprehend.
>NJ sounds like a really shitty place to live, and the way this guy's been treated doesn't surprise me one bit. If the easiest way to handle a problem is to resign, then people will very often do that! As seems to be the case with the whole of NJ.
Yeah, I was right. You are the most arrogant person I've met in a long time. Making assumptions on how "shitty" a place is before being there. I can assure you that after having visited both places, I'd rather live in Shithole, NJ than anywhere in Europe.
>Here in Europe at least more and more people are reacting to electromagnetic radiation.
WHAT? Dear lord, that has to be the stupidest pile of crap I've ever read. Do you even know what EM is? Assuming you can actually see, you're enjoying the benefits of EM right now. Hooo boy you have a lot of high school physics to complete.
>A cellphone nearby can be enough to cause illness!
Show me a non-biased, non-bullshit study about this. Have you ever heard of the law of squares for radio distribution? The only way you're going to get "irradiated" in any meaningful manner by a cellphone is if you jam it up your ass.
I bet you're just mad because you clicked all my DHMO links and only figured it out on the last one...
>insulation is a whole book in itself on chemical hell
Insulation is glass fibre! That's it! It's that simple! Ever burnt any? It turns into... GLASS! What a surprise! What's the chemical hell? The fact that it comes baled in plastic wrap?
>I hope you guys don't consider general pollution a figment of imagination too? Go suck on the tailpipe of your car for an hour or so after a good run in the park!
Asphyxiation and pseudo-science are two totally unrelated matters.
>It's just plain scary when you start to realise what steps people are willing to take just to make money. Killing a few people is low on the list.
That is nothing new. The Crusades, Jesus, Roman Empire, Egyptians. People have been killing people for as long as I can think of in an attempt to "better" themselves. This isn't anything new, and it certainly isn't related to modern, "chemical", living.
>I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, but please, sit down and think!!
I did, and I did it a long time ago, and that's why I know most everything you're talking about is a steaming pile of junk science.
You have something on the pollution angle, though. But you're being too vague on it, so I'm really not sure what, exactly. Pollution covers so much, from annoying sounds, to second hand smoke, to antrhax sprays, it's hard to tell what the discussion is on when people bandy the term about so loosely.
>Then the ISPs have to go to bandwith usage pricing (N$ per GB traffic). It seems like every time an ISP thinks about going down that road, you get a flame-fest terrible.
That's because the users have been so used to being pandered to for so long they've gone soft.
Personally, I don't mind paying for what I use. Users that think otherwise need to smell the coffee...:-)
My friendly local ISP came up with a novel solution to the problem, though. They simply got a list of the top users and switched them onto a less-than-7-nines, higher latency network. They're (the users) happy because they get their unlimited bandwidth and the ISP is happy because the heavy users don't cost them extra. But if that wasn't possible, hey, the company has to make money!
Look at this stuff! DHMO is so dangerous, hell, it can kill a man in mere minutes!
Did you know the majority of people want DHMO banned? The conspiracy of the companies selling this stuff is so obvious it's not even funny!
This substance is so deadly it kills without warning. Strangely enough, there are wacko groups who would support the continued use of DHMO!
Here's some more quality information on DHMO, please read it before you kill yourself with this horrible substance. Just look at the list of people addicted to this substance: The KKK, Hitler, Pedophiles, and Charles Manson. The substance clearly changes one's mood for the worse -- just look at the groups it is linked to.
Please sign the petition to ban this horrible substance now before we all die from it.
Thank you.
>I must admit that being from Norway, Europe >We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.
Uhhhh... you do realise that England isn't part of Norway, right? That they aren't even connected in the most remote manner? And that the majority of the radiation leakage ocurred when the plant was called Windscale, eh?
This is using the machine's built in Trident video card...
Yes, Trident, you know, 8900 ISA 10 fps @ std. VGA rez and all that goodness (fortunately, this card wasn't that bad, it seemed at lot like the 9440 PCI cards for performance, which is to say, lack of any). I really doubt there was any MPEG decoding on this card, considering wasn't all that happy when "include window contents when dragging" was checked, plus the maximum shared memory useable was 8 MB.
I can also say that having repaired (and still am repairing) a fair number of P2-350s at work that these machines are FAR faster. I'd certainly trade my work machine (one of those P2-350s) in for something with this processor in a heartbeat. But I'd have to replace the video... no contest on that.:)
This is the board that I'm talking about. Not that I like PC Chips, but it did give me a chance to try out the hard to find C3 chip.
Uhhh, which tax has been struck down? The German or Canadian one? The German one seems pretty new to me, the Canadian one would be about 4 years old, so I'll have to assume the Canadian tax.
The current tax (it's called a levy for whatever reason), which is implemented in Canada, as of a couple of years ago, is $0.21 per CD, whether you think it exists or not.
However, we do get a benefit for the tax: Citizens are now allowed to create a CD library, where CDs can be lent to people, and the people borrowing these CDs may make copies of them for themselves (legally) before returning them. I really hope this happens sometime soon -- it seems like an easy way to make some profit, if done properly! Think VHS Village and BETA Barn, but filled with CDs instead. Yes, most CDs say you can't rent them, but it's a job for a lawyer to see if that holds water now this law has been passed. It seems to be relatively legal considering the amount of stores selling used CDs.
We are also now allowed to create CD copying chains, whereby a disc is passed from user to user and copied each time.
[ Seems like a worthy moneymaker for myself!:-) Maybe I should keep my mouth shut on this idea... ]
Before you do this, you might want to read the law for yourself and possibly consult a lawyer.;-)
C'est la vie. I'd like to have a box of diamonds, but there's no where to get them as there's no way a regular company is going to sell them. I could get them on special order, just like a regular business, if I had deep pockets, though. I don't expect someone to turn around and lose money selling them to me though. Same thing with this service. And if they do, hey, that's their fault. Just like it would be a company's fault if they offered to sell me a million diamonds for $10. You wouldn't blame me for taking them up on their idiotic offer, would you?
>It is a numbers game. The cell phone companies don't scale their networks so that all their subscribers can call at the same time, they just make sure that there is sufficient bandwidth for normal usage peak hours.
Well, that's why cell phone companies charge the amounts they do. Cause if you wanted to use your phone 24/7 you'd be paying them enough to build a cell tower just for you! However, at normal usage (say 300 minutes a month) they charge your for the small amount of tower time you use.
>Bandwidth isn't cheap, and before KNapsterZaa most ISP subscribers used their lines for just a few percentages of the day.
Then make it burstable. Normally 1 Mbit, burstable to 100 Mbits for $xx a day. Don't blame the customer if they take advantage of the company's stupidity in pricing.
>So, what do you want - Dirt expensive service with guaranteed bandwidth or cheap service where you get the bandwidth you expect most of the time?
It's not what I want. It's what the company needs to do to be profitable. If they aren't, I see no reason why the customer should be held accountable. If 100 Mbits really costs $1,000,000 a day when used to its ultimate, then their pricing should reflects that at the same time it reflect the lower cost of barely using the line at all.
>The 1GHz C3 is actualy slower than a 667MHz Celeron.
I call extreme bullshit. Mod the parent down.
I have had a 666 Mhz C3 that plays DVD video and lets me do web surfing at the same time.
Scaling Tom's numbers I would have a slower than 444 Mhz celeron. That's barely enough to play DVDs, never mind do that and surf the web.
So, tell me Tom, how is it to bias your benchmarks so purposely? Did your "I want to have PC Chips lovechild" article end your quality reporting? Or did it all end when you became so pathetic at identifying a processors strengths and weaknesses that you didn't even bother to check the history of the Cyrix line? The processor runs word fast as fuck. It isn't for playing quake. That's why it's so cheap it's almost free.
Tom, you make a mockery of the entire review industry. Please, close up shop, or at least start using those PC Chips parts you love so much for everything. How's them plastic-blobs-for-cache doing, anyways?
BTW, Tom, since you obviously have no problems whatsoever with ECS slapping your seal of approval on your box, do you have any problems with me pirating your entire site? Because that's what PC Chips does with the only code on their boards, eh? Yup, that's right, I have a PC Chips board and the only reason there's no updates is because they're pirates.
Neither ECS nor Chaintech is known as a top motherboard company. This is certainly not because of their inability to make good products, but because they lack consistency in their product lines and usually concentrate on the OEM market as well.
No, Tom, it's because ECS's supplier company (PC Chips) pirates their software, and their defrauds customers. A 10 second search of usenet and google would have turned this up.
God, I hate Tom's Hardware. Sucks so badly. Worse reporting daily. Blech.
Why is it always the consumers fault when a company underprices its services? If the service costs $1e+06 a month, then CHARGE THAT. It isn't the user's problem if the company providing the service can't price it properly. The whole argument sounds a lot like those arguments against ticket scalpers. Next thing you know people will tell me it's wrong of me to go to future shop and take advantage of their $10 printer sale by buying them all and selling them for $20. Tough cookies.
>I think the angle would be that your verbal abuse against the caller, somehow constitutes sexual harassment. Your tactics might actually be a civil offense in your state.
What if you have (fuck bitch cunt) tourette's syndrome (ass shit)? (goddam)
>No one specifically said they thought the lights would last indeffinatly.
They didn't? Maybe I should quote what was said (emphasis mine):
I replaced all the bulbs with blue LED's, and they look great. Kind of expensive, but they'll last forever.
Being that blue LEDs have just gotten "cheap" in the past few years, I would expect that they are probably on the bottom of the barrel for lifetime right now. A '67 volvo (the vehicle in discussion), had it been equipped with blue LEDs when built (which, of course, didn't exist at that point) would have no dash lights whatsoever today.
I guess you're right. He didn't say indefinitely, specifically. He said forever. Which would be a synonym.
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Back on to my foes list, then, is it? No problem then. Why did I ever take you off? You're already a foe of a friend of mine. Why not compound the issue?
Where do you get off being such an asshole, anyways?
>Too bad you're a moron. Copyright holders don't "own" anything. They have a limited and exclusive right to distribute a work. Well, until retards like yourself start convincing others that it's ownership, senatards might decide to remove the "limited" clause.
Fuck, you just don't get the whole satirical play on words thing, do you?
You see, companies like Disney and groups like the MPAA and RIAA want to think of copyright as ownership. That's why they want copyright to last forever.
So, if one is to think of downloading pirated music in their terms it's communism.
But since you're too thick-skulled to figure that out for yourself, I've had to splay it all out publically instead. Now others will laugh at you for being unable to make that simple connection. Had you not been a dickhead, I wouldn't have done it. But since you clearly are, FYVM.
It isn't about what you (I'd say "and I", but God knows I still wouldn't want to be associated with you if you were the last man on earth with a life boat and I was on the Titanic) think for this joke to work. It's about what they think, and just how ludicrous it really is.
I give up. They say satirical comedy is low on the list of quality humour because it's easy to make up. Unfortunately for some, it appears that just because it's easy to crack a sarky remark for some it isn't equally easy to get the punchline. If only encryption worked this well.
I bet you read the Onion and wonder why the hell all that shit isn't actually happening!
And now, to defend what I said:
"'cause if everyone pirated everything, nobody would have true private ownership of anything pirateable."
The last shred of anything that identifies a work as your private item that you control distribution of for your entire life+ is removed if it is pirated up the wazoo. I'd ask if you catch my drift, but it's clear you couldn't even catch a cold.
Let me leave you with a piece of advice: Cold calling others morons and retards will increase your foes list. Give it up with the attitude and you'll get a lot further in life.
>No one uses copper for connectors, it's FAR too fragile - usually it's something like Nickel - so Gold plating actually makes a good deal of sense.
:-)
In this case I'm talking about these silly things. Don't buy them -- just put the cable in bare. Do it right and it won't fray.
They're great for pro (as in not audiophile or consumer) audio when you've gotta move your stuff around all the time, but on your home stereo, don't bother. It's just another part to break.
When I do need connectors I usually buy the chrome/nickel ones. The resistance you'll experience over the short distance of the plating is infinitessimal!
>"Downloading communism" is factually accurate?
Definition time (please don't hate me because I do this):
[handpicking the best definition, of course, but they all apply]:
communism
n 1: a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership 2: a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
[emphasis mine]
'cause if everyone pirated everything, nobody would have true private ownership of anything pirateable.
>But you probably won't need the heavy, 8-gauge stuff that's available. Most system that pump out about 150w RMS per channel should have about 12- or 14-gauge on it. Monster Cable's XP line should be more than adequate, and isn't too expensive. Anything more than that, and you should probably be looking at 8-gauge, though.
:-)
Very right, but hell, I'll prove it with science before the audiophiles get here.
A little math using our good old friend Ohm's law into an 8-Ohm speaker. To do this we need a table of accepted wire resistances or one hell of an ohm-meter.
IMHO, 18 gauge wire is overkill for 150 watts. Let's see if it is, though!
Assuming your speaker is 10 feet away from the stereo (your room isn't a concert hall, is it?) we calculate loss as such:
6.6 Ohms / 1000 feet = 0.0066 Ohms per foot = 0.066 Ohms in 10 feet.
To push 150 watts through an 8 Ohm load (speaker) we need:
I = (150 / 8) (sqrt) = 4.33 Amps.
Now, to calculate the loss to heat caused by the resistance of the cable:
P = 4.33^2 * 0.066 = 1.24 watts.
Which likely couldn't even muster a measly 1 or 2 degrees temperature change in an 18 AWG 10 ft. heatsink.
Therefore, by using the crappiest SPT-2 lamp cord you can find, you can have a fire-resistant, UL approved sound system that pumps delivers a full 99% of it's power to speakers at 150 watts. And any normal person will find 150 watts of RMS power total overkill for anything but a sub.
BTW: Don't waste your money on gold plated junk unless you live in an area that gets a lot of corrosion. Gold is a poorer conductor than copper, and therefore is a detriment to efficiency.
Personally, though, I try to use 16 gauge cable. 18 gauge tends to be too thin to be durable enough for me. Oh, and I happily push over 250 watts RMS through 16 gauge wire without even the slightest tinge of warmth on the cable.
By the way, lamp cord is usually a lot more flexible and easier to route than that horrible, unapproved crap they call "speaker cable". Which is why it usually costs a little more than the bargain basement stuff, but heck, it's worth it in reduced effort!
One day I'll print this out really nicely and stick it up next to the stereos at Best Buy/FutureShop.
No, CDs are 1150 kbps, just like VideoCDs. :-)
Buy metal window screening. Here's a sample for those of you who live in countries that, for whatever reason, don't use this stuff. [ I hate going to England during the summer -- this is one of the reasons. ].
Cut to cover plexiglass.
Ensure there is no paint on inside of case. Scrub it off if there is.
Sandwich window screen between case and plexiglass (you will have to remove the plexiglass to do this).
Enjoy full radio EM sheilding. Be happy that your neighbours don't hate you.
So old we pulled the plug on it a half-decade ago.
>What you really need for a physically secure device is an IBM 4758 CryptoCard.. of course, for it to be useful, you need it protected against key recovery attacks.
That card still isn't invulnerable against being picked apart by electron scannining micrographs and other handy (expensive) physical analysis.
You might consider this impractical, but this is exactly how certain digital TV services in Europe has competed, by hacking each other's cards at any expense.
The only true way to have a secure system is to make it two way, or use a one time pad. That way they need to break into the uplink facility as well as into a consumer receiver...
Ah, I see.
- guy finds someone like me, an atheist, and tells me that I'm to worship God, not material items (idols), and I tell him to fuck off, by the bible he's right to penalize me by killing me.
So, if someone who is a devout catholic/christian/mormon/believing-in-bible-type
Because, once warned, twice killed.
And people wonder why I don't believe in that baloney anymore. Moses == mass murderer through fanatical dogma.
>By the way, that commandment is properly translated "You shall not murder". Murder is not the same as killing.
It seems you're telling me that if laws were dictated by the commandments that there would be no punishment for manslaughter? Sweet! I think I'll get loaded and drive tonite! Whoopie!
If Microsoft and the MPAA were to release everything under the public domain, there would be nothing to pirate. Ergo, terrorism would end.
Seems like a good solution for everyone. Microsoft and the MPAA, I implore you to end terrorism! Only you can do it!
Unlike yourself, I've actually been to Sellafield. So stuff that up your jumper. The tour there actually features a history of the power plant, including the fact that it partially melted down a few decades ago (when it was called Windscale).
And I thought Americans were arrogant. You, sir, take the cake. How can you be struggling with problems from Sellafield when you are in Norway? Please don't give me some bullshit about the water somehow carrying contaminants a thousand miles across the ocean to you -- it's just too stupid an idea to comprehend.
>NJ sounds like a really shitty place to live, and the way this guy's been treated doesn't surprise me one bit. If the easiest way to handle a problem is to resign, then people will very often do that! As seems to be the case with the whole of NJ.
Yeah, I was right. You are the most arrogant person I've met in a long time. Making assumptions on how "shitty" a place is before being there. I can assure you that after having visited both places, I'd rather live in Shithole, NJ than anywhere in Europe.
>Here in Europe at least more and more people are reacting to electromagnetic radiation.
WHAT? Dear lord, that has to be the stupidest pile of crap I've ever read. Do you even know what EM is? Assuming you can actually see, you're enjoying the benefits of EM right now. Hooo boy you have a lot of high school physics to complete.
>A cellphone nearby can be enough to cause illness!
Show me a non-biased, non-bullshit study about this. Have you ever heard of the law of squares for radio distribution? The only way you're going to get "irradiated" in any meaningful manner by a cellphone is if you jam it up your ass.
I bet you're just mad because you clicked all my DHMO links and only figured it out on the last one...
>insulation is a whole book in itself on chemical hell
Insulation is glass fibre! That's it! It's that simple! Ever burnt any? It turns into... GLASS! What a surprise! What's the chemical hell? The fact that it comes baled in plastic wrap?
>I hope you guys don't consider general pollution a figment of imagination too? Go suck on the tailpipe of your car for an hour or so after a good run in the park!
Asphyxiation and pseudo-science are two totally unrelated matters.
>It's just plain scary when you start to realise what steps people are willing to take just to make money. Killing a few people is low on the list.
That is nothing new. The Crusades, Jesus, Roman Empire, Egyptians. People have been killing people for as long as I can think of in an attempt to "better" themselves. This isn't anything new, and it certainly isn't related to modern, "chemical", living.
>I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, but please, sit down and think!!
I did, and I did it a long time ago, and that's why I know most everything you're talking about is a steaming pile of junk science.
You have something on the pollution angle, though. But you're being too vague on it, so I'm really not sure what, exactly. Pollution covers so much, from annoying sounds, to second hand smoke, to antrhax sprays, it's hard to tell what the discussion is on when people bandy the term about so loosely.
>Then the ISPs have to go to bandwith usage pricing (N$ per GB traffic). It seems like every time an ISP thinks about going down that road, you get a flame-fest terrible.
:-)
That's because the users have been so used to being pandered to for so long they've gone soft.
Personally, I don't mind paying for what I use. Users that think otherwise need to smell the coffee...
My friendly local ISP came up with a novel solution to the problem, though. They simply got a list of the top users and switched them onto a less-than-7-nines, higher latency network. They're (the users) happy because they get their unlimited bandwidth and the ISP is happy because the heavy users don't cost them extra. But if that wasn't possible, hey, the company has to make money!
Man, you think wood and concrete are bad?
Look at this stuff! DHMO is so dangerous, hell, it can kill a man in mere minutes!
Did you know the majority of people want DHMO banned? The conspiracy of the companies selling this stuff is so obvious it's not even funny!
This substance is so deadly it kills without warning. Strangely enough, there are wacko groups who would support the continued use of DHMO!
Here's some more quality information on DHMO, please read it before you kill yourself with this horrible substance. Just look at the list of people addicted to this substance: The KKK, Hitler, Pedophiles, and Charles Manson. The substance clearly changes one's mood for the worse -- just look at the groups it is linked to.
Please sign the petition to ban this horrible substance now before we all die from it.
Thank you.
>I must admit that being from Norway, Europe
>We're currently strugling with The Sellafield Nuclear plant in England, as they dump their waste directly out in the sea, killing our coastline.
Uhhhh... you do realise that England isn't part of Norway, right? That they aren't even connected in the most remote manner? And that the majority of the radiation leakage ocurred when the plant was called Windscale, eh?
And you would suggest Americans are stupid...
Uhhh, I think he means making copies of other's CDs...
This is using the machine's built in Trident video card...
:)
Yes, Trident, you know, 8900 ISA 10 fps @ std. VGA rez and all that goodness (fortunately, this card wasn't that bad, it seemed at lot like the 9440 PCI cards for performance, which is to say, lack of any). I really doubt there was any MPEG decoding on this card, considering wasn't all that happy when "include window contents when dragging" was checked, plus the maximum shared memory useable was 8 MB.
I can also say that having repaired (and still am repairing) a fair number of P2-350s at work that these machines are FAR faster. I'd certainly trade my work machine (one of those P2-350s) in for something with this processor in a heartbeat. But I'd have to replace the video... no contest on that.
This is the board that I'm talking about. Not that I like PC Chips, but it did give me a chance to try out the hard to find C3 chip.
Uhhh, which tax has been struck down? The German or Canadian one? The German one seems pretty new to me, the Canadian one would be about 4 years old, so I'll have to assume the Canadian tax.
:-) Maybe I should keep my mouth shut on this idea... ]
;-)
The current tax (it's called a levy for whatever reason), which is implemented in Canada, as of a couple of years ago, is $0.21 per CD, whether you think it exists or not.
However, we do get a benefit for the tax: Citizens are now allowed to create a CD library, where CDs can be lent to people, and the people borrowing these CDs may make copies of them for themselves (legally) before returning them. I really hope this happens sometime soon -- it seems like an easy way to make some profit, if done properly! Think VHS Village and BETA Barn, but filled with CDs instead. Yes, most CDs say you can't rent them, but it's a job for a lawyer to see if that holds water now this law has been passed. It seems to be relatively legal considering the amount of stores selling used CDs.
We are also now allowed to create CD copying chains, whereby a disc is passed from user to user and copied each time.
[ Seems like a worthy moneymaker for myself!
Before you do this, you might want to read the law for yourself and possibly consult a lawyer.
>Because then they wouldn't be able to sell it.
C'est la vie. I'd like to have a box of diamonds, but there's no where to get them as there's no way a regular company is going to sell them. I could get them on special order, just like a regular business, if I had deep pockets, though. I don't expect someone to turn around and lose money selling them to me though. Same thing with this service. And if they do, hey, that's their fault. Just like it would be a company's fault if they offered to sell me a million diamonds for $10. You wouldn't blame me for taking them up on their idiotic offer, would you?
>It is a numbers game. The cell phone companies don't scale their networks so that all their subscribers can call at the same time, they just make sure that there is sufficient bandwidth for normal usage peak hours.
Well, that's why cell phone companies charge the amounts they do. Cause if you wanted to use your phone 24/7 you'd be paying them enough to build a cell tower just for you! However, at normal usage (say 300 minutes a month) they charge your for the small amount of tower time you use.
>Bandwidth isn't cheap, and before KNapsterZaa most ISP subscribers used their lines for just a few percentages of the day.
Then make it burstable. Normally 1 Mbit, burstable to 100 Mbits for $xx a day. Don't blame the customer if they take advantage of the company's stupidity in pricing.
>So, what do you want - Dirt expensive service with guaranteed bandwidth or cheap service where you get the bandwidth you expect most of the time?
It's not what I want. It's what the company needs to do to be profitable. If they aren't, I see no reason why the customer should be held accountable. If 100 Mbits really costs $1,000,000 a day when used to its ultimate, then their pricing should reflects that at the same time it reflect the lower cost of barely using the line at all.
>The 1GHz C3 is actualy slower than a 667MHz Celeron.
I call extreme bullshit. Mod the parent down.
I have had a 666 Mhz C3 that plays DVD video and lets me do web surfing at the same time.
Scaling Tom's numbers I would have a slower than 444 Mhz celeron. That's barely enough to play DVDs, never mind do that and surf the web.
So, tell me Tom, how is it to bias your benchmarks so purposely? Did your "I want to have PC Chips lovechild" article end your quality reporting? Or did it all end when you became so pathetic at identifying a processors strengths and weaknesses that you didn't even bother to check the history of the Cyrix line? The processor runs word fast as fuck. It isn't for playing quake. That's why it's so cheap it's almost free.
Tom, you make a mockery of the entire review industry. Please, close up shop, or at least start using those PC Chips parts you love so much for everything. How's them plastic-blobs-for-cache doing, anyways?
BTW, Tom, since you obviously have no problems whatsoever with ECS slapping your seal of approval on your box, do you have any problems with me pirating your entire site? Because that's what PC Chips does with the only code on their boards, eh? Yup, that's right, I have a PC Chips board and the only reason there's no updates is because they're pirates.
Neither ECS nor Chaintech is known as a top motherboard company. This is certainly not because of their inability to make good products, but because they lack consistency in their product lines and usually concentrate on the OEM market as well.
No, Tom, it's because ECS's supplier company (PC Chips) pirates their software, and their defrauds customers. A 10 second search of usenet and google would have turned this up.
God, I hate Tom's Hardware. Sucks so badly. Worse reporting daily. Blech.
Why is it always the consumers fault when a company underprices its services?
If the service costs $1e+06 a month, then CHARGE THAT.
It isn't the user's problem if the company providing the service can't price it properly.
The whole argument sounds a lot like those arguments against ticket scalpers.
Next thing you know people will tell me it's wrong of me to go to future shop and take advantage of their $10 printer sale by buying them all and selling them for $20. Tough cookies.
By your logic Commodore isn't gone either. Gateway owns their IP, so hey, that means they still exist, right?
:-)
Now, I'd like to buy a new SID chip, where can I get one?
>Please shove this fucking DMCA in your ass you greedy bastards.
Finally! A valid use for HTML mail:
<P>Please shove this fucking DMCA in your ass you greedy bastards.
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Oh well... maybe next time?
This should do the trick.
>I think the angle would be that your verbal abuse against the caller, somehow constitutes sexual harassment. Your tactics might actually be a civil offense in your state.
What if you have (fuck bitch cunt) tourette's syndrome (ass shit)? (goddam)
Or, simply the surly person serving you if you can have a free smile.
I wouldn't order anything you can't watch being made if you do this.
>No one specifically said they thought the lights would last indeffinatly.
They didn't? Maybe I should quote what was said (emphasis mine):
I replaced all the bulbs with blue LED's, and they look great. Kind of expensive, but they'll last forever.
Being that blue LEDs have just gotten "cheap" in the past few years, I would expect that they are probably on the bottom of the barrel for lifetime right now. A '67 volvo (the vehicle in discussion), had it been equipped with blue LEDs when built (which, of course, didn't exist at that point) would have no dash lights whatsoever today.
I guess you're right. He didn't say indefinitely, specifically. He said forever. Which would be a synonym.