It may not be especially relevant to Slashdot's ostensible mission,
Sure it does. Slashdot can't resist a conspiracy theory. If you've never been around a conspiracy nerd, it's quite a sight. They make us computer / scifi / anime / trek nerds look like a bunch of social gadflys. These guys are just sad. Whether it be Kennedy or the moon landing, they can't possibly believe that any event could go by without a Vast Conspiracy behind it and they're quite glad to bend your ear. For hours. Repeatedly.
And how much longer will it be before the Kroger will check my fingerprint, see that I was arrested years ago for demonstrating a political debate, and refuse to sell me eggs, tomatoes, or anything else that makes a mess when thrown at a candidate.
My God, you're right! Because of course Kroger is all about politics, it's not like they have an interest in selling you stuff in a quicker and more efficient manner so they get your business and make more money than the next grocery store! Nah, couldn't be. Has to be some Grand Conspiracy. Ye Gods people, grow the hell up.
You don't think that Chobits and El Hazard are SF? Chobits with androids available for public purchase in streetcorner windows? El Hazard with "Priestesses" who get their powers from ancient hi-tech that has been inherited? Or a "villain" who is just powerful ancient tech herself?
Okay, okay. So they're powerful sexy androids.:) This is anime after all.
Now the true f'ed up thing is me. I'm watching Chobits and I'm supposed to be wanting a Chii, right? No. I want a little Sumomo. The first time I saw her I thought "Damn but she'd make pulling cable through ceilings easy." I had a mental image of Sumomo with a miners helmet and a flashlight pulling fiber through ceilings and conduits.:)
Yes, let's make OSS look like M$... This is about free software, that you can use in any platform, in any way you want. As people use OSS more and more, the OS will matter less and less, that is the only way to get rid of monopolies (call them M$ or Linux, they can be as bad).
Damn skippy.
Dammit, and I used up the last of my mod points last night. Somebody him up, quick!
When I was 17, I robbed a firestation, got a drinking and driving minor, and sold adderol (Meds for ADHD) to my school peers. By the time I was caught I had 30 felonies(Possession with intent to distribute in a drug free (school) zone.), and 50 years in prison staring me straight in the face. I lost my license and was on house arrest for over 4 months. About a year later, I was accepted and attended one of the top engineering schools in the nation.
Now, my question to you, is: If I can't spend my time playing EQ, and raising my daughter, do you want me selling a perscription legal meth to your brothers and sisters?
Uh, no. I want you sitting in a prison cell being sodomized daily by an amorous cellmate, eating bad food and thinking about what an idiot you are. But then I'm a vindictive sonofabitch who has a real problem with drug dealers and drunk drivers.
But, since that didn't happen I congratulate you on reclaiming your life. Besides, you have created your own punishment. You'll live in fear of your daughter one day meeting and dating young version of yourself.:)
I'm intrigued by the story of ShowEQ -- and the fact that Sony seems to want to protect their system by deciding what users can and can't run on their computers.
Uh, no. What Sony is saying is that they don't want users cheating in their online game and therefore having an unfair advantage over the rest of the people who don't cheat.
What's the big deal here people? If you wish to use someone's service you have to abide by their rules. If you don't like it you can leave, you can try to convince them to change their system, or you can cheat. If you get caught cheating, don't be surprised if you get slapped around.
"Back in the 60's, I developed a weather changing machine which was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a 'laser.'"
"You know, I have one simple request...and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Now evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Ah, can you please remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here...what do we have?"
Make note that nVidia announced the nForce 2 way back in July [nvidia.com] and you still can't buy them.
Well, actually, yes you can. You can buy the Asus A7N8X Deluxe at NewEgg for $152 right now.
I'd buy one but my original Nforce board is serving me quite nicely still. Probably the most rock-solid stable board I've ever owned since my Apple//e.:)
I had this very problem where I work. Like many IT types I get questioned about problems people have at home, even to the point where people would bring their computers in to work for me to examine. This started to get out of hand so I let it be known that I don't mind answering the occasional question but if you want me to work on it I charge $x per hour and it has to be after-hours. That made about 95% of them go away. The rest, hey, I took their $ and fixed their piddling problems.
I bet a goodly part of the audience here WOULD choose to transform the frog into a beautiful virtual anime princess.
Virtual? I don't think so. I want the real thing. Green hair, horns & a tiger-striped bikini. Electric shocks and all. Now I just have to talk my wife in to it.:)
"With this grounding strap, I thee wed." - What Ataru would say if he wasn't such a complete idiot.
"CNN has an article on Super Audio CD digital watermarking and the lack of digital outputs on any SACD or DVD-Audio players.
Sorry, not true. The player I'm about to buy, the Panasonic RP-82, plays DVD Audio and has optical outputs. The link below is to the modified (region selectable, RCE-proof, Macrovision disabled) version I'll be buying. You can get them unmodified for less $.
http://www.jvbdigital.com/jvb.asp?cur=2§ion= dv dplayers&page=title&title=71
even though the average person can't tell the difference between cd audio and MP3
Only if you're one of the millions who have destroyed their hearing by blasting metal, rap and other children's music. I can assure you that anyone with decent hearing can tell the difference between an MP3 and a CD of good classical or jazz. It's *extremely* obvious when you listen to the brass.
Oh, and before people start flaming, I *do* enjoy rock music, but it's a horrible format for testing a sound system or determining audio fidelity.
You mean the guy whose friends laughed at him for staying with his (somewhat) underepaid, safe & boring IT job here in the south, while they were all heading for the west coast & the Next Big Dot Com? The guy who doesn't use credit cards anyway? The guy who defines being able to afford something as saving up the money to buy it, not "can I make the payments?" The guy who didn't buy a huge house, but instead bought a nice house which is Quite Large Enough, Thank You? The guy who drives 5+ year old used cars he pays cash for?
... is a remote controlled lawn mower. Maybe a 12" cutting radius and an RC Car style remote. If you really want to make them sell you make it so that you can snap on shells that look like your favorite NASCAR or whatever other vehicle suits your fancy.
Wherever you go, you are a slave. They know the fear of hunger will keep you working.
Um, no. The fact that I enjoy my work and like what I do will keep me working. If your work is only a way to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head, I truly feel sorry for you.
On another note, we need some new moderation options. Let's steal some from Looney Tunes. Right about now I could use the option of "-1 What a Maroon!"
The biggest problem with gnutella is not technical. It is that gnutella was invented so that true hardcore underground people such as myself could complete our collection of harcore underground things, such as the entire run of Evangelion.
Evangelion? Hardcore underground? You mean, the series you can go buy all of on DVD at your local Best Buy / Media Play / Suncoast / whatever right now? Okay, you can't get End Of Evangelion yet, but that's coming out in a month or so. Oh, and Eva is not exactly "underground" or even "edgy" in anime fandom either. It's OK, I mean, I'd watch it before I'd watch Dragonball Z or Akira (bleah) but give me something really good with a real story and an honest-to-god ending, like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor or Nadia any day.
Gee, I know not a day goes by that I don't walk through and see people plugging their Dreamcast into my network. Nope, nothing unusual about that. Carry on.
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Shuttle SS51 Reviewed
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· Score: 1
From the very end of the review -
What's up next from Shuttle? An nForce2 based XPC; if paired up with a All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV (or maybe even the R300 version) we'd have one killer Home Theater PC on our hands with that one...
A case that looks like it belongs in an entertainment center. Preferably with standard ports in the back and extra port connections for firewire & USB 2 behind flip covers on the front.
Case should be able to accept most any motherboard and give me vertical slots in the back.
Minimum of 2 5.25" bays up front. No 3.5" needed.
Should be able to accept large PSU's.
Try to engineer the case to be as quiet as possible.
No stupid bright LED's on the front. If I'm going to use it to play games or watch movies & play MP3's I don't want the lights to distract me when I turn off the overheads.
If your customer buys a USB2 device and only has USB1.1 (which almost anybody does) they can upgrade their computer, or they can just deal with the slower speed. Either way they can still use the device. With Firewire they have no choice - if they don't have a Firewire port, they have to upgrade.
And y'know what? If you're used to USB1.1, then 2 will seem like lightning. It's only by comparison to something most users have never experienced that it suffers.
Yah, tell me about it. My email account is on runbox.com, which happens to be based in Norway. Hmmm. Methinks I see some interesting fun in my future if this passes. (rub hands together with an evil grin)
Slashdot Mirror
It may not be especially relevant to Slashdot's ostensible mission,
Sure it does. Slashdot can't resist a conspiracy theory. If you've never been around a conspiracy nerd, it's quite a sight. They make us computer / scifi / anime / trek nerds look like a bunch of social gadflys. These guys are just sad. Whether it be Kennedy or the moon landing, they can't possibly believe that any event could go by without a Vast Conspiracy behind it and they're quite glad to bend your ear. For hours. Repeatedly.
And how much longer will it be before the Kroger will check my fingerprint, see that I was arrested years ago for demonstrating a political debate, and refuse to sell me eggs, tomatoes, or anything else that makes a mess when thrown at a candidate.
My God, you're right! Because of course Kroger is all about politics, it's not like they have an interest in selling you stuff in a quicker and more efficient manner so they get your business and make more money than the next grocery store! Nah, couldn't be. Has to be some Grand Conspiracy. Ye Gods people, grow the hell up.
You don't think that Chobits and El Hazard are SF? Chobits with androids available for public purchase in streetcorner windows? El Hazard with "Priestesses" who get their powers from ancient hi-tech that has been inherited? Or a "villain" who is just powerful ancient tech herself?
:) This is anime after all.
:)
Okay, okay. So they're powerful sexy androids.
Now the true f'ed up thing is me. I'm watching Chobits and I'm supposed to be wanting a Chii, right? No. I want a little Sumomo. The first time I saw her I thought "Damn but she'd make pulling cable through ceilings easy." I had a mental image of Sumomo with a miners helmet and a flashlight pulling fiber through ceilings and conduits.
VIAGRA? I'm sorry, but the ability for an old man to get an erection is not one of the greatest innovations of the last 85 years.
:)
Depends. If you happen to be an 85 year old man who can't get an erection then it's one hell of an invention. Probably beats the internet all to hell.
Now we just need a pill that makes old men attractive to their wives again.
Yes, let's make OSS look like M$... This is about free software, that you can use in any platform, in any way you want. As people use OSS more and more, the OS will matter less and less, that is the only way to get rid of monopolies (call them M$ or Linux, they can be as bad).
Damn skippy.
Dammit, and I used up the last of my mod points last night. Somebody him up, quick!
Look around on the web page. At the page where you can see a list of what programs are on the CD -
h tm l
http://www.theopencd.org/programs/index.html
You'll see a link to the right called "More Programs"
http://www.theopencd.org/programs/MorePrograms.
Lots 'o games shown there.
(sorry, I'm feeling too lazy to make real links today, cut & paste)
When I was 17, I robbed a firestation, got a drinking and driving minor, and sold adderol (Meds for ADHD) to my school peers.
:)
By the time I was caught I had 30 felonies(Possession with intent to distribute in a drug free (school) zone.), and 50 years in prison staring me straight in the face.
I lost my license and was on house arrest for over 4 months.
About a year later, I was accepted and attended one of the top engineering schools in the nation.
Now, my question to you, is: If I can't spend my time playing EQ, and raising my daughter, do you want me selling a perscription legal meth to your brothers and sisters?
Uh, no. I want you sitting in a prison cell being sodomized daily by an amorous cellmate, eating bad food and thinking about what an idiot you are. But then I'm a vindictive sonofabitch who has a real problem with drug dealers and drunk drivers.
But, since that didn't happen I congratulate you on reclaiming your life. Besides, you have created your own punishment. You'll live in fear of your daughter one day meeting and dating young version of yourself.
I'm intrigued by the story of ShowEQ -- and the fact that Sony seems to want to protect their system by deciding what users can and can't run on their computers.
Uh, no. What Sony is saying is that they don't want users cheating in their online game and therefore having an unfair advantage over the rest of the people who don't cheat.
What's the big deal here people? If you wish to use someone's service you have to abide by their rules. If you don't like it you can leave, you can try to convince them to change their system, or you can cheat. If you get caught cheating, don't be surprised if you get slapped around.
"Back in the 60's, I developed a weather changing machine which was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a 'laser.'"
"You know, I have one simple request...and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Now evidently, my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can't be done. Ah, can you please remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here...what do we have?"
Sorry, with all the laser talk I couldn't resist.
Make note that nVidia announced the nForce 2 way back in July [nvidia.com] and you still can't buy them.
//e. :)
Well, actually, yes you can. You can buy the Asus A7N8X Deluxe at NewEgg for $152 right now.
I'd buy one but my original Nforce board is serving me quite nicely still. Probably the most rock-solid stable board I've ever owned since my Apple
I had this very problem where I work. Like many IT types I get questioned about problems people have at home, even to the point where people would bring their computers in to work for me to examine. This started to get out of hand so I let it be known that I don't mind answering the occasional question but if you want me to work on it I charge $x per hour and it has to be after-hours. That made about 95% of them go away. The rest, hey, I took their $ and fixed their piddling problems.
I bet a goodly part of the audience here WOULD choose to transform the frog into a beautiful virtual anime princess.
:)
Virtual? I don't think so. I want the real thing. Green hair, horns & a tiger-striped bikini. Electric shocks and all. Now I just have to talk my wife in to it.
"With this grounding strap, I thee wed." - What Ataru would say if he wasn't such a complete idiot.
I want one just so I can say "Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!" every time I boot up.
"CNN has an article on Super Audio CD digital watermarking and the lack of digital outputs on any SACD or DVD-Audio players.
= dv dplayers&page=title&title=71
Sorry, not true. The player I'm about to buy, the Panasonic RP-82, plays DVD Audio and has optical outputs. The link below is to the modified (region selectable, RCE-proof, Macrovision disabled) version I'll be buying. You can get them unmodified for less $.
http://www.jvbdigital.com/jvb.asp?cur=2§ion
even though the average person can't tell the difference between cd audio and MP3
Only if you're one of the millions who have destroyed their hearing by blasting metal, rap and other children's music. I can assure you that anyone with decent hearing can tell the difference between an MP3 and a CD of good classical or jazz. It's *extremely* obvious when you listen to the brass.
Oh, and before people start flaming, I *do* enjoy rock music, but it's a horrible format for testing a sound system or determining audio fidelity.
You mean the guy whose friends laughed at him for staying with his (somewhat) underepaid, safe & boring IT job here in the south, while they were all heading for the west coast & the Next Big Dot Com? The guy who doesn't use credit cards anyway? The guy who defines being able to afford something as saving up the money to buy it, not "can I make the payments?" The guy who didn't buy a huge house, but instead bought a nice house which is Quite Large Enough, Thank You? The guy who drives 5+ year old used cars he pays cash for?
:)
Doing fine, thanks for asking.
I mean really, making copies of someone else's copyrighted works and distributing them without their permission. The nerve.
Quick, someone check the Slashdot servers and make sure their UPS and lightning protection is up to the task.
... is a remote controlled lawn mower. Maybe a 12" cutting radius and an RC Car style remote. If you really want to make them sell you make it so that you can snap on shells that look like your favorite NASCAR or whatever other vehicle suits your fancy.
Wherever you go, you are a slave. They know the fear of hunger will keep you working.
Um, no. The fact that I enjoy my work and like what I do will keep me working. If your work is only a way to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head, I truly feel sorry for you.
On another note, we need some new moderation options. Let's steal some from Looney Tunes. Right about now I could use the option of "-1 What a Maroon!"
Evangelion? Hardcore underground? You mean, the series you can go buy all of on DVD at your local Best Buy / Media Play / Suncoast / whatever right now? Okay, you can't get End Of Evangelion yet, but that's coming out in a month or so. Oh, and Eva is not exactly "underground" or even "edgy" in anime fandom either. It's OK, I mean, I'd watch it before I'd watch Dragonball Z or Akira (bleah) but give me something really good with a real story and an honest-to-god ending, like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor or Nadia any day.
(hmmm, am I grumpy today? Nah. :)
Gee, I know not a day goes by that I don't walk through and see people plugging their Dreamcast into my network. Nope, nothing unusual about that. Carry on.
What's up next from Shuttle? An nForce2 based XPC; if paired up with a All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV (or maybe even the R300 version) we'd have one killer Home Theater PC on our hands with that one...
A case that looks like it belongs in an entertainment center. Preferably with standard ports in the back and extra port connections for firewire & USB 2 behind flip covers on the front.
Case should be able to accept most any motherboard and give me vertical slots in the back.
Minimum of 2 5.25" bays up front. No 3.5" needed.
Should be able to accept large PSU's.
Try to engineer the case to be as quiet as possible.
No stupid bright LED's on the front. If I'm going to use it to play games or watch movies & play MP3's I don't want the lights to distract me when I turn off the overheads.
Simple - wide availablity / convenience.
If your customer buys a USB2 device and only has USB1.1 (which almost anybody does) they can upgrade their computer, or they can just deal with the slower speed. Either way they can still use the device. With Firewire they have no choice - if they don't have a Firewire port, they have to upgrade.
And y'know what? If you're used to USB1.1, then 2 will seem like lightning. It's only by comparison to something most users have never experienced that it suffers.
Not saying I like it, but that's the reason.
Yah, tell me about it. My email account is on runbox.com, which happens to be based in Norway. Hmmm. Methinks I see some interesting fun in my future if this passes. (rub hands together with an evil grin)