You sound more correct. I think you explained better what I was trying to say. What I was mostly trying to say is that people are morons because they all think that TVs are FIXED at 320x240. I argue with people all the time that the TV is not 320x240. Most TVs are capable of much more. And they do it without changing resolutions like a monitor.
Why can't companies come up with good names for stuff anymore? The Pentium 5? Come on guys, it's obvious this isn't a 586 anymore. I thought that the 'pent' in Pentium had its roots in meaning "5". As in "Pentium, 5th generation processor". Well it's obvious it's not a pentium anymore. This naming scheme is about as bad as the naming scheme for the GeForce line of video cards. I'm sure the GeForce Super Ultra 22000 FXDXLX is gonna be a great card. I think I'll buy an Opteron, since its the first processor out in a while with an Original name.
It seems to be working okay here in Olympia, WA and it was working today in Seattle when I was up there. But maybe it wasn't, maybe thats why I haven't been getting any phone calls... But I did get some this evening... Anyone with troubles in the Seattle Area?
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I don't get it. TV's are ROUGHLY 320x240. Most TVs, even standard TVs are capable of much much more than that. The whole deal is that they are analog, and you don't ever get a single fixed resolution unless you're recieving a digital signal. I noticed that most DVD's run at 720x480 (widescreen). Now say a 3:4 TV is playing the DVD in letterbox on the screen. Typically, the black bars take up about half of the TV screen. That means that the DVD is cramming 480 lines of resolution into a screen that as you say should only be displaying about 120 lines (half of 240).
I seriously doubt that when I watch my TV at home, I'm watching 120 lines of video (losing over 300 lines of resolution). It seems obvious that DVD manufacutrers aren't going to encode video as low quality as 320x240. I seriously think it's stupid to rip any DVD into a resolution that low or else you're going to lose quality, AND you're going to reduce the file size to about half of what it should be for the original resolution.
It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for a buck. Every piece of crap thing that happens in the world is thanks to the monetary system. Maybe what they need to do is make it impossible for spammers to make any sort of money. I don't think it'll ever be possible, but if those jerks couldn't make money off what they were doing, they would never ever do it. Spam would come to a complete halt.
Well, ICQ was bought out by AOL. Also, AOL and ICQ communicate using the same protocalls (look at the AIM/ICQ button in Gaim), I doubt that ICQ will be something to worry about by itself. If ICQ goes down, then so will AOL.
I don't really give a rip either way. If you've got a bunch of friends, just set up your own Jabber server (or join the main Jabber server). Tell your friends to use a real IM client instead of these crappy, ad-filled ones. Your close friends should at least listen, then probably will get thier friends to do the same.
Friend of mine hit a tree at 70mph in his Honda. The airbags didn't deploy. My father also works at a body shop and he sees a very high number of Hondas that have front end collisions at high speeds and the airbags hadn't deployed. Not sure if they have some kind of sensors that only go off in certian types of wrecks based on where the car gets hit. But my dad says the Hondas airbags seem to go off the least.
Yeah but you know what's great. VeriSign isn't going to see a goddamn dime of my money. It's all going to go to a competing Registrar. Fuck VeriSign and thier Monopoly. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? This is such an obvious abuse of thier monopoly. Thie monopoly which was handed over by the government. What the hell is happening to the internet? It's becoming this big pile of advertising shit. And now it's just become bad for me. YES thats right ME! Before I could use open source tools and block this crap. I could use Mozilla and block popups, and anything from double-click. I could block spam using Mozilla Mail clients EXCELLENT spam filter. But what the hell am I supposed to do now? What the hell? I guess I could just block this IP address... but what about everyone else? The spyware, the advertising. EVERYONE has spyware on thier computers now. Spyware is just legal viruses. How the fuck do these companies get away with this. I can't wait until verisign embeds some ActiveX spyware app into thier newly created page. People ALWAYS click yes when IE asks to install shit. We need to stop this monopoly now before it's too late. They are taking this shit too far....
Hopefully this is something that they can actually use to learn from. Seems to me that they should put safeguards in between each one of these events. Because if just ONE of these events could have been stopped, it would have stopped the whole east coast from losing power.
Yeah well I got a new Super 88 system at Junkys for 2 dollars. Yeah you like that, idiot! It's got a new game too! Its call Mario Twins, they look the same!
And he says don't take your vechile anywhere but AAMCO! ACK! Don't EVER take your car to AAMCO. They ruined my Ford Tempo and my BMW 735i. Unfortunately, they screwed up my Tempo so bad, and the car was worth so little that I just took it to the junk yard after spending $2500 on a tranny. Turns out it didn't need to be completely replaced like they said, just a blown vaccuum or pump causing wierd shifting. The BMW also had hard shifting and they never could fix that, even after "rebuilding" the transmission. I think that was $3000 worth of crap. OH YEAH, and they told me to bring it back for a 300 mile inspection, well the inspection was the guy driving my car around the block. That was even a different Aamco. THANKS GUYS FOR FUCKING ME OUT OF $5000 and ruining 2 of my cars!
Thats really odd, because my SL-5600 syncs up with Linux. It syncs with Evolution, or the Qtopia desktop. I don't see why this one would be any different...
God damn, I would love nothing more than to be allowed to buy a cold one.:) But this country we live in makes it illegal for me to do so until I'm 21 years old. Its great how I'm not a minor until it involves alcohol. What a crock of crap.
Thats is why you set up an agreement before they bring in the computers. Get it integrated into the loads and loads of paperwork that the students already have to fill out. Then your ass is covered. Hell, my high school had an acceptable use policy on the comptuers that we had to sign.
Yeah well they are gonna pay once they realize that nobody in the USA has any jobs because they've all been moved overseas. Once nobody has any jobs, they won't be able to afford to buy anybodys products. Then when nobody buys the products, the companies begin to fold. Don't they see how this works. Its simple logic that says when jobs go away, people can't afford stuff, when they can't afford stuff, they don't buy stuff, then the companies fold. SIMPLE ECONOMICS. All of these companies need to start to realize that they are only hurting themselves in the long run.
Thats fucking funny because my fucking Dell came with like 40 fucking copies of the fucking license agreement in the fucking box. It was fucking impossible to fucking avoid that fucking shit. They even fucking put on the fucking outside of the fucking box that you should fucking read the fucking license agreement before booting your fucking system into fucking Windows. You do fucking know that this fucking warning system is a good fucking thing because it fucking makes people aware of the fucking license agreement. Before, fucking people would just fucking boot up thier fucking computer without fucking knowing that there was any fucking licnese.
But the average person doesn't give a rip. They are going to want to use Windows. By using Windows, you are agreeing to the same licence agreement anyways. So I don't really see what the big deal is. I mean, licence agreements suck, but they've been around for years, so this is nothing new.
My inspiron 2650 came with this feature almost a year ago. I called Dell and asked them "What if I don't agree with the license?" He said, "Boot off of your new OS CD and format the hard drive."
I was like OK. That was what I did. If you do format the hard drive, then you're not bound to the terms. If you never use that OS, then you are fine.
Okay maybe it wasn't a click-through process. But it said "Press the space bar to agree to the terms of the license agreement."
So, I don't see what the big deal is. You're not forced to agree. You're not agreeing by using the laptop, so what?
Well, I think that the reason that things can't be sold without the ethernet label on it has got to be because of the increase in the popularity of networking.
Go driving around a neighborhood with Kismet and you'll see what I mean. There are tons of people with Wireless networks in thier homes. Now every Joe user in the world can set up thier own network in thier home. Now, Joe doesn't know the difference between ethernet and cat5. But what is the main thing that he sees on all of his packaging? ETHERNET. ETHERNET is printed all over boxes and labels, and so Joe assumes that all networking is just called ethernet. Once you get this term being thrown around, everyone calling everything ethernet, who wants to be the know-it-all explaining protocols and going off with technical babble that he wont get anyways?
Yes, but when will my computer be able to mix sounds on the fly? I like to hear XMMS playing and have it not tie up the sound card for Xine, or even have it not tie it up for the system beep in KDE. I know that ARTS mixes sounds, but it's too delayed (the sounds play after a 2-3 second delay. Mabye it's just my sound card?
Yeah well who has time to read the fucking article? I read slashdot for a quick summary of whats up, whore up some karma really quick and leave. Guess the joke's on you. LOL
Okay, anybody who signs up for a message board with thier real information, or creates a mail account with thier information, or posts to newsgroups with real information is just asking for this sort of thing to happen. I'm pretty tired of going to websites and having to sign up. I NEVER put in any real information, and encourage EVERYBODY to put in fake information. Why do they ask for this information? So that they can do exactly what MS is doing.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think that this is some sort of plot of evil. Well it sorta is, but the whole motivation behind any kind of information gathering is money. They want to spend less on advertising by targeting only the people who will show interest in thier products. The more they watch people like this the more money potential they have.
The best way to keep your privacy from becoming an issue and all of these information databases getting merged on you is to NEVER, EVER give out your real information to ANYBODY, especially on the internet, unless it's a secure SSL transaction, and you really trust the source.
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You sound more correct. I think you explained better what I was trying to say. What I was mostly trying to say is that people are morons because they all think that TVs are FIXED at 320x240. I argue with people all the time that the TV is not 320x240. Most TVs are capable of much more. And they do it without changing resolutions like a monitor.
Why can't companies come up with good names for stuff anymore? The Pentium 5? Come on guys, it's obvious this isn't a 586 anymore. I thought that the 'pent' in Pentium had its roots in meaning "5". As in "Pentium, 5th generation processor". Well it's obvious it's not a pentium anymore. This naming scheme is about as bad as the naming scheme for the GeForce line of video cards. I'm sure the GeForce Super Ultra 22000 FXDXLX is gonna be a great card. I think I'll buy an Opteron, since its the first processor out in a while with an Original name.
It seems to be working okay here in Olympia, WA and it was working today in Seattle when I was up there. But maybe it wasn't, maybe thats why I haven't been getting any phone calls... But I did get some this evening... Anyone with troubles in the Seattle Area?
I don't get it. TV's are ROUGHLY 320x240. Most TVs, even standard TVs are capable of much much more than that. The whole deal is that they are analog, and you don't ever get a single fixed resolution unless you're recieving a digital signal. I noticed that most DVD's run at 720x480 (widescreen). Now say a 3:4 TV is playing the DVD in letterbox on the screen. Typically, the black bars take up about half of the TV screen. That means that the DVD is cramming 480 lines of resolution into a screen that as you say should only be displaying about 120 lines (half of 240).
I seriously doubt that when I watch my TV at home, I'm watching 120 lines of video (losing over 300 lines of resolution). It seems obvious that DVD manufacutrers aren't going to encode video as low quality as 320x240. I seriously think it's stupid to rip any DVD into a resolution that low or else you're going to lose quality, AND you're going to reduce the file size to about half of what it should be for the original resolution.
It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for a buck. Every piece of crap thing that happens in the world is thanks to the monetary system. Maybe what they need to do is make it impossible for spammers to make any sort of money. I don't think it'll ever be possible, but if those jerks couldn't make money off what they were doing, they would never ever do it. Spam would come to a complete halt.
Well, ICQ was bought out by AOL. Also, AOL and ICQ communicate using the same protocalls (look at the AIM/ICQ button in Gaim), I doubt that ICQ will be something to worry about by itself. If ICQ goes down, then so will AOL.
I don't really give a rip either way. If you've got a bunch of friends, just set up your own Jabber server (or join the main Jabber server). Tell your friends to use a real IM client instead of these crappy, ad-filled ones. Your close friends should at least listen, then probably will get thier friends to do the same.
Well thanks, but the seatbelt is what saved his life... :)
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But GoDaddy sells domain names for $8.95 or something like that. Does that mean that they (godaddy) only get $2 or so for each registration?
Friend of mine hit a tree at 70mph in his Honda. The airbags didn't deploy. My father also works at a body shop and he sees a very high number of Hondas that have front end collisions at high speeds and the airbags hadn't deployed. Not sure if they have some kind of sensors that only go off in certian types of wrecks based on where the car gets hit. But my dad says the Hondas airbags seem to go off the least.
Yeah but you know what's great. VeriSign isn't going to see a goddamn dime of my money. It's all going to go to a competing Registrar. Fuck VeriSign and thier Monopoly. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? This is such an obvious abuse of thier monopoly. Thie monopoly which was handed over by the government. What the hell is happening to the internet? It's becoming this big pile of advertising shit. And now it's just become bad for me. YES thats right ME! Before I could use open source tools and block this crap. I could use Mozilla and block popups, and anything from double-click. I could block spam using Mozilla Mail clients EXCELLENT spam filter. But what the hell am I supposed to do now? What the hell? I guess I could just block this IP address... but what about everyone else? The spyware, the advertising. EVERYONE has spyware on thier computers now. Spyware is just legal viruses. How the fuck do these companies get away with this. I can't wait until verisign embeds some ActiveX spyware app into thier newly created page. People ALWAYS click yes when IE asks to install shit. We need to stop this monopoly now before it's too late. They are taking this shit too far....
Hopefully this is something that they can actually use to learn from. Seems to me that they should put safeguards in between each one of these events. Because if just ONE of these events could have been stopped, it would have stopped the whole east coast from losing power.
Yeah well I got a new Super 88 system at Junkys for 2 dollars. Yeah you like that, idiot! It's got a new game too! Its call Mario Twins, they look the same!
And he says don't take your vechile anywhere but AAMCO! ACK! Don't EVER take your car to AAMCO. They ruined my Ford Tempo and my BMW 735i. Unfortunately, they screwed up my Tempo so bad, and the car was worth so little that I just took it to the junk yard after spending $2500 on a tranny. Turns out it didn't need to be completely replaced like they said, just a blown vaccuum or pump causing wierd shifting. The BMW also had hard shifting and they never could fix that, even after "rebuilding" the transmission. I think that was $3000 worth of crap. OH YEAH, and they told me to bring it back for a 300 mile inspection, well the inspection was the guy driving my car around the block. That was even a different Aamco. THANKS GUYS FOR FUCKING ME OUT OF $5000 and ruining 2 of my cars!
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Thats really odd, because my SL-5600 syncs up with Linux. It syncs with Evolution, or the Qtopia desktop. I don't see why this one would be any different...
God damn, I would love nothing more than to be allowed to buy a cold one. :) But this country we live in makes it illegal for me to do so until I'm 21 years old. Its great how I'm not a minor until it involves alcohol. What a crock of crap.
Thats is why you set up an agreement before they bring in the computers. Get it integrated into the loads and loads of paperwork that the students already have to fill out. Then your ass is covered. Hell, my high school had an acceptable use policy on the comptuers that we had to sign.
Yeah well they are gonna pay once they realize that nobody in the USA has any jobs because they've all been moved overseas. Once nobody has any jobs, they won't be able to afford to buy anybodys products. Then when nobody buys the products, the companies begin to fold. Don't they see how this works. Its simple logic that says when jobs go away, people can't afford stuff, when they can't afford stuff, they don't buy stuff, then the companies fold. SIMPLE ECONOMICS. All of these companies need to start to realize that they are only hurting themselves in the long run.
Thats fucking funny because my fucking Dell came with like 40 fucking copies of the fucking license agreement in the fucking box. It was fucking impossible to fucking avoid that fucking shit. They even fucking put on the fucking outside of the fucking box that you should fucking read the fucking license agreement before booting your fucking system into fucking Windows. You do fucking know that this fucking warning system is a good fucking thing because it fucking makes people aware of the fucking license agreement. Before, fucking people would just fucking boot up thier fucking computer without fucking knowing that there was any fucking licnese.
But the average person doesn't give a rip. They are going to want to use Windows. By using Windows, you are agreeing to the same licence agreement anyways. So I don't really see what the big deal is. I mean, licence agreements suck, but they've been around for years, so this is nothing new.
My inspiron 2650 came with this feature almost a year ago. I called Dell and asked them "What if I don't agree with the license?" He said, "Boot off of your new OS CD and format the hard drive."
I was like OK. That was what I did. If you do format the hard drive, then you're not bound to the terms. If you never use that OS, then you are fine.
Okay maybe it wasn't a click-through process. But it said "Press the space bar to agree to the terms of the license agreement."
So, I don't see what the big deal is. You're not forced to agree. You're not agreeing by using the laptop, so what?
Well, I think that the reason that things can't be sold without the ethernet label on it has got to be because of the increase in the popularity of networking.
Go driving around a neighborhood with Kismet and you'll see what I mean. There are tons of people with Wireless networks in thier homes. Now every Joe user in the world can set up thier own network in thier home. Now, Joe doesn't know the difference between ethernet and cat5. But what is the main thing that he sees on all of his packaging? ETHERNET. ETHERNET is printed all over boxes and labels, and so Joe assumes that all networking is just called ethernet. Once you get this term being thrown around, everyone calling everything ethernet, who wants to be the know-it-all explaining protocols and going off with technical babble that he wont get anyways?
Yes, but when will my computer be able to mix sounds on the fly? I like to hear XMMS playing and have it not tie up the sound card for Xine, or even have it not tie it up for the system beep in KDE. I know that ARTS mixes sounds, but it's too delayed (the sounds play after a 2-3 second delay. Mabye it's just my sound card?
Yeah well who has time to read the fucking article? I read slashdot for a quick summary of whats up, whore up some karma really quick and leave. Guess the joke's on you. LOL
Okay, anybody who signs up for a message board with thier real information, or creates a mail account with thier information, or posts to newsgroups with real information is just asking for this sort of thing to happen. I'm pretty tired of going to websites and having to sign up. I NEVER put in any real information, and encourage EVERYBODY to put in fake information. Why do they ask for this information? So that they can do exactly what MS is doing.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think that this is some sort of plot of evil. Well it sorta is, but the whole motivation behind any kind of information gathering is money. They want to spend less on advertising by targeting only the people who will show interest in thier products. The more they watch people like this the more money potential they have.
The best way to keep your privacy from becoming an issue and all of these information databases getting merged on you is to NEVER, EVER give out your real information to ANYBODY, especially on the internet, unless it's a secure SSL transaction, and you really trust the source.