The simpelest thing to do is avoid the Ximeta drive and daisy chain some firewire drives attached to a linux box and just share them out through you network. KISS
What if the housing near your work is a crappy city slum and you care about where your children grow up. I choose to commute 25 miles so I can own a 5 acre place with out crime. But then every area is different, I live near oklahoma city in oklahoma and you would probably not believe me when I say you can buy a 2000 Sqft home on 5 acres of land for less than $100k. And yesterday I paid $1.68 for gas.
Yes, you have no clue. The car is not geared to go 150mph, it is geared to have a lower rpm(2000rpm) at a normal speed (70mph) to achieve better gas mileage. My 03 Saturn ION has a 5-speed automatic and a 7000 rpm redline but i would not dare drive it at 210mph (redline in 5th gear), but it can get 40 Mpg while going 70mph on the highway.
When I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall I had an American Ford Ranger I brought over with me.I thought it was fun driving on the left side of the road with a right hand drive vehicle. It was always alot of fun when I would drive to work on a small back country road a have to stop so a herd a sheep could flow around my truck. I also McVitties biscuits and dark warm thick guiness.
One of the things they are trying to achieve is a longer battery life for watching TV/DVD. A $150 pocket DVD player does not need a 2Ghz CPU to operate. It sounds like they are incorporating circuitry from a portable DVD player and completely bypassing the PC system portion. I wish my Dell Inspiron 5150 had this feature it gets quite hot watching DVDs and only has battery life for 2 hours.
The Gameboy Advance has backward compatibility with all old Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges. It helped me transition from the old to the new. I sold my old Playstation and Gameboy color for store credit at Game-Exchange. Then went and bought a new PS2 and GBA and could still use my old games. Nintendo thinks it is important, the Gameboy DS will have two cartridge slots for compatibility all the way back to 1988 version of Tetris(which helped launch the Gameboy)
Maybe Micro$oft is trying to prevent a similar upgrade chain?
They do. The Palm Zire 21 is sold at Wal-Mart in a blister pack for $80 It has all the functionality of a old Palm 5. But that also brings up another point. I know alot of people at work that still use Palm 5 & 7s. They were built to last and so the market for replacements is slow. Alot of people are happy with older devices. I sold a friend my old Palm 3x because my son no longer wanted it after I gave him my old Paml M105. My current Palm is the Tungsten E ($180) and it does everything I need it to. I do also have a new Dell Inspiron 5150 gaming laptop, at 9Lbs it does not fit in my pocket the way a Palm does 8^)
I live out in the sticks so I all ready had several DishTV recievers. For $99 bucks they came out and installed a 120Gb DVR with built in Sat tuner. If there are shows I want to keep from I just re-record to my old All-in-wonder card.
I bought a Panasonic 3DO at babbages for $40. Of course that was in 97 long after they had been cancelled. It was probably the first game system that had built in memory ROM for saved games and a fan to cool it.
Still have it hooked in my game room. It sits next to the NES and Atari 2600. I never could find a VCD/MPEG cartridge for it.
My dad just bought a Grand Wega HDTV that came with a small Sony 2-MgPxl camera. Both the tv and the camera use memory stick so you can do a slide show on the TV. Some of his memory cards are made by companies other than Sony. They also bought a HP scanner/printer/fax that has a built in memory card reader so my mom can print out pics without a PC. They also use a AOL TV box for e-mail and web surfing. AOL TV box runs Qnx. They also bought a small stand-alone CD burner that also has memory card slots. The PC seems to be less necessary for the computer-declined average consumer.
The most widely used flying command and control platform is the AWACS designed by IBM and Boeing back in the 70s. The USAF,NATO,JDF, and saudi's are all based on the same dual IBM 360 platform (named 4-pi). These mainframes all have been upgraded in memory and converted from tape drives to hard drives. We still develope the software in JOVIAL and assembler.Info
This COBY 7" DVD player with built in screen is more compact than the flip up screen models, it looks like a tablet. It plays Audio CDs, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD=R, DVD+RW, and MP3 or JPEG files recorded to CD-R/CD-RW discs. It also comes with a large set of accesories for $399.
I bought this for my kids for xmas to watch on road trips.
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The simpelest thing to do is avoid the Ximeta drive and daisy chain some firewire drives attached to a linux box and just share them out through you network. KISS
BFD!! I did this years ago with a USB wireless NIC and AnalogX's Proxy
Thats why DVDs and CDs cost 1$ in third world countries. Piracy will supply the media for these machines :^)
Sounds like the Kodak MC3 that came out in 1999. I bought one my son and it makes a good mp3 player but a crappy digicam.
Maybe the signal will be from an alien communication satelite.
I eagerly await our new alien Pr0n channels.
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What if the housing near your work is a crappy city slum and you care about where your children grow up. I choose to commute 25 miles so I can own a 5 acre place with out crime. But then every area is different, I live near oklahoma city in oklahoma and you would probably not believe me when I say you can buy a 2000 Sqft home on 5 acres of land for less than $100k. And yesterday I paid $1.68 for gas.
Yes, you have no clue. The car is not geared to go 150mph, it is geared to have a lower rpm(2000rpm) at a normal speed (70mph) to achieve better gas mileage. My 03 Saturn ION has a 5-speed automatic and a 7000 rpm redline but i would not dare drive it at 210mph (redline in 5th gear), but it can get 40 Mpg while going 70mph on the highway.
How did you know what I'm interested in? Are you my PVR? 8^)
My netflix turn around time has become how fast my PC can rip them to my hard drive. Then I watch them later when I have time 8^)
When I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall I had an American Ford Ranger I brought over with me.I thought it was fun driving on the left side of the road with a right hand drive vehicle. It was always alot of fun when I would drive to work on a small back country road a have to stop so a herd a sheep could flow around my truck. I also McVitties biscuits and dark warm thick guiness.
One of the things they are trying to achieve is a longer battery life for watching TV/DVD. A $150 pocket DVD player does not need a 2Ghz CPU to operate. It sounds like they are incorporating circuitry from a portable DVD player and completely bypassing the PC system portion. I wish my Dell Inspiron 5150 had this feature it gets quite hot watching DVDs and only has battery life for 2 hours.
The Gameboy Advance has backward compatibility with all old Gameboy and Gameboy Color cartridges. It helped me transition from the old to the new. I sold my old Playstation and Gameboy color for store credit at Game-Exchange. Then went and bought a new PS2 and GBA and could still use my old games. Nintendo thinks it is important, the Gameboy DS will have two cartridge slots for compatibility all the way back to 1988 version of Tetris(which helped launch the Gameboy)
Maybe Micro$oft is trying to prevent a similar upgrade chain?
Yay for me! You people have more spare time than I do 8^)
and yes Yay is a real word.
I believe in the possibility of god.
But not in the religions man has created to govern man in gods name.
They do. The Palm Zire 21 is sold at Wal-Mart in a blister pack for $80 It has all the functionality of a old Palm 5. But that also brings up another point. I know alot of people at work that still use Palm 5 & 7s. They were built to last and so the market for replacements is slow. Alot of people are happy with older devices. I sold a friend my old Palm 3x because my son no longer wanted it after I gave him my old Paml M105. My current Palm is the Tungsten E ($180) and it does everything I need it to. I do also have a new Dell Inspiron 5150 gaming laptop, at 9Lbs it does not fit in my pocket the way a Palm does 8^)
I live out in the sticks so I all ready had several DishTV recievers. For $99 bucks they came out and installed a 120Gb DVR with built in Sat tuner. If there are shows I want to keep from I just re-record to my old All-in-wonder card.
Why not use Bluetooth instead of a cable. Your pocket harddrive Ipod could then stream video and audio to it or pair of sunglasses. Cool Stuff
I bought a Panasonic 3DO at babbages for $40. Of course that was in 97 long after they had been cancelled. It was probably the first game system that had built in memory ROM for saved games and a fan to cool it.
Still have it hooked in my game room. It sits next to the NES and Atari 2600. I never could find a VCD/MPEG cartridge for it.
Just wait until we start letting Joe Six-pack refuel his hydrogen powered fuel cell pickup truck while smoking and yakking on his cell phone. BOOM!!
Seriously, through risk mitigation almost anything can be made safe.
A good place to make and run solar cells would be good old Luna Firma. Check out this report. Lunar Solar Power
My dad just bought a Grand Wega HDTV that came with a small Sony 2-MgPxl camera. Both the tv and the camera use memory stick so you can do a slide show on the TV. Some of his memory cards are made by companies other than Sony. They also bought a HP scanner/printer/fax that has a built in memory card reader so my mom can print out pics without a PC. They also use a AOL TV box for e-mail and web surfing. AOL TV box runs Qnx. They also bought a small stand-alone CD burner that also has memory card slots. The PC seems to be less necessary for the computer-declined average consumer.
Their house is a Micro$oft free zone.
And I'm sure there aren't any democrats out there that have not accepted campaign contributions from oil companies.
The most widely used flying command and control platform is the AWACS designed by IBM and Boeing back in the 70s. The USAF,NATO,JDF, and saudi's are all based on the same dual IBM 360 platform (named 4-pi). These mainframes all have been upgraded in memory and converted from tape drives to hard drives. We still develope the software in JOVIAL and assembler.Info
This COBY 7" DVD player with built in screen is more compact than the flip up screen models, it looks like a tablet. It plays Audio CDs, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD=R, DVD+RW, and MP3 or JPEG files recorded to CD-R/CD-RW discs. It also comes with a large set of accesories for $399. I bought this for my kids for xmas to watch on road trips.