It's irrelevant what a Cray is for (or how poorly the company is doing). I never said that any consumer-types could afford it, I said that the only folks who would slobber over this sort of thing are the types of guys who go out and get bigger drives every 4 months.
Everything will get bigger/faster/smarter... This is nothing new.
Does this mean I can change the end of the recent "Planet of the Apes" so it makes sense and doesn't suck? I'll add my own commentary too -- anything is better than the sham that Tim Burton slapped together on that disk.
You people are all the same. You'll talk about boycotting and how bad the evil empire is, but in reality you'll be the ones waiting in line all night to see the movie opening day.
Sounds like you don't have a lot of company over on a regular basis. Last thing I want is a cabling nightmare between the computer and the TV, or dinking with the computer when I have friends over for a movie...
You do have friends, don't you?
And I can't believe you find those $20 DVD players to be acceptable. It'll vibrate itself apart in a matter of months.
As sad as this sounds, I know at least two people who make their purchasing decisions on the web-behaviour of vendors. Some people just wont shop from a specific company if they're annoyed by them, be it spam mail, pop-up ads, a font they dont like...no joke.
And it only runs about $80.
It's pretty much the same deal since you have to have the receiver and whatever you're snarfing the mp3s from in unobstructed view from one other.
The whole Slim Devices web site seems kind of chincy anyway. But, at least they dont throw pop-under ads at you...
If this was 'around january', wouldn't the winter season already be upon you, not just approaching?
As far as sprint's quality goes at the consumer level, I wouldnt know since I live in VerizonLand, but they've always been good at the enterprise level. We had a great experience with a bundle of sprint T1s until politics forced me to drop them for AT&T. I guess I'm biased because our sprint account rep was this hottie blonde ("You want to set up a 3 hour meeting to talk about SLAs? certainly!"), and the AT&T guy that replaced her was a speed-induced ex-car salesman who laughed through his nose.
So I wouldn't dog them too hard -- Sprint for the business and Sprint for the consumer are two very different worlds.
And I love how un-employed techies will, instead of lowering their standards temporarily for an income, will just sit on their asses on the net and bitch about their crappy life.
They don't have the balls to get creative and find work - instead they just sit in the basement and scrape for moral support on Slashdot. You could have an income, but you gotta have your dignity and your screwed up priorities. You gotta have your precious bandwidth. You gotta have all your hardware so you can game all night and forget about the reality. I don't feel sorry for people like you one bit.
"I found out about it on slash, went to the fileplanet link (me and 5 buddies share 1 account FSCK you fileplanet) and read War and Peace while it downloaded."
It's not their fault that you're a cheapskate. How about ponying up the cash so download sites like this can stay in business? It's pretty frigging sad that someone like you will throw a whole bunch of cash into their PC, but you can't support sites like this to feed your gaming habit.
How about putting that blunt down, move out of mom's basement and getting a job?
It's late 2001. The fsck=fuck joke was funny in the early 90's, and while you might crack yourself up posting it over and over on slashdot, the rest of us are wincing whenever we have to see that tired old cliche again.
Fsck=fuck has gone the way of "wax on, wax off", "where's the beef?" and "whaszzzuupp!!".
Spare us the pain. Pick a new joke. Thank you for your time.
Well, it depends. If you call premier and get them to admit there's a problem, you usually end up talking to a developer and the patch process starts right there. Then you get the hotfix when it's released to the rest of the world. When MCS is on-site, that process is a little faster.
"Service packs" are just a compilation of all the hotfixes that were created from customers like us calling in and complaining. So No, we dont have to wait until SP1 or SP2 or whatever gets released. That would suicide, dont you think?
It's a mixed bag, but for the most part there's 100% support of 100% of the OS, and stuff that breaks gets fixed.
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It's irrelevant what a Cray is for (or how poorly the company is doing). I never said that any consumer-types could afford it, I said that the only folks who would slobber over this sort of thing are the types of guys who go out and get bigger drives every 4 months.
Everything will get bigger/faster/smarter... This is nothing new.
...and in a year, they'll have doubled the storage and/or speed.
Solid State is nothing new.
Storage capacity will keep getting larger.
Storage access speed will always get faster.
The day we'll be able to interface it straight into our brains... THAT will be something new.
Is this really news, besides to the greaseball technophiles who always have to have the latest and greatest the second it gets released?
~dlb
Does this mean I can change the end of the recent "Planet of the Apes" so it makes sense and doesn't suck? I'll add my own commentary too -- anything is better than the sham that Tim Burton slapped together on that disk.
~dlb
Nice Denis Leary ripoff...
"-- botsex is {grep;touch;strip;unzip;head;mount} /dev/girl -t {wet;fsck;fsck;yes;yes;yes;umount} {/dev/girl;zip;sleep}"
What is that, your rape script? Sounds like your molestation experiences are becoming an integral part of your life.
While I can't blame apple for canning him, I think their method was a bit sketchy and aloof.
On the other hand, welcome to corporate America, kiddo. Life sucks, wear a helmet.
You people are all the same.
You'll talk about boycotting and how bad the evil empire is, but in reality you'll be the ones waiting in line all night to see the movie opening day.
You aren't fooling anybody.
~db
It would've been much funnier had it said "the second best thing to do at 4:20 in the morning..."
Sounds like you don't have a lot of company over on a regular basis.
Last thing I want is a cabling nightmare between the computer and the TV, or dinking with the computer when I have friends over for a movie...
You do have friends, don't you?
And I can't believe you find those $20 DVD players to be acceptable. It'll vibrate itself apart in a matter of months.
Usenet died the second the unwashed masses of AOL was unleashed unto the Internet.
Please read this:
http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
for correct use of the apostrophe.
~dlb
Solaris is free to run on machiens with up to 8 processors, even in a commercial environment.
It's the hardware there they stick you.
~dlb
Oh, you're right -- I think I confused the IR of the REMOTE CONTROL with the core product. Silly me.
And technically, ethernet can only go through walls if Layer 1 is able to go through walls.
Would you really want to shell out $250 for something as delicate as that? Look how exposed the thing is!!
As sad as this sounds, I know at least two people who make their purchasing decisions on the web-behaviour of vendors. Some people just wont shop from a specific company if they're annoyed by them, be it spam mail, pop-up ads, a font they dont like...no joke.
~dlb
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_ak11a.htm
And it only runs about $80.
It's pretty much the same deal since you have to have the receiver and whatever you're snarfing the mp3s from in unobstructed view from one other.
The whole Slim Devices web site seems kind of chincy anyway. But, at least they dont throw pop-under ads at you...
~dlb
If this was 'around january', wouldn't the winter season already be upon you, not just approaching?
As far as sprint's quality goes at the consumer level, I wouldnt know since I live in VerizonLand, but they've always been good at the enterprise level. We had a great experience with a bundle of sprint T1s until politics forced me to drop them for AT&T. I guess I'm biased because our sprint account rep was this hottie blonde ("You want to set up a 3 hour meeting to talk about SLAs? certainly!"), and the AT&T guy that replaced her was a speed-induced ex-car salesman who laughed through his nose.
So I wouldn't dog them too hard -- Sprint for the business and Sprint for the consumer are two very different worlds.
We should get these for a few of our developers.
...would certainly cut down on the B.O.
It would probably be easier to convince them to wear these to work than to use soap and shampoo on a regular basis.
~dlb
That's "Mr Employed Llama, Sir!" to you.
And I love how un-employed techies will, instead of lowering their standards temporarily for an income, will just sit on their asses on the net and bitch about their crappy life.
They don't have the balls to get creative and find work - instead they just sit in the basement and scrape for moral support on Slashdot. You could have an income, but you gotta have your dignity and your screwed up priorities. You gotta have your precious bandwidth. You gotta have all your hardware so you can game all night and forget about the reality. I don't feel sorry for people like you one bit.
~dlb
"I found out about it on slash, went to the fileplanet link (me and 5 buddies share 1 account FSCK you fileplanet) and read War and Peace while it downloaded."
It's not their fault that you're a cheapskate. How about ponying up the cash so download sites like this can stay in business? It's pretty frigging sad that someone like you will throw a whole bunch of cash into their PC, but you can't support sites like this to feed your gaming habit.
How about putting that blunt down, move out of mom's basement and getting a job?
~dlb
Sounds like you don't travel much. Let us know when you find a "better country" to live in.
It's late 2001. The fsck=fuck joke was funny in the early 90's, and while you might crack yourself up posting it over and over on slashdot, the rest of us are wincing whenever we have to see that tired old cliche again.
Fsck=fuck has gone the way of "wax on, wax off", "where's the beef?" and "whaszzzuupp!!".
Spare us the pain. Pick a new joke. Thank you for your time.
~dlb
Hey, Costco is the same way... except they only carry the most popular games, and they're usually FAR cheaper than EB.
...and you dont even have to have the receipt if they still have the game in stock.
~dlb
No, what you meant to say is "What he did should be legal if the DMCA is ruled to be unconstitutional"
The DMCA isn't unconstitutional just because someone posted a webpage quoting slashdot. Like you said, it'll take a trial to establish this.
So, for the time being, the DMCA is constitutional, therefore what he did is still illegal.
Well, it depends. If you call premier and get them to admit there's a problem, you usually end up talking to a developer and the patch process starts right there. Then you get the hotfix when it's released to the rest of the world. When MCS is on-site, that process is a little faster.
"Service packs" are just a compilation of all the hotfixes that were created from customers like us calling in and complaining. So No, we dont have to wait until SP1 or SP2 or whatever gets released. That would suicide, dont you think?
It's a mixed bag, but for the most part there's 100% support of 100% of the OS, and stuff that breaks gets fixed.
~dlb
IBM's service contracts are probably the best in the business. Their support for linux is still sub-par.
Case in point - their linux thin clients.
Been there, done that.
~dlb