How is sending mp3's over IM threatening to bring the internet to it's knees? If people didn't send them over IM they'd get them other ways, do IM protocals differ that much from standard web browsing and ftping that more bandwidth is used or something? Besides the plurity of aol users use aol's network, not the internet.
One thing which I think would desparately help PC architecure is to standardize PCI card sizes
There actually is a standard for pci cards.. they come in 1/4 , 1/2, and full length. What you keep referring to as height is actually width, (I've never need a pci card more than 1 inch or so high except those video cards with massive heatsinks and those are generally aftermarket anyway..) and that is standardized in so much as that they never go bigger than the standards but many companies make them smaller.. why make a winmodem be 4 inches wide when they only need 2 inches.. they save money by only making it as big as they need and they increase airflow in your case.. if you stick a winmodem between your video card and your soundcard and cant manage to grab it to remove it, then thats really your fault for putting it there.
You can plug and unplug a standard monitor connector too, just don't turn the thumb screws. I almost never screw mine in due to changing the display to other computers too often. Unpluging and pluging a standard monitor connector is actually easier than pluging and unpluging usb due to the fact that the connector is shaped specificially and that its big enough that you can actually get a grasp on it... unlike usb where you have to plug it halfway in to figure out that you need to flip it over..
This is actually a great idea, all complaints about mtv's value added advertising aside. If I had some VC I would consider making a similar computer and selling it around campus. A dvd, mp3, digital music, video, game playing, media center designed to be easy to use and able to mesh well with other computer or with audio/video setups.
Surf the web, watch dvds, listen to cds,mp3s,etc all in one... great idea. Maybe they should consider building in gamecube technology too.. then they could appeal to jsut about everyone and everyones needs.
The only real problem I can see with these is the video.. its really subpar for a modern computer.. You can use totally uptodate everything else but they expect you to settle for mediocre graphics..
I know several people I'd recommend these to if they had decent onboard video or if they had a good way to update the video.
Really these would be great if you could throw a really good soundcard and a really good video card in them.. It would be like a do it yourself game cube.. Image being able to lug something that small to a lan party instead of a huge tower.
whats with everyone bashing on yahoo for doing what the porn industry has been doing for years.. I hate it when I'm looking at porn and the next thing I know I'm hit with ads for more porns sites instead of the tasty jpgs the thumbnails lead me to believe I'd encounter..
I love the fact that we're always talking about the what if's. What if the Nazis would have become nuclear before america. What if the axis powers would have won WWII. What if America hadn't gone to Vietnam.
After a war there will always be mistakes that happen or things that almost happened that could have changed events forever, but they didn't. It's interesting to note, but it's all history. Though an important part of history we all know what happened after WWII (Allied Powers Won).
lots of distro's ship with non-Free stuff.. debian is about the only one that makes it hard to get non-Free stuff.. and its relatively easy to change your apt get info to allow you to get non-Free stuff..
slightly OT, but I imagine if you've used photoshop much for anything other than simple image editing or cropping you wouldn't be putting paint shop pro in the same arena.. paint shop pro is a great for simple to intermediate image work, but doesn't hold a candle to the newer versions of photoshop..
Who's to say they "screwed up" by releasing the review early? It's still up.. I'm sure if Apple hadn't wanted a public review of it by Time then they wouldn't have asked them to check it out and write a story on it.
is it just me or was the Q autopsy kinda lame.. i was hoping from something more than heres what it looks like if you open part of, now we are going to play games on it..
It is interesting how it switches modes instead of the gamecube recognizing that the dvd is not a game and automatically popping up a cool menu much like other systems do when you put in an audio cd..
OK. Under DOS, when the CapsLock light is on on the keyboard, pressing an alphabetic key produces an upper-case letter. When the CapsLock light is off on the keyboard, pressing an alphabetic key produces a lower-case letter. Windows 2000 inconsistently reverses that behavior.
livejournal.com used to do this, atnt or someplace had a webapp that will make a graph if you pass it a list of the friends and friends of info, i wish i could remember the link to the site it was cool.. but they would only map so many relationships because it required massive server power to do it or something..
i wish i knew why occaisionally comments posted on one story end up landing attached to the next one.. it makes it many insiteful comments get modded to offtopic or troll because/. stuck them someplace else than where they were posted..
With every new update of slashcode, I see slashdot evolving from a news for nerds site into a weblog similar to livejournal.com or Blogger.. What's next? Personalized user icons?
That only really applies to like 3 things, the recycle bin, my documents, and my computer and thats because they are really mapped to some other folders depending what user you are logged in as.. and you can change those using tweakui.. altho there is no reason to unless you want my documents to be on some drive other than the windows drive..
Can someone please explain to me why if Hurd was being worked on way back in the day before linux came out that it is just now getting almost close to kinda being useable?
Yeh Hurd is great.. unless you want sound or partitions large enough to actually install anything.. Even ms-dos could handle sound and greater than 1 gig partitions..
I think I'll stick with debian/linux and wait for Hurd to get a little bit more mature
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How is sending mp3's over IM threatening to bring the internet to it's knees? If people didn't send them over IM they'd get them other ways, do IM protocals differ that much from standard web browsing and ftping that more bandwidth is used or something? Besides the plurity of aol users use aol's network, not the internet.
One thing which I think would desparately help PC architecure is to standardize PCI card sizes
There actually is a standard for pci cards.. they come in 1/4 , 1/2, and full length. What you keep referring to as height is actually width, (I've never need a pci card more than 1 inch or so high except those video cards with massive heatsinks and those are generally aftermarket anyway..) and that is standardized in so much as that they never go bigger than the standards but many companies make them smaller.. why make a winmodem be 4 inches wide when they only need 2 inches.. they save money by only making it as big as they need and they increase airflow in your case.. if you stick a winmodem between your video card and your soundcard and cant manage to grab it to remove it, then thats really your fault for putting it there.
You can plug and unplug a standard monitor connector too, just don't turn the thumb screws. I almost never screw mine in due to changing the display to other computers too often. Unpluging and pluging a standard monitor connector is actually easier than pluging and unpluging usb due to the fact that the connector is shaped specificially and that its big enough that you can actually get a grasp on it... unlike usb where you have to plug it halfway in to figure out that you need to flip it over..
This is actually a great idea, all complaints about mtv's value added advertising aside. If I had some VC I would consider making a similar computer and selling it around campus. A dvd, mp3, digital music, video, game playing, media center designed to be easy to use and able to mesh well with other computer or with audio/video setups.
Surf the web, watch dvds, listen to cds,mp3s,etc all in one... great idea. Maybe they should consider building in gamecube technology too.. then they could appeal to jsut about everyone and everyones needs.
The only real problem I can see with these is the video.. its really subpar for a modern computer.. You can use totally uptodate everything else but they expect you to settle for mediocre graphics..
I know several people I'd recommend these to if they had decent onboard video or if they had a good way to update the video.
Really these would be great if you could throw a really good soundcard and a really good video card in them.. It would be like a do it yourself game cube.. Image being able to lug something that small to a lan party instead of a huge tower.
whats with everyone bashing on yahoo for doing what the porn industry has been doing for years.. I hate it when I'm looking at porn and the next thing I know I'm hit with ads for more porns sites instead of the tasty jpgs the thumbnails lead me to believe I'd encounter..
After a war there will always be mistakes that happen or things that almost happened that could have changed events forever, but they didn't. It's interesting to note, but it's all history. Though an important part of history we all know what happened after WWII (Allied Powers Won).
Leave it at that.
lots of distro's ship with non-Free stuff.. debian is about the only one that makes it hard to get non-Free stuff.. and its relatively easy to change your apt get info to allow you to get non-Free stuff..
yeh I can't see how someone could sue over the word crayon, its a generic word in English and many other languages
slightly OT, but I imagine if you've used photoshop much for anything other than simple image editing or cropping you wouldn't be putting paint shop pro in the same arena.. paint shop pro is a great for simple to intermediate image work, but doesn't hold a candle to the newer versions of photoshop..
I wonder if the e-villa's and various other IA's are production level equipment or if they have cool stuff on them..
Hopefully someone will buy a couple of the desktop pc's and find out that they have tons of sourcecode to BeOS.. hehe.. I wish..
Who's to say they "screwed up" by releasing the review early? It's still up.. I'm sure if Apple hadn't wanted a public review of it by Time then they wouldn't have asked them to check it out and write a story on it.
is it just me or was the Q autopsy kinda lame.. i was hoping from something more than heres what it looks like if you open part of, now we are going to play games on it..
It is interesting how it switches modes instead of the gamecube recognizing that the dvd is not a game and automatically popping up a cool menu much like other systems do when you put in an audio cd..
OK. Under DOS, when the CapsLock light is on on the keyboard, pressing an alphabetic key produces an upper-case letter. When the CapsLock light is off on the keyboard, pressing an alphabetic key produces a lower-case letter. Windows 2000 inconsistently reverses that behavior.
you go to hell for lying.. and spreading FUD..
livejournal.com used to do this, atnt or someplace had a webapp that will make a graph if you pass it a list of the friends and friends of info, i wish i could remember the link to the site it was cool.. but they would only map so many relationships because it required massive server power to do it or something..
i wish i knew why occaisionally comments posted on one story end up landing attached to the next one.. it makes it many insiteful comments get modded to offtopic or troll because /. stuck them someplace else than where they were posted..
With every new update of slashcode, I see slashdot evolving from a news for nerds site into a weblog similar to livejournal.com or Blogger.. What's next? Personalized user icons?
is the standard base for bsd systems called the bsd? i know unix folks are fond of those crazy recursive acronyms..
you obviously don't understand the problem described so don't try to help..
That only really applies to like 3 things, the recycle bin, my documents, and my computer and thats because they are really mapped to some other folders depending what user you are logged in as .. and you can change those using tweakui.. altho there is no reason to unless you want my documents to be on some drive other than the windows drive..
just dont try to get php to work correctly..
excellent summary.. id mod ya up if i had the points..
excellent summary.. id mod ya up if I could..
Can someone please explain to me why if Hurd was being worked on way back in the day before linux came out that it is just now getting almost close to kinda being useable?
Yeh Hurd is great.. unless you want sound or partitions large enough to actually install anything.. Even ms-dos could handle sound and greater than 1 gig partitions..
I think I'll stick with debian/linux and wait for Hurd to get a little bit more mature