The most interesting part of the pitstop website is the finding that Gator and Overture are linked. A lot of companies that would never knowingly do business with Gator no doubt have acocunts with Overture.
Overture needs to be called to task for this relationship.
The only way you can get a more recent version of the DVD player app for the PS2 is to use the disc that came bundled with the optional Sony-branded remote. Then you have to install it to a memory card. Remember, it's illegal for you to copy and distribute the disc, though it might not be illegal to install the software on a friend's memory card for him.
Also, I'm told that later models of the PS2 have support for extra media like DVD+R(W) playback, but my early model certainly doesn't.
I'm still waiting for Sony to explain how to add a hard drive in the hard drive bay; without a filesystem the PS2 won't see any drive. They have or had a Linux distro bundled with a hard drive, but that had a noncompatible filesystem on it so you couldn't use it for game storage.
Console vendors have a history of promising more than they can deliver. If Sony is already admitting to scaling back on the original PSX, I don't have faith that any promised add-ons or upgrades to firmware for it will actually materalize, especially since this is just an interim product.
First person to follow my (wagon) train of thought. Does this mean there's not much herd mentality here, or is everyone just keeping their opinions in rein?
Woah there, whats so hard with the way its setup now? pcmcia is a matter of plug and go, pci is a matter of modprobe if that.. theres nothing hard about wifi... its a nic with a wireless medium.. thats all.
You guys are not looking at the big picture, here. Adding this on board allows OEMs to specify a motherboard platform with this, and then buy the cards at cheaper prices than full implementations on cards would cost. It's just following the trend of AMR slots and onboard video, and, in the last couple of years, wired NICs.
Early hard drive and floppy controllers used to only be on cards, too.
I think it's silly how Intel is now embracing a trend to include features already provided by another market. Intel will probalby do this witout adding more than 20 employees and in turn drive about 10,000 people out of jobs due to their companies going out of business.
Oh, yes, it's Intel's fault if 20 of their employees can make a product better suited to the market than 10,000 other peoples' efforts.
By the same token, buses and trains and taxis have all taken jobs away from the good hard-working people with horse-drawn taxis. And we really should go back to rooms full of seamstresses making clothing by hand, like before those evil industrial looms were created. Oh, and the cotton for the clothes (synthetics put farmers out of work) should be picked by immigrant laborers.
It's not society's obligation to prop up inefficient methods of production; quite the contrary. There's a word us old-timers use sometimes. It's called "progress." Might want to study it.
Probably most crooks steal for quick money, so would probably be quick to roll over their loot to a fence or something.
On the other hand, there's been a lot of speculation that the rise in airport laptop thefts in particular is partially due to deliberate attempts at corporate espionage. Still, you'd think some contract hacker would be smart enough to keep the machine isolated.
If students want to download illegal content, they have the freedom to attain their own internet connection through some other means.
How does connecting to Kazaa equate to downloading illegal content? There's plenty of public domain (expired-copyright or free from creation) content on there, isn't there?
If the use of file sharing services is considered wrong just because they could be abused, they should cut people off for using HTTP, NNTP, POP3/IMAP/SMTP, IRC, FTP, and so on, because people might be planning terrorist attacks in yahoo groups, or trading child pornography in newsgroups, or doing drug deals, right? Or, even worse, sharing Metallica singles...
I also think it was a bit of self-effacing humor; his dreams of grandeur didn't quite work out.
Possibly so, but I just can't laugh at it, because it still feels like he wants us to feel sorry for him, and I know that his manueverings and demands were why it took him so long to get back. I'll just wait for Bill, or at least Milo, to come back.
Removable harddisk is faster but not cheaper than removable media.
Here in Texas this fall, Fry's was selling Maxtor 160s for $79, $89, and $99 after rebate, depending on the sale date. I bought one at each price point, for my DVArchive, so I could keep my ReplayTV empty.
Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on those 3 $40 rebates, even though the website claims they got them on September 19th, October 20th, and November 14th. But assuming Maxtor honors its promises, that makes my expenses about 56 cents a gigabyte using hard drives. However, even without the rebates, they'd be about 81 cents a gigabyte.
Best retail price I've seen here for DVD+R media, on the other hand, has been Office Depot running an ad today that they have 5 DVD+Rs (or -Rs) for $5, no limit or rebate mentioned. That makes DVD media significantly cheaper, at a little over 22 cents a gigabyte, if I use 4.5GB per disk.
I'll still use drives for speed of and ability to access large files - I've had some larger recordings from ReplayTV take up 9 GB or so each - but stuff that's really important to me, like family photos and financial data, will go on dual sets of burned DVD+R media, which I'll probably randomly check every 6 months or so. And not just because it's cheaper. More because of incidents like what just happened to me recently, where uninstalling crappy virus software I was playing with (Grisoft) ate my main DVArchive drive, and then immediately reinstalling an Nforce2 all-in-one driver in XP before rebooting made my OS drive nonbootable (though user data is still there, which I'm truly thankful for).
Unfriendly software as well as hardware can totally screw the saved data on a hard drive, while really only physical failure can strike down a write-once DVD, if it's been properly burned.
It's only alluded to in these articles, but Berkeley Breathed demanded that all the newspapers who carry the new strip give him a half-page slot. So we should be expecting great things, right?
I liked both of his other Bloom County series, but today's strip unfortunately underwhelms me completely.
I know I'm probably oversimplifying, but if you know the pattern at which your oven emmits the microwaves, it can't be too hard to figure out the pattern at which you can put the magnets. Am I missing something? Or is it simply because, as they mentioned, reducing microwave interferences is a huge market and "opensourcing" the method would stop that?
Maybe you're missing the fact that nobody really tried before, and THEY JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO THIS?
Have you found a replacement foil your tinfoil hat, yet? Because you know what microwaves will do to that.
The BSOD was actually part of the looped video clip. The loop was displayed on all of Texaco's pumps with display screens, across the entire US for several months.
Any speculation on how much Apple paid for that "ad"?
What's shocking about this article isn't that S. Korea will be having 100Mbs 7 years from now, it's the $80billion cost.
It's not weird at all, once you compare the existing infrastructures. Japan already has a major telecommunications investment built over decades, and just does incremental upgrades. In South Korea, there's many more places that don't have major infrastructure like that, probably.
Not to mention all the redundancy and hardening they probably want to do at the outset, to make it harder for the North Koreans to sabotage, etc.
Just to antagonize you some more, the first generation DVDs were often quite crappy, because of the primitive early codecs used in creating the video streams. I personally kept buying LDs until I was given a DVD-ROM drive back in 1999 or 2000.
They've worked out a solid candidate for a name (it's not official yet) that isn't quite as catchy as "Big Mac", but it also doesn't have any of the downsides.
They should call the building where it resides the Cider House, then they can talk about how it rules, and get Michael Caine to do the v/o for the documentary...
It was the comment on the virgins. I'm really getting sick and tired of people blowing that one single detail out of proportion. Do you really think a person commits acts like those just so they can get women in heaven? No, its a complicated issue, but people only want to hear about is sex nowadays.
By the same token, you shouldn't assume that only Islam rewards people with virgins in heaven, etc.
If they're all boys they're going to look at porn. Deal with it - did you raise them to respect women? Do you respect your wife? If this is the case it is mostly harmless... have the talk with them and let it be.
You're assuming it's straight porn. Will you be this understanding if your son starts looking at hotjocks.com? Let's hope so.
The thing is, demonizing "strangers" doesn't quite do the trick. Afterall, a police officer you've never met before is also a "stranger", but one who the kid should be running towards, not away from. Most "strangers" are actually good people that that they haven't met yet, but there are a few not-so-good people out there in the world too.
In fact, most abuse seems to come from parents or immediate family.
"Stranger Danger" is less than 1% of reported abuse.
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Imagine your character owning a discount body piercing shop in this game.
You could make a killing, charging a buccaneer.
The most interesting part of the pitstop website is the finding that Gator and Overture are linked. A lot of companies that would never knowingly do business with Gator no doubt have acocunts with Overture.
Overture needs to be called to task for this relationship.
The only way you can get a more recent version of the DVD player app for the PS2 is to use the disc that came bundled with the optional Sony-branded remote. Then you have to install it to a memory card. Remember, it's illegal for you to copy and distribute the disc, though it might not be illegal to install the software on a friend's memory card for him.
Also, I'm told that later models of the PS2 have support for extra media like DVD+R(W) playback, but my early model certainly doesn't.
I'm still waiting for Sony to explain how to add a hard drive in the hard drive bay; without a filesystem the PS2 won't see any drive. They have or had a Linux distro bundled with a hard drive, but that had a noncompatible filesystem on it so you couldn't use it for game storage.
Console vendors have a history of promising more than they can deliver. If Sony is already admitting to scaling back on the original PSX, I don't have faith that any promised add-ons or upgrades to firmware for it will actually materalize, especially since this is just an interim product.
Thanks to your informative linking, now I have both a new bookmark and a new sig.
*choking on my french fries :)*
First person to follow my (wagon) train of thought.
Does this mean there's not much herd mentality here, or is everyone just keeping their opinions in rein?
You guys are not looking at the big picture, here. Adding this on board allows OEMs to specify a motherboard platform with this, and then buy the cards at cheaper prices than full implementations on cards would cost. It's just following the trend of AMR slots and onboard video, and, in the last couple of years, wired NICs.
Early hard drive and floppy controllers used to only be on cards, too.
Oh, yes, it's Intel's fault if 20 of their employees can make a product better suited to the market than 10,000 other peoples' efforts.
By the same token, buses and trains and taxis have all taken jobs away from the good hard-working people with horse-drawn taxis. And we really should go back to rooms full of seamstresses making clothing by hand, like before those evil industrial looms were created. Oh, and the cotton for the clothes (synthetics put farmers out of work) should be picked by immigrant laborers.
It's not society's obligation to prop up inefficient methods of production; quite the contrary. There's a word us old-timers use sometimes. It's called "progress." Might want to study it.
Thanks for helping me avoid a goatse-like morning.
Probably most crooks steal for quick money, so would probably be quick to roll over their loot to a fence or something.
On the other hand, there's been a lot of speculation that the rise in airport laptop thefts in particular is partially due to deliberate attempts at corporate espionage. Still, you'd think some contract hacker would be smart enough to keep the machine isolated.
How often can you say that about a Slashdot article?
Not taking the first no for the final answer, and working a bit with the company, goes a long way towards fixing most issues.
How does connecting to Kazaa equate to downloading illegal content? There's plenty of public domain (expired-copyright or free from creation) content on there, isn't there?
If the use of file sharing services is considered wrong just because they could be abused, they should cut people off for using HTTP, NNTP, POP3/IMAP/SMTP, IRC, FTP, and so on, because people might be planning terrorist attacks in yahoo groups, or trading child pornography in newsgroups, or doing drug deals, right? Or, even worse, sharing Metallica singles...
Possibly so, but I just can't laugh at it, because it still feels like he wants us to feel sorry for him, and I know that his manueverings and demands were why it took him so long to get back. I'll just wait for Bill, or at least Milo, to come back.
Here in Texas this fall, Fry's was selling Maxtor 160s for $79, $89, and $99 after rebate, depending on the sale date. I bought one at each price point, for my DVArchive, so I could keep my ReplayTV empty.
Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on those 3 $40 rebates, even though the website claims they got them on September 19th, October 20th, and November 14th. But assuming Maxtor honors its promises, that makes my expenses about 56 cents a gigabyte using hard drives. However, even without the rebates, they'd be about 81 cents a gigabyte.
Best retail price I've seen here for DVD+R media, on the other hand, has been Office Depot running an ad today that they have 5 DVD+Rs (or -Rs) for $5, no limit or rebate mentioned. That makes DVD media significantly cheaper, at a little over 22 cents a gigabyte, if I use 4.5GB per disk.
I'll still use drives for speed of and ability to access large files - I've had some larger recordings from ReplayTV take up 9 GB or so each - but stuff that's really important to me, like family photos and financial data, will go on dual sets of burned DVD+R media, which I'll probably randomly check every 6 months or so. And not just because it's cheaper. More because of incidents like what just happened to me recently, where uninstalling crappy virus software I was playing with (Grisoft) ate my main DVArchive drive, and then immediately reinstalling an Nforce2 all-in-one driver in XP before rebooting made my OS drive nonbootable (though user data is still there, which I'm truly thankful for).
Unfriendly software as well as hardware can totally screw the saved data on a hard drive, while really only physical failure can strike down a write-once DVD, if it's been properly burned.
It's only alluded to in these articles, but Berkeley Breathed demanded that all the newspapers who carry the new strip give him a half-page slot. So we should be expecting great things, right?
I liked both of his other Bloom County series, but today's strip unfortunately underwhelms me completely.
Maybe you're missing the fact that nobody really tried before, and THEY JUST FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO THIS?
Have you found a replacement foil your tinfoil hat, yet? Because you know what microwaves will do to that.
I've also wondered why *BSD hasn't been used in a few of these devices.
Any speculation on how much Apple paid for that "ad"?
Heh.
It's not weird at all, once you compare the existing infrastructures. Japan already has a major telecommunications investment built over decades, and just does incremental upgrades. In South Korea, there's many more places that don't have major infrastructure like that, probably.
Not to mention all the redundancy and hardening they probably want to do at the outset, to make it harder for the North Koreans to sabotage, etc.
Just to antagonize you some more, the first generation DVDs were often quite crappy, because of the primitive early codecs used in creating the video streams. I personally kept buying LDs until I was given a DVD-ROM drive back in 1999 or 2000.
They should call the building where it resides the Cider House, then they can talk about how it rules, and get Michael Caine to do the v/o for the documentary...
By the same token, you shouldn't assume that only Islam rewards people with virgins in heaven, etc.
You're assuming it's straight porn. Will you be this understanding if your son starts looking at hotjocks.com? Let's hope so.
Learned it from his parents, I'm sure!
In fact, most abuse seems to come from parents or immediate family.
"Stranger Danger" is less than 1% of reported abuse.