Now, I'm not going to argue that Comcast service doesn't suck liquid monkey ass, because, well, it does.
I hate big bad corporations as much as the next guy, but I've had comcast cable internet for around 3 years now and am very satisfied with the service. This is in Oregon, maybe in different areas of the country they're a lot worse. I've never had a "real" outage, eg where I had to call tech support to get things going again. Simply power cycling the cable modem and/or computer has always solved my problems. And 3 Mbps is plenty fast for me, and I download a lot of stuff.
My only complaint is how much they've jacked up the price since they bought it from AT&T. But all thigns considered, 55 dollars a month isnt too expensive for what I get. Although $26/month for 25Mbps in Japan certainly makes me envious.:)
If you've already created a steam account, then you dont need the card. That's one of the first things I did when I got my radeon 9600. When I created the account it asked for my key which gave me access to some certain number of games.
The key is stored in your account as far as I know. So as soon as HL2 is released you should be able to play it automatically (fingers crossed)
[Whois information is made public in order] to provide contact info for complaints. A domain name is governed by similar rules to a business. If you want to operate (the domain) in public, you need to make public your contact info.
That's just silly though. I would be MORE offended by someone calling me directly to complain about content on my web site than anyone could possibly be offended by what's on all of my web sites (and trust me, there is some very offensive material there, no, not porn). MAYBE a phone number, ok, but no one needs my personal address. If someone was offended enough, they could hunt me down and kill me. That's kinda scary
I'd probably rather have a person file a complain with whatever govt. entity would deal with such a thing. People get offended by the stupidest shit these days, I think the govt. would put the smack down and tell them to shut the fuck up, unless it was actualyl legitimately offensive, which you know 99% percent of the time it wouldn't be.
Luckily all my domains were registered several years ago when I lived in another city. You think I'm going to take the time to update the whois information? HA. Fuck that.
For that matter, phone numbers are the same way. By default, your number, name, and address are public info. One must pay extra to get an unlisted number.
By default, yes they are, that doesnt make the default a good thing though, does it? I used to have Qwest, who we've all heard wonderful things about, they charge 75 cents per month for an unlisted number. They say it "costs them extra money" to not include your name/number in the phone book. Yah right, bastards, it takes the click of a mouse to check that box that says "Dont include in phonebook" and it's done.
Too bad their "hugely improved" interface doesn't work with Opera, Links, Dillo, older versions of Mozilla, and countless other browsers.
That's true. One of the big problems these days is there's only so much you can do with plain jane HTML. Gmail's interface "experience" depends heavily on javascript. And they've done a good job of trying to support as many modern browsers as possible. Mozilla, Firefox, IE, and Safari all work flawlessly. And those are the main browsers on the "main three" operating systems: Windows (IE), Mac (Safari), and Linux (Mozilla/Firefox). This probably accounts for 98-99% of all users out there. That's pretty damn good if you ask me.
I haven touched Opera since the 6.0 days, one hte reasons I stopped using it was because their javascript support was horrible. Personally I dont like web sites that depend on javascript, however Gmail is really the first one where I can understand the use of it. It makes it feel much more like an actual application on your desktop as opposed to the standard webmail interface. A lot of sites that depend heavily on javascript are dependent on it in a stupid way, eg 99% of them could get by without it. With Gmail I feel differently however.
If they wanted to support all browsers, including old outdated ones and ones that didnt support javascript well or at all, it would have come at a huge cost to the interface experience. It would just be another yahoo or hotmail account. And if that was the case, the only difference between gmail and the others would have been their storage size, which now most of the others have matched or exceeded, so there would be no advantage at all. Which would have made Gmail totally pointless.
Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
As another posted pointed out (and gave a link), that's all urban legend.
Say you go to buy a dining room furniture set (table, chairs, etc). You notice the company's name is "Notable".
Do you think to yourself, "No table? I aint buying that!" or do you just see the word "Notable" and not notice anything and buy the set. Anyone who would do the former would be a moron in my eyes. It may be funny if oyu notice it later on, but if it influences your buying decision, that's just stupid.:)
I noticed this too and sent a note to cnn money about an hour ago and it appears they changed the text. It now reads:
"Real's Harmony creates an issue for Apple because previously iPod only accepted legally-downloaded songs from its own music store iTunes. Those legally-downloaded songs are encrypted, but iPod also plays un-encrypted music files that may have been illegally downloaded."
So it's still kind of oddly worded and not totally accurate (the ONLY thing it played in the beginning was unrestricted mp3's), but at least now it mentions that it plays unrestricted files as well.
I enjoyed the books, and I enjoyed the movies. But the trilogy as a whole, in no way shape or form do I think it's close to the best book or movie ever made.
I *loved* Fellowship of the ring, both in book and in movie form. But I feel very differently about the two towers and the return of the king. The problem with these is that SO MUCH TIME is taken up by the huge ass wars. Now, I understand it wouldn't make much sense to be like "There was this huge war with hundreds of thousands of people and lots of them died. Ok, moving on...." but I was just bored to tears. At least in the movie the war was pretty to look at but my dear Lord, these wars took hundreds of pages in the books and are possibly some of the most boring passages I have ever laid eyes on.
There are lots of great parts about the second and third installments but overall were just OK to me.
There have been few books I have read more than once and LOTR is one of them, in fact, I found it completely uninteresting and only made it 3/4 of the way through. It's just not my type of book.
Ok, so.... there are only a few books you have read more than once. LOTR is one of the books you have read more than once. But you found it completely uninteresting and only made it 3/4 of the way through because it's not your type of book.
I've never seen a computer that doesnt have 1/8 out, and I've never seen a stereo that doesnt have RCA in (except for stereos that dont have input at all). Now that's not to say they don't exist, people with very high end equipment might not have one or the other, but....
1/8 to RCA is by far the most common so thats what they should include. For the maybe 10% of the population that has optical only or a different type of input, they can supply their own cable. But a 1/8 to RCA would easily fit the bill for 90% of people, I'd wager.
I never said it was an optimal solution:) But it works fine for me beacuse I have a throw-rug that the cable goes under so it's basically impossible to trip over it. I just added that in to say that I'm not too interested in this product because I already have the capability to play my mp3's on my stereo. At some point, when I join the 21st century and get some wireless action going on, this may be something I'll look at.
I understand what you're saying, but remember that this product is coming from Apple, not HP or Epson. Apple is typically the type of company that likes to make things as easy as possible for the end user, but not in an insulting way or anything. I would expect them to include everything you need to make a product work with all functionality out of the box.
I think this is a lot different than a printer not coming with a USB cable. Although not including a USB cable is a pretty crappy thing as well these days, since I'd guess >90% of end users have USB ports on their computers.
My setup isnt anything special... its a 25 foot 1/8" mini going out of my computer, which becomes an RCA Y cable (red/white) that plugs directly into my stereo's auxilary input. I've never had interference so I have no idea what would be causing that??? Although the other person above me posted an idea about the circuits... maybe give that a try? Sorry:)
That's like dodging points for a graphics card w/o a speaker.
Actually, it's not like that at all. See, one of the "big deals" of this product is that you can play your computer audio files on your stereo with little fuss. Not just your computer, but any computer on your network that has itunes installed.
Not including an audio cable is stupid, in my book, because one of the biggest selling points of the product is NOT FUNCTIONAL without additional equipment. Sure, it's a cheap cable (3-5 bucks most places), but I imagine there are a number of people who don't have these handy. And if Apple bought these in bulk (which they obviously would), it would probably cost them 25 cents at the most to include this cable in the box.
For me, playing mp3's or aac on my stereo isnt such a big deal, beacuse I've been doing it for years with a 25 foot audio cable going direct from my comp to my stereo. But for many, their stereos aren't so close to their computers. This product is a cool idea, but like I said, the (probaby) biggest selling point isnt functional without additional equipment. That's just lame.:P
I don't think Id is planning for everyone to run out and buy Doom III now. I think he's releasing it as a technology demo (as Quake III was) and then will market it to gaming companies as the ultimate way to create their games.
Are you on crack? Of course they want everyone to go out and buy doom 3, and trust me, it will happen.
Just because they license their engine out doesn't mean the original game they release with said engine is just a "technology demo". They're still trying to make an awesome game, quake 3 was by far my favorite of all the quakes. Doom 3 should be a killer one-player experience, which was their goal. Seriously, it looks scary as hell.
Now of course their ultimate goal, financially, as a company, is to license the engine and make serious bucks from it. And they deserve to, hell they spent 4+ years coding the damn thing. But that's not "the real secret". They want to release a killer game, why not license out the engine on the side, if it kicks ass and they can make tons of money off it?
Since the lead time on new games is at least a year, "common" computing should pretty much catch up in the interim.
It's WAY more than a year, even if the engine and dev tools are already completely done for you.
You of course are forgetting to realize that many of us are FORCED to use Windows and IE in our work environments. And how could one let the day go by without catching up on the latest slashdot news at least several times during your 8 hours of hell?:)
I havent seen any posts that took into account that (it sounds like anyways) he needs to store this data permanently. He has a 1.6TB cluster, but if he has 1TB of data per month, that's not doing him good.
Normally I would recommend a RAID, but at that store capacity and taking into account you need to keep your data permanently, that's not going to work as you will continuously need to be adding more disks. That would be a minimum of 4 new hard drives per month (assuming they make 500GB ones, I think they do, if its less than change that to 6 HD's/month).
Many posts have pointed out tape backup as one of several solutions, however with your requirements I dont see how you could do anything else, if your time is worth anything. The other option is basically DVD's but that'd be 200 DVD's a month you'd have to burn. Fun fun...
Look to some of the other posts for good recommendations on particular tape drives to look for and their costs, there's plenty of them here.:)
He wasnt talking about the icons in the tray, he was talking about the whole *taskbar* all together. I agree that hiding tray icons is a good thing, and I like that XP does it automatically for ones you dont use very often.
I used to have the taskbar hidden as well but the grandparent had a good point, that you have to move the mouse to show it, and then find what you want, and then click it. When it's always visible, you can see what you want before you even start moving the mouse. It is a lot quicker in my opinion. If you have low screen resolution, however, it's a good compromise to hide it.
Regarding task bar grouping, I think it's useless as well. It pisses me off a lot, because you have to do two clicks to re-open a window rather than one. It's one of the first things I always turn off with a fresh install of XP. It's still shitty that MS patented this, but at the same time, it's such a shitty feature that I dont care.:)
I have a netgear wireless router that does G and B. It can handle both at the same time just fine, and does not drop the G down to B speeds if there is a B client.:)
Maybe some routers do this, honestly I wouldnt be surprised, but I'm just letting you know that mine doesn't.
I'm about 3 months into a ~5-6 month project in PHP. I had never done anything nearly as complicated as I am now, but I have done a lot of PHP programming. Mainly things that took 2 weeks or less.
I bought this book near the beginning of my current adventure and I learned a lot from it. It's not the typical PHP book that just mirrors the php doc web site. There's a lot of great information in there. I'm still on PHP4 but that doesnt matter, the concepts still apply.
Slashdot Mirror
Hence the key words, "ever detected". :)
Now, I'm not going to argue that Comcast service doesn't suck liquid monkey ass, because, well, it does.
:)
I hate big bad corporations as much as the next guy, but I've had comcast cable internet for around 3 years now and am very satisfied with the service. This is in Oregon, maybe in different areas of the country they're a lot worse. I've never had a "real" outage, eg where I had to call tech support to get things going again. Simply power cycling the cable modem and/or computer has always solved my problems. And 3 Mbps is plenty fast for me, and I download a lot of stuff.
My only complaint is how much they've jacked up the price since they bought it from AT&T. But all thigns considered, 55 dollars a month isnt too expensive for what I get. Although $26/month for 25Mbps in Japan certainly makes me envious.
If you've already created a steam account, then you dont need the card. That's one of the first things I did when I got my radeon 9600. When I created the account it asked for my key which gave me access to some certain number of games.
The key is stored in your account as far as I know. So as soon as HL2 is released you should be able to play it automatically (fingers crossed)
[Whois information is made public in order] to provide contact info for complaints. A domain name is governed by similar rules to a business. If you want to operate (the domain) in public, you need to make public your contact info.
That's just silly though. I would be MORE offended by someone calling me directly to complain about content on my web site than anyone could possibly be offended by what's on all of my web sites (and trust me, there is some very offensive material there, no, not porn). MAYBE a phone number, ok, but no one needs my personal address. If someone was offended enough, they could hunt me down and kill me. That's kinda scary
I'd probably rather have a person file a complain with whatever govt. entity would deal with such a thing. People get offended by the stupidest shit these days, I think the govt. would put the smack down and tell them to shut the fuck up, unless it was actualyl legitimately offensive, which you know 99% percent of the time it wouldn't be.
Luckily all my domains were registered several years ago when I lived in another city. You think I'm going to take the time to update the whois information? HA. Fuck that.
For that matter, phone numbers are the same way. By default, your number, name, and address are public info. One must pay extra to get an unlisted number.
By default, yes they are, that doesnt make the default a good thing though, does it? I used to have Qwest, who we've all heard wonderful things about, they charge 75 cents per month for an unlisted number. They say it "costs them extra money" to not include your name/number in the phone book. Yah right, bastards, it takes the click of a mouse to check that box that says "Dont include in phonebook" and it's done.
Too bad their "hugely improved" interface doesn't work with Opera, Links, Dillo, older versions of Mozilla, and countless other browsers.
That's true. One of the big problems these days is there's only so much you can do with plain jane HTML. Gmail's interface "experience" depends heavily on javascript. And they've done a good job of trying to support as many modern browsers as possible. Mozilla, Firefox, IE, and Safari all work flawlessly. And those are the main browsers on the "main three" operating systems: Windows (IE), Mac (Safari), and Linux (Mozilla/Firefox). This probably accounts for 98-99% of all users out there. That's pretty damn good if you ask me.
I haven touched Opera since the 6.0 days, one hte reasons I stopped using it was because their javascript support was horrible. Personally I dont like web sites that depend on javascript, however Gmail is really the first one where I can understand the use of it. It makes it feel much more like an actual application on your desktop as opposed to the standard webmail interface. A lot of sites that depend heavily on javascript are dependent on it in a stupid way, eg 99% of them could get by without it. With Gmail I feel differently however.
If they wanted to support all browsers, including old outdated ones and ones that didnt support javascript well or at all, it would have come at a huge cost to the interface experience. It would just be another yahoo or hotmail account. And if that was the case, the only difference between gmail and the others would have been their storage size, which now most of the others have matched or exceeded, so there would be no advantage at all. Which would have made Gmail totally pointless.
Nova wasn't selling in South America, until they realized that in some of the local languages the name means "won't go".
:)
As another posted pointed out (and gave a link), that's all urban legend.
Say you go to buy a dining room furniture set (table, chairs, etc). You notice the company's name is "Notable".
Do you think to yourself, "No table? I aint buying that!" or do you just see the word "Notable" and not notice anything and buy the set. Anyone who would do the former would be a moron in my eyes. It may be funny if oyu notice it later on, but if it influences your buying decision, that's just stupid.
your mom is a fat gay whore.
rofl.
I noticed this too and sent a note to cnn money about an hour ago and it appears they changed the text. It now reads:
"Real's Harmony creates an issue for Apple because previously iPod only accepted legally-downloaded songs from its own music store iTunes. Those legally-downloaded songs are encrypted, but iPod also plays un-encrypted music files that may have been illegally downloaded."
So it's still kind of oddly worded and not totally accurate (the ONLY thing it played in the beginning was unrestricted mp3's), but at least now it mentions that it plays unrestricted files as well.
I enjoyed the books, and I enjoyed the movies. But the trilogy as a whole, in no way shape or form do I think it's close to the best book or movie ever made.
I *loved* Fellowship of the ring, both in book and in movie form. But I feel very differently about the two towers and the return of the king. The problem with these is that SO MUCH TIME is taken up by the huge ass wars. Now, I understand it wouldn't make much sense to be like "There was this huge war with hundreds of thousands of people and lots of them died. Ok, moving on...." but I was just bored to tears. At least in the movie the war was pretty to look at but my dear Lord, these wars took hundreds of pages in the books and are possibly some of the most boring passages I have ever laid eyes on.
There are lots of great parts about the second and third installments but overall were just OK to me.
There have been few books I have read more than once and LOTR is one of them, in fact, I found it completely uninteresting and only made it 3/4 of the way through. It's just not my type of book.
:)
Ok, so.... there are only a few books you have read more than once. LOTR is one of the books you have read more than once. But you found it completely uninteresting and only made it 3/4 of the way through because it's not your type of book.
Come again?
Jesus man, go get high or laid or something. Might want to consider removing that stick from your ass also. :P
I've never seen a computer that doesnt have 1/8 out, and I've never seen a stereo that doesnt have RCA in (except for stereos that dont have input at all). Now that's not to say they don't exist, people with very high end equipment might not have one or the other, but....
1/8 to RCA is by far the most common so thats what they should include. For the maybe 10% of the population that has optical only or a different type of input, they can supply their own cable. But a 1/8 to RCA would easily fit the bill for 90% of people, I'd wager.
I never said it was an optimal solution :) But it works fine for me beacuse I have a throw-rug that the cable goes under so it's basically impossible to trip over it. I just added that in to say that I'm not too interested in this product because I already have the capability to play my mp3's on my stereo. At some point, when I join the 21st century and get some wireless action going on, this may be something I'll look at.
I understand what you're saying, but remember that this product is coming from Apple, not HP or Epson. Apple is typically the type of company that likes to make things as easy as possible for the end user, but not in an insulting way or anything. I would expect them to include everything you need to make a product work with all functionality out of the box.
I think this is a lot different than a printer not coming with a USB cable. Although not including a USB cable is a pretty crappy thing as well these days, since I'd guess >90% of end users have USB ports on their computers.
My setup isnt anything special... its a 25 foot 1/8" mini going out of my computer, which becomes an RCA Y cable (red/white) that plugs directly into my stereo's auxilary input. I've never had interference so I have no idea what would be causing that??? Although the other person above me posted an idea about the circuits... maybe give that a try? Sorry :)
That's like dodging points for a graphics card w/o a speaker.
:P
Actually, it's not like that at all. See, one of the "big deals" of this product is that you can play your computer audio files on your stereo with little fuss. Not just your computer, but any computer on your network that has itunes installed.
Not including an audio cable is stupid, in my book, because one of the biggest selling points of the product is NOT FUNCTIONAL without additional equipment. Sure, it's a cheap cable (3-5 bucks most places), but I imagine there are a number of people who don't have these handy. And if Apple bought these in bulk (which they obviously would), it would probably cost them 25 cents at the most to include this cable in the box.
For me, playing mp3's or aac on my stereo isnt such a big deal, beacuse I've been doing it for years with a 25 foot audio cable going direct from my comp to my stereo. But for many, their stereos aren't so close to their computers. This product is a cool idea, but like I said, the (probaby) biggest selling point isnt functional without additional equipment. That's just lame.
Gee, or maybe the big commercial companies actually PAID for a license to use it?
:P
Use your brain, it's there for a reason
The patent wasnt awarded to them until April 2003 according to the story. So it's only been about a year.
:p Just FYI
Not that I'm defending them or anything
I don't think Id is planning for everyone to run out and buy Doom III now. I think he's releasing it as a technology demo (as Quake III was) and then will market it to gaming companies as the ultimate way to create their games.
Are you on crack? Of course they want everyone to go out and buy doom 3, and trust me, it will happen.
Just because they license their engine out doesn't mean the original game they release with said engine is just a "technology demo". They're still trying to make an awesome game, quake 3 was by far my favorite of all the quakes. Doom 3 should be a killer one-player experience, which was their goal. Seriously, it looks scary as hell.
Now of course their ultimate goal, financially, as a company, is to license the engine and make serious bucks from it. And they deserve to, hell they spent 4+ years coding the damn thing. But that's not "the real secret". They want to release a killer game, why not license out the engine on the side, if it kicks ass and they can make tons of money off it?
Since the lead time on new games is at least a year, "common" computing should pretty much catch up in the interim.
It's WAY more than a year, even if the engine and dev tools are already completely done for you.
You of course are forgetting to realize that many of us are FORCED to use Windows and IE in our work environments. And how could one let the day go by without catching up on the latest slashdot news at least several times during your 8 hours of hell? :)
:)
PS - I'm posting this from work
It was a joke. :)
Did the sarcasm just fly right over your head??
Anyone who believes AOL 9.0 Optimized will make the internet 5 times faster, even just browsing, is crazy.
I havent seen any posts that took into account that (it sounds like anyways) he needs to store this data permanently. He has a 1.6TB cluster, but if he has 1TB of data per month, that's not doing him good.
:)
Normally I would recommend a RAID, but at that store capacity and taking into account you need to keep your data permanently, that's not going to work as you will continuously need to be adding more disks. That would be a minimum of 4 new hard drives per month (assuming they make 500GB ones, I think they do, if its less than change that to 6 HD's/month).
Many posts have pointed out tape backup as one of several solutions, however with your requirements I dont see how you could do anything else, if your time is worth anything. The other option is basically DVD's but that'd be 200 DVD's a month you'd have to burn. Fun fun...
Look to some of the other posts for good recommendations on particular tape drives to look for and their costs, there's plenty of them here.
He wasnt talking about the icons in the tray, he was talking about the whole *taskbar* all together. I agree that hiding tray icons is a good thing, and I like that XP does it automatically for ones you dont use very often.
:)
I used to have the taskbar hidden as well but the grandparent had a good point, that you have to move the mouse to show it, and then find what you want, and then click it. When it's always visible, you can see what you want before you even start moving the mouse. It is a lot quicker in my opinion. If you have low screen resolution, however, it's a good compromise to hide it.
Regarding task bar grouping, I think it's useless as well. It pisses me off a lot, because you have to do two clicks to re-open a window rather than one. It's one of the first things I always turn off with a fresh install of XP. It's still shitty that MS patented this, but at the same time, it's such a shitty feature that I dont care.
I have a netgear wireless router that does G and B. It can handle both at the same time just fine, and does not drop the G down to B speeds if there is a B client. :)
Maybe some routers do this, honestly I wouldnt be surprised, but I'm just letting you know that mine doesn't.
I'm about 3 months into a ~5-6 month project in PHP. I had never done anything nearly as complicated as I am now, but I have done a lot of PHP programming. Mainly things that took 2 weeks or less.
:)
I bought this book near the beginning of my current adventure and I learned a lot from it. It's not the typical PHP book that just mirrors the php doc web site. There's a lot of great information in there. I'm still on PHP4 but that doesnt matter, the concepts still apply.
Thumbs up!