Yeah but if you took the CGI out of Finding Nemo you'd be staring at a blank screen with a soundtrack. Maybe you'd get to watch some white noise if you were lucky.
Yeah, the default firewall and other security stuff is pretty nice. Doesn't make much of a difference to me or the amount of crap I find on my clients' computers, though. My favorite aspect of SP2 is the new wifi management app. I used to constantly have random 802.11x connectivity problems, as did many other Windows users. I'd just occasionally get dropped and have to repair the connection. Irritating. But... SP2 fixed it! Yay! Anyone else see this behaviour?
-Yoweigh
I have a Kensington SaddleBag Sport backpack that came (optional) with my Inspiron 8600. Padded laptop pocket-inside-a-pocket, with room in the outer pocket for a spare battery & AC charger, and the entire front of the pocket is lined with various sized netting-type things. In that pocket alone I can fit every single accessory and cable I could need except for a keyboard. I even have vertical room to spare. In front of that is a second really deep pocket (that can hold a keyboard if you don't zip it) for books, with a smaller pocket on the front that holds my memory key, cd wallet, some mini-CDRs, and misc. other stuff. It also has a (large, as in can pretty easily fit a first-gen Wireless Intellimouse Explorer) mouse sized pocket on each side, and a little pocket at the top that I assume is meant for a flash based MP3 player with a little gasket type thing for the headphones to pass through.
The only complaint that I have about the backpack is that the zippers are sort of crummy. Those problems, however, didn't show up until I'd given it at least 8 or so months of wear. They're still functional, just irritating. Besides that it's awesome. It even fits my 15.4" widescreen!
I've got an insanely large collection of video game remix MP3s, mostly from OCRemix. I've got a few suggestions for anyone interested in this sort of stuff:
It makes me wonder about the dark matter / dark energy theories that are floating around. It would seem to have pretty large implications to them.
As I understand it, scientists somehow figured out how much matter there "should be" in the universe. This has always sounded somewhat dubious to me, but whatever. Not surprisingly, the amount there should be is not equal to the amount there actually is. So they invented this dark stuff, which they say also fuels the expansion of the universe.
Now, if we found a lot more black holes, some of them have to be supermassive. Supermassive black holes, as the name implies, have quite a bit of mass.
Wouldn't this discovery throw the measurements of how much matter exists completely out of whack? Concequently, wouldn't the dark matter estimates also be way off? Also, as the above post suggests, wouldn't this make a "big crunch" more likely. After all, it was the dominance of dark matter that caused universal expansion. Reducing the dark matter while increasing the normal matter would seem to have a large impact on that theory.
For a good few years I've stuck with Plextor products for my CD-R/RW drives. They've been dependable and I've never had a problem with them. I have an old 12x SCSI burner in one of my systems that hasn't made a single hiccup in 4 years. I don't think it's made a single coaster, and that was before they had buffer underrun protection. Their DVD burners are most likely just as good, if that's your cup up fea. I highly recommend them.
-Yoweigh
I just got an Inspiron 8600, and it came with a Kensington Sport backpack. Very convenient. Pockets up the wazoo, and it carries my pretty large laptop. Has enough room for the laptop, keyboard, mouse, spare battery, AC adapter, and I still haven't used the pockets for books (deep pocket) and writing utinsels. It's awesome. Even has an MP3 player pocket. At least that's what I think it's for.
"You know, I use XP Pro, and the main reason I've never switched to Linux (I've tried) is because people like him would mock me whenever I had a question. The Linux community is both its best asset and its worst enemy.
Some people don't want to have to dig through a bunch of configuration files to make their mouse work. Like I did with both Mandake 8 and 9, and Mandrake's supposed to be easy! He complains that he couldn't figure out how to make toolbars appear in the taskbar. All you have to do is right-click on it! If I made a stupid comment like that about some flavor of Linux, I'd get mauled! In fact, I'll probably get that kind of treatment for making this post. From at least some of you.
I've tried Linux at least a dozen times, and every single time it was people like him that made me go back to Windows. Linux was built by a geek for geeks. I'm a geek and don't like it. Windows was built by an idiot for idiots and he's too much of an idiot to figure it out. He can feel sorry for my Windoze stupidity all he wants. I'll be laughing at his massive superiority complex. The Linux community needs a good psychiatrist."
I can't believe this guy runs Slashdot. Sounds to me like he's the worst thing to ever happen to it.
Does this sentence make zero sense to anyone else?
"It details how the Cable Companies are resisting a pricing this competition with DSL providers by resisting tiered pricing models."
Are resisting a pricing this compitetion? Huh?!
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Yeah, but last mile wiring is what makes all that stuff capped where it is. Remember, a network connection is on as fast as its slowest part. I'm pretty sure their fiber is faster that my telephone wire or your coax. A neighborhood LAN would be pretty nice, too. Administrating it would be a pain, though.
There's a damn good reason I want this to come out soon. The sooner AMD comes out with Hammer the sooner Intel has some extremely serious competition. If Hammer can stand up to its hype the P4 won't look so hot, especially if Hammer ramps well in clock speed. Strong competition = lowering of prices. Also, Athlon XPs would then be pushed into the value market. So not only would Intel be forced to drop prices on their desktop and server CPUs, but AMD's old lineup would become and absolute steal. Sounds good for the average consumer, eh? Lets hope for no more delays.
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Yeah but if you took the CGI out of Finding Nemo you'd be staring at a blank screen with a soundtrack. Maybe you'd get to watch some white noise if you were lucky.
Yeah, the default firewall and other security stuff is pretty nice. Doesn't make much of a difference to me or the amount of crap I find on my clients' computers, though. My favorite aspect of SP2 is the new wifi management app. I used to constantly have random 802.11x connectivity problems, as did many other Windows users. I'd just occasionally get dropped and have to repair the connection. Irritating. But... SP2 fixed it! Yay! Anyone else see this behaviour? -Yoweigh
The only complaint that I have about the backpack is that the zippers are sort of crummy. Those problems, however, didn't show up until I'd given it at least 8 or so months of wear. They're still functional, just irritating. Besides that it's awesome. It even fits my 15.4" widescreen!
Does that mean I could install the Folding@Home client in my brain? If so, could I also covertly install it in the brains of my friends an family?
As I understand it, scientists somehow figured out how much matter there "should be" in the universe. This has always sounded somewhat dubious to me, but whatever. Not surprisingly, the amount there should be is not equal to the amount there actually is. So they invented this dark stuff, which they say also fuels the expansion of the universe.
Now, if we found a lot more black holes, some of them have to be supermassive. Supermassive black holes, as the name implies, have quite a bit of mass.
Wouldn't this discovery throw the measurements of how much matter exists completely out of whack? Concequently, wouldn't the dark matter estimates also be way off? Also, as the above post suggests, wouldn't this make a "big crunch" more likely. After all, it was the dominance of dark matter that caused universal expansion. Reducing the dark matter while increasing the normal matter would seem to have a large impact on that theory.
For a good few years I've stuck with Plextor products for my CD-R/RW drives. They've been dependable and I've never had a problem with them. I have an old 12x SCSI burner in one of my systems that hasn't made a single hiccup in 4 years. I don't think it's made a single coaster, and that was before they had buffer underrun protection. Their DVD burners are most likely just as good, if that's your cup up fea. I highly recommend them. -Yoweigh
I just got an Inspiron 8600, and it came with a Kensington Sport backpack. Very convenient. Pockets up the wazoo, and it carries my pretty large laptop. Has enough room for the laptop, keyboard, mouse, spare battery, AC adapter, and I still haven't used the pockets for books (deep pocket) and writing utinsels. It's awesome. Even has an MP3 player pocket. At least that's what I think it's for.
Copied from a post I made at Newsforge:
"You know, I use XP Pro, and the main reason I've never switched to Linux (I've tried) is because people like him would mock me whenever I had a question. The Linux community is both its best asset and its worst enemy.
Some people don't want to have to dig through a bunch of configuration files to make their mouse work. Like I did with both Mandake 8 and 9, and Mandrake's supposed to be easy! He complains that he couldn't figure out how to make toolbars appear in the taskbar. All you have to do is right-click on it! If I made a stupid comment like that about some flavor of Linux, I'd get mauled! In fact, I'll probably get that kind of treatment for making this post. From at least some of you.
I've tried Linux at least a dozen times, and every single time it was people like him that made me go back to Windows. Linux was built by a geek for geeks. I'm a geek and don't like it. Windows was built by an idiot for idiots and he's too much of an idiot to figure it out. He can feel sorry for my Windoze stupidity all he wants. I'll be laughing at his massive superiority complex. The Linux community needs a good psychiatrist."
I can't believe this guy runs Slashdot. Sounds to me like he's the worst thing to ever happen to it.
Does this sentence make zero sense to anyone else? "It details how the Cable Companies are resisting a pricing this competition with DSL providers by resisting tiered pricing models." Are resisting a pricing this compitetion? Huh?!
Yeah, but last mile wiring is what makes all that stuff capped where it is. Remember, a network connection is on as fast as its slowest part.
I'm pretty sure their fiber is faster that my telephone wire or your coax. A neighborhood LAN would be pretty nice, too. Administrating it would be a pain, though.
Just my $.02.
-Yoweigh
I can't see longhorn being out in Q1 next year.... Has XP even been out for a full year yet?? If so not much more than that.
"Let's hope this doesn't get moved again."
There's a damn good reason I want this to come out soon. The sooner AMD comes out with Hammer the sooner Intel has some extremely serious competition. If Hammer can stand up to its hype the P4 won't look so hot, especially if Hammer ramps well in clock speed. Strong competition = lowering of prices. Also, Athlon XPs would then be pushed into the value market. So not only would Intel be forced to drop prices on their desktop and server CPUs, but AMD's old lineup would become and absolute steal. Sounds good for the average consumer, eh? Lets hope for no more delays.
-Yoweigh