I ordered two of them but when I tried to activate the service it dropped the web link midway through. I wound up stuck in a limbo of not being able to activate them. I tried to contact tech support but all they offered is that bloody chat support. Every time I do that I end up typing for a half hour to an hour to solve a five minute problem. They said that was the only option so I canceled the service and warned others. Crappy service cost them a customer. Add $20 to the price and high actual support people! Nice idea bad execution.
Wait, you actually think that some people get service from them, that you're one of the few who didn't?
The affected government minister said that the website was accessed 3,727 times, and that this is 'akin to 3,727 attempts to turn the doorknobof an insecure office and make copies of highly confidential documents.'
in that case, the free clothes have devastated local clothes industry. There's some fundamental flaw in the system if giving people free stuff is bad for them...
Agreed. That's why I love having support and being able to sit on the couch all day long, every day. But for some reason, I'm barely strong enough to even stand. Oh well, who needs muscles anyway?
To me that is a sign of how broken the world is. You're better off not doing anything than actually taking a proactive step.
There's a reason you get interest for saving money: your bank can then go put it to use, presumably a better one than you could have at a lesser return.
Well, unless I have unlimited bandwidth, I don't want my OS downloading crap or my web browser pre-loading web pages. There is a downside to doing more work than normal, so if anyone has a legitimate complaint, it's about the extra power and wear this pre-reading of hard disk content results in (and maybe even wear on the memory, though I doubt it's even measurable).
Heh, maybe we should bitch that the OS uses the entire display, even when there's no window in some portion of it. Or that it caches things on the hard disk.
As someone commented on the last story a couple of days ago about this, if you don't want all your memory to be actually used, pull some of it out and put it in your desk drawer. What, you do want it all used? Well, that's what Windows 7 is doing, using all of it all the time, rather than leaving some of it unused much of the time. Oh, you only want it used for certain purposes? Why? If it's not being used for anything at the moment, using it for something is clearly better than that. And that's what Windows 7 (and Linux) do! If a more important use for it comes along, it repurposes it for that.
I remember t' days when you could create a ramdrive ont amiga that'd survive warm resets, that was a persistent as yer needed, by 'eck
Up until 2003, I used an old PowerMac as my main machine, running Mac OS 7.6.1. I kept the system folder on a RAM disk, and booted off that. Blazing fast, but had the bad habit of losing all data whenever there was a power failure (nothing a periodic mirror-to-disk couldn't remedy, though). I still use that old PowerMac all the time (running Mac OS 9.2.2 now) and keep a persistent 130 MB RAM disk for storing temporary files. It persists across reboots, though I don't keep the system on it anymore.
Could eBay just work out a deal with FedEx (or whatever the major shipping carrier is in the EU) where they have a few in-store electronic "catalogs" (web browsers set to eBay's website)? Then you could come in, browse, choose an item you want, find out "Sorry, it's not in stock. We can order from our distributor.", then come back a few days and buy the item, or even have it delivered directly to your home. Maybe they could keep a few stupid things in stock, like shipping boxes and bricks.
I like this requirement. I think they should also require that all brick-and-mortar stores have an online store that sells everything they have in the brick-and-mortar store, and always be up to date.
Wow, they're banning little white towers on top of Mosques. Is it because they look phallic or something? I'm definitely scratching Switzerland off my list of places to possibly live in the future.
This'll be great for webspace providers and discussion boards like Slashdot. I'd love to go to a brick and mortar store for these things. They could have them hanging like gift cards. "Yes, two websites please, a first post, three replies, and two +1 Funny moderations please. How much?"... "Yeah, paper is fine."
No, this is about games which show certain patterns of flashing light (as opposed to those which show other patterns of flashing light). You see, some patterns of flashing light actually physically injure people (violence), so these patterns must be banned. It's no different than someone punching you on the street or shooting you with a gun, if you think about it.
In the current house I'm renting, I needed a connection between a computer in a bedroom and the living room, and didn't want to use wireless. There was some 6-conductor phone cable in the jacks, and a single phone line only needs two (I like having a landline), so I figured I could use the other four for 10BASE-T Ethernet. It worked once I got the pairs right (the phone cable is three twisted pairs, and I had to have TX on one pair, and RX on the other, rather than split across two pairs). There's about 100 feet of phone cable between the two. On the dining room end, the phone jack isn't next to the computer, so I ran about 25 more feet of 6-conductor phone cable to the desk for the computer and phone. Again I had to get the Ethernet pairs next to each other. In the end, 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX work, though I notched it down to 10BASE-T just to be on the safe side, and my Internet connection is less than 1 Mbps anyway. And yes, I realize I'm probably broadcasting every bit of data I send across this connection, due to the phone cable being unshielded.
Coax cable might behave a bit differently, because one of the conductors is exposed and can pick up signals, but the other isn't, unlike a twisted pair. Differential signaling relies on both picking up the same signal, so that it can be rejected at the receiver by finding the difference between the two. You mentioned it having five coax cables; with that, you could use four coax cables, with the outer layer grounded on each. This way neither will pick up much of anything extra. It sure seems worth a try to me.
I'm talking about blur due to motion. It's not due to interlace or the film-to-digital process. I'm saying that the focus on LCD response time is only half the problem; the other half is the sample-and-hold the backlight being on constantly causes. The blur this creates only exists if your eyes are moving to follow a moving object on screen. If you kept your gaze on a fixed point while the object moved, the sample-and-hold blur wouldn't occur.
Hey, my old TV is one of the Sony 32" WEGA models. I spent a looong time trying to find an HD model that didn't suck.
Funny you mention that. Someone was offering one of those for free recently. I was willing to put up with it being 150 lbs, but then I read that analog inputs get upscaled digitally, so they look like crap, so I decided against it. I don't have anything with digital output, and I also play game consoles which need to not look like crap.
What Sony models around 30" support progressive, but aren't digital? I've alreaedy got a 27" that supports component (but not progressive), also gotten for free. People are getting rid of them like crazy, and I'm partial to Sony for some reason.
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Wait, you actually think that some people get service from them, that you're one of the few who didn't?
There, fixed that for you, Mr. Minister.
I personally prefer the term "denialitarianist".
Agreed. That's why I love having support and being able to sit on the couch all day long, every day. But for some reason, I'm barely strong enough to even stand. Oh well, who needs muscles anyway?
There's a reason you get interest for saving money: your bank can then go put it to use, presumably a better one than you could have at a lesser return.
A Wiimote maybe?
Well, unless I have unlimited bandwidth, I don't want my OS downloading crap or my web browser pre-loading web pages. There is a downside to doing more work than normal, so if anyone has a legitimate complaint, it's about the extra power and wear this pre-reading of hard disk content results in (and maybe even wear on the memory, though I doubt it's even measurable).
Heh, maybe we should bitch that the OS uses the entire display, even when there's no window in some portion of it. Or that it caches things on the hard disk.
Yay, let's add a mode over the entire UI. Modes are bad, mm'kay?
Ore more concisely: replication rate based on fitness, and imperfection.
As someone commented on the last story a couple of days ago about this, if you don't want all your memory to be actually used, pull some of it out and put it in your desk drawer. What, you do want it all used? Well, that's what Windows 7 is doing, using all of it all the time, rather than leaving some of it unused much of the time. Oh, you only want it used for certain purposes? Why? If it's not being used for anything at the moment, using it for something is clearly better than that. And that's what Windows 7 (and Linux) do! If a more important use for it comes along, it repurposes it for that.
Up until 2003, I used an old PowerMac as my main machine, running Mac OS 7.6.1. I kept the system folder on a RAM disk, and booted off that. Blazing fast, but had the bad habit of losing all data whenever there was a power failure (nothing a periodic mirror-to-disk couldn't remedy, though). I still use that old PowerMac all the time (running Mac OS 9.2.2 now) and keep a persistent 130 MB RAM disk for storing temporary files. It persists across reboots, though I don't keep the system on it anymore.
It's so the URL will fit in the artifical vision of these once-blind readers.
Could eBay just work out a deal with FedEx (or whatever the major shipping carrier is in the EU) where they have a few in-store electronic "catalogs" (web browsers set to eBay's website)? Then you could come in, browse, choose an item you want, find out "Sorry, it's not in stock. We can order from our distributor.", then come back a few days and buy the item, or even have it delivered directly to your home. Maybe they could keep a few stupid things in stock, like shipping boxes and bricks.
I like this requirement. I think they should also require that all brick-and-mortar stores have an online store that sells everything they have in the brick-and-mortar store, and always be up to date.
Wow, they're banning little white towers on top of Mosques. Is it because they look phallic or something? I'm definitely scratching Switzerland off my list of places to possibly live in the future.
This'll be great for webspace providers and discussion boards like Slashdot. I'd love to go to a brick and mortar store for these things. They could have them hanging like gift cards. "Yes, two websites please, a first post, three replies, and two +1 Funny moderations please. How much?"... "Yeah, paper is fine."
No, this is about games which show certain patterns of flashing light (as opposed to those which show other patterns of flashing light). You see, some patterns of flashing light actually physically injure people (violence), so these patterns must be banned. It's no different than someone punching you on the street or shooting you with a gun, if you think about it.
But you repeat yourself. Windows machine. 'nuff said.
Hmmm, I'm just still not understanding what this has to do with a stringed instrument.
That's what the WD-40 is for. Eliminates squeaks and other sounds.
Yes, but your reply to your post contributed something. Hopefully my reply to your reply is also contributing something.
Dude, the first rule of DSi carts is that we don't talk about DSi carts!
Coax cable might behave a bit differently, because one of the conductors is exposed and can pick up signals, but the other isn't, unlike a twisted pair. Differential signaling relies on both picking up the same signal, so that it can be rejected at the receiver by finding the difference between the two. You mentioned it having five coax cables; with that, you could use four coax cables, with the outer layer grounded on each. This way neither will pick up much of anything extra. It sure seems worth a try to me.
I'm talking about blur due to motion. It's not due to interlace or the film-to-digital process. I'm saying that the focus on LCD response time is only half the problem; the other half is the sample-and-hold the backlight being on constantly causes. The blur this creates only exists if your eyes are moving to follow a moving object on screen. If you kept your gaze on a fixed point while the object moved, the sample-and-hold blur wouldn't occur.
Funny you mention that. Someone was offering one of those for free recently. I was willing to put up with it being 150 lbs, but then I read that analog inputs get upscaled digitally, so they look like crap, so I decided against it. I don't have anything with digital output, and I also play game consoles which need to not look like crap.
What Sony models around 30" support progressive, but aren't digital? I've alreaedy got a 27" that supports component (but not progressive), also gotten for free. People are getting rid of them like crazy, and I'm partial to Sony for some reason.