R-Iowa: "This decision is so much out of the mainstream of thinking of Americans and the culture and values that we hold in America, that any Congressman that voted to take it out would be putting his tenure in Congress in jeopardy at the next election," Grassley said.
His quote describes exactly what should NOT happen in today's society. Doesn't anyone do what is right, and not what will get him re-elected? Collectively, we're still operating in the 17th century.
LIke another person stated, the reason Dell's and Emachines are cheaper is 1) they get parts in bulk, and 2) they use shitty components.
Who here in tech support wanted to shoot themselves when the old guy 15 miles out in the valley (who just yesterday got running water and indoor plumbing) is complaining about getting "only" 24.6k from his SM56k motorola. Or Lucent LT winmodem. Or god forbid the blue and white G3's. Or even the DSL guy with the no-name brand NIC who just can't seem to create a network-worthy packet (or is spewing shit all over the LAN).
WE know the value of good pieces. I wouldn't give an emachine or compaq to anyone I know if you PAID me.
That being said, go for the most stable AMD chip/mobo you can find (my crappy via KT133 has to be turned on. then turned off. then turned on again before it'll boot), about a gig of good ram, the maxtor or IBM hdd (it was just a bad batch! not all IBM's are crap!), a GeForce4 4200, USR courier v.anything (or Intel NIC), M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 sound card,HDTV tuner card...*drools*
oh wait, uh, what was i saying...oh yeah. don't buy a LT winmodem or I'll come after you. And your children.
As someone (geek) who is fascinated with a/v hifi, I think I should chime in since I've had a good home theater for awhile now. best bang for the buck. Actually I just got some new speakers, yay! Anhoo, the gear:
NEC LT150 DLP projector - this baby is sweet. Cost me $2300, does 1024x768 progressive of course, vga input. Currently doing 110" diagonal on a 16:9 screen.
Da-lite no-gain screen: hanging from the ceiling, 110" diag. 16:9 ratio. Simple. effective. $250.
15' fat shielded vga cable: $26
HTPC: 512mb RAM, pioneer 104s slot load 10x DVD, PIII-500mhz, powerDVD 3 or 4, win98, vortex2 soundcard, moded GeForce2 AGP card. This baby is cheap (maybe $500 today?) Can pass DD5.1, DTS, etc through the optical out on the soundcard. Screw hardware DVD decoding, it looks like crap. powerDVD3 looks beautiful. I removed/shorted the 9 RF capacitors and inductors on the geforce2 that limit the video bandwidth, this reduced any pixel shimering and crawlies (look at your video card near the vga connector). Result: quality.
Felted the room black: $60. Ok, this is a batchelor pad, so no one cared that I did this. Good for audio acustics, and reduces stray lighting from the screen or anything else in the room.
Notice the PC is used ONLY to output the video in VGA form and audio in digital form (AC3, DTS). no other processing or expensive soundcard is necessary on the PC.
Technics DD/DTS/PCM Decoder: 3 digital inputs to switch between PC, CD player, and any other input (PS2, digital cable, etc). Great job, better than any soundcard's DAC. Used: $170, retail $350
Carver AV 505 5-channel amp: built ford tough in the US of A, does 80 watts pure minimum into 5 channels, 130 watts max (or so the specs said). For tweater and midrange only, this goes a long way. Used: $350, retailed $1000
Paradigm Atoms: great speakers for the price. $190/pair. Were the fronts, now the rears. paradigm CC-170 - center channel, $200 (I think).
B&W 601 S3: awesome speakers, these are the new fronts. They don't match the center, but oh well, they sound amazing. $450/pair.
Velodyne CHT120 - 150 RMS, 400 watts max power in a 12" sub. $550 retail.
speaker stands: 5x$50 each, double spiked. Assorted cables, etc.
Anyhoo, this got me a sweet assed-setup, and it's pretty good quality. The only way to get better video qulity is go with a 3-chip DLP.
like another poster said, avsforum.com is the place to go. Sound on the projector is minimized when ceiling mounted (esp. when the room is covered in black felt).
Details, thoughts:
This will get you the best audio/video (IMHO) for the price. The PC was built from scraps practically, so the main cost was GOOD speakers, amp and projector. Spend the most money going from the output and fewest dollars in the input. IE, best speakers, good amp, decent DAC, any digital soundcard, $20 DVD.
When using interconnect cables carying analog, buy good quality, when using digital cables, use anything that conducts electrons.
There is a difference between quality and volume.
Don't get a home-theater-in-a-box. They're cheap for a reason.
Buy components that you can swap out for better stuff w/o compromising the rest of the setup. Think modualr programing.
Get the AVIA or similar calibration disc to setup A/V levels. There's nothing worse than a good setup that's out of whack.
Buy your amps, dacs, and other hardware used, but buy new speakers. you never know how hard they've been driven.
That's all I can think of. Looks great. Sounds great.
But he [Baradell] said that Belo's position is "ultimately that this is our content and we should have some control about where and in what way it is used. We'll see what happens in the law and in the courts to decide how to proceed."
Uh, this may seem obvious to the/. crowd, but how about DONT PUT THE INFO ONLINE. You can't run an anonymous, public web server and expect people to do whatever you ask of them. There are ways of allowing people access to your site other than a court order. *sigh*
I know, I'm preaching to the converted, but this just bugs me. Who's the IT guy? Can I slap him?
"The following is a list of the hardware and software used in this preview.
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.53GHz NVIDIA Reference Motherboard (nForce Chipset) 256MB Corsair PC2400 DDR RAM 21-Inch Sony Multiscan E500 Monitor NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4600 (300MHz/650MHz) - 128MB NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4200 (250MHz/500MHz) - 64MB NVIDIA Detonator XP Driver Version 28.32 32-Bit Color / Sound Disabled * / Vsync Disabled / 75Hz Refresh Rate Windows XP Professional / DirectX 8.1"
Ok, you're reviewing a card with 128mb of video memory, yet your main system memory is only 256mb? On WinXP? Dude, just shell out the extra $$ for at least 512. Unless using 2 DIMM's somehow cuts your performance. Who's using 256? Compaq?
I work at an ISP that offers DSL. We give the EU a choice between the ILEC (PacBell) and the CLEC (New Edge).
PB: DHCP dial-up wanna-be DSL crap + CPE: $150
NE: always-on, permanent static public IP + CPE: $400.
However, to be competetive and make a profit, we use static public IP's on PB orders too (which is why PB ISP/DSL is cheaper).
This is just for the initial setup (CPE = customer premise equipment). When we offer our customers the choice, guess who they want to use. They see only "$150 vs $400." Some want to skip us as the ISP all together and go PB all the way (ha!).
PB also screws up NE's orders ALL the time. Or they won't let us provision the line or do other stuff if that phone # is in use by PB somewhere in the "system." Or when a PB DSL goes down or can't be installed b/c of a short in the lines in the house, PB won't fix it 'cause it's NE DSL (but PB ownes the lines...). Etc, etc. I could go on all night.
NE recently had a promo with free equipment/install, and we signed up a LOT of people with it. PB doens't like that of course, and we're still trying to get these things installed.
I currently have NE DSL. Free Efficient Networks router/installation and an IP bound to a p166 that's been running 2 domains on one web server, a ftp server, a mail server, firewall, NAT server, roger wilco base station, and an occasional delta force server 24/7. Can't beat that I guess. Does PB let you do that? Does Covad? I'm not sure, please let me know.
Oh, and here's the kicker. When there's bridge taps or load coils on the line PB removes them for their customers for free. And they charge us (our customer) $200. How sweet of them. I believe there was a lawsuit in Texas about BellSouth removing stuff from a phone line for DSL, charging $200, then charging anyone else in the neighborhood the same amount to remove the same piece of equipment! So say 5 houses on a block want DSL, and there's a load coil, they'll charge $200 per house, even though only the 1st $200 would remove it and the other 4 EU's would be ok. I think they lost, or at least I hope they did.
And get this, previous to that, I worked at the Big Evil One. That's right, AOL. So I guess I've had the pleasure of doing both. The actual knowledge and support level is the same, however at the local ISP we get to do customer callbacks, keep in touch, etc, while at AOL there is no such thing. At AOL, someone would call up and ask for Bob. I would say, "Bob in Tucson, Bob in Ogden, or Bob in Florida?" At the Local ISP, when they call for Bob, they get Bob. Some people like this, others don't care. However, we are $4 cheaper than AOL and provide everything from web hosting, T1, server co-location, etc etc. Try getting a full pipe with AOL.
In terms of the previous post about the underlying infrastructure providing cheaper service, this is true. Our main competitor to DSL sales is PacBell herself. She can offer it cheaper, but the service is cheaper. PB uses PPPoe and/or DHCP, almost like a modem pool, while we assign everyone a static, public (or private if they choose) IP.
The funny thing is, whenever someone calls in and says "well PB is cheaper by $x amount," they don't understand the tech side of it and go towards PB. The kicker: a large percentage of our DSL sales come from ex-PB customers who had to wait 4 months for an install or 1 hour on hold to change their password. They say "why didn't anyone tell me, they're terrible!" and I hold my breath thinking "We told you so." There's complete domains and websites dedicated to PB horror stories.
And one last thing. Our company president who started this company did it all himself from a closet, like many start-ups. The cool thing is, he actually knows all about ISDN problems and occasionally helps us down here in tech. I remember the last time I was having trouble with an ISDN customer and she started getting bitchy. After putting her on hold for a minute or two (I swear!) I told her "ok, our company president is looking into this personally and logging into the router now."
I think there's a big issue that either no one is aware of, or that no one has posted.
DeCSS is based on the Xing key, we all know that. What many people don't know is that the key has been pulled from all new DVD's, therefore if you're trying to watch T2U with yer "all-knowing" DeCSS it won't work.
DeCSS no longer works with new movies! If you really want power, and avoid DeCSS completely, I suggest you use vobdec or some equivalent (CladDVD) that uses a brute-force method of cracking the CSS.
http://doom9.excelland.com/software.htm
Includes binarys and source. Yes, I do copy dvd's, but just to see if I can. It's rather fun.
DVD rippers (such as myself) haven't used decss in a long time, which leads me to believe that most of you haven't used it in awhile, if at all.
NO! You don't want your pc to be seen only as a digital audio recorder. It's the only thing preventing CDRW discs from being taxed by the RIAA, that's why blank audio cd's are that much more. THink what else the RIAA will tax us PC users for....
Bart: awww..how come I get lice and nothing ever happens to milhouse?
Milhouse: Cooold...sooo cooold....
Anyways, I'm as skeptical as all the fans. The recent 'plot' location episodes try to hard. "Yeah, it reeks of effort." Episodes such as simpsons going to Japan, Simpsons at the Whitehouse in the future, etc. They have funny moments, but nothing as a whole.
Although it would be cheesy and kinda predictable, they could slip in many relatively unknown characters, esp. Gil ("Oh boy, now it's Gil's time to shine!") and Cletus ("I can see my Ma from up here! HEY MA! Get off the roof!")
Seeing as how their best episodes are ones that don't involve them all in a consistent plot, and how good movies try to have a consistent plot (like the many posts on 5-minute plot shifts), this is questionable.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
I bent my wookie.
The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there!
Tastes like burning!
*raises mail flag* hahaha!!
*lowers mail flag* awwww...
*raises mail flag* hahaha!!
*lowers mail flag* awwww...
Heh, I once wrote a BASIC program to list all the prime numbers, using a pseudo-refined brute-force algorithm. Afer it got to about the 100,000th prime, the next prime took like 3 hours.
Looking back, the code was soooo bad. I'm almost tempted to write another. Or some sort of shared-cycles thing. I also have old basic programs that could give (theoretically infinite) digits to pi and pythagorean triples. I just read on this thread that pythag triples have been solved...where can I read about this? I remember spending weeks trying to find a patern.
BTW - the 100,573rd prime is 1,307,731 if my algorithn held up
I read that a 1ghz Tbird will die in 8 seconds w/o a Heatsink/Fan
And I've seen pictures of it. The ceramic die cracks, and then yer screwed. I wish I had a link handy....
Simply because the L2 cache gets much hotter than the actual core, and when something on the same die expands (or in coldness, contracts) faster than the rest of the die, you get cracks. Not a pretty sight.
Well, in the C300a, i guess a combo of both would be good. But don't forget that all modern ones are locked. And besides, My PII350 is doing 133 just fine (466 total). At 133mhz fsb, you have a 1/3 divider AND a 1/4, so 2 options: PCI @ 44mhz (133/3) or PCI @ 33mhz (133/4).
Sure the AGP is now 89mhz, but he G200 is holding on. Higher fsb increases gaming much more than the multiplier (ie, ram is @ 133 too).
My C566 can hit 1ghz with 112fsb. It's the only way to fly...
I can see it now. While the open-sourced rocket has made it to jupiter and back, the M$ rocket explodes right after takeoff. Or... The M$ rocket uses proprietary technology, and soon forces all other ISS rockets to use its boosters... Where do you want to go today? takes on a whole new meaning
"A 19" monitor and 3-piece speaker system cannot replace a 30-foot screen and Dolby/DTS/etc sound."
But I'm a proud owner of a self-built HTPC. The audio quality far surpasses that of a theater with better surround imaging. Also got a 6.1 setup (rear center channel via pseudo-THX-EX). DD/DTS and much better speaker quality. And no sticky mess on the floor. Sure, a FPTV isn't as good as film YET, but just wait.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that the guy from Mortal Kombat?
(in darth vader voice:)
*Fatality...*
R-Iowa:
"This decision is so much out of the mainstream of thinking of Americans and the culture and values that we hold in America, that any Congressman that voted to take it out would be putting his tenure in Congress in jeopardy at the next election," Grassley said.
His quote describes exactly what should NOT happen in today's society. Doesn't anyone do what is right, and not what will get him re-elected? Collectively, we're still operating in the 17th century.
LIke another person stated, the reason Dell's and Emachines are cheaper is 1) they get parts in bulk, and 2) they use shitty components.
Who here in tech support wanted to shoot themselves when the old guy 15 miles out in the valley (who just yesterday got running water and indoor plumbing) is complaining about getting "only" 24.6k from his SM56k motorola. Or Lucent LT winmodem. Or god forbid the blue and white G3's. Or even the DSL guy with the no-name brand NIC who just can't seem to create a network-worthy packet (or is spewing shit all over the LAN).
WE know the value of good pieces. I wouldn't give an emachine or compaq to anyone I know if you PAID me.
That being said, go for the most stable AMD chip/mobo you can find (my crappy via KT133 has to be turned on. then turned off. then turned on again before it'll boot), about a gig of good ram, the maxtor or IBM hdd (it was just a bad batch! not all IBM's are crap!), a GeForce4 4200, USR courier v.anything (or Intel NIC), M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 sound card,HDTV tuner card...*drools*
oh wait, uh, what was i saying...oh yeah. don't buy a LT winmodem or I'll come after you. And your children.
i know, me too. i chose overrated.
As someone (geek) who is fascinated with a/v hifi, I think I should chime in since I've had a good home theater for awhile now. best bang for the buck. Actually I just got some new speakers, yay! Anhoo, the gear:
NEC LT150 DLP projector - this baby is sweet. Cost me $2300, does 1024x768 progressive of course, vga input. Currently doing 110" diagonal on a 16:9 screen.
Da-lite no-gain screen: hanging from the ceiling, 110" diag. 16:9 ratio. Simple. effective. $250.
15' fat shielded vga cable: $26
HTPC: 512mb RAM, pioneer 104s slot load 10x DVD, PIII-500mhz, powerDVD 3 or 4, win98, vortex2 soundcard, moded GeForce2 AGP card. This baby is cheap (maybe $500 today?) Can pass DD5.1, DTS, etc through the optical out on the soundcard. Screw hardware DVD decoding, it looks like crap. powerDVD3 looks beautiful. I removed/shorted the 9 RF capacitors and inductors on the geforce2 that limit the video bandwidth, this reduced any pixel shimering and crawlies (look at your video card near the vga connector). Result: quality.
Felted the room black: $60. Ok, this is a batchelor pad, so no one cared that I did this. Good for audio acustics, and reduces stray lighting from the screen or anything else in the room.
Notice the PC is used ONLY to output the video in VGA form and audio in digital form (AC3, DTS). no other processing or expensive soundcard is necessary on the PC.
Technics DD/DTS/PCM Decoder: 3 digital inputs to switch between PC, CD player, and any other input (PS2, digital cable, etc). Great job, better than any soundcard's DAC. Used: $170, retail $350
Carver AV 505 5-channel amp: built ford tough in the US of A, does 80 watts pure minimum into 5 channels, 130 watts max (or so the specs said). For tweater and midrange only, this goes a long way. Used: $350, retailed $1000
Paradigm Atoms: great speakers for the price. $190/pair. Were the fronts, now the rears.
paradigm CC-170 - center channel, $200 (I think).
B&W 601 S3: awesome speakers, these are the new fronts. They don't match the center, but oh well, they sound amazing. $450/pair.
Velodyne CHT120 - 150 RMS, 400 watts max power in a 12" sub. $550 retail.
speaker stands: 5x$50 each, double spiked. Assorted cables, etc.
Anyhoo, this got me a sweet assed-setup, and it's pretty good quality. The only way to get better video qulity is go with a 3-chip DLP.
like another poster said, avsforum.com is the place to go. Sound on the projector is minimized when ceiling mounted (esp. when the room is covered in black felt).
Details, thoughts:
This will get you the best audio/video (IMHO) for the price. The PC was built from scraps practically, so the main cost was GOOD speakers, amp and projector. Spend the most money going from the output and fewest dollars in the input. IE, best speakers, good amp, decent DAC, any digital soundcard, $20 DVD.
When using interconnect cables carying analog, buy good quality, when using digital cables, use anything that conducts electrons.
There is a difference between quality and volume.
Don't get a home-theater-in-a-box. They're cheap for a reason.
Buy components that you can swap out for better stuff w/o compromising the rest of the setup. Think modualr programing.
Get the AVIA or similar calibration disc to setup A/V levels. There's nothing worse than a good setup that's out of whack.
Buy your amps, dacs, and other hardware used, but buy new speakers. you never know how hard they've been driven.
That's all I can think of. Looks great. Sounds great.
But he [Baradell] said that Belo's position is "ultimately that this is our content and we should have some control about where and in what way it is used. We'll see what happens in the law and in the courts to decide how to proceed."
/. crowd, but how about DONT PUT THE INFO ONLINE. You can't run an anonymous, public web server and expect people to do whatever you ask of them. There are ways of allowing people access to your site other than a court order. *sigh*
Uh, this may seem obvious to the
I know, I'm preaching to the converted, but this just bugs me. Who's the IT guy? Can I slap him?
But why do you need antialiasing at 1600x1200? Can anyone honestly see the pixels at that res?
The average user doesn't need his screen being blurred, the monitor does that well enough for him/her
"omg timmy! did you see those jaggies!"
"dude, don't be a magnafying glass hog!"
The reviewer's setup:
"The following is a list of the hardware and software used in this preview.
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.53GHz
NVIDIA Reference Motherboard (nForce Chipset)
256MB Corsair PC2400 DDR RAM
21-Inch Sony Multiscan E500 Monitor
NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4600 (300MHz/650MHz) - 128MB
NVIDIA Reference GeForce4 Ti 4200 (250MHz/500MHz) - 64MB
NVIDIA Detonator XP Driver Version 28.32
32-Bit Color / Sound Disabled * / Vsync Disabled / 75Hz Refresh Rate
Windows XP Professional / DirectX 8.1"
Ok, you're reviewing a card with 128mb of video memory, yet your main system memory is only 256mb? On WinXP? Dude, just shell out the extra $$ for at least 512. Unless using 2 DIMM's somehow cuts your performance. Who's using 256? Compaq?
"Licenses are available from the inventor upon request."
:)
Hoo-boy. Does he have a website where school yards across the nation can apply for licences? Is the licence transferable?
Pretty soon children are gonna have to sign a EULA before they hop on a swing.
They're simply time-shifted identical twins!
-e
does this incluse all the .au domains?
Hey! Those laptops have the MS logo on them! How'd that get in there....
http://www.nks.net/CTS/Day2/med_p5310187.jpg
oh well.
I work at an ISP that offers DSL. We give the EU a choice between the ILEC (PacBell) and the CLEC (New Edge).
PB: DHCP dial-up wanna-be DSL crap + CPE: $150
NE: always-on, permanent static public IP + CPE: $400.
However, to be competetive and make a profit, we use static public IP's on PB orders too (which is why PB ISP/DSL is cheaper).
This is just for the initial setup (CPE = customer premise equipment). When we offer our customers the choice, guess who they want to use. They see only "$150 vs $400." Some want to skip us as the ISP all together and go PB all the way (ha!).
PB also screws up NE's orders ALL the time. Or they won't let us provision the line or do other stuff if that phone # is in use by PB somewhere in the "system." Or when a PB DSL goes down or can't be installed b/c of a short in the lines in the house, PB won't fix it 'cause it's NE DSL (but PB ownes the lines...). Etc, etc. I could go on all night.
NE recently had a promo with free equipment/install, and we signed up a LOT of people with it. PB doens't like that of course, and we're still trying to get these things installed.
I currently have NE DSL. Free Efficient Networks router/installation and an IP bound to a p166 that's been running 2 domains on one web server, a ftp server, a mail server, firewall, NAT server, roger wilco base station, and an occasional delta force server 24/7. Can't beat that I guess. Does PB let you do that? Does Covad? I'm not sure, please let me know.
Oh, and here's the kicker. When there's bridge taps or load coils on the line PB removes them for their customers for free. And they charge us (our customer) $200. How sweet of them. I believe there was a lawsuit in Texas about BellSouth removing stuff from a phone line for DSL, charging $200, then charging anyone else in the neighborhood the same amount to remove the same piece of equipment! So say 5 houses on a block want DSL, and there's a load coil, they'll charge $200 per house, even though only the 1st $200 would remove it and the other 4 EU's would be ok. I think they lost, or at least I hope they did.
I'm in the monterey bay area.
www.redshift.com
And get this, previous to that, I worked at the Big Evil One. That's right, AOL. So I guess I've had the pleasure of doing both. The actual knowledge and support level is the same, however at the local ISP we get to do customer callbacks, keep in touch, etc, while at AOL there is no such thing. At AOL, someone would call up and ask for Bob. I would say, "Bob in Tucson, Bob in Ogden, or Bob in Florida?" At the Local ISP, when they call for Bob, they get Bob. Some people like this, others don't care. However, we are $4 cheaper than AOL and provide everything from web hosting, T1, server co-location, etc etc. Try getting a full pipe with AOL.
In terms of the previous post about the underlying infrastructure providing cheaper service, this is true. Our main competitor to DSL sales is PacBell herself. She can offer it cheaper, but the service is cheaper. PB uses PPPoe and/or DHCP, almost like a modem pool, while we assign everyone a static, public (or private if they choose) IP.
The funny thing is, whenever someone calls in and says "well PB is cheaper by $x amount," they don't understand the tech side of it and go towards PB. The kicker: a large percentage of our DSL sales come from ex-PB customers who had to wait 4 months for an install or 1 hour on hold to change their password. They say "why didn't anyone tell me, they're terrible!" and I hold my breath thinking "We told you so." There's complete domains and websites dedicated to PB horror stories.
And one last thing. Our company president who started this company did it all himself from a closet, like many start-ups. The cool thing is, he actually knows all about ISDN problems and occasionally helps us down here in tech. I remember the last time I was having trouble with an ISDN customer and she started getting bitchy. After putting her on hold for a minute or two (I swear!) I told her "ok, our company president is looking into this personally and logging into the router now."
Dead silence...
It takes about 2-15 seconds to grab the key, not hard at all. I have a list of several dozen...
They're all in the format of 04 2F A0 01
I think there's a big issue that either no one is aware of, or that no one has posted.
DeCSS is based on the Xing key, we all know that. What many people don't know is that the key has been pulled from all new DVD's, therefore if you're trying to watch T2U with yer "all-knowing" DeCSS it won't work.
DeCSS no longer works with new movies! If you really want power, and avoid DeCSS completely, I suggest you use vobdec or some equivalent (CladDVD) that uses a brute-force method of cracking the CSS.
http://doom9.excelland.com/software.htm
Includes binarys and source. Yes, I do copy dvd's, but just to see if I can. It's rather fun.
DVD rippers (such as myself) haven't used decss in a long time, which leads me to believe that most of you haven't used it in awhile, if at all.
NO! You don't want your pc to be seen only as a digital audio recorder. It's the only thing preventing CDRW discs from being taxed by the RIAA, that's why blank audio cd's are that much more. THink what else the RIAA will tax us PC users for....
It would be akin to shooting us in the foot.
Turn it up! TUUUUURN IT UUUUP!
Bart: awww..how come I get lice and nothing ever happens to milhouse?
Milhouse: Cooold...sooo cooold....
Anyways, I'm as skeptical as all the fans. The recent 'plot' location episodes try to hard. "Yeah, it reeks of effort." Episodes such as simpsons going to Japan, Simpsons at the Whitehouse in the future, etc. They have funny moments, but nothing as a whole.
Although it would be cheesy and kinda predictable, they could slip in many relatively unknown characters, esp. Gil ("Oh boy, now it's Gil's time to shine!") and Cletus ("I can see my Ma from up here! HEY MA! Get off the roof!")
Seeing as how their best episodes are ones that don't involve them all in a consistent plot, and how good movies try to have a consistent plot (like the many posts on 5-minute plot shifts), this is questionable.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
I bent my wookie.
The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there!
Tastes like burning!
*raises mail flag* hahaha!!
*lowers mail flag* awwww...
*raises mail flag* hahaha!!
*lowers mail flag* awwww...
Heh, I once wrote a BASIC program to list all the prime numbers, using a pseudo-refined brute-force algorithm. Afer it got to about the 100,000th prime, the next prime took like 3 hours.
Looking back, the code was soooo bad. I'm almost tempted to write another. Or some sort of shared-cycles thing. I also have old basic programs that could give (theoretically infinite) digits to pi and pythagorean triples. I just read on this thread that pythag triples have been solved...where can I read about this? I remember spending weeks trying to find a patern.
BTW - the 100,573rd prime is 1,307,731 if my algorithn held up
I read that a 1ghz Tbird will die in 8 seconds w/o a Heatsink/Fan
And I've seen pictures of it. The ceramic die cracks, and then yer screwed. I wish I had a link handy....
Simply because the L2 cache gets much hotter than the actual core, and when something on the same die expands (or in coldness, contracts) faster than the rest of the die, you get cracks. Not a pretty sight.
Well, in the C300a, i guess a combo of both would be good. But don't forget that all modern ones are locked. And besides, My PII350 is doing 133 just fine (466 total). At 133mhz fsb, you have a 1/3 divider AND a 1/4, so 2 options: PCI @ 44mhz (133/3) or PCI @ 33mhz (133/4).
Sure the AGP is now 89mhz, but he G200 is holding on. Higher fsb increases gaming much more than the multiplier (ie, ram is @ 133 too).
My C566 can hit 1ghz with 112fsb. It's the only way to fly...
I can see it now. While the open-sourced rocket has made it to jupiter and back, the M$ rocket explodes right after takeoff. Or... The M$ rocket uses proprietary technology, and soon forces all other ISS rockets to use its boosters... Where do you want to go today? takes on a whole new meaning
"A 19" monitor and 3-piece speaker system cannot replace a 30-foot screen and Dolby/DTS/etc sound."
But I'm a proud owner of a self-built HTPC.
The audio quality far surpasses that of a theater with better surround imaging. Also got a 6.1 setup (rear center channel via pseudo-THX-EX).
DD/DTS and much better speaker quality. And no sticky mess on the floor. Sure, a FPTV isn't as good as film YET, but just wait.