Like most of you, I don't spend all day carrying around devices(besides a phone). I actually work and have to try and not look like I have dialysis hooked to my groin while doing so.
This, though, is what I need. I'd like to get this device as part of a car reciever so I can forgo having CD's slide around my car when a particular song sucks. I don't want to die in a car accident when the 15th song ends. This is the market for large storage. And no, I don't mean mounting it to the dashboard so I have yet another projectile in my car.. I mean I want it built into the reciever itself.
The carry all market needs to be made so small, it can't be seen. And this isn't it.
When walking down the street or driving, how many people have an iPod or whatever stuck to their waste/heads? How many people want this? How many songs could you listen to before you were to die of dehydration? Who needs this? Whether or not you want it is a different matter..
I would like to have a car reciever that has a 120 Gig hard drive, usb2.0, and can play anything xmms can play. Is that alot to ask?
Most people have cars, and drive to work, and drive back from work, and..- it's like an epiphany! People listen to most of their music in their cars.. Wow.
Anyway.. I'm gonna wait for the cluetrain to hit the market before I do.
You have a point. Marketing is the most important thing with management. In regards to linux though, it has more marketing now than it ever had- ever.
Look on Gartner Group, CNET, CNN, FOXNEWS, Wired, etc on any particular day. You will see Linux staring back at you. Linux has been proven. It's not another bitch like Sun. It's a fucking vampire, and Microsoft is the main course. This is the new reality. Linux's resilience keeps putting it back in the news. While other vendor's float by face down, linux will remain- and manager's understand this now.
Lets agree to disagree on this one. I'm lucky enough to be in the position to make this happen where I am. And I am making it happen. Although I'm not the only one.
Sun is aquired by IBM. IBM releases all of its code under the GPL. Java is now open. Solaris's disk management is now open. Linux takes in the code. The community sets up base in java's source code.
IBM and the community improve java ala OpenOffice. Java cuts through.NET in development speed and features. Crossplatform becomes speedier and more portable. MS no longer needed. Grandma's checking account is now safe from.NET's wannabe all seeing eye.
I like the Solaris OS, just like most people here. It's stable- not as stable as BSD(netcraft-wise), and a little more stable than linux. But Scott and friends lost their business focus 2 years ago.
To quote a bruiser in pulp fiction- "The world is full of unrealistic mothafucka's. That pain you're feelin now- that's Pride fuckin with ya. You suck that shit up." Scott hasn't gotten a grasp on the reality of his situation. And so now somebody else has to.
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Media providers are waking up to the fact that Microsoft is going to screw them. No matter how good it is(and this ain't that good), is it worth it when you pay per client connect, per server connect, per play, per minute, per bandwidth compression size, per my foot in their asses...
It's not worth it. Set top boxes, microdevices, PVR, et. al are using linux now. They haven't even settled on a HDTV standard yet, not to mention the fact that only.5% of the population can view a DVD in HDTV quality.
I now give my Swamee prediction:
By the time we can actually see the difference, a better open compression will have emerged. Because most people will have access to the tech. As it is now, nobody does.
So, I wish Microsoft luck. I'm sure some companies will let greed drive them to use their spiffy crackable DRM.. until they realize they just lost all of their unborn children and future to them. But, it'll be fun to watch.
I wanted to THANK YOU, and A'rpi of course, for what you've done. I would also like to thank the PLF at http://plf.zarb.org for making it useable on non-gcc 2.95 machines and for making the plugins so accessible.
Mplayer is a kickass player compared to any OS/media player. Using linux would suck to no end without you.
One, you could obviosly tell them no. That it is a violation of your privacy. But, they obviously don't care. Next,
Two, you can tell them that you will provide them with your full credit history as soon as every person reviewing your application submits their credit history to you. Then, all is fair and equitable in the invasion of privacy.
Honestly, isn't asking for your credit history a step away from asking for your health and genetic history?
Insurance companies, who have an interest in keeping genetic degenerates out, are not allowed to discriminate in this regard. Your employer should not be able to discriminate based on your personal credit history because you might steal something if you owe money. This is incredible arrogance.
I'd go for that with the desktop freindly branch of Debian with the GPL'd Mandrake toolsets/control panel and the option for more recent packages. That would be pretty slick.
From what I hear, the French version of Bankruptcy pretty much kills the business. Someone correct me if I'm worng, but it bears little resemblance to emergence from bankruptcy that US companies enjoy.
Nobody cares where you went to school. Other things like E.Q. and I.Q are more important when working well with people.
Hell, you don't even need to have graduated from college/MS/PhD anymore. Most of the people that kick ass and take names are college drop-outs. Probably because they don't have a degree to fall back on. Apple, MS, etc.. Anyhow, it's what you know, not who you sucked up to for 4 years.
I am also a club member, and Deno does it great justice. I will renew my membership there when it expires. The club offers discounts, fast downloads, prepackaged corporate software and access to higher ups at Mandrake. Deno has done a great job. The developers have done a great job at Mandrake too. I wanted to say thank you.
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Same thing happened to me with the same card. One day, the support vanished for the card and I was stuck using Win2000. I vowed never to use closed source drivers again. 3ware has the right idea in the realm of IDE RAID, and they only cost a bit more than Promise and Highpoint. They are a bit cheaper than adaptec as I recall though.
The only IDE RAID controller that blows SCSI RAID away in size and data burst rate are 3ware's controllers. There are architectural limitations to IDE, and 3ware knows every shortcoming and compensates for it. One drive per channel and controller chips on every crevice.
I have 8- 120 Gig drives in a 0+1 array. You would never have seen such a thing on SCSI. And best of all- guess what. It costs jack shit.. It's beer money. You need to take out a mortgage to get the same results from a SCSI array. Oh, and it runs on linux since they open sourced their drivers quite awhile back. IDE RAID is a good tool to consider using if you need massive storage and aren't a compulsive spender.
SCSI is great architecturally, but who are you people kidding with 800 dollar shit for space drives. How much better is your data gonna be sitting there wasting all that money. Honestly, if my hammer cost 800 bucks I'd put it through my skull. It's just a tool. Use what works.
HIPAA is being sorted through at my place of work, which happens to be a hospital. We are basically turning our MS shop into a Citrix shop due to the impossibility of configuring thousands of computers at the user level.
We use ICA protocol with 128 bit encryption and rotating passwords.. but with all of the applications that one employee has to access, it's becoming a major breaking point remembering all of the passwords.
The apps can only be accessed via login, and each app has a separate login and password. It's bordering on the rediculous to get work done for people that's skillsets are RN's or MD's. MD's tend to be more technically adept(aka AOL), but the rest are hapless technoweenies(to quote a cheese movie).
Things are moving toward http browser based access, and temernical serviced applications. These things come in waves, and HIPAA is accelerating that wave towards TS clients.
As this is done, I hope to then be in a position to kill off MS clients and servers one by one. We can then concentrate on getting some real work done, rather than worrying about how W2K SP3/WinZP SP1 is a HIPAA violation or if MS will sue us next week cause they aren't making their stock margins.
And after all of this, we will have some work cut out for us(not much)- but it's OUR work. And we get to reap the benefits of our labor. No more Jakob Fugger and his gateway tariff between east/west. If the government can't do it, then I surely can. And so, there you have it.
The program is crap in content and realism... Realism.. It's not believable, and watching stuffed monkeys run around pretending to do something useful isn't my idea of SCI-FI. No sci. But assloads of fi. So FI on it. I care not.
It's pronounced "Ass Enter". And one day someone will be able to tell exactly what the hell PWC does short of bullshitting CEO's. Until then, let the "servicing" begin.
For commodity and parts, www.bensbargains.net has the best deals with the least bullshit. For price listings of all components, www.pricewatch.com is decent.
Shipping is where you get it on both ends though. It's playing a game of ordering this from this company maybe less, but if ordering other components plus this part from another company may be less overall. It gets frustrating, and in the end, it maybe better to just buy a microtel pc.
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Inconcievable!
Where's a camcorder when you need one?
Like most of you, I don't spend all day carrying around devices(besides a phone). I actually work and have to try and not look like I have dialysis hooked to my groin while doing so.
This, though, is what I need. I'd like to get this device as part of a car reciever so I can forgo having CD's slide around my car when a particular song sucks. I don't want to die in a car accident when the 15th song ends. This is the market for large storage. And no, I don't mean mounting it to the dashboard so I have yet another projectile in my car.. I mean I want it built into the reciever itself.
The carry all market needs to be made so small, it can't be seen. And this isn't it.
When walking down the street or driving, how many people have an iPod or whatever stuck to their waste/heads? How many people want this? How many songs could you listen to before you were to die of dehydration? Who needs this? Whether or not you want it is a different matter..
I would like to have a car reciever that has a 120 Gig hard drive, usb2.0, and can play anything xmms can play. Is that alot to ask?
Most people have cars, and drive to work, and drive back from work, and..- it's like an epiphany! People listen to most of their music in their cars.. Wow.
Anyway.. I'm gonna wait for the cluetrain to hit the market before I do.
You have a point. Marketing is the most important thing with management. In regards to linux though, it has more marketing now than it ever had- ever.
Look on Gartner Group, CNET, CNN, FOXNEWS, Wired, etc on any particular day. You will see Linux staring back at you. Linux has been proven. It's not another bitch like Sun. It's a fucking vampire, and Microsoft is the main course. This is the new reality. Linux's resilience keeps putting it back in the news. While other vendor's float by face down, linux will remain- and manager's understand this now.
Lets agree to disagree on this one. I'm lucky enough to be in the position to make this happen where I am. And I am making it happen. Although I'm not the only one.
Sun is aquired by IBM. IBM releases all of its code under the GPL. Java is now open. Solaris's disk management is now open. Linux takes in the code. The community sets up base in java's source code.
.NET in development speed and features. Crossplatform becomes speedier and more portable. MS no longer needed. Grandma's checking account is now safe from .NET's wannabe all seeing eye.
IBM and the community improve java ala OpenOffice. Java cuts through
I like the Solaris OS, just like most people here. It's stable- not as stable as BSD(netcraft-wise), and a little more stable than linux. But Scott and friends lost their business focus 2 years ago.
To quote a bruiser in pulp fiction- "The world is full of unrealistic mothafucka's. That pain you're feelin now- that's Pride fuckin with ya. You suck that shit up." Scott hasn't gotten a grasp on the reality of his situation. And so now somebody else has to.
Semper vi
Hahahaha .. Oh shit, that's classic.
"Although it's flash only (major sin), it is full of good stuff."
Flash works in Linux, but this quicktime 6 sorenson codec doesn't. Not only that, but they wanna stream it for extra assholicness.
Ever dangle a a twinkie in front of a 300 lb man? Somebody's goin down.
Thanks alot. I can't view any of this quicktime 6 shit in linux.
Media providers are waking up to the fact that Microsoft is going to screw them. No matter how good it is(and this ain't that good), is it worth it when you pay per client connect, per server connect, per play, per minute, per bandwidth compression size, per my foot in their asses...
.5% of the population can view a DVD in HDTV quality.
It's not worth it. Set top boxes, microdevices, PVR, et. al are using linux now. They haven't even settled on a HDTV standard yet, not to mention the fact that only
I now give my Swamee prediction:
By the time we can actually see the difference, a better open compression will have emerged. Because most people will have access to the tech. As it is now, nobody does.
So, I wish Microsoft luck. I'm sure some companies will let greed drive them to use their spiffy crackable DRM.. until they realize they just lost all of their unborn children and future to them. But, it'll be fun to watch.
I wanted to THANK YOU, and A'rpi of course, for what you've done. I would also like to thank the PLF at http://plf.zarb.org for making it useable on non-gcc 2.95 machines and for making the plugins so accessible.
Mplayer is a kickass player compared to any OS/media player. Using linux would suck to no end without you.
Running "secure" proprietary software on a windows box. Where have I heard that before. No man. Put the pipe down and walk away.
These people don't seem to learn.
One, you could obviosly tell them no. That it is a violation of your privacy. But, they obviously don't care. Next,
Two, you can tell them that you will provide them with your full credit history as soon as every person reviewing your application submits their credit history to you. Then, all is fair and equitable in the invasion of privacy.
Honestly, isn't asking for your credit history a step away from asking for your health and genetic history?
Insurance companies, who have an interest in keeping genetic degenerates out, are not allowed to discriminate in this regard. Your employer should not be able to discriminate based on your personal credit history because you might steal something if you owe money. This is incredible arrogance.
I smell lawsuit.
Yes, but I was wondering about the French equivalent. Perhaps a french lawyer somewhere who reads slashdot can enlighten us.
I'd go for that with the desktop freindly branch of Debian with the GPL'd Mandrake toolsets/control panel and the option for more recent packages. That would be pretty slick.
From what I hear, the French version of Bankruptcy pretty much kills the business. Someone correct me if I'm worng, but it bears little resemblance to emergence from bankruptcy that US companies enjoy.
Non-profit does sound like a good idea.
Nobody cares where you went to school. Other things like E.Q. and I.Q are more important when working well with people.
Hell, you don't even need to have graduated from college/MS/PhD anymore. Most of the people that kick ass and take names are college drop-outs. Probably because they don't have a degree to fall back on. Apple, MS, etc.. Anyhow, it's what you know, not who you sucked up to for 4 years.
I am also a club member, and Deno does it great justice. I will renew my membership there when it expires. The club offers discounts, fast downloads, prepackaged corporate software and access to higher ups at Mandrake. Deno has done a great job. The developers have done a great job at Mandrake too. I wanted to say thank you.
Same thing happened to me with the same card. One day, the support vanished for the card and I was stuck using Win2000. I vowed never to use closed source drivers again. 3ware has the right idea in the realm of IDE RAID, and they only cost a bit more than Promise and Highpoint. They are a bit cheaper than adaptec as I recall though.
The only IDE RAID controller that blows SCSI RAID away in size and data burst rate are 3ware's controllers. There are architectural limitations to IDE, and 3ware knows every shortcoming and compensates for it. One drive per channel and controller chips on every crevice.
I have 8- 120 Gig drives in a 0+1 array. You would never have seen such a thing on SCSI. And best of all- guess what. It costs jack shit.. It's beer money. You need to take out a mortgage to get the same results from a SCSI array. Oh, and it runs on linux since they open sourced their drivers quite awhile back. IDE RAID is a good tool to consider using if you need massive storage and aren't a compulsive spender.
SCSI is great architecturally, but who are you people kidding with 800 dollar shit for space drives. How much better is your data gonna be sitting there wasting all that money. Honestly, if my hammer cost 800 bucks I'd put it through my skull. It's just a tool. Use what works.
There is a slight problem with your order...
"You need Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher"
Guess all the AOLer's are in luck.
HIPAA is being sorted through at my place of work, which happens to be a hospital. We are basically turning our MS shop into a Citrix shop due to the impossibility of configuring thousands of computers at the user level.
We use ICA protocol with 128 bit encryption and rotating passwords.. but with all of the applications that one employee has to access, it's becoming a major breaking point remembering all of the passwords.
The apps can only be accessed via login, and each app has a separate login and password. It's bordering on the rediculous to get work done for people that's skillsets are RN's or MD's. MD's tend to be more technically adept(aka AOL), but the rest are hapless technoweenies(to quote a cheese movie).
Things are moving toward http browser based access, and temernical serviced applications. These things come in waves, and HIPAA is accelerating that wave towards TS clients.
As this is done, I hope to then be in a position to kill off MS clients and servers one by one. We can then concentrate on getting some real work done, rather than worrying about how W2K SP3/WinZP SP1 is a HIPAA violation or if MS will sue us next week cause they aren't making their stock margins.
And after all of this, we will have some work cut out for us(not much)- but it's OUR work. And we get to reap the benefits of our labor. No more Jakob Fugger and his gateway tariff between east/west. If the government can't do it, then I surely can. And so, there you have it.
The program is crap in content and realism... Realism.. It's not believable, and watching stuffed monkeys run around pretending to do something useful isn't my idea of SCI-FI. No sci. But assloads of fi. So FI on it. I care not.
Amazon has one on the cheap at the moment.
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http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1028165439,25
It's pronounced "Ass Enter". And one day someone will be able to tell exactly what the hell PWC does short of bullshitting CEO's. Until then, let the "servicing" begin.
Blizzard won't see a dime. I just gave $100 to the EFF just to kick Blizzard in the ballz. Have a nice fscking day.
For commodity and parts, www.bensbargains.net has the best deals with the least bullshit. For price listings of all components, www.pricewatch.com is decent.
Shipping is where you get it on both ends though. It's playing a game of ordering this from this company maybe less, but if ordering other components plus this part from another company may be less overall. It gets frustrating, and in the end, it maybe better to just buy a microtel pc.