The only danger in space is if we land on that terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
I've found Lycoris to be the absolute easiest Linux distro to use. Not only does it have a huge user support base, but even support for those of us wanting to try it and learn it before switching over from Windows, using VMWare.
While the installation is about as simple as it gets, the low click install is lost as Lycoris fires up a game of Solitaire for you play while waiting for it to complete.
I dunno, there's electric motorscooters that have a vastly superior range over Segway, run around $2,000 less, and are as easy to ride around on as a bicycle.
I mean, when Segway's MSRP is being beaten out by Hammecher Schlemmer, it doesn't take a genius to tell who's trying to pull a fast one.
I won't be buying your Segway, when I can easily afford a decent used car for the same price, and actually be able to get around the Puget Sound (try getting anywhere here with a Segway, and be prepared to do a lot of hitchhiking).
After checking this thread again, 5 hours later, I think the mod system needs a "+1 Irony" setting. Didn't expect that many geeks to take the site seriously as well.
You all know, of course, that like the Bonsai Kitten site, that there's going to be some morons who not only take this site (overwhelmingly) seriously, but will actually use it as incentive to start up their own whiny SUV soccermom groups, to close down video game retailers and host mass modem bonfires, right?
3DO's game console(with an ungrounded headphone jack built into the control that would trash the system if you came into contact with it), much of 3DO's games in general.
AND last but not least, Colecovision Adam, and it's tendacy to commit "data suicide" thanks to the power supply releasing a small EMP that would erase data tapes while powering off.
Al Qaeda released a statement that they would be hiding all future communiques in spam, hoping after the 10,000,000th copy of "Enlarge Your Penis By 8 Inches!" spam, that anyone watching would inevitably lose interest.
"What they do have is advertisers. Unless you want to see a pay version (I know I would), I wouldn't expect to see uncut anime on CN anytime soon. Who else would pay for a Toonami channel?"
Well, there's the advertisers that regularly cater to Comedy Central, and they run some semi controversial/nude/tasteless humor regularly there.
Ummm, one: Plank is a "character" from Ed, Edd, and Eddy, the imaginary playmate of one of the weird neighborhood kids.
Two: Ed, Edd, and Eddy are not part of Toonami (which seems to oddly enough focus more on non anime, other than Dragonball/Z, shows that have nothing to do with the original subject matter of Toonami). http://ccf.toonzone.net/ed-plank.gif
Three: The character you're thinking of is "Little Wooden Boy", a temporary replacement sidekick for Arthur after he and Tick break up after a spat: http://home.earthlink.net/~auspice/LWBCard.jpg
Simply put, high end video back in the day (eg; 1995-1998) is now mainstream video. Anyone who looks up the history of 3D/2D accelerators will note this. Similarly, S3 and SIS graphics chips are slowly being phased out by Geforce2 and Radeon mobile graphics chips in preferred laptop configurations. Both of which would have cost a small fortune 7 years back, if they were available (case in point, 3DFX hardware, which often ran in the $300+ range, but could hardly compete with Nvidia's low cost approach as PC gaming became more 3D oriented and budget/DIY systems became more commonplace).
Sign him up with every mailing list for porn magazines, and several Christoid magazines. Also pay a few bucks for an order of Jack Chick tracts (www.chick.com).
Better still, spoof his IP, and create accounts on known Al Qaeda supporter websites, so the next knock he gets on the door will be from the FBI. Imagine his glee when all his funds are snatched up as money tagged to support terrorism.
I have an LG 8160 CD-R/W, not the fastest by any means (16x10x40), but can burn a 700 MB CD-R in just about 4.5 minutes. It's also been a rock solid performer, with only 2-3 coasters due to media defects or user error, out of, oh, something like 600 CDs in one year of ownership.
First off, one major bugaboo of faster burners is error rates. The faster you burn, the more likely a write error will occur, compounded by media quality and capabilities. Most inexpensive stock is in the 24-32x ranger, and their error rates inevitably climb with the higher speeds. You could get 100% perfect burns, but would have to spend a little extra.
Secondly, in a world where people are racking up 200Gb or more in storage space, for one to make complete backups, they would be required to burn approximately 350 700MB CD-R (or R/W) discs. If one sat down for an all day backup spree, then you're talking over 14 hours of burning, not including time spent labeling each disc, lugging home 100 disc spools of media, and buying new cases to store all of said CDs (another $60 or so in cases). Economically ridiculous, and kind of silly when you think about it.
I believe, in my opinion, that we're reaching the limits of practicality. Take into account that DVD-R/W drives are approaching affordability (eg; under $200), and that one could store approximately 7 times the data on one disc (also reaching affordable levels, a 100 DVD-R spindle running around $60 nowadays on Price Watch). I think that the limit is about reached.
While I love my LG drive, my next drive when this one finally reaches coaster city will be a DVD-R/W.
DirecPC was my only viable alternative to AT&T's now total monopoly, thanks to DSL's crappy restrictions. I was hoping sometime in the next month or two to be able to get set up with an account, latency issues be damnned, since it would no longer require me to move house just to be closer to a telco office, and could be relocated quite easily, as opposed to setting up fresh service everywhere I go.
I thought Microsoft OSes were ALREADY suppositories. About the size of a Buick, but then again, that's what doctors mean when they say "You're going to feel a little discomfort.".
Ummm, what? Tablet PCs have USB support (and some even come with keyboards). You just plug in a mouse and keyboard and you're good to go.
Judging from the specs on one I've examined, the Tablet PC DOES suffer graphics performance wise, but give it time, since we're talking a whole new version of an old concept. How long did it take for mainstream high end 3D to make it to the laptop? If you look around, you'll note it took almost 15 years.
This sort of problem has been around for quite some time. Originally, solid state electronics were designed to last for anywhere up to a decade with minimal maintenance. Old timers here (eg; anyone 30 and older) can remember buying replacement vacuum tubes for old clunker TVs that, despite being older than they were, were still going strong. Similarly, older VCRs have a surprisingly long lifespan, where a bit of belt reconditioning, the occasional head cleaning, and minute bias adjustments were all that was needed to keep them operational. In fact, you can often get an old VHS toploader to run good as new with that small amount of maintenance.
However, the industries that build these devices have learned that making a device durable and expensive is not only counterproductive, but unprofitable. Why sell a TV that lasts 20 years, and sell it for $300, when you can make a TV that lasts 5 years, sell it for $200 a pop, and make $800 from consumers who consider it a bargain? Same goes for VCRs, which aren't made for durability anymore, in fact, being priced very close to walkmans and portable CD players, they're more geared towards disposability.
Unfortunately though, there's the electronic waste issue again, which I brought up regarding HDTV. Where will all the waste go? Once again, probably to 3rd world countries that consider a fast buck more important than turning it's towns into toxic waste dumps.
We seriously need to review this process, and find ways of cheaply and safely disposing of these materials, or instead, go for equipment that's rated for a lengthy operational period, putting the concept of responsible consumerism to practical use.
From personal experience, the most durable goods I've owned have been made by Sony, Hitachi, Pioneer, JVC and Toshiba. What's needed is a long term write up on equipment, rated by durability. Perhaps when some of these companies find themselves on the list for most durable (or subsequently, those least durable), then they'll focus on either building hardware that lasts longer, or improving their manufacturing techniques to improve on their records.
Unfortunately, Consumer Reports only does this with cars, while electronics recieve a meager 6 month long term rating.
Reminds me of my days as a teenager, when I used to go out on many an urban spelunking voyage in Manhatten. I used to explore the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge, the old City Hall station at the end of the IRT #4 line, wandered the subway tunnels at the wee hours when trains ran hourly, and abandoned subway stations, along with the old elevated freight rails on the lower west side, running from W34th St (now a train storage yard for Penn Station) to W14th street.
Pity that everyone's in anti terror mode now, though, nobody can ever enjoy the sensation of exploring forgotton or abandoned structures in NY (and probably many other states) without getting arrested. That leaves a great loss in metropolitan history for the masses.
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The only danger in space is if we land on that terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
It's "nukular", Lois, the G is silent.
What happens when you overclock a Roomb- Whoops! There goes the cat!
Sending them Alan Ralski's e-mail address when registering?
Unlike the standard Packard Bell:
1) Power Cord falls off on its own
2) Came with a can of Tab spilled inside
3) Falls apart in a nice neat pile on boot.
I've found Lycoris to be the absolute easiest Linux distro to use. Not only does it have a huge user support base, but even support for those of us wanting to try it and learn it before switching over from Windows, using VMWare.
While the installation is about as simple as it gets, the low click install is lost as Lycoris fires up a game of Solitaire for you play while waiting for it to complete.
Just more proof that one should not drink and moderate.
I dunno, there's electric motorscooters that have a vastly superior range over Segway, run around $2,000 less, and are as easy to ride around on as a bicycle.
I mean, when Segway's MSRP is being beaten out by Hammecher Schlemmer, it doesn't take a genius to tell who's trying to pull a fast one.
I won't be buying your Segway, when I can easily afford a decent used car for the same price, and actually be able to get around the Puget Sound (try getting anywhere here with a Segway, and be prepared to do a lot of hitchhiking).
You'll just have to troll for sales elsewhere.
I am the CLIT commander! I control the CLIT!!!
After checking this thread again, 5 hours later, I think the mod system needs a "+1 Irony" setting. Didn't expect that many geeks to take the site seriously as well.
You all know, of course, that like the Bonsai Kitten site, that there's going to be some morons who not only take this site (overwhelmingly) seriously, but will actually use it as incentive to start up their own whiny SUV soccermom groups, to close down video game retailers and host mass modem bonfires, right?
Sega's 32X.
3DO's game console(with an ungrounded headphone jack built into the control that would trash the system if you came into contact with it), much of 3DO's games in general.
AND last but not least, Colecovision Adam, and it's tendacy to commit "data suicide" thanks to the power supply releasing a small EMP that would erase data tapes while powering off.
Al Qaeda released a statement that they would be hiding all future communiques in spam, hoping after the 10,000,000th copy of "Enlarge Your Penis By 8 Inches!" spam, that anyone watching would inevitably lose interest.
"What they do have is advertisers. Unless you want to see a pay version (I know I would), I wouldn't expect to see uncut anime on CN anytime soon. Who else would pay for a Toonami channel?"
Well, there's the advertisers that regularly cater to Comedy Central, and they run some semi controversial/nude/tasteless humor regularly there.
Ummm, one: Plank is a "character" from Ed, Edd, and Eddy, the imaginary playmate of one of the weird neighborhood kids.
Two: Ed, Edd, and Eddy are not part of Toonami (which seems to oddly enough focus more on non anime, other than Dragonball/Z, shows that have nothing to do with the original subject matter of Toonami). http://ccf.toonzone.net/ed-plank.gif
Three: The character you're thinking of is "Little Wooden Boy", a temporary replacement sidekick for Arthur after he and Tick break up after a spat: http://home.earthlink.net/~auspice/LWBCard.jpg
Simply put, high end video back in the day (eg; 1995-1998) is now mainstream video. Anyone who looks up the history of 3D/2D accelerators will note this. Similarly, S3 and SIS graphics chips are slowly being phased out by Geforce2 and Radeon mobile graphics chips in preferred laptop configurations. Both of which would have cost a small fortune 7 years back, if they were available (case in point, 3DFX hardware, which often ran in the $300+ range, but could hardly compete with Nvidia's low cost approach as PC gaming became more 3D oriented and budget/DIY systems became more commonplace).
Then sell it as "rare" company memorabilia?
Sign him up with every mailing list for porn magazines, and several Christoid magazines. Also pay a few bucks for an order of Jack Chick tracts (www.chick.com).
Better still, spoof his IP, and create accounts on known Al Qaeda supporter websites, so the next knock he gets on the door will be from the FBI. Imagine his glee when all his funds are snatched up as money tagged to support terrorism.
I have an LG 8160 CD-R/W, not the fastest by any means (16x10x40), but can burn a 700 MB CD-R in just about 4.5 minutes. It's also been a rock solid performer, with only 2-3 coasters due to media defects or user error, out of, oh, something like 600 CDs in one year of ownership.
First off, one major bugaboo of faster burners is error rates. The faster you burn, the more likely a write error will occur, compounded by media quality and capabilities. Most inexpensive stock is in the 24-32x ranger, and their error rates inevitably climb with the higher speeds. You could get 100% perfect burns, but would have to spend a little extra.
Secondly, in a world where people are racking up 200Gb or more in storage space, for one to make complete backups, they would be required to burn approximately 350 700MB CD-R (or R/W) discs. If one sat down for an all day backup spree, then you're talking over 14 hours of burning, not including time spent labeling each disc, lugging home 100 disc spools of media, and buying new cases to store all of said CDs (another $60 or so in cases). Economically ridiculous, and kind of silly when you think about it.
I believe, in my opinion, that we're reaching the limits of practicality. Take into account that DVD-R/W drives are approaching affordability (eg; under $200), and that one could store approximately 7 times the data on one disc (also reaching affordable levels, a 100 DVD-R spindle running around $60 nowadays on Price Watch). I think that the limit is about reached.
While I love my LG drive, my next drive when this one finally reaches coaster city will be a DVD-R/W.
DirecPC was my only viable alternative to AT&T's now total monopoly, thanks to DSL's crappy restrictions. I was hoping sometime in the next month or two to be able to get set up with an account, latency issues be damnned, since it would no longer require me to move house just to be closer to a telco office, and could be relocated quite easily, as opposed to setting up fresh service everywhere I go.
I thought Microsoft OSes were ALREADY suppositories. About the size of a Buick, but then again, that's what doctors mean when they say "You're going to feel a little discomfort.".
Ummm, what? Tablet PCs have USB support (and some even come with keyboards). You just plug in a mouse and keyboard and you're good to go.
Judging from the specs on one I've examined, the Tablet PC DOES suffer graphics performance wise, but give it time, since we're talking a whole new version of an old concept. How long did it take for mainstream high end 3D to make it to the laptop? If you look around, you'll note it took almost 15 years.
This sort of problem has been around for quite some time. Originally, solid state electronics were designed to last for anywhere up to a decade with minimal maintenance. Old timers here (eg; anyone 30 and older) can remember buying replacement vacuum tubes for old clunker TVs that, despite being older than they were, were still going strong. Similarly, older VCRs have a surprisingly long lifespan, where a bit of belt reconditioning, the occasional head cleaning, and minute bias adjustments were all that was needed to keep them operational. In fact, you can often get an old VHS toploader to run good as new with that small amount of maintenance.
However, the industries that build these devices have learned that making a device durable and expensive is not only counterproductive, but unprofitable. Why sell a TV that lasts 20 years, and sell it for $300, when you can make a TV that lasts 5 years, sell it for $200 a pop, and make $800 from consumers who consider it a bargain? Same goes for VCRs, which aren't made for durability anymore, in fact, being priced very close to walkmans and portable CD players, they're more geared towards disposability.
Unfortunately though, there's the electronic waste issue again, which I brought up regarding HDTV. Where will all the waste go? Once again, probably to 3rd world countries that consider a fast buck more important than turning it's towns into toxic waste dumps.
We seriously need to review this process, and find ways of cheaply and safely disposing of these materials, or instead, go for equipment that's rated for a lengthy operational period, putting the concept of responsible consumerism to practical use.
From personal experience, the most durable goods I've owned have been made by Sony, Hitachi, Pioneer, JVC and Toshiba. What's needed is a long term write up on equipment, rated by durability. Perhaps when some of these companies find themselves on the list for most durable (or subsequently, those least durable), then they'll focus on either building hardware that lasts longer, or improving their manufacturing techniques to improve on their records.
Unfortunately, Consumer Reports only does this with cars, while electronics recieve a meager 6 month long term rating.
Reminds me of my days as a teenager, when I used to go out on many an urban spelunking voyage in Manhatten. I used to explore the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge, the old City Hall station at the end of the IRT #4 line, wandered the subway tunnels at the wee hours when trains ran hourly, and abandoned subway stations, along with the old elevated freight rails on the lower west side, running from W34th St (now a train storage yard for Penn Station) to W14th street.
Pity that everyone's in anti terror mode now, though, nobody can ever enjoy the sensation of exploring forgotton or abandoned structures in NY (and probably many other states) without getting arrested. That leaves a great loss in metropolitan history for the masses.