I tried feeding one to the Seaman that lives on my dreamcast. No good. The %*()# thing still complains. I thought this was supposed to 'mellow him out or something.
Now here's an interesting thought. What would happen if you hooked one of these overclocked Genesis into the Sega CD or 32X attachments? As I recall the whole process of getting the Genesis and Sega CD to work together in parallel was a challenge to begin with because of different clock speeds between the two CPUs in each device.
My guess is he hasn't tried it or it doesn't work, as he doesn't elaborate on it.
For some reason this reminds me of a canadian census a few years back, around the time of that wonderful program the government was trying to developing to data mine Canadians. (does anyone remember what it was called?)
Anyway, as I owned farm land they gave me the extra-long form. They wanted to know everything -- my SIN, how much I made, my firearms, everything I planted, vehicles.. This went on for 5 pages.
I refused portions of it, including my SIN. Got a phone call from a snotty worker telling me that withholding information on a canadian census was illegal and I would be thrown in jail. I still refused.
Well I guess I wasn't the only one who refused. Anyway it sure is nice to see that the laws are stepping up to protect our privacy.
I used to give them the address of now ex-prime minister Jean Chretien. Hardly anyone ever got it, they just used to say, "Oh you're from out of town."
Hmmm. Now who's address should I use? So many people I secretly despise.
I used to use GeoPaint all the time with my old C64. It was the only paint program I was aware of that I could use with my color dot matrix printer at the time. The school computers were all Apple IIs and for some reason they couldn't even get Paintshop to produce in color (even though they had color printers), so it always impressed the teachers when I used my C64 for their stupid book reports.
The only drawback to GEOS was the fact it ran entirely from those 5 1/4 disks. They'd take forver to load and everytime I loaded up GEOS I'd have to set the clock. Betcha one of those harddrive units for the 64 would have made wonders for GEOS.
Here in Saskatoon our private school did the exact same thing. They rented the entire theatre for 1:30 on this wednesday so we can see the movie. Best of all, they charged us only $2 and a food donation.
I was looking at the slightly elliptical curve of the dish and it occured to me, the Star Choice dishes (Canadian) are designed to pick up two satellites at once. It could maybe give a wider line of sight if someone modified something like this. I think the feed can would have to be modified for something like this to work. Think something like this might work? or would I be wasting my time?
I seriously doubt it would take very long for the canadian government, and Shelia Copps to cave in to the demand of music labels.
She recently raised the "tape tax" as it has become known as to include Hard Drives, Flash Cards, etc. When people went to object we found that she had written it up so that we could protest, but it would do no good - the decision was already made. I was not happy at the time.
But reflecting on it, maybe she did know something the rest of us didn't know at the time. Then again this is Shelia Copps we're talking about. The second the labels complain, that will be the end of our loophole.
I DO know a far amount more about tractors and farming then you give me credit for, being a grain farmer who in fact does repair tractors as part of my operation. As I stated - it sounded like a good idea BUT this hasn't panned out. These computers in tractors are like the ones in your vehicle. It controls everything and they are a "black box" that can only be fixed by a "Programmer" with the right parts and a diagnostic computer. (they don't sell these kits or parts to us 'arrogant farmboys' I have tried to get them.)
Also, don't be so quick to pass out "arrogance" to people. This is a true story, that has been repeated over and over to many farmers in this area. Our closest repair centre is in fact that far away. We can't take them to there when the computer goes down, so they have to come to us.
Hey, it happens. Lots of people by these fancy new computers with 40GB drives, and all they do is learn how to start Solitare or pinball, or browse the net with their high speed connection. They have no idea how to check their drive to see what's on it, or that they have suddenly begun uploading all the time.
I have to say I think this is a pretty good idea... but...
Farm machinery and computers just don't mix. It sounded like a great idea when they started to put computers into tractors, but it has been nothing but a nightmare to farmers. Wires get too warm and fry or make contact all the time under the hood blowing out chips, dirt gets into the electronics themselves and causes them to quit working. When this happens, can Mr. Farmer fix it? No, it is like a modern vehicle. Mr. Farmer usually has to pay some programmer from 300KMs away to drive down and fix a $5 computer chip. People have lost days due to down time and at a critical time in the year this can mean tens of thousands of dollars a day, not to mention the cost of getting someone to fix it out to the tractor. The cost and problems these computerized tractors have is why no farmer considers it, or if they do they soon realize their mistake and trade the sucker off quick.
Sounds like a great idea until these automated tractors start shutting down and then you start to see the real cost of this venture. Leave the driving to the farmer. Technology still can't compete against the flesh and blood farmer.
I have been debating doing something like this for some time, however I was thinking about buying a few 800 Mhz wireless transmitters and then speakers/headphones. You won't get the best quality sound out of something like this if you are fussy about sound, but for home use it works great, especially the headphones. I can wonder around the house freely and still hear my MP3s.
Unfortunately this means I still have to get back to the computer to skip the songs I hate. Any suggestions how I can handle this problem?
I was listening to the radio the other day with a commentary by a radio host. He was referring to the fact that in this country, minority groups seem to have more rights and privledges then the rest of us. Examples that come to mind are the french. They are a big minority in Canada now ( think Chinese is now the second most populous language spoken here now), yet everything has to be labelled to satisfy french speakers. Native Americans have tax breaks, and so on.
If I was one of the Jedi religion (which I admit I labelled my religion as "none of your business") I would start making as much noise as these other minoity groups. At the very least you can get laws made to wear your uniform and a lightsaber to work.
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It's not exactly free. I noted milk and cheese comic a few months ago in prevus and asked my local guy to order it for me with the rest of the ones I usually pick up. He apologized and told me that he couldn't do it. In order to get it (the free comic book that is) he had to either by $70 of comics in some way, either by purchasing these "free comics" or by sales of other books from the supplier totalling $70. He never explained it and I never thought to ask further.I kind of wish I had now... so I don't get my milk and cheese. So depressing. I think I'll go to the fridge now and get the milk and cheese out and make cool action figures that go sour in the sun.
Okay. It's basically a cult movie, and you aparently can't even find a copy barely nowadays, but it is a fun little movie and I love all those hidden subliminal messages.
Sounds good, don't forget the unlicenced fansubbed manga. You can fill quite a few megs with Yokohama Shopping trip, Kimaguire Orange Road, etc. (hope I spelled them correctly)
In our nearby city, many of the cabbies tend to listen to the talk radio station for the whole day, mostly because they give out traffic reports and accidents as they happen.
So if these ones are all listening to talk radio all day long, how can the RIAA (or whatever body governs in place of the RIAA) waltz in and charge them anything?
"Disney chairman Richard W. Cook says that they've budgeted to market Spirited Away in up to 1,000 North American theaters, and if the Oscars endorse it as much as Metacritic has, Disney will launch it"
A thousand theaters. In that case, I'll never see it in a theater, considering every one of them in my area is Pro-big budget Hollywood movies.
That being the case, I will try for the first time the same thing most Anime fans have been doing for some time -- ordering the DVD that has already been released in Japan and having it shipped over here so I can watch it on my region free player.(I looked at it already and it does have English captions)
It's $100 for a DVD or a 6 1/2 hour drive to Calgary ($140 for gas and trip expenses, minus the cost of the ticket)
I had exactly the same problem, less then 2 weeks after using it I discovered the same problem. So I called up their tech support and ran the diagnostic tools they told me to run, funny thing is the drive passed their tests. It was after I had a neighbor run a drive repair tool that it reported the error, but that didn't matter. Fujitsu's drive tests said it was a good drive, so they wouldn't refund or replace it. That was a $200 drive.
I will not EVER buy another one of their harddrives because of the run around and hassle their tech support gave me.
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I tried feeding one to the Seaman that lives on my dreamcast. No good. The %*()# thing still complains. I thought this was supposed to 'mellow him out or something.
Death would also be good. I hate that fish.
Now here's an interesting thought. What would happen if you hooked one of these overclocked Genesis into the Sega CD or 32X attachments? As I recall the whole process of getting the Genesis and Sega CD to work together in parallel was a challenge to begin with because of different clock speeds between the two CPUs in each device.
My guess is he hasn't tried it or it doesn't work, as he doesn't elaborate on it.
This a movie already Roujin Z as I recall was about a healthcare bed that went beserk.
For some reason this reminds me of a canadian census a few years back, around the time of that wonderful program the government was trying to developing to data mine Canadians. (does anyone remember what it was called?)
Anyway, as I owned farm land they gave me the extra-long form. They wanted to know everything -- my SIN, how much I made, my firearms, everything I planted, vehicles.. This went on for 5 pages.
I refused portions of it, including my SIN. Got a phone call from a snotty worker telling me that withholding information on a canadian census was illegal and I would be thrown in jail. I still refused.
Well I guess I wasn't the only one who refused. Anyway it sure is nice to see that the laws are stepping up to protect our privacy.
I used to give them the address of now ex-prime minister Jean Chretien. Hardly anyone ever got it, they just used to say, "Oh you're from out of town."
Hmmm. Now who's address should I use? So many people I secretly despise.
I used to use GeoPaint all the time with my old C64. It was the only paint program I was aware of that I could use with my color dot matrix printer at the time. The school computers were all Apple IIs and for some reason they couldn't even get Paintshop to produce in color (even though they had color printers), so it always impressed the teachers when I used my C64 for their stupid book reports.
The only drawback to GEOS was the fact it ran entirely from those 5 1/4 disks. They'd take forver to load and everytime I loaded up GEOS I'd have to set the clock. Betcha one of those harddrive units for the 64 would have made wonders for GEOS.
Here in Saskatoon our private school did the exact same thing. They rented the entire theatre for 1:30 on this wednesday so we can see the movie. Best of all, they charged us only $2 and a food donation.
Sweet!
So what exactly is the spyware included with a Dell do? I've never used a Dell so this is all news to me, although it doesn't surprise me one bit.
Hmm. All I ever saw was Sesame Street. :-D
I was looking at the slightly elliptical curve of the dish and it occured to me, the Star Choice dishes (Canadian) are designed to pick up two satellites at once. It could maybe give a wider line of sight if someone modified something like this. I think the feed can would have to be modified for something like this to work. Think something like this might work? or would I be wasting my time?
Oh, but it sounds so much cooler then saying "Brand new product we are hoping you'll be suckers enough to buy."
They recently revamped it. Hard drives are now included, as are flash cards.
I seriously doubt it would take very long for the canadian government, and Shelia Copps to cave in to the demand of music labels.
She recently raised the "tape tax" as it has become known as to include Hard Drives, Flash Cards, etc. When people went to object we found that she had written it up so that we could protest, but it would do no good - the decision was already made. I was not happy at the time.
But reflecting on it, maybe she did know something the rest of us didn't know at the time. Then again this is Shelia Copps we're talking about. The second the labels complain, that will be the end of our loophole.
I DO know a far amount more about tractors and farming then you give me credit for, being a grain farmer who in fact does repair tractors as part of my operation. As I stated - it sounded like a good idea BUT this hasn't panned out. These computers in tractors are like the ones in your vehicle. It controls everything and they are a "black box" that can only be fixed by a "Programmer" with the right parts and a diagnostic computer. (they don't sell these kits or parts to us 'arrogant farmboys' I have tried to get them.)
Also, don't be so quick to pass out "arrogance" to people. This is a true story, that has been repeated over and over to many farmers in this area. Our closest repair centre is in fact that far away. We can't take them to there when the computer goes down, so they have to come to us.
Hey, it happens. Lots of people by these fancy new computers with 40GB drives, and all they do is learn how to start Solitare or pinball, or browse the net with their high speed connection. They have no idea how to check their drive to see what's on it, or that they have suddenly begun uploading all the time.
Does this make them a first class idiot? No.
I have to say I think this is a pretty good idea... but...
Farm machinery and computers just don't mix. It sounded like a great idea when they started to put computers into tractors, but it has been nothing but a nightmare to farmers. Wires get too warm and fry or make contact all the time under the hood blowing out chips, dirt gets into the electronics themselves and causes them to quit working. When this happens, can Mr. Farmer fix it? No, it is like a modern vehicle. Mr. Farmer usually has to pay some programmer from 300KMs away to drive down and fix a $5 computer chip. People have lost days due to down time and at a critical time in the year this can mean tens of thousands of dollars a day, not to mention the cost of getting someone to fix it out to the tractor. The cost and problems these computerized tractors have is why no farmer considers it, or if they do they soon realize their mistake and trade the sucker off quick.
Sounds like a great idea until these automated tractors start shutting down and then you start to see the real cost of this venture. Leave the driving to the farmer. Technology still can't compete against the flesh and blood farmer.
I have been debating doing something like this for some time, however I was thinking about buying a few 800 Mhz wireless transmitters and then speakers/headphones. You won't get the best quality sound out of something like this if you are fussy about sound, but for home use it works great, especially the headphones. I can wonder around the house freely and still hear my MP3s.
Unfortunately this means I still have to get back to the computer to skip the songs I hate. Any suggestions how I can handle this problem?
I was listening to the radio the other day with a commentary by a radio host. He was referring to the fact that in this country, minority groups seem to have more rights and privledges then the rest of us. Examples that come to mind are the french. They are a big minority in Canada now ( think Chinese is now the second most populous language spoken here now), yet everything has to be labelled to satisfy french speakers. Native Americans have tax breaks, and so on.
If I was one of the Jedi religion (which I admit I labelled my religion as "none of your business") I would start making as much noise as these other minoity groups. At the very least you can get laws made to wear your uniform and a lightsaber to work.
It's not exactly free. I noted milk and cheese comic a few months ago in prevus and asked my local guy to order it for me with the rest of the ones I usually pick up. He apologized and told me that he couldn't do it. In order to get it (the free comic book that is) he had to either by $70 of comics in some way, either by purchasing these "free comics" or by sales of other books from the supplier totalling $70. He never explained it and I never thought to ask further.I kind of wish I had now. .. so I don't get my milk and cheese. So depressing. I think I'll go to the fridge now and get the milk and cheese out and make cool action figures that go sour in the sun.
MURDER MAYHEM MERV GRIFFIN!!!!
Okay. It's basically a cult movie, and you aparently can't even find a copy barely nowadays, but it is a fun little movie and I love all those hidden subliminal messages.
Thanks for the link. I haven't heard of this place before. Will check it out in my free time.
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Sounds good, don't forget the unlicenced fansubbed manga. You can fill quite a few megs with Yokohama Shopping trip, Kimaguire Orange Road, etc. (hope I spelled them correctly)
In our nearby city, many of the cabbies tend to listen to the talk radio station for the whole day, mostly because they give out traffic reports and accidents as they happen.
So if these ones are all listening to talk radio all day long, how can the RIAA (or whatever body governs in place of the RIAA) waltz in and charge them anything?
"Disney chairman Richard W. Cook says that they've budgeted to market Spirited Away in up to 1,000 North American theaters, and if the Oscars endorse it as much as Metacritic has, Disney will launch it"
A thousand theaters. In that case, I'll never see it in a theater, considering every one of them in my area is Pro-big budget Hollywood movies.
That being the case, I will try for the first time the same thing most Anime fans have been doing for some time -- ordering the DVD that has already been released in Japan and having it shipped over here so I can watch it on my region free player.(I looked at it already and it does have English captions)
It's $100 for a DVD or a 6 1/2 hour drive to Calgary ($140 for gas and trip expenses, minus the cost of the ticket)
And it does sound very good...
I had exactly the same problem, less then 2 weeks after using it I discovered the same problem. So I called up their tech support and ran the diagnostic tools they told me to run, funny thing is the drive passed their tests. It was after I had a neighbor run a drive repair tool that it reported the error, but that didn't matter. Fujitsu's drive tests said it was a good drive, so they wouldn't refund or replace it. That was a $200 drive.
I will not EVER buy another one of their harddrives because of the run around and hassle their tech support gave me.