You kidding me right? A language were I have to know the gender of my socks to refrence them? A language that requires you to speak really fast to get long awkward sentences said? No thank you.
Being a Houstonian myself, I feel it is my duty to inform you of these peoples correct title! They are correlty reffered to as "Ex-Enron Employees" or "Ex-Dynegy Employees". Please use thier respectful titles!
They have some cool stuff. But thier customer service pretty much sucked the last couple of times I went in there. Although I my understanding is the computer shop they used to have in the rear was actually a diffrent ocmpany, talk about a big rip off! Gadgeteers on Westpark was cool... but it's long gone.
However there are women in Drag Racing oddly enough. Shirley Muldoney left no doubt that they could be competitive. I also think drag racing is more about the tech. they've pretty much got it to the point where all they have to do is react quickly on hitting the gas and hang on for the ride. So I guess NASCAR is a bit more difficult int hat arena. You gotta turn left alot;)
all of these are "emerging technologies". Honestly. shouldn;t we consider this the possible drives of the *future*? Whan I think of the drive of tomorrow, I wanna know what will be available TOMORROW or at least int he very near term. When will I be able to buy a 500gig hard drive? I'm sure this isn;t too far off. Let me know about that. Not just possiblities that have on preliminary research completed.
More and more I work with people in the ocmputer industry who have never signed on to a local BBS. I got in late, just before the era of the USR Courrier HST. I remember spending my time on boards running Celerity, Baphomet, DLX, Synchronet, Galacticom,and a few others. I still have friends that I met online back on Destiny(Destination Imagination). How it all has changed.
They love these huge numbers. They use these figures they come up with as losses. More lossess means less profits means less taxes. Less taxes paid out byt he companies means more money for the executives pocketbooks. And that is what it is all about, the rich people making sure they get richer.
I've personally had great luck with Ricoh burners. My two 12x drives burn like butter. But in general it seems several companies have inexpensive burners that work just fine. And in all onesty.. does it really need ot last more than 2-3 years? After that you're gonna have upgraded out of it anyhow. And if you just need osmethign cheap... A new one will cost next to nothign byt hen anyhow.
$360? That's cheap! My 2x Sony Spressa was $800! But.. it did finallyd ie a few months ago. *sigh* Oh well, as much as I like SCSI.. it's just a hassle these days.
For the last few years it has been a rare occurance for me to have any cash in my pockets. It's just too much hassle, and when I have a few dollars in my pocket I fins it ends up going in vending machines or other such places. Working in downtown Houston, TX I found most resturants more than happy to take credit cards. Especiallyt he ones worth eating at. With a little looking around I've found deveral places around my house that accept credit card. For instace, Whataburger (Texas based hamurger place), some of the Burger Kings (desperate place ot eat), Schlotzkys (sp?), and several others accept credit card. And where they accept credit cards, they accept chekcing cards. I just haven;t sene the point of the added liability and inconvienance of carrying around paper money/coins. Especially I enjoy the fact my pants aren't falling down from all the damn change nor do I rattle when I walk.
Some of the freeware Tivo-like programs use XMLTV to gather the program data. So how will that effect these projects? My main concideration for looking into these projects is because of the monthly fee associated with my Tivo. $12 a month I can justify.. but I could really use a seocnd one.. but $25 a month or so just doesn't seem worth it to me. And if I have to pay to get information for a free linux app.. where is the advantage? More work for the same money?
I think that the desire for cheaper products just happens to be a blessing for the companies in this respect. They want you to buy crap so you will buy it again. Most consumers only want cheap. So your left with a large void for those that truly desire quality. If you seek quality and want somethign that lasts... your less likely to find it.
Still, when it comes down to it, are the profit margines so small that they can't be profitable selling for the same price with even a little more quality? I'm willing to bet that even 1 or 2 dollars extra spent in the construction of many consumer electronics would make a drastic diffrenc ein overall quality. So many things nwo are lowest quality. Simple things that could make a product better for pennies will be passed up. There's creating a product cheap enough to sell easily.. then there is maximizing profits for the sake of the CEO's pcokets.
Planned obsolescence. Companies know that as long as a consumer has somethign that works they are inclined to keep using it. They can't make money selling you one product once. The whole goal of these companies is to have you buy thier product again and again. Why do you think so few quality products are available today?
$1000 or so for a good POST card would easily buy you a few new machines. Why bother wasting your time for parts that are so cheap to replace these days. Why do you think nobody does board level work anymore? It costs more money due to time spent than to just replace the thing. Well.. aside from everythign being surface mounted...
Regular breaks are a must. I suggest smoking... but only outside. Your nicotine desire will force your butt out the door to take a 5-10 minute break regularly so you can burn one. Works for my anyhow!
My electric bill is already huge. How much will these elctric cars cost the consumer when plugged into the wall every night? How much do these batteries cost to replace and how frequently? How about the electric motors? Can I pick one up at autozone.. or do I get to pay a large fortune for a one off design? Aren't batteries a bit on the toxic side? Saving the environment is all fine.. but I gotta be able to afford the thing too.
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You kidding me right? A language were I have to know the gender of my socks to refrence them? A language that requires you to speak really fast to get long awkward sentences said? No thank you.
Being a Houstonian myself, I feel it is my duty to inform you of these peoples correct title! They are correlty reffered to as "Ex-Enron Employees" or "Ex-Dynegy Employees". Please use thier respectful titles!
They have some cool stuff. But thier customer service pretty much sucked the last couple of times I went in there. Although I my understanding is the computer shop they used to have in the rear was actually a diffrent ocmpany, talk about a big rip off! Gadgeteers on Westpark was cool... but it's long gone.
However there are women in Drag Racing oddly enough. Shirley Muldoney left no doubt that they could be competitive. I also think drag racing is more about the tech. they've pretty much got it to the point where all they have to do is react quickly on hitting the gas and hang on for the ride. So I guess NASCAR is a bit more difficult int hat arena. You gotta turn left alot ;)
all of these are "emerging technologies". Honestly. shouldn;t we consider this the possible drives of the *future*? Whan I think of the drive of tomorrow, I wanna know what will be available TOMORROW or at least int he very near term. When will I be able to buy a 500gig hard drive? I'm sure this isn;t too far off. Let me know about that. Not just possiblities that have on preliminary research completed.
More and more I work with people in the ocmputer industry who have never signed on to a local BBS. I got in late, just before the era of the USR Courrier HST. I remember spending my time on boards running Celerity, Baphomet, DLX, Synchronet, Galacticom,and a few others. I still have friends that I met online back on Destiny(Destination Imagination). How it all has changed.
They love these huge numbers. They use these figures they come up with as losses. More lossess means less profits means less taxes. Less taxes paid out byt he companies means more money for the executives pocketbooks. And that is what it is all about, the rich people making sure they get richer.
Hmm.. why don;t you pose that queastion to Ozzy?
I've personally had great luck with Ricoh burners. My two 12x drives burn like butter. But in general it seems several companies have inexpensive burners that work just fine. And in all onesty.. does it really need ot last more than 2-3 years? After that you're gonna have upgraded out of it anyhow. And if you just need osmethign cheap... A new one will cost next to nothign byt hen anyhow.
$360? That's cheap! My 2x Sony Spressa was $800! But.. it did finallyd ie a few months ago. *sigh* Oh well, as much as I like SCSI.. it's just a hassle these days.
I think the point here is that the news services can use this system and report it over the radio as they do now. Just no choppers in the air.
For the last few years it has been a rare occurance for me to have any cash in my pockets. It's just too much hassle, and when I have a few dollars in my pocket I fins it ends up going in vending machines or other such places. Working in downtown Houston, TX I found most resturants more than happy to take credit cards. Especiallyt he ones worth eating at. With a little looking around I've found deveral places around my house that accept credit card. For instace, Whataburger (Texas based hamurger place), some of the Burger Kings (desperate place ot eat), Schlotzkys (sp?), and several others accept credit card. And where they accept credit cards, they accept chekcing cards. I just haven;t sene the point of the added liability and inconvienance of carrying around paper money/coins. Especially I enjoy the fact my pants aren't falling down from all the damn change nor do I rattle when I walk.
Some of the freeware Tivo-like programs use XMLTV to gather the program data. So how will that effect these projects? My main concideration for looking into these projects is because of the monthly fee associated with my Tivo. $12 a month I can justify.. but I could really use a seocnd one.. but $25 a month or so just doesn't seem worth it to me. And if I have to pay to get information for a free linux app.. where is the advantage? More work for the same money?
Ahh.. the memories. I remember playing thier RPG for hours. What was it.. Land of Yserbius? People were so friendly online back then too...
I think that the desire for cheaper products just happens to be a blessing for the companies in this respect. They want you to buy crap so you will buy it again. Most consumers only want cheap. So your left with a large void for those that truly desire quality. If you seek quality and want somethign that lasts... your less likely to find it.
Still, when it comes down to it, are the profit margines so small that they can't be profitable selling for the same price with even a little more quality? I'm willing to bet that even 1 or 2 dollars extra spent in the construction of many consumer electronics would make a drastic diffrenc ein overall quality. So many things nwo are lowest quality. Simple things that could make a product better for pennies will be passed up. There's creating a product cheap enough to sell easily.. then there is maximizing profits for the sake of the CEO's pcokets.
Planned obsolescence. Companies know that as long as a consumer has somethign that works they are inclined to keep using it. They can't make money selling you one product once. The whole goal of these companies is to have you buy thier product again and again. Why do you think so few quality products are available today?
$1000 or so for a good POST card would easily buy you a few new machines. Why bother wasting your time for parts that are so cheap to replace these days. Why do you think nobody does board level work anymore? It costs more money due to time spent than to just replace the thing. Well.. aside from everythign being surface mounted...
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Don't you mean "everyone"?
Regular breaks are a must. I suggest smoking... but only outside. Your nicotine desire will force your butt out the door to take a 5-10 minute break regularly so you can burn one. Works for my anyhow!
Which rmeinds me...
My electric bill is already huge. How much will these elctric cars cost the consumer when plugged into the wall every night? How much do these batteries cost to replace and how frequently? How about the electric motors? Can I pick one up at autozone.. or do I get to pay a large fortune for a one off design? Aren't batteries a bit on the toxic side? Saving the environment is all fine.. but I gotta be able to afford the thing too.
216,000 miles on a 88 Civic
OK, so I replaced the engine at 215,000 miles cause it had lost some get up and go...