(besides 60mm make a ton of noise anyway)... what luck to know its worth getting, i wasnt sure. Mike i got it at comp usa
Fair warning... make sure you check the CFM of what you have vs what you are getting. I just tested a 80mm 25CFM @ 2000rpm and found to run 10C hotter than 70mm fan 33.8CFM @ 4200rpm. 2000rpm may be cool for my 1700xp but barely adquate for my 2800xp. About 55C at no load.
1) subscribe to all magazines 2) Rent a warehouse to keep them 3) ??? 4) Profit!!!!
There was a man by the name of Mike Myers(sp) in San Jose who worked out a deal with comic book companies to buy their surplus stock from warehouses, have them shipped to him via train, which he then in turn bagged, stuck a 99cent for 3 label on them, and sold them to discount chains such as Walmart. This upset collectors greatly as mint condition previously uncirculated issues of rare comics started to flood the market, all available to those willing to sort through the bargain bins. Eventually he started putting stickers on them denoting them as being surplus rather than collectible, but still maintained a store front which I presume contained some gems found by the employees as they were bagging 3 for 99cent comics. He was making enough money off the 3 for 99cent deal he wasn't worried anything rare or valueable.
Needless to say your business model is actually a somewhat valid one, but chances are there already is a warehouse filled with crap that you could buy cheaply if you are willing to take the time, or if you prefer sell at walmart for 99cents a bag.
So i took the processor, along with the box, instruction manual and packets of some "thermal paste" (whatever that is) and chucked them all out the window
You must be the guy who dropped an retail box edition AMD 1700XP+ on my head. In all fairness to your claim I have found that AMD fans clog up rather quickly. Mine clogged in under 6 months. I've actually had similar luck with intel's solution.
If you have an AMD fan it's highly reccomended that you upgrade... This is what I use to adapt 80mm fans to the AMD sync. Because AMD uses machine screws there is no chance of it falling off, the airflow is higher and the noise lower.
Dude, compatibility with "cheapo memory" is NOT what you ever want! The fact that you've been seeing single bit errors is a sign you should be using ECC memory instead of cheapo Walmart RAM.
ECC =! quality
Part of the reason I went with VIA for my 1700xp system, is the fact that it would take ECC registered memory. I.E. old hand me down server memory which should meet with even your high quality requirements.
Compatibility with "cheapo memory" just means comptable with what is currently in mass production.
Funny.. I run an AMD Athlon XP2600+ and have been running this system with an Abit board for about 2 years now.
Agreed. I have one Asus k7v333 with Crucial that has been running a xp2000 for a couple of years now. Wasn't so stable under winme, very very stable under 2k and xp.
My biostar vip pro motherboard with generic memory, not so stable, but that's been resolved with different memory.
I have an AMD box that I put a video-capture card into and I wouldn't be able to capture more than a few minutes of video before the system would either lock-up or spontaneously reboot.
It's just as likely you have a flacky motherboard or flacky ram as chipset incompatibilities. For example, my system here started to suffer from random reboots and crashes till I finally isolated the problem to the memory having single bit errors when warm. I run an AMD 2800xp, have 3 drives, and my PCI slots are full. While my cooling system should be adquate [120mm case fan running 5v rather than 12v, 90mm power supply fan, 70mm cpu fan, 60mm GFX fan]. My issues go away when I use PNY memory, and they go away when I add fans and run coverless. I am able to capture up to 4hrs of video without crashing.
One of the reasons I started going with VIA chipset motherboards was the compatibility with a vast variety of memory including that cheepo stuff. The disadvantage is you get given this cheepo stuff that people can't use on their intel chipsets that has intermittent hard to diagnose issues. Also many OEMs designate AMD as the cheep system and use sub standard parts doesn't really help matters.
There were issues with non-intel chipsets in the 1990s. Microsoft was pretty much an intel only house and no thought was given to anything else. I remember many headaches with TNT2 video cards and both Cyrix and VIA chipsets. But these days AMD is very popular at MS esp since the AMD Opteron.
Why not bring up your issues on your friendly neighborhood capture card news group, and your motherboard's newsgroup. If nothing else there always is someone out there to help you with trouble shooting, or perhaps someone already documented the issue.
Speak for your own registers... the cash register I work at has an extra coin slot past the quarters for the.50 and the $1 coins (they're not being given back as change, and there's never enough to make separating them a nuisance, so there's no problem mixing them).
Well, I'm going by what the cashier says on this. To me to looks like many who complain there is no place for the coins have a place but it's being used for coin rolls, paper clips, and a wet sponge for the fingers.
I don't pretend to understand why people threw away perfectly good Canadian money. Perhaps they didn't understand it was legal tender and not special Expo script. Could be they were told they can't export Canadian currency. Perhaps they wanted to see a bunch of young teens run around and collect money. No kid left without at least an extra $20 in his pocket. The lucky ones collected enough to replace a good portion of their Monopoly set.
I can speak for the kids with the currency back in the states, and I know for a fact the banks with in walking distance of the school refused to exchange the currency. To them it was worthless. The wise ones found banks and coin shops elsewhere that would do the exchange, or held onto it for their next trip to Canada. The not foolish ones either gave it away, tossed it away, or flew it in the wind.
same here in germany with atelco, the online shop prices are just a little bit lower than the prices they ask for the same thing in the shops. but at least they list both prices on the website.
Is there an option for local pickup on the website for the cheaper price? I.e. does the product come from the same physical store at two different price rates? That's what gets me about Bestbuy. You can find something there, surf on one of their demo computers, find it cheaper online, and order it local store pickup.
I hate coupons, I hate rebates, but what I hate most off all is having watch out for different prices at the same damn store.
I typicaly don't shop at Best Buy. In fact the only reason I was even in there recently was the fact that they are the only people who carried and xD card reader that I could find open on a sunday. The website listed the item as being $17.99, but everything in their store reflected a slightly higher price (22.99 IIRC) save an open box. Now the nice person at the register did correct the price, but that doesn't change the fact that the website still reflects a lower price than the store price. Still I doubt i'd ever go back there.
And come to think about it, I paid with a ten, a five, and 6 twos without much problem, except the usual...
"What do you expect me to do with these" "put them under the drawer with your large bills and other misc things" "Why do you people do this to me" "Blame the post office"
Maybe it's just me but I don't get it. Where's the fun in paying with $2 bills?
What's the fun in paying with $2.00 bills?
They are a symbol of fighting beurocrasy. Think about it. Everyone complains about the fact that there is no place in a cash register for the $2.00 yet we've had the samed sized two since 1929. It's not like the money handlers haven't had enough time to update the cash register to reflect the type of currency issued by our own goverment. When you give a two dollar bill, it's giving them a reminder that they have had 75 years to accomidate it and it's their own damn fault they can't deal with it. You give a two, and they will remember you, and what you said. Or if nothing else, they remembered some jackass paid with twos.
Personaly I don't care that much. I give out twos only when I happen to get them back as change, which happens often enough.
The Eisenhower silver dollars (1971-1978) did come in a 40% silver version (about over their value in silver), and a copper nickel clad version. Both are 24 grams or so, slightly under an ounce. Needless to say the ones I got were worth about a buck, and I have 20 of them. My local coin shop circulated ones for $1.00. Spending one was NOT a big deal.
If we are talking about the same expo that I attended, then you probably attended Expo 86 in Vancouver. I think this was the latest one held in Canada. If you get the Expo right, the clerks might be less inclined to argue on the currency with you.
I stand corrected. My memory is off due to the fact that it was in the fall. I guess that's why just about all the currency there had an issue date of 1986. But IIRC correctly it was the last one in North America.
But it was a wonderful experence. When people left they threw their Canadian currency in the streets. We're talking wods of $20s and $50s here.
Odds are the clerk at the store was too young to remember even seeing those bills.
My point exactly. It's not classic American stupidity for thinking twice about accepting an uncommon bill or not. Anyone with an ounce of common sence would question whether or not the note was legal tender or not.
Twos are uncommon in America. Unlike Canada twos didn't catch on. The 2003 twos get stares as most people think they stopped producing them in the 70s.
I believe this is mainly due to the domination of retail by big chains, which don't like to deal with more denominations than will fit easily in a standard cash register.....That's why dollar coins will never catch on, unless and until Congress makes room for them by withdrawing dollar bills.
What I don't understand is we've had dollar coins for decades. Before the Susie B we had the Eisenhower (somewhat) Silver Dollar in the early 70s. Before that we had true blue silver dollars that were last produced in 1965. What happened to the dollar coin slot on the cash register, or the 50cent slot for that matter.
I'll agree the 50cent piece is a pain due to it's size, but every register i've seen in the past few years has an extra coin slot that's is typicaly filled with coin rolls. It seems to me they have a place for dollar coins but decide to use it for something else. After all why make a different drawer for Canadia as America?
Even worse yet, the $2.00 bill is still printed. I've seen them dated 1997 and 2003. What happened to its slot?
Actually we do...they just happen to be as uncommon up here as they are in the States
They seem to be slightly less rare than your $1.00 and $2.00 bills, but i've seen them.
I know I get hassled when I use $1.00/$2.00 Canadian bills in Canada.
Clerk "Where did you get these" Me "Expo 87" Clerk "But they say 86 on them" Me "I imagine they were printed before Expo 87" Clerk "Why do you have so many" Me "Well, we can't spend your currency in america, I went with my class and I collected the left over currency from all my classmates, today I bring it back". [a short time passes as they consult their book to see if it even looks like legal tender] Clerk "Where do you expect me to put this?" Me "Under the drawer where you keep your larger bills".
Truthfully, I would find it strange as well. I have not seen a $2 bill in a long long time. Same thing with all those $1 coins. However, people tend to accept strange coin amounts a lot easier then paper money amounts.
You tend to see the currency people saved up over the years at times such as these when the gas price doubles. At the local gas station someone filled up their truck with 60 Eisenhower Silver Dollars. Cash registers don't have a coin slot for dollar coins even though we've had dollar coins for decades. They should have them, but they don't. They are less desirable for stores than Suzie Bs or Sacagaweas. Needless to say they did the polite thing, set them aside, and asked people if they wanted their change in bills or Silver Dollars.
I kept them around long enough to see if any friends wanted them as I already had 20 of them. Not very rare or valuable, but still a cool thing to have, but eventually gave up and spent them. They got some odd looks, but I never had a problem with anyone taking it.
What I don't understand is in the past stores had books which listed pictures of legal tender. I know I got odd looks spending one and two Canadian dollar bills in Vancouver, but after looking in their book they decided it was legal tender if a tad dated. These days I imagine one could publish a nice PDF file and have it accessible on the register it self.
Totally... it will promote awareness to watch out for wire transfers from specific places if bank fraud is on a rise there. I don't care if it's India, Belgium, or Luxemburg. Mexico was hot on the fraud charts for a short period of time, and my was nice enough to phone me and ask me about a few trivial charges from there. Given I don't travel there often it was a legit concern.
When ever I watch the news, the stories almost always have a region associated with them. It in it self is hardly racist.
If it weren't for the delay, nobody'd bother to download (except for using the net as a post-hoc VCR, which is where it comes in really handy for me!)..
Look at things like Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Stargate SG1 and Atlantis. All of these were shown in the UK before the US yet for some reason UK is still tops for downloading. Don't count out post-hoc VCRs.
I could invest in a Digital VHS unit but I find the tapes a touch spendy. I could buy a stand alone DVD-R recorder but they are spendy and not always comptable with DVD players, or at least not mine. I could go with a Tivo style PVR but again price enters into the picutre. I could invest in a better tuner card, but that would require me to clear off HD space and invest in good solid cabeling to get a good signal. Better still I could talk to my cable provider and get a cable box that's HDTV ready and has firewire. I still would need good solid cable. Or I could download from someone else who already has invested in one of the above systems, who already spent more than i'm willing to spend, who already encoded it a nice format that'll fit 6 to 12 hrs per DVD-r.
Everyone else is apparently fine paying the disproportionately large transmission fees for picture and text messages
I don't know about you but I get unlimited text messages. I can update my address book from the web and there is no charge. But for the most part I use IM clients anyway which are totally in sync with the desktop version. If I need to exchange data I can provide a url by text, e-mail, or IM. Bluetooth would be nice, very nice, but for the most part I don't need it. The main thing I can think of using bluetooth for is a wireless keyboard for IM, assuming this feature is supported in phones. A wireless headset would be kinda spiffy but given the cost i'll stick to a wired one. As mobiles become more like PDAs I see the usefulness of bluetooth to decline. Assuming one's data plan is unlimited which is common among trio devices you can't beat using the mobile's network wireless communication for range.
Bluetooth to me is far too overpriced for what it does. I love the idea of a standard in wireless devices but I hate the fact that it costs too damned much. Hell the Logitech Cordless MX keyboard/mouse combo costs $200 about double of its propriority desktop equilivent.
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(besides 60mm make a ton of noise anyway)... what luck to know its worth getting, i wasnt sure. Mike i got it at comp usa
Fair warning... make sure you check the CFM of what you have vs what you are getting. I just tested a 80mm 25CFM @ 2000rpm and found to run 10C hotter than 70mm fan 33.8CFM @ 4200rpm. 2000rpm may be cool for my 1700xp but barely adquate for my 2800xp. About 55C at no load.
1) subscribe to all magazines
2) Rent a warehouse to keep them
3) ???
4) Profit!!!!
There was a man by the name of Mike Myers(sp) in San Jose who worked out a deal with comic book companies to buy their surplus stock from warehouses, have them shipped to him via train, which he then in turn bagged, stuck a 99cent for 3 label on them, and sold them to discount chains such as Walmart. This upset collectors greatly as mint condition previously uncirculated issues of rare comics started to flood the market, all available to those willing to sort through the bargain bins. Eventually he started putting stickers on them denoting them as being surplus rather than collectible, but still maintained a store front which I presume contained some gems found by the employees as they were bagging 3 for 99cent comics. He was making enough money off the 3 for 99cent deal he wasn't worried anything rare or valueable.
Needless to say your business model is actually a somewhat valid one, but chances are there already is a warehouse filled with crap that you could buy cheaply if you are willing to take the time, or if you prefer sell at walmart for 99cents a bag.
What about Soap Operas? Not much singing in them either. I think it more refers to the drama aspect.
But there is always music... esp during the plot twist. I.e.
You have 2 weeks to live
He is your brother
I'm in love with another man / woman / coma patient / small furry creature from alpha centuri
dah dah dummmmmm
So i took the processor, along with the box, instruction manual and packets of some "thermal paste" (whatever that is) and chucked them all out the window
You must be the guy who dropped an retail box edition AMD 1700XP+ on my head. In all fairness to your claim I have found that AMD fans clog up rather quickly. Mine clogged in under 6 months. I've actually had similar luck with intel's solution.
If you have an AMD fan it's highly reccomended that you upgrade... This is what I use to adapt 80mm fans to the AMD sync. Because AMD uses machine screws there is no chance of it falling off, the airflow is higher and the noise lower.
Dude, compatibility with "cheapo memory" is NOT what you ever want! The fact that you've been seeing single bit errors is a sign you should be using ECC memory instead of cheapo Walmart RAM.
ECC =! quality
Part of the reason I went with VIA for my 1700xp system, is the fact that it would take ECC registered memory. I.E. old hand me down server memory which should meet with even your high quality requirements.
Compatibility with "cheapo memory" just means comptable with what is currently in mass production.
Funny.. I run an AMD Athlon XP2600+ and have been running this system with an Abit board for about 2 years now.
Agreed. I have one Asus k7v333 with Crucial that has been running a xp2000 for a couple of years now. Wasn't so stable under winme, very very stable under 2k and xp.
My biostar vip pro motherboard with generic memory, not so stable, but that's been resolved with different memory.
I have an AMD box that I put a video-capture card into and I wouldn't be able to capture more than a few minutes of video before the system would either lock-up or spontaneously reboot.
It's just as likely you have a flacky motherboard or flacky ram as chipset incompatibilities. For example, my system here started to suffer from random reboots and crashes till I finally isolated the problem to the memory having single bit errors when warm. I run an AMD 2800xp, have 3 drives, and my PCI slots are full. While my cooling system should be adquate [120mm case fan running 5v rather than 12v, 90mm power supply fan, 70mm cpu fan, 60mm GFX fan]. My issues go away when I use PNY memory, and they go away when I add fans and run coverless. I am able to capture up to 4hrs of video without crashing.
One of the reasons I started going with VIA chipset motherboards was the compatibility with a vast variety of memory including that cheepo stuff. The disadvantage is you get given this cheepo stuff that people can't use on their intel chipsets that has intermittent hard to diagnose issues. Also many OEMs designate AMD as the cheep system and use sub standard parts doesn't really help matters.
There were issues with non-intel chipsets in the 1990s. Microsoft was pretty much an intel only house and no thought was given to anything else. I remember many headaches with TNT2 video cards and both Cyrix and VIA chipsets. But these days AMD is very popular at MS esp since the AMD Opteron.
Why not bring up your issues on your friendly neighborhood capture card news group, and your motherboard's newsgroup. If nothing else there always is someone out there to help you with trouble shooting, or perhaps someone already documented the issue.
Stop printing $1 bills. Eventually people will have to make the switch because there won't be any bills left after a few years.
Is this why they are printing $2.00 bills?
Speak for your own registers... the cash register I work at has an extra coin slot past the quarters for the .50 and the $1 coins (they're not being given back as change, and there's never enough to make separating them a nuisance, so there's no problem mixing them).
Well, I'm going by what the cashier says on this. To me to looks like many who complain there is no place for the coins have a place but it's being used for coin rolls, paper clips, and a wet sponge for the fingers.
Have they never heard of a currency exchange?
I don't pretend to understand why people threw away perfectly good Canadian money. Perhaps they didn't understand it was legal tender and not special Expo script. Could be they were told they can't export Canadian currency. Perhaps they wanted to see a bunch of young teens run around and collect money. No kid left without at least an extra $20 in his pocket. The lucky ones collected enough to replace a good portion of their Monopoly set.
I can speak for the kids with the currency back in the states, and I know for a fact the banks with in walking distance of the school refused to exchange the currency. To them it was worthless. The wise ones found banks and coin shops elsewhere that would do the exchange, or held onto it for their next trip to Canada. The not foolish ones either gave it away, tossed it away, or flew it in the wind.
Wikipedia has links to music and such. Among the missing is my favorite nouma feujcity.
same here in germany with atelco, the online shop prices are just a little bit lower than the prices they ask for the same thing in the shops.
but at least they list both prices on the website.
Is there an option for local pickup on the website for the cheaper price? I.e. does the product come from the same physical store at two different price rates? That's what gets me about Bestbuy. You can find something there, surf on one of their demo computers, find it cheaper online, and order it local store pickup.
I hate coupons, I hate rebates, but what I hate most off all is having watch out for different prices at the same damn store.
I typicaly don't shop at Best Buy. In fact the only reason I was even in there recently was the fact that they are the only people who carried and xD card reader that I could find open on a sunday. The website listed the item as being $17.99, but everything in their store reflected a slightly higher price (22.99 IIRC) save an open box. Now the nice person at the register did correct the price, but that doesn't change the fact that the website still reflects a lower price than the store price. Still I doubt i'd ever go back there.
And come to think about it, I paid with a ten, a five, and 6 twos without much problem, except the usual...
"What do you expect me to do with these"
"put them under the drawer with your large bills and other misc things"
"Why do you people do this to me"
"Blame the post office"
Maybe it's just me but I don't get it. Where's the fun in paying with $2 bills?
What's the fun in paying with $2.00 bills?
They are a symbol of fighting beurocrasy. Think about it. Everyone complains about the fact that there is no place in a cash register for the $2.00 yet we've had the samed sized two since 1929. It's not like the money handlers haven't had enough time to update the cash register to reflect the type of currency issued by our own goverment. When you give a two dollar bill, it's giving them a reminder that they have had 75 years to accomidate it and it's their own damn fault they can't deal with it. You give a two, and they will remember you, and what you said. Or if nothing else, they remembered some jackass paid with twos.
Personaly I don't care that much. I give out twos only when I happen to get them back as change, which happens often enough.
Some idiot filled their tank with Eisenhower Silver Dollars? And you spent them?
See what the US Mint says about the subject.
The Eisenhower silver dollars (1971-1978) did come in a 40% silver version (about over their value in silver), and a copper nickel clad version. Both are 24 grams or so, slightly under an ounce. Needless to say the ones I got were worth about a buck, and I have 20 of them. My local coin shop circulated ones for $1.00. Spending one was NOT a big deal.
Correction those 2003 series $2 bills were actually printed.
Yeah my bank still has these all in their fresh condition the last time I checked. 1996 and 1997 ones also exist.
If we are talking about the same expo that I attended, then you probably attended Expo 86 in Vancouver. I think this was the latest one held in Canada. If you get the Expo right, the clerks might be less inclined to argue on the currency with you.
I stand corrected. My memory is off due to the fact that it was in the fall. I guess that's why just about all the currency there had an issue date of 1986. But IIRC correctly it was the last one in North America.
But it was a wonderful experence. When people left they threw their Canadian currency in the streets. We're talking wods of $20s and $50s here.
Odds are the clerk at the store was too young to remember even seeing those bills.
My point exactly. It's not classic American stupidity for thinking twice about accepting an uncommon bill or not. Anyone with an ounce of common sence would question whether or not the note was legal tender or not.
Twos are uncommon in America. Unlike Canada twos didn't catch on. The 2003 twos get stares as most people think they stopped producing them in the 70s.
I believe this is mainly due to the domination of retail by big chains, which don't like to deal with more denominations than will fit easily in a standard cash register.....That's why dollar coins will never catch on, unless and until Congress makes room for them by withdrawing dollar bills.
What I don't understand is we've had dollar coins for decades. Before the Susie B we had the Eisenhower (somewhat) Silver Dollar in the early 70s. Before that we had true blue silver dollars that were last produced in 1965. What happened to the dollar coin slot on the cash register, or the 50cent slot for that matter.
I'll agree the 50cent piece is a pain due to it's size, but every register i've seen in the past few years has an extra coin slot that's is typicaly filled with coin rolls. It seems to me they have a place for dollar coins but decide to use it for something else. After all why make a different drawer for Canadia as America?
Even worse yet, the $2.00 bill is still printed. I've seen them dated 1997 and 2003.
What happened to its slot?
Actually we do...they just happen to be as uncommon up here as they are in the States
They seem to be slightly less rare than your $1.00 and $2.00 bills, but i've seen them.
I know I get hassled when I use $1.00/$2.00 Canadian bills in Canada.
Clerk "Where did you get these"
Me "Expo 87"
Clerk "But they say 86 on them"
Me "I imagine they were printed before Expo 87"
Clerk "Why do you have so many"
Me "Well, we can't spend your currency in america, I went with my class and I collected the left over currency from all my classmates, today I bring it back".
[a short time passes as they consult their book to see if it even looks like legal tender]
Clerk "Where do you expect me to put this?"
Me "Under the drawer where you keep your larger bills".
Truthfully, I would find it strange as well. I have not seen a $2 bill in a long long time. Same thing with all those $1 coins. However, people tend to accept strange coin amounts a lot easier then paper money amounts.
You tend to see the currency people saved up over the years at times such as these when the gas price doubles. At the local gas station someone filled up their truck with 60 Eisenhower Silver Dollars. Cash registers don't have a coin slot for dollar coins even though we've had dollar coins for decades. They should have them, but they don't. They are less desirable for stores than Suzie Bs or Sacagaweas. Needless to say they did the polite thing, set them aside, and asked people if they wanted their change in bills or Silver Dollars.
I kept them around long enough to see if any friends wanted them as I already had 20 of them. Not very rare or valuable, but still a cool thing to have, but eventually gave up and spent them. They got some odd looks, but I never had a problem with anyone taking it.
What I don't understand is in the past stores had books which listed pictures of legal tender. I know I got odd looks spending one and two Canadian dollar bills in Vancouver, but after looking in their book they decided it was legal tender if a tad dated. These days I imagine one could publish a nice PDF file and have it accessible on the register it self.
Absolutely, one should identify country of origin
Totally... it will promote awareness to watch out for wire transfers from specific places if bank fraud is on a rise there. I don't care if it's India, Belgium, or Luxemburg. Mexico was hot on the fraud charts for a short period of time, and my was nice enough to phone me and ask me about a few trivial charges from there. Given I don't travel there often it was a legit concern.
When ever I watch the news, the stories almost always have a region associated with them. It in it self is hardly racist.
If it weren't for the delay, nobody'd bother to download (except for using the net as a post-hoc VCR, which is where it comes in really handy for me!)..
:P
Look at things like Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Stargate SG1 and Atlantis. All of these were shown in the UK before the US yet for some reason UK is still tops for downloading. Don't count out post-hoc VCRs.
I could invest in a Digital VHS unit but I find the tapes a touch spendy. I could buy a stand alone DVD-R recorder but they are spendy and not always comptable with DVD players, or at least not mine. I could go with a Tivo style PVR but again price enters into the picutre. I could invest in a better tuner card, but that would require me to clear off HD space and invest in good solid cabeling to get a good signal. Better still I could talk to my cable provider and get a cable box that's HDTV ready and has firewire. I still would need good solid cable. Or I could download from someone else who already has invested in one of the above systems, who already spent more than i'm willing to spend, who already encoded it a nice format that'll fit 6 to 12 hrs per DVD-r.
I think i'll be a cheap bastard and download
Everyone else is apparently fine paying the disproportionately large transmission fees for picture and text messages
I don't know about you but I get unlimited text messages. I can update my address book from the web and there is no charge. But for the most part I use IM clients anyway which are totally in sync with the desktop version. If I need to exchange data I can provide a url by text, e-mail, or IM. Bluetooth would be nice, very nice, but for the most part I don't need it. The main thing I can think of using bluetooth for is a wireless keyboard for IM, assuming this feature is supported in phones. A wireless headset would be kinda spiffy but given the cost i'll stick to a wired one. As mobiles become more like PDAs I see the usefulness of bluetooth to decline. Assuming one's data plan is unlimited which is common among trio devices you can't beat using the mobile's network wireless communication for range.
Bluetooth to me is far too overpriced for what it does. I love the idea of a standard in wireless devices but I hate the fact that it costs too damned much. Hell the Logitech Cordless MX keyboard/mouse combo costs $200 about double of its propriority desktop equilivent.
I contend that ass holes don't exist!
Would this be a situation where one can link to goatex and have it actually be Informative?