Yup. The only sony device that I have working is this monitor (a Multiscan 200sf). But my stereo, PDA, cd player, etc. all died prematurely. My gf and I went all the way to Chicago to get her CD player fixed, and they told us to "just buy a new one, they're only $30 or so". Fuckers... I REALLY hate Sony.
Oh did I ever mention the MagicGate Memory Stick.
On a normal memory stick, you can put non-DRM'd mp3s on to listen to on your PDA.
With a twice-as-expensive MagicGate M$ (heh), you can only use DRM'd low-quality ATRAC3. "Yay."
Then again M$'s are already twice as expensive as CF or even SD cards. Did I mention that I hate Sony? Never ever buy their products, even if they look cool. They're worse than M$. Heh M$ [memorystick] and M$ [microsoft]. Damn I sense a conspiracy...
No I think a Celeron is when (some of) the Pentium's cache fails. It used to be that way, I haven't kept up. I'm pretty sure the A64 3000+ and the 3200+ only differ by a disabled cache bank...
This is exactly why I didn't go into medicine or BME. I don't see how anyone is helped by charging someone $500,000 to diagnose them with a cold. And over-engineering 19th century tech didn't really excite me either.
At least as an EE I can make someone a cool PDA or something:)
He said somewhere (on his website, IIRC) that he asks for permission. If he doesn't get permission from the original artist, he doesn't publish it. One time he slipped up (with "Amish Paradise"), and Coolio got pissed, but I think he won in court anyway. So I think the grandparent is wrong, actually.
No his freedom is vanishing because some people can't handle the freedoms. He might be able to chat on his cell-phone and drive quite safely. Just because you can't doesn't mean he should be penalized. That's his point.
> If i have 10 people on a 100Mb cat5 run, they can each get 10 mbps.
If it's switched, and it's between the users, then they can each get 100Mbps to each other. To the "main server", whatever that may be, they do share 100Mbps, though.
> If I have 30 people on a 54mbps wireless connection they can all get 54mpbs.
Wrong. Everyone shares the 54mbps minus overhead. If any of those 30 get over 1Mbps you'll be lucky.
I agree with you. I'm very happy with my computer, some coffee, math, and my girlfriend. Food is helpful too.
But seriously... who needs all this shit? Isn't there some way to happiness other than bossing people around on your uberPDAfone while driving your BMW into your 50 car garage? That image of success has been drilled into me my whole life.
Personally I can't imagine myself happier than having a cup of coffee with my girlfriend on a nice sunny morning. Oh well, to each his own, I guess. At least I won't have a stress-induced heart attack at age 31...
You deserve to get sued when you put Linux on your Xbox so you can play TuxRacer... oh wait no you don't.
Real SHOULD be in the clear here; I don't seem them doing any moral harm. But if their service breaks, about all they can do is keep both pieces. I mean, they can't sue Apple (but Apple can't sue them either).
> The museum was tough because the PC was set up to keep you out of windows.
That reminds me of the email kiosks in the CCC at UIC (if you don't go to UIC, then that's meaningless to you, i know). Anyway, I wanted to read my gmail. It's webmail, right? Well it "DENIED" me because "gmail.com is not a webmail service". Okay fine.
I just pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL as many times as I could. About 700 task manager windows came up and then a "SECURITY BREACH" dialog came up. I killed that program, which prompted it to spawn about 30 more. I could feel the computer overheating, so I just left:)
So yeah. Kiosks make me mad. Just thought I'd share that.
(BTW the commentary I got from my friend I was with was "you just can't make Windows secure, can you")
Xfce4 is really the best desktop environment out there.
Although I switched away to GNOME this morning (just to try it out), I've used Xfce forever. It's fast, it's clean, it's complete. It has much better Xinerama support than GNOME or KDE (KDE == nonexistant, GNOME == so-so).
I don't really like the file manager, but it's fine I guess. I use xterm for file management anyway.
So yeah, try out Xfce if you're looking for something less bloated than KDE or Gnome (but is still pretty). Icewm is pretty nice, too.
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Yup. The only sony device that I have working is this monitor (a Multiscan 200sf). But my stereo, PDA, cd player, etc. all died prematurely. My gf and I went all the way to Chicago to get her CD player fixed, and they told us to "just buy a new one, they're only $30 or so". Fuckers... I REALLY hate Sony.
Oh did I ever mention the MagicGate Memory Stick.
On a normal memory stick, you can put non-DRM'd mp3s on to listen to on your PDA.
With a twice-as-expensive MagicGate M$ (heh), you can only use DRM'd low-quality ATRAC3. "Yay."
Then again M$'s are already twice as expensive as CF or even SD cards. Did I mention that I hate Sony? Never ever buy their products, even if they look cool. They're worse than M$. Heh M$ [memorystick] and M$ [microsoft]. Damn I sense a conspiracy...
No I think a Celeron is when (some of) the Pentium's cache fails. It used to be that way, I haven't kept up. I'm pretty sure the A64 3000+ and the 3200+ only differ by a disabled cache bank...
This is exactly why I didn't go into medicine or BME. I don't see how anyone is helped by charging someone $500,000 to diagnose them with a cold. And over-engineering 19th century tech didn't really excite me either.
:)
At least as an EE I can make someone a cool PDA or something
Maybe it was slashdot that my ex didn't like... oh well so much for reproducing!!!!
Yup, I'm willing to pay for clothes, as well. You wear them all day, they might as well be good. I prefer Marshall Fields myself...
:)
> "Buy what you want, and just live with the cost."
Very, very insightful. Money comes and money goes. It's just a number in a database...
Good post, dasmegabyte
I heard Starbucks uses shitty coffee. But, it tastes good to me, so I'll pay for it :)
:)
Besides how do you tell your girlfriend "nah let's go to Jewel and buy some cheap coffee instead of going out... it's cheaper ya know".
NOT speaking from experience, that's about when some other guy says "I'll take you out..." and then you don't have a girlfriend anymore.
Starbucks it is
He said somewhere (on his website, IIRC) that he asks for permission. If he doesn't get permission from the original artist, he doesn't publish it. One time he slipped up (with "Amish Paradise"), and Coolio got pissed, but I think he won in court anyway. So I think the grandparent is wrong, actually.
No his freedom is vanishing because some people can't handle the freedoms. He might be able to chat on his cell-phone and drive quite safely. Just because you can't doesn't mean he should be penalized. That's his point.
> If i have 10 people on a 100Mb cat5 run, they can each get 10 mbps.
If it's switched, and it's between the users, then they can each get 100Mbps to each other. To the "main server", whatever that may be, they do share 100Mbps, though.
> If I have 30 people on a 54mbps wireless connection they can all get 54mpbs.
Wrong. Everyone shares the 54mbps minus overhead. If any of those 30 get over 1Mbps you'll be lucky.
I hope OSDN (slashdot's parent) doesn't buy OFDM tech. That would be confusing...
> Apple asked them not to develop it further for some reason.
Fuck Apple.
Apple asked the hymn people to stop developing it, and they told Apple to fuck off. Much easier that way, really.
I agree with you. I'm very happy with my computer, some coffee, math, and my girlfriend. Food is helpful too.
But seriously... who needs all this shit? Isn't there some way to happiness other than bossing people around on your uberPDAfone while driving your BMW into your 50 car garage? That image of success has been drilled into me my whole life.
Personally I can't imagine myself happier than having a cup of coffee with my girlfriend on a nice sunny morning. Oh well, to each his own, I guess. At least I won't have a stress-induced heart attack at age 31...
Do you work for the Department of Redundancy Department?
:)
the R in RAID stands for Redundant ya know.
Oh well you type your PIN number into an ATM machine too, right
> you deserve to get sued by both sides
You deserve to get sued when you put Linux on your Xbox so you can play TuxRacer... oh wait no you don't.
Real SHOULD be in the clear here; I don't seem them doing any moral harm. But if their service breaks, about all they can do is keep both pieces. I mean, they can't sue Apple (but Apple can't sue them either).
No no, that's not until 2291 when the New Earth Government legalizes no-holds-barred fighting!
(Yeah, yeah... too much UT...)
Couldn't you load an unsigned driver that blows away the portion of the OS that checks signatures?
Smashing the stack isn't just for h4x0rs anymore...
> The museum was tough because the PC was set up to keep you out of windows.
:)
That reminds me of the email kiosks in the CCC at UIC (if you don't go to UIC, then that's meaningless to you, i know). Anyway, I wanted to read my gmail. It's webmail, right? Well it "DENIED" me because "gmail.com is not a webmail service". Okay fine.
I just pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL as many times as I could. About 700 task manager windows came up and then a "SECURITY BREACH" dialog came up. I killed that program, which prompted it to spawn about 30 more. I could feel the computer overheating, so I just left
So yeah. Kiosks make me mad. Just thought I'd share that.
(BTW the commentary I got from my friend I was with was "you just can't make Windows secure, can you")
I think I just came up with a new name for a pornographic anime series...
Nope, you're right. The same thing is happening here.
:)
Search yahoo.com, it's ok. Search email yahoo.com, it's an error. Good job, Google
> Just because you disagree doesn't make it offtopic or flamebait.
:D
Nope, it makes it -1 Overrated
Wouldn't want to get hit in M2 for that, ya know.
If you hired engineers that couldn't do math, that's why your company folded :)
Math is one of those essentials for engineering...
Yup, I my first Hotmail account had 1 gig of storage and an interface different from every other mail client in existence.
I've always had a full archive of searchable usenet posts.
Product search? Psh we had that in 1991!
Basically, google is a lot more than a damn good web search. It also searches products, news, usenet, and my email! That _is_ innovation.
Xfce4 is really the best desktop environment out there.
Although I switched away to GNOME this morning (just to try it out), I've used Xfce forever. It's fast, it's clean, it's complete. It has much better Xinerama support than GNOME or KDE (KDE == nonexistant, GNOME == so-so).
I don't really like the file manager, but it's fine I guess. I use xterm for file management anyway.
So yeah, try out Xfce if you're looking for something less bloated than KDE or Gnome (but is still pretty). Icewm is pretty nice, too.
Correct. You said that much better than I did :)
Anyway, I just learned this today myself, from the Ars Technica review.
Press Ctrl+L in the new file selector. Then you have a nice completion-line. Works in Spacial Nautilus, too.
:P
There is an expert mode. You just have to be an expert to use it