You whine about DirectX 8.1 with 95, but you know nothing. I have been abandoned worse than this! I have an SiS motherboard with built in video, and SiS decided to stop making drivers for it, and the current drivers are incompatible with DirectX 8, but heaven forbid they should tell you that... I had to find some hack someone had made to uninstall directx 8 so I could put 7 back on. The lesson? Don't buy from shit companies who will abandon you in a few years...
Just wanted to point out that with this accessory:
Mobile Monitor 5.4
the gamecube rocks! Puts the ps one to shame, and shows why it's an advantage to have a small console.
to not becoming addicted to games is to mask your game addiction with other, stronger addictions. Start going to LAN parties at you local coke dealers house. Install a beer fridge next to the PS2. Go hang out at the arcade on the seedy side of town where you can score drugs and points. Then who will care if your addicted to games?
Well yeah, you could spend a couple of hundred $$$ on a mp3 car deck, but I suggest something different. Buy a deck with an audio input in it. Lots of decks have these, it's just a headphone sized jack on the faceplate. Then use those extra couple hundred bucks you saved to buy a phat portable mp3 player and just get a male->male headphone cord and your rockin out in no time.
The cable company will let me connect 1 or 10,000 televisions up to their CATV service, so long as I pay my monthly bill for the channels I recieve.
While that is the case with analog cable, you can see the cable companies have been headed in this direction for a while, as digital cable requires you to have a decoder per tv. And I know they charge you extra for the 2nd decoder, but I also think there is another charge for having extra decoders (i.e. if I bought my own decoder they could detect it and charge me).
I thnik they probably do use flat fees, but if the line gets bombed I'm sure it's disconected or the rate goes up the next month. But I was under the impression that there is a fee for all pay phone calls to 1-800 numbers, so go call them from a pay phone.
Re:email maybe, but downloading movies?
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of course if the taliban had internet access before they left, which it sounds like they did, then most of the infrastucture is probably still there...
Especially because attorneys general are not elected, so who are they really responsible to?
Really? I dunno about anywhere else but here in Oregon we do elect our attorney general. Is this true in other states or are we smoking high quality moderator crack out here in the NW?
While this is a possibility, it seems that in the current economic state the broadband providers are barely hanging on. They aren't likely to do anything to further alienate paying customers. In the future hopefully we will finally get some competition in broadband ensuring that no providers alienate their customers. Oh how I hate monopolies.
Just had to brag I still have a working power pad and games. Anyone ever played the 2 in 1 game called short order. It's got a stupid memory game but also has an awesome game where foxes run by and put bombs under hens in a hen house, and you save the hens by popping the bomb by hitting the corresponding power pad button. One of the funnest games ever (IMHO) and you really get a work out on the higher levels.
So, most current windowed gui's are based on the idea of a desktop, with file folders, documents you shuffle bach and forth, etc. Seems like what people are asking for here are some of the normal office desktop tools, tape, stapler, scissors, pen, etc. So, should there be a gui that has this kanda stuff, a stapler to link/stack documents, tape to bind stuff, scissors to split, pen to annotate. Any other tools that would work like this?
Seems to me overlapping is needed in this day of 17" monitors. As soon as we have excess monitor space these paradigms will take over, but for now I need to be able to hide stuff on my monitor easily.
Indeed, the Supreme Court has never upheld a prior restraint, even faced with the competing interest of national security or the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial
Just to satisfy my curiosity, I know the compelling interest of national security refers to the pentagon papers ruling, but does anyone know what case they are refering to where the Supreme Court let free speech interfere with a right to a fair trial?
the iPod has 32 megs of memory in it that (unless apple engineers are idiots) should buffer the mp3's. so it should only read from the hard drive every couple of songs, and then only for a moment.
HP seems to like doing about faces on issues as soon as they are unpopular (Dimitri anyone). And it seems to work fairly well for them, is this a tactic many companies employ?
The other fact people need to realize is that this bill gives law enforcement better ability to go after *terrorists*...not just anybody they feel like... and just like before they must show probable cause in a court of law before they can go after you. So, unless you are a terrorst, you have little to fear.
From the wired article:
Feingold's amendments would have rewritten only a tiny portion of the vast, 243-page bill. Even if they had been added, the USA Act still allows police to conduct Internet eavesdropping without a court order in some circumstances, lets federal prosecutors imprison non-citizens for extended periods
So no they do not need to show probable cause, thus violating the constitution, thus a buch of pissed off geeks.
Trust me, I work at a university helpdesk, and while I guess you can't say much for the intelligence of college students, they should at least be familiar with computers. Instead they are like confused sheep. Many think WinME and Win2000 are the same thing. And have no idea where to begin setting up a dial up connection even though it seems obvious to you and me.
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Wasn't the sega nomad backlit? It was a portable genesis game player.
ElComSoft's chief executive, Alex Katalov, said he was pleased that the company, not Sklyarov, would bear sole responsibility for the charges.
Read the link... Sounds like the company supports him.
Well, it sounds like they're pursuing charges against ElcomSoft, wouldn't that be using the DMCA to go after them?
You whine about DirectX 8.1 with 95, but you know nothing. I have been abandoned worse than this! I have an SiS motherboard with built in video, and SiS decided to stop making drivers for it, and the current drivers are incompatible with DirectX 8, but heaven forbid they should tell you that... I had to find some hack someone had made to uninstall directx 8 so I could put 7 back on. The lesson? Don't buy from shit companies who will abandon you in a few years...
Just wanted to point out that with this accessory: Mobile Monitor 5.4
the gamecube rocks! Puts the ps one to shame, and shows why it's an advantage to have a small console.
to not becoming addicted to games is to mask your game addiction with other, stronger addictions. Start going to LAN parties at you local coke dealers house. Install a beer fridge next to the PS2. Go hang out at the arcade on the seedy side of town where you can score drugs and points. Then who will care if your addicted to games?
Well yeah, you could spend a couple of hundred $$$ on a mp3 car deck, but I suggest something different. Buy a deck with an audio input in it. Lots of decks have these, it's just a headphone sized jack on the faceplate. Then use those extra couple hundred bucks you saved to buy a phat portable mp3 player and just get a male->male headphone cord and your rockin out in no time.
The cable company will let me connect 1 or 10,000 televisions up to their CATV service, so long as I pay my monthly bill for the channels I recieve.
While that is the case with analog cable, you can see the cable companies have been headed in this direction for a while, as digital cable requires you to have a decoder per tv. And I know they charge you extra for the 2nd decoder, but I also think there is another charge for having extra decoders (i.e. if I bought my own decoder they could detect it and charge me).
So Ask Slashdot is only for stories nobody's interested in?
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No, it's just that slashdot isn't that smart, and only the easy questions make it to the front page
I thnik they probably do use flat fees, but if the line gets bombed I'm sure it's disconected or the rate goes up the next month. But I was under the impression that there is a fee for all pay phone calls to 1-800 numbers, so go call them from a pay phone.
of course if the taliban had internet access before they left, which it sounds like they did, then most of the infrastucture is probably still there...
Especially because attorneys general are not elected, so who are they really responsible to?
Really? I dunno about anywhere else but here in Oregon we do elect our attorney general. Is this true in other states or are we smoking high quality moderator crack out here in the NW?
While this is a possibility, it seems that in the current economic state the broadband providers are barely hanging on. They aren't likely to do anything to further alienate paying customers. In the future hopefully we will finally get some competition in broadband ensuring that no providers alienate their customers. Oh how I hate monopolies.
I believe they are talking about using aol dial up as your primary net connection. Not using dsl like you have setup.
The hp unit sucked most because it has DRM, anyone know what, if any, DRM this unit has?
Just had to brag I still have a working power pad and games. Anyone ever played the 2 in 1 game called short order. It's got a stupid memory game but also has an awesome game where foxes run by and put bombs under hens in a hen house, and you save the hens by popping the bomb by hitting the corresponding power pad button. One of the funnest games ever (IMHO) and you really get a work out on the higher levels.
can you afford a better lawyer than the person who took your domain?
So, most current windowed gui's are based on the idea of a desktop, with file folders, documents you shuffle bach and forth, etc. Seems like what people are asking for here are some of the normal office desktop tools, tape, stapler, scissors, pen, etc. So, should there be a gui that has this kanda stuff, a stapler to link/stack documents, tape to bind stuff, scissors to split, pen to annotate. Any other tools that would work like this?
Seems to me overlapping is needed in this day of 17" monitors. As soon as we have excess monitor space these paradigms will take over, but for now I need to be able to hide stuff on my monitor easily.
Indeed, the Supreme Court has never upheld a prior restraint, even faced with the competing interest of national security or the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial
Just to satisfy my curiosity, I know the compelling interest of national security refers to the pentagon papers ruling, but does anyone know what case they are refering to where the Supreme Court let free speech interfere with a right to a fair trial?
a good senator shouldn't give a shit about what other senators think of him. They are there to represent us, not play buddy buddy.
the iPod has 32 megs of memory in it that (unless apple engineers are idiots) should buffer the mp3's. so it should only read from the hard drive every couple of songs, and then only for a moment.
HP seems to like doing about faces on issues as soon as they are unpopular (Dimitri anyone). And it seems to work fairly well for them, is this a tactic many companies employ?
The other fact people need to realize is that this bill gives law enforcement better ability to go after *terrorists*...not just anybody they feel like... and just like before they must show probable cause in a court of law before they can go after you. So, unless you are a terrorst, you have little to fear. From the wired article: Feingold's amendments would have rewritten only a tiny portion of the vast, 243-page bill. Even if they had been added, the USA Act still allows police to conduct Internet eavesdropping without a court order in some circumstances, lets federal prosecutors imprison non-citizens for extended periods So no they do not need to show probable cause, thus violating the constitution, thus a buch of pissed off geeks.
Trust me, I work at a university helpdesk, and while I guess you can't say much for the intelligence of college students, they should at least be familiar with computers. Instead they are like confused sheep. Many think WinME and Win2000 are the same thing. And have no idea where to begin setting up a dial up connection even though it seems obvious to you and me.