I looked over the article, I missed any reference to Starbucks Doubleshot. Is this something that could even be classified as an energy drink, even though it's essentially coffee? I've found it to be much more to my taste than any of the regular energy drink offerings (though, AMP is bearable) because it tastes like... coffee. Probably doesn't offer the same "kick" as the other energy drinks out there, but it certainly does a good job at increasing one's alertness level.
No, I'm saying that the last game he was credited with was released in 1996. Technology has improved a lot since then. The piracy scene (point of this discussion) has advanced a lot as well, due to the increase in broadband use. The games he's credited with are not just old-fashioned. They're also old. The latest (and only) game on his site is a port of an Atari ST game to PC.
It's amazing how irrelevant your comment was to my comment... was there even any point in posting it? I realize that he's working on a GameCube game right now, but considering that he hasn't released any games in a while, there's very little chance that he has a lot of up-to-date first-hand experience with piracy.
Jeff Minter was credited on a game as early as 1983 and as recently as 1997. His/Her career probably spans more years than those displayed since these dates are based on the credits documented in MobyGames (which are incomplete). Jeff Minter has been credited with the roles Programming, Sound, Graphics, Design and Other. Jeff Minter has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Llamasoft, Atari Corporation, High Voltage Software and Atari. This does not imply employment by these companies.
Those benchmarks are leaked images from the HardOCP benchmark, for most part. If you look, you'll notice that HardOCP decided to do something unusual this time and not compare each card at the same performance settings, but rather, compare it in such a way that it shows the top performance setting the card could use while running at a similar fps count as the other cards. I personally am not really fond of the approach, because seeing everything at the same in-game performance setting makes it a lot easier to compare to other cards.
I really think one would have to be insane to trust an Iomega product with 35GB worth of data. I've had a Zip drive die on me from the infamous "click of death" losing 250MB worth of data in the process, and that was pretty disappointing.
Now compare this to losing an $400 dollar drive along with an $60 disc full of 35GB worth of data, which could potentially be expected from this product if one were to pay attention to Iomega's history. I'd probably end up going on a rampage.
Being a Debian convert, I installed apt-get on SuSE to do that. There's a lot more apt sources available for suse than there are YOU media sources, so a wider variety of packages is out there. That in combination with the apt-get GUI synaptic serves as a very robust replacement for "Install New Package". Try it out sometime if you have time.
It felt pretty sluggish to me too, but I don't consider that to be a major problem because it's not like I spend most of my time adjusting system settings. Neither will you, I assume.
Anyway, I also switched from Debian to SuSE within a few months after the Novell buyout. Always been a big fan of Novell, and I really wouldn't have even considered SuSE if it wasn't for the buyout. SuSE does a kick-ass job at being a desktop replacement.
Note that this means that the next version of Netscape, if there is one, will be based on 1.7 etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way that there's going to be a new Netscape version considering that AOL killed off the Netscape division a while ago.
I don't care if I get modded down for this, but hey, it's something that needs to be said.
Methinks slashdot needs to be more careful about who gets moderated up in these discussions.
I absolutely agree. Posts such as yours should never be moderated this high. Just because someone is clearly impressed with a laptop that they've purchased (one that I am considering purchasing, as well) does not mean that they were paid by the laptop manufacturer to advertise it.
Of course if parent poster is not guilty, let them prove it.
Ever heard this expression: "innocent until proven guilty"? It's quite a popular phrase, and I think it very well applies in this case. The burden of proof is on you, so if you're going to accuse someone of astroturfing you better have some real proof. Show a connection between rosewood and eMachines, especially considering the number of "Insighful" and "Interesting" posts in his post history.
White earbuds actually are often considered a "status symbol", though the stock earbuds that are included with the iPod are not very good. There are better white alternatives though, and I know at least two iPod users who purchased those just to maintain their status as iPod users while enjoying decent sound quality. I really can't understand the reasoning behind this, as black earbuds offering the same level of sound quality can often be had for a much better price.
Disciplinary Actions List - Bi-Bz... Surrender of license accepted. Effective July 1, 1993. BROWN & MAUGHAN, AN ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION (COR 2529). MAUGHAN, MARK G. (CPA 38184)...
The reason he is suing is because "Surrender of license accepted." is shown in the description, while it actually is carried over from a section on the page which doesn't refer to his company. Though if you view the page you'll see that the company is actually on probation for 3 years. The site linked to is actually http://www.dca.ca.gov. Now, apparently, this guy thinks that if Google sampled some of the results on the page, and accidentally showed that, Google is somehow responsible for libel.
Personally, I think he's insane, but I can see his position on this because it does look misleading. I just hope he doesn't win anything.
So if my calculations are correct (and they usually aren't, I got a B in Elementary Algebra), there's approximately 287 days left until Apple dies. That's pretty pessimistic!
I received a letter in the mail from AT&T Wireless saying that to take advantage of the updated coverage area and so on I need to upgrade my Nokia 3650 phone (which is a pretty powerful and recent phone) to one of the models offered, every single one of which was a lot worse than my 3650. I contacted AT&T Wireless over to the phone to find out why they're trying to get me to switch to a crappier phone and I was told that it was just a mass mailing and that my phone is fully capable of handling the updated network, thus, I am not required to "upgrade".
The article (I read it!) does say that to take advantage of the updated network I need to upgrade the phone, but the point is that it's not a forced upgrade and I can freely continue using my current phone. I'm going to try and get through to customer retention and get a more decent upgrade phone, though.
As far as I know, it's not a Mandrake thing, it's a kernel thing. If you load a binary-only module into the kernel that uses a non-standard license, it "taints" the kernel.
Note that you can't submit contributions to Bush via Amazon. They have a sidebar stating just exactly that.
I, however, am impressed that Clark received more contributions than Dean. Maybe he stands a chance after all, and maybe I'll have the opportunity to actually vote for my favorite candidate. Rock on.
I think the most important part to consider if you're going to be buying this for the purpose of jogging would be whether these iPods use a solid-state drive, instead of a hard drive for storage. Obviously jogging with a regular hard drive isn't a very good idea.
You can get it pretty cheap even if you're not a new subscriber. Current subscribers can order through the DirecTV website to get a triple-LNB dish upgrade along with a Hughes HDVR2 DirecTiVo for $99 plus $14.95 shipping.
The catch, however, is that it'll tie you into a 12-month contract. The contract is not an extension on top of your current contract if you have one, but essentially a replacement of the contract, meaning that you're stuck with DirecTV in a contract for the next 12 months, whether you had any contract before ordering the deal does not make any difference.
A lot of the iRiver CD/MP3 players are getting an OGG upgrade. For example, my Rio Volt SP-150, which is actually a rebranded iRiver iFP-250 is getting a firmware upgrade from iRiver that supports Ogg and MP3.
Ah-ha, thanks for the info. Seems like they're still working on it, but Ogg's still in beta. I might purchase their player at some point, just for the hell of it, the 20Gb USB 1.1 one is sure to heavily drop in price around the time when they release the 40Gb 2.0 one Joe mentioned. I just wish my 30Gb iPod had nice, or any, Ogg support. Meh.
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I looked over the article, I missed any reference to Starbucks Doubleshot. Is this something that could even be classified as an energy drink, even though it's essentially coffee? I've found it to be much more to my taste than any of the regular energy drink offerings (though, AMP is bearable) because it tastes like... coffee. Probably doesn't offer the same "kick" as the other energy drinks out there, but it certainly does a good job at increasing one's alertness level.
No, I'm saying that the last game he was credited with was released in 1996. Technology has improved a lot since then. The piracy scene (point of this discussion) has advanced a lot as well, due to the increase in broadband use. The games he's credited with are not just old-fashioned. They're also old. The latest (and only) game on his site is a port of an Atari ST game to PC.
It's amazing how irrelevant your comment was to my comment... was there even any point in posting it? I realize that he's working on a GameCube game right now, but considering that he hasn't released any games in a while, there's very little chance that he has a lot of up-to-date first-hand experience with piracy.
Here's the MobyGames summary on Jeff Minter:
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MobyGames Auto-Generated Summary *:
Jeff Minter was credited on a game as early as 1983 and as recently as 1997. His/Her career probably spans more years than those displayed since these dates are based on the credits documented in MobyGames (which are incomplete). Jeff Minter has been credited with the roles Programming, Sound, Graphics, Design and Other. Jeff Minter has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Llamasoft, Atari Corporation, High Voltage Software and Atari. This does not imply employment by these companies.
Games Credited
Defender 2000 (1996), Atari Corporation
Tempest X3 (1996), Interplay
Tempest 2000 (1994), Atari Corporation
Ancipital (1984), Llamasoft
Attack of the Mutant Camels (1983), Llamasoft
Check it out here: http://mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/develop
If the summary is any indication, the guy is pretty behind the times when it comes to video games. Or at least developing them.
Those benchmarks are leaked images from the HardOCP benchmark, for most part. If you look, you'll notice that HardOCP decided to do something unusual this time and not compare each card at the same performance settings, but rather, compare it in such a way that it shows the top performance setting the card could use while running at a similar fps count as the other cards. I personally am not really fond of the approach, because seeing everything at the same in-game performance setting makes it a lot easier to compare to other cards.
I really think one would have to be insane to trust an Iomega product with 35GB worth of data. I've had a Zip drive die on me from the infamous "click of death" losing 250MB worth of data in the process, and that was pretty disappointing.
Now compare this to losing an $400 dollar drive along with an $60 disc full of 35GB worth of data, which could potentially be expected from this product if one were to pay attention to Iomega's history. I'd probably end up going on a rampage.
Being a Debian convert, I installed apt-get on SuSE to do that. There's a lot more apt sources available for suse than there are YOU media sources, so a wider variety of packages is out there. That in combination with the apt-get GUI synaptic serves as a very robust replacement for "Install New Package". Try it out sometime if you have time.
It felt pretty sluggish to me too, but I don't consider that to be a major problem because it's not like I spend most of my time adjusting system settings. Neither will you, I assume.
Anyway, I also switched from Debian to SuSE within a few months after the Novell buyout. Always been a big fan of Novell, and I really wouldn't have even considered SuSE if it wasn't for the buyout. SuSE does a kick-ass job at being a desktop replacement.
iTunes Music Store has a few William Hung tracks available for your perusal. Enjoy!
*snicker*
Note that this means that the next version of Netscape, if there is one, will be based on 1.7 etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way that there's going to be a new Netscape version considering that AOL killed off the Netscape division a while ago.
Did they really? I just downloaded playfair-0.2.tar.gz off the UNC mirror with no problems.
Shh, don't give him any ideas! Haven't you heard St. Anger?
I don't care if I get modded down for this, but hey, it's something that needs to be said.
Methinks slashdot needs to be more careful about who gets moderated up in these discussions.
I absolutely agree. Posts such as yours should never be moderated this high. Just because someone is clearly impressed with a laptop that they've purchased (one that I am considering purchasing, as well) does not mean that they were paid by the laptop manufacturer to advertise it.
Of course if parent poster is not guilty, let them prove it.
Ever heard this expression: "innocent until proven guilty"? It's quite a popular phrase, and I think it very well applies in this case. The burden of proof is on you, so if you're going to accuse someone of astroturfing you better have some real proof. Show a connection between rosewood and eMachines, especially considering the number of "Insighful" and "Interesting" posts in his post history.
White earbuds actually are often considered a "status symbol", though the stock earbuds that are included with the iPod are not very good. There are better white alternatives though, and I know at least two iPod users who purchased those just to maintain their status as iPod users while enjoying decent sound quality. I really can't understand the reasoning behind this, as black earbuds offering the same level of sound quality can often be had for a much better price.
The reason he is suing is because "Surrender of license accepted." is shown in the description, while it actually is carried over from a section on the page which doesn't refer to his company. Though if you view the page you'll see that the company is actually on probation for 3 years. The site linked to is actually http://www.dca.ca.gov. Now, apparently, this guy thinks that if Google sampled some of the results on the page, and accidentally showed that, Google is somehow responsible for libel.
Personally, I think he's insane, but I can see his position on this because it does look misleading. I just hope he doesn't win anything.
So if my calculations are correct (and they usually aren't, I got a B in Elementary Algebra), there's approximately 287 days left until Apple dies. That's pretty pessimistic!
The article states that you can get the updated edition of the Professional version for $59.95.
I received a letter in the mail from AT&T Wireless saying that to take advantage of the updated coverage area and so on I need to upgrade my Nokia 3650 phone (which is a pretty powerful and recent phone) to one of the models offered, every single one of which was a lot worse than my 3650. I contacted AT&T Wireless over to the phone to find out why they're trying to get me to switch to a crappier phone and I was told that it was just a mass mailing and that my phone is fully capable of handling the updated network, thus, I am not required to "upgrade".
The article (I read it!) does say that to take advantage of the updated network I need to upgrade the phone, but the point is that it's not a forced upgrade and I can freely continue using my current phone. I'm going to try and get through to customer retention and get a more decent upgrade phone, though.
As far as I know, it's not a Mandrake thing, it's a kernel thing. If you load a binary-only module into the kernel that uses a non-standard license, it "taints" the kernel.
Note that you can't submit contributions to Bush via Amazon. They have a sidebar stating just exactly that.
I, however, am impressed that Clark received more contributions than Dean. Maybe he stands a chance after all, and maybe I'll have the opportunity to actually vote for my favorite candidate. Rock on.
Uh, does September 30th ring a bell? That was the release date for Half-Life 2.
I think the most important part to consider if you're going to be buying this for the purpose of jogging would be whether these iPods use a solid-state drive, instead of a hard drive for storage. Obviously jogging with a regular hard drive isn't a very good idea.
Fiction: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Non-Fiction: Masters of Doom by David Kushner
You can get it pretty cheap even if you're not a new subscriber. Current subscribers can order through the DirecTV website to get a triple-LNB dish upgrade along with a Hughes HDVR2 DirecTiVo for $99 plus $14.95 shipping.
The catch, however, is that it'll tie you into a 12-month contract. The contract is not an extension on top of your current contract if you have one, but essentially a replacement of the contract, meaning that you're stuck with DirecTV in a contract for the next 12 months, whether you had any contract before ordering the deal does not make any difference.
A lot of the iRiver CD/MP3 players are getting an OGG upgrade. For example, my Rio Volt SP-150, which is actually a rebranded iRiver iFP-250 is getting a firmware upgrade from iRiver that supports Ogg and MP3.
Ah-ha, thanks for the info. Seems like they're still working on it, but Ogg's still in beta. I might purchase their player at some point, just for the hell of it, the 20Gb USB 1.1 one is sure to heavily drop in price around the time when they release the 40Gb 2.0 one Joe mentioned. I just wish my 30Gb iPod had nice, or any, Ogg support. Meh.