I think I speak for all US Slashdotters when I say... HA HA:)
It was a tough few months not downloading those episodes. I wanted the show to survive here in the US. Though I can't understand why they won't show them in both countries at the same time considering how successful they were, unless Sci-Fi paid more to get a 'world' exclusive
I know I sure don't. It seems that compaines (you know, entities in it for the money) that do anything remotely open he has to chime in and dismiss it as insuficient or something.
Companies can't make money giving their crown jewels away. Their jewels are their investment in their employees who generate code. Sometimes, companies can afford to do that because it generates income on other levels for them, sometimes, companies can't.
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When I was in 8th and 9th grade in 85 - 87 we only had a handful of typewriters that were electric daisywheels. The rest of the room was manual typewriters that had the A key and I think the 1 key were inscribed, the rest were blank.
By the end of the first semester I was typing 73 WPM with 0 mistakes in time trials or whatever we call them. Easy A. I remember when they had correction stuff on the daisy wheels. you could fix yer mistakes really quick but when the correctino tape ran out they wouldn't replace it. It had a huge buffer, like 30 or 40 chars so you could back up quite a bit, back then, it was fun to play with.
Older brother shows younger brother if you toss a match on the gasoline you spill it 'foomps' real quick.
Younger brother tries it when older brother not around, it goes foomp, younger brother then opens can of gasoline and pours it onto still burning match on the floor.
Garage burning down (no children hurt) and hilarity ensue.
There were seven secondary explosions becuase older brother mowed lawns to make money and had multiple mowers & gas cans in the garage.
You're not married are you? Not all geeks are lucky enough to find another computer geek to marry and procreate with. We can only have kids and teach them how to outwit their mother by the time they are 5.
I went with Time Warner's VoIP because it had hard wired 911 we know where you are service, that is what kept me off of Vonage.
Also what do you do if your 3 or 4 year old is smart enough to do 911 but has a problem telling you where they live other than the state?
There are lots of instances where E911 service is important, and you don't have the time to think 'damn, VoIP doesn't support this'
Well the last time I had my phone disconnected for non-payment was 1992 so things may have changed since then, but in Wichita, KS specifically you got no dial tone and stuff didn't work at all.
Agree, that and battery life. How much will it last having a wireless radio on + a storage device big enough to hold 10K or more songs? I mean people complain about the 12 hr battery life of the iPod and how it doesn't always last that long. That and you'd have issue with airplanes where the FAs won't have a clue if you're phone is on or off and even if you have a phone that can go airplane mode there are lots of times you get argued with by an FA making sure you aren't going to kill everyone (/sarcasm)
Disclaimer, I'm a a parent, so sometimes when it comes to parenting issues vs. 'freedom' issues I'd whole heartedly jump in on the 'kill the bastards' side of things when it comes to sex offenders.
I think what has happened here is that the press and the accessibility of the information about recent offenses has gotten a lot of coverage. I don't know if 'sex offenders' is the 'shark' of this year where any event regarding it will be reported ad naseum like the deadly shark attacks of 2003 that ended up being no more than any other year
We're trying to find a platform independant offering that will let us play World of Warcraft (me on my iMac, him on his PC).
However, I could barely hear him. I had to crank my volume up really, really loud to hear him and tweaked all the settings I could find. Tonight I'm going to try my bluetooth headset to see if that makes a difference but is there any settings on the windows side to increase the gain? He couldn't seem to find it, and well he's a gamer, not a computer person so he may be missing something and I dont' have a windows box at home to look myself on.
Wasn't making it up, I can't get it to act like I thought it woudl on my machine. I can't right click on an ISO and say 'burn to disk' and I can't create an image and burn it by dragging files to my CD-R/RW drive running said XP SP1.
Nice to see I get moderated as a Troll when I really have an issue with being unable to burn CDs at work without software from another vendor running the 'released' operating system. I'm not on SP2 because my company won't let me be not sure if that changed it.
Would very much like to know how. I've got a Thinkpad X40 with a CD-RW/DVD drive running Windows XP SP1 in it and when I put the CD in I get no options to burn, dragging files onto it don't work, things like that.
The EM64T dual proc systems are going to be limited to 16GB Maximum due to the lindenhurst limits, and to top it off they're also rank-limited so you're going to have to buy single rank 2GB DIMMs to get to 16GB, not a inexpensive option.
I've not seen a dual opteron system go beyond 8 DIMM slots total, or four per proc. This is a limitation to DDR1 I believe. DDR2 will help some (speed of DIMM) but really FBDs next year will help out a lot too. Again, not an inexpensive proposition.
Your best bet for 'lots of slots' would be a quad or higher capable system. IBM's x366 and the other 4-way boxes out there have around 16 memory slots, and with 4GB DIMMs you could crank it up to 64GB.
Toshiba I bought back then. Still works, never cleaned it. I think the cleaner disc thing is trying to make you think that you have a vinyl record and need to clean it. Not quite sure what value it ads to a lens other than making you need to clean it more and more.
Business Profiles while on Apple's site and obviously a marketing spun message does show that many things I would consider 'verticle' like a Doctor's Office, Legal Office, Dentist Office, Architect, and many others are shown on what they use/how they use it and how it takes little to no IT staff to do it.
Granted this is targeted at a small or medium business so I don't think a Fortune 500 is going to tank Windows in a day but it does show that a lot of geek 'truisms' about Mac in the office are a bit outdated.
Oh I didn't mean that the undefended border is a bad thing at all, just that your government as well as ours should at least make an effort to identify people that come and go.
It's still the longest undefended border in the world last I checked, and it's not like we put a big ol' fence up to keep them out or something.
I guess for me I'm thinking 'about time' vs. 'oh my god I'm violated'. I've had the honor of going to Canada twice now and I took my passport with me both times. I would take my passport anytime I leave the country, and Canada is one of those times.
I think of it being the opposite? Not that Canada is any harder/easier to forge papers in but what if Ahab the Arab is in Canada and actually goes through a border checkpoint instead of walking across a frozen river in the winter. Making them have to forge a few more papers shouldn't be that hard.
They've lost some 'favored nation' type status because of our history together, big deal. We make every other country use a passport to get in and that's not stopped the tourists, hell even getting them killed in florida doesn't stop em.
Starting with 'Good Charlotte - Click' and about 700 songs later since release I've been buying on iTMS.
I've lost a hard drive in a machine - it still works.
I've lost an iPod (screen failure three years after I bought it) - still works
I've got 6 CDs in my changer in the car - no problems burning those
I've got multiple CDs laying on the floorboards of my car, in the side pockets, some with songs that are on other CDs, never had an issue where my 'rights' were restricted.
To me, everyone that bitches about how restrictive iTunes is are just that - bitches. I view you as theives, whiners, and just overall scofflaws because your bitches and moans are as lame as 'What, no OGG', 'If it's not FLAC it's Crap!', 'I can't run it on linux' or other countless WHAAAA type cries. That's not meant as flame bait, troll, or whatever. I have an opinion, everyone doesn't have to agree with it, matter of fact you can all hate it, but that's how I view Slashdot when topics like this come up.
I'd really like to not see the freak shot of the day with the latest Michael Jackson story. The guy goobs me out and if I could say 'if story about Michael Jackson then don't display' that'd be nice.
I can get a song on my 'broadband' connect (DSL, 1.5Mb/s down 256Kb/s up) in about 30 seconds on a bad day.
If I tryed to download a DVD, let us be generous and say it's a single sided dual layer of data so what 9.4GB?
That'd take what, a day or so?
I don't know what 'broadband' these guys are talking about but until I can click a button and have a movie in a few seconds it will not stop me from using Netflix or buying a movie
Yeah kinda cracks me up. That's like bitching that I can't buy a chevy alternator for $50 and put it in my $50,000 BMW. No this isn't a 'Apple is the BMW of the computer world post' It's just a general comment that products built by one company aren't guranteed/flat out don't work in a competitors product. Sure maybe the concepts are similar but they won't intermingle.
Neither will the beaters on my Kitchen Aid mixer plug into my Oster mixer, or anything else like that. It always amazes me that when a company gets runaway success by filling a need in a marketplace that when they end up doing really well people start to want to tear them down.
I work for a computer manufacturer, I've got access to roadmaps that go out for years, if I were to 'leak' these to a 'fan site' that does nothing but try and predict what we were doing my company would go on a witch hunt pretty quickly too. There is a thing called competition and competitors out there, even for Apple. Apple's main 'thing' is to develop innovative products. Their competitors goals are to try and find a way to cobble something together that is 'good enough' and a lot cheaper, and watch people flock too it.
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It was a tough few months not downloading those episodes. I wanted the show to survive here in the US. Though I can't understand why they won't show them in both countries at the same time considering how successful they were, unless Sci-Fi paid more to get a 'world' exclusive
I know I sure don't. It seems that compaines (you know, entities in it for the money) that do anything remotely open he has to chime in and dismiss it as insuficient or something.
Companies can't make money giving their crown jewels away. Their jewels are their investment in their employees who generate code. Sometimes, companies can afford to do that because it generates income on other levels for them, sometimes, companies can't.
When I was in 8th and 9th grade in 85 - 87 we only had a handful of typewriters that were electric daisywheels. The rest of the room was manual typewriters that had the A key and I think the 1 key were inscribed, the rest were blank.
By the end of the first semester I was typing 73 WPM with 0 mistakes in time trials or whatever we call them. Easy A. I remember when they had correction stuff on the daisy wheels. you could fix yer mistakes really quick but when the correctino tape ran out they wouldn't replace it. It had a huge buffer, like 30 or 40 chars so you could back up quite a bit, back then, it was fun to play with.
Older brother shows younger brother if you toss a match on the gasoline you spill it 'foomps' real quick.
Younger brother tries it when older brother not around, it goes foomp, younger brother then opens can of gasoline and pours it onto still burning match on the floor.
Garage burning down (no children hurt) and hilarity ensue.
There were seven secondary explosions becuase older brother mowed lawns to make money and had multiple mowers & gas cans in the garage.
You're not married are you? Not all geeks are lucky enough to find another computer geek to marry and procreate with. We can only have kids and teach them how to outwit their mother by the time they are 5.
I went with Time Warner's VoIP because it had hard wired 911 we know where you are service, that is what kept me off of Vonage.
Also what do you do if your 3 or 4 year old is smart enough to do 911 but has a problem telling you where they live other than the state?
There are lots of instances where E911 service is important, and you don't have the time to think 'damn, VoIP doesn't support this'
Well the last time I had my phone disconnected for non-payment was 1992 so things may have changed since then, but in Wichita, KS specifically you got no dial tone and stuff didn't work at all.
So how long after playing are your hands numb from clapping like a fool really hard because the faster you go the harder you clap?
I just got both of those last night. Holy crap what fun. Super monkey ball is a lot of fun too.
I'm outside their target demographic at 33 though I bet.
Well to waste space and all I'm going to say Me Too. It was a fun film, decent soundtrack, great popcorn movie.
Agree, that and battery life. How much will it last having a wireless radio on + a storage device big enough to hold 10K or more songs? I mean people complain about the 12 hr battery life of the iPod and how it doesn't always last that long. That and you'd have issue with airplanes where the FAs won't have a clue if you're phone is on or off and even if you have a phone that can go airplane mode there are lots of times you get argued with by an FA making sure you aren't going to kill everyone (/sarcasm)
Disclaimer, I'm a a parent, so sometimes when it comes to parenting issues vs. 'freedom' issues I'd whole heartedly jump in on the 'kill the bastards' side of things when it comes to sex offenders.
I think what has happened here is that the press and the accessibility of the information about recent offenses has gotten a lot of coverage. I don't know if 'sex offenders' is the 'shark' of this year where any event regarding it will be reported ad naseum like the deadly shark attacks of 2003 that ended up being no more than any other year
Yeah tried that, he said it worked fine on teamspeak just not when we tried out skype.
We're trying to find a platform independant offering that will let us play World of Warcraft (me on my iMac, him on his PC).
However, I could barely hear him. I had to crank my volume up really, really loud to hear him and tweaked all the settings I could find. Tonight I'm going to try my bluetooth headset to see if that makes a difference but is there any settings on the windows side to increase the gain? He couldn't seem to find it, and well he's a gamer, not a computer person so he may be missing something and I dont' have a windows box at home to look myself on.
AHem.
.18 micron.
That's 130nm to 90nm fabrication changes. 180nm was decades ago chip manufacturing wise, that was like 1998 and then it was
Wasn't making it up, I can't get it to act like I thought it woudl on my machine. I can't right click on an ISO and say 'burn to disk' and I can't create an image and burn it by dragging files to my CD-R/RW drive running said XP SP1.
Nice to see I get moderated as a Troll when I really have an issue with being unable to burn CDs at work without software from another vendor running the 'released' operating system. I'm not on SP2 because my company won't let me be not sure if that changed it.
Would very much like to know how. I've got a Thinkpad X40 with a CD-RW/DVD drive running Windows XP SP1 in it and when I put the CD in I get no options to burn, dragging files onto it don't work, things like that.
The EM64T dual proc systems are going to be limited to 16GB Maximum due to the lindenhurst limits, and to top it off they're also rank-limited so you're going to have to buy single rank 2GB DIMMs to get to 16GB, not a inexpensive option.
I've not seen a dual opteron system go beyond 8 DIMM slots total, or four per proc. This is a limitation to DDR1 I believe. DDR2 will help some (speed of DIMM) but really FBDs next year will help out a lot too. Again, not an inexpensive proposition.
Your best bet for 'lots of slots' would be a quad or higher capable system. IBM's x366 and the other 4-way boxes out there have around 16 memory slots, and with 4GB DIMMs you could crank it up to 64GB.
Burning software, yes...
But core operating system? I still can't burn a CD with Windows XP Pro by just sticking it in....gotta have some one's software.
Toshiba I bought back then. Still works, never cleaned it. I think the cleaner disc thing is trying to make you think that you have a vinyl record and need to clean it. Not quite sure what value it ads to a lens other than making you need to clean it more and more.
Business Profiles while on Apple's site and obviously a marketing spun message does show that many things I would consider 'verticle' like a Doctor's Office, Legal Office, Dentist Office, Architect, and many others are shown on what they use/how they use it and how it takes little to no IT staff to do it.
Granted this is targeted at a small or medium business so I don't think a Fortune 500 is going to tank Windows in a day but it does show that a lot of geek 'truisms' about Mac in the office are a bit outdated.
Oh I didn't mean that the undefended border is a bad thing at all, just that your government as well as ours should at least make an effort to identify people that come and go.
It's still the longest undefended border in the world last I checked, and it's not like we put a big ol' fence up to keep them out or something.
I guess for me I'm thinking 'about time' vs. 'oh my god I'm violated'. I've had the honor of going to Canada twice now and I took my passport with me both times. I would take my passport anytime I leave the country, and Canada is one of those times.
I think of it being the opposite? Not that Canada is any harder/easier to forge papers in but what if Ahab the Arab is in Canada and actually goes through a border checkpoint instead of walking across a frozen river in the winter. Making them have to forge a few more papers shouldn't be that hard.
They've lost some 'favored nation' type status because of our history together, big deal. We make every other country use a passport to get in and that's not stopped the tourists, hell even getting them killed in florida doesn't stop em.
Starting with 'Good Charlotte - Click' and about 700 songs later since release I've been buying on iTMS.
I've lost a hard drive in a machine - it still works.
I've lost an iPod (screen failure three years after I bought it) - still works
I've got 6 CDs in my changer in the car - no problems burning those
I've got multiple CDs laying on the floorboards of my car, in the side pockets, some with songs that are on other CDs, never had an issue where my 'rights' were restricted.
To me, everyone that bitches about how restrictive iTunes is are just that - bitches. I view you as theives, whiners, and just overall scofflaws because your bitches and moans are as lame as 'What, no OGG', 'If it's not FLAC it's Crap!', 'I can't run it on linux' or other countless WHAAAA type cries. That's not meant as flame bait, troll, or whatever. I have an opinion, everyone doesn't have to agree with it, matter of fact you can all hate it, but that's how I view Slashdot when topics like this come up.
I'd really like to not see the freak shot of the day with the latest Michael Jackson story. The guy goobs me out and if I could say 'if story about Michael Jackson then don't display' that'd be nice.
I can get a song on my 'broadband' connect (DSL, 1.5Mb/s down 256Kb/s up) in about 30 seconds on a bad day.
If I tryed to download a DVD, let us be generous and say it's a single sided dual layer of data so what 9.4GB?
That'd take what, a day or so?
I don't know what 'broadband' these guys are talking about but until I can click a button and have a movie in a few seconds it will not stop me from using Netflix or buying a movie
Yeah kinda cracks me up. That's like bitching that I can't buy a chevy alternator for $50 and put it in my $50,000 BMW. No this isn't a 'Apple is the BMW of the computer world post' It's just a general comment that products built by one company aren't guranteed/flat out don't work in a competitors product. Sure maybe the concepts are similar but they won't intermingle.
Neither will the beaters on my Kitchen Aid mixer plug into my Oster mixer, or anything else like that. It always amazes me that when a company gets runaway success by filling a need in a marketplace that when they end up doing really well people start to want to tear them down.
I work for a computer manufacturer, I've got access to roadmaps that go out for years, if I were to 'leak' these to a 'fan site' that does nothing but try and predict what we were doing my company would go on a witch hunt pretty quickly too. There is a thing called competition and competitors out there, even for Apple. Apple's main 'thing' is to develop innovative products. Their competitors goals are to try and find a way to cobble something together that is 'good enough' and a lot cheaper, and watch people flock too it.