I have a pair of PX-100Ws (white) and they rock. Amazing bass for headphones. (White was what they had at Best Buy that day.)
I use them on a daily basis for hours at a time.
At reasonable volumes or quiet songs you can hear people around you fine.
I don't know what that guy was complaining about the case being difficult was about. It takes me all of 15 seconds to put them in the case while being careful.
Another thing I have to comment on is the cord. I don't know what the hell it's made of but it's very kink and twist resistant yet very supple. After being used a lot most headphone cords develop little near-permanent bends in them that cause them to tickle your face when wearing them and other annoying crap. These don't!
I highly recommend them. I wear them 5 days a week for most of the day and at LAN parties. They're comfortable, sound amazing and aren't excessively overpriced.
I use a 4G SkinTight that has a fold-back end for the dock/connector with a PDA screen protector being the only thing between the screen and the air. My only complaint is it isn't all that skin-tight on my 20GB 4G. It's actually rather loose in every dimension, but it never actually comes off (or even close).*
I would almost use that seemingly scratch-impervious film from 3M (marketed as other things at ridiculous markup values by other companies cashing in on the ipod accessory markup) but it would have two major drawbacks:
1) The rubbierized case provides some modicum of shock absorption. 2) The rubberized case keeps the ipod in my waistband at the gym without need of any other apperatus and leaves the wheel above the waistband so I can access controls.
It kinda sucks having a tiny ipod made slightly larger in every dimension, but IMO the gains are worth it. I highly recommend this setup. Especially if you go to the gym frequently.
* No, I am not affiliated with Speck in any way. In fact I find their iMarkup(tm) to be typical and infuriating.
I'm sick and tired of people extolling the wonders of virus scanners and virus definitions.
If you're not an idiot you don't need a virus scanner.
I've never installed one on any of my own machines. Ever.
Every once in a while I'll use a free online virus scanner on some questionable executables or every year or two to make sure I'm clean. And I have been every single time.
Virus scanners aren't all they're cracked up to be because they don't have any fucking clue about viruses that haven't been added to their definitions yet.
Isn't that wonderful? The time when the risk of infection is greatest and the risk of damage the greatest is when this much vaunted service will fail you.
Zero day damages are where the bulk of the harm is done due to viurses and worms, yet virus scanners are useless in defending against them. Stop buying into the hype and educate your less computer savvy family & friends (you, reading slashdot I would expect to know better).
If it weren't for search engines (google) finding things for me then as far as I'm concerned their site might as well not exist.
If I can find your site, you might somehow get revenue from my using it.
If I can't find your site, I can't use it and you're not getting squat.
Leeches are a type of parasite. Being indexed - and thereby receiving traffic from - a search engine is by no means a parasitic relationship. It's clearly symbiotic. If what they were looking for was so simple that it actually appeared in the search results themselves then it probably wasn't worth that much anyway. Just a little tidbit of information. If that's all your site provides then you're probably not providing much to begin with.
Sounds to me like he's just jealous that there's more money in search based advertising than the sites they're being found by. Waaah. It's a classic middleman business model.
Speaking in the most general terms, if you can control the stream of goods or services from the provider to the consumer and you benefit more than the provider or the consumer. See phone companies, cell phone companies, ISPs, search engines, *AA et al.
Since when do harmless pranks get you sent to jail?!
And yes it was a harmless prank, the server didn't even come down. And even if it had it would have come back up at what, the end of the class period?
I can remember getting in trouble for making various projectile devices ranging from spitwads to a pen crossbow (that would put a chopstick into a wall....ok that was kinda dangerous) and I never got freaking arrested.
Schools are ridiculous these days. Let kids be kids.
Some people don't like subscription services. I, for one am disgusted by them. The only things that are worse are subscriptions with 1 year, or even worse 2 year contracts. (U.S. cell phone companies I'm looking at you. "Wow, for $960 minimum over the next two years I can get a $250 phone for only $200? What a deal!" *gag*)
I know it's the biggest trend in business right now; recurring revenue and all that, but some things just shouldn't be subscriptions and a downloadable music service is one of them. And by "shouldn't be" I mean the consumer is generally getting shafted.
If I pay for music I expect to do whatever the hell I want with it (aside from sharing freely to the world or selling it; which I don't expect).
I won't pay to continue to have access something that I can purchase once and have forever.
I won't pay to lose all control over access to something I'm currently capable of controlling (like my music (mp3) collection). That's insane.
The only reason I still bother to buy CDs is I like to rip them to mp3 at my own exacting specifications. I don't listen to them direct from CD anymore - ever.
A downloadable subscription service (such as this one) would:
Encumber me with DRM and all the PITA that entails. Remove my control over the quality of my music. Remove my control over the ID3 tagging of my music. Restrict my ability to play my music wherever or on whatever I damn well please.
If I pay for music I expect to own it. Plain and simple.
DRM is fundamentally flawed and will always be broken, because in the end, I have your music on my hard drive, and you're not going to be able to stop me from doing what I want with it.
Not entirely true. Take computer security for example. True, absolute security (security that only, ever allows the people/programs in/out that are supposed to be) is impossible. Therefore it's fundamentally flawed and will always be broken. Yet you can use secruity to make unauthorized access extremely difficult. The same goes for DRM. It may barely work, if at all, but it does increase the difficulty and therefore decreases the amount of piracy somewhat. Nobody is foolish enough to think that DRM is or ever will be perfect any more than they think computer security will be. It's a measure they can take to minimize what they perceive as lost revenue and so they will. So unfortunately it's here to stay.
[tangent]The whole concept "rights" is an illusion anyway - digital or otherwise. If copyright holders have exclusive rights to copy their music, then how come other people are making copies? If you have the right to live, then how come you could get hit by a bus tomorrow? The only rights any entity really has are those that it can take or retain by some force.[/tangent]
TFA says "...Windows users who eschew Internet Explorer in favor of alternative Web browsers, such as older versions of Firefox and Opera, can still get their PCs infected if they agree to download a file from a site taking advantage of the flaw."
So is it IE or Windows that is home to the vulnerability?
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What I want to know is: How much power my machine actually uses.
Do I really need the 550W power supply I have?
The only way I have to find out is to add up the requirements/usage that I have on paper for all of my devices. I wouldn't trust that number at all since I could have some poor run of devices that actually draws 50% more power on startup than it says it does and not know it.
Is there any easy way to measure how much power a machine actually uses?
What pisses me off is you CANNOT get an xbox now that doesn't include the Forza racing game. I just want to softmod it and use it as an entertainment center. XBMC is awesome. I have little to no desire to play games on it.
I have about 6GB of music that I bought (I'm very picky about my encoding.) And about 1-2GB of audiobooks from http://www.audible.com/, not to mention movies *coughporncough*.
But think about it - not that much thought is required - A $29.99 game "included" with the xbox for $30 MORE than an xbox with no game.
That's right!
A $149.99 game system + $29.99 game being sold for $179.99.
You're just FORCED to buy a game at full price with the system whether you want it or not.
I asked the local Game Rush/Blockbuster how much they'd give in trade for the game, because I was planning on trading it in before I left the store with my new xbox.
Try looking for Forza on ebay. There are like 100 copies. Nobody wants the fucking thing, but we're forced to buy it at full price if we want a new xbox.
I've been plauged by the damn feeds since they started testing and there was no option to disable them until they make the damn thing public. I just hadn't bothered to check since it was relased into the wild.
We live in a culture saturated by mass media making money off of fearmongering. They show shit that isn't scary, they portray it as being much scarier than it really is so we'll watch their programs, then they insert ads into those programs so we'll hopefully watch those so they can make money. It's nothing more than that. Period.
The media needs to stop overhyping shit and wait until something actually happens, and then cover it. You know, like with reporters covering actual new stories. All this fearmongering is just preemptive coverage of something that might happen and probably won't be nearly as bad as they make it out to be.
How much impact did SARS really have? Anthrax? Cyberterrorism? I bet the big scary asian bird flu will have about as much.
Better yet, stop watching CNN, Fox and MSNBC. Use the internet and read news from other countries about ours. It's generally much higher quality journalism and less fearmongering.
Show me an "independant study" commissioned by Microsoft that says Open Source/Other Company X is better than Microsoft X and I might start giving a shit about sponsored studies.
I don't know if AIM will let you block "AOL System Msg", but Trillian sure will!
Though I have to admit I don't know if it actually works (don't know if blocking is server side or client side), or if Trillian just let me add it to the block list client side.
Many business leaders have commented on the lack of engineers and several companies have even started initiatives to help bolster our diminishing ranks.
Can't help but wonder about their motives. What if they just want to flood the market with new engineers so that we have more competition and therefore they don't have to pay us as much?
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I have a pair of PX-100Ws (white) and they rock. Amazing bass for headphones. (White was what they had at Best Buy that day.)
I use them on a daily basis for hours at a time.
At reasonable volumes or quiet songs you can hear people around you fine.
I don't know what that guy was complaining about the case being difficult was about. It takes me all of 15 seconds to put them in the case while being careful.
Another thing I have to comment on is the cord. I don't know what the hell it's made of but it's very kink and twist resistant yet very supple. After being used a lot most headphone cords develop little near-permanent bends in them that cause them to tickle your face when wearing them and other annoying crap. These don't!
I highly recommend them. I wear them 5 days a week for most of the day and at LAN parties. They're comfortable, sound amazing and aren't excessively overpriced.
I use a 4G SkinTight that has a fold-back end for the dock/connector with a PDA screen protector being the only thing between the screen and the air. My only complaint is it isn't all that skin-tight on my 20GB 4G. It's actually rather loose in every dimension, but it never actually comes off (or even close).*
I would almost use that seemingly scratch-impervious film from 3M (marketed as other things at ridiculous markup values by other companies cashing in on the ipod accessory markup) but it would have two major drawbacks:
1) The rubbierized case provides some modicum of shock absorption.
2) The rubberized case keeps the ipod in my waistband at the gym without need of any other apperatus and leaves the wheel above the waistband so I can access controls.
It kinda sucks having a tiny ipod made slightly larger in every dimension, but IMO the gains are worth it. I highly recommend this setup. Especially if you go to the gym frequently.
* No, I am not affiliated with Speck in any way. In fact I find their iMarkup(tm) to be typical and infuriating.
I'm sick and tired of people extolling the wonders of virus scanners and virus definitions.
If you're not an idiot you don't need a virus scanner.
I've never installed one on any of my own machines. Ever.
Every once in a while I'll use a free online virus scanner on some questionable executables or every year or two to make sure I'm clean. And I have been every single time.
Virus scanners aren't all they're cracked up to be because they don't have any fucking clue about viruses that haven't been added to their definitions yet.
Isn't that wonderful? The time when the risk of infection is greatest and the risk of damage the greatest is when this much vaunted service will fail you.
Zero day damages are where the bulk of the harm is done due to viurses and worms, yet virus scanners are useless in defending against them. Stop buying into the hype and educate your less computer savvy family & friends (you, reading slashdot I would expect to know better).
If it weren't for search engines (google) finding things for me then as far as I'm concerned their site might as well not exist.
If I can find your site, you might somehow get revenue from my using it.
If I can't find your site, I can't use it and you're not getting squat.
Leeches are a type of parasite. Being indexed - and thereby receiving traffic from - a search engine is by no means a parasitic relationship. It's clearly symbiotic. If what they were looking for was so simple that it actually appeared in the search results themselves then it probably wasn't worth that much anyway. Just a little tidbit of information. If that's all your site provides then you're probably not providing much to begin with.
Sounds to me like he's just jealous that there's more money in search based advertising than the sites they're being found by. Waaah. It's a classic middleman business model.
Speaking in the most general terms, if you can control the stream of goods or services from the provider to the consumer and you benefit more than the provider or the consumer. See phone companies, cell phone companies, ISPs, search engines, *AA et al.
Slashdot: News from google, one day later.
I wonder if we can get George Bush or Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr., or whoever it is that tacked on this rider arrested under this law.
News of this went out over the internet, and the obvious intent of this rider was to annoy...
How cool would that be? A law - which the creation of - broke itself.
That ought to make the all of the United States Code implode.
Better yet, they could allow internet usage at reasonable rates.
Cable for TV watching is a "nice to have". Cable for internet access is a the real reason I have it.
When people stop buying DVDs in signficant numbers, then and only then will DVD be dead.
Just because they want us to buy more, newer, less reliable, more expensive shit doesn't mean we will.
Since when do harmless pranks get you sent to jail?!
And yes it was a harmless prank, the server didn't even come down. And even if it had it would have come back up at what, the end of the class period?
I can remember getting in trouble for making various projectile devices ranging from spitwads to a pen crossbow (that would put a chopstick into a wall....ok that was kinda dangerous) and I never got freaking arrested.
Schools are ridiculous these days. Let kids be kids.
Some people don't like subscription services. I, for one am disgusted by them. The only things that are worse are subscriptions with 1 year, or even worse 2 year contracts. (U.S. cell phone companies I'm looking at you. "Wow, for $960 minimum over the next two years I can get a $250 phone for only $200? What a deal!" *gag*)
I know it's the biggest trend in business right now; recurring revenue and all that, but some things just shouldn't be subscriptions and a downloadable music service is one of them. And by "shouldn't be" I mean the consumer is generally getting shafted.
If I pay for music I expect to do whatever the hell I want with it (aside from sharing freely to the world or selling it; which I don't expect).
I won't pay to continue to have access something that I can purchase once and have forever.
I won't pay to lose all control over access to something I'm currently capable of controlling (like my music (mp3) collection). That's insane.
The only reason I still bother to buy CDs is I like to rip them to mp3 at my own exacting specifications. I don't listen to them direct from CD anymore - ever.
A downloadable subscription service (such as this one) would:
Encumber me with DRM and all the PITA that entails.
Remove my control over the quality of my music.
Remove my control over the ID3 tagging of my music.
Restrict my ability to play my music wherever or on whatever I damn well please.
If I pay for music I expect to own it. Plain and simple.
DRM is fundamentally flawed and will always be broken, because in the end, I have your music on my hard drive, and you're not going to be able to stop me from doing what I want with it.
Not entirely true. Take computer security for example. True, absolute security (security that only, ever allows the people/programs in/out that are supposed to be) is impossible. Therefore it's fundamentally flawed and will always be broken. Yet you can use secruity to make unauthorized access extremely difficult. The same goes for DRM. It may barely work, if at all, but it does increase the difficulty and therefore decreases the amount of piracy somewhat. Nobody is foolish enough to think that DRM is or ever will be perfect any more than they think computer security will be. It's a measure they can take to minimize what they perceive as lost revenue and so they will. So unfortunately it's here to stay.
[tangent]The whole concept "rights" is an illusion anyway - digital or otherwise. If copyright holders have exclusive rights to copy their music, then how come other people are making copies? If you have the right to live, then how come you could get hit by a bus tomorrow? The only rights any entity really has are those that it can take or retain by some force.[/tangent]
And what type would that be, exactly?
TFA says "...Windows users who eschew Internet Explorer in favor of alternative Web browsers, such as older versions of Firefox and Opera, can still get their PCs infected if they agree to download a file from a site taking advantage of the flaw."
So is it IE or Windows that is home to the vulnerability?
What I want to know is: How much power my machine actually uses.
Do I really need the 550W power supply I have?
The only way I have to find out is to add up the requirements/usage that I have on paper for all of my devices. I wouldn't trust that number at all since I could have some poor run of devices that actually draws 50% more power on startup than it says it does and not know it.
Is there any easy way to measure how much power a machine actually uses?
What pisses me off is you CANNOT get an xbox now that doesn't include the Forza racing game. I just want to softmod it and use it as an entertainment center. XBMC is awesome. I have little to no desire to play games on it.
I have about 6GB of music that I bought (I'm very picky about my encoding.) And about 1-2GB of audiobooks from http://www.audible.com/, not to mention movies *coughporncough*.
But think about it - not that much thought is required - A $29.99 game "included" with the xbox for $30 MORE than an xbox with no game.
That's right!
A $149.99 game system + $29.99 game being sold for $179.99.
You're just FORCED to buy a game at full price with the system whether you want it or not.
I asked the local Game Rush/Blockbuster how much they'd give in trade for the game, because I was planning on trading it in before I left the store with my new xbox.
Try looking for Forza on ebay. There are like 100 copies. Nobody wants the fucking thing, but we're forced to buy it at full price if we want a new xbox.
What the fuck?
It's Rama!
Someone else was beaten or killed in the name of religion! *gasp*
What's the total up to now? A few billion?
*opens mouth, inserts foot*
I've been plauged by the damn feeds since they started testing and there was no option to disable them until they make the damn thing public. I just hadn't bothered to check since it was relased into the wild.
Now how do I turn the fucking thing off?
I hate it. It displays more ads than feeds.
We live in a culture of fear.
No we don't.
We live in a culture saturated by mass media making money off of fearmongering. They show shit that isn't scary, they portray it as being much scarier than it really is so we'll watch their programs, then they insert ads into those programs so we'll hopefully watch those so they can make money. It's nothing more than that. Period.
The media needs to stop overhyping shit and wait until something actually happens, and then cover it. You know, like with reporters covering actual new stories. All this fearmongering is just preemptive coverage of something that might happen and probably won't be nearly as bad as they make it out to be.
How much impact did SARS really have? Anthrax? Cyberterrorism? I bet the big scary asian bird flu will have about as much.
Better yet, stop watching CNN, Fox and MSNBC. Use the internet and read news from other countries about ours. It's generally much higher quality journalism and less fearmongering.
Way to slashdot your own screen name.
Show me an "independant study" commissioned by Microsoft that says Open Source/Other Company X is better than Microsoft X and I might start giving a shit about sponsored studies.
I don't know if AIM will let you block "AOL System Msg", but Trillian sure will!
Though I have to admit I don't know if it actually works (don't know if blocking is server side or client side), or if Trillian just let me add it to the block list client side.