Most (not all) USB stick-style flash storage devices
Digital cameras' resolution
CPU clockrate (I thought the argument against base 10 was "computers" were natively base 2)
Latency (opposite of kilo, of course -- 1millisecond is not 1/1024 second)
A weird hybrid between the two:
Floppy disks
Units of measurement that use an international SI standard's prefix to describe something "close enough" but not equal to said international SI standard's prefix:
byte
Units of measurement that use an international SI standard's prefix:
It has some neat HL2-themed graphics, but yeah, it's not too noteworthy by itself. Conversely, I had never heard of Peggle before today, but it's fun enough that I'll probably buy Deluxe.
There's no reason for Ep2 to be $30 when Ep1 was just $20, and Portal accordingly should be around $10. So... EP2 is worth $20, portal is worth $10? That leaves TF2, which should easily be worth the remaining $15.
But if you want to continue complaining, you are welcome to. The rest of us with our ripoff-detector-disabled brains will be over there, enjoying our games.
Peggle Extreme is a HL2-themed trial (10 levels). If you want the whole thing, Deluxe is available standalone (and when you play Extreme, it's a big ad for buying Deluxe).
This might be slightly tangential but does Valve run slowly for anyone else? Yes, it's quite slow to pick up Valve HQ and move it. Their employees need to get on the treadmill, that's how slow Valve is.
(Steam is the content delivery service, Valve is the company name. And yes, to a degree. It's a bit slow starting and stopping (maybe 30 seconds to do either), but once it's up and running, it works fine for me.)
I'm 99% sure that there are many local/regional/national telcos left that still provider time and weather. I'm guessing that they mean California and Nevada are the only states left that have dedicated entire prefixes for time and weather. FYI, the article didn't mention it, but Northern Nevada (everything but Vegas) uses 775-844-xxxx, traditionally 775-844-1212. I'm not sure about Southern Nevada (area code 702).
So why is AT&T completely getting rid of time & weather in California? The article talks about "obsolete equipment", but you could replace that with a Pentium 120MHz running Asterisk. Oh wait, we're talking about a big telco here. That would cost at least $10m.
Not trying to flame here, but it never ceases to amaze me that people will just assume that Apple is completely short-sighted. There are billions of dollars at stake, and Apple has been working on this device for years. Do you really think that they haven't considered this carefully? That there is some "classic tale" that somehow people at Apple are too blind to see?... Apple knows what it is doing, and they will do with the iPhone what they need to do to keep it competitive.
I'm going to say a phrase:
Motorola ROKR
Now, do you want to re-evaluate your claims that Apple knows what it's doing when it releases a product?:)
The story is about registrations, not hosting. Even so, GoDaddy offers both Windows and Linus hosting services. I don't think Linus would take GoDaddy up on Windows hosting.
that are obsessed with new being untouched? I used to buy my CD's from a shop that opened them and let you listen, a lot of people I knew wouldn't shop at places like that because they wanted the disk to be absolutely new. My problem is two-fold: First, if you're taking used (not just opened) goods and packaging/selling it as new, that's definitely shady. And yeah, I wouldn't care if I bought a CD that had been opened once before, as long as I could inspect it first (which re-shrinkwrapping prevents).
Electronics are a completely different matter. Now, I imagine a lot of returns are buyer's remorse under the guise of "oh, it's 'broken'". But I fear the guy who comes in with, say, a monitor and says something like "it starts flickering after about an hour of use". The counter guy throws it in a pile. A "tech" comes to the pile the next day to start testing stuff. He plugs in the monitor and it works fine for his 30-second test. He re-seals the box and puts it back on the floor.
I think there's a good reason my electronics store has a banner that reads "Your best buys are always at Fry's". "Your best buys are always re-shrinkwrapped at Fry's!"
But seriously, you chose Fry's as an example as the opposite of Best Buy? Half their shelf stock is re-shrinkwrapped. And half of that isn't even labeled as such (I once bought a brand new WAP11 whose ESSID was factory-programed "KensLaptop".) If you want RAM or a CPU, you must go through an inept salesperson to print you out a cage reservation ticket, assuming you can get to him of course; there are usually 10 other people who want the same thing huddled around him. And I've never done so, but I heard their returns process is Cthulhu-level pain.
What!?! Next thing you'll be telling me is that a kilometer isn't 1024 meters long. Please, stop this madness before it spreads! Don't be silly. As we all know, God Almighty came down from the heavens to decree that Computers must use powers of 2 to describe international standard unit prefixes that were previously defined as powers of 10.
Of course, we all know this is an evil conspiracy by the hard drive industry.... and the network card industry (I was shocked to find my gigabit card is not actually 1,073,741,824 bits per second).... and the processor industry (2.4GHz? Hah, more like 2.23517GHz!).... and the digital camera industry (blah blah megapixels. they're screwing me out of precious resolution).
I attended the Red Hat summit last year. Lots of good information (there were a ton of talks about Xen, a good one about the finer points of LVM, etc), but the price wasn't worth making it a yearly thing.
That being said, I think the conference has the potential to quickly degrade to LinuxWorld-level, and this announcement doesn't surprise me. Companies will come out of the woodwork and start screaming "Yaaa, we like Linux! Hooray for open source!" for a week, but then not do anything until the next conference/expo rolls around.
(On a related note, the last notebook I bought came with Intel graphics. I specifically chose this because I didn't want to deal with the headache of ATI and Nvidia's binary drivers. Intel is no saint, but at least having full 3D drivers in Xorg is nice.)
Microsoft sold off most of its controlling interest of MSNBC back to NBC a few years ago (MS owns 18% of MSNBC according to wikipedia). Even with that, Microsoft has very little to do with production; they're basically just a minority shareholder.
(Mind you that's just true for the cable channel. msnbc.com is still a 50-50 venture between MS and NBC.)
Remember, impeachment is not the OUTCOME, it is the BEGINNING. Impeachment is essentially a congressional indictment, instead of a criminal indictment. It begins the congressional equivalent of a trial. Then the impeached person (president in this case, though judges can be impeached as well) is tried and found guilty or innocent.
Clinton was impeached and found innocent. If he were found guilty, congress could vote to have him removed from office, or it could be as little as a censure. Let me repeat: You do not have to be removed from office if you are found guilty from being impeached.
IMHO, Clinton SHOULD have been found guilty. Hear me out. He lied under oath. However, I believe he should have been found guilty and then given a slap on the wrist, but at the time everybody had "GUILTY = REMOVAL" in their heads. On the other hand, Bush has lied repeatedly, and as a result many thousands of people (if not millions) have died, and our liberty and security are non-existent. He should be impeached, tried, found guilty, and removed from office (if not worse).
Does Etch have any showstopping bugs that would stop a 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Will it fuck up my apache, proftpd, sshd, or smb servers? Anything I should really know before letting some 600 or so packages change?
Yes, read the release notes for the answers to those questions. (and much much more! act today!)
etch ships with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED (experimental) enabled in the kernel. This breaks the multipath route behavior in iproute. As the google search shows, it is wreaking havoc with anyone using multipath and dual-wan systems. Those who upgraded this morning to the new stable may be in for a ride. This is a known and documented issue but cannot be found in debian's bug tracking system. This issue is not unique to Debian but it should not have passed through the release engineering for the new stable release.
So, this was reported for a different kernel on a different distro? What happened when you filed the bug report with Debian's BTS?
First of all, I didn't know this was a "secret". I've seen it myself. It may have the same color scheme, but it looks noticeably different (no "top 10 tips to buy a new TV" or big flashy mini-ads or any of that crap). The purpose? If a customer wants to buy something that's out of stock or internet-only or something, the employee takes the customer's information and logs in using his employee ID. I've never used this part, but the customer supposedly pays in-store, then the employee puts the confirmation number into the site, and the item is either shipped to the customer or the store.
(CompUSA has a similar site, though in their case the customer (usually business account customers) can access it too -- http://compusabusiness.com/ )
Now, I'm interested in seeing what the result of the investigation is, but this doesn't seem to scream conspiracy. Maybe there was a discrepancy, and the employee pointed to that site because, well, that's the site he always uses. I make a best buy purchase every couple weeks, and always check the site first (mostly because best buy's stock sucks, and I have to figure out which of the 2 stores in town has what I need), and I have never seen a price discrepancy between bestbuy.com and in-store.
Most of this information has been repeated in the comments here already, but I thought I'd sum up the dates and whatnot:
(From Wikipedia) The FCC has issued the following mandates for devices entering the US:
* By July 1, 2005 all televisions with screen sizes over 36" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2006 all televisions with screen sizes over 25" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2007 all televisions regardless of screen size, and all interface devices which include a tuner (VCR, DVD player/recorder, DVR) must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
That's 3 days from now, AND includes things like TV tuner cards, which explains why companies like Hauppauge just released a "budget" dual NTSC/ATSC line, the HVR-950/1600.
* A Congressional bill has authorized subsidizing converter boxes that would allow people to receive the new digital broadcasts on their old TVs. The current plan is to make two $40 coupons available from January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009 for each household that relies exclusively on over-the-air television reception.
* In the United States, the switch-off of all analog terrestrial TV broadcasts has been mandated for no later than February 17, 2009. Legislation setting this deadline was signed into law in early 2006. Currently, most U.S. broadcasters are beaming their signals in both analog and digital formats; a few are digital-only.
So, expect to see ATSC tuners become more plentiful in early 2008, once the subsidies start rolling in.
Nothing huge, but his name is spelled Scot. I know this because there are relatively few "well known" Finnies in the world (at least with that spelling), and I happen to be one of them.
Can someone please name ONE game that the Wii has that is worth playing?
There's that "Wii" game where you go out and try to buy a Wii. It was relatively easy for the first level (I beat the game in one overnight sitting, didn't even take a week or anything), but the game got WAY harder the longer you played. I've heard there are people out there that have STILL not beat the end boss.
The "PS3" game on the other hand is the opposite. For those who could afford triple the game price, the first few levels were EXTREMELY hard. Then it got incredibly easy, but by those levels people realized the gameplay was crap and stopped playing altogether.
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- Operating systems/software
- Memory
- Flash storage (CF, etc)
- PROMs
- CD media
Base 10 (LAWSUIT TARGETS):- Evil, evil hard drives
- Bandwidth-related hardware:
- Line cards
- Ethernet interfaces
- Modems
- Your broadband provider's advertised line speeds
- DVD media
- HD-DVD media
- Blu-Ray media
- Most (not all) USB stick-style flash storage devices
- Digital cameras' resolution
- CPU clockrate (I thought the argument against base 10 was "computers" were natively base 2)
- Latency (opposite of kilo, of course -- 1millisecond is not 1/1024 second)
A weird hybrid between the two:- Floppy disks
Units of measurement that use an international SI standard's prefix to describe something "close enough" but not equal to said international SI standard's prefix:- byte
Units of measurement that use an international SI standard's prefix:... they want their console back.
I first read "[Evans Data's CEO said]" as "[Even Data's CEO said]".
"Yeah.... I'm going to have to ask you to stay on duty an extra shift... Oh, and if you could Make It So, that'd be great. Yeah...."
It has some neat HL2-themed graphics, but yeah, it's not too noteworthy by itself. Conversely, I had never heard of Peggle before today, but it's fun enough that I'll probably buy Deluxe.
:)
Mission accomplished, Valve and PopCap
But if you want to continue complaining, you are welcome to. The rest of us with our ripoff-detector-disabled brains will be over there, enjoying our games.
Peggle Extreme is a HL2-themed trial (10 levels). If you want the whole thing, Deluxe is available standalone (and when you play Extreme, it's a big ad for buying Deluxe).
(Steam is the content delivery service, Valve is the company name. And yes, to a degree. It's a bit slow starting and stopping (maybe 30 seconds to do either), but once it's up and running, it works fine for me.)
I'm 99% sure that there are many local/regional/national telcos left that still provider time and weather. I'm guessing that they mean California and Nevada are the only states left that have dedicated entire prefixes for time and weather. FYI, the article didn't mention it, but Northern Nevada (everything but Vegas) uses 775-844-xxxx, traditionally 775-844-1212. I'm not sure about Southern Nevada (area code 702).
So why is AT&T completely getting rid of time & weather in California? The article talks about "obsolete equipment", but you could replace that with a Pentium 120MHz running Asterisk. Oh wait, we're talking about a big telco here. That would cost at least $10m.
I'm going to say a phrase:
Motorola ROKR
Now, do you want to re-evaluate your claims that Apple knows what it's doing when it releases a product?
(Yeah, yeah, Motorola technically "released" it, etc.)
Electronics are a completely different matter. Now, I imagine a lot of returns are buyer's remorse under the guise of "oh, it's 'broken'". But I fear the guy who comes in with, say, a monitor and says something like "it starts flickering after about an hour of use". The counter guy throws it in a pile. A "tech" comes to the pile the next day to start testing stuff. He plugs in the monitor and it works fine for his 30-second test. He re-seals the box and puts it back on the floor.
But seriously, you chose Fry's as an example as the opposite of Best Buy? Half their shelf stock is re-shrinkwrapped. And half of that isn't even labeled as such (I once bought a brand new WAP11 whose ESSID was factory-programed "KensLaptop".) If you want RAM or a CPU, you must go through an inept salesperson to print you out a cage reservation ticket, assuming you can get to him of course; there are usually 10 other people who want the same thing huddled around him. And I've never done so, but I heard their returns process is Cthulhu-level pain.
Of course, we all know this is an evil conspiracy by the hard drive industry.
I attended the Red Hat summit last year. Lots of good information (there were a ton of talks about Xen, a good one about the finer points of LVM, etc), but the price wasn't worth making it a yearly thing.
That being said, I think the conference has the potential to quickly degrade to LinuxWorld-level, and this announcement doesn't surprise me. Companies will come out of the woodwork and start screaming "Yaaa, we like Linux! Hooray for open source!" for a week, but then not do anything until the next conference/expo rolls around.
(On a related note, the last notebook I bought came with Intel graphics. I specifically chose this because I didn't want to deal with the headache of ATI and Nvidia's binary drivers. Intel is no saint, but at least having full 3D drivers in Xorg is nice.)
Microsoft sold off most of its controlling interest of MSNBC back to NBC a few years ago (MS owns 18% of MSNBC according to wikipedia). Even with that, Microsoft has very little to do with production; they're basically just a minority shareholder.
(Mind you that's just true for the cable channel. msnbc.com is still a 50-50 venture between MS and NBC.)
Remember, impeachment is not the OUTCOME, it is the BEGINNING. Impeachment is essentially a congressional indictment, instead of a criminal indictment. It begins the congressional equivalent of a trial. Then the impeached person (president in this case, though judges can be impeached as well) is tried and found guilty or innocent.
Clinton was impeached and found innocent. If he were found guilty, congress could vote to have him removed from office, or it could be as little as a censure. Let me repeat: You do not have to be removed from office if you are found guilty from being impeached.
IMHO, Clinton SHOULD have been found guilty. Hear me out. He lied under oath. However, I believe he should have been found guilty and then given a slap on the wrist, but at the time everybody had "GUILTY = REMOVAL" in their heads. On the other hand, Bush has lied repeatedly, and as a result many thousands of people (if not millions) have died, and our liberty and security are non-existent. He should be impeached, tried, found guilty, and removed from office (if not worse).
(IANAL, I just read Wikipedia a lot.)
Yes, read the release notes for the answers to those questions. (and much much more! act today!)
So, this was reported for a different kernel on a different distro? What happened when you filed the bug report with Debian's BTS?
First of all, I didn't know this was a "secret". I've seen it myself. It may have the same color scheme, but it looks noticeably different (no "top 10 tips to buy a new TV" or big flashy mini-ads or any of that crap). The purpose? If a customer wants to buy something that's out of stock or internet-only or something, the employee takes the customer's information and logs in using his employee ID. I've never used this part, but the customer supposedly pays in-store, then the employee puts the confirmation number into the site, and the item is either shipped to the customer or the store.
(CompUSA has a similar site, though in their case the customer (usually business account customers) can access it too -- http://compusabusiness.com/ )
Now, I'm interested in seeing what the result of the investigation is, but this doesn't seem to scream conspiracy. Maybe there was a discrepancy, and the employee pointed to that site because, well, that's the site he always uses. I make a best buy purchase every couple weeks, and always check the site first (mostly because best buy's stock sucks, and I have to figure out which of the 2 stores in town has what I need), and I have never seen a price discrepancy between bestbuy.com and in-store.
Most of this information has been repeated in the comments here already, but I thought I'd sum up the dates and whatnot:
(From Wikipedia) The FCC has issued the following mandates for devices entering the US:
* By July 1, 2005 all televisions with screen sizes over 36" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2006 all televisions with screen sizes over 25" must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
* By March 1, 2007 all televisions regardless of screen size, and all interface devices which include a tuner (VCR, DVD player/recorder, DVR) must include a built-in ATSC DTV tuner
That's 3 days from now, AND includes things like TV tuner cards, which explains why companies like Hauppauge just released a "budget" dual NTSC/ATSC line, the HVR-950/1600.
* A Congressional bill has authorized subsidizing converter boxes that would allow people to receive the new digital broadcasts on their old TVs. The current plan is to make two $40 coupons available from January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009 for each household that relies exclusively on over-the-air television reception.
* In the United States, the switch-off of all analog terrestrial TV broadcasts has been mandated for no later than February 17, 2009. Legislation setting this deadline was signed into law in early 2006. Currently, most U.S. broadcasters are beaming their signals in both analog and digital formats; a few are digital-only.
So, expect to see ATSC tuners become more plentiful in early 2008, once the subsidies start rolling in.
Sounds like a philosophical question to me... "If a 12-year-old n00b plays halo and everyone has him muted, does he still complain about lag?"
Nothing huge, but his name is spelled Scot. I know this because there are relatively few "well known" Finnies in the world (at least with that spelling), and I happen to be one of them.
-- Ryan Finnie
(hey, it looks like I finally have more google juice than him.)
(subliminal message: download Finnix.)
The "PS3" game on the other hand is the opposite. For those who could afford triple the game price, the first few levels were EXTREMELY hard. Then it got incredibly easy, but by those levels people realized the gameplay was crap and stopped playing altogether.
I have a MSDN subscription through work, and downloaded Office 2007 when it was released to subscribers a few months ago.
(It's nice, for business use at least. I wouldn't pay for it at home (that's what OOo is for), but I love it when I switch to "business user" mode.)