I did. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/speakea sy -- read the chat. Thrown out for going >100G a month. "Unlimited" my ass. Do not do business with SpeakEasy; they provide inaccurate information during presales!
Sounds like a lot of extra work for me. Have modded xbox, do not play videos on it. p.s. - The reason one doesn't watch TV on one's computer is the smaller size of screen. Give me 36 inches, or give me nothing. And news flash: you're a dork and you're posting on slashdot about your modded Xbox. Quit trying to hide it, you marginalize the rest of us:)
Wow. I've had mine hooked up since 1995. S-video is just fine on an ATI brand card, not so fine on other brands. I can read most default web-text (non-hdtv) and DOS text, bios, etc just fine.
Your xbox will break, but you will always have a computer. To NOT hook it up to a tv is personally stupid to me. Emulators. Porn. TV shows on bittorrent. Movies. Music through your home theatre quality receiver. fullscreen youtube never looked so good (well..... youtube quality BLOWS but that's another issue).
We'll always have computers. It's silly to buy extra hardware that does the same thing.
And if you have DVI input, you can get damn good quality. My friend has 1920x1280 to his new-tech (i.e. HDTV) tv and it's pixel perfect. Milkdrop never looked so good.
Want a monitor? Nothing's stopping you from doing both. Or having another computer.
Wow. You've effectively been brainwashed. While they consider our society a threat, they are not out to kill every one of us, nor would that be possible. Get a clue.
i've been on netflix, on and off, for years. never once have they throttled me. i do 4-at-once, get 4 on monday, send them back tuesday, they arrive by thursday, they send more out friday -- if i'm lucky and they come in 1 day (they sometimes to), I can in theory get 4 more saturday. anyway, i've never noticed any throttling, but I hear a lot of people claim it. Maybe your p.o. is what sucks.
Wait, did you specify OUR government ONLY?
(Goes back... Yes, you did...) Hmm.... That's frustrating.
Of course, most UK measures eventually come to America.:)
Frustratingly, the link to the original article has expired. I hate that shit. If you're a news organization, every article should have a static URL that works for perpetuity!
Conversely, your automatic dismissal of certain sites based on mentioning things in a "non-ironic manner" decreases your 'credibility of having an open mind' enough that I no longer care to provide you with such link because you would simply dismiss it if you did not agree with it.:)
Go read http://www.thought-criminal.org/ and http://www.info-warriors.com/... They cover fingerprinting in schools... And please don't come back with a comment about their credibility, they generally link to the actual articles. None of it is forced, but they absolutely ARE fingerprinting students. Without parental permission.
It searches a catalog of links. What more do you want? When google fails me, del.icio.us is the 2nd place I try. I think of a tag, and look at the most popular links of the tag. This actually sometimes gives me better results than a google search. If I am seraching via delicious, I'm not the only one.
PayTrust.com is my billpay service (they physically receive bills, scan them in, pay them by rules, and send an email to you and your wife, as well as a CD at the end of the year with all your data on it -- password proteced, with a java-based search engine.)
They recently implemented an excellent anti-phishing measure: An image and a phrase.
They had a gallery of 100+ images. I chose a specific one -- an image of mars. They also gave you a phrase. I chose "ALL HAIL XENU!!".
Now, it asks for username first. After you give it the username, it shows the image of mars, as well as "ALL HAIL XENU!!". I then know it is actually the right site, and I can put in my password. No phisher is going to be able to know what phrase I typed in. This is very secure and requires no fancypants technology.
Except for my original Apple 2, IBM 8088, and 386, I have self-built every machine in between.
Except my last. An emergency happened and I needed a computer "yesterday". So I checked out Dell, didn't care for their build options, and got a Gateway.
WORST... COMPUTER... EVER.
My question is this: I don't want to buy windows. I want to choose my motherboard (Abit), harddrive controller (SATA 4 drives at least), graphics card (ATI with tv out AND in), sound card (something with digital optical audio out as well as RCA in). But I don't want to build it myself. I've got better things to do nowadays.
So what are my options? I hate dell, and I hate gateway. Where else can I get a computer that has a 1-year hardware warrantee, custom built to my specs, sent to me FOR A GOOD PRICE?
If they are putting out new firmwares that allow the CSS/"special" section of the disc to be written to, could it not be tweaked to write to the "special" section of PS2 DVDs, allowing people to finally play PS2 backups without requiring a mod chip?
I've thought for years that a simple firmware mod could solve the modchip problem on a per-burner basis..... I'm truly surprised no one has tried to live up to the challenge.
So you would voluntarily purchase a harddrive from a company that only has 2-year warrantee, versus one that has a 5-year warrantee?
Me, I'd rather have the 5-year warrantee. All data should be backed up. If your drive fails, buying a new one sucks. 500G * 5 years = 2.5T/yrs. 500G * 2 years = 1T/yrs. I'd rather get 2.5 times my storage-over-time. Especially after all the WD drives that crashed. (My last harddrive purchases, in reverse chrono order, by gigabytes: Seagates:750,500,500,400,300,250,200, WDs:120,120,120,120,80,80,80,60,40,25,17,4). Out of all of those, WDs have generally not lasted as long (crashed: 4g, 60g, 80g, 120g), and the warrantee has been the deciding factor of whether I need to spend ~$300 for a new drive or not.
No one would ever need more than 640K memory, right? If you can't imagine why someone would use space, take your unimaginative brain and make your unimaginative comments elsewhere. I have 3.5TB of space spread across 4 computers, one computer alone has 1.5TB. Almost every drive has less than 100G of free space on it -- which is not much by my standards. Backup 4 movies in 1 night? Just used 32G. Now, my latest drive, a 750M, is only half full. Mostly with stuff that had to be moved off a 120G drive that crashed, backup copies of all my program installers (40G due to me imaging any cd-only stuff to my harddrive -- finding cds is impossible), and stuff I'd burned already but don't want to delete.
Seriously..... Next think you're going to say: "My car has 4 wheels, I can't see why anyone would need an 18-wheeler." Use your fucking imagination.
So if the state pays for your medicine, I guess they own your body and can do with it what they see fit. How is that any different from forcing you to excercise against your will, or not allowing you to, say, drink alcohol (the 2nd largest toxicological killer)?
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I did. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/speakea sy -- read the chat. Thrown out for going >100G a month. "Unlimited" my ass. Do not do business with SpeakEasy; they provide inaccurate information during presales!
Sounds like a lot of extra work for me. Have modded xbox, do not play videos on it. p.s. - The reason one doesn't watch TV on one's computer is the smaller size of screen. Give me 36 inches, or give me nothing. And news flash: you're a dork and you're posting on slashdot about your modded Xbox. Quit trying to hide it, you marginalize the rest of us :)
Your xbox will break, but you will always have a computer. To NOT hook it up to a tv is personally stupid to me. Emulators. Porn. TV shows on bittorrent. Movies. Music through your home theatre quality receiver. fullscreen youtube never looked so good (well..... youtube quality BLOWS but that's another issue).
We'll always have computers. It's silly to buy extra hardware that does the same thing.
And if you have DVI input, you can get damn good quality. My friend has 1920x1280 to his new-tech (i.e. HDTV) tv and it's pixel perfect. Milkdrop never looked so good.
Want a monitor? Nothing's stopping you from doing both. Or having another computer.
Wow. You've effectively been brainwashed. While they consider our society a threat, they are not out to kill every one of us, nor would that be possible. Get a clue.
i've been on netflix, on and off, for years. never once have they throttled me. i do 4-at-once, get 4 on monday, send them back tuesday, they arrive by thursday, they send more out friday -- if i'm lucky and they come in 1 day (they sometimes to), I can in theory get 4 more saturday. anyway, i've never noticed any throttling, but I hear a lot of people claim it. Maybe your p.o. is what sucks.
Wait, did you specify OUR government ONLY? :)
(Goes back... Yes, you did...) Hmm.... That's frustrating.
Of course, most UK measures eventually come to America.
But wait!m ent-schools-an-early-indoctrination-into-the-polic e-state
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2006/08/28/govern
Frustratingly, the link to the original article has expired. I hate that shit. If you're a news organization, every article should have a static URL that works for perpetuity!
Are you sure these weren't elementary school students?
Conversely, your automatic dismissal of certain sites based on mentioning things in a "non-ironic manner" decreases your 'credibility of having an open mind' enough that I no longer care to provide you with such link because you would simply dismiss it if you did not agree with it. :)
Go read http://www.thought-criminal.org/ and http://www.info-warriors.com/ ... They cover fingerprinting in schools ... And please don't come back with a comment about their credibility, they generally link to the actual articles. None of it is forced, but they absolutely ARE fingerprinting students. Without parental permission.
It searches a catalog of links. What more do you want? When google fails me, del.icio.us is the 2nd place I try. I think of a tag, and look at the most popular links of the tag. This actually sometimes gives me better results than a google search. If I am seraching via delicious, I'm not the only one.
I actually agree with what you said :)
Yes, you are a dipshit. I wish I'd been the anonymous coward so I could have called you on it first. :)
People who willingly hide the file extensions from their display deserve what they get! :)
No talk about Fan Death?!?!
They recently implemented an excellent anti-phishing measure: An image and a phrase.
They had a gallery of 100+ images. I chose a specific one -- an image of mars. They also gave you a phrase. I chose "ALL HAIL XENU!!".
Now, it asks for username first. After you give it the username, it shows the image of mars, as well as "ALL HAIL XENU!!". I then know it is actually the right site, and I can put in my password. No phisher is going to be able to know what phrase I typed in. This is very secure and requires no fancypants technology.
Except my last. An emergency happened and I needed a computer "yesterday". So I checked out Dell, didn't care for their build options, and got a Gateway.
WORST... COMPUTER... EVER.
My question is this: I don't want to buy windows. I want to choose my motherboard (Abit), harddrive controller (SATA 4 drives at least), graphics card (ATI with tv out AND in), sound card (something with digital optical audio out as well as RCA in). But I don't want to build it myself. I've got better things to do nowadays.
So what are my options? I hate dell, and I hate gateway. Where else can I get a computer that has a 1-year hardware warrantee, custom built to my specs, sent to me FOR A GOOD PRICE?
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because if you respond, any down-moderation is undone automatically due to possible conflict of interest.
Prepare to be broken down into your component compounds.
Or was your post an equal waste of time as well?
I've thought for years that a simple firmware mod could solve the modchip problem on a per-burner basis..... I'm truly surprised no one has tried to live up to the challenge.
Me, I'd rather have the 5-year warrantee. All data should be backed up. If your drive fails, buying a new one sucks. 500G * 5 years = 2.5T/yrs. 500G * 2 years = 1T/yrs. I'd rather get 2.5 times my storage-over-time. Especially after all the WD drives that crashed. (My last harddrive purchases, in reverse chrono order, by gigabytes: Seagates:750,500,500,400,300,250,200, WDs:120,120,120,120,80,80,80,60,40,25,17,4). Out of all of those, WDs have generally not lasted as long (crashed: 4g, 60g, 80g, 120g), and the warrantee has been the deciding factor of whether I need to spend ~$300 for a new drive or not.
Seriously..... Next think you're going to say: "My car has 4 wheels, I can't see why anyone would need an 18-wheeler." Use your fucking imagination.
Considering how many schools there are in suburban northern virginia, that pretty much covers everyone.
Yes, it's blatantly unconstitutional. Think you can hold on to your livlihood while fighting your way up to the surpreme court?
So if the state pays for your medicine, I guess they own your body and can do with it what they see fit. How is that any different from forcing you to excercise against your will, or not allowing you to, say, drink alcohol (the 2nd largest toxicological killer)?