Once before when I saw your sig I thought....ASL? Well, I'm sure it's taken....but by what?
Most people (myself included) don't encounter the seriously hearing impaired in our daily lives, and never have had a good enough reason (that is, enough motivation, however wrong that may be) to learn ASL. I do, however, speak Spanish because I encounter that every day, it being the second language of the US. My grandmother is hearing impaired, but doesn't know ASL - she just uses a hearing aid. I suppose it would help, but since she can speak English it's not necessary - I just have to talk a little louder, towards her left ear.
I don't mean to be offensive...I'm just explaining the 'ridiculous'-ness of my impairment.
A much more informative page that explains the technology (called GRASP - Glove-based Recognition of Auslan using Simple Processing) briefed in the CNN article can be found on Waleed Kadous's website:
I figured he was joking about being linus's ho until I saw the spelling.....hmm...hookers...text-to-speech...
(ANNOUNCER'S VOICE) ...Now in development for the speech-impaired: A gesture-to-speech translator that works in a Stephen-Hawking-type manner, though, I suppose, much different...
Thrust *slight pause* (ROBOTIC VOICE) That'll be $40
These comments (and responses) show just how ridiculous our legislation is becoming.
If unregulatedread: FREEmediums are allowed... ...it is to protect...freedom
Sounds completely bass-ackwards to me. Remember innocent before proven guilty?
Restricting our freedom to make backup copies (because of the abuse of minorities - remember, the majority don't have a clue about copy-protection) in order to protect the freedom of corporations. Restricting our freedom to create our own ISPs and share information freely - again, to protect the 'freedom' of corporations to make a profit.
I have just turned 18 and I am trying to educate myself such that when elections come around, I can change the world with my knowledge. Remember that YOUR VOTE COUNTS and EDUCATE your friends so that they know how important their freedoms are - that they take for granted - and how much power they have: voting, writing local politicians, etc.
The dance music scene in my area (central TX) was just the subject of abuse of freedom by some local politicians, and it really hit home how much I should be doing - not just being an armchair activist. I challenge you ALL to put your $ where your mouth is. If even half of us (Slashdot readers) were to fight openly and strongly for what we rant about daily, I think the difference would be monumental. I know how hard it is, but together we have a chance.
If you have the correct Windows Media codecs installed (any codec, for that matter, that you wish to use) you can use NiceMC Media Plugin for WinAMP and just add your video files via URL like any other streaming WinAMP-compatible media. I am still using v1.0(x86) (which is maybe why mine's free, ha) but it rarely gives me any problems. It seems to be a lot less resource-intensive than MS's Media Player, but I haven't actually measured CPU %. Of course, I mean, this should work for pr0n, cause it's not like I tested it, or anything. Yea.
I'm probably ruining the millions I could make producing and selling this idea, but...
All Joe Citizen needs to do is put his tube card in a metal sheath when he's not near the reader. I honestly don't know the materials it would take to block the signal (and I don't know the technology behind it) but if the cloth and items of your bag can stop the transmission, a simple metal cover should do it. Shoot, you could even sell them under the guise of protecting oneself from the radiation of the thing, along with ensuring your privacy. They'd sell like hotcakes, and could be personalized or in different colors, etc., and would probably get lost all the time and people would buy more....sounds like there's a mint to be made to me, and everyone ends up happy. This way you still retain the advantage, however, of how fast the card is read (as opposed to magnetic stripe or whathaveyou) as long as people remember to take it out before they get to the entrance.
I can personally say I've seen deceptakahn @ the Asylum (thanks, man) and he puts on a great show. To hell with those super-djs who are too prissy to come to their own gigs...I want to hear real live pa and live sets from real people (Like I was talking about in my earlier post)!!
p.s. I had no idea you read slashdot, deceptakahn oh, and PLUR TO TEXAS!!
The many flavors of electronic music
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Electronic Music 101?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Defining a 'best' in electronic music is like defining a 'best' in rock....Electronic music has themostsub-genres of any music type I know of. Nevertheless, there are the major categories, but keep in mind that often the mosttalented artists do not confine their music to one type alone.
The most well known word for electronic music is probably techno, however techno != electronic, rather it is a type of electronic popular earlier in the 90s, while electronic music was growing more mainstream. You'll most often hear (for subgenres):
Techno | Trance | Drum n' Bass | Breakbeat | House | Jungle | Industrial | Ambient | Chill
often used with the modifiers 'hard', 'acid', or 'progressive' as in hard house, or progressive trance. In a lot of ways, these are self-explanatory...hard means that the music is rougher, and is usually faster paced; drum n bass consists of drum beats and heavy basslines.
Everyone here will try to tell you the bestartist to listen to....but I can tell you for sure that I know no two people with the same taste in electronic music. You really have to discover for yourself the kind that interests you most. I suggest listening to some genericonlineradio if you want to know the mainstream electronica, most of which is a carryover from europe's tech-pop eurotrash trance. That's where you'll find the names most people will refer to you.
However, the best way to discover electronic music is to support yourlocalscene. I would list true local websites, but being low-budget community supported as they are, I wouldn't subject them to the bandwidth of the slightest slashdotting. You can, however, find your nearest real record store (good electronic comes out on analog lps for real djs) and they will be happy to direct you to flyers and websites informing you of local happenings. Go out and hear some of your best local djs, and truly experience the music for yourself (many djs of different styles will play in the same night) - that will be the fastest path to knowing your interests. Also, once you find a dj youlike, find out his/her influences, and that will point you to some excellent (lesser-known?) artists.
Some of the best cuts are the hardest to find, but there's a ton of greatmusic out there. I wish you (all) luck, and PLUR!!
Trillian has one (1) buddy list for all its buddies, on every network. When you talk to different single buddies, you open separate windows for each buddy (the same as every other client). You can chat with multiple buddies in the same window, as long as they're on the same service (also same). It has a neat feature called a 'container', which lets you put all your IM windows in one big window (like Opera, or Word 6), so they become client windows. There's a mini-taskbar at the bottom of the 'container' which highlights the name of the IM that has been updated, but not yet seen.
It can't combine chats between different protocols, but in order to do that, your computer would have to translate and relay the IMs, like some sort of server itself, so it's clear why that isn't a feature. Trillian still looks like the best option out of the other IM progs to me....is that enough for you to switch back?
I use Trillian daily, it includes AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC all in one. I switched over about 6 months ago and haven't had a second thought since. It has never crashed on me, or conflicted with any other running programs (Unlike what AIM has done since the day I installed it). My friends, sick of AIM crashing and having to run MSN and AIM all the time, switched over as soon as I explained it to them. The NO ADS and the simplicity were very attractive to them (important, since they are the average joe user, unlike me) and they haven't had any trouble using it...plus it's extremely nice to have standard buttons (i.e. filesend) for every buddy, even though then send process is (under the skin) different for each messenger.
It includes every feature I've wanted in a messenger, and left out those that I didn't. Plus, I love the idea of not supporting AOL or Microsoft's low-quality, overdone, irritating products.
Aphex Twin is an exceptional artist, but I'm not sure his inspiration came from his room...it was from his complex mind. That works well in Aphex Twin's case, but for Moby, his isolation only led to his egotism flowing out - I was kinda saying, if Moby got out and looked around, and got some second opinions, he wouldn't be wondering what happened to the sales of his self-proclaimed hit record.
Moby's latest album isn't that good. It's basically Play, his last album, but different songs. Now, I thought Play was a good album at the time, but after every song on the album was licensed to advertisements, and Moby put out Play: Side B, I got pretty sick of the songs. A lot of what made Play popular was the way he mixed old-school soul together with big beats and new electronica. That gimmick doesn't work twice, but that same kind of sound seems like what he's trying to produce in 18. (FYI: if 18 sounds like it was made in a box, that's because it was - completely created in a windowless small room in his flat - doesn't sound like a fountain of inspiration to me...)
I am a serious electronica fan, and so are many of my friends...if we really like an album, we buy it - mp3 quality is nowhere near CD quality, and DJs buy albums on wax (real ones, anyway). I doubt a lot of clubs/DJs are buying 18 yet, for 1) its quality and 2) he's only released one single (in the States, anyway) that hasn't been doing anywhere near as well as Play's hits (which is important, because that's what he's using for comparison.) Moby is old news (can we say 96?) and no artist should expect guaranteed sales. That kind of super-ego-centric attitude is exactly what doesn't sell albums.
I'm looking into building a PC myself, and have found that the cheapest way by far is to buy what's called a 'Barebones' system. On pricewatch they are initially listed as 'Kits' but after following the link you seem them called 'Barebones', as all the online super-deal-megastores do. The system will include at least a case, power supply, motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive and 3 1/2, and some flavor of a ROM drive. It can be configured with basically any standard hardware (and occasionally peripherals) that you want...but they never require you to order an M$ OS (or any OS).
With a barebones system, you get the best of all worlds: when you go to order one (at a quality site), you are linkedto a form where you customize your barebones PC like you would a DELL, except with many more options.
All of this cuts down the price...plus, since they're building it for you, they get the deal on the hardware for buying bulk, which is passed onto you. Also, they do what's called 'burn-in', which is where they hook up their software-preloaded-testing-hard-drive and make sure it all works, and then as a guarantee they'll tack on a 1 or 2 year warranty (often upgradable). This way, you don't have to put it together yourself and wonder what's not working, and watch all the tech-support point fingers at each other yelling 'it's-not-me-it's-the-other-part'.
If you look a little, you can find a barebones package that can be configured with all the components you wanted anyway, and certainly with any processor. (Be careful though, the default choices on the form often are cheaper in make, but not in price).
I am personally using AccessMicro to build my system. I'm getting an Athlon XP 2100+, Gigabyte KT333 ATA133 RAID-enabled, 512MB DDR 333MHz DDRAM, plus CD-RW, DVD-ROM, 40GB hard drive, floppy, keyboard and mouse, and a sweet, sweet case for under a grand, easy (NOTE: IAN Affiliated). I couldn't have found but a couple parts I want cheaper, and I'll just install those myself...I'm telling you, this is the way to go, save yourself some time.
Spent hours collecting pictures, trading shots and insider info - you wait and wait for that next tasty shot, showing a closeup, details you hadn't noticed before, trading little facts, sneaking in backdoors for preview pictures, leeching underground sites before the man shuts them down...
...and 3 years later you come out of jail just to find out the buns cooked, and came out stale. Not to mention your wife left you and you have to move to a new town. They were right, when I told them I was just thinking about their potential, it was a bunch of a useless crap.
I mean, when I say 'their', I mean 3DRealms and Duke. And Doom III. Right.
Would someone tell me why people [spend]dumb huge wads of cash on these big plasma screen displays when they could spend a coupld [sic] of [sic] grand on a decent digital XGA projector and project the picture onto a screen/wall at 9 feet by 6 or something like that?
I just came in from mowing my lawn, and I'm afraid I've committed a crime against ethics: Grass: 1. Shows evidence of growth and replication...(CHECK)
2. Shows evidence of purposeful energy transfer...(CHECK)
3. Responds to stimuli...(CHECK)
4. Acts in such a way as to ensure self-preservation...(CHECK)
5. Is significantly different from the surrounding environment...(CHECK)
What have I done? Thousands of lifeforms died at my hands!
//end joke-->
According to a recent (Slashdot?) article I read, plants scream when harmed...that is, where do you draw the line? Ameobas...plants...microbes...insects...birds...ma mmals....What really makes the difference?
Also, most of the conservatives who believe in preventing stem cell research I'd bet believe in this homicidal War on Terrorism - whether you agree with it or not, the death toll is high, meaning we're mass judging others and deciding their right to live...so...war for self-preservation is OK but stem-cell research for the same means is not? Someone please explain the difference to me.
It appears that the articles have not been read carefully. After comparing the the three, there are two Flash virii being spread around.
Virus 1 (Conrad's submission) - SWF/LFM.926 The virus, dubbed SWF/LFM.926...must be downloaded manually and cannot spread...over e-mail.(Yahoo) ...and after being run, infects other Flash movies while displaying the message
"Loading Flash-Movie...". The virus exploits the scriptability of Macromedia Flash to generate a
file V.COM, which gets executed afterwards without confirmation.(German trans. - thanks entrox!!)
Virus 2 (bdavenport's infoworld submission) - Creative.exe The virus...arrives in an e-mail bearing the subject line, "A great shockwave flash movie."
The worm, which first appeared Thursday, is delivered to users in the form of an e-mail attachment that appears to be a Shockwave Media Player. When a user tries to view the movie attachment, the worm sends a copy of itself to all people in the address book of the user's Microsoft Outlook e-mail program, potentially clogging e-mail networks.
One reason the Creative.exe virus may be spreading so quickly is that it uses the Shockwave Flash movie icon.(Infoworld) ...but if you check the date of the Infoworld article, it's December 1, 2000.
From Symantec: Discovered on: November 30, 2000
Due to a recent decrease in world-wide infections of this worm, SARC has decreased the threat level of this worm to 3 and removed it from the Top Threats list.
W32.Prolin.Worm uses Microsoft Outlook to email a copy of itself to everyone in the Outlook address book. The worm moves all.mp3,.jpg, and.zip files to the root folder. It renames each of these files and appends the following text to the extension of each file:
change atleast now to LINUX
Also Known As: TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A, CREATIVE, TROJ_PROLIN.A
So...Creative.exe is NOT a flash virus, and is old news, unrelated to SWF/LFM-926.
Unless you are a signatory to a Passport Participant License and Service agreement...you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from through the Passport Web Site and service.
So can I not print out my email or forward it? This is ludicrous!
I guess I can't...: By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
...Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
So much for sending a generic email asking my friends where they want to go to eat this weekend and when - much less ask them to forward that email to other who might go...
...Restrict or inhibit any other user from...enjoying the Communication Services.
"Johnny, be off that computer in 5 minutes! I need to check my email too."
"I can't enjoy my Hotmail?! I'm calling Microsoft!"
...You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Microsoft as a result of this agreement or use of the Passport Web Site or service.
Microsoft employees themselves can't use the service. Interesting...
Also: This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Washington, U.S.A. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in King County, Washington, U.S.A. in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Passport Web Site or service.
Wonder if they have anyone paid off....
Slashdot Mirror
SIX Hours Later!
Now still on the Front Page, where Everyone Can See It!
Double Posting Faster than Ever Before!!
This iiiiiiiissssssssss ridiculous!
Thank youuuuuuuu for watching!
Once before when I saw your sig I thought....ASL? Well, I'm sure it's taken....but by what?
Most people (myself included) don't encounter the seriously hearing impaired in our daily lives, and never have had a good enough reason (that is, enough motivation, however wrong that may be) to learn ASL. I do, however, speak Spanish because I encounter that every day, it being the second language of the US. My grandmother is hearing impaired, but doesn't know ASL - she just uses a hearing aid. I suppose it would help, but since she can speak English it's not necessary - I just have to talk a little louder, towards her left ear.
I don't mean to be offensive...I'm just explaining the 'ridiculous'-ness of my impairment.
A much more informative page that explains the technology (called GRASP - Glove-based Recognition of Auslan using Simple Processing) briefed in the CNN article can be found on Waleed Kadous's website:
GRASP Site:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/thesis.htm l
More generalized Gesture & Sign Language Recognition Research:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/
Also see the self-proclaimed Gesture Recognition Home Page (good resource, tons of links)
http://www.cybernet.com/~ccohen/
Or just search google like I did for 'Machine Gesture Sign Language' and get a wealth of links.
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I figured he was joking about being linus's ho until I saw the spelling.....hmm...hookers...text-to-speech...
...Now in development for the speech-impaired: A gesture-to-speech translator that works in a Stephen-Hawking-type manner, though, I suppose, much different...
(ANNOUNCER'S VOICE)
Thrust
*slight pause*
(ROBOTIC VOICE) That'll be $40
These comments (and responses) show just how ridiculous our legislation is becoming.
...it is to protect...freedom
If unregulated read: FREE mediums are allowed...
Sounds completely bass-ackwards to me.
Remember innocent before proven guilty?
Restricting our freedom to make backup copies (because of the abuse of minorities - remember, the majority don't have a clue about copy-protection) in order to protect the freedom of corporations. Restricting our freedom to create our own ISPs and share information freely - again, to protect the 'freedom' of corporations to make a profit.
I have just turned 18 and I am trying to educate myself such that when elections come around, I can change the world with my knowledge. Remember that YOUR VOTE COUNTS and EDUCATE your friends so that they know how important their freedoms are - that they take for granted - and how much power they have: voting, writing local politicians, etc.
The dance music scene in my area (central TX) was just the subject of abuse of freedom by some local politicians, and it really hit home how much I should be doing - not just being an armchair activist. I challenge you ALL to put your $ where your mouth is. If even half of us (Slashdot readers) were to fight openly and strongly for what we rant about daily, I think the difference would be monumental. I know how hard it is, but together we have a chance.
Shades of black/white are tones, not colors. Tone refers to the lightness/darkness of something.
If you have the correct Windows Media codecs installed (any codec, for that matter, that you wish to use) you can use NiceMC Media Plugin for WinAMP and just add your video files via URL like any other streaming WinAMP-compatible media. I am still using v1.0(x86) (which is maybe why mine's free, ha) but it rarely gives me any problems. It seems to be a lot less resource-intensive than MS's Media Player, but I haven't actually measured CPU %. Of course, I mean, this should work for pr0n, cause it's not like I tested it, or anything. Yea.
I'm probably ruining the millions I could make producing and selling this idea, but...
All Joe Citizen needs to do is put his tube card in a metal sheath when he's not near the reader. I honestly don't know the materials it would take to block the signal (and I don't know the technology behind it) but if the cloth and items of your bag can stop the transmission, a simple metal cover should do it. Shoot, you could even sell them under the guise of protecting oneself from the radiation of the thing, along with ensuring your privacy. They'd sell like hotcakes, and could be personalized or in different colors, etc., and would probably get lost all the time and people would buy more....sounds like there's a mint to be made to me, and everyone ends up happy. This way you still retain the advantage, however, of how fast the card is read (as opposed to magnetic stripe or whathaveyou) as long as people remember to take it out before they get to the entrance.
I forgot to mention, the Avalanches latest release blows my mind. Everyone should go pick it up (actually buy it), now. Go!!
I can personally say I've seen deceptakahn @ the Asylum (thanks, man) and he puts on a great show. To hell with those super-djs who are too prissy to come to their own gigs...I want to hear real live pa and live sets from real people (Like I was talking about in my earlier post)!!
p.s. I had no idea you read slashdot, deceptakahn
oh, and PLUR TO TEXAS!!
Defining a 'best' in electronic music is like defining a 'best' in rock....Electronic music has the most sub-genres of any music type I know of. Nevertheless, there are the major categories, but keep in mind that often the most talented artists do not confine their music to one type alone.
The most well known word for electronic music is probably techno, however techno != electronic, rather it is a type of electronic popular earlier in the 90s, while electronic music was growing more mainstream. You'll most often hear (for subgenres):
Techno | Trance | Drum n' Bass | Breakbeat | House | Jungle | Industrial | Ambient | Chill
often used with the modifiers 'hard', 'acid', or 'progressive' as in hard house, or progressive trance. In a lot of ways, these are self-explanatory...hard means that the music is rougher, and is usually faster paced; drum n bass consists of drum beats and heavy basslines.
Everyone here will try to tell you the best artist to listen to....but I can tell you for sure that I know no two people with the same taste in electronic music. You really have to discover for yourself the kind that interests you most. I suggest listening to some generic online radio if you want to know the mainstream electronica, most of which is a carryover from europe's tech-pop eurotrash trance. That's where you'll find the names most people will refer to you.
However, the best way to discover electronic music is to support your local scene. I would list true local websites, but being low-budget community supported as they are, I wouldn't subject them to the bandwidth of the slightest slashdotting. You can, however, find your nearest real record store (good electronic comes out on analog lps for real djs) and they will be happy to direct you to flyers and websites informing you of local happenings. Go out and hear some of your best local djs, and truly experience the music for yourself (many djs of different styles will play in the same night) - that will be the fastest path to knowing your interests. Also, once you find a dj you like, find out his/her influences, and that will point you to some excellent (lesser-known?) artists.
Some of the best cuts are the hardest to find, but there's a ton of great music out there. I wish you (all) luck, and PLUR!!
Trillian has one (1) buddy list for all its buddies, on every network. When you talk to different single buddies, you open separate windows for each buddy (the same as every other client). You can chat with multiple buddies in the same window, as long as they're on the same service (also same). It has a neat feature called a 'container', which lets you put all your IM windows in one big window (like Opera, or Word 6), so they become client windows. There's a mini-taskbar at the bottom of the 'container' which highlights the name of the IM that has been updated, but not yet seen.
It can't combine chats between different protocols, but in order to do that, your computer would have to translate and relay the IMs, like some sort of server itself, so it's clear why that isn't a feature. Trillian still looks like the best option out of the other IM progs to me....is that enough for you to switch back?
I use Trillian daily, it includes AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC all in one. I switched over about 6 months ago and haven't had a second thought since. It has never crashed on me, or conflicted with any other running programs (Unlike what AIM has done since the day I installed it). My friends, sick of AIM crashing and having to run MSN and AIM all the time, switched over as soon as I explained it to them. The NO ADS and the simplicity were very attractive to them (important, since they are the average joe user, unlike me) and they haven't had any trouble using it...plus it's extremely nice to have standard buttons (i.e. filesend) for every buddy, even though then send process is (under the skin) different for each messenger.
It includes every feature I've wanted in a messenger, and left out those that I didn't. Plus, I love the idea of not supporting AOL or Microsoft's low-quality, overdone, irritating products.
Aphex Twin is an exceptional artist, but I'm not sure his inspiration came from his room...it was from his complex mind. That works well in Aphex Twin's case, but for Moby, his isolation only led to his egotism flowing out - I was kinda saying, if Moby got out and looked around, and got some second opinions, he wouldn't be wondering what happened to the sales of his self-proclaimed hit record.
Moby's latest album isn't that good. It's basically Play, his last album, but different songs. Now, I thought Play was a good album at the time, but after every song on the album was licensed to advertisements, and Moby put out Play: Side B, I got pretty sick of the songs. A lot of what made Play popular was the way he mixed old-school soul together with big beats and new electronica. That gimmick doesn't work twice, but that same kind of sound seems like what he's trying to produce in 18. (FYI: if 18 sounds like it was made in a box, that's because it was - completely created in a windowless small room in his flat - doesn't sound like a fountain of inspiration to me...)
I am a serious electronica fan, and so are many of my friends...if we really like an album, we buy it - mp3 quality is nowhere near CD quality, and DJs buy albums on wax (real ones, anyway). I doubt a lot of clubs/DJs are buying 18 yet, for 1) its quality and 2) he's only released one single (in the States, anyway) that hasn't been doing anywhere near as well as Play's hits (which is important, because that's what he's using for comparison.) Moby is old news (can we say 96?) and no artist should expect guaranteed sales. That kind of super-ego-centric attitude is exactly what doesn't sell albums.
I'm looking into building a PC myself, and have found that the cheapest way by far is to buy what's called a 'Barebones' system. On pricewatch they are initially listed as 'Kits' but after following the link you seem them called 'Barebones', as all the online super-deal-megastores do. The system will include at least a case, power supply, motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive and 3 1/2, and some flavor of a ROM drive. It can be configured with basically any standard hardware (and occasionally peripherals) that you want...but they never require you to order an M$ OS (or any OS).
With a barebones system, you get the best of all worlds: when you go to order one (at a quality site), you are linked to a form where you customize your barebones PC like you would a DELL, except with many more options.
All of this cuts down the price...plus, since they're building it for you, they get the deal on the hardware for buying bulk, which is passed onto you. Also, they do what's called 'burn-in', which is where they hook up their software-preloaded-testing-hard-drive and make sure it all works, and then as a guarantee they'll tack on a 1 or 2 year warranty (often upgradable). This way, you don't have to put it together yourself and wonder what's not working, and watch all the tech-support point fingers at each other yelling 'it's-not-me-it's-the-other-part'.
If you look a little, you can find a barebones package that can be configured with all the components you wanted anyway, and certainly with any processor. (Be careful though, the default choices on the form often are cheaper in make, but not in price).
I am personally using AccessMicro to build my system. I'm getting an Athlon XP 2100+, Gigabyte KT333 ATA133 RAID-enabled, 512MB DDR 333MHz DDRAM, plus CD-RW, DVD-ROM, 40GB hard drive, floppy, keyboard and mouse, and a sweet, sweet case for under a grand, easy (NOTE: IAN Affiliated). I couldn't have found but a couple parts I want cheaper, and I'll just install those myself...I'm telling you, this is the way to go, save yourself some time.
I did that once -
Spent hours collecting pictures, trading shots and insider info - you wait and wait for that next tasty shot, showing a closeup, details you hadn't noticed before, trading little facts, sneaking in backdoors for preview pictures, leeching underground sites before the man shuts them down...
...and 3 years later you come out of jail just to find out the buns cooked, and came out stale. Not to mention your wife left you and you have to move to a new town. They were right, when I told them I was just thinking about their potential, it was a bunch of a useless crap.
I mean, when I say 'their', I mean 3DRealms and Duke. And Doom III. Right.
Would someone tell me why people [spend]dumb huge wads of cash on these big plasma screen displays when they could spend a coupld [sic] of [sic] grand on a decent digital XGA projector and project the picture onto a screen/wall at 9 feet by 6 or something like that?
Why do people spend dumb huge wads of cash on anything? Isldeur obviously hasn't read earlier Slashdot, or he would know Slashdot Saves©. Now build your own complete home theatre system for less than ONE GRAND! Yes, not even a coupld of grand and you will be living in style. XGA? Decent? Please. Build your own and you'll be viewing in up to 1600x1200 SVGA+ crisp resolution!
Just combine this article with Homebrewed LCD projectors and create your FULL theatre experience TODAY!
Seriously, I'm going to create my own as soon as I save up the $ (prom is good for your wallet like vodka is good for abstinence.)
I just came in from mowing my lawn, and I'm afraid I've committed a crime against ethics:
a mmals....What really makes the difference?
Grass:
1. Shows evidence of growth and replication...(CHECK)
2. Shows evidence of purposeful energy transfer...(CHECK)
3. Responds to stimuli...(CHECK)
4. Acts in such a way as to ensure self-preservation...(CHECK)
5. Is significantly different from the surrounding environment...(CHECK)
What have I done? Thousands of lifeforms died at my hands!
//end joke-->
According to a recent (Slashdot?) article I read, plants scream when harmed...that is, where do you draw the line? Ameobas...plants...microbes...insects...birds...m
Also, most of the conservatives who believe in preventing stem cell research I'd bet believe in this homicidal War on Terrorism - whether you agree with it or not, the death toll is high, meaning we're mass judging others and deciding their right to live...so...war for self-preservation is OK but stem-cell research for the same means is not? Someone please explain the difference to me.
It appears that the articles have not been read carefully. After comparing the the three, there are two Flash virii being spread around.
...and after being run, infects other Flash movies while displaying the message
"Loading Flash-Movie...". The virus exploits the scriptability of Macromedia Flash to generate a
file V.COM, which gets executed afterwards without confirmation. (German trans. - thanks entrox!!)
...but if you check the date of the Infoworld article, it's December 1, 2000.
.mp3, .jpg, and .zip files to the root folder. It renames each of these files and appends the following text to the extension of each file:
Virus 1 (Conrad's submission) - SWF/LFM.926
The virus, dubbed SWF/LFM.926...must be downloaded manually and cannot spread...over e-mail. (Yahoo)
Virus 2 (bdavenport's infoworld submission) - Creative.exe
The virus...arrives in an e-mail bearing the subject line, "A great shockwave flash movie."
The worm, which first appeared Thursday, is delivered to users in the form of an e-mail attachment that appears to be a Shockwave Media Player. When a user tries to view the movie attachment, the worm sends a copy of itself to all people in the address book of the user's Microsoft Outlook e-mail program, potentially clogging e-mail networks.
One reason the Creative.exe virus may be spreading so quickly is that it uses the Shockwave Flash movie icon. (Infoworld)
From Symantec:
Discovered on: November 30, 2000
Due to a recent decrease in world-wide infections of this worm, SARC has decreased the threat level of this worm to 3 and removed it from the Top Threats list.
W32.Prolin.Worm uses Microsoft Outlook to email a copy of itself to everyone in the Outlook address book. The worm moves all
change atleast now to LINUX
Also Known As: TROJ_SHOCKWAVE.A, CREATIVE, TROJ_PROLIN.A
So...Creative.exe is NOT a flash virus, and is old news, unrelated to SWF/LFM-926.
So can I not print out my email or forward it?
This is ludicrous!
I guess I can't...:
By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
So much for sending a generic email asking my friends where they want to go to eat this weekend and when - much less ask them to forward that email to other who might go...
"Johnny, be off that computer in 5 minutes! I need to check my email too."
"I can't enjoy my Hotmail?! I'm calling Microsoft!"
Microsoft employees themselves can't use the service. Interesting...
Also:
This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Washington, U.S.A. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in King County, Washington, U.S.A. in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Passport Web Site or service.
Wonder if they have anyone paid off....