With the Infocus X1 versus the 4800, there's another difference. The more expensive 4800 comes with a free screen.
Oh, and don't even get me started on GM or anybody else in the auto industry. Many times, you may do better getting the "luxury" model that already has lots of options on it rather than getting the lower model and throwing the same options on it. A friend got an Infinity I30 because he realized that a fairly optioned out Maxima was more expensive and had poorer resale.
Apple is also guilty of this. PowerBooks can go over 1024x768 on an external monitor, or have a dual head, but iBooks can only "mirror" what's on the screen and go no higher than 1024x768. One quick haxie later and your iBook will go higher than 1024x768 and also operate in "clamshell mode" which means you can close the lid and still have it on.
Also when the PowerPC first came out, there were only 2 speeds available from Motorola, 66 MHz and 80 MHz. The marketeers wanted a third speed so they underclocked some 66 MHz CPUs to 60 MHz. Viola!
If they're anything like Sony, they're all borderline. Sony products have gone to hell. Remember when you used to be able to use a Sony CD player as wheel chocks or a battering ram, and it'd still work peachy? Now they barely survive the 90 day legal minimum warranty.
I have a 100 inch D-Lite High Contrast Cinema Vision (poor man's Firehawk) with a Sony projector. Impractical? No, I have it in the living room. The projector hangs down from the ceiling and the screen takes up a large chunk of wall space, but zero floor space. It is only one inch thick. If I had a 57 inch "big screen" box in the same room I'd have much less floor space.
The projector has all the floor space advantages of a plasma or large panel LCD screen, but it is about 4 times as large with a higher resolution picture and cheaper to boot.
I'm still waiting for MS to come out with their own window manager followed by some Office stuff. You want to run Office for Linux? Gotta have MS Window Manger for Linux, only $249!!!
At work I still use AfterStep. Why? There's nothing there to fidget with instead of working. Today I'm working from home because I busted my knee and I've got Mac OS X. I haven't gotten anything done but surf, mess with iTunes and other BS junk like that.
Oh well, a coworker is still on TWM from back when it was the only choice. He's using it because everything else is bloaty. Then again, he personally owns something like 300 computers, many of which are VAX.
98 Rock was worthless long before Mandatory Metallica, and long before Clear Channel got involved.
I realize that this post is off topic, even for a reply to an off topic post, but man I hate that station.
I guess I haven't been in Tampa long enough to know of a non-ClearChannel 98 Rock, though when I think of them minus Metallica my mind's eye still see's a steaming brown substance. Do other ClearChannel rock stations shovel the Metallica all day long as well?
And this is at least somewhat on topic. The article is about the satellite radio stations, and the differences between then. Corporate parentage is certainly something to note, as it would be a hint of where things are going.
Ok yeah, you got me there. But even getting all the premium channel packages, while coming to a pretty penny STILL doesn't seem worth the possibility of loosing several hundred dollars of capital investment in satellite hacking junk.
As for PPV, you can get far better (dirtier) porn of the net dammit.
And, I still contend that everyone would have HDTV if there were HD porn channels (hint hint Rupret!)
Fuzzy-headed liberal elitist? Not really. Then again, it is somewhat nice to have some balance to the right wing controlled corporate media who all seem bent on reporting the same exact story with the exact same slant.
If nothing else, they play some nice classical music, which sure beats rap any day of the week. I have yet to hear the same piece played twice, though I've only been listening for a couple of months.
Oh, and yes I said right wing media. The media used to be left wing when they were small independents, but now that they're all just one big company we can all (Americans at least) guess which party the cozy up to.
There's a ClearChannel rock station in Tampa that plays far too fucking much Metallica. They have "Mandatory Metallica" double song sets, and extra doses on "Metallica Monday" in case you haven't killed yourself by jamming a screwdriver into your ears repeatedly.
Hmmm, Metallica.... they sound familiar... weren't they the band that used to be good, turned to suck, and then became the anti MP3 posterboys? No shit, really?
Several times they've aired callers requesting old school Metallica to the point that the DJ (who sounds like he's always on pot) commented that "Yeah, nobody ever says 'hey play some of that crappy corporate new Metallica stuff.'"
The thing is, Metallica just wasn't all that popular on the radio until the posterboy flap happened. It almost seems like they've been getting their due.
I've been greatly amused while watching my coworkers buy hundreds of dollars in DirecTv pirating junk only to get locked out and have to dump several hundreds more into it. It would have been far far cheaper (not to mention easier) for them to just pay for the darn service and be happy.
A parallel to this is that encryption isn't supposed to make something impossible to decode, it is just supposed to make it computationally impractical to decode. From the sounds of it, the satellite companies have definitely accomplished that goal. I can't see how hacking and pirating a service that costs 10 stinking dollars a month can possibly be a dollar positive scenario.
Ever since one of my favorite channels became yet another ClearChannel R&B/Hip-Hop channel, I've been channel surfing more. At 26 years old, I now listen to my local NPR station more than anything else on the radio. It seems to be the only thing worth listening to.
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With the Infocus X1 versus the 4800, there's another difference. The more expensive 4800 comes with a free screen.
Oh, and don't even get me started on GM or anybody else in the auto industry. Many times, you may do better getting the "luxury" model that already has lots of options on it rather than getting the lower model and throwing the same options on it. A friend got an Infinity I30 because he realized that a fairly optioned out Maxima was more expensive and had poorer resale.
Apple is also guilty of this. PowerBooks can go over 1024x768 on an external monitor, or have a dual head, but iBooks can only "mirror" what's on the screen and go no higher than 1024x768. One quick haxie later and your iBook will go higher than 1024x768 and also operate in "clamshell mode" which means you can close the lid and still have it on.
Also when the PowerPC first came out, there were only 2 speeds available from Motorola, 66 MHz and 80 MHz. The marketeers wanted a third speed so they underclocked some 66 MHz CPUs to 60 MHz. Viola!
I'm sure there's plenty of other instances.
If they're anything like Sony, they're all borderline. Sony products have gone to hell. Remember when you used to be able to use a Sony CD player as wheel chocks or a battering ram, and it'd still work peachy? Now they barely survive the 90 day legal minimum warranty.
Active Spam Killer sure kills spam. Does that count as a method?
This isn't Malware, this is advertising for Apple. THIS is why I buy Macintoshes.
I have a 100 inch D-Lite High Contrast Cinema Vision (poor man's Firehawk) with a Sony projector. Impractical? No, I have it in the living room. The projector hangs down from the ceiling and the screen takes up a large chunk of wall space, but zero floor space. It is only one inch thick. If I had a 57 inch "big screen" box in the same room I'd have much less floor space.
The projector has all the floor space advantages of a plasma or large panel LCD screen, but it is about 4 times as large with a higher resolution picture and cheaper to boot.
No false positives, disgusting amounts of spams killed. 'Tis a glorious thing.
I'll take that bet. I'm sure their asses have already been laughed off.
Darl - "Today SCO is announcing that in order to protect our rights to UNIX we are bringing a lawsuit upon the Yakuza..."
SCHING!!!!
Darl - "...... (ugh...)"
Top half falls off.
Running a platform that has only 3% desktop market penetration means that there's far less software support.
I'm still trying to figure out if that's a bad thing... Bring it on assholes!
I use Active Spam Killer. If I don't know you, and you don't respond, then your mail dies.
I'm still waiting for MS to come out with their own window manager followed by some Office stuff. You want to run Office for Linux? Gotta have MS Window Manger for Linux, only $249!!!
At work I still use AfterStep. Why? There's nothing there to fidget with instead of working. Today I'm working from home because I busted my knee and I've got Mac OS X. I haven't gotten anything done but surf, mess with iTunes and other BS junk like that.
Oh well, a coworker is still on TWM from back when it was the only choice. He's using it because everything else is bloaty. Then again, he personally owns something like 300 computers, many of which are VAX.
The heck with new Macs... I already bought 3 this year. When are we going to see G5 upgrades for MDD (windtunnel) macs?
errno.h... wouldn't this also be the same errno.h that is part of the ancient UNIX that has been GPLed?
Hey, I saw ctype.c in there too. What's next, stdio?
"You have a printf, we have a printf. Cough up!"
Well that's certainly interesting. I have to wonder if anything on XM has Metallica overload too.
I guess I haven't been in Tampa long enough to know of a non-ClearChannel 98 Rock, though when I think of them minus Metallica my mind's eye still see's a steaming brown substance. Do other ClearChannel rock stations shovel the Metallica all day long as well? And this is at least somewhat on topic. The article is about the satellite radio stations, and the differences between then. Corporate parentage is certainly something to note, as it would be a hint of where things are going.
Ok yeah, you got me there. But even getting all the premium channel packages, while coming to a pretty penny STILL doesn't seem worth the possibility of loosing several hundred dollars of capital investment in satellite hacking junk.
As for PPV, you can get far better (dirtier) porn of the net dammit.
And, I still contend that everyone would have HDTV if there were HD porn channels (hint hint Rupret!)
Fuzzy-headed liberal elitist? Not really. Then again, it is somewhat nice to have some balance to the right wing controlled corporate media who all seem bent on reporting the same exact story with the exact same slant.
If nothing else, they play some nice classical music, which sure beats rap any day of the week. I have yet to hear the same piece played twice, though I've only been listening for a couple of months.
Oh, and yes I said right wing media. The media used to be left wing when they were small independents, but now that they're all just one big company we can all (Americans at least) guess which party the cozy up to.
Oh, and all hail mighty triple digit slashdot user ID abischof.
--lowly four digit slashdot user ID Admiral Llama.
There's a ClearChannel rock station in Tampa that plays far too fucking much Metallica. They have "Mandatory Metallica" double song sets, and extra doses on "Metallica Monday" in case you haven't killed yourself by jamming a screwdriver into your ears repeatedly.
Hmmm, Metallica.... they sound familiar... weren't they the band that used to be good, turned to suck, and then became the anti MP3 posterboys? No shit, really?
Several times they've aired callers requesting old school Metallica to the point that the DJ (who sounds like he's always on pot) commented that "Yeah, nobody ever says 'hey play some of that crappy corporate new Metallica stuff.'"
The thing is, Metallica just wasn't all that popular on the radio until the posterboy flap happened. It almost seems like they've been getting their due.
Consider this scenario:
Driver is wanking.
Driver gets into wreck.
Airbag deploys.
I seem to remember that airbags can cause burn marks. If nothing else, that broken glass has got to be a bitch.
I've been greatly amused while watching my coworkers buy hundreds of dollars in DirecTv pirating junk only to get locked out and have to dump several hundreds more into it. It would have been far far cheaper (not to mention easier) for them to just pay for the darn service and be happy.
A parallel to this is that encryption isn't supposed to make something impossible to decode, it is just supposed to make it computationally impractical to decode. From the sounds of it, the satellite companies have definitely accomplished that goal. I can't see how hacking and pirating a service that costs 10 stinking dollars a month can possibly be a dollar positive scenario.
Ever since one of my favorite channels became yet another ClearChannel R&B/Hip-Hop channel, I've been channel surfing more. At 26 years old, I now listen to my local NPR station more than anything else on the radio. It seems to be the only thing worth listening to.