Alice from EA. Decent storyline, nice graphics and tons of things to kill. My gf never played quake, unreal or any of those games. I picked up Alice for her new pc since she liked box art and story seemed promising. She finished the game mostly by herself. By the time we were done, it became clear that I was not only bad with directions while driving but also sucked at navigating large maps in Alice:)
Who cares if Intel supports it or not. I just bought a Bluetooth GPS receiver from Belkin and small pc with VIA motherboard and C3 processor (No Intel anywhere) I also bought a usb bluetooth dongle in order for my pc to talk to GPS receiver. It's not a big loss if Intel doesn't support it. As long as there's a market for it, someone will make it.
We have several thousand IBM thinkpads and their death rate is about 10% and climbing. Most common failure is complete hard drive failure with no chance of data recovery. (We spent $6k and send one of the drives to Ontrack and got nothing back except person's IE bookmarks) Since then IBM admitted that there are batches of laptops whose drives will definitely fail, sooner or later. They sent one of their tech to stay on-site to replace drives. (you just need to give them serial numbers and they'll tell you whether your drive is affected by recall) So far we had a lot of T23 HD replaced and a few other models. Most of the problematic drives were manufactured in Hungary:)
Backup all your clients' data ASAP and inform them NOT to keep anything important in Personal Folders, unless they are stored on the server. Same goes for My Documents - at least set up sync to network drive.
I am so bad with directions, that I need computer to yell at me when to turn. Streets and highways in NJ are so screwed up, that I actually spent an hour once trying to get out of Jersey City.
from FAQ http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/faq.shtml
Q: Why is there no street navigation which gives turn by turn
directions?
A: Turn by turn directions are not possible with GpsDrive at the present
because no opensource data is available which represents the street
coordinates in a form usable for that purpose. GpsDrive currently
works with bitmap images rather than vector data.
argh, damn rice burners:) I wish VW would listen to their customers more. People have been asking VW for years to bring gps navigation otion to USA. It's available in Germany but not USA. I guess I could get it on ebay from Europe and have it installed for me but that's not the point. They just want to sell more Audi A6s than Passats.
All of the components are just way too big. If you use similar hardware, you'll waste all your cargo space. Instead, use the following PC components: 1. mini pc, based on VIA's epia mini-itx motherboard. The best one to use is from http://www.mini-box.com - m-100 comes with a text LCD display and buttons that can be programmed. It runs on 12V DC and can be mounted in-dash or in the trunk where your cd changer would normally go. 2. Xenarc or Lilliput touch-screen 7" lcd monitor with SVGA and composite inputs. This is more important than big HD or faster pc. If you can't see text and maps clearly while you drive, what's the point of building one of these car pcs? Get all-in-one package from Alpine instead. 3. 20 or 40 HD 2.5" laptop hard drive. (#1 doesn't come with anything, not even a cf card) 4. 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter - #1 above won't let you connect a laptop hard drive to it w/o an adapter. compusa.com has them for $7. 5. Bluetooth usb adapter. I bought Belkin. 6. Bluetooth GPS receiver - no messy wires and you can take it with you (and use it with your PDA if it supports bt) I bought Belkin GPS receiver, you can get something else. 7. Blitzsafe adapter to connect #1 to your OEM HU (head unit/stereo) You didn't really think you could just plug your line out to your car's extra AUX IN port, did you? Mounts in the trunk right into where the changer plug went or behind your HU Elfig.com is one of the resellers, esp for VW. 8. Wires to connect it all - RatShack
9. Windows XP, Winamp 5, one of front-end GUI for easy navigation. Look at carpc.com forums. 10. Linux (Gentoo, or another fine distro) put it on a separate partition. It's fast for playing movies, music, etc. However, it lacks bluetooth support and GPS navigation packages for it suck. 11. USB hub for other gadgets, like portable HDs, scanners, webcams, etc. 12. RAM - pc doesn't come with any.
How much does it cost??? #1 minibox m-100 - $400. #2 Xenarc $500 #3 HD $100 to $300 #4 adapter $7 #5 bluetooth adapter $30 to $60 #6 gps receiver $300 to $400 #7 audio adapter $65 #8 varies #9 $0 to $250 #10 FREE FREE FREE (+ many hours of linux guru's help) #11 gadgets $20 to sky is the limit #12 RAM $50 to $100
If you really hate M$ and don't want Windows on your car pc, look at dashpc.com
If you are going to get off your lazy ass and actually build and install this in a VW Passat, let me know.
Just move plants back to USA or declare Taiwan another state or property of USA. Or just buy from Korea...or Japan... or the rest of the freaking world. Rising memory prices could actually good for struggling memory manufacturers. It would give them an excuse to bump up the price and actually make some real money for a change.
Yeah it's analog and it's under $200. You will not find any current digital SLR cameras for less than that. So buy analog now and use it until Canon Rebel Digital comes down in price (probably 2 years from now) Lenses that you'll buy can be reused with Rebel Digital so it makes sense to invest in Canon. (Lenses, filters and flash will cost you as much if not more than your camera)
I made a mistake by buying a Sony F-717 for my girlfriend last year. I cannot add any lenses to it. She had a Canon EOS Rebel 2000 (that I did not know about) with nice telephoto, wide and normal lenses. Guess which camera gets more use?
The moral of this story is buy modular - that digital Sony will be a very expensive paperweight few years from now where Canon body would have been shelved but lenses reused. Canon review on Epinions http://www.epinions.com/content_94306209 412 Canon Rebel Digital review http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos30 0d/
The real reason for building this robot was to catch students making out in the basment. (most libraries' stacks are in the basement where the lights are low and access is limited to staff and few lucky/adventurous types) When I was in HS I worked at a library and stacks was my favorite area. One time I heard noise in the far corner and went to investigate. I was clumsy stepped on something on the way there - really cute catholic schoolgirl and my metalhead friend (who also worked there) emerged. Needless to say, both looked embarrassed. They made up some lame excuse and left. Now if I had that robot, I probably would have had the whole thing on tape:) 1. All the good stuff is in the basement. 2. Catholic schoolgirls are WAY pervy. 3. Women are turned ON more if there's a chance of getting caught. 4. Having long hair and playing metal in your car could actually get you laid! (in the 80s)
my mini-box's 256MB compact flash card is...formatted with ReiserFS. Had it been formatted with FAT i would have had lost most of my data already. Oh, and of course it runs Linux, so no need to pay $ for OS...OR buy a 3GHz processor to run bloated windows apps.
Check out www.mini-box.com if you are thinking about installing a carputer. It's a bare bones system but I was able to add a lot to it. 1. As long as Microsoft doesn't patent "method" and word FORMAT we will be safe. 2. As long as memory/storage manufacturers don't format their cards, (leave it up to us) they are ok too.
http://www.eio.com/lcdconnect.htm You can't simply connect VGA or NTSC signal to an LCD panel. Click on the link above to read why and whether it's worth the effort.
IMHO, Wallflower could have done the same with a small business loan. (and avoided wasting time buying junk from ebay, taking apart laptops,etc) LCDs can be bought from China for very little $, if you place a large order. (Thus the SBL) http://www.china-tft.com
"Junior at Harvard" discovered "fake-mail" on exchange!!! He's about 15 years too late. The ability to send forged mail started with unix sendmail platform and "flawed" into other e-mail systems. Even junior exchange admins are aware of the default settings that allow relaying of messages and this was documented long time ago.
In my stupid macroeconomics class we learned that prices will "adjust" themselves to people's income levels. (if they don't, you get depression)
So if everyone, including the person who's serving your food, starting making $150k, then big mac's price would go up to $25 and possibly more.
Also, just because McDonalds and Burger King got their actual cost to make one glass of soda down to 1 cent, it doesn't mean they should or would pass down the savings to you.
Soaring profits would cause their stock price to go up and in turn, that would boost people's "worth", assuming they invested in the stock market. Inflation would hit soon thereafter and everyone would be bitching (again) how expensive [fill-in-the-blank] is and how expensive their mega-mansion was.
(BIG cars and big homes is the American way, so if the energy prices dropped, we would build BIGGER to make up the difference...)
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/vr/ more interesting site than posted on/. regarding THIS article: 1. Their tiny model would not predict how "life-size" Enterprise would behave, as far as dynamics are concerned. Since no one can afford to build an actual 1:1 model (or wind tunnel big enough), everything should have been done in mCAD, Autocad w/ plugins or something else. Figure out how dense and thick the hull is and you are all set. Guesstimate tensile strength and properties of the "alloy" or use something that we already have on earth. 2. Warp engines work by warping space around them and not by pushing or propelling ship's body. So, no, warp5 and mach5 are totally different.
I had a feeling this "review" was slanted - everything you played before sucked but Blizzard (not associated with any previously mentioned companies) is going to make it better... Very creative trollism and kudos for writing style (not mentioning Blizzard until very end and establing need for change BEFORE getting to the new product)
don't forget that Tesla was smarter too:)and much less of a prick. In this case Edison held on to his patents where Tesla sold to Westinghouse. When Edison realized that his DC was useless for long runs, he started badmouthing Tesla. (saying that AC + high currents are deadly...well, duhh) Btw, Westinghouse made a lot of money w/ Tesla's patents.
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Wow, great news!...for a change. (I am 6'5") 10 years ago they published a study that mentioned something about tall people (over 6 feet) not living as long as shorter people. (more blood to pump?) Personally, I think it's because we keep hitting our heads all the time. I must have hit my kitchen and living room pendants at least 20 times.
Finally, I think shorter people are intimidated when it comes to asking the "big boss" for a raise or when negotiating their salary during hiring process. HOWEVER, eye contact, imho, is far more important than height or looks. You can be a 7ft tall 500 pound guy but if you are looking at the wall or the floor instead of the person you are talking too, you will appear to be scared, weak and less confident. OR at least not as serious or interested. So stand tall, look into the pointy-headed boss' eyes and demand that raise! (even though you don't deserve it)
Merrill is a major "supporter" of Microsoft and IBM. (they own a LOT of shares of both companies and so do their customers)I guess that analyst forgot to mention this fact.
Merrill doesn't need Linux on Sun internally because they can run it on huge IBM mainframes or on intel boxes for less critical apps.
Sun is digging their own hole with proprietary, expensive hardware..that was once very profitable for them when Internet companies were spending their easy-come IPO money. I don't think we will ever see anything like that again. I think most companies are now looking for value and use/implemantion of open standards before they invest any money into another platform.
Apparantly the entire state of Oklahoma works in the telemarketing industry:)
DNC list was/is good but it still has loopholes - people and companies pretending to do "surveys" can still call you and so can the "non-profit" orgs. So the next time someone calls you and asks if they could ask you questions, it's most likely because they want to sell you something or put you on mail list for junk mail... So blue is your favorite color, eh? Ok, come down to Billy Bob's auto - we got plenty of cars in that color:)
And I am pretty sure these laws don't apply for companies outside US who can, thanks to cheap labor and low rates, call your at 9pm on Sunday.
Would it make sense to short SCO's stock price? I mean how long can they go before there's no money left in the bank? Also, what will happen if they declare bankruptcy and I am still holding the options?
My prediction: Darl McBride will be arrested for fraud - pumping his stock so he could short it later and make millions...when he gets out (2 months later), Darl will declare personal bankruptcy and retire on his own private island. Novell will buy SCO's "intellectual" property and patents for 50 cents and their lunch room's Flavia coffee machine for $1000.
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Alice from EA. Decent storyline, nice graphics and tons of things to kill. :)
My gf never played quake, unreal or any of those games. I picked up Alice for her new pc since she liked box art and story seemed promising.
She finished the game mostly by herself.
By the time we were done, it became clear that I was not only bad with directions while driving but also sucked at navigating large maps in Alice
Who cares if Intel supports it or not. I just bought a Bluetooth GPS receiver from Belkin and small pc with VIA motherboard and C3 processor (No Intel anywhere) I also bought a usb bluetooth dongle in order for my pc to talk to GPS receiver.
It's not a big loss if Intel doesn't support it. As long as there's a market for it, someone will make it.
Listerine is 80 proof. I guess you'll have to wait for your breath to "wear out" before you can go to work.
We have several thousand IBM thinkpads and their death rate is about 10% and climbing. Most common failure is complete hard drive failure with no chance of data recovery. (We spent $6k and send one of the drives to Ontrack and got nothing back except person's IE bookmarks) :)
Since then IBM admitted that there are batches of laptops whose drives will definitely fail, sooner or later. They sent one of their tech to stay on-site to replace drives. (you just need to give them serial numbers and they'll tell you whether your drive is affected by recall)
So far we had a lot of T23 HD replaced and a few other models. Most of the problematic drives were manufactured in Hungary
Backup all your clients' data ASAP and inform them NOT to keep anything important in Personal Folders, unless they are stored on the server.
Same goes for My Documents - at least set up sync to network drive.
IBM is probably already a "strategic" partner with your company. (they hold tons of IBM shares)
Go talk to them.
I am so bad with directions, that I need computer to yell at me when to turn. Streets and highways in NJ are so screwed up, that I actually spent an hour once trying to get out of Jersey City.
from FAQ http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/faq.shtml
Q: Why is there no street navigation which gives turn by turn
directions?
A: Turn by turn directions are not possible with GpsDrive at the present
because no opensource data is available which represents the street
coordinates in a form usable for that purpose. GpsDrive currently
works with bitmap images rather than vector data.
argh, damn rice burners :)
I wish VW would listen to their customers more.
People have been asking VW for years to bring gps navigation otion to USA. It's available in Germany but not USA. I guess I could get it on ebay from Europe and have it installed for me but that's not the point. They just want to sell more Audi A6s than Passats.
All of the components are just way too big. If you use similar hardware, you'll waste all your cargo space.
Instead, use the following PC components:
1. mini pc, based on VIA's epia mini-itx motherboard. The best one to use is from http://www.mini-box.com - m-100 comes with a text LCD display and buttons that can be programmed. It runs on 12V DC and can be mounted in-dash or in the trunk where your cd changer would normally go.
2. Xenarc or Lilliput touch-screen 7" lcd monitor with SVGA and composite inputs. This is more important than big HD or faster pc. If you can't see text and maps clearly while you drive, what's the point of building one of these car pcs? Get all-in-one package from Alpine instead.
3. 20 or 40 HD 2.5" laptop hard drive. (#1 doesn't come with anything, not even a cf card)
4. 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter - #1 above won't let you connect a laptop hard drive to it w/o an adapter. compusa.com has them for $7.
5. Bluetooth usb adapter. I bought Belkin.
6. Bluetooth GPS receiver - no messy wires and you can take it with you (and use it with your PDA if it supports bt) I bought Belkin GPS receiver, you can get something else.
7. Blitzsafe adapter to connect #1 to your OEM HU (head unit/stereo) You didn't really think you could just plug your line out to your car's extra AUX IN port, did you? Mounts in the trunk right into where the changer plug went or behind your HU
Elfig.com is one of the resellers, esp for VW.
8. Wires to connect it all - RatShack
9. Windows XP, Winamp 5, one of front-end GUI for easy navigation. Look at carpc.com forums.
10. Linux (Gentoo, or another fine distro) put it on a separate partition. It's fast for playing movies, music, etc. However, it lacks bluetooth support and GPS navigation packages for it suck.
11. USB hub for other gadgets, like portable HDs, scanners, webcams, etc.
12. RAM - pc doesn't come with any.
How much does it cost???
#1 minibox m-100 - $400.
#2 Xenarc $500
#3 HD $100 to $300
#4 adapter $7
#5 bluetooth adapter $30 to $60
#6 gps receiver $300 to $400
#7 audio adapter $65
#8 varies
#9 $0 to $250
#10 FREE FREE FREE (+ many hours of linux guru's help)
#11 gadgets $20 to sky is the limit
#12 RAM $50 to $100
If you really hate M$ and don't want Windows on your car pc, look at dashpc.com
If you are going to get off your lazy ass and actually build and install this in a VW Passat, let me know.
Just move plants back to USA or declare Taiwan another state or property of USA.
Or just buy from Korea...or Japan... or the rest of the freaking world. Rising memory prices could actually good for struggling memory manufacturers. It would give them an excuse to bump up the price and actually make some real money for a change.
Yeah it's analog and it's under $200. You will not find any current digital SLR cameras for less than that. So buy analog now and use it until Canon Rebel Digital comes down in price (probably 2 years from now) Lenses that you'll buy can be reused with Rebel Digital so it makes sense to invest in Canon. (Lenses, filters and flash will cost you as much if not more than your camera)9 4120 0d/
I made a mistake by buying a Sony F-717 for my girlfriend last year. I cannot add any lenses to it. She had a Canon EOS Rebel 2000 (that I did not know about) with nice telephoto, wide and normal lenses. Guess which camera gets more use?
The moral of this story is buy modular - that digital Sony will be a very expensive paperweight few years from now where Canon body would have been shelved but lenses reused.
Canon review on Epinions
http://www.epinions.com/content_9430620
Canon Rebel Digital review
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos3
The real reason for building this robot was to catch students making out in the basment. (most libraries' stacks are in the basement where the lights are low and access is limited to staff and few lucky/adventurous types) :)
When I was in HS I worked at a library and stacks was my favorite area. One time I heard noise in the far corner and went to investigate. I was clumsy stepped on something on the way there - really cute catholic schoolgirl and my metalhead friend (who also worked there) emerged. Needless to say, both looked embarrassed. They made up some lame excuse and left. Now if I had that robot, I probably would have had the whole thing on tape
1. All the good stuff is in the basement.
2. Catholic schoolgirls are WAY pervy.
3. Women are turned ON more if there's a chance of getting caught.
4. Having long hair and playing metal in your car could actually get you laid! (in the 80s)
my mini-box's 256MB compact flash card is...formatted with ReiserFS. Had it been formatted with FAT i would have had lost most of my data already. Oh, and of course it runs Linux, so no need to pay $ for OS...OR buy a 3GHz processor to run bloated windows apps.
Check out www.mini-box.com if you are thinking about installing a carputer. It's a bare bones system but I was able to add a lot to it.
1. As long as Microsoft doesn't patent "method" and word FORMAT we will be safe.
2. As long as memory/storage manufacturers don't format their cards, (leave it up to us) they are ok too.
http://www.eio.com/lcdconnect.htm
You can't simply connect VGA or NTSC signal to an LCD panel. Click on the link above to read why and whether it's worth the effort.
IMHO, Wallflower could have done the same with a small business loan. (and avoided wasting time buying junk from ebay, taking apart laptops,etc)
LCDs can be bought from China for very little $, if you place a large order. (Thus the SBL)
http://www.china-tft.com
"Junior at Harvard" discovered "fake-mail" on exchange!!! He's about 15 years too late. The ability to send forged mail started with unix sendmail platform and "flawed" into other e-mail systems. Even junior exchange admins are aware of the default settings that allow relaying of messages and this was documented long time ago.
In my stupid macroeconomics class we learned that prices will "adjust" themselves to people's income levels. (if they don't, you get depression)
So if everyone, including the person who's serving your food, starting making $150k, then big mac's price would go up to $25 and possibly more.
Also, just because McDonalds and Burger King got their actual cost to make one glass of soda down to 1 cent, it doesn't mean they should or would pass down the savings to you.
Soaring profits would cause their stock price to go up and in turn, that would boost people's "worth", assuming they invested in the stock market. Inflation would hit soon thereafter and everyone would be bitching (again) how expensive [fill-in-the-blank] is and how expensive their mega-mansion was.
(BIG cars and big homes is the American way, so if the energy prices dropped, we would build BIGGER to make up the difference...)
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/vr/ more interesting site than posted on /.
regarding THIS article:
1. Their tiny model would not predict how "life-size" Enterprise would behave, as far as dynamics are concerned. Since no one can afford to build an actual 1:1 model (or wind tunnel big enough), everything should have been done in mCAD, Autocad w/ plugins or something else. Figure out how dense and thick the hull is and you are all set. Guesstimate tensile strength and properties of the "alloy" or use something that we already have on earth.
2. Warp engines work by warping space around them and not by pushing or propelling ship's body. So, no, warp5 and mach5 are totally different.
I had a feeling this "review" was slanted - everything you played before sucked but Blizzard (not associated with any previously mentioned companies) is going to make it better... Very creative trollism and kudos for writing style (not mentioning Blizzard until very end and establing need for change BEFORE getting to the new product)
I can't tell a spruce from a fir.
Why don't they just say it is VW-beetle-size?
don't forget that Tesla was smarter too :)and much less of a prick.
In this case Edison held on to his patents where Tesla sold to Westinghouse. When Edison realized that his DC was useless for long runs, he started badmouthing Tesla. (saying that AC + high currents are deadly...well, duhh)
Btw, Westinghouse made a lot of money w/ Tesla's patents.
Wow, great news! ...for a change. (I am 6'5") 10 years ago they published a study that mentioned something about tall people (over 6 feet) not living as long as shorter people. (more blood to pump?) Personally, I think it's because we keep hitting our heads all the time. I must have hit my kitchen and living room pendants at least 20 times.
Finally, I think shorter people are intimidated when it comes to asking the "big boss" for a raise or when negotiating their salary during hiring process. HOWEVER, eye contact, imho, is far more important than height or looks. You can be a 7ft tall 500 pound guy but if you are looking at the wall or the floor instead of the person you are talking too, you will appear to be scared, weak and less confident. OR at least not as serious or interested.
So stand tall, look into the pointy-headed boss' eyes and demand that raise! (even though you don't deserve it)
And we be Microsoft.
Merrill is a major "supporter" of Microsoft and IBM. (they own a LOT of shares of both companies and so do their customers)I guess that analyst forgot to mention this fact.
Merrill doesn't need Linux on Sun internally because they can run it on huge IBM mainframes or on intel boxes for less critical apps.
Sun is digging their own hole with proprietary, expensive hardware..that was once very profitable for them when Internet companies were spending their easy-come IPO money. I don't think we will ever see anything like that again. I think most companies are now looking for value and use/implemantion of open standards before they invest any money into another platform.
To support the fight against terrorism and SCO! Sorry for being redundant :)
Apparantly the entire state of Oklahoma works in the telemarketing industry :) :)
DNC list was/is good but it still has loopholes - people and companies pretending to do "surveys" can still call you and so can the "non-profit" orgs. So the next time someone calls you and asks if they could ask you questions, it's most likely because they want to sell you something or put you on mail list for junk mail... So blue is your favorite color, eh? Ok, come down to Billy Bob's auto - we got plenty of cars in that color
And I am pretty sure these laws don't apply for companies outside US who can, thanks to cheap labor and low rates, call your at 9pm on Sunday.
Would it make sense to short SCO's stock price? I mean how long can they go before there's no money left in the bank? Also, what will happen if they declare bankruptcy and I am still holding the options?
My prediction: Darl McBride will be arrested for fraud - pumping his stock so he could short it later and make millions...when he gets out (2 months later), Darl will declare personal bankruptcy and retire on his own private island.
Novell will buy SCO's "intellectual" property and patents for 50 cents and their lunch room's Flavia coffee machine for $1000.