use spam.la or dodgeit.com or mailinator.com etc. I've been very happy with spam.la. Unfortunately there are plently of jerky admins out there that ban you from using these sites but still 95% of the time they work fine. I'll also mention the bugmenot firefox extension since many others do, but personally I find it kind of useless. Beyond mega site like nytimes.com it doesnt' seem to work well. Anyway just figured it was worth mentioning.
And I know nobody is impressed by hard drive space anymore, but 300GB for only $139 truly does boggle the mind. We're at the $500 = one Terabyte point. That's nuts.
Its going to be a while before the 6600GT is less than $100. Although who knows? Maybe by Christmas they'll fade them out and they'll go for a little over a hundred. By the time the good 6800 cards are less than $100 it will be like 3 years from now and you'll only find them on ebay.
How about this. Put $5 a week into a jar. Before December you'll have like $60 saved. Add on that $90 you were willing to spend and you'll have a solid card.
Although not to rain on your parade but I've heard that 6600GT's and up require a hefty PSU. Hope you have one of those.
"But for a commercial for-profit company that depends on people buying their product, doesn't it make sense that Microsoft can be only so friendly to OSS?"
Why not? In case you hadn't realized it there are like maybe ONE or TWO companies that make a living selling OSS products and services.
Of course they could embrace OSS and make money off of it. They could even port IE and Office to Linux and sell them while keeping the source closed. They just choose not to.
btw the whole "we don't hate OSS" line this guy is giving off is a laugh. It may be his job to present unbiased information to MS, but right above his head are people whose lives are dedicated to wiping out a common good, ie linux and oss.
MS or anyone else for that matter being openly against Linux and OSS is like being against a cure for cancer. Your a horrible person if you feel that way. Quality Free software for the common good is a noble goal.
" This thing is designed for classical music. It is specially tuned so that it plays the classical music at prime quality, rather than the crap MP3 quality which classic music puts out."
Yep its "specially" designed to play classical. Oh, btw I have this bridge I'm trying to offload. Would you happen to know any buyers?
Let me guess, your the original submittor trying to pump in some positive reviews of this thing since clearly we've all seen what a joke the website is and are all making fun of it.
A device that caters to audiophiles and doesn't list and meaningful specs? Gimme a break. How stupid do they think we are? Now this may a decent music player but its hardly unique spec wise. You can cater to classical music fans without insulting them you know.
"This is not for the average home user, much less the average geek."
Which makes this story all the more annoying since A) the website has no geek or audiophile details and B) the submittor(aka person who gives/. payola) claims "stands a decent chance for a prime position before the living room throne.". Can you see how annoying this whole story comes off from both sides of the coin?
Seems weak IMHO as well. I typed in a few searchs and went pages and pages without anything but links to online music retailers. Why would I waste time doing this went I can simply hop on a Usenet server or Itunes and get what I want instantly? If both of those services and the Internet at large don't have it I'm sure as fuck not going to go through the trouble of signing up for another online store that A) has its own form of DRM that won't work with my player and B) would clash with what music software I'm using now C) would require a monthly fee OR require me to quit after a month. Does going through that sound like fun? It goes like this. Usenet, Itunes, Internet at large, CD from amazon.
Someone responded that it useful because then you can compare the online services to each other. Well you know what? You could do that before by taking 5 minutes and seeing what each one offers. This service tells you jack except for the cost, file format, and platform. Guess how many Mac users don't use Itunes Music store? Oh and being that the music stores prices are all similar this makes the information all the more useless. To get any decent info on what the gotchas are for each service google is your friend.
Again, this is nothing but a marketing ploy to show that Yahoo's music store is cheaper than everyone else. Are people here unable to figure that out for some reason? If Yahoo didn't sell music I'd say "oh well, kinda useless but this MIGHT be helpful to some people". But that's not the case and because of that I just don't see much if any value here.
Just a side note, but I used to order thousands of dollars in PC related equipment from Newegg. For years and years I also used to tell everyone I know to shop there since they had such great prices. Now they stupidly charge tax in NJ. Bad Newegg, you let me down bigtime and now I shop elsewhere.
So was I, guess its never gonna happen. I was hoping they would be at $99 by now so I could buy one and screw around with Xboxmedia center. It will probably drop to $125 and then go off the market when it sells out.
Somehow I don't see them pulling a Sony and releasing a cheap shrunk down version that continues to sell along side the old one.
Although not being one who follows the console industry at all maybe I'm wrong. Does anyone know Microsoft's plan for what to do with the current gen Xbox when the 360 comes out?
"Or do you think people who go to work at MS sign some kind of agreement that they cannot concurrently be involved in any kind of OSS development?"
Don't they? I don't see how it would be possible to work their on say the IIS team and then be allowed to contribute to Apache at the same time. The goals of Microsoft and the greater OSS community at large are in direct opposition to each other.
You have to admit there is a huge difference between what Microsoft considers OSS and what really is OSS. Why wouldn't you be isolated from the real OSS community while working at Microsoft when Microsoft literally deplores and wants to destroy OSS and Linux?
It would be like working for a Right-Wing abortion doctor hate group and then volunteering to help at abortion clinics on weekends. I think the grandparent has a very valid question.
I agree, this makes no sense. Before more than one button was too much to think about and now you have 50 fuctions poured into one mouse?
I predict it like many other touch sensitive devices its going to be annoying to use. Quick, put you hand on your mouse and then move the cursor around. Chances are you just right or clicked on the "Mighty Mouse"(btw can you can trademark infringement?). Who the hell wants to deal with that? Oh and I'm sure its going to be a blast when your on a site that has huge horizontal margins. Have fun trying to scroll just up and down as your page keeps creeping sideways.
Most Hotel TV are locked though right?
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I've not looked at the TVs in every hotel I've ever stayed at, but when I have the cable going to the TV was locked and you couldn't unscrew it if you wanted to.
Still, this makes me want to pick up a USB tv tuner for next time I travel.;)
"Additionally, he could use hidden codes that transmitted from the remote-control device to the TV through infrared to control functions in the system...Laurie automated the process by using a program he wrote that analyzed and mapped all the possible codes in 35 minutes to see which ones were relevant for the system he was trying to crack. Laurie doesn't plan to release the program."
So 3.6GHz and minimum 512MB to make it useable. How much you want to bet that if you disable whatever shitty built-in desktop search program they include and set it to "Classic Windows Look" you'll be able to run it on a 1.0GHz cpu with 256MB.
You know, there are Microsoft supporters out there that constantly get pissed whenever we point out how bloated, slow, and buggy Windows is. Do they unlike us not expect more from a company that literally has billions and billions to sink into their OS? With that much money at their disposal Longhorn, I mean Vista-(insert-joke-here), should be doing my laundry by now. Speed, security, and ease of use shouldn't even be on the radar screen. Those problems should have been solved years ago.
Microsoft, clumsily wasting your computer's resources for over 20 years.
"Don't measure everything against what a company like M$ did"
Why Not? At one point Apple was either equal to or the leader in the Personal Computer Industry. And yet they squandered that away and somehow managed to lose all of their marketshare until they wound up barely surviving with a 3% marketshare and relying on a pledge from Microsoft to keep them around.
If it were not for Microsoft Office for Mac, IE for Mac and Microsoft's support would Apple even be around today? Frankly if Microsoft hadn't given that very public pledge of support to keep developing for Apple back in 97 Apple may have very well be taken over. This btw wasn't due to any charity on MS's part, they did it for anti-trust reasons alone.
I think its completely fair to say "cut them some slack, they've been doing great the past several years", but don't go expecting everyone to forget how badly Apple was at managing itself for long periods of time.
Why should we? Do you think it would be funny to create a total hassle for millions of PC owners who might end up having their keys invalidated?
btw anyone smart enought to write such a worm is more interested in stealing your social security and credit card information then stealing a product key. And while these days plently of crackers continue to give a big fuck you to authority, they by now are well aware of how much heat would come down on them if they did such a thing.
If you don't have a home network where you transfer large files(ie movies and 100MB+files) from client to server all the time, chances are there is absolutely no reason to buy anything but 802.11b. Most broadband is 1.5Mb or 3.0Mb and 802.11b will handle that without much problem.
They could so give me like 2 million and not even notice. What would it hurt?
Do you think that somewhere in Redmond there is a room where Bill, Steve, et al go and have money fights with $1,000.00 dollar bills like Mr. Burns and Smithers used to?
Posts like this bother me. They really do. Here is someone who for the sake of arguement really is someone in IT who works with large corporations and has the authority to roll Firefox out.
One of the things he desperately needs to get Firefox out there is an MSI installer version.
Any yet he couldn't be bothered to type "firefox msi" into google where he'd fine exactly what he is looking for. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but come on don't go putting up artifical barriers to it when a solution is so easily at hand.
Very FIRST hit on google when you search for "firefox msi"
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use spam.la or dodgeit.com or mailinator.com etc. I've been very happy with spam.la. Unfortunately there are plently of jerky admins out there that ban you from using these sites but still 95% of the time they work fine.
I'll also mention the bugmenot firefox extension since many others do, but personally I find it kind of useless. Beyond mega site like nytimes.com it doesnt' seem to work well. Anyway just figured it was worth mentioning.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822144359&ATT=Hard+Drives&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r
And I know nobody is impressed by hard drive space anymore, but 300GB for only $139 truly does boggle the mind. We're at the $500 = one Terabyte point. That's nuts.
Its going to be a while before the 6600GT is less than $100. Although who knows? Maybe by Christmas they'll fade them out and they'll go for a little over a hundred. By the time the good 6800 cards are less than $100 it will be like 3 years from now and you'll only find them on ebay.
How about this. Put $5 a week into a jar. Before December you'll have like $60 saved. Add on that $90 you were willing to spend and you'll have a solid card.
Although not to rain on your parade but I've heard that 6600GT's and up require a hefty PSU. Hope you have one of those.
LOL, I guess the saying that GUIs aren't always newbie friendly really does have some truth to it.r eenshots/gtk_makedotconf.png
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/sc
http://funroll-loops.org/
"But for a commercial for-profit company that depends on people buying their product, doesn't it make sense that Microsoft can be only so friendly to OSS?"
Why not? In case you hadn't realized it there are like maybe ONE or TWO companies that make a living selling OSS products and services.
Of course they could embrace OSS and make money off of it. They could even port IE and Office to Linux and sell them while keeping the source closed. They just choose not to.
btw the whole "we don't hate OSS" line this guy is giving off is a laugh. It may be his job to present unbiased information to MS, but right above his head are people whose lives are dedicated to wiping out a common good, ie linux and oss.
MS or anyone else for that matter being openly against Linux and OSS is like being against a cure for cancer. Your a horrible person if you feel that way. Quality Free software for the common good is a noble goal.
" This thing is designed for classical music. It is specially tuned so that it plays the classical music at prime quality, rather than the crap MP3 quality which classic music puts out."
/. payola) claims "stands a decent chance for a prime position before the living room throne.". Can you see how annoying this whole story comes off from both sides of the coin?
Yep its "specially" designed to play classical. Oh, btw I have this bridge I'm trying to offload. Would you happen to know any buyers?
Let me guess, your the original submittor trying to pump in some positive reviews of this thing since clearly we've all seen what a joke the website is and are all making fun of it.
A device that caters to audiophiles and doesn't list and meaningful specs? Gimme a break. How stupid do they think we are? Now this may a decent music player but its hardly unique spec wise. You can cater to classical music fans without insulting them you know.
"This is not for the average home user, much less the average geek."
Which makes this story all the more annoying since A) the website has no geek or audiophile details and B) the submittor(aka person who gives
"Wow" indeed.
Seems weak IMHO as well. I typed in a few searchs and went pages and pages without anything but links to online music retailers.
Why would I waste time doing this went I can simply hop on a Usenet server or Itunes and get what I want instantly? If both of those services and the Internet at large don't have it I'm sure as fuck not going to go through the trouble of signing up for another online store that A) has its own form of DRM that won't work with my player and B) would clash with what music software I'm using now C) would require a monthly fee OR require me to quit after a month. Does going through that sound like fun? It goes like this. Usenet, Itunes, Internet at large, CD from amazon.
Someone responded that it useful because then you can compare the online services to each other. Well you know what? You could do that before by taking 5 minutes and seeing what each one offers. This service tells you jack except for the cost, file format, and platform. Guess how many Mac users don't use Itunes Music store? Oh and being that the music stores prices are all similar this makes the information all the more useless. To get any decent info on what the gotchas are for each service google is your friend.
Again, this is nothing but a marketing ploy to show that Yahoo's music store is cheaper than everyone else. Are people here unable to figure that out for some reason? If Yahoo didn't sell music I'd say "oh well, kinda useless but this MIGHT be helpful to some people". But that's not the case and because of that I just don't see much if any value here.
Wow, what a waste of my time writing all of that.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90 &p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=6 62BB74D-E7C1-48D6-95EE-1459234F4483&u=http%3A%2F%2 Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2F9%2Fe%2Fb%2F9 eb62d0b-61f0-4c9e-9c52-e3bef96d9e7f%2FWindowsXP-KB 893357-v2-x86-ENU.exe
Just a side note, but I used to order thousands of dollars in PC related equipment from Newegg. For years and years I also used to tell everyone I know to shop there since they had such great prices. Now they stupidly charge tax in NJ. Bad Newegg, you let me down bigtime and now I shop elsewhere.
So was I, guess its never gonna happen. I was hoping they would be at $99 by now so I could buy one and screw around with Xboxmedia center. It will probably drop to $125 and then go off the market when it sells out.
Somehow I don't see them pulling a Sony and releasing a cheap shrunk down version that continues to sell along side the old one.
Although not being one who follows the console industry at all maybe I'm wrong. Does anyone know Microsoft's plan for what to do with the current gen Xbox when the 360 comes out?
"Or do you think people who go to work at MS sign some kind of agreement that they cannot concurrently be involved in any kind of OSS development?"
Don't they? I don't see how it would be possible to work their on say the IIS team and then be allowed to contribute to Apache at the same time. The goals of Microsoft and the greater OSS community at large are in direct opposition to each other.
You have to admit there is a huge difference between what Microsoft considers OSS and what really is OSS. Why wouldn't you be isolated from the real OSS community while working at Microsoft when Microsoft literally deplores and wants to destroy OSS and Linux?
It would be like working for a Right-Wing abortion doctor hate group and then volunteering to help at abortion clinics on weekends. I think the grandparent has a very valid question.
I agree, this makes no sense. Before more than one button was too much to think about and now you have 50 fuctions poured into one mouse?
I predict it like many other touch sensitive devices its going to be annoying to use. Quick, put you hand on your mouse and then move the cursor around. Chances are you just right or clicked on the "Mighty Mouse"(btw can you can trademark infringement?). Who the hell wants to deal with that? Oh and I'm sure its going to be a blast when your on a site that has huge horizontal margins. Have fun trying to scroll just up and down as your page keeps creeping sideways.
Don't give money to those assholes.
http://wrt54g.serwer.net/#readingpleasure
I've not looked at the TVs in every hotel I've ever stayed at, but when I have the cable going to the TV was locked and you couldn't unscrew it if you wanted to.
;)
Still, this makes me want to pick up a USB tv tuner for next time I travel.
"Additionally, he could use hidden codes that transmitted from the remote-control device to the TV through infrared to control functions in the system...Laurie automated the process by using a program he wrote that analyzed and mapped all the possible codes in 35 minutes to see which ones were relevant for the system he was trying to crack. Laurie doesn't plan to release the program."
Booooo, release the code!
The exact people its aimed at don't know anything about keyboard shortcuts.
Its a total mismash and about as anti user friendly as they could make it. What the hell were they thinking?
So 3.6GHz and minimum 512MB to make it useable. How much you want to bet that if you disable whatever shitty built-in desktop search program they include and set it to "Classic Windows Look" you'll be able to run it on a 1.0GHz cpu with 256MB.
You know, there are Microsoft supporters out there that constantly get pissed whenever we point out how bloated, slow, and buggy Windows is. Do they unlike us not expect more from a company that literally has billions and billions to sink into their OS? With that much money at their disposal Longhorn, I mean Vista-(insert-joke-here), should be doing my laundry by now. Speed, security, and ease of use shouldn't even be on the radar screen. Those problems should have been solved years ago.
Microsoft, clumsily wasting your computer's resources for over 20 years.
"Don't measure everything against what a company like M$ did"
Why Not? At one point Apple was either equal to or the leader in the Personal Computer Industry. And yet they squandered that away and somehow managed to lose all of their marketshare until they wound up barely surviving with a 3% marketshare and relying on a pledge from Microsoft to keep them around.
If it were not for Microsoft Office for Mac, IE for Mac and Microsoft's support would Apple even be around today? Frankly if Microsoft hadn't given that very public pledge of support to keep developing for Apple back in 97 Apple may have very well be taken over. This btw wasn't due to any charity on MS's part, they did it for anti-trust reasons alone.
I think its completely fair to say "cut them some slack, they've been doing great the past several years", but don't go expecting everyone to forget how badly Apple was at managing itself for long periods of time.
"Think about it..."
Why should we? Do you think it would be funny to create a total hassle for millions of PC owners who might end up having their keys invalidated?
btw anyone smart enought to write such a worm is more interested in stealing your social security and credit card information then stealing a product key. And while these days plently of crackers continue to give a big fuck you to authority, they by now are well aware of how much heat would come down on them if they did such a thing.
Yea, and it causes over a Trillion dollars in lost productivity each year due to shitty insecure programming.
If you don't have a home network where you transfer large files(ie movies and 100MB+files) from client to server all the time, chances are there is absolutely no reason to buy anything but 802.11b. Most broadband is 1.5Mb or 3.0Mb and 802.11b will handle that without much problem.
Maybe because its the only place they can go and be sure that they'll be safe from the crazy monkeys that roam their streets?
They could so give me like 2 million and not even notice. What would it hurt?
Do you think that somewhere in Redmond there is a room where Bill, Steve, et al go and have money fights with $1,000.00 dollar bills like Mr. Burns and Smithers used to?
Posts like this bother me. They really do. Here is someone who for the sake of arguement really is someone in IT who works with large corporations and has the authority to roll Firefox out.
One of the things he desperately needs to get Firefox out there is an MSI installer version.
Any yet he couldn't be bothered to type "firefox msi" into google where he'd fine exactly what he is looking for. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but come on don't go putting up artifical barriers to it when a solution is so easily at hand.
Very FIRST hit on google when you search for "firefox msi"
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
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