I still have an original PC monochrome monitor that came with my PS/2 Model 30... used it until 99 when I dumped the last machine that would still accept an ISA card... it still works, sitting on a shelf...
The oldest monitor, still in use, was bought on 2/12/93, it's a 14" SVGA that came with a 386 I bought from some local shop... it's attached to my linux machine in the basement, it's been at least 12 months since it's been powered on... I assume it still works?
It seems that some of the most underpaid and undervalued workers are starting to be treated no better than the animals they are frying up
Why does a company tracking whether or not their employees are lying to them constitute being treated like an animal?
A company is expected to pay you for the hours you work (when you're not salary)... so if you worked 80 hours and got paid for 75, you'd be pissed off!
The reverse is also true, if you SAY that you worked 80 hours, but only actually worked 75 then your company should be pissed!
This is the best way to ensure that people are not stealing via the time clock. If you're paid $7.25/hr and you cheat the clock out of 30 minutes a day 5 x week you're stealing about $20 from the company. Would you expect a company to be ok with a bunch of employees just taking $20 out of the register each week?
Someone who says "this is wrong!" is either also a cheater or a black-footed hippie, because there is nothing immoral about this at all.
Comcast has been great so far... their installers and help people seem better then the AT&T Broadband folks...
One of the shady things about AT&T BB was that they used independant contractors... when they rolled out digital cable in my area I signed up...
A guy in an old tiny shitbox import pickup showed up with his friend, he had an AT&T magnetic sticker on his doors, he REEKED of pot smoke... pulls the box out of the pickup bed where it had apparently just been flopping around... he spent 2 hours cutting and re-making cable ends all around the house, puts the box in, it doesn't work he says "you have a problem with the wiring in the house", at this point i'm pissed because he and his friend keep splitting up in the house and the friend looked pretty shady (he had a huge mustache, dirty face and was wearing sunglass and a hat w/ the brim pulled way down while inside the house and hadn't said one word to me or his friend the entire time he was there), so I didn't want him wandering around alone. I tell him I have to go to work and that I'll call and re-schedule the install, he says fine and leaves the box... I go around and found all the ends he re-made and they were a mess! I cut and re-made the ends w/ a $7 home depot tool, plugged everything in and it worked fine.
I've had comcast down 3-4x for various things since the change over, always a nice pleasant clean cut person who shows up in a comcast van, is polite and ontime and solves the problem quickly... Tier1 phone support is like Tier1 everywhere... some warm body they pulled off the street and told to read an "unplug the modem, wait 30 seconds, plug it back in, reboot your PC" script...
It did suck at first when they cut off the unlimited newsgroups (they still offer 1GB/mo free), so now I'm paying like $30/mo to Giganews for a connection... and it's limited to like 50GB/mo or something... But I can understand Comcast's reasoning...
It is absolutely 3Mb/s now tho... I got consistent 1.5Mb to newsgroups before, now it's 3Mb/s (Newsbin as a meter at the bottom of the screen).
Comcast in massachusetts gives you like 300 channels with their $150/mo package, yet I still don't get the NASA channel... I have to hope that headline news or someone else will cover the NASA 12:30AM press conference... which doesn't seem to be happening...
hearing the "BLAH BLAH BLAH!"... "WHAT?"... "BLAAHH BLLAAAHH BLAAAHHH!!"... "WHAT?"... thankfully it's just me and 1 other at home, so I only deal with that at the family's...
I use it work to talk to people in the next cube over... because it cuts down on voice-noise at work, it allows me to be at my PC and doing other things while someone else's brain churns to come up with thoughts... It also offers some privacy against cube-snoopers who sit and listen to other people's conversations... of course IM is clear text so it's usually just idle jabber... anything more classified requires a trip to Chotchkie's for coffee
Yeah the T in Boston is full of drunks and assholes... Metro in DC and subway in NYC was pretty much the same last time I was on them...
But... a driver should be worried about the road... not inputing directions to his dashboard GPS, or browsing the web...
There's been a few times where I'll look down to dial the phone, or hit next-track on the ipod and when I look up I have to brake quickly to avoid hitting someone... after about 5-6 of these I finally decided to turn the phone off and not use it in the car, and I just listen to whatever track is playing...
even on an empty road can you can have someone come out at you... it's just not worth the risk...
decaf is good advice... didn't really consider adding that to get rid of the social stigmata...
now if I can just get the devil on the left shoulder and the angel on the right shoulder to both stop saying "shit dude, just go get a cup... one cup won't hurt... come on! it's only 10pm... go get one... it tastes so good... you need it"
Actually... my original question was edited a bit before they posted... I wanted a/. opinion about coffee and caffeine, and I specifically pointed out that OSDN's Think Geek has entire sections devoted to products like soap, candy, water, etc that are LOADED w/ caffeine.
I just get it from normal sources like coffee and soda... but there must be someone out there who is showering with caffeine soap, brushing his/her teeth with caffeine toothpaste, drinking H2Joe, etc...
Anyway, quitting is also somewhat harder then just the physical symptoms because the routine of "getting a coffee" is stuck in me at this point... Not having coffee randomly during the day is easy enough, but there's a social aspect to it, just like going out to have a smoke w/ some friends...
I get to work, check last nights email, then go down to get a coffee w/ some friends (we don't smoke)... around 2-3pm we all go out to starbucks or dunkin' donuts for another...
And on the weekends sometimes I work w/ an electrician, they look at you like you have three heads if you show up with a water or an OJ in the morning instead of a large coffee.
I wasn't looking for medical advice really, just looking to see how other people, similar to myself, deal with a substance like coffee that is everywhere and can have a powerful affect on your performance and mood.
here's the deal w/ the feature set...
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PSX Review At Lik-Sang
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Basically everyone is trying to cash in on what they think will be the next big thing, the set-top home entertainment "black box". It does video games, it does DVR, it does MP3, it does WWW, it does DVD, etc... except the biggest problem is that like most multi-function devices the first few generations are going to suck.
XBox2 is supposedly going to match many of these features...
I think the PSX is Sony biting off way more then it can chew... being able to record DVDs and having massive HD's, etc? The hardware cost is going to be gi-normous... at least MS knew that 10GB HD's were going to be super-cheap in the 6-24 (now 6-48) month selling window... 160/250s are still damn pricey.
I don't see many parents willing to buy their kids an $800 video game...
The other side of this (not to start a flame war) is that many of the games on the PS2 simply do not look as good as those on an Xbox. Sony needs to seriously bump their graphics! If this ends up being a "PS2 + DVD Burner" like someone else said it will suck. I know they plan to bump the power, etc, that's a given, but hopefully they will push past Xbox/Xbox2
Also, WTF is up with no 1394 port? It's a DVD recorder that doesn't interface w/ DV camera's to burn movies? Sony even has their "iLink" version of 1394!
and another thing... I didn't see any options for DVI, or component output... unless that D Line Out thing was it...
hopefully they're also planning to offer AC3/DTS via that optical out for most games, because that + HDTV output also put the current gen xbox way ahead of PS2.
There is also something to be said about reasonably pricing these things... even $200 is a bit much for the average parent/kid, top that off w/ games that are $50+/ea and you'll wind up with a much more limited market.
Gameboy Advance is great, TONS of games, most are sub-$40, plays all the old Gameboy & Gameboy Color games, the unit price is an easy to swallow $99... Game Cube is now following suit... I think Nintendo is poised to regain video game domination... After 30 minutes of carnage in GTA:3 on Xbox i want to turn it off, but I'll play Advanced Wars 2 on GBA:SP for hours... and the GC/GBA aisle is the first I hit at best buy...
an in conclusion, Sirius is technologically superior...
You need a S, SW, SE view of the sky (depending on where in America you are) to receive XM... the same as television dish signals...
Sirrius uses LEO birds that allow a much wider view of the sky...
I have a friend w/ factory installed XM and he says that if it's snowing or raining he will get drop outs in the signal, especially when driving near trees or buildings (even 2-story).
I have no experience w/Sirius other then what I've read here:
there was an article in electronic design magazine a couple of months back (cover article too) about Sirius' technology vs. XM's technology. It was Sirius biased.
Here's the issue with your argument... the two Archos products I've seen have a really poor UI and they skip when searching titles and playing.
they also have a nasty habit of "torquing" when you're accessing the drive whil it's in your hand.
the final thing I noticed was that they were noisy.. I don't want to hear a HD.
The fact that the battery might be dead in 2 years and might cost me $100 to replace is trivial when compared to using an inferior device that has a poor UI and noisy HD.
I'm not an apple zealot (denial...) but I do own a 12" PB and a 40GB iPod... I bought them because I've used the other stuff and I didn't like it as much.
As I've said in earlier posts... I've had the variations of what is now Comcast, since about 1999...
MediaOne, AT&T BB then Comcast...
The speed is always 1500/350... lately it's been peaking over 1500 to upwards of 2000... they claim to have capped uploads at 128, but I still receive 350.
The prices have gone up over the years slightly, and the services have gone done.
Most noticably I miss my unlimited newsgroup server access... they used to allow unlimited bandwidth up to 3 connections. Now they're down to 1GB/mo with unlimited connections.
So I'm paying Giganews $24/mo for a 20GB account... but I'm still happy with it, because I think that what I get from it is worth that (ass loads of pr0n, mp3s, ROMs, movies, etc).
I download stuff constantly, gigs apon gigs apon gigs each month...
I have open ports, 25, 143, 80, 443 and a few others... I have a no-ip.com hostname associated with my machines at home...
But they have never complained, never shut me off on purpose...
In return I pay my bill on time every time.
We're all happy...
These places could not stay in business if you maxed out your theoretical 1500Mb/s pipe 24/7/365.25.
Give them a break and stop whining. You all know what acceptable usage means, and to a "normal" user the definition of unlimited is WAY beyond what they might use. The whole point of using the term "unlimited" is to make your computer-illiterate mom won't think she has to unplug the cable modem to prevent extra charges from showing up.
Didn't the Revenge of the Nerds series slightly popularize nerdom back in the 80s?
What seperates us true nerds from everyone else is that we're generally pasty white, either rail thin, or fat, have bad hair, and generally wear a t-shirt that has some geeky slogan on it, today I'm wearing my 'evil inside' (spoof on intel) shirt... yesterday it was DeCSS...
I read the article too, this guy using a valid point:
Mac OSX is not perfect
To bash Macs... it's paragraph after paragraph of "See? I told you so."
I own a mac, but I use PC's at work and home, I barely notice a difference between the two when I move between them because most of the apps that I use, like Office and Mozilla are fairly close in appearance and functionality.
BUT... the absolute, positive, no questions asked fact, is that last time my office of 300+ people had some worm running around, my mac was NOT infected and I was not required to jump through IT-hoops for hours to get rid of it or prevent it from happening.
Whether or not it has flaws or not is a stupid question, of course it does... but so far they haven't proven to be anywhere near as disasterous as the bullsh*t that we have to deal with from Windows.
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...I just checked the basement... K6 is still there complete w/ 72pin RAM and 4GB HD... but the burner is gone...
I still have an original PC monochrome monitor that came with my PS/2 Model 30... used it until 99 when I dumped the last machine that would still accept an ISA card... it still works, sitting on a shelf...
The oldest monitor, still in use, was bought on 2/12/93, it's a 14" SVGA that came with a 386 I bought from some local shop... it's attached to my linux machine in the basement, it's been at least 12 months since it's been powered on... I assume it still works?
burned with my 2X burner on my K6/233... 90% of them are 128k and probably have pops because they were encoded so early...
Thank you college.
It seems that some of the most underpaid and undervalued workers are starting to be treated no better than the animals they are frying up
Why does a company tracking whether or not their employees are lying to them constitute being treated like an animal?
A company is expected to pay you for the hours you work (when you're not salary)... so if you worked 80 hours and got paid for 75, you'd be pissed off!
The reverse is also true, if you SAY that you worked 80 hours, but only actually worked 75 then your company should be pissed!
This is the best way to ensure that people are not stealing via the time clock. If you're paid $7.25/hr and you cheat the clock out of 30 minutes a day 5 x week you're stealing about $20 from the company. Would you expect a company to be ok with a bunch of employees just taking $20 out of the register each week?
Someone who says "this is wrong!" is either also a cheater or a black-footed hippie, because there is nothing immoral about this at all.
...and the price of buying Windows 2003 Server? Like $700 for the academic version...
Also, some of us don't want to have to run a server just to stream music.
hehehe... done that too...
Comcast has been great so far... their installers and help people seem better then the AT&T Broadband folks...
One of the shady things about AT&T BB was that they used independant contractors... when they rolled out digital cable in my area I signed up...
A guy in an old tiny shitbox import pickup showed up with his friend, he had an AT&T magnetic sticker on his doors, he REEKED of pot smoke... pulls the box out of the pickup bed where it had apparently just been flopping around... he spent 2 hours cutting and re-making cable ends all around the house, puts the box in, it doesn't work he says "you have a problem with the wiring in the house", at this point i'm pissed because he and his friend keep splitting up in the house and the friend looked pretty shady (he had a huge mustache, dirty face and was wearing sunglass and a hat w/ the brim pulled way down while inside the house and hadn't said one word to me or his friend the entire time he was there), so I didn't want him wandering around alone. I tell him I have to go to work and that I'll call and re-schedule the install, he says fine and leaves the box... I go around and found all the ends he re-made and they were a mess! I cut and re-made the ends w/ a $7 home depot tool, plugged everything in and it worked fine.
I've had comcast down 3-4x for various things since the change over, always a nice pleasant clean cut person who shows up in a comcast van, is polite and ontime and solves the problem quickly... Tier1 phone support is like Tier1 everywhere... some warm body they pulled off the street and told to read an "unplug the modem, wait 30 seconds, plug it back in, reboot your PC" script...
Mediaone sucked too, but that's 4 years ago...
I'm one of those morons... :)
It did suck at first when they cut off the unlimited newsgroups (they still offer 1GB/mo free), so now I'm paying like $30/mo to Giganews for a connection... and it's limited to like 50GB/mo or something... But I can understand Comcast's reasoning...
It is absolutely 3Mb/s now tho... I got consistent 1.5Mb to newsgroups before, now it's 3Mb/s (Newsbin as a meter at the bottom of the screen).
It's a good trade off in my opinion...
There are laws and sanctions for lawyers that waste the court's time by bringing up frivilous suits.
Cannibals!
my bad... it's on CNN, ch42
Comcast in massachusetts gives you like 300 channels with their $150/mo package, yet I still don't get the NASA channel... I have to hope that headline news or someone else will cover the NASA 12:30AM press conference... which doesn't seem to be happening...
Well why not just get some webcams and video-conference?
"How's the weather in the living room dear?"
"Just peachy snookums, let's go to www.pizzahut.com for dinner!"
"Great idea pooky... let me just finish up my orders at www.peapod.com and www.netflix.com"
hearing the "BLAH BLAH BLAH!"... "WHAT?"... "BLAAHH BLLAAAHH BLAAAHHH!!"... "WHAT?"... thankfully it's just me and 1 other at home, so I only deal with that at the family's...
I use it work to talk to people in the next cube over... because it cuts down on voice-noise at work, it allows me to be at my PC and doing other things while someone else's brain churns to come up with thoughts... It also offers some privacy against cube-snoopers who sit and listen to other people's conversations... of course IM is clear text so it's usually just idle jabber... anything more classified requires a trip to Chotchkie's for coffee
Yeah the T in Boston is full of drunks and assholes... Metro in DC and subway in NYC was pretty much the same last time I was on them...
But... a driver should be worried about the road... not inputing directions to his dashboard GPS, or browsing the web...
There's been a few times where I'll look down to dial the phone, or hit next-track on the ipod and when I look up I have to brake quickly to avoid hitting someone... after about 5-6 of these I finally decided to turn the phone off and not use it in the car, and I just listen to whatever track is playing...
even on an empty road can you can have someone come out at you... it's just not worth the risk...
decaf is good advice... didn't really consider adding that to get rid of the social stigmata...
now if I can just get the devil on the left shoulder and the angel on the right shoulder to both stop saying "shit dude, just go get a cup... one cup won't hurt... come on! it's only 10pm... go get one... it tastes so good... you need it"
Actually... my original question was edited a bit before they posted... I wanted a /. opinion about coffee and caffeine, and I specifically pointed out that OSDN's Think Geek has entire sections devoted to products like soap, candy, water, etc that are LOADED w/ caffeine.
I just get it from normal sources like coffee and soda... but there must be someone out there who is showering with caffeine soap, brushing his/her teeth with caffeine toothpaste, drinking H2Joe, etc...
Anyway, quitting is also somewhat harder then just the physical symptoms because the routine of "getting a coffee" is stuck in me at this point... Not having coffee randomly during the day is easy enough, but there's a social aspect to it, just like going out to have a smoke w/ some friends...
I get to work, check last nights email, then go down to get a coffee w/ some friends (we don't smoke)... around 2-3pm we all go out to starbucks or dunkin' donuts for another...
And on the weekends sometimes I work w/ an electrician, they look at you like you have three heads if you show up with a water or an OJ in the morning instead of a large coffee.
I wasn't looking for medical advice really, just looking to see how other people, similar to myself, deal with a substance like coffee that is everywhere and can have a powerful affect on your performance and mood.
used to be?
Basically everyone is trying to cash in on what they think will be the next big thing, the set-top home entertainment "black box". It does video games, it does DVR, it does MP3, it does WWW, it does DVD, etc... except the biggest problem is that like most multi-function devices the first few generations are going to suck.
XBox2 is supposedly going to match many of these features...
I think the PSX is Sony biting off way more then it can chew... being able to record DVDs and having massive HD's, etc? The hardware cost is going to be gi-normous... at least MS knew that 10GB HD's were going to be super-cheap in the 6-24 (now 6-48) month selling window... 160/250s are still damn pricey.
I don't see many parents willing to buy their kids an $800 video game...
The other side of this (not to start a flame war) is that many of the games on the PS2 simply do not look as good as those on an Xbox. Sony needs to seriously bump their graphics! If this ends up being a "PS2 + DVD Burner" like someone else said it will suck. I know they plan to bump the power, etc, that's a given, but hopefully they will push past Xbox/Xbox2
Also, WTF is up with no 1394 port? It's a DVD recorder that doesn't interface w/ DV camera's to burn movies? Sony even has their "iLink" version of 1394!
and another thing... I didn't see any options for DVI, or component output... unless that D Line Out thing was it...
hopefully they're also planning to offer AC3/DTS via that optical out for most games, because that + HDTV output also put the current gen xbox way ahead of PS2.
There is also something to be said about reasonably pricing these things... even $200 is a bit much for the average parent/kid, top that off w/ games that are $50+/ea and you'll wind up with a much more limited market.
Gameboy Advance is great, TONS of games, most are sub-$40, plays all the old Gameboy & Gameboy Color games, the unit price is an easy to swallow $99... Game Cube is now following suit... I think Nintendo is poised to regain video game domination... After 30 minutes of carnage in GTA:3 on Xbox i want to turn it off, but I'll play Advanced Wars 2 on GBA:SP for hours... and the GC/GBA aisle is the first I hit at best buy...
an in conclusion, Sirius is technologically superior...
You need a S, SW, SE view of the sky (depending on where in America you are) to receive XM... the same as television dish signals...
Sirrius uses LEO birds that allow a much wider view of the sky...
I have a friend w/ factory installed XM and he says that if it's snowing or raining he will get drop outs in the signal, especially when driving near trees or buildings (even 2-story).
I have no experience w/Sirius other then what I've read here:
there was an article in electronic design magazine a couple of months back (cover article too) about Sirius' technology vs. XM's technology. It was Sirius biased.
Here's the issue with your argument... the two Archos products I've seen have a really poor UI and they skip when searching titles and playing.
they also have a nasty habit of "torquing" when you're accessing the drive whil it's in your hand.
the final thing I noticed was that they were noisy.. I don't want to hear a HD.
The fact that the battery might be dead in 2 years and might cost me $100 to replace is trivial when compared to using an inferior device that has a poor UI and noisy HD.
I'm not an apple zealot (denial...) but I do own a 12" PB and a 40GB iPod... I bought them because I've used the other stuff and I didn't like it as much.
here here... now I might actually go to one of these things...
NYC is full of scum... Boston is just full of filth...
As I've said in earlier posts... I've had the variations of what is now Comcast, since about 1999...
MediaOne, AT&T BB then Comcast...
The speed is always 1500/350... lately it's been peaking over 1500 to upwards of 2000... they claim to have capped uploads at 128, but I still receive 350.
The prices have gone up over the years slightly, and the services have gone done.
Most noticably I miss my unlimited newsgroup server access... they used to allow unlimited bandwidth up to 3 connections. Now they're down to 1GB/mo with unlimited connections.
So I'm paying Giganews $24/mo for a 20GB account... but I'm still happy with it, because I think that what I get from it is worth that (ass loads of pr0n, mp3s, ROMs, movies, etc).
I download stuff constantly, gigs apon gigs apon gigs each month...
I have open ports, 25, 143, 80, 443 and a few others... I have a no-ip.com hostname associated with my machines at home...
But they have never complained, never shut me off on purpose...
In return I pay my bill on time every time.
We're all happy...
These places could not stay in business if you maxed out your theoretical 1500Mb/s pipe 24/7/365.25.
Give them a break and stop whining. You all know what acceptable usage means, and to a "normal" user the definition of unlimited is WAY beyond what they might use. The whole point of using the term "unlimited" is to make your computer-illiterate mom won't think she has to unplug the cable modem to prevent extra charges from showing up.
Didn't the Revenge of the Nerds series slightly popularize nerdom back in the 80s?
What seperates us true nerds from everyone else is that we're generally pasty white, either rail thin, or fat, have bad hair, and generally wear a t-shirt that has some geeky slogan on it, today I'm wearing my 'evil inside' (spoof on intel) shirt... yesterday it was DeCSS...
by the way my english not so good is it because machine no coffee had
I read the article too, this guy using a valid point:
Mac OSX is not perfect
To bash Macs... it's paragraph after paragraph of "See? I told you so."
I own a mac, but I use PC's at work and home, I barely notice a difference between the two when I move between them because most of the apps that I use, like Office and Mozilla are fairly close in appearance and functionality.
BUT... the absolute, positive, no questions asked fact, is that last time my office of 300+ people had some worm running around, my mac was NOT infected and I was not required to jump through IT-hoops for hours to get rid of it or prevent it from happening.
Whether or not it has flaws or not is a stupid question, of course it does... but so far they haven't proven to be anywhere near as disasterous as the bullsh*t that we have to deal with from Windows.