Yep, another LaserJet Series II still going strong here too. 300dpi is still more than good enough for the average document. It's pretty big and doesn't really fit well under or on my computer desk, but other than that it's a great printer. I'm at least the 3rd owner, my boss bought it, then I believe gave it to one of his kids during college, and they brought it back and now I have it.
I've never been eager to buy an inkjet as long as the cartridges are so expensive. I'd gladly pay twice as much for the printer if I could get the cartridges for a reasonable price.
I had a subscription to Discover when they ran the ice borers story. It was funny at the time, but a few weeks later it was in the local newspaper, being reported as fact. I'm not sure but I think it was an AP or UPI story. That was more scary than funny.
I used to run the weekend job schedule on an IBM 370 series mainframe (1970's vintage, although this was in the early 90's.)
It wasn't a bad job; start a job, maybe mount a tape or two, wait around anywhere from 10 minutes to over an hour for the job to finish. Print out reports and distribute them. I would bring SciFi books and do lots of reading, because I had so much free time.
"The 1974 Ford Pinto: Featuring a non-exploding gas tank!"
"Amtrak: No more deadly derailments, we promise!"
"Slashdot: Never a duplicate story!";)
Re:Not necessarily the war yet
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It wouldn't be hard for the troops to think if you're against the war you're against them. I know it's possible to support the troops but protest the war, but it's hard to convey both at once.
We're doing this Iraq thing, the senate has approved it, the president obviously has made up his mind long ago, protesting over and over isn't going to help morale at this point.
Not necessarily the war yet
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It's been reported as a US cruise missle attack on an unexpected target of opportunity.
Good luck to all the US soldiers, I think when the fighting starts those anti-war protestors should switch to SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS! I know if I was over there I wouldn't want to hear about protests at home, I would want to hear about support.
Seriously, with HD-based MP3 players, why would you want to swap discs any more? I started off a few years ago with an AIWA CDC-MP3 that would play MP3s on CD-Rs, and that was great. Trouble is to update your CDs with new music you have to fiddle with buning each one. Even if I only had 9 or 10 CDs it was still a bit of a hassle.
But now that I've gone to Dension DMP3 HD-based player, I've got 40GB of space in one big chunk. Last I checked I've only got 20GB of music, so I'm in good shape for a long time.
Every time you buy a DVD, computer software, or certain audio CDs you're being punished by anti-piracy measures. This is America, why do software companies, the RIAA, and the movie industry automatically assume everyone is guilty? That makes me WANT to pirate just to spite them.
If these paranoid companies would make a good product they would most likely sell lots of them. Keep screwing around with the customers and you'll see your sales fall (and then blame it on piracy no doubt.) >:(
Currently, I know of no "true 3d" FPS engine that could have created a comparable experience in level size and number of units.
I wonder what the Serious Sam engine could do with this battle? Not sure what sort of scripting options there are, but the levels are huge and enemies numerous...
The article doesn't really say why the series is being cancelled, but I suspect SMG is getting tired of it. This is a summary of what Buffy had against it:
1. The silly name. 2. The WB->UPN switchover. Neither of these networks are as widely available as Fox and the big 3, especially on satellite. 3. The depressing 6th season. I haven't even seen all of those eps. 4. The serial nature of the series. To get the full story you had to see the past episodes, sometimes several seasons back! I personally like that because it's not so restrictive plotwise, but it's not good for casual viewers.
In spite of all this, it had a good run because it's an excellent SciFi/comedy/drama/horror show. Maybe the spinoff will be good.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Every TV show, movie, or even many documentaries don't show anything resembling actual computers. But Alias (especially that one episode) was pretty darn realistic.
If you get a lot of e-mail from the same (good or bad) sources filtering works well. But it seems if your account gets a lot of e-mail from a lot of previously unknown senders each of those people has a different writing style and uses different words (except AOL users haha), and filters (especially bayseian) have a harder time distinguishing good from bad.
Politicians or anybody receiving "unsolicited" but legit e-mail from the public should definitely question whether filtering is a good idea, assuming they want to read every valid e-mail.
Filtering is ok as a stopgap measure for geeks, but what needs done is stopping the spam from being sent in the first place.
This is good, but..
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Ok, it's good the FTC is cracking down on illegal/fradulent product spammers. But that still leaves all the spammers who are selling legitimate products (such as all that refinancing crap, I suppose that could be real), and then what about all the spammers from overseas? And the US ones will find a way to base their operations overseas should the need arise. What about sending them from the middle of the ocean in International waters?
We still gotta fix the Internet mail system. It would probably take the support of *shudder* Microsoft in an upcoming version of Windows to affect a major change like that. Or a saavy small company with good PR/marketing.
I was a bit uncomfortable with the idea of giving them my date of birth and the last four digits of my Social Security Number.
But they need to be able to distinguish you from the other 9,998 people whose name is Homer Jay Simpson at 742 Evergreen Terrace!
Yeah, it's probably just an attempt to keep people honest, but still it makes you wonder...
FilePlanet. Ugh, don't even get me started. Ok, I guess I have no trouble with them putting anonymous users through all sorts of hoops to download stuff. It's their bandwidth, their perogative how to deal it out. I don't like it though.
However, when game companies choose to not host their own patches and demos but instead put them on FilePlanet I get pissed. I've already paid for the game. Why should I have to wait in line an hour or more to download a patch that takes 1 min to download? As for the demos, the game company wants me to buy the game, why put me though all those hoops to download the demo?
Thank god for sites like http://3dgamers.com They have links to all the latest patches/demos without the FilePlanet wait in line crap.
Slashdot Mirror
Decent site, not too commercial.
Yep, another LaserJet Series II still going strong here too. 300dpi is still more than good enough for the average document. It's pretty big and doesn't really fit well under or on my computer desk, but other than that it's a great printer. I'm at least the 3rd owner, my boss bought it, then I believe gave it to one of his kids during college, and they brought it back and now I have it.
I've never been eager to buy an inkjet as long as the cartridges are so expensive. I'd gladly pay twice as much for the printer if I could get the cartridges for a reasonable price.
I had a subscription to Discover when they ran the ice borers story. It was funny at the time, but a few weeks later it was in the local newspaper, being reported as fact. I'm not sure but I think it was an AP or UPI story. That was more scary than funny.
I'd love to know where that Timex DataLink watch my ex lost is....
The physics in that game aren't too far off from this video clip.
So what did they have against that car anyway? Was their goal a remote controlled car or to destroy a Toyota without killing themselves?
I used to run the weekend job schedule on an IBM 370 series mainframe (1970's vintage, although this was in the early 90's.)
It wasn't a bad job; start a job, maybe mount a tape or two, wait around anywhere from 10 minutes to over an hour for the job to finish. Print out reports and distribute them. I would bring SciFi books and do lots of reading, because I had so much free time.
Finally! Now I can stay home and frag all day!
"The 1974 Ford Pinto: Featuring a non-exploding gas tank!"
"Amtrak: No more deadly derailments, we promise!"
"Slashdot: Never a duplicate story!"
It wouldn't be hard for the troops to think if you're against the war you're against them. I know it's possible to support the troops but protest the war, but it's hard to convey both at once.
We're doing this Iraq thing, the senate has approved it, the president obviously has made up his mind long ago, protesting over and over isn't going to help morale at this point.
It's been reported as a US cruise missle attack on an unexpected target of opportunity.
Good luck to all the US soldiers, I think when the fighting starts those anti-war protestors should switch to SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS! I know if I was over there I wouldn't want to hear about protests at home, I would want to hear about support.
Seriously, with HD-based MP3 players, why would you want to swap discs any more? I started off a few years ago with an AIWA CDC-MP3 that would play MP3s on CD-Rs, and that was great. Trouble is to update your CDs with new music you have to fiddle with buning each one. Even if I only had 9 or 10 CDs it was still a bit of a hassle.
But now that I've gone to Dension DMP3 HD-based player, I've got 40GB of space in one big chunk. Last I checked I've only got 20GB of music, so I'm in good shape for a long time.
Man, that looks like like Windows. But isn't the Windows "look and feel" copyrighted somehow?
I don't think there's anything wrong with the Win2k interface, WinXP maybe...
Every time you buy a DVD, computer software, or certain audio CDs you're being punished by anti-piracy measures. This is America, why do software companies, the RIAA, and the movie industry automatically assume everyone is guilty? That makes me WANT to pirate just to spite them.
If these paranoid companies would make a good product they would most likely sell lots of them. Keep screwing around with the customers and you'll see your sales fall (and then blame it on piracy no doubt.) >:(
I wonder what the Serious Sam engine could do with this battle? Not sure what sort of scripting options there are, but the levels are huge and enemies numerous...
Which one was Loren Green?
And is there even any point to criticizing spelling on the Internet any more?
The article doesn't really say why the series is being cancelled, but I suspect SMG is getting tired of it. This is a summary of what Buffy had against it:
1. The silly name.
2. The WB->UPN switchover. Neither of these networks are as widely available as Fox and the big 3, especially on satellite.
3. The depressing 6th season. I haven't even seen all of those eps.
4. The serial nature of the series. To get the full story you had to see the past episodes, sometimes several seasons back! I personally like that because it's not so restrictive plotwise, but it's not good for casual viewers.
In spite of all this, it had a good run because it's an excellent SciFi/comedy/drama/horror show. Maybe the spinoff will be good.
I'll tell you why. You need Xbox innards to play games like Halo. And Halo. And oh yeah, don't forget Halo!
That's about it.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Every TV show, movie, or even many documentaries don't show anything resembling actual computers. But Alias (especially that one episode) was pretty darn realistic.
Well I don't see you writing out your Slashdot comments on paper. And I bet you send more e-mail than regular letters.
Tax software is much less messy than filling out paper forms.
If you get a lot of e-mail from the same (good or bad) sources filtering works well. But it seems if your account gets a lot of e-mail from a lot of previously unknown senders each of those people has a different writing style and uses different words (except AOL users haha), and filters (especially bayseian) have a harder time distinguishing good from bad.
Politicians or anybody receiving "unsolicited" but legit e-mail from the public should definitely question whether filtering is a good idea, assuming they want to read every valid e-mail.
Filtering is ok as a stopgap measure for geeks, but what needs done is stopping the spam from being sent in the first place.
Ok, it's good the FTC is cracking down on illegal/fradulent product spammers. But that still leaves all the spammers who are selling legitimate products (such as all that refinancing crap, I suppose that could be real), and then what about all the spammers from overseas? And the US ones will find a way to base their operations overseas should the need arise. What about sending them from the middle of the ocean in International waters?
We still gotta fix the Internet mail system. It would probably take the support of *shudder* Microsoft in an upcoming version of Windows to affect a major change like that. Or a saavy small company with good PR/marketing.
But they need to be able to distinguish you from the other 9,998 people whose name is Homer Jay Simpson at 742 Evergreen Terrace! Yeah, it's probably just an attempt to keep people honest, but still it makes you wonder...
Would it have been so hard to make the case like the origonal GBA?
:P
And can we poor sightless bastards who squinted at the origonal GBA screen get credit for a trade-in?
FilePlanet. Ugh, don't even get me started. Ok, I guess I have no trouble with them putting anonymous users through all sorts of hoops to download stuff. It's their bandwidth, their perogative how to deal it out. I don't like it though.
However, when game companies choose to not host their own patches and demos but instead put them on FilePlanet I get pissed. I've already paid for the game. Why should I have to wait in line an hour or more to download a patch that takes 1 min to download? As for the demos, the game company wants me to buy the game, why put me though all those hoops to download the demo?
Thank god for sites like http://3dgamers.com They have links to all the latest patches/demos without the FilePlanet wait in line crap.