Now I've never seen trainspotting, but I find that this happenns with a lot of movies/topics. Trying to filter through reviews, dvd sales, video games, etc. when trying to find info on the subject. (ie: I noticed this first when "The Mothman Prophecies" first came out and I wanted to know more about these supposed mothmen.
I didn't do anything to get Gmail working with Opera. I got a warning page about it and just clicked "Yeah yeah continue anyways". From what I've heard google maps don't work with Opera.
Like the original poster, I feel like google is just ignoring us Opera users as well.
While I'll take your word on the subject of value versus profit, companies use profits to increase the companies value.
One of the http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/04/ibm_fire_1 3000/*Slashdot goodguys* is reportedly getting rid of THOUSANDS of employees BECAUSE they didn't have a good enough quarter. While some might consider this kind of behaviour NOT EVIL, it certainly isn't good.
Now I don't think IBM had to do this to save their business, and maybe it's a long term strategy that I don't follow, what I do see is over ten thousand people losing their jobs in order to "maximize" the companies "value"
By the way, the original poster's URL in his sig is great.
I wish I had mod points for you... you spoke my mind for me.
I think if Google actually wanted to adhere to "Do No Evil", they wouldn't be gone public with their IPO.
Public companies do whatever they can to maximize profits, I've even read (although I believe this was on/.) that they HAVE to do this.
There is also a long ways between "Do No Evil", and "Do Good Things".
On a side note, I use both gmail and google, I remember the pre-google days when searching was just painful. I hope that google will not start to do things the way most of the corporate world does.
heh, thanx... I agree with you that something should be done. I wish there was a way to filter out certain sigs... but I guess that's asking too much.
I don't want to turn off sigs because I like some of them, and often visit even URLS posted in them, but it really kind of disgusts me that people on/. that should KNOW BETTER, try and flog pyramid schemes here.
I'd make sure that puppy is cooled VERY well. I had a lot of problems with mine (9800 pro w/128MB) due to heat issues. Even blew the crap out of my first one.
I put two case fans in mine (intake at the front, outtake at the rear, and changed my power supply to an enermax (with yet another fan). This stopped all my problems (nForce2 board Asus - a78nx with an AMD 2800+ cpu). A friend has basically the same configuration and was having problems as well until he added more cooling.
I've talked to techs who repair a lot of machines in retail (yes, I can do tech too, but don't nearly have the volume of these people), and they say they would never recommend putting in any video card of this caliber without these precautions as well.
Is that companies who back these kind of ideas are the same ones who will outsource your job to save a buck. In a SECOND.
So they cry when anybody taps their market (be it VOIP, FOSS, or whatnot), and they lobby for laws to *protect* their business. Yet they have no problems doing this to PEOPLE.
Companies HAVE a responsibility to their customers, and the cities/towns/COUNTRIES they do business it. They should be MADE to give back instead of just taking taking taking.
I'm tired of hearing stuff about "well it's their coumpany and they can do what they want." This way of thinking is really wrong, IMHO, and is just a symptom of how they have brainwashed everyone. Morality doesn't seem to exist in the corporate world, everything is for the blind pursuit of profit... generally by crawling up the backs of hard working people, then kicking them down when they reach the summit.
Pure capitalism is faulty, somebody needs to reign these greedy people in. It'd be nice if someone could pull the wool back up, from over the general public's eyes.
I dunno, I own a Radeon 9800 pro, and i don't believe it's starting to show it's age yet... kicks the crap out of everyone I know's vidcard (except a fellow 9800 pro owner).
I've had this card for about a year now, but it cost me a good $400 CND (after tax)
Only thing is i've had 2 of these (one replaced under warranty), and you REALLY gotta have both a good power supply, and a good case FULL of fans to keep it cool. I hate to think what the high end x800 series is like.
well I checked them out, and so far it's not bad... takes me generally a few listenings to get used to new music so i will definately keep listening.
Then again, I have a soft spot for music with violins it it (listen to some folk metal with some even! (Otyg is a good example if you're curious)
One thing tho... their webpage kinda looks like shit because it's made for I guess 800x600.... might I suggest either centering it, or putting the background colour to the same red as the rest of the page... I think this simple thing will make it look a lot better:)
now I absolutely hate the default look of xp, so I won't speak on the so called 'eyecandy' (altho I think these screens look better).
I must say tho, that while not at the leaps and bounds I would hope for, microsoft as consistently been getting better with their os's. I couldn't imagine going back to 9x, and while 2000 was definately the most stable of the windows family, xp seems quite a bit better for games and media, so I'd say that ms is slowly getting it 'right'.
then again, when (if) the drm they're pushing starts to affect me, I might just sing a whole new tune. So far I'm not worried about this, tho... most of the mp3's I've got I have the cd of... I don't use the online music stores, nor would I use them if/when movies come out... I'll download a rip, or an iso of the dvd if I really want it.
Having this said, i'm thinking longhorn will be really disappointing.
I don't think it's free anymore... went to download it today for my mom's computer and all I could find was either pay, or a 30 day trial (the main download section goes to the pay version).
This seems to have happened since 7.0 came out, which, by the way, they FORCED the upgrade of (6 and below do not work at all it seems). (AVG used to be free for non commercial use, BTW).
AVG used to be (IMO) the best AV around, quite a few times caught things the other bigger names didn't. Now, I find them average, if not a bit below. Couple this with the forced upgrade/purchase has made me decided to look elsewhere.
Then again, since I was using a free version, maybe they don't care if they lose a type of customer such as myself:)
I can say crystal chronicles, but what else use the gba as a controller?
Not trolling here, with the price of the gamecube, I'm seriously thinking of getting one...but aside from resident evil 4 (and possible drunk mario tennis) I dunno what games I'd ever play on it.
Nero has a built in virtual drive to "burn" to a file... then use something like alcohol120% to mount the "cd" (file) and could probably rip it from there.
Might sounds like a lot of steps, but with alcohol, you just right click on the drive and select "mount image"... takes like 5 seconds.
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Now I've never seen trainspotting, but I find that this happenns with a lot of movies/topics. Trying to filter through reviews, dvd sales, video games, etc. when trying to find info on the subject. (ie: I noticed this first when "The Mothman Prophecies" first came out and I wanted to know more about these supposed mothmen.
I didn't do anything to get Gmail working with Opera. I got a warning page about it and just clicked "Yeah yeah continue anyways". From what I've heard google maps don't work with Opera.
Like the original poster, I feel like google is just ignoring us Opera users as well.
damnit. I meant the url in SuperBanana (662181)'s sig.
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"The Apple Product Cycle":
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148392&cid=12
Apparently also, I suck with posting URL's.
While I'll take your word on the subject of value versus profit, companies use profits to increase the companies value.
1 3000/*Slashdot goodguys* is reportedly getting rid of THOUSANDS of employees BECAUSE they didn't have a good enough quarter. While some might consider this kind of behaviour NOT EVIL, it certainly isn't good.
One of the http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/04/ibm_fire_
Now I don't think IBM had to do this to save their business, and maybe it's a long term strategy that I don't follow, what I do see is over ten thousand people losing their jobs in order to "maximize" the companies "value"
By the way, the original poster's URL in his sig is great.
I wish I had mod points for you... you spoke my mind for me.
/.) that they HAVE to do this.
I think if Google actually wanted to adhere to "Do No Evil", they wouldn't be gone public with their IPO.
Public companies do whatever they can to maximize profits, I've even read (although I believe this was on
There is also a long ways between "Do No Evil", and "Do Good Things".
On a side note, I use both gmail and google, I remember the pre-google days when searching was just painful. I hope that google will not start to do things the way most of the corporate world does.
heh, thanx... I agree with you that something should be done. I wish there was a way to filter out certain sigs... but I guess that's asking too much.
/. that should KNOW BETTER, try and flog pyramid schemes here.
:)
I don't want to turn off sigs because I like some of them, and often visit even URLS posted in them, but it really kind of disgusts me that people on
and no I'm not around new here.
I'd make sure that puppy is cooled VERY well. I had a lot of problems with mine (9800 pro w/128MB) due to heat issues. Even blew the crap out of my first one.
I put two case fans in mine (intake at the front, outtake at the rear, and changed my power supply to an enermax (with yet another fan). This stopped all my problems (nForce2 board Asus - a78nx with an AMD 2800+ cpu). A friend has basically the same configuration and was having problems as well until he added more cooling.
I've talked to techs who repair a lot of machines in retail (yes, I can do tech too, but don't nearly have the volume of these people), and they say they would never recommend putting in any video card of this caliber without these precautions as well.
dunno about older versions of beos, which I realize you probably ran..
but the ones I've used (4.x and up) you could hit space and set the resolution and safe mode drivers for video, then you could boot fine.
Spike Lee versus SpikeTV.
I guess corporations feel like they're not taking enough away from us as it is, so they might as well own the words we use too.
One word.
Bandriva.
You know what gets me...
Is that companies who back these kind of ideas are the same ones who will outsource your job to save a buck. In a SECOND.
So they cry when anybody taps their market (be it VOIP, FOSS, or whatnot), and they lobby for laws to *protect* their business. Yet they have no problems doing this to PEOPLE.
Companies HAVE a responsibility to their customers, and the cities/towns/COUNTRIES they do business it. They should be MADE to give back instead of just taking taking taking.
I'm tired of hearing stuff about "well it's their coumpany and they can do what they want." This way of thinking is really wrong, IMHO, and is just a symptom of how they have brainwashed everyone. Morality doesn't seem to exist in the corporate world, everything is for the blind pursuit of profit... generally by crawling up the backs of hard working people, then kicking them down when they reach the summit.
Pure capitalism is faulty, somebody needs to reign these greedy people in. It'd be nice if someone could pull the wool back up, from over the general public's eyes.
this all makes me so bloody angry.
I ber he's the guy that delivers sandwiches to the real apple guys.
All his posts, with his "*we* do this because... *we* do that...' sound like he's just a total wannabe.
I dunno, I own a Radeon 9800 pro, and i don't believe it's starting to show it's age yet... kicks the crap out of everyone I know's vidcard (except a fellow 9800 pro owner).
I've had this card for about a year now, but it cost me a good $400 CND (after tax)
Only thing is i've had 2 of these (one replaced under warranty), and you REALLY gotta have both a good power supply, and a good case FULL of fans to keep it cool. I hate to think what the high end x800 series is like.
well I checked them out, and so far it's not bad... takes me generally a few listenings to get used to new music so i will definately keep listening.
:)
:)
Then again, I have a soft spot for music with violins it it (listen to some folk metal with some even! (Otyg is a good example if you're curious)
One thing tho... their webpage kinda looks like shit because it's made for I guess 800x600.... might I suggest either centering it, or putting the background colour to the same red as the rest of the page... I think this simple thing will make it look a lot better
What's with the dud with the red RED hair tho?
heheh... tell 'em to keep up the good work.
now I absolutely hate the default look of xp, so I won't speak on the so called 'eyecandy' (altho I think these screens look better).
I must say tho, that while not at the leaps and bounds I would hope for, microsoft as consistently been getting better with their os's. I couldn't imagine going back to 9x, and while 2000 was definately the most stable of the windows family, xp seems quite a bit better for games and media, so I'd say that ms is slowly getting it 'right'.
then again, when (if) the drm they're pushing starts to affect me, I might just sing a whole new tune. So far I'm not worried about this, tho... most of the mp3's I've got I have the cd of... I don't use the online music stores, nor would I use them if/when movies come out... I'll download a rip, or an iso of the dvd if I really want it.
Having this said, i'm thinking longhorn will be really disappointing.
hey man, help your brother out... give us a url for his music...
what genre is it? Altho i listen to a lot of different genres so this don't matter too much.
I'm always looking for new stuff and would love to give it a try.
I don't think it's free anymore... went to download it today for my mom's computer and all I could find was either pay, or a 30 day trial (the main download section goes to the pay version).
:)
This seems to have happened since 7.0 came out, which, by the way, they FORCED the upgrade of (6 and below do not work at all it seems). (AVG used to be free for non commercial use, BTW).
AVG used to be (IMO) the best AV around, quite a few times caught things the other bigger names didn't. Now, I find them average, if not a bit below. Couple this with the forced upgrade/purchase has made me decided to look elsewhere.
Then again, since I was using a free version, maybe they don't care if they lose a type of customer such as myself
I can say crystal chronicles, but what else use the gba as a controller?
.but aside from resident evil 4 (and possible drunk mario tennis) I dunno what games I'd ever play on it.
Not trolling here, with the price of the gamecube, I'm seriously thinking of getting one..
my LITE-ON dvd+-rw died after about 6 months, whereas my HP dvd+rw is still going fine after 1.5 years.
the lite-on had very little use too... maybe 40 dvd's (the HP's had hundreds)
maybe I just got a bad one tho.
Plus from what I've heard Montreal is one of the nicest cities around.
(I'm from Vancouver, B.C) Even people I know that dislike the french mfor whatever reason, who have gone to montreal and come back raving about it.
Yeah, this guy is just stealing other peoples comments and reposting them...
with the current karma system, I have no idea why someone would want to do this, unless he just wanted to see how long he could get away with it for.
This comment is just a rip off of another older comment ( http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137696&cid= 11515177 )
Haven't checked for others, but I really wouldn't doubt if he's ripped off others.
Nero has a built in virtual drive to "burn" to a file... then use something like alcohol120% to mount the "cd" (file) and could probably rip it from there.
Might sounds like a lot of steps, but with alcohol, you just right click on the drive and select "mount image"... takes like 5 seconds.
So you have something to look at while you're talking to them.
I like them... kind of remind me of smoother BeOS icons..
I loved BeOS tho , and still kind of like their pixelated icons anyways.