I personally think my time is worth more than the $10 I save on junk RAM. I think of it this way: I go to the store, buy a bunch of crap RAM, spend a day testing it, spend another day returning it to the store for new modules and testing them.
Hopefully, by then, I've got a set of working modules. Regardless, I've wasted a couple days minimum to save $10.
My time is worth much more than that to me. I buy more expensive, pre-tested modules and have never had a problem. It's saved me days and days of downtime, extra trips to the store, and hours of pointless testing.
If you want Japanese cartoons before they're released in English, learn Japanese.
Yeah, I'll get right on that. How do you say "haha yeah right" in Japanese?
you can do it while you're at work if you have headphones and a cd-rom drive...and, apparently, nothing to do at work.
Maybe if folks would stop STEALING things online, movie and music distributors would be a little less wary of wading into the digital pool to test the waters. After all, who's going to buy a new release online for $5 when they can get it a week early for free?
Oh for God's sake, people, stop trotting out this tired old horse and beating it every time something even remotely resembling copyright infringement shows up on Slashdot.
This is so wildly different from mp3 and movie piracy that I'm ashamed I'm even replying to this inane post. Your points are stupid. Your insight is weak. You have no idea what you're talking about and you are pissing in the pool of rational discourse with this absurdity. Please reformulate your ideas into something cogent and sensical and I'll try and reply in kind.
...are complete pieces of shit. I've owned two; the first was bought for a rental car in California. It was by far the most pathetic little piece of trash I've ever seen, but, since the car came without a cassette deck, it was the only way to get a good amount of decent music into the radio and through the speakers. Only it worked for about ten minutes at a time, in fuzzy, flickering, tinny-sounding awful FM stereo. Whenever we'd near anything resembling civilization, the signal would fade and disappear as bigger FM stations overpowered it. At some points, moving the little channel selector on the unit and changing stations had absolutely no effect on the (complete lack of) quality of the sound. I was extraordinarily unimpressed by this $30 piece of crap.
So, obviously, I bought another one, later on, for another rental car. This was the Monster Cable version, which a few people had told me was totally awesome. Turns out, it had a really phat red LED on the top of it, but, if you can believe it, it actually sounded worse! Never before had I heard something so awful that cost so much (comparatively). I threw it away and used a $10 cassette adapter, which sounded about 100 times better and didn't fade in and out of listenability.
Has anyone ever used one of these things and had results that couldn't be characterized as "complete and utter shite"? If so, how far from civilization do you live? I'd be more than amazed if anyone had something good to say about these little turds of technology.
Hello? Google is an information provider. What they're doing, if they're doing it, is knowingly and willfully blocking access to information, simply because that information happens to be controversial.
Would you like it if your doctor only told you what was right with your body?
So what you're saying is that Microsoft should spend millions of dollars and man-hours researching, porting, testing, and validating an operating system on an entirely new architecture just so a few hobbyists can run something slightly nerdier than their friend down the street who runs NetBSD on his PDP/11?
I know that later on in your post you acknowledge the failure of NT 3.51/4.0 on PPC (and, oh, what a dismal failure it was! almost as bad as NT for MIPS!), but I believe everyone needs to be made aware of the absolute absurdity of this particular Ask Slashdot. Sure, something like this could be done, but why would anyone actually do it?!
Nuclear? Nuclear has its problems, yes. On the other hand, we know what those problems are; we know how to mitigate those risks; and we know that nuclear scales extraordinarily well. It's a good solution that's available right now, and that's a hell of a lot better than a perfect solution which won't be available/debugged for another twenty years.
Good. Maybe, once everyone who remembers Three Mile Island is finally dead, we can start using it more. (I volunteer to help expedite the process!) I'm sick and tired of people using it and Chernobyl as their sole, pathetic reason against making further use of nuclear power, stupidly neglecting three decades of technological advances in the field.
And I would rather have something that takes up the same amount of space (or only slightly more) and can do a little more than merely play MP3s and video. I can't understand who would spend close to a grand for something that only really does a couple mundane tasks.
Does that mean that those who believe homosexuality is a sin will be refered to as "those who have a religious belief" and not "bigoted homophobes"
No, because they still are just like all other bigoted homophobes, they just have a few dubious references from a few parts of some book to "legitimize" their bigotry.
or perhaps you just want Christians to shut up and not have thier voice heard in society.
It is played against other opponents. The house takes a certain percentage of every pot, called the "rake". There is no incentive to run a dishonest poker site, because you will be taking 2-4% of every pot regardless.
Every poker site I've played on (and it's quite a few now) has used a Windows-only executable. No Java (with the exception of PokerRoom), no Flash, period. Every one of them also makes heavy use of encryption. There is no way of knowing an opponent's cards and know way to glean that knowledge by trapping API calls, TCP/IP packets, or anything else.
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I personally think my time is worth more than the $10 I save on junk RAM. I think of it this way: I go to the store, buy a bunch of crap RAM, spend a day testing it, spend another day returning it to the store for new modules and testing them.
Hopefully, by then, I've got a set of working modules. Regardless, I've wasted a couple days minimum to save $10.
My time is worth much more than that to me. I buy more expensive, pre-tested modules and have never had a problem. It's saved me days and days of downtime, extra trips to the store, and hours of pointless testing.
- A.P.
...is to not buy cheap-ass no-name RAM. Spend the extra 30 bucks and get some damn Crucial or Mushkin, ffs.
- A.P.
um... has anyone taught you the difference between software and hardware yet?
Ha ha ha. I think he meant to imply that Episode 1 and 2 sucked goat taint. I agree!
- A.P.
...all the dotcom crash did was get most of the people who didn't belong in the infotech field out of it.
- A.P.
...this is pretty much the worst article ever.
Why would someone deface a poor defenseless Mac Mini like this?
If Google fired him over this I would be really surprised.
No one should be surprised by this. This is all shit you're never supposed talk about, in published form no less, no matter who you work for.
- A.P.
Newsflash: you're not PROMOTING it, you're helping other people STEAL it.
...and, apparently, nothing to do at work.
Yeah. God damn those pirates.
Anything that doesn't cost money and contains others' intellectual property must be THEFT..
If you want Japanese cartoons before they're released in English, learn Japanese.
Yeah, I'll get right on that. How do you say "haha yeah right" in Japanese?
you can do it while you're at work if you have headphones and a cd-rom drive
Maybe if folks would stop STEALING things online, movie and music distributors would be a little less wary of wading into the digital pool to test the waters. After all, who's going to buy a new release online for $5 when they can get it a week early for free?
Oh for God's sake, people, stop trotting out this tired old horse and beating it every time something even remotely resembling copyright infringement shows up on Slashdot.
This is so wildly different from mp3 and movie piracy that I'm ashamed I'm even replying to this inane post. Your points are stupid. Your insight is weak. You have no idea what you're talking about and you are pissing in the pool of rational discourse with this absurdity. Please reformulate your ideas into something cogent and sensical and I'll try and reply in kind.
- A.P.
...are complete pieces of shit. I've owned two; the first was bought for a rental car in California. It was by far the most pathetic little piece of trash I've ever seen, but, since the car came without a cassette deck, it was the only way to get a good amount of decent music into the radio and through the speakers. Only it worked for about ten minutes at a time, in fuzzy, flickering, tinny-sounding awful FM stereo. Whenever we'd near anything resembling civilization, the signal would fade and disappear as bigger FM stations overpowered it. At some points, moving the little channel selector on the unit and changing stations had absolutely no effect on the (complete lack of) quality of the sound. I was extraordinarily unimpressed by this $30 piece of crap.
So, obviously, I bought another one, later on, for another rental car. This was the Monster Cable version, which a few people had told me was totally awesome. Turns out, it had a really phat red LED on the top of it, but, if you can believe it, it actually sounded worse! Never before had I heard something so awful that cost so much (comparatively). I threw it away and used a $10 cassette adapter, which sounded about 100 times better and didn't fade in and out of listenability.
Has anyone ever used one of these things and had results that couldn't be characterized as "complete and utter shite"? If so, how far from civilization do you live? I'd be more than amazed if anyone had something good to say about these little turds of technology.
- A.P.
Grow a set, use a real account to post, and maybe someone (who actually gives a fuck -- I don't) will listen to you.
Simply yelling "I DISAGREE WITH THIS MODERATION! KILL EVERYONE!" is pretty childish.
- A.P.
The entire text of the letter is here.
Taken out of context, it loses very little. The man claims we've beaten both crime and terrorism.
Have we?
- A.P.
Why, pray tell, are you not overjoyed by this turn of events?
- A.P.
Well done. That's slashdot as I remember it.
- A.P.
And you're officially the worst troll ever.
God, what happened to GNAA? The page full of barely-topical links with hidden redirects to goatse?
This place has really gone downhill. You know I'm right, and you're not even a good troll. Just go back to sleep, little boy.
- A.P.
Hello? Google is an information provider. What they're doing, if they're doing it, is knowingly and willfully blocking access to information, simply because that information happens to be controversial.
Would you like it if your doctor only told you what was right with your body?
Idiot.
- A.P.
It's a stupid fad, and it irritates me.
Why? Can't win?
- A.P.
So what you're saying is that Microsoft should spend millions of dollars and man-hours researching, porting, testing, and validating an operating system on an entirely new architecture just so a few hobbyists can run something slightly nerdier than their friend down the street who runs NetBSD on his PDP/11?
I know that later on in your post you acknowledge the failure of NT 3.51/4.0 on PPC (and, oh, what a dismal failure it was! almost as bad as NT for MIPS!), but I believe everyone needs to be made aware of the absolute absurdity of this particular Ask Slashdot. Sure, something like this could be done, but why would anyone actually do it?!
- A.P.
Nuclear? Nuclear has its problems, yes. On the other hand, we know what those problems are; we know how to mitigate those risks; and we know that nuclear scales extraordinarily well. It's a good solution that's available right now, and that's a hell of a lot better than a perfect solution which won't be available/debugged for another twenty years.
Good. Maybe, once everyone who remembers Three Mile Island is finally dead, we can start using it more. (I volunteer to help expedite the process!) I'm sick and tired of people using it and Chernobyl as their sole, pathetic reason against making further use of nuclear power, stupidly neglecting three decades of technological advances in the field.
- A.P.
I can watch Half-Baked on my 420.
And I would rather have something that takes up the same amount of space (or only slightly more) and can do a little more than merely play MP3s and video. I can't understand who would spend close to a grand for something that only really does a couple mundane tasks.
- A.P.
I think youre a Theophobe.
Yeah, Malcolm Jamal-Warner scares the shit out of me.
- A.P.
We'll "capture" osama in about 2 weeks. I'm willing to lay 3-to-1 odds.
Then, after Bush wins in a massive landslide, the "Republicans" in power can get back to raping this nation and the world.
Have a nice day!
- A.P.
Does that mean that those who believe homosexuality is a sin will be refered to as "those who have a religious belief" and not "bigoted homophobes"
No, because they still are just like all other bigoted homophobes, they just have a few dubious references from a few parts of some book to "legitimize" their bigotry.
or perhaps you just want Christians to shut up and not have thier voice heard in society.
Only the stupid ones.
- A.P.
It is played against other opponents. The house takes a certain percentage of every pot, called the "rake". There is no incentive to run a dishonest poker site, because you will be taking 2-4% of every pot regardless.
- A.P.
Every poker site I've played on (and it's quite a few now) has used a Windows-only executable. No Java (with the exception of PokerRoom), no Flash, period. Every one of them also makes heavy use of encryption. There is no way of knowing an opponent's cards and know way to glean that knowledge by trapping API calls, TCP/IP packets, or anything else.
Please do not make guesses.
- A.P.