CompUSA probably has a warehouse full of RAM they bought back when prices were low. They can afford to sell it at the prices they're selling it at now and still make a huge profit because they bought it so cheaply back then. Little RAM dealers (like the kind of people you see at computer shows and on Pricewatch) buy tiny fractions of what CompUSA buys, and they tend not to have any overstock sitting around, so they *must* charge more, because they're paying today's prices, not the price RAM was in June.
As always, it's best to look at all the options before you buy stuff -- don't always just head on over to pricewatch and think you've gotten a great deal.:)
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The best time of the year to buy, I've found, has always been in the middle of the year. Prices, for the past few years, seem to bottom out in June, and then slowly rise to peak in October/November. They should start dropping like a brick soon and, by the middle of next year, you'll wonder why you ever spent $80 for 128 megs of SDRAM when it's $40 now.
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I really fully agree with this guy. I can't understand why people insist on creating metaphors in the computer world from things that translate really poorly to the CRT. The Interface Hall of Shame should start cataloguing web sites, too, because this kind of design must be stopped.
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Call me skeptical, but I firmly refuse to believe that you could shove anything into a space as small as the speaker ports on an iMac and have it sound good. Apple apparently disagrees with me, though, saying it "stands the world of PC sound on its ear."
On one of the pages, they describe the audio system as having "bass performance normally heard only in $50,000 automobiles." Who here uses car stereo technology as a yardstick for audio quality? Then again, who uses SPEC marks as a yardstick for computer quality? Oh, wait, never mind.
Oh, well. Typical market-speak from Apple. This is about par for the course, I guess.
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About a year ago, the top-of-the-line Ultra 5 could be had for about $2000 if you were a college student. The equivalent of the model described in the news article was about $1500. Now that I've actually got the money, it seems the offer's been discontinued. Anyone know if or when Sun will start announcing student discounts again?
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Somewhere, at some point in time, there must be *someone* who's been fired for buying Microsoft. Any company that ships millions of units can't possibly have a 100% customer satisfaction rating (and, God, this is Microsoft we're talking about), and more than a few of those customers must have to report to someone higher up on the ladder when something breaks. I bet quite a few people have been fired for buying Microsoft. (Or Intel, or IBM...)
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I looked around all over once I found the drive in the SGI could do audio; I figured, "Okay, if this thing can do it, why can't mine do it at home?" Turns out my Dec drive couldn't, so I swiped the SGI's DDS drive and managed to find some Linux/Solaris software that would handle it. The link I gave is probably one of the more helpful things I've found on the 'net -- there really isn't all that much information available for doing audio with DDS drives. Admittedly, it isn't a very common practice, but it works very well nonetheless, certainly better than hooking a rack-mount DAT player up to even a high-end sound card.
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Just change your version reply to something that looks like a happy, friendly mIRC version reply. It's easy to do in IrcII./version a few of your friends on IRC who use mIRC and copy theirs. Problem solved, though it shouldn't be a problem in the first place (hello, CNN admins?!)
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The guy asks two IT people their opinions on internet censorship, gets two favorable responses, and assumes the rest of the world thinks the same way. Well, I'm sure glad to know that, I, as a member of the IT industry, fully endorse content filtering!
Human intelligence is constant. The population grows...
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It seems rather... bizzarre... that the world allows a single organization to control and fix the prices of something that's neither a scarce commodity like oil (though that's debateable too) nor a manufactured good.
Wish I'd thought of it first though.
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It's possible to rip music from audio DATs, even in Linux. There's a program for Solaris that I managed to get to compile on Linux which happily spat out 1200 MB worth of 44khz, 16 bit audio for me. In one big file.
The problem? You need a certain kind of DAT drive. The ONLY kind of DDS drives that have audio capabilities are Archive Pythons, which are now made by Seagate, formerly by Connor. Any other drive -- I tried it with my Digital DDS-2 drive to confirm it -- absolutely will not work.
The reason? SGI managed to convince Archive, back in the day, to include audio capabilities in the drives they manufactured for them. Ever since then, Pythons have been the only computer DAT drive that'll rip audio.
The link to the article exists so you can READ IT before spouting off this "Gee I hope I don't have to use AOL as an ISP!!!" bullshit.
From what I gleaned from the text of the article, AOL would control the Excite part of @home, and AT&T would control the ISP part. That's IF the deal happens at all, which probably won't be the case because Cox has veto power and is against the breakup of @home, which would be necessary for the deal to take place anyway.
Your Linux cable connection is not going to go away any time soon. Please read the article before getting paranoid.
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Except for, maybe, a novelty thing, this makes no sense. I wouldn't be able to stand sitting in front of a huge-pixeled blurry display for any length of time. There's really no comparison between a magnified 14" monitor and a 21" monitor (except, perhaps, in the number of headaches you'll get from the former.)
Heck, 21" monitors aren't even *that* expensive anymore. I got my 21" Sony 520GS for $500.
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For what? Last I knew, something done without malicious intent wasn't a crime. If it had been a bunch of kids with wire cutters, you could probably get them for vandalism, but it was just some moron with a backhoe.
People fuck up. You can't arrest them all, or everyone on the planet would be in jail.
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Dell uses the most common, off-the-shelf components of just about any major PC manufacturer. I don't understand how or why a normal Win98 CD would fail to install properly on it. How on earth do people who build their own boxes manage? What about those whose Dells shipped with '95 and want to upgrade? Are they just SOL?
At least, in this case, the blame can be laid, in part, on someone other than Microsoft. Still, though, for a company that's been promising "plug and play" for years and years, I've yet to experience anything but headaches when adding hardware in Windows.
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The trend of making everything see-thru is, in my opinion, kinda disturbing, especially in computers, where there's *really* nothing to look at. Nothing moves! The G3s and the G4 -- heck, even the original iMac -- aren't bad because they're at least opaque-ish. What's so sexy-looking about the electron guns on a monitor, though?
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It was announced a while back that SNET will be doing testing of DSL service in Hartford, New Haven, and, I think, half a dozen other cities in the state of Connecticut in anticipation of a wide-scale rollout next year. Visit their site (www.snet.net?.com? I forget.) and see if you qualify for DSL testing.
I'm in Milford, which isn't one of the cities that's lucky enough to get tested, but we have cable modems here (through Cablevision), so it's all good.
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I wanted to see a bunch of people get shot into space and die. It would have been cooler if we could elect who would get shot up there by popular vote.
I think Ricky Martin would win.
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As always, it's best to look at all the options before you buy stuff -- don't always just head on over to pricewatch and think you've gotten a great deal.
- A.P. (speaking of great deals, checked the prices for 18 gig U2W scsi drives lately?)
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On one of the pages, they describe the audio system as having "bass performance normally heard only in $50,000 automobiles." Who here uses car stereo technology as a yardstick for audio quality? Then again, who uses SPEC marks as a yardstick for computer quality? Oh, wait, never mind.
Oh, well. Typical market-speak from Apple. This is about par for the course, I guess.
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It's easy to do in IrcII.
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Human intelligence is constant. The population grows...
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You know how this name happened, btw. Some moron just misspelled the name of a lightweight metal.
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Wish I'd thought of it first though.
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The problem? You need a certain kind of DAT drive. The ONLY kind of DDS drives that have audio capabilities are Archive Pythons, which are now made by Seagate, formerly by Connor. Any other drive -- I tried it with my Digital DDS-2 drive to confirm it -- absolutely will not work.
The reason? SGI managed to convince Archive, back in the day, to include audio capabilities in the drives they manufactured for them. Ever since then, Pythons have been the only computer DAT drive that'll rip audio.
DATlib, the set of programs you can use on Linux for ripping DAT audio, is available at ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ pub/DATlib.
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From what I gleaned from the text of the article, AOL would control the Excite part of @home, and AT&T would control the ISP part. That's IF the deal happens at all, which probably won't be the case because Cox has veto power and is against the breakup of @home, which would be necessary for the deal to take place anyway.
Your Linux cable connection is not going to go away any time soon. Please read the article before getting paranoid.
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Heck, 21" monitors aren't even *that* expensive anymore. I got my 21" Sony 520GS for $500.
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People fuck up. You can't arrest them all, or everyone on the planet would be in jail.
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At least, in this case, the blame can be laid, in part, on someone other than Microsoft. Still, though, for a company that's been promising "plug and play" for years and years, I've yet to experience anything but headaches when adding hardware in Windows.
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I guess it's fine if you shut it down and restart it every day. If you forget to, it does it for you!
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I'm in Milford, which isn't one of the cities that's lucky enough to get tested, but we have cable modems here (through Cablevision), so it's all good.
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I think Ricky Martin would win.
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