There are channels on IRC that have been doing this for quite a while with certain shows. I've got copies of all the Futurama episodes, for instance. South Park is another favorite. At around 200 MB per show, you can easily fit three of them onto a CD-R.
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Anyway, I'd say anything with a slide-out motherboard tray is as easy to open as the G3, and requires much less workspace as well. Compaq's server cases are an excellent example of this; a pair of thumbscrews is usually all that's required to get into the machine, which is usually very well laid-out. For the do-it-yourselfer, lots of options are available, including my personal favorite, the In-Win Q500. While it doesn't "open up", the sides are simple to remove and the motherboard is on rails and slides out easily. Makes getting to the RAM simple; often the case doesn't even need to be opened to replace or add RAM. I'm sure other case examples exist. These are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
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Sun Sparc IPCs and IPXs had a similar, possibly simpler design, back in 1990. SGIs are also incredibly easy to open and work on too. I'd go so far as to say *every* workstation manufacturer's cases have been incredibly easy to field-service. All Apple did was take that design and add a couple of rounded corners.
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I'm sick of people claiming Apple Computer is the be-all, end-all of computer products. Do people actually believe easy-to-open cases weren't around before the Mac? Others have already pointed out counterexamples that existed earlier, and it's pretty easy to get a hold of well-designed PC cases nowadays too.
What's Apple done, again?
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I have an In-win Q-500A. Plenty of room to toss whatever I want in it. Right now, I've got 4 SCSI drives, a CD-Rom and a CD-R, and an old IDE drive, and I still have room for other stuff. These cases would be cramped beyond belief for me.
They also bring up another issue: Where are you gonna find CD-Roms (and other peripherals) with translucent faces? It'd totally ruin the effect if you were forced to use beige peripherals on a translucent white case.
Not for me, unless I build up (yet) another system.
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"Obviously, based on the reports that people have given here about the quality of the mp3, it sounds like it was done poorly and rushed, which implies to me that the original recorder obtained this illegally. Then they distributed it."
The quality is fine. The people that were complaining were using inferior players (as mentioned by one commentor, mpg123 0.59k sucks, whereas mpg123 0.59q works fine. mpg123 0.59o also doesn't work well, but an old copy of splay I have sounds fine.)
At any rate, since the soundtrack's not available yet anyway, and since it undoubtedly will not be released in singles form, I don't see who this is hurting.
I'll be adding it to MP3 cd #27 soon at any rate.:)
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...because, for example, running the linux binary of Netscape on freebsd 2.2.x was *extremely* slow. Not to mention the shockwave plugin, which was at least 10 times slower than it was on my Linux box (it got like 1 frame per second. I could watch it redraw). I imagine things have changed, though.
(Before people tear my head off for dissing their OS, yes, I did do everything right with regards to setting up binary compatibility, no, the slowness wasn't my fault, and, no, I haven't used 3.x much.)
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ftp.idsoftware.com: sucks hard, or just sucks?
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I can't understand why companies run servers on Windows machines. Their pathetic little Serv-U FTP server falls on its ass whenever they announce an upgrade or a beta release. If you actually manage to log into the thing, watch how swiftly and gracefully the server manages a simple "ls" command. If it doesn't disconnect you for some inexplicable reason, or hang forever, and you're lucky enough to get a file listing from it, you're bound to get disconnected at some point in the immediate future anyway. I thought the only people that ran Win32 FTP sites were lame college students. I guess I was mistaken.
Other than that, I have to give Id software props, though. Anyone that supports linux is cool. Just a word of advice: ditch the Windows FTP server.
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I'd imagine that, after an hour or so of having heavy eyegear strapped to your head, the "coolness" factor goggles afford would have long since evaporated. I don't doubt that a G4 laptop would kick a lot of ass, but the goggles thing sounds like a really expensive, quickly-forgotten toy.
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...wear a big heavy coat with lots of pockets. It's annoying to have to spend $2.50 for a box of candy when you could get the same thing at 7-11 for $1 or so. I really hope nobody has a problem with *this* practice, though I imagine you could easily draw parallels to MP3.
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You can see the guy refocus the thing in the beginning, and at one point in the beginning the sound goes from "lousy" to "acceptable". There's a big, funky, capital "z" in the upper left corner of it too, which is visible throughout the movie.
My advice to anyone wishing to save 8 bucks: suck it up and go see it in a theater. For those that have and still want a copy of it, consider that it takes about 3 hours to download the whole thing on a *fast* connection. A cablemodem (which can really vary wildly from "fast" to "horridly slow" in my experience) would probably take longer. Anything slower than that and you'd have to be seriously messed up to want to download 1.2 gigs of data.
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I think code developed by obssessive-compulsive people goes here.
Let's face it: no Unix does the path thing properly, and none ever will. As long as Redhat's maintaining some sort of order in their paths, I don't really think it matters all that much.
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Namely, that an 18-year-old kid with absolutely nothing on their resume would be able to get any sort of work in the first place. I sure as hell wouldn't hire one. I pity those who do.
As to my "assumptions", the SGI admin example was just that -- it was by no means the only type of work an 18-year-old could never hope to secure.
As for the age I chose (18), that's generally the year most people in the U.S. graduate from high-school and either go to college or begin their working careers.
At any rate, I find it next to impossible to believe that the opportunity cost of going to college in lieu of working could possibly be $600K for anyone, and even less believable that someone could take this to be the status quo.
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Not to trivialize wholesale murder, but sometimes I wonder why stupid people are allowed to exist at all. Ignoring the fact that his parents are suing the wrong damn game companies, among other things, I find it absolutely ridiculous that they're blaming everyone but themselves, on whose shoulders any "blame" for the crime should really be placed.
Bleh.
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You're saying that, instead of going to college for four years, I or anyone else, at the ripe old age of eighteen, could have somehow secured a $150,000-a-year job? What could I have told them? "Hi, I know how to set up Windows and Linux, hire me to admin your SGI Origin boxes, please!" Yeah, that would have gone well.
The average sysadmin salary in the United States, as mentioned in an article posted earlier today on this very site, is $62K. You're saying an 18-year-old could conceivably make more than double that -- nearly triple that -- with little to no actual experience or college education? Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?
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Not that I hold many benchmarks in any sort of esteem, but, dear God, who gives a rat's ass how many RC5 keys a CPU can crack? That's about as important to most people as how fast the floppy disk is.
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Are all Mac users convinced that anyone that runs a PC must have an Intel CPU and a Microsoft OS? Are you all really this stupid? Every Mac evengelist I've ever seen seems insistent upon deeming anything with an x86 processor a "wintel" machine. You have no idea how moronic you sound to an AMD user running Linux.
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Anyway, I'd say anything with a slide-out motherboard tray is as easy to open as the G3, and requires much less workspace as well. Compaq's server cases are an excellent example of this; a pair of thumbscrews is usually all that's required to get into the machine, which is usually very well laid-out. For the do-it-yourselfer, lots of options are available, including my personal favorite, the In-Win Q500. While it doesn't "open up", the sides are simple to remove and the motherboard is on rails and slides out easily. Makes getting to the RAM simple; often the case doesn't even need to be opened to replace or add RAM. I'm sure other case examples exist. These are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head.
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I'm sure we'll all keep it in mind while our PCs are busy outperforming your puny G3.
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I'm sick of people claiming Apple Computer is the be-all, end-all of computer products. Do people actually believe easy-to-open cases weren't around before the Mac? Others have already pointed out counterexamples that existed earlier, and it's pretty easy to get a hold of well-designed PC cases nowadays too.
What's Apple done, again?
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They also bring up another issue: Where are you gonna find CD-Roms (and other peripherals) with translucent faces? It'd totally ruin the effect if you were forced to use beige peripherals on a translucent white case.
Not for me, unless I build up (yet) another system.
- A.P.
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The quality is fine. The people that were complaining were using inferior players (as mentioned by one commentor, mpg123 0.59k sucks, whereas mpg123 0.59q works fine. mpg123 0.59o also doesn't work well, but an old copy of splay I have sounds fine.)
At any rate, since the soundtrack's not available yet anyway, and since it undoubtedly will not be released in singles form, I don't see who this is hurting.
I'll be adding it to MP3 cd #27 soon at any rate.
-A.P.
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(Before people tear my head off for dissing their OS, yes, I did do everything right with regards to setting up binary compatibility, no, the slowness wasn't my fault, and, no, I haven't used 3.x much.)
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Other than that, I have to give Id software props, though. Anyone that supports linux is cool. Just a word of advice: ditch the Windows FTP server.
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My advice to anyone wishing to save 8 bucks: suck it up and go see it in a theater. For those that have and still want a copy of it, consider that it takes about 3 hours to download the whole thing on a *fast* connection. A cablemodem (which can really vary wildly from "fast" to "horridly slow" in my experience) would probably take longer. Anything slower than that and you'd have to be seriously messed up to want to download 1.2 gigs of data.
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Let's face it: no Unix does the path thing properly, and none ever will. As long as Redhat's maintaining some sort of order in their paths, I don't really think it matters all that much.
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OK, so I told some people. But still.
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As to my "assumptions", the SGI admin example was just that -- it was by no means the only type of work an 18-year-old could never hope to secure.
As for the age I chose (18), that's generally the year most people in the U.S. graduate from high-school and either go to college or begin their working careers.
At any rate, I find it next to impossible to believe that the opportunity cost of going to college in lieu of working could possibly be $600K for anyone, and even less believable that someone could take this to be the status quo.
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Bleh.
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The average sysadmin salary in the United States, as mentioned in an article posted earlier today on this very site, is $62K. You're saying an 18-year-old could conceivably make more than double that -- nearly triple that -- with little to no actual experience or college education? Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?
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