Actually, when I was using 3 keyboards, I accidentally typed things on the wrong box more than once... sometimes wondering why it wasn't showing on the screen... It's amazing what happens on a Win desktop when you start typing random *nix commands... half your desktop icons launch their programs, things suddenly become stable.... no wait, that was a dream 8^D
My KVM has actually saved me some dumb errors by making sure that I'm looking at where I'm typing. YMMV
Sounds like you need a nice KVM switch... that'll get you down to one mouse/keboard (or trackball in my case). I've got three full towers and one half-tower plugged into a Cybex 4-port, with a 21" monitor, cable modem, 8-port net hub (gotta keep my roommate connected, too), speakers, inkjet, joystick, gamepad, and assorted stacks of various media on my computer desk (the cases are actually off to the side)... the switch ran me just over $200 with all of the cables, and well worth it... Belkin also sells KVM switches (as do many others whose products I've never used). Quality cables are a must for good imaging, though...
>Well,Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care? that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care?
OTOH - why should we care what you wan, either...
>How is droping this disc in the trash any diffrent from droping a netflix in the mail?
No garbage, for one thing... product gets reused. The concept of this for everyday consumer use just doesn't make sense... the only way it even seems acceptable is because of our society, which seems to think that everything from paper cups to people are disposable... so why not DVDs, too. I'm not telling you to go hug a tree, but just think of the things you throw away each day. If you even consider pitching stuff like this (or if you even *own* a DVD player), you are doing better than most, and should make an effort to improve yourself and your community. You don't have to donate money, you don't have to spend hours down at a shelter. Just help in whatever way you can. Wasting time and $$ on DVDegradables certainly doesn't help this, and your attitude isn't helping anyone [/flame]
Maybe a really nifty coffee table or a door, even... I suppose you could grind them up and make insulation out of them, but that seems almost practical 8^)
True, but you could easily add other counterfeiting measures to the disc - maybe a neat hologram - these can be faked, too, but it would take a while, and if FedEx doesn't get your disc to you by 10am, well, then... 8^)
You(AC) certainly make a valid point, but I think there certainly is something to be said for the variance due to manufacturing tolerances. A three day coat might vary a little bit in either direction, but it wouldn't make a difference... a three *hour* coat could easily be off by twenty or thirty minutes - which is a significant amount of time if you were dumb enough to rent a three hour DVDegrade of something like Schindler's list ("But there's still movie left!!!"). Not as bad as he makes it out to be, not as good as you make it out to be...
Monitors generally implode, not explode (when they 'plode at all).
uProcs go under a lot of testing before they get sent out.
This coating could easily be activated by the testing - w/o teting you can't be sure, and with testing, you might get a coaster in the box (and who's going to believe you? "My DVDegrade doesn't work!" "Of course not - goodbye.")
If I pay for something and feel that I own it, I expect it not to just go off and die on me. I do not beliece that these should be consumables, like milk or bread... If I buy a bunch of plastic with a movie on it today, I don't want to end up with a useless coaster tomorrow...
Try netflix if you are lazy - just drop it back in your mailbox when you are done... and they send it to you, so you can never leave the comfort of your pajamas and still get your DVDs (assuming of course, that you can telecommute, and not have to leave the house anyway;-) )
Wow... a post with some real ideas: >I can see a few uses - mainly for sending large amounts of sensitive data
That's really a good use for these - think about it - send info to your consulate in Kreplachistan, and they can actually tell if the disc was read before (becausethey won't be able to...). And at the price that it costs to make them, you won't even need to fill them to get you "money's worth". A neat solution to problems (better than trying to figure out if your quantum transmission has been intercepted...).
One time pads - really one time now. That would be killer. Make two copies of degrading DVD - label it (or not), and then after you use it, it becomes far more difficult to recover the pad, and you can tell (like above) if someone intercepted it and tried to read it. Nice...
>2) I always spend too much on late fees. You also probably don't pay off your credit card bills each month, and let people take advantage of you tha way, too - right?
This is a personal decision - *rent when you are actually going to watch* - and find a decent vid store. One that gives you five day rentals, and perhaps three days on new releases... as I mentioned in another post, my local Hollwood Video rents *all* DVDs for 5 days (and they don't charge as much as BB).
I have to completely agree with you on the enviornmental aspect of it... there's nothing to be gained.
>buy for a couple of bucks to watch once or twice and then throw away. I would probably watch a lot of movies that I might otherwise pass up if I had to return them.
Ummm.. that's why I rent. It's $3 (for 5 days)[1], and if I return it the next day, I get a $1 off coupon... not to mention that, but you can usually find some promotion - I had a pack of 10 $.99 rental coupons. At least when you rent them, you have the full five days, without worry, and you don't have the enviornmental implications of all that plastic getting thrown away...
[1] - I've never seen these kind of prices at BuckBu$ter, but my local Hollwod Video is a little bit more friendly (and I don't think the local BB has DVD rentals yet... what good is large corporate muscle if you don't use it (for me) 8^) )
The three that are *left* are the opensource names... it *clearly* states that the ones containing the trademark "linux" were removed (~250 of them). RTFA, good advice. Take it.
Yeah - your average good coder introduces what - 4 4 errors per hour or something along those lines...
then think how log they are awake doing this with a big mean ol' bill holding a whip behind them... sleep deprivation, fear, and severe blood loss all lead to numbers well above 4/hr. This is our problem: We must take down the signs: Please Do NOT Feed the Coders!!!
Yes, and how many are "Oh, $h17" bugs which just all of a sudden break stuff (I'm thinking of service pack 6 + Lotus Notes(MUST DIE!)). For a week, the only solution they had was, "um, you'll have to run as Administrator until we get off of our arses." Not that Lotus Notes(MUST DIE!) has a whole lot of trouble breaking things by itself...
Not to mention that Windows "security" has been notably poor about keeping people out of where they should be... you want to delete kernel32.dll or add some extra bytes to ifshlp.sys - it may ask you, are you sure, but it lets you do them... not too great.
2k is supposed to have some provisions for not allowing other random progs to overwite dll in system/system32 (which would be nice) - every random Joe Blow app should *NOT* replace system-wide dll s. Ever. Even MS Office (are you listening, chief of software architecture??
Imagine installing BitchX or XAmp and having them overwite parts of QTLibs, Xlibs, and why not, glibc... our versions *have* to be better, right?
Well, they *do* have less bugs... 98 claimed something like "3000 bug fixes from 95 and a complete rewrite of the memory management subsytem" (which it really needed)
Win2k claims that there are some ungodly number of situations where you no longer have to reboot. Which is nice, but there are still far too many. You can change your IP address, for example, without rebooting, but a host name change sends you packing...
there's something to be said for network restart...
Better is good. Not having to fix 3000 of 8000 bugs is better 8^)
stereotypes!? Oh yeah, that - there was that one episode... Lisa (rant about how everyone is just a stereotype with one-line, and how it sucks)
Homer: Doh! Marge: Mmmmmm. (grumbled) Maggie: (suck, suck) Bart: Eat My Shorts! Barney: (belch) Sea Captain: Arrrrr! Doctor: He he he! Ned: Doodley-doo!
at which point they all look at Lisa...
Lisa: I'm going to my room!
they always make fun of themselves (and Fox, of course), and that makes for some pretty healthly humor. I think that the type of show they have needs to change a little now and then, but I end up laughing so hard each time, it doesn't matter much what they do...
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Actually, when I was using 3 keyboards, I accidentally typed things on the wrong box more than once... sometimes wondering why it wasn't showing on the screen... It's amazing what happens on a Win desktop when you start typing random *nix commands... half your desktop icons launch their programs, things suddenly become stable.... no wait, that was a dream 8^D
My KVM has actually saved me some dumb errors by making sure that I'm looking at where I'm typing. YMMV
Sounds like you need a nice KVM switch... that'll get you down to one mouse/keboard (or trackball in my case). I've got three full towers and one half-tower plugged into a Cybex 4-port, with a 21" monitor, cable modem, 8-port net hub (gotta keep my roommate connected, too), speakers, inkjet, joystick, gamepad, and assorted stacks of various media on my computer desk (the cases are actually off to the side)... the switch ran me just over $200 with all of the cables, and well worth it... Belkin also sells KVM switches (as do many others whose products I've never used). Quality cables are a must for good imaging, though...
I've got the mo
Well, more than half of my posts are off-topic follow-ups (like this one).
Thanks for seeing the humor and not getting all sorts of flaming mad 8^)
This isn't a flame, but this made me laugh out loud...
>Proofread you letter.
It's just so ironic that the only error in the post was on hte line that told people to proofread...
You may now continue with your lives...
>Well,Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care? that's fantastic. I'm glad we know what you want. But, why should we care?
OTOH - why should we care what you wan, either...
>How is droping this disc in the trash any diffrent from droping a netflix in the mail?
No garbage, for one thing... product gets reused. The concept of this for everyday consumer use just doesn't make sense... the only way it even seems acceptable is because of our society, which seems to think that everything from paper cups to people are disposable... so why not DVDs, too. I'm not telling you to go hug a tree, but just think of the things you throw away each day. If you even consider pitching stuff like this (or if you even *own* a DVD player), you are doing better than most, and should make an effort to improve yourself and your community. You don't have to donate money, you don't have to spend hours down at a shelter. Just help in whatever way you can. Wasting time and $$ on DVDegradables certainly doesn't help this, and your attitude isn't helping anyone [/flame]
Just my $.05
Maybe a really nifty coffee table
or a door, even...
I suppose you could grind them up and make insulation out of them, but that seems almost practical 8^)
True, but you could easily add other counterfeiting measures to the disc - maybe a neat hologram - these can be faked, too, but it would take a while, and if FedEx doesn't get your disc to you by 10am, well, then... 8^)
You(AC) certainly make a valid point, but I think there certainly is something to be said for the variance due to manufacturing tolerances. A three day coat might vary a little bit in either direction, but it wouldn't make a difference... a three *hour* coat could easily be off by twenty or thirty minutes - which is a significant amount of time if you were dumb enough to rent a three hour DVDegrade of something like Schindler's list ("But there's still movie left!!!"). Not as bad as he makes it out to be, not as good as you make it out to be...
Monitors generally implode, not explode (when they 'plode at all).
uProcs go under a lot of testing before they get sent out.
This coating could easily be activated by the testing - w/o teting you can't be sure, and with testing, you might get a coaster in the box (and who's going to believe you? "My DVDegrade doesn't work!" "Of course not - goodbye.")
"Bah!" - Dogbert
Wallpaper
Christmas Ornaments
String them together for Neat Banners
Homemade DVD disco ball
ah yes, the media... we all love them around here (hell, even Jon Katz can't escape from /. trash talk)...
If I wanted an AOL coaster after a day or two, I wouldn't pay $3/4 for one, I'd just check my mailbox again 8^)
If I pay for something and feel that I own it, I expect it not to just go off and die on me. I do not beliece that these should be consumables, like milk or bread... If I buy a bunch of plastic with a movie on it today, I don't want to end up with a useless coaster tomorrow...
;-) )
Try netflix if you are lazy - just drop it back in your mailbox when you are done... and they send it to you, so you can never leave the comfort of your pajamas and still get your DVDs (assuming of course, that you can telecommute, and not have to leave the house anyway
Wow... a post with some real ideas:
>I can see a few uses - mainly for sending large amounts of sensitive data
That's really a good use for these - think about it - send info to your consulate in Kreplachistan, and they can actually tell if the disc was read before (becausethey won't be able to...). And at the price that it costs to make them, you won't even need to fill them to get you "money's worth". A neat solution to problems (better than trying to figure out if your quantum transmission has been intercepted...).
One time pads - really one time now. That would be killer. Make two copies of degrading DVD - label it (or not), and then after you use it, it becomes far more difficult to recover the pad, and you can tell (like above) if someone intercepted it and tried to read it. Nice...
>2) I always spend too much on late fees.
You also probably don't pay off your credit card bills each month, and let people take advantage of you tha way, too - right?
This is a personal decision - *rent when you are actually going to watch* - and find a decent vid store. One that gives you five day rentals, and perhaps three days on new releases... as I mentioned in another post, my local Hollwood Video rents *all* DVDs for 5 days (and they don't charge as much as BB).
I have to completely agree with you on the enviornmental aspect of it... there's nothing to be gained.
>buy for a couple of bucks to watch once or twice and then throw away. I would probably watch a lot of movies that I might otherwise pass up if I had to return them.
Ummm.. that's why I rent. It's $3 (for 5 days)[1], and if I return it the next day, I get a $1 off coupon... not to mention that, but you can usually find some promotion - I had a pack of 10 $.99 rental coupons. At least when you rent them, you have the full five days, without worry, and you don't have the enviornmental implications of all that plastic getting thrown away...
[1] - I've never seen these kind of prices at BuckBu$ter, but my local Hollwod Video is a little bit more friendly (and I don't think the local BB has DVD rentals yet... what good is large corporate muscle if you don't use it (for me) 8^) )
Vaccuum-sealed containers? They mentioned cardboard sleeves at Walmart (like AOL CDs). That hardly sounds vaccuum sealed to me...
Hmmm....... no?
The three that are *left* are the opensource names... it *clearly* states that the ones containing the trademark "linux" were removed (~250 of them). RTFA, good advice. Take it.
"Bah!" - Dogbert
Ah yes... heard about that, but I didn't use it back then... glad they managed to get that 'straightened out'.
Yeah - your average good coder introduces what - 4 4 errors per hour or something along those lines...
;-)
then think how log they are awake doing this with a big mean ol' bill holding a whip behind them... sleep deprivation, fear, and severe blood loss all lead to numbers well above 4/hr. This is our problem:
We must take down the signs: Please Do NOT Feed the Coders!!!
mmmmmmmm.... 1,000,000 time faster...
Yes, and how many are "Oh, $h17" bugs which just all of a sudden break stuff (I'm thinking of service pack 6 + Lotus Notes(MUST DIE!)). For a week, the only solution they had was, "um, you'll have to run as Administrator until we get off of our arses." Not that Lotus Notes(MUST DIE!) has a whole lot of trouble breaking things by itself...
but that is another rant for another day...
Not to mention that Windows "security" has been notably poor about keeping people out of where they should be... you want to delete kernel32.dll or add some extra bytes to ifshlp.sys - it may ask you, are you sure, but it lets you do them... not too great.
2k is supposed to have some provisions for not allowing other random progs to overwite dll in system/system32 (which would be nice) - every random Joe Blow app should *NOT* replace system-wide dll s. Ever. Even MS Office (are you listening, chief of software architecture??
Imagine installing BitchX or XAmp and having them overwite parts of QTLibs, Xlibs, and why not, glibc... our versions *have* to be better, right?
Oh well...
Well, they *do* have less bugs...
98 claimed something like "3000 bug fixes from 95 and a complete rewrite of the memory management subsytem" (which it really needed)
Win2k claims that there are some ungodly number of situations where you no longer have to reboot. Which is nice, but there are still far too many. You can change your IP address, for example, without rebooting, but a host name change sends you packing...
there's something to be said for network restart...
Better is good. Not having to fix 3000 of 8000 bugs is better 8^)
Pricewatch:
Athlon 700 MHz - 496 at tufshop.com
497 at econopc.com...
4 listed ~500
2 listed ~529
more 583+
way cheaper.
Athlon 700 ~$500
Athlon 550 ~$200
if they both can get to 650MHz (since they may be from the same fab lot (taking all sorts of things into account), you feel smarter and not so poor...
pronounced as Mr. Sparkle in the episode :)
and good answer for the Guatemalan peppers (ChrisFarmerLite)
Oh well. No more to answer - unless someone can tell us where Springfield is...
"Dad, you're nowhere near it - it's right over" (Bart's head moves in front of 'camera') "here"
stereotypes!?
Oh yeah, that - there was that one episode...
Lisa (rant about how everyone is just a stereotype with one-line, and how it sucks)
Homer: Doh!
Marge: Mmmmmm. (grumbled)
Maggie: (suck, suck)
Bart: Eat My Shorts!
Barney: (belch)
Sea Captain: Arrrrr!
Doctor: He he he!
Ned: Doodley-doo!
at which point they all look at Lisa...
Lisa: I'm going to my room!
they always make fun of themselves (and Fox, of course), and that makes for some pretty healthly humor. I think that the type of show they have needs to change a little now and then, but I end up laughing so hard each time, it doesn't matter much what they do...