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Doesn't this just refer to the option to have XP auto-update your pc? You can turn that option off on the desktop if you don't want it, and the first time it runs it prompts you for what it's default behavior should be.
Super Smash Melee is one of the best 4 player games I've ever seen. It entertained several people well over the age of 11 for hours on end. Try it before you trash it.
C'mon...let's not beat up on Insurrection. First of all, most people who go to see Star Trek films are a self-selected audience. We'll go see any Star Trek movie because it's as obligatory as filing your taxes every year. Anything after First Contact that didn't have as much action was bound to get criticized, and Insurrection centered around a theme that has produced some of the best episodes of TNG, "something rotten in the federation". Just my opinion.
1) Get a brave gamer to be captured by MS and implanted with cybernetics to become part of the collective.
2) Capture gamer back.
3) Send "sleep" command with help of Android to destroy redmond campus.
4) Hope to god everyone can learn to use Linux fast enough to not crash the global economy.
:)
This isn't about some inherent switch in the OS that makes mp3's sound crappy. It's only if you use Microsoft's crappy media player to rip and encode your files. Those of us with any other jukebox program will do just fine at 192 and 256.:)
I think you're stating the issue a little too simply. Sales may be slower of Windows 2000 than expected, but a LOT of companies are rolling off an older, less stable, and less secure OS like '95 and in the planning stages for 2000. Will everyone do XP? Not at first, but Microsoft is making some nice additions to Group Policies and the degree to which administrators can control their environment down to the desktop level.
Me, I use Win2K at home and love it. I know this is heresy on Slashdot anymore, but I remember in the earlier days when any post that had the word Microsoft in it didn't draw 500 people who commented about how evil MS is before they even read the story. Win2K (even at home!) is more stable and runs every game that I want to play. People will eventually go to XP. You can't expect the entire user base of Windows to stop at '98 and not go any higher. By the way, Windows ME does suck. Hard. 98SE is a much better version of the OS....
I always ripped my stuff at 256...until I got a portable MP3 player with 64 mb of ram. Sort of changes your priorities when ripping. Now I have a "portable" folder that I do a second rip of everything at 96 in....
I hate to sound like a PETA freak, but I wonder how many failures resulted in brain damaged or dead monkeys before this one worked. Maybe none, but that's something that's a part of experimentation that never gets described in articles like this. I understand that for problems like test vaccines against new diseases we need very nearly human test subjects, but doesn't this seem just a little different? It would be fantastic if this offers a doorway into new technologies that help victims of paralysis lead fuller lives somehow, but I just hope that non-paralyzed normal monkeys weren't turned into veggies. Just my.02.
For a white house that's inflicted (or tried to) a significant number of infringements on our rights to privacy, this is very refreshing to see. If you want to be more aware of when these kind of things come up, register at www.aclu.org for their action newsletter. I received an email about this last week and was able to send a fax to Clinton through their web site expressing my objection. You can often do the same when legislation harmful to privacy is considered in both the house and the senate, only the faxes go to your appropriate sen. or rep. Sign up!
Going for around 40 bucks from most places. If they gave the client away for free, they'd probably have a much easier time convincing people that it's worth their money. They used to say give em' the razor, sell em' the blades. This is more like sell them a really expensive razor with no blades, make them pay for expensive blades each month. Just not a concept that appealed to me, but obviously ALOT of people have learned to live with it.
to make a very long story very short, it took 3 months just to get my DSL up. A lot of it had to do with Ameritech screw ups, but it's hard to say how much of the blame lies elsewhere. One good thing though, as soon as I started posting an exact detail of my problems in the chi.internet newsgroup, telocity called and fast-tracked me (if you can consider three months fast-anything).
how did they get this list of names? did they actually download an mp3 from every one that posted having Metallica songs available or did they just do a scan for "Metallica" and pulled all the names from that list. Unless they're saying that I can't even name a file after their group, that'd be a pretty inaccurate way to look for pirates.
I do think that in a way Napster was asking for this. They've used the "we only shut down users for pirating, not our whole service" defense line for awhile now. Someone just called their bluff. I still wonder how accurate their list of offending users is. Besides - if you get banned, just create a new user name. I doubt Napster keeps a record of your IP or MAC address...
Isn't it just like a cranky old out of touch person to decide that the rest of the world has gone to hell and they're going to solve everything by doing nothing. This is total crap. Give us a good reason for not giving us an alternative: low funds, huge time demand, copyright issues, etc. Not "there's too much sex on the web, so instead of putting more substantive content up, we're not going to put anything up". (yes, I realize they're putting something up, but come on...). I hate mean old farts...almost as much as mean young ones..
Aren't the Iridium satellites the ones that screwed up the observation window for most radio telescopes? I say take em' down then. When they're deactivated we'll have opened up some more "quiet time" for observing the universe...
Who else feels like they wasted some serious time in high school. Apparently it's not only impossible to keep up with really smart peers...but also really really smart youngun's...
This really is a little old. The PJB has been around for a little while now, and the reason people haven't been jumping all over it is the prohibitive cost. For that much money, why not just have a laptop that you can pitch in your car with a power adaptor and line out feed into an amp? The size of the thing really makes it unsuitable for much more than car listenting. I wouldn't exactly go jogging with a device that uses a hard drive either.
c'mon already. Crap covered with a doily is still crap. Apple is no more threatened by skinning a completely different OS than Microsoft would be by Apple skinning MACs to win over MS users. With Apple already suing over what other computer cases look like, what does Apple do that adds value? Is it the box the software comes in, the software, or both? If that's so, then why don't the people who first invented this stuff in other software packages have the right to sue Apple.
This is typical. Whenever I begin to think that Apple is getting back on track and actually pumping out decent products (at a only semi-ridiculous markup) they go and get themselves into more legal action that's completely uncalled for, makes them look like idiots, and drains financial resources away from the people that make the company great technologically. What a freakin' joke. Anyone that wants more background should read the book "Apple". Forget what the subtitle was but it had me riveted. What really pisses you off though is how many chances the company had to at least put up a fight to the growing windows monopoly but got shot down by poor management decisions. Okay, I'm climbing off the soap-box now and taking my valium.
The odd thing is that the usually more expensive venues to buy RAM (best buy, comp usa, etc) were as lately as a week ago offering rebates on RAM that made it about a buck a meg. Computer shows which usually have the better deal were charging 100 bucks for a 64 MB dimm the same weekend. Kind of strange. Of course, the number of people who may actually see those rebates could be very small....
You may want to consider the following for your two problems:
1) Create an agent that is triggered by new incoming email. Setup a list of "banned" domains that you can get on multiple net sites (CAUCE is a good one) and if the message originates from one of those domains, delete it immediately.
2) You can alter your standard mail template to include a "footer" button. This is what we've done at my company. The users hit one menu choice to create a signature file, then in the standard mail memo they hit a button to append that signature to outgoing mail.
Hope this helps. By the way, just wanted to add that I've seen a lot of posts on here trashing Notes. For a lot of reasons, Notes can suck and Lotus can be poor in the tech support area. It does, however, have some impressive capabilties and is one more app produced by a major vendor to be ported to Linux. I think it's a good thing for the community regardless of your personal assessment of the app quality. I think if you don't like it, don't use it!:) Just my two cents...
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Doesn't this just refer to the option to have XP auto-update your pc? You can turn that option off on the desktop if you don't want it, and the first time it runs it prompts you for what it's default behavior should be.
This one is solid state (no moving parts) as long as you use a Compact Flash Memory card. If you use a micro-drive, there are moving parts.
Super Smash Melee is one of the best 4 player games I've ever seen. It entertained several people well over the age of 11 for hours on end. Try it before you trash it.
C'mon...let's not beat up on Insurrection. First of all, most people who go to see Star Trek films are a self-selected audience. We'll go see any Star Trek movie because it's as obligatory as filing your taxes every year. Anything after First Contact that didn't have as much action was bound to get criticized, and Insurrection centered around a theme that has produced some of the best episodes of TNG, "something rotten in the federation". Just my opinion.
That was the "deeeeeeep huuuuurting" one. :) Crying on the bot's part was involved, but the Mads showed no remorse.
Find me a PC for 300 bucks with a GeForce4 in it, and you've got a point there.
Here's the plan:
1) Get a brave gamer to be captured by MS and implanted with cybernetics to become part of the collective.
2) Capture gamer back.
3) Send "sleep" command with help of Android to destroy redmond campus.
4) Hope to god everyone can learn to use Linux fast enough to not crash the global economy.
:)
This isn't about some inherent switch in the OS that makes mp3's sound crappy. It's only if you use Microsoft's crappy media player to rip and encode your files. Those of us with any other jukebox program will do just fine at 192 and 256. :)
I think you're stating the issue a little too simply. Sales may be slower of Windows 2000 than expected, but a LOT of companies are rolling off an older, less stable, and less secure OS like '95 and in the planning stages for 2000. Will everyone do XP? Not at first, but Microsoft is making some nice additions to Group Policies and the degree to which administrators can control their environment down to the desktop level.
Me, I use Win2K at home and love it. I know this is heresy on Slashdot anymore, but I remember in the earlier days when any post that had the word Microsoft in it didn't draw 500 people who commented about how evil MS is before they even read the story. Win2K (even at home!) is more stable and runs every game that I want to play. People will eventually go to XP. You can't expect the entire user base of Windows to stop at '98 and not go any higher. By the way, Windows ME does suck. Hard. 98SE is a much better version of the OS....
I always ripped my stuff at 256...until I got a portable MP3 player with 64 mb of ram. Sort of changes your priorities when ripping. Now I have a "portable" folder that I do a second rip of everything at 96 in....
or maybe:
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I hate to sound like a PETA freak, but I wonder how many failures resulted in brain damaged or dead monkeys before this one worked. Maybe none, but that's something that's a part of experimentation that never gets described in articles like this. I understand that for problems like test vaccines against new diseases we need very nearly human test subjects, but doesn't this seem just a little different? It would be fantastic if this offers a doorway into new technologies that help victims of paralysis lead fuller lives somehow, but I just hope that non-paralyzed normal monkeys weren't turned into veggies. Just my .02.
For a white house that's inflicted (or tried to) a significant number of infringements on our rights to privacy, this is very refreshing to see. If you want to be more aware of when these kind of things come up, register at www.aclu.org for their action newsletter. I received an email about this last week and was able to send a fax to Clinton through their web site expressing my objection. You can often do the same when legislation harmful to privacy is considered in both the house and the senate, only the faxes go to your appropriate sen. or rep. Sign up!
Going for around 40 bucks from most places. If they gave the client away for free, they'd probably have a much easier time convincing people that it's worth their money. They used to say give em' the razor, sell em' the blades. This is more like sell them a really expensive razor with no blades, make them pay for expensive blades each month. Just not a concept that appealed to me, but obviously ALOT of people have learned to live with it.
to make a very long story very short, it took 3 months just to get my DSL up. A lot of it had to do with Ameritech screw ups, but it's hard to say how much of the blame lies elsewhere. One good thing though, as soon as I started posting an exact detail of my problems in the chi.internet newsgroup, telocity called and fast-tracked me (if you can consider three months fast-anything).
Anyone else notice that your user name and password are passed through unencrypted in the URL? Hmmmmmm.....
how did they get this list of names? did they actually download an mp3 from every one that posted having Metallica songs available or did they just do a scan for "Metallica" and pulled all the names from that list. Unless they're saying that I can't even name a file after their group, that'd be a pretty inaccurate way to look for pirates.
I do think that in a way Napster was asking for this. They've used the "we only shut down users for pirating, not our whole service" defense line for awhile now. Someone just called their bluff. I still wonder how accurate their list of offending users is. Besides - if you get banned, just create a new user name. I doubt Napster keeps a record of your IP or MAC address...
Isn't it just like a cranky old out of touch person to decide that the rest of the world has gone to hell and they're going to solve everything by doing nothing. This is total crap. Give us a good reason for not giving us an alternative: low funds, huge time demand, copyright issues, etc. Not "there's too much sex on the web, so instead of putting more substantive content up, we're not going to put anything up". (yes, I realize they're putting something up, but come on...). I hate mean old farts...almost as much as mean young ones..
Aren't the Iridium satellites the ones that screwed up the observation window for most radio telescopes? I say take em' down then. When they're deactivated we'll have opened up some more "quiet time" for observing the universe...
Who else feels like they wasted some serious time in high school. Apparently it's not only impossible to keep up with really smart peers...but also really really smart youngun's...
This really is a little old. The PJB has been around for a little while now, and the reason people haven't been jumping all over it is the prohibitive cost. For that much money, why not just have a laptop that you can pitch in your car with a power adaptor and line out feed into an amp? The size of the thing really makes it unsuitable for much more than car listenting. I wouldn't exactly go jogging with a device that uses a hard drive either.
c'mon already. Crap covered with a doily is still crap. Apple is no more threatened by skinning a completely different OS than Microsoft would be by Apple skinning MACs to win over MS users. With Apple already suing over what other computer cases look like, what does Apple do that adds value? Is it the box the software comes in, the software, or both? If that's so, then why don't the people who first invented this stuff in other software packages have the right to sue Apple.
This is typical. Whenever I begin to think that Apple is getting back on track and actually pumping out decent products (at a only semi-ridiculous markup) they go and get themselves into more legal action that's completely uncalled for, makes them look like idiots, and drains financial resources away from the people that make the company great technologically. What a freakin' joke. Anyone that wants more background should read the book "Apple". Forget what the subtitle was but it had me riveted. What really pisses you off though is how many chances the company had to at least put up a fight to the growing windows monopoly but got shot down by poor management decisions. Okay, I'm climbing off the soap-box now and taking my valium.
Mike
I went to Woz's site and the thing keeps reloading every 15 seconds or so back to the main page. Damn IE... Gonna try it on Opera and see what I get.
The odd thing is that the usually more expensive venues to buy RAM (best buy, comp usa, etc) were as lately as a week ago offering rebates on RAM that made it about a buck a meg. Computer shows which usually have the better deal were charging 100 bucks for a 64 MB dimm the same weekend. Kind of strange. Of course, the number of people who may actually see those rebates could be very small....
You may want to consider the following for your two problems:
:) Just my two cents...
1) Create an agent that is triggered by new incoming email. Setup a list of "banned" domains that you can get on multiple net sites (CAUCE is a good one) and if the message originates from one of those domains, delete it immediately.
2) You can alter your standard mail template to include a "footer" button. This is what we've done at my company. The users hit one menu choice to create a signature file, then in the standard mail memo they hit a button to append that signature to outgoing mail.
Hope this helps. By the way, just wanted to add that I've seen a lot of posts on here trashing Notes. For a lot of reasons, Notes can suck and Lotus can be poor in the tech support area. It does, however, have some impressive capabilties and is one more app produced by a major vendor to be ported to Linux. I think it's a good thing for the community regardless of your personal assessment of the app quality. I think if you don't like it, don't use it!