I dream of a day when the general geek masses quote family guy as freely as the simpsons. BTW did anyone notice Family Guy is gonna be on Adult Swim along with Futurama, no we can grab them all, encode them in WMV, and play em back on linux embedded devices!
I believe that IE is loaded all the time in XP except with service pack 2, becuase I think the IE interace determines how the explorer shell draws directories in my computer and such. So if IE really is loaded all the time, all its doing is creating a new windows, which is of course faster than loading a browser (even if phoenix is 5-7Mb) into memory fresh.
The problem for most people here is that their drives are not supported in dos, or have poor support. I could never get my cd-rom working in dos, especially now that I have a dvd, why would anyone develop drivers.
This is not a valid option. Many business require there employers to provide a valid phone number as do many insurance companies and such. Also I am a student and my school requires that I have a valid #, and I live in Santa Barbara, I am almost posative verizon is the only local provider in the area.
You are taking the comment out of context, the very next line says "I understand that just choosing the good stuff would be very subjective" I'm just not saying that I or anyone I know is a competent judge, I'm just saying we really need to analyize whether this data is necessary or even useful before we commit resources to gathering it that could be better used for other projects, I mean 150 boxes could be used to crunch a lot of scientific data that could be more usefull than ads porn and people's personal pages.
True, like I said in the original comment, we can't know who a qualified judge is so how can we ethically say what is crap and what is not, but on the other hand you can't possible tell me that all the hamsterdance pages need to be stored for the future or that countless porn pages and penis enlargement gimmicks could be of any serious use to historians in the future. If you have seen one, you have seen them all, so save one and throw the rest away.
I agree, verizon's policies sucks enough as it is and I already get way to many unsolicited phone calls. Verizon has all kinds of rediculous fees like I didn't want long distance, so there is a fee to not have a carrier, and there is a fee for caller id blocking, why should I have to provide my number to everyone I call or pay the price. I mean come on for my local monthly service it is like 27 bucks and I am a starving college student so it is hard for me to afford that. Worst of all when I tried to switch there were no other local services, and the only cellphone sercive that I could get reception from is Verizon. If these aren't monopolistic plicies then what are. Why would the government help them, it should be helping me the consumer but unfortunatley I don't have political pull becuase I don't have money to buy it with, so I just end up getting screwed by all this service companies. Verizon sucks plain and simple but what can we do?
So why would you want to preserve all of it? Why not just get the good stuff and maybe he won't need so many comptuers. I understand that just choosing the good stuff would be very subjective, but do we really need archives of pr0n sites and popups?
Well they also said around 5000 yen not exactly 5000 yen, so maybe they are right on. But still, by the time it comes out the exchange rate will change for sure so I agree with you, saying around $40 makes a lot more sense than $41.34 I mean how many items are sold without.00.99.95 or.50 at the end of em.
OMG it was you that bought the other 32X. One of my friends had one and tried to call sega for support, but they said they couldn't offer support for it becuase they only sold 2 units. Well at least the sales were better than Virtual Boy, when are they gonna let people play all their virtual boy games on the game cube, though they will have to bring the price down from 7 cents though if they want to sell any of em.
Anyone from LA can tell you that there is nothing like driving the 405. From Santa Barbara (where I live) it takes an hour and fifteen minutes or so to get to LA which is about 100 miles away. But once I get on the 405 it can take almost 2 hours to go 10 miles. Unfortunately the Segway really is useless, especially for places like LA becuase it is spread over a huge area. The segway would be useful for maybe a few cities around the world, like New York which is a big city in a little area. How does it fare on hills? would it be useful in San Francisco? Also has anyone thought of the fact that it is useless in poor whether, what if you live in Seattle? The Segway is really only hyped for 2 reasons:
1) Dean Kamen hypes it so much himself. 2) It was kept secret for a long time.
-Kaplan
P.S. does anyone else thing Ginger was a retarted code name? P.P.S does anyone think Segway is even worse?
I have used knoppix and have tried several other linux distro's in the past. I have to agree that the hardware detection is awsome. What I don't understand, and maybe someone can help me out here, is why distributions that are several years more mature are much more complicated to configure than knoppix. I understand that more advanced users would want the extra flexability but I truly believe linux would be more popular if the popular distro's all auto-configured as easily as knoppix. The only thing I have used that is close is the Mandrake install, and even that has some serious problems IMHO. Also I have seen short tutorials on installing knoppix to a hd but it seems a lot of people are trying knoppix out, maybe someone out there should right a true tutorial or maybe a util to install it to the hd automatically. It is still just a bit above my level.
Ha I can just imagine if people didn't add the cradle and the usb cable wasn't included. Someone would order one, it would arrive, and they would have to wait another week or so before they could even use it. Or better yet, they might contact Dell only to find out the cradle is sold out and on back order for 6 months.
check out The real price looks like it says $329.00 before $50 rebate so by my calculations you can get the top model for $279.00 but maybe its a typo or not configured correctly.
If the drive is to be used for things like swap space in photoshop, power will only be a problem between saves to your physical drive. If you were to have a power outage and lose the swap or scratch on the ram-drive you would be left with the last possible save. I think another great thing this drive could be used for is temp files like webcache and tmp files for office and what not.
-Kappy
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The answer is of course "forty-two" now if we only knew what the question was.
Anyone out there think that maybe if we make the pig organs too human like, the pig may start rejecting them. Now that would be a P.R. fiasco, pigs rejecting their own organs due to human tampering, I wish the provided more info on this aspect in the article.
Wow this site is really going to die, it's slashdotted already and the article has only been up for 4 mins. Anyway It does kinda sound to good to be true, but I'd like to get my hands on one of these.
When you say spacewaker are you talking about the SV24? I'm thinking of bulding a linux box like that myself using a VIA C3 and a spare HD, how are the linux drivers for all the onboard components, is there a driver for the ac'97 codec and the firewire? I think I'd be using mandrake 8.2. Also how is the support for RF wireless keyboards and mouses, I've never used them so I'm not sure if the operate just like usb, or need special drivers, I'm looking into a logitec combo preferebly with an optical mouse.
Well I guess this is a pretty popular topic, I really wish I could have done something like this. Anyway I hope someone mirrored it becuase as I was looking through the monthly bandwith was apperently exceeded. Guess they got some serious slashdot effect.
I've seen something like this before only not as advance, there was just a single drop and turn of the side of a building, but it was even more shoddily built. These crazy guys were dropping down it in a little in box with wheels and it ended by crashing into hay barrels. Hydrolic brakes would be nice:)
Wow, this would be pretty awsome. Would it be for the new units or the old? I go to a university and my house is within a mile of everything on campus and our college community. I also have a broadband connection. Does this mean that if I was able to set one up at my house I could get email anywhere in the area? Unlimited wireless email access for a one time fee of $60 (2 cybiko classics). Now that would be cool.
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I dream of a day when the general geek masses quote family guy as freely as the simpsons. BTW did anyone notice Family Guy is gonna be on Adult Swim along with Futurama, no we can grab them all, encode them in WMV, and play em back on linux embedded devices!
I believe that IE is loaded all the time in XP except with service pack 2, becuase I think the IE interace determines how the explorer shell draws directories in my computer and such. So if IE really is loaded all the time, all its doing is creating a new windows, which is of course faster than loading a browser (even if phoenix is 5-7Mb) into memory fresh.
-Kaplan
yeah but unless you have a graphics card fan, that leaves only a fan for the power supply so that is pretty cool.
The problem for most people here is that their drives are not supported in dos, or have poor support. I could never get my cd-rom working in dos, especially now that I have a dvd, why would anyone develop drivers.
Does anyone know how this chip will compare in price to amd and intel offerings at the same performance level?
This is not a valid option. Many business require there employers to provide a valid phone number as do many insurance companies and such. Also I am a student and my school requires that I have a valid #, and I live in Santa Barbara, I am almost posative verizon is the only local provider in the area.
-kaplan
You are taking the comment out of context, the very next line says "I understand that just choosing the good stuff would be very subjective" I'm just not saying that I or anyone I know is a competent judge, I'm just saying we really need to analyize whether this data is necessary or even useful before we commit resources to gathering it that could be better used for other projects, I mean 150 boxes could be used to crunch a lot of scientific data that could be more usefull than ads porn and people's personal pages.
True, like I said in the original comment, we can't know who a qualified judge is so how can we ethically say what is crap and what is not, but on the other hand you can't possible tell me that all the hamsterdance pages need to be stored for the future or that countless porn pages and penis enlargement gimmicks could be of any serious use to historians in the future. If you have seen one, you have seen them all, so save one and throw the rest away.
I agree, verizon's policies sucks enough as it is and I already get way to many unsolicited phone calls. Verizon has all kinds of rediculous fees like I didn't want long distance, so there is a fee to not have a carrier, and there is a fee for caller id blocking, why should I have to provide my number to everyone I call or pay the price. I mean come on for my local monthly service it is like 27 bucks and I am a starving college student so it is hard for me to afford that. Worst of all when I tried to switch there were no other local services, and the only cellphone sercive that I could get reception from is Verizon. If these aren't monopolistic plicies then what are. Why would the government help them, it should be helping me the consumer but unfortunatley I don't have political pull becuase I don't have money to buy it with, so I just end up getting screwed by all this service companies. Verizon sucks plain and simple but what can we do?
-kaplan
So why would you want to preserve all of it? Why not just get the good stuff and maybe he won't need so many comptuers. I understand that just choosing the good stuff would be very subjective, but do we really need archives of pr0n sites and popups?
Well they also said around 5000 yen not exactly 5000 yen, so maybe they are right on. But still, by the time it comes out the exchange rate will change for sure so I agree with you, saying around $40 makes a lot more sense than $41.34 I mean how many items are sold without .00 .99 .95 or .50 at the end of em.
OMG it was you that bought the other 32X. One of my friends had one and tried to call sega for support, but they said they couldn't offer support for it becuase they only sold 2 units. Well at least the sales were better than Virtual Boy, when are they gonna let people play all their virtual boy games on the game cube, though they will have to bring the price down from 7 cents though if they want to sell any of em.
-Kaplan
Anyone from LA can tell you that there is nothing like driving the 405. From Santa Barbara (where I live) it takes an hour and fifteen minutes or so to get to LA which is about 100 miles away. But once I get on the 405 it can take almost 2 hours to go 10 miles. Unfortunately the Segway really is useless, especially for places like LA becuase it is spread over a huge area. The segway would be useful for maybe a few cities around the world, like New York which is a big city in a little area. How does it fare on hills? would it be useful in San Francisco? Also has anyone thought of the fact that it is useless in poor whether, what if you live in Seattle? The Segway is really only hyped for 2 reasons:
1) Dean Kamen hypes it so much himself.
2) It was kept secret for a long time.
-Kaplan
P.S. does anyone else thing Ginger was a retarted code name?
P.P.S does anyone think Segway is even worse?
I have used knoppix and have tried several other linux distro's in the past. I have to agree that the hardware detection is awsome. What I don't understand, and maybe someone can help me out here, is why distributions that are several years more mature are much more complicated to configure than knoppix. I understand that more advanced users would want the extra flexability but I truly believe linux would be more popular if the popular distro's all auto-configured as easily as knoppix. The only thing I have used that is close is the Mandrake install, and even that has some serious problems IMHO. Also I have seen short tutorials on installing knoppix to a hd but it seems a lot of people are trying knoppix out, maybe someone out there should right a true tutorial or maybe a util to install it to the hd automatically. It is still just a bit above my level.
Ha I can just imagine if people didn't add the cradle and the usb cable wasn't included. Someone would order one, it would arrive, and they would have to wait another week or so before they could even use it. Or better yet, they might contact Dell only to find out the cradle is sold out and on back order for 6 months.
dang redundant already. well there goes my karma.
check out The real price looks like it says $329.00 before $50 rebate so by my calculations you can get the top model for $279.00 but maybe its a typo or not configured correctly.
-Kaplan
The cheaper model also contains a 300mhz X-scale processor compared to the 400mhz processor in the $299 model, in addition there is less flash memory.
-kaplan
If the drive is to be used for things like swap space in photoshop, power will only be a problem between saves to your physical drive. If you were to have a power outage and lose the swap or scratch on the ram-drive you would be left with the last possible save.
I think another great thing this drive could be used for is temp files like webcache and tmp files for office and what not.
-Kappy
The answer is of course "forty-two" now if we only knew what the question was.
-Kappy
Anyone out there think that maybe if we make the pig organs too human like, the pig may start rejecting them. Now that would be a P.R. fiasco, pigs rejecting their own organs due to human tampering, I wish the provided more info on this aspect in the article.
Wow this site is really going to die, it's slashdotted already and the article has only been up for 4 mins. Anyway It does kinda sound to good to be true, but I'd like to get my hands on one of these.
When you say spacewaker are you talking about the SV24? I'm thinking of bulding a linux box like that myself using a VIA C3 and a spare HD, how are the linux drivers for all the onboard components, is there a driver for the ac'97 codec and the firewire? I think I'd be using mandrake 8.2. Also how is the support for RF wireless keyboards and mouses, I've never used them so I'm not sure if the operate just like usb, or need special drivers, I'm looking into a logitec combo preferebly with an optical mouse.
Well I guess this is a pretty popular topic, I really wish I could have done something like this. Anyway I hope someone mirrored it becuase as I was looking through the monthly bandwith was apperently exceeded. Guess they got some serious slashdot effect.
:)
I've seen something like this before only not as advance, there was just a single drop and turn of the side of a building, but it was even more shoddily built. These crazy guys were dropping down it in a little in box with wheels and it ended by crashing into hay barrels. Hydrolic brakes would be nice
Wow, this would be pretty awsome. Would it be for the new units or the old? I go to a university and my house is within a mile of everything on campus and our college community. I also have a broadband connection. Does this mean that if I was able to set one up at my house I could get email anywhere in the area? Unlimited wireless email access for a one time fee of $60 (2 cybiko classics). Now that would be cool.