It almost sounds like the industry is a total farking mess and they have 15 standards for any given thing.
I hate the cable industry. They can't just give us a cablecard that does everything their boxes do. The first revision (if you could find them) didn't allow for on-demand programming because it was a one-way street, no talky talky with the cable provider. In my area I get to choose from Time Warner or...Time Warner. Since they took over for Comcast, I don't think I've seen a single channel with accurate start and end times or accurate guide info for ANY channel. Yet that's what I'm stuck with.
The worse cable providers get, the more attractive satellite looks.
There's always the ancient nv driver if you want something open and free. It gets the job done, at least in 2d land. If you want a free driver, I guess we can all petition Nvidia to strip SGI's secret OpenGL magic out of the drivers, leaving us with a substandard card and a wonderfully open driver. It's been discussed to death, and the reason Nvidia won't give us an open driver is because they can't. At least, they can't give us one that performs as we expect Nvidia cards to perform.
"I'd rather have a slower video card that actually works, than a fast one that doesn't"
That's why nearly all Linux gamers and more than 60% of Windows gamers buy Nvidia cards. They've had better drivers for ages. Not open source, which disturbs some of the hardcore, but great drivers nonetheless.
What is this, a propaganda poster from 1941? Give it a rest. People that have sharply opposing views from yours won't be pulled around to your way of thinking with internet criticism.
That assumes the listings are valid. Here in Dallas on Time Warner, not only is there a permanent 5 minute skew on every recording (sometimes 10 minutes), some shows have TBA listed and some are consistently just wrong.
The cable co. is the last entity I'd trust to get this data from.
I agree with your point on the genetically disadvantaged now surviving well beyond any lifetime they might have had a few centuries ago. In essence, the gene pool is getting 'dirtier' and I can envision a future where more than half the world's population is crippled and deformed in some way. Maybe it will lead to a new genotype...or a world war with the handicapped pitted against the fit.
You hit the nail on the head. That's why the robot series expanded into 5 books and explored differing aspects of the 3 laws, an expanded set of rules, and the consequences of such.
My favorite Asimov story was about a robot (AI computer) running the weather system for a planet, and intentionally causing major droughts and floods. They thought it was broken and sought to repair it, but found it was working in the best interests of humanity. If it controlled the weather 'perfectly' from a human standpoint, there would always be plenty to eat, and the AI knew that with enough food, there would be overpopulation. Overpopulation leads to human suffering, which the AI was trying to prevent. It ran into a paradox...either the humans starve to death during droughts or they live in close confines with a burgeoning population and starve due to the planet's inability to supply such a large population with an adequate amount of food.
I can't remember the name of the book/story, because I went on a binge one time and read nearly all of Asimov's books back to back for a few months. Still, you get the gist.:)
...unless that home happens to be a few thousand miles across the ocean, and your country has no Navy or air support or spy satellites or any other 'reach out and touch someone' capabilities.
*That* doesn't suck, GRUB does. I have no idea why Debian distros have such a hardon for GRUB.
Hell, the fact that it doesn't have an uninstaller (like LILO does) should be reason enough to avoid it. lilo -u and it's gone. Grub? Hope you have a dos or other bootdisk with fdisk on it handy.
You can actually do an DSL self install without the craptacular CD they ship to you. Just plug in the DSL modem (probably the baby Speedstream), wait for it to get a few green lights, then issue a DHCP request from your box (on Windows, ipconfig/renew and on linux, dhclient or whatever). Once you get an IP, something like 192.168.100.x, replace the last number with a.1 and you'll be facing your Speedstream's configuration page. From here you should be able to figure it out because I think it does a redirect and makes you create an account with AT&T or whoever. Once that's all finished it'll restart your modem and you're good to go.
Oh and one more thing..if you're using your own router you probably want to hit the modem config page again and switch the PPPOE settings. By default the Speedstream handles PPPOE but you want it to be handled by your router. I think this is called bridge mode (sorry it's been awhile, but when you see the page it makes sense).
Anyone using ridiculous resolutions like the parent poster, take notice.
This has been mentioned before in many forums (including the Nvidia forums) and the solution is always the same. You have to tell X11/Xorg to use a different DPI for your desktop. The standard DPI does indeed make everything huge at these resolutions. Strangely enough, the Gentoo wiki has the most complete and concise info on this problem.
Actually this is more like the rosy-eyed glasses you wear when you think of an ex-girlfriend until you remember the time she decapitated your pet goldfish, rolled your car off a cliff, then announced that she was pregnant.
I'm still not sure if this price drop is a result of low sales (which month for month are on track with the X360 launch) or because Sony wants to clear the pipeline for the new 80G unit bundle. Also it may be because they've already found cost reduction in their manufacturing process (blue diodes are way cheaper and the EE has been cut out). Why not smile when a manufacturer reduces costs and extends the loss they're eating to sell you something?
I think they just don't want a constant reminder that they got shafted on a lower spec machine (no hd, no wifi, no memory card readers, no hdmi, no hd-dvd/br drive, the list goes on) that happens to be 99% more reliable. As some tool said in a break down a few posts up, you really do get what you pay for.
Yeah, we were moving some stuff from the garage to the attic, and ole Rusty got into the Christmas stuff. Why do dogs love to eat those shiny reflective "icicles" anyway?
I guess at the very least it makes some interesting yard bling.
Yeah that's the thing that's strange here. If you steal something in the traditional sense, the original owner no longer has it. These guys copy people's porn (which I know for a fact, nearly all private shops do when customers bring their computers in). They need to clarify in the article.
Besides, who's to say that the customers bringing their computers in didn't "steal" the porn in the first place? If you steal stolen porn, who cares? I guess it's all a matter of how anal you are really. Honestly, if your private belongings are in the hands of a 3rd party, you can't really trust them all that much.
The dirty little secret of Ethanol is ultimately less bang for your buck, particularly in vehicles that aren't programmed to compensate. It just doesn't supply the same Btu as gasoline does. A gallon of regular gasoline contains about 114,000 Btu, while a gallon of E85 contains only 82,000 Btu. Therefore, you'll get much less mileage from straight up E85 (85% ethanol fuel) than you will from standard gasoline. While the price of E85 is supposed to be ~30c cheaper, the lack of Btu cancels this out since you'll be making more trips to the pump, therefore costing the consumer the same, if not more, than gasoline.
The benefits of Ethanol are merely altruistic at this point and offer no real benefit to the consumer. Actually it has had a detrimental effect on some commodities already, as farmers switch to corn production strictly for Ethanol, it has the effect of raising prices for milk, beef, and other goods. Ultimately it will be nice to have a cleaner, renewable fuel source that can be generated domestically.
Sounds like someone has finally provided a breakdown of "why Safari?".
I like Firefox's RSS integration. Any RSS feed becomes a bookmark toolbar folder 'live link' for me. Maybe people don't know about this feature, but by default there's a BBC news toolbar link that comes with it.
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It almost sounds like the industry is a total farking mess and they have 15 standards for any given thing.
I hate the cable industry. They can't just give us a cablecard that does everything their boxes do. The first revision (if you could find them) didn't allow for on-demand programming because it was a one-way street, no talky talky with the cable provider. In my area I get to choose from Time Warner or...Time Warner. Since they took over for Comcast, I don't think I've seen a single channel with accurate start and end times or accurate guide info for ANY channel. Yet that's what I'm stuck with.
The worse cable providers get, the more attractive satellite looks.
There's always the ancient nv driver if you want something open and free. It gets the job done, at least in 2d land. If you want a free driver, I guess we can all petition Nvidia to strip SGI's secret OpenGL magic out of the drivers, leaving us with a substandard card and a wonderfully open driver. It's been discussed to death, and the reason Nvidia won't give us an open driver is because they can't. At least, they can't give us one that performs as we expect Nvidia cards to perform.
"I'd rather have a slower video card that actually works, than a fast one that doesn't"
That's why nearly all Linux gamers and more than 60% of Windows gamers buy Nvidia cards. They've had better drivers for ages. Not open source, which disturbs some of the hardcore, but great drivers nonetheless.
What is this, a propaganda poster from 1941? Give it a rest. People that have sharply opposing views from yours won't be pulled around to your way of thinking with internet criticism.
Who's to say he loves Nazis? He has an opinion that differs from yours. Let it be.
That assumes the listings are valid. Here in Dallas on Time Warner, not only is there a permanent 5 minute skew on every recording (sometimes 10 minutes), some shows have TBA listed and some are consistently just wrong.
The cable co. is the last entity I'd trust to get this data from.
I agree with your point on the genetically disadvantaged now surviving well beyond any lifetime they might have had a few centuries ago. In essence, the gene pool is getting 'dirtier' and I can envision a future where more than half the world's population is crippled and deformed in some way. Maybe it will lead to a new genotype...or a world war with the handicapped pitted against the fit.
Judging by the formatting in your post, I'd say you're the resident expert on dumb console terminals.
;)
P.S. They make displays with more than 40 columns now.
You hit the nail on the head. That's why the robot series expanded into 5 books and explored differing aspects of the 3 laws, an expanded set of rules, and the consequences of such.
:)
My favorite Asimov story was about a robot (AI computer) running the weather system for a planet, and intentionally causing major droughts and floods. They thought it was broken and sought to repair it, but found it was working in the best interests of humanity. If it controlled the weather 'perfectly' from a human standpoint, there would always be plenty to eat, and the AI knew that with enough food, there would be overpopulation. Overpopulation leads to human suffering, which the AI was trying to prevent. It ran into a paradox...either the humans starve to death during droughts or they live in close confines with a burgeoning population and starve due to the planet's inability to supply such a large population with an adequate amount of food.
I can't remember the name of the book/story, because I went on a binge one time and read nearly all of Asimov's books back to back for a few months. Still, you get the gist.
...unless that home happens to be a few thousand miles across the ocean, and your country has no Navy or air support or spy satellites or any other 'reach out and touch someone' capabilities.
*That* doesn't suck, GRUB does. I have no idea why Debian distros have such a hardon for GRUB.
Hell, the fact that it doesn't have an uninstaller (like LILO does) should be reason enough to avoid it. lilo -u and it's gone. Grub? Hope you have a dos or other bootdisk with fdisk on it handy.
You can actually do an DSL self install without the craptacular CD they ship to you. Just plug in the DSL modem (probably the baby Speedstream), wait for it to get a few green lights, then issue a DHCP request from your box (on Windows, ipconfig /renew and on linux, dhclient or whatever). Once you get an IP, something like 192.168.100.x, replace the last number with a .1 and you'll be facing your Speedstream's configuration page. From here you should be able to figure it out because I think it does a redirect and makes you create an account with AT&T or whoever. Once that's all finished it'll restart your modem and you're good to go.
Oh and one more thing..if you're using your own router you probably want to hit the modem config page again and switch the PPPOE settings. By default the Speedstream handles PPPOE but you want it to be handled by your router. I think this is called bridge mode (sorry it's been awhile, but when you see the page it makes sense).
Anyone using ridiculous resolutions like the parent poster, take notice.
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This has been mentioned before in many forums (including the Nvidia forums) and the solution is always the same. You have to tell X11/Xorg to use a different DPI for your desktop. The standard DPI does indeed make everything huge at these resolutions. Strangely enough, the Gentoo wiki has the most complete and concise info on this problem.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Set_DPI_(Dots_Per_In
I'm guessing that it's probably miscalculating a 72dpi mode when you'd probably prefer ~96dpi. Give that a shot.
Actually this is more like the rosy-eyed glasses you wear when you think of an ex-girlfriend until you remember the time she decapitated your pet goldfish, rolled your car off a cliff, then announced that she was pregnant.
I'm still not sure if this price drop is a result of low sales (which month for month are on track with the X360 launch) or because Sony wants to clear the pipeline for the new 80G unit bundle. Also it may be because they've already found cost reduction in their manufacturing process (blue diodes are way cheaper and the EE has been cut out). Why not smile when a manufacturer reduces costs and extends the loss they're eating to sell you something?
I think they just don't want a constant reminder that they got shafted on a lower spec machine (no hd, no wifi, no memory card readers, no hdmi, no hd-dvd/br drive, the list goes on) that happens to be 99% more reliable. As some tool said in a break down a few posts up, you really do get what you pay for.
I'm stunned by your abuse of the english language combined with your low user number. Let me guess, blunt force trauma some time in the last 5 years?
Yeah, we were moving some stuff from the garage to the attic, and ole Rusty got into the Christmas stuff. Why do dogs love to eat those shiny reflective "icicles" anyway?
I guess at the very least it makes some interesting yard bling.
"Comcast, 16MB up, 2 MB down, is about $55 including the modem rental."
;).
Wow, that sounds like a fantastic service...if you are a bittorrent seed. 16MB up? 2 MB down?
I know, I know, you mistyped it, but that's a pretty glaring typo
Yeah that's the thing that's strange here. If you steal something in the traditional sense, the original owner no longer has it. These guys copy people's porn (which I know for a fact, nearly all private shops do when customers bring their computers in). They need to clarify in the article.
Besides, who's to say that the customers bringing their computers in didn't "steal" the porn in the first place? If you steal stolen porn, who cares? I guess it's all a matter of how anal you are really. Honestly, if your private belongings are in the hands of a 3rd party, you can't really trust them all that much.
The dirty little secret of Ethanol is ultimately less bang for your buck, particularly in vehicles that aren't programmed to compensate. It just doesn't supply the same Btu as gasoline does. A gallon of regular gasoline contains about 114,000 Btu, while a gallon of E85 contains only 82,000 Btu. Therefore, you'll get much less mileage from straight up E85 (85% ethanol fuel) than you will from standard gasoline. While the price of E85 is supposed to be ~30c cheaper, the lack of Btu cancels this out since you'll be making more trips to the pump, therefore costing the consumer the same, if not more, than gasoline.
The benefits of Ethanol are merely altruistic at this point and offer no real benefit to the consumer. Actually it has had a detrimental effect on some commodities already, as farmers switch to corn production strictly for Ethanol, it has the effect of raising prices for milk, beef, and other goods. Ultimately it will be nice to have a cleaner, renewable fuel source that can be generated domestically.
The assumption that the consumer has read a EULA posted on a web site wouldn't hold up in court. Not everyone has internet access.
Sounds like someone has finally provided a breakdown of "why Safari?".
I like Firefox's RSS integration. Any RSS feed becomes a bookmark toolbar folder 'live link' for me. Maybe people don't know about this feature, but by default there's a BBC news toolbar link that comes with it.
Sounds like one of those instances where the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
e.e. cummings just spun in his grave. And I just sacrificed 4 personal mod points to reply to your grammar critique.
It's gonna be a weird day.