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"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
cool, but carkit would be better
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for almost 300 USD i woudl expect a bit more from an mp3 player. i mean the only practicle use i could think of this would be for changing mp3s in the bathroom, which would be cool but not 300US cool. I dont know why you couldnt just run an audio cable from the pc to the stereo. i guess if you had drops all over your house than this might be cool, but i would rather have this sort of thing with soem sort of ide controller for laptop hdds and possibly a car mounting kit. i think that would drive it out of a niche market and into something that i wouldnt mind paying some cash for.
hmm i dont know if i 100 percent agree. The article i think was more talkign abotu dual processor systems. i recently upgraded from my p4 1.4 to a dual athlon mp 1600 and i can say that gddamn win2k boots, runs and shutsdown faster than anything i have ever seen. sisoft sandra (which i dont particularly trust but needed somethign to test performance) ranks my configuration close to that of quad processor xeon 2ghz and about 1/3 the mflops of a 8 processor 2ghz xeon rig. yes this is probably more power than i need for playign wolfienstien and such but its really nice to know i have a system that will be powerful for at least another year, unless i loose a processor fan and my pc melts;)
incedently, i have 16 fans and they keep it cool down to about 45*c no load. Dont skimp on fans with these athlons!
oh but on the issue of stability, i would have to say that the p4 just crashed differently. i think they are both very stable with win2k. Tyan however could have included a temp monitoring program in the os but noooo because they are cheap bitches and dont answer my calls or email.
I know its offtopic but i was just wondering if anyone in the toronto ontario area has had any luck with dsl or cable providers. i had rogers for a while, sympatico too but both i dont like for one reason or another.. i have called look and dsl.ca but nothing seems to come from eather of them. i am just looking for a fast pipe with a static ip and costing up to $80 CAN a month. anyone who has had any positive experiences with dsl/cable/wireless providers in the toronto area please respond! i am desperate.
freedom? can i smoke weed in the privacy of my own home not hurting anyone?
untill i can do whatever i want that does not hurt others in my own home, and at some point in public places i will not be truely free.
the only reason im a criminal (and many many people i know) is because they smoke marijuana. Luckly i live in canada where there a bit more open minded.
you are a sad individual. the rational for the us? someone killed a bunch of people so lets go kill a bunch of people that will make it better.
please
its like a fucking drunk father beating his children because he has a bad day at work. this is the same reason that most of the world hates you god damn americans. you think that your shitty pro agression government that thinks fighting will solve anything is right. you think that there is only one option, lets attack the symptom and not the problem.. its very transparent i feel sad for you people.
i dont believe it, maybe im just a skeptic but i cant help but wonder who your really attacking the terrorists or the innocents in the country just like they did to you!
and another thing, i dont think you realize but the war on america did not start with the bombing. many countries have hated the USA for years... Wonder why? no its not because there jealous its because they look at the usa and they see how evil it is. Iraq said it was at war with the usa (1993?) and so did the arabs and if alot of other countries (ie china) were put to the test, they would probably attack the usa as well.
im sick of this pro american shit. you people go around assisinating 3rd world governments, killing civilians and conducting espionage (sp?) and now you cry and bitch because someone decided to fuck you back. well tough shit.
oh and by the way, countries that dont play by the rules of war (chem weapons, extreme torture, etc) are the same ones you are fighting against.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." -Nietzsche
"We certainly accept free software as part of the software ecosystem."
Wow! Thanks Bill! and here i thought we were a cancer. maybe he meant open source is part of the ecosystem like a plague or a swarm of locusts.
"In fact, there's a very virtuous cycle where people do free things, some people find that adequate, sometimes companies will take that work and turn it into commercial products, those companies will hire people, pay taxes. And so you see the free software and the commercial software existing together."
wow.. sometimes i wonder what the world would be like without capitalism... no taxes people working to help others instead of for meaningless profit. and why do we need big companies hiring people if alot of open source people are willing to develop in their spare time for free?
"There is a particular approach that breaks the cycle called the GPL that is not worth getting into today, but I don't think there is much awareness about how so-called free software foundations designed that to break that cycle."
its not surprising that the US Govt and microsoft are so buddy buddy... they have the same goals! make citizens pay taxes, push propaganda, get people to buy into a failing economy... oh and i seem to remember microsoft not paying any taxes last year so i wonder...
ok i know your pc your choices right? but as i build pcs for a living, i woudl just like to interject a few things.
"Plus, on average, the new fan keeps the processor an average of 4 degrees Celsius cooler - from 69 C to 65 C, when running full tilt "
allthough im sure ill get flamed for this, that is absurd. a cpu cant run at 65c all the time. well it can but your asking for trouble. that is far to hot. my p4 1.4 runs at a cool 38 with just a few extra fans in the case. i mean i know amds are faster but they dont last as long by far.
"based on past experiences, and knowing other people who had the same problem, I decided to go with a 5400 RPM drive, rather then 7200. Most of the 7200 RPM drives I've had, or others have had, regardless of manufacturer, or type of drive, have died after nine month or so."
are you insane? you went from a scsi system to a ulta ata100 5400!!!! hdd system!!! you WILL notice a decrease between 7200 and 5400. it is VERY significant and frankly i am shocked that you would go with a 5400 based on a totally flawed judgement that 7200 fail more. your amd processor will fail before that hdd i guarantee it. i have never had a 7200 in my systems fail. other peoples yes, but the rate of 7200's failing to 5400's is exactly 1:1. the speed does not make a difference. if it did, my compaq 9.1gig 10krpm would fail way before my 7200's. the way i think it works is that some hdds fail, some dont and theirs nothign you can do about it.
"I also wanted to be able to burn and rip CDs fairly fast, so I went with the Yamaha CRW2100EZ. It's a very nice, very fast drive, but has a major problem for the quiet machine: it's loud."
yes well you have realized somethign very commonly known in the industry. yamaha's make a TON of noise. the other thing to note about that particular drive is if you try burning those mini credit card sized cds in them, they always buffer underrun so their not the best drives to get. i would have gone with a plexwriter or a scsi yamaha (which i actually own btw).
"I went with the consumer top of the line sound card, the Creative Labs Soundblaster Platinum. This thing was a SOB to get installed, because you have to not only insert the normal sound card into the PCI slot, but also fit into the 5 &.25" drive slot the external control slot. It's pretty cool, because it comes along with a remote so that you can use the computer as a movie watching system, if you want"
ahhh you baught into the hype! creative cards are awful! they suck tonnes of cpu power, install all sorts of buggy programs (ie creative disc detector) and have huge drivers. a better card by far, albiet hard to find in my part of the world are turtle beach cards. also they are cheaper and dont come with all that useless software. and they dont make your system load 1/2 as fast!
"Nothing really exciting here -- I reused a Intel EEpro 100"
just a small note. i read somewhere (i believe toms) that those intel cards eat tonnes of cpu and us eless bandwitdh than they should. personally i would go with a 3com 3c905c. thoes people know what they are doing.
"UPS System: We wouldn't want to be crashing in the midst of our gaming or working, now would we? I actually set up two UPS systems "
rofl! if you have money sure! but ups's on a gaming machine.... it doesnt really serve any point except being able to play quake when the power fails, but on that hand if your routers/switches are not on the ups you will loose your connection anyways so it doesnt really matter.
i dont mean to cut up your system because it sounds sweet (i wish i could afford a windowed case w neon tubes) but some of your dicisions strike me as odd and i figured you posted here to see what we thought of it so thats what i think!
"Boundaries mean different things now, including the inescapable fact that they are highly porous. This enrages political, social and religious fundamentalists, as we are hurriedly learning. They turn to religion, ethnic identity and nationalism to build "purer" traditions -- and a few turn to violence"
religious fundamentalists? i hope you count the us goverenment in that catagory. because all those things apply to them as well. the governement is the one thats not diverse, violent and trying to build purer traditions. who censors us? what body is mostly elderly white men that have the most to loose if the world changes?
sure the taliban are violent but so are americans. they are the same! throw an arab into an arkansas christian community and you'll see what i mean.
"The conflict is here, and we seem to be unwilling and unknowing combatants. We, along with our leaders, are astonished at just how much we seem to be hated out there."
ahahahaha unknowing? try ignorant. did anyone care when the us goverment masacared x people in y land (vars are better because it happens so much that im sure you can plant your own examples).
astonsihed how much your hated? you havent spent much time in other countries have you? the reason americans are hated by most of the countries of the world is because they have done negative things to most of the countries of the world. in canada i know they are trying to get us to sell them lumber at whatever cost they want to pay. same goes for fishing rights off our shores. you americans have this idea that everythign is your god given right and that your narrow twisted philophies are in some way right.
the ends do not justify the means.
that looks likea cool game but if i have to buy it to play it and cant test it first then how am i to know if its good? thats the whole point of warez.
"At a cost of about $1 per sensor, it seems unlikely the phone manufacturers would implement this technology anytime soon."
yeah ok when i buy my new $500+ phone i sure bet that the manufacturers would hesitate about putting a few $1 sensors in. besides now that same phone would have a new feature! so they would probably up the price anyways. even a chep little nokia couldnt be made that much more expensive with a few $1 sensors... could it?
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props to weekends and A. Huxley
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
for almost 300 USD i woudl expect a bit more from an mp3 player. i mean the only practicle use i could think of this would be for changing mp3s in the bathroom, which would be cool but not 300US cool. I dont know why you couldnt just run an audio cable from the pc to the stereo. i guess if you had drops all over your house than this might be cool, but i would rather have this sort of thing with soem sort of ide controller for laptop hdds and possibly a car mounting kit. i think that would drive it out of a niche market and into something that i wouldnt mind paying some cash for.
hmm i dont know if i 100 percent agree. The article i think was more talkign abotu dual processor systems. i recently upgraded from my p4 1.4 to a dual athlon mp 1600 and i can say that gddamn win2k boots, runs and shutsdown faster than anything i have ever seen. sisoft sandra (which i dont particularly trust but needed somethign to test performance) ranks my configuration close to that of quad processor xeon 2ghz and about 1/3 the mflops of a 8 processor 2ghz xeon rig. yes this is probably more power than i need for playign wolfienstien and such but its really nice to know i have a system that will be powerful for at least another year, unless i loose a processor fan and my pc melts ;)
incedently, i have 16 fans and they keep it cool down to about 45*c no load. Dont skimp on fans with these athlons!
oh but on the issue of stability, i would have to say that the p4 just crashed differently. i think they are both very stable with win2k. Tyan however could have included a temp monitoring program in the os but noooo because they are cheap bitches and dont answer my calls or email.
props to not workign on weekends
better article
I know its offtopic but i was just wondering if anyone in the toronto ontario area has had any luck with dsl or cable providers. i had rogers for a while, sympatico too but both i dont like for one reason or another.. i have called look and dsl.ca but nothing seems to come from eather of them. i am just looking for a fast pipe with a static ip and costing up to $80 CAN a month.
anyone who has had any positive experiences with dsl/cable/wireless providers in the toronto area please respond! i am desperate.
no mr bond i expect you to FIRST POST
To quote Oscar Wilde: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
/. but true to form modded at -1... do not get discouraged!
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stupid norton wont detect crypto backdoors! the pox on thee!
lol
freedom? can i smoke weed in the privacy of my own home not hurting anyone?
untill i can do whatever i want that does not hurt others in my own home, and at some point in public places i will not be truely free.
the only reason im a criminal (and many many people i know) is because they smoke marijuana. Luckly i live in canada where there a bit more open minded.
props to noone.. its all me
ahahaha that was modded +5?
you are a sad individual. the rational for the us? someone killed a bunch of people so lets go kill a bunch of people that will make it better.
please
its like a fucking drunk father beating his children because he has a bad day at work. this is the same reason that most of the world hates you god damn americans. you think that your shitty pro agression government that thinks fighting will solve anything is right. you think that there is only one option, lets attack the symptom and not the problem.. its very transparent i feel sad for you people.
i dont believe it, maybe im just a skeptic but i cant help but wonder who your really attacking the terrorists or the innocents in the country just like they did to you!
and another thing, i dont think you realize but the war on america did not start with the bombing. many countries have hated the USA for years... Wonder why? no its not because there jealous its because they look at the usa and they see how evil it is. Iraq said it was at war with the usa (1993?) and so did the arabs and if alot of other countries (ie china) were put to the test, they would probably attack the usa as well.
im sick of this pro american shit. you people go around assisinating 3rd world governments, killing civilians and conducting espionage (sp?) and now you cry and bitch because someone decided to fuck you back. well tough shit.
oh and by the way, countries that dont play by the rules of war (chem weapons, extreme torture, etc) are the same ones you are fighting against.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." -Nietzsche
why yes it is!
props to netbsd
ohh how i want fp...
shouts to the good dr.acula
microsoft sucks!
shouts to dr.acula
"We certainly accept free software as part of the software ecosystem."
Wow! Thanks Bill! and here i thought we were a cancer. maybe he meant open source is part of the ecosystem like a plague or a swarm of locusts.
"In fact, there's a very virtuous cycle where people do free things, some people find that adequate, sometimes companies will take that work and turn it into commercial products, those companies will hire people, pay taxes. And so you see the free software and the commercial software existing together."
wow.. sometimes i wonder what the world would be like without capitalism... no taxes people working to help others instead of for meaningless profit. and why do we need big companies hiring people if alot of open source people are willing to develop in their spare time for free?
"There is a particular approach that breaks the cycle called the GPL that is not worth getting into today, but I don't think there is much awareness about how so-called free software foundations designed that to break that cycle."
its not surprising that the US Govt and microsoft are so buddy buddy... they have the same goals! make citizens pay taxes, push propaganda, get people to buy into a failing economy... oh and i seem to remember microsoft not paying any taxes last year so i wonder...
ok i know your pc your choices right? but as i build pcs for a living, i woudl just like to interject a few things.
.25" drive slot the external control slot. It's pretty cool, because it comes along with a remote so that you can use the computer as a movie watching system, if you want"
"Plus, on average, the new fan keeps the processor an average of 4 degrees Celsius cooler - from 69 C to 65 C, when running full tilt "
allthough im sure ill get flamed for this, that is absurd. a cpu cant run at 65c all the time. well it can but your asking for trouble. that is far to hot. my p4 1.4 runs at a cool 38 with just a few extra fans in the case. i mean i know amds are faster but they dont last as long by far.
"based on past experiences, and knowing other people who had the same problem, I decided to go with a 5400 RPM drive, rather then 7200. Most of the 7200 RPM drives I've had, or others have had, regardless of manufacturer, or type of drive, have died after nine month or so."
are you insane? you went from a scsi system to a ulta ata100 5400!!!! hdd system!!! you WILL notice a decrease between 7200 and 5400. it is VERY significant and frankly i am shocked that you would go with a 5400 based on a totally flawed judgement that 7200 fail more. your amd processor will fail before that hdd i guarantee it. i have never had a 7200 in my systems fail. other peoples yes, but the rate of 7200's failing to 5400's is exactly 1:1. the speed does not make a difference. if it did, my compaq 9.1gig 10krpm would fail way before my 7200's. the way i think it works is that some hdds fail, some dont and theirs nothign you can do about it.
"I also wanted to be able to burn and rip CDs fairly fast, so I went with the Yamaha CRW2100EZ. It's a very nice, very fast drive, but has a major problem for the quiet machine: it's loud."
yes well you have realized somethign very commonly known in the industry. yamaha's make a TON of noise. the other thing to note about that particular drive is if you try burning those mini credit card sized cds in them, they always buffer underrun so their not the best drives to get. i would have gone with a plexwriter or a scsi yamaha (which i actually own btw).
"I went with the consumer top of the line sound card, the Creative Labs Soundblaster Platinum. This thing was a SOB to get installed, because you have to not only insert the normal sound card into the PCI slot, but also fit into the 5 &
ahhh you baught into the hype! creative cards are awful! they suck tonnes of cpu power, install all sorts of buggy programs (ie creative disc detector) and have huge drivers. a better card by far, albiet hard to find in my part of the world are turtle beach cards. also they are cheaper and dont come with all that useless software. and they dont make your system load 1/2 as fast!
"Nothing really exciting here -- I reused a Intel EEpro 100"
just a small note. i read somewhere (i believe toms) that those intel cards eat tonnes of cpu and us eless bandwitdh than they should. personally i would go with a 3com 3c905c. thoes people know what they are doing.
"UPS System: We wouldn't want to be crashing in the midst of our gaming or working, now would we? I actually set up two UPS systems "
rofl! if you have money sure! but ups's on a gaming machine.... it doesnt really serve any point except being able to play quake when the power fails, but on that hand if your routers/switches are not on the ups you will loose your connection anyways so it doesnt really matter.
i dont mean to cut up your system because it sounds sweet (i wish i could afford a windowed case w neon tubes) but some of your dicisions strike me as odd and i figured you posted here to see what we thought of it so thats what i think!
"Boundaries mean different things now, including the inescapable fact that they are highly porous. This enrages political, social and religious fundamentalists, as we are hurriedly learning. They turn to religion, ethnic identity and nationalism to build "purer" traditions -- and a few turn to violence"
religious fundamentalists? i hope you count the us goverenment in that catagory. because all those things apply to them as well. the governement is the one thats not diverse, violent and trying to build purer traditions. who censors us? what body is mostly elderly white men that have the most to loose if the world changes?
sure the taliban are violent but so are americans. they are the same! throw an arab into an arkansas christian community and you'll see what i mean.
"The conflict is here, and we seem to be unwilling and unknowing combatants. We, along with our leaders, are astonished at just how much we seem to be hated out there."
ahahahaha unknowing? try ignorant. did anyone care when the us goverment masacared x people in y land (vars are better because it happens so much that im sure you can plant your own examples).
astonsihed how much your hated? you havent spent much time in other countries have you? the reason americans are hated by most of the countries of the world is because they have done negative things to most of the countries of the world. in canada i know they are trying to get us to sell them lumber at whatever cost they want to pay. same goes for fishing rights off our shores. you americans have this idea that everythign is your god given right and that your narrow twisted philophies are in some way right.
the ends do not justify the means.
this is a sick world and an even sicker war.
that looks likea cool game but if i have to buy it to play it and cant test it first then how am i to know if its good? thats the whole point of warez.
try flashing the bios?
thinkgeek. who im still mad about for incuring me customs charges and threatening to throw my credit rating off.
this is a shameless plug. pathetic i say pathetic.
i guess its products for nerds capitalism that matters eh taco?
So, who wants to step up to the plate and give me ONE irrefutable reason why ANYONE would NEED a GPS-Enabled Cell Phone?
its cool.
"At a cost of about $1 per sensor, it seems unlikely the phone manufacturers would implement this technology anytime soon."
yeah ok when i buy my new $500+ phone i sure bet that the manufacturers would hesitate about putting a few $1 sensors in. besides now that same phone would have a new feature! so they would probably up the price anyways.
even a chep little nokia couldnt be made that much more expensive with a few $1 sensors... could it?
leornard cohen is a poet/ recording artist. afterworld is a movie that is comming out soon IMDB about kurt cobain
"gimme leonard cohen afterworld so i can sigh eternally" is a referce to how kurt feels about reading leonard cohen
so there mr troll esplained!