I think that's what the barcode reader is for, but I have no idea how it keeps track of how much is left.
How would it know, for example, if I've either run out of something or if I'm merely still using it? And how would it know if the milk is running low? Does it weigh it? Fresh vegetables oftem come in those plastic-bags-on-a-roll, os I'd assume you'd have to input those manually.
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I'm wondering if there will be 'prefered vendors' for the food in your fridge. Perhaps some commercials will play on the LGs screen when it scans a particular bar code...
Um, no. Why in the hell would a soccer mom want to do all this crap standing up?
And you most certainly do sound sexist when you automatically assume that a 'soccer mom' is anywhere near the kitchen for any length of time.
Aside from that, this is a really cool appliance. It just doesn't need to do some of the stuff that is built in, like a television. To paraphrse a previous poster, why would I want a kitchen appliance to do the things a computer could do, but do them poorly?
I like the idea of a calendar function, as well as a voice or video memo function, but leave computer stuff to computers.
Places to go (that I haven't seen mentioned) The local computer show. In my area, it's at the Pomona Fairgrounds. I recently got a Really good system built for me for $432 minus the monitor.
BestBuy. Well, not for everything, but I've found good NIC cards, and 19 inch MAG monitors are around $150 right now.
Place not to go: UBID.com It's a bidding site, but the prices almost invariably begin at about $10 below market value, and people bid them up from there. That's not counting shipping.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've only EVER bought the loest price ram from pricewatch, and have never had a stick go bad. If the ram is bad when you get it, demand a replacement from the vendor.
I think IBM makes something called a MicroDrive, which is a really small disk drive. THIS technology, if you RTA, is a lot more data on a quarter-sized CD-style storage medium.
So, not the same at all, really. But I'll give you the 'fragile' argument, because I haven't seen any details on that yet.
I agree to a point with the noise issue. Check out tomshardware.com for some noise test on disk drives. The newer/more expensive ones are less noisy than older/cheaper ones. My in-laws have a 10,000RPM drive that's much quieter than any of my 7,200RPM drives, for example.
Also, I would debate the speed issue, unless you do a lot of drive-sized copies, or are concerned about network storage. I think that for what the average Joe uses his drive for, the current (133) internal data/bus speeds are adequate. Why do think this will be an issue with larger disks?
The article doesn't give many details, but how about faster seek times due to the smaller media?
My opinion: if the media is smaller, and the laser 'writes' are closer together, the means that the media needs to be closer to flawless, and would have less chance of skipping at high RPMs.
Bastard. I relate your comment to the general anti-windows bias on/. "Microsoft is bad, so everything they do sucks." relates to "The USA is bad, so everything they do sucks."
I don't understand how you can have that attitude. Just because we won a couple of games, somehow we've made the world cup less desirable?
I'm certainly not saying that we're the best, or the worst. But don't discount the rest of the teams just because the US has wons a few games.
So advertising companies would probably really like to see this works, as it has a chance to increase revenue, without them having to either pay for it, or potentially resort to spam.
Well, if you've gotten that far and haven't adaquately prepared or gotten a fat check, then 'freaked out' comes to mind. That's one reason why I'd recommend against staying if you recieve an offer that's like 50% more than what you're currently making.
There are normally lots of clues to let you know if there's a possibility of this happening. Things like: company losing money quarter after quarter, company with a poor business plan, low scores on your performance evals, a recent transition to a lateral or lower position, etc. There are a ton of clues, but be careful not to misread them and freak out too early, like a tinfoil-hat-wearing type of person.
Seriously: Sorry if you've gone through that...
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Yeah, but it takes a friend of mine like 8 hours to get a copy of a program. (unsure if it was a 30 minute or 1 hour show.)
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Let me start out by saying I've not got a shred of legal training, unless you count going to court for traffic tickets. That said, I believe that TV stations will balk at this due to 'lost revenue.' The TV stations sell advertising seconds based on viewership...basically how many people are expected to be watching at that particular time. In the US, they're known as the Nielson ratings. Well, with rebroadcast, their numbers are no longer valid, and they can't forcast who will see the commercial. So more people (potentially) will see the commercial, and they can't charge more.
This also seems to relate to some of the other P2P problems, namely the "if people couldn't get this online, would they buy it?" argument.
I can see why TV companies would want to sue: their customers are getting seen in more markets, yet paying for only the markets that the TV company is broadcasting in.
Have any advertising companies sued or is it only the TV companies?
While Joe-SixPack may not have access to the $millions needed to make a Friends episode, it doesn't cost much for a pr0n background.
If this medium (TVP2P) is compared to, say, a webcam, could there be more of a forum for home-movies-gone-broadcast? Then again, there's not much chance to make money doing this either, so perhaps more if it will be free.
Oh wait. What about the journalists? Do you think they stayed where they were through their own free will? Do you THINK they were detained?!? I'd love to hear your thoughts on what they were charged with.
Either way, looks as though they were convicted, right. They didn't fry them though, just shot the one guy on camera.
I may have missed one point, though: who IS being rounded up? Nobody.
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I think that's what the barcode reader is for, but I have no idea how it keeps track of how much is left.
How would it know, for example, if I've either run out of something or if I'm merely still using it? And how would it know if the milk is running low? Does it weigh it? Fresh vegetables oftem come in those plastic-bags-on-a-roll, os I'd assume you'd have to input those manually.
I'm wondering if there will be 'prefered vendors' for the food in your fridge. Perhaps some commercials will play on the LGs screen when it scans a particular bar code...
Um, no. Why in the hell would a soccer mom want to do all this crap standing up?
And you most certainly do sound sexist when you automatically assume that a 'soccer mom' is anywhere near the kitchen for any length of time.
Aside from that, this is a really cool appliance. It just doesn't need to do some of the stuff that is built in, like a television. To paraphrse a previous poster, why would I want a kitchen appliance to do the things a computer could do, but do them poorly?
I like the idea of a calendar function, as well as a voice or video memo function, but leave computer stuff to computers.
No, I think they use them in the Hoover Dammit.
"Uh, is this a Goddamn?" Gotta be the funniest line of the whole movie.
Places to go (that I haven't seen mentioned)
The local computer show. In my area, it's at the Pomona Fairgrounds. I recently got a Really good system built for me for $432 minus the monitor.
BestBuy. Well, not for everything, but I've found good NIC cards, and 19 inch MAG monitors are around $150 right now.
Place not to go:
UBID.com It's a bidding site, but the prices almost invariably begin at about $10 below market value, and people bid them up from there. That's not counting shipping.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've only EVER bought the loest price ram from pricewatch, and have never had a stick go bad. If the ram is bad when you get it, demand a replacement from the vendor.
You're the man! Now if only the first poster of that article was accurate...
I think IBM makes something called a MicroDrive, which is a really small disk drive. THIS technology, if you RTA, is a lot more data on a quarter-sized CD-style storage medium.
So, not the same at all, really. But I'll give you the 'fragile' argument, because I haven't seen any details on that yet.
Wow, I'll bet that they can probably fit about 27gig on the CD-sized version! But that's just my best guestimate...
I know how big I want my drivse to be: Brain-sized. Oh, and I'd want that raided and mirrored. I hate it when I forget something...
I agree to a point with the noise issue. Check out tomshardware.com for some noise test on disk drives. The newer/more expensive ones are less noisy than older/cheaper ones. My in-laws have a 10,000RPM drive that's much quieter than any of my 7,200RPM drives, for example.
Also, I would debate the speed issue, unless you do a lot of drive-sized copies, or are concerned about network storage. I think that for what the average Joe uses his drive for, the current (133) internal data/bus speeds are adequate. Why do think this will be an issue with larger disks?
I agree. RAID, possibly with mirroring, is the way to go.
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Other than that, you can always get an IBM 3494 unit to send your valuable data offsite. We get about 80 gig on each tape, with compression.
The article doesn't give many details, but how about faster seek times due to the smaller media?
My opinion: if the media is smaller, and the laser 'writes' are closer together, the means that the media needs to be closer to flawless, and would have less chance of skipping at high RPMs.
Why? You have a smaller disk that holds more data.
How many people went from a 5 1/4 floppy to a 3 1/2 in floppy, hmm?
Bastard. I relate your comment to the general anti-windows bias on /. "Microsoft is bad, so everything they do sucks." relates to "The USA is bad, so everything they do sucks."
I don't understand how you can have that attitude. Just because we won a couple of games, somehow we've made the world cup less desirable?
I'm certainly not saying that we're the best, or the worst. But don't discount the rest of the teams just because the US has wons a few games.
If I understood you correctly, you were looking for the Windows version. I think this is what you're looking for. 692k of goodness...
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http://download.com.com/3000-2095-912955.html?t
So advertising companies would probably really like to see this works, as it has a chance to increase revenue, without them having to either pay for it, or potentially resort to spam.
Well, if you've gotten that far and haven't adaquately prepared or gotten a fat check, then 'freaked out' comes to mind. That's one reason why I'd recommend against staying if you recieve an offer that's like 50% more than what you're currently making.
There are normally lots of clues to let you know if there's a possibility of this happening. Things like: company losing money quarter after quarter, company with a poor business plan, low scores on your performance evals, a recent transition to a lateral or lower position, etc. There are a ton of clues, but be careful not to misread them and freak out too early, like a tinfoil-hat-wearing type of person.
Seriously: Sorry if you've gone through that...
Yeah, but it takes a friend of mine like 8 hours to get a copy of a program. (unsure if it was a 30 minute or 1 hour show.)
Flamebait?!? This was funny as hell!
Let me start out by saying I've not got a shred of legal training, unless you count going to court for traffic tickets.
That said, I believe that TV stations will balk at this due to 'lost revenue.' The TV stations sell advertising seconds based on viewership...basically how many people are expected to be watching at that particular time. In the US, they're known as the Nielson ratings.
Well, with rebroadcast, their numbers are no longer valid, and they can't forcast who will see the commercial. So more people (potentially) will see the commercial, and they can't charge more.
This also seems to relate to some of the other P2P problems, namely the "if people couldn't get this online, would they buy it?" argument.
I can see why TV companies would want to sue: their customers are getting seen in more markets, yet paying for only the markets that the TV company is broadcasting in.
Have any advertising companies sued or is it only the TV companies?
While Joe-SixPack may not have access to the $millions needed to make a Friends episode, it doesn't cost much for a pr0n background.
If this medium (TVP2P) is compared to, say, a webcam, could there be more of a forum for home-movies-gone-broadcast? Then again, there's not much chance to make money doing this either, so perhaps more if it will be free.
Oh wait. What about the journalists? Do you think they stayed where they were through their own free will? Do you THINK they were detained?!? I'd love to hear your thoughts on what they were charged with.
Either way, looks as though they were convicted, right. They didn't fry them though, just shot the one guy on camera.
I may have missed one point, though: who IS being rounded up? Nobody.
Paradigm Shift Is that grinding gears I smell?