For crying out loud, am I the only one who has a Microsoft Intellimouse? My thumb controls back & forward with two perfectly placed buttons on the left side of the mouse. Beats the hell out of gestures; slight pressure from the thumb and it's done.
Actually, in most states, you can't shoot them dead if you catch them in the act.
More bullshit. Most states have laws allowing you to kill another person to defend yourself, family member, or another person in your presence from bodily harm. I'd say rape qualifies.
In my state, I can defend anyone in this manner. If I'm walking down the street and I see a man chasing someone with a weapon, raping someone in an alley, you name it, I can drop him dead with my.45. And I would. You'll find similar laws in most of the 50 states.
No, they don't. You have to throw in the driver disk and hope that installs correctly, etc.
Not necessarily. Most video cards are auto-detected and installed for you. Depends on how new the card is vs. your version of Windows. At least you get drivers if you're running Windows. When's the last time you bought a new video card and were able to just pop the included disc into your Linux box and go? That's what I thought.
Look, I'm not dissing Linux; I love it and would have nothing else on my servers. Workstations are a different story; it's too much hassle for me. I don't mind screwing around for an hour to get some service installed on a server. But I don't have that patience for everything else. When I buy a new device, I want to plug it in and use it without the hassles of dependencies, kernel modifications, compiling, reading HOWTOs and man pages, etc. Despite Windows' flaws, most of the time it just works. I suppose that doesn't make me 3l33t enough to hang with certain crowds here; so be it.
As for the rest of the population, Linux isn't there yet. Most people are scared of the Windows control panel, for crying out loud. They don't know what a driver is or how to download one. They have a hard enough time putting a CD into their CD-ROM and navigating the setup menu. And if autorun isn't enabled, forget about it! Most people wouldn't survive 5 minutes with a Linux OS if left on their own.
If you were a merchant, would you like someone coming in and taking pictures or making a comprehensive list of what your selling and for how much?
I don't think so.
Uhm, why the hell not? I would provide that comprehensive list to anyone who asked for it. Isn't that the first thing a customer wants to know - what you're selling and how much you want for it? Why such secrecy over your prices and merchandise?
I mean, hello? Are you trying to sell it or not? Preventing someone from making a list of your merchandise seems rather counter productive. They should be providing the list as a courtesy.
It's not affordable and won't be embraced by most people until it can be purchased for less than gasoline. $2.50 per gallon is a dollar more than I pay. Get it down to 50 cents a gallon and I'll sell both of my vehicles and buy VW TDIs.
Yes, I want to have my cake and eat it to. I'm happy to help the environment but "there's got to be something in it for me."
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Oh, shoot. I should have read the next few posts before replying. Doh!
Nothing to see here, carry on...
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X10.com is not really related in any way to the x10 protocol or x10 devices, don't let x10.com sour you to this awesome technology
X10? Awesome technology? You've got to be kidding me. Let's see... doesn't work with most CF bulbs, doesn't play well with transformers or switching power supplies, misses signals every once in awhile, and sometimes even misinterprets signals and switches the wrong damn device. Yeah, awesome technology... right.
I've put thousands of dollars into X10 equipment over the years. Even the high quality stuff from Leviton, PCS, etc, suffers from the inherent limitations of the protocol. Powerline transmission is simply unreliable.
If you want to purchase filters at $20 a pop to place on many of the devices in your home, X-10 is fine.
If you want the protocol to control which electrical devices you can and can't use in your home (CF bulbs, many TVs & electric razors, and most switching power supplies tear up the X-10 signal), X-10 is fine.
If you want to spend hours troubleshooting stupid problems, installing line blockers and signal couplers and such, X-10 is fine.
If you don't mind occasionally missing a signal, or getting the wrong signal, or a light just randomly turning on or off due to noise on the line, X-10 is fine.
If you want a REAL control solution, you'll spend the cash and buy into Crestron, AMX, or any other hardwired solution; or, Lutron RadioRA for wireless. After 6 years of fscking with X-10, I'm nearly finished liquidating it all in favor of a solid home control network. My AMX Radia units work flawlessly, every time. They control any load I want, dim to any level I want, and do it all instantly. No lag, no reliability issues, just perfect lighting control at my fingertips.
That's not the point. What happens if you want several terabytes of data? Are you going to cram several dozen disks into a single enclosure and deal with the power, heat, and noise, when half a dozen of these will do the job?
"XP will handle a 300GB drive with a single partition just fine. Your problem is that your controller and/or driver doesn't support 48-bit addressing. If a controller came with your drive, use it. Otherwise, buy one or the Promise ATA 133 cards. If you are installing XP on the large disk, you may have to hit F6 at the start of the installation process in order to install the driver."
Just giving him a bump, since I don't have any mod points.
So there's an easy solution. Now, I know DRM is the devil, so bare with me for just a second here:
* All songs are DRM encoded and downloaded into a "locker" of sorts. You can play each song 3 times before it is locked for good. You can download unlimited songs into this locker.
* If you like it, you unlock it, at which point you are charged for the track, the DRM is removed and it becomes a normal MP3.
It's slick. I actually don't much like the network... it's just got a pager built in, and they send messages to it over the pager network. I wish it had bluetooth/802.11 or even a wired network connection, so I could more easily control it myself. But other than that - it's a really cool product.
"Frosted glass orb glows a color to indicate your information.
"The Ambient Orb slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or kid is on instant messenger."
It's actually quite slick, and I bought one for myself. It currently tells me the outdoor temperature via warmer/colder colors. Looks great sitting on my desk.
So, every time we post a new story, not only will the poor SOB get slashdotted, the RIAA will bust down his door with a team of lawyers and rabid dogs 24 hours later?
I skipped school for the first time very early in life - the first grade, I shit you not - because of this. My father sat me down one night and explained that I should never "play hookey". I didn't know what that was, so he explained.
My mind raced. The thought had never occured to me - I didn't have to go to school! I could just ride my bike and hang out with friends all day long. Who would know? My parents certainly wouldn't. They'd be at work all day!
So the next day I explained all of this to a friend and we just rode our bikes around a dirt field down the street. That is, until our freaked out parents - informed by the school that we'd never arrived - left work and began combing the neighborhoods for us. We were busted and given a couple of well deserved spankings.
Had I been told how easy it was to get caught, I never would have done it.
Somehow this is all relevant to the current discussion, but I'm struggling to find the parallels.
I personally have purchased smart card programmers before (not from 'satellite piracy' sites) for programming smart cards for authentication use in a home automation system.
I just want to second this. I own two smart card programmers for exactly the same reason. I fiddled with them for awhile and decided not to use them for access control when I found iButtons were cheaper, stronger, and small enough to be built into a ring. I, too, have wondered what would happen if DirecTV decided they didn't like this and came after me. I didn't buy mine from "piratedirecttv.com", either, but it's still unsettling that I could become their next target.
and now really EOD before I lower myself on your brainless-aggressive level.
Right -- because I started the name calling when I said, "You are an asshole."
Oh, wait. That was you. Looks like I lowered myself to your level. I apologize; it won't happen again.
People must be protected from such persons, not by killing them but by keeping them for the rest of their lifes where they belong: safely locked away in a psychiatry.
Sounds good to me. Of course, they'll just let the jackass out in x years under the guise of "human rights" so he can attack another family. If I shoot his ass instead, I've guaranteed he won't be harming me, you, or anyone else - ever again. Oh, and bonus: The state saves $x hundred thousand dollars because there's no use keeping him in a cell when he's dead.
It's nice that you believe a dangerous criminal's life is worth something. I simply don't agree. Once he begins harming other people, his life loses any worth it once had, in my eyes.
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For crying out loud, am I the only one who has a Microsoft Intellimouse? My thumb controls back & forward with two perfectly placed buttons on the left side of the mouse. Beats the hell out of gestures; slight pressure from the thumb and it's done.
Actually, in most states, you can't shoot them dead if you catch them in the act.
.45. And I would. You'll find similar laws in most of the 50 states.
More bullshit. Most states have laws allowing you to kill another person to defend yourself, family member, or another person in your presence from bodily harm. I'd say rape qualifies.
In my state, I can defend anyone in this manner. If I'm walking down the street and I see a man chasing someone with a weapon, raping someone in an alley, you name it, I can drop him dead with my
No, they don't. You have to throw in the driver disk and hope that installs correctly, etc.
Not necessarily. Most video cards are auto-detected and installed for you. Depends on how new the card is vs. your version of Windows. At least you get drivers if you're running Windows. When's the last time you bought a new video card and were able to just pop the included disc into your Linux box and go? That's what I thought.
Look, I'm not dissing Linux; I love it and would have nothing else on my servers. Workstations are a different story; it's too much hassle for me. I don't mind screwing around for an hour to get some service installed on a server. But I don't have that patience for everything else. When I buy a new device, I want to plug it in and use it without the hassles of dependencies, kernel modifications, compiling, reading HOWTOs and man pages, etc. Despite Windows' flaws, most of the time it just works. I suppose that doesn't make me 3l33t enough to hang with certain crowds here; so be it.
As for the rest of the population, Linux isn't there yet. Most people are scared of the Windows control panel, for crying out loud. They don't know what a driver is or how to download one. They have a hard enough time putting a CD into their CD-ROM and navigating the setup menu. And if autorun isn't enabled, forget about it! Most people wouldn't survive 5 minutes with a Linux OS if left on their own.
Nice to know that it is the fastest Linux supercomputer
It's not. They lied. This is the fastest Linux supercomputer:
http://www.top500.org/list/2003/11/
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Integrity rx2600 Itanium2 1.5 GHz, Quadrics Interconnect
1,936 processors
8633 rmax / 11616 rpeak
They're pretty much intentionally mismanaging the national budget to eliminate social programs.
Ah, good. So I can continue voting for them.
If you were a merchant, would you like someone coming in and taking pictures or making a comprehensive list of what your selling and for how much?
I don't think so.
Uhm, why the hell not? I would provide that comprehensive list to anyone who asked for it. Isn't that the first thing a customer wants to know - what you're selling and how much you want for it? Why such secrecy over your prices and merchandise?
I mean, hello? Are you trying to sell it or not? Preventing someone from making a list of your merchandise seems rather counter productive. They should be providing the list as a courtesy.
It's not affordable and won't be embraced by most people until it can be purchased for less than gasoline. $2.50 per gallon is a dollar more than I pay. Get it down to 50 cents a gallon and I'll sell both of my vehicles and buy VW TDIs.
Yes, I want to have my cake and eat it to. I'm happy to help the environment but "there's got to be something in it for me."
Oh, shoot. I should have read the next few posts before replying. Doh!
Nothing to see here, carry on...
It's a link
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Uhm, what's a link? I don't see one.
X10.com is not really related in any way to the x10 protocol or x10 devices, don't let x10.com sour you to this awesome technology
X10? Awesome technology? You've got to be kidding me. Let's see... doesn't work with most CF bulbs, doesn't play well with transformers or switching power supplies, misses signals every once in awhile, and sometimes even misinterprets signals and switches the wrong damn device. Yeah, awesome technology... right.
I've put thousands of dollars into X10 equipment over the years. Even the high quality stuff from Leviton, PCS, etc, suffers from the inherent limitations of the protocol. Powerline transmission is simply unreliable.
If you want to purchase filters at $20 a pop to place on many of the devices in your home, X-10 is fine.
If you want the protocol to control which electrical devices you can and can't use in your home (CF bulbs, many TVs & electric razors, and most switching power supplies tear up the X-10 signal), X-10 is fine.
If you want to spend hours troubleshooting stupid problems, installing line blockers and signal couplers and such, X-10 is fine.
If you don't mind occasionally missing a signal, or getting the wrong signal, or a light just randomly turning on or off due to noise on the line, X-10 is fine.
If you want a REAL control solution, you'll spend the cash and buy into Crestron, AMX, or any other hardwired solution; or, Lutron RadioRA for wireless. After 6 years of fscking with X-10, I'm nearly finished liquidating it all in favor of a solid home control network. My AMX Radia units work flawlessly, every time. They control any load I want, dim to any level I want, and do it all instantly. No lag, no reliability issues, just perfect lighting control at my fingertips.
http://www.lustre.org
That's not the point. What happens if you want several terabytes of data? Are you going to cram several dozen disks into a single enclosure and deal with the power, heat, and noise, when half a dozen of these will do the job?
The AC said:
"XP will handle a 300GB drive with a single partition just fine. Your problem is that your controller and/or driver doesn't support 48-bit addressing. If a controller came with your drive, use it. Otherwise, buy one or the Promise ATA 133 cards. If you are installing XP on the large disk, you may have to hit F6 at the start of the installation process in order to install the driver."
Just giving him a bump, since I don't have any mod points.
I think Linux limits the usable space on a single drive to @160Gb unless something has changed.
Wrong. The only disk space limitation in Linux is a cap @ 2TB per filesystem, and that's going away soon.
So there's an easy solution. Now, I know DRM is the devil, so bare with me for just a second here:
* All songs are DRM encoded and downloaded into a "locker" of sorts. You can play each song 3 times before it is locked for good. You can download unlimited songs into this locker.
* If you like it, you unlock it, at which point you are charged for the track, the DRM is removed and it becomes a normal MP3.
Seems quite simple to me.
It's slick. I actually don't much like the network... it's just got a pager built in, and they send messages to it over the pager network. I wish it had bluetooth/802.11 or even a wired network connection, so I could more easily control it myself. But other than that - it's a really cool product.
http://www.ambientdevices.com
From their web site:
"Frosted glass orb glows a color to indicate your information.
"The Ambient Orb slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or kid is on instant messenger."
It's actually quite slick, and I bought one for myself. It currently tells me the outdoor temperature via warmer/colder colors. Looks great sitting on my desk.
$150.00.
So, every time we post a new story, not only will the poor SOB get slashdotted, the RIAA will bust down his door with a team of lawyers and rabid dogs 24 hours later?
I skipped school for the first time very early in life - the first grade, I shit you not - because of this. My father sat me down one night and explained that I should never "play hookey". I didn't know what that was, so he explained.
My mind raced. The thought had never occured to me - I didn't have to go to school! I could just ride my bike and hang out with friends all day long. Who would know? My parents certainly wouldn't. They'd be at work all day!
So the next day I explained all of this to a friend and we just rode our bikes around a dirt field down the street. That is, until our freaked out parents - informed by the school that we'd never arrived - left work and began combing the neighborhoods for us. We were busted and given a couple of well deserved spankings.
Had I been told how easy it was to get caught, I never would have done it.
Somehow this is all relevant to the current discussion, but I'm struggling to find the parallels.
I do see record company CEOs not making their latest yearly bonus, though.
Poor SOBs might not be able to make the payments on multi-million dollar beach home #5. It's enough to make a grown man cry.
worthy things like ... reading Slashdot.
Exception error: Divide by zero.
Program "life" terminated.
No FireWire. No AAC support
Who needs Firewire and AAC when you have Ethernet and Ogg?
I personally have purchased smart card programmers before (not from 'satellite piracy' sites) for programming smart cards for authentication use in a home automation system.
I just want to second this. I own two smart card programmers for exactly the same reason. I fiddled with them for awhile and decided not to use them for access control when I found iButtons were cheaper, stronger, and small enough to be built into a ring. I, too, have wondered what would happen if DirecTV decided they didn't like this and came after me. I didn't buy mine from "piratedirecttv.com", either, but it's still unsettling that I could become their next target.
(it would be PR suicide)
So, just another day at RIAA HQ, right?
and now really EOD before I lower myself on your brainless-aggressive level.
Right -- because I started the name calling when I said, "You are an asshole."
Oh, wait. That was you. Looks like I lowered myself to your level. I apologize; it won't happen again.
People must be protected from such persons, not by killing them but by keeping them for the rest of their lifes where they belong: safely locked away in a psychiatry.
Sounds good to me. Of course, they'll just let the jackass out in x years under the guise of "human rights" so he can attack another family. If I shoot his ass instead, I've guaranteed he won't be harming me, you, or anyone else - ever again. Oh, and bonus: The state saves $x hundred thousand dollars because there's no use keeping him in a cell when he's dead.
It's nice that you believe a dangerous criminal's life is worth something. I simply don't agree. Once he begins harming other people, his life loses any worth it once had, in my eyes.