My grandmother had one of those things, and it was junk. Not to mention the horrible service they provide if you have a problem (as most grandmothers do with computers). She dumped that in the trash, and picked up the cheapest Dell Inspiron made ($699 at the time). I have not heard of any problems that she, or my mother, can't figure out for themselves. Which is good, because all the grandkids are 2 timezones away.
Until the iBook hdd craps out on you and you go to replace it. 35 screws (or so) to get at the hard drive! There was one screw (with a wide enough slot to use a coin to remove the screw) for my ThinkPad 600X.
I must admit, nothing beats OS X though. Too bad there is no x86 port of it...........
As far as I know, there are still no quadband phones (800MHz/850MHz/1800MHz/1900MHz), although I'm sure that that will be simply a matter of time. Those would be the ultimate roaming phones for frequent transatlantic travellers.:-)
Motorola V600 is quad-band. Of course, it goes for about $750 right now...
This would seem to support the reports of no backwards compatibility in Xbox 2.
Are you talking about games or controllers?
If you can't play XBOX games on the XBOX2, that is dumb. If you can't plug in and use a XBOX controller into the XBOX2 and use it, I don't think that matters much.
As to the form debate... they all have good and bad features.
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The point is modularity. You are using two seperate solutions (AMD64 desktop and PPC handheld) to do one job. This is a compromise. With the modular deal (dock for desktop use, laptop dock with screen, etc) you are using the same core machine wherever you are. No compromising "well I want to play some quake but this PPC handheld can't do that" or whatnot.
An iPod sized device (for example) with 200GB hdd*, 2GB RAM, dockable, and a full fledged OS will be the norm in 5 years.
* Unless we move to solid state storage (no hdd) that is shared for the system memory (configurable of course).
Interesting times are on the way, that much is certain!
When I was looking for a job (Jan-Mar 2002) I used Monster, careerbuilder, and a few others. They all amounted to nothing. I had a few interviews; but it is hard to stick out from 400 other people willing to take any job they can get. I learned, again, that personal relationships and networking are your best tools in finding a job.
As a side note, I was fired from the job I had until Jan 2002 because so many people were calling my employer looking for a reference, even though every place I had hooked into said not to do so.
I doubt that I would ever use any service like that again. There is just not enough control.
A stuffed animal (green frog - not Kermit) and a bamboo plant in a Chinese bowl. Supposed to be good luck (bamboo).
At least the weekend away was good.
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It was our government that made legislation pertaining to discrimination. We should follow that legislation, or get it changed.
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How has the job worked out? At a minimum they are racist fucking pricks that deserve to be hauled out into the middle of town and horsewhipped. Cultural differences aside, there is a modicum of respect that is required between employer and employee. I would suggest your fiend quietly find themself a new job. When he/she leaves, tell the employer why, and ask them who is in charge of the legal department? They don't even have to follow through, but it might scare them into acting appropriately in the future.
My Dell is a Celeron 2.4GHz with 512MB of RAM. There is absolutely no reason for Mozilla to take 15 seconds to load on that machine. Much less 2 or 3 seconds to switch tabs. And drawing sites badly (/. looking wrong shoved me over the edge. body text magin on left side overlapped with left side menu.) is lame. Some of that is bad coding, but most sites I go to now are higher volume sites that should be coding for things other than IE 5.5+ nowadays.
Fresh install every time. Of course, the box is only 3 months old, so their isn't old stuff there anyway. I have been using Mozilla (mainly on linux where the other browsers sucked ass) since before the 0.9 days. I actually used to care what the roadmap said.
For IE pop-up blocking I use the google toolbar. Works nicely, and most like the instant access to google searches (ala Safari).
For anti-spyware I use and run AdAware from time to time.
Mozilla is overrated in my opinion. On my linux machine, it works great. On my Mac it is okay. On my Dell at work, it sucks. And it is for the same reasons since my older win98 box (now have 3 month old XP Pro machine); slow to load on start of program, loads pages incorrectly - including/. of all places, under heavier system load it is the least responsive of any programs running, etc etc. I am only talking about the browser itself. Every new release I download and install Mozilla or Firefox/bird/whatever, try it for a few days, and end up going back to IE6 for my windows machine and Safari for my Mac. Safari is now (as of 1.2) to the point that I like it as much as I like Mozilla on linux! I would love to use the same browser with the same config for all 3 boxes... but the Mac and Windows versions are just not up to snuff IMNSHO.
Go for the all inclusive one cup at a time quick brew machines. We have one in the office here and it is a god send. Keurig is the name of the company that makes the machine.
Just because you add the feature yourself does not mean that it will make it into the distributed version of the program. Modifying something for your own use doesn't do me any good, unless you are good enough to get it into the public version. Honestly, without knowing you, I would have to assume that you are not good enough.
Of course, look at the majority of the crap code that is written... Most of this stuff (open or closed source) is not worth actual money. I may pay for it, but between upgrade cycles, security problems (I hate any sentence involving the words 'buffer' or 'stack' or 'overflow'), downtime, calls for support, emails or message boards for support, etc, this stupid thing ends up costing far more (2-10x as much depending on what you value your time at).
And with most open source projects, this is no guarantee that anyone is listening. Look at Linus' posts from years back. If you disagreed with him, it was because you were a fscking idiot. Only age, marriage, anc children have calmed him down.
With software, there are no guarantees that are worth the paper they were printed on. And all I seen as of late is companies that are looking to hook you into a service contract. They know their code is crap, but that their service is decent.
Is the cable TV offering digital? In my area (southwest CT) we have cable that is a mix of digital and not. We tend to have more issues with the digital than anything else. Seems like it just can't keep up sometimes. The picture and sound on those channels is nicer, even on TiVo.
I can not say enough good things about TiVo. A DVR is a god-send for those of us who are never home before 8 or 9pm. Added a 2nd hdd, and have never looked back.
I have no experience of my own with a satellite system... but I don't like the dish thing.
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My grandmother had one of those things, and it was junk. Not to mention the horrible service they provide if you have a problem (as most grandmothers do with computers). She dumped that in the trash, and picked up the cheapest Dell Inspiron made ($699 at the time). I have not heard of any problems that she, or my mother, can't figure out for themselves. Which is good, because all the grandkids are 2 timezones away.
Until the iBook hdd craps out on you and you go to replace it. 35 screws (or so) to get at the hard drive! There was one screw (with a wide enough slot to use a coin to remove the screw) for my ThinkPad 600X.
I must admit, nothing beats OS X though. Too bad there is no x86 port of it...........
As far as I know, there are still no quadband phones (800MHz/850MHz/1800MHz/1900MHz), although I'm sure that that will be simply a matter of time. Those would be the ultimate roaming phones for frequent transatlantic travellers. :-)
Motorola V600 is quad-band. Of course, it goes for about $750 right now...
So? You bought them for your XBOX that you have now, not the future machine that Microsoft may or may not produce.
It is in Microsoft's history to break compatability...
This would seem to support the reports of no backwards compatibility in Xbox 2.
Are you talking about games or controllers?
If you can't play XBOX games on the XBOX2, that is dumb. If you can't plug in and use a XBOX controller into the XBOX2 and use it, I don't think that matters much.
As to the form debate... they all have good and bad features.
modem
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ibm makes something that may work
caveat; the last modem i used was in my ibook.
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Like a laptop battery?
The point is modularity. You are using two seperate solutions (AMD64 desktop and PPC handheld) to do one job. This is a compromise. With the modular deal (dock for desktop use, laptop dock with screen, etc) you are using the same core machine wherever you are. No compromising "well I want to play some quake but this PPC handheld can't do that" or whatnot.
An iPod sized device (for example) with 200GB hdd*, 2GB RAM, dockable, and a full fledged OS will be the norm in 5 years.
* Unless we move to solid state storage (no hdd) that is shared for the system memory (configurable of course).
Interesting times are on the way, that much is certain!
When I was looking for a job (Jan-Mar 2002) I used Monster, careerbuilder, and a few others. They all amounted to nothing. I had a few interviews; but it is hard to stick out from 400 other people willing to take any job they can get. I learned, again, that personal relationships and networking are your best tools in finding a job.
As a side note, I was fired from the job I had until Jan 2002 because so many people were calling my employer looking for a reference, even though every place I had hooked into said not to do so.
I doubt that I would ever use any service like that again. There is just not enough control.
A stuffed animal (green frog - not Kermit) and a bamboo plant in a Chinese bowl. Supposed to be good luck (bamboo).
At least the weekend away was good.
It was our government that made legislation pertaining to discrimination. We should follow that legislation, or get it changed.
How has the job worked out? At a minimum they are racist fucking pricks that deserve to be hauled out into the middle of town and horsewhipped. Cultural differences aside, there is a modicum of respect that is required between employer and employee. I would suggest your fiend quietly find themself a new job. When he/she leaves, tell the employer why, and ask them who is in charge of the legal department? They don't even have to follow through, but it might scare them into acting appropriately in the future.
Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man is pretty close to what you mention.
Versus those of us who provided false info, but used an easy to remember login and password (i.e. for not often visited forums and such).
At a certain point, idealogy is just another word for idiocy. Stalin had lots of idealogy too.
My Dell is a Celeron 2.4GHz with 512MB of RAM. There is absolutely no reason for Mozilla to take 15 seconds to load on that machine. Much less 2 or 3 seconds to switch tabs. And drawing sites badly (/. looking wrong shoved me over the edge. body text magin on left side overlapped with left side menu.) is lame. Some of that is bad coding, but most sites I go to now are higher volume sites that should be coding for things other than IE 5.5+ nowadays.
Last I checked Dell doesn't sell 386's anymore.
I tried K-meleon last year at some point, but I scrapped it that day.
Fresh install every time. Of course, the box is only 3 months old, so their isn't old stuff there anyway. I have been using Mozilla (mainly on linux where the other browsers sucked ass) since before the 0.9 days. I actually used to care what the roadmap said.
For IE pop-up blocking I use the google toolbar. Works nicely, and most like the instant access to google searches (ala Safari).
For anti-spyware I use and run AdAware from time to time.
Mods do your worst
/. of all places, under heavier system load it is the least responsive of any programs running, etc etc. I am only talking about the browser itself. Every new release I download and install Mozilla or Firefox/bird/whatever, try it for a few days, and end up going back to IE6 for my windows machine and Safari for my Mac. Safari is now (as of 1.2) to the point that I like it as much as I like Mozilla on linux! I would love to use the same browser with the same config for all 3 boxes... but the Mac and Windows versions are just not up to snuff IMNSHO.
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Mozilla is overrated in my opinion. On my linux machine, it works great. On my Mac it is okay. On my Dell at work, it sucks. And it is for the same reasons since my older win98 box (now have 3 month old XP Pro machine); slow to load on start of program, loads pages incorrectly - including
YMMV of course.
Go for the all inclusive one cup at a time quick brew machines. We have one in the office here and it is a god send. Keurig is the name of the company that makes the machine.
Hitler had idealogy too ya know! This is one of many reasons that I tend not to argue points based on idealogy. It is based on opinion, not fact.
So M$ giving away copies of Office or Windows is worthwhile to humanity?
(it's all just software after all)
Eee gads!
Just because you add the feature yourself does not mean that it will make it into the distributed version of the program. Modifying something for your own use doesn't do me any good, unless you are good enough to get it into the public version. Honestly, without knowing you, I would have to assume that you are not good enough.
Of course, look at the majority of the crap code that is written... Most of this stuff (open or closed source) is not worth actual money. I may pay for it, but between upgrade cycles, security problems (I hate any sentence involving the words 'buffer' or 'stack' or 'overflow'), downtime, calls for support, emails or message boards for support, etc, this stupid thing ends up costing far more (2-10x as much depending on what you value your time at).
And with most open source projects, this is no guarantee that anyone is listening. Look at Linus' posts from years back. If you disagreed with him, it was because you were a fscking idiot. Only age, marriage, anc children have calmed him down.
With software, there are no guarantees that are worth the paper they were printed on. And all I seen as of late is companies that are looking to hook you into a service contract. They know their code is crap, but that their service is decent.
So, using your logic, if XYZ is an open source program that is missing something, it does me no good to interact with anyone there to fix the problem?
Please think before spouting off random junk that tries to advocate something. You make open source sound unresponsive to the needs of its users.
Is the cable TV offering digital? In my area (southwest CT) we have cable that is a mix of digital and not. We tend to have more issues with the digital than anything else. Seems like it just can't keep up sometimes. The picture and sound on those channels is nicer, even on TiVo.
I can not say enough good things about TiVo. A DVR is a god-send for those of us who are never home before 8 or 9pm. Added a 2nd hdd, and have never looked back.
I have no experience of my own with a satellite system... but I don't like the dish thing.
Good luck.