"Tired of being in the navy and on a fucking ship in the middle of the god damn ocean with 400 of my not so closest friends who dont bathe as regular as normal folk should. Tired of my ugly little toe. Tired of wonderring why my bellybutton smells like cheese. Tired of masturbating into a pack of bologna. Tired of wondering what my man chowder tastes like and if I did taste it, would anyone think differently of me? Tired of you."
I just love how everyone's bashing HP for this flaw even if it isn't their fault.
"The problem is tied to the interaction of DRAM from several manufacturers and several chip sets, all designed by Intel Corp."
Shouldn't HP be commended instead since they're the only ones who are currently taking action to resolve this problem?
"Although HP classified the problem as one that will affect the notebook PC industry as a whole, it appears that the company is the only one currently taking action. A representative from Dell Computer Corp. said that the company was "looking into it.""
Didn't see it mentioned in the article, but according to this c|net article the Russian server that had been the source of malicious code has been shut down and that web sites trying to do a redirect can no longer reach the server.
"A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner"
Sure. Blame someone else for the consequences of your own actions. Sheesh! Grow up and take some responsibility.
An odd-looking van sprouts 13 digital cameras that its builder wants to use to photograph 50 million buildings in the country while driving, taking pictures every 15 feet.
"Look at the hard drive industry and tell me why my 80GB drive ends up being a 74.5GB drive when I format it."
That's because whenever a HDD is listed in GB's, it is using the calculation of 1,000MB = 1GB. The reality is that 1024MB = 1GB. That's why your 80GB HDD is 74.5GB when formatted.
In other words, 1,024KB = 1,048,576MB = 1,073,741,824GB. But the hard drive manufacturers use a simplified calculation and assume that 1,000KB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000GB which is completely wrong.
"The RIAA represents most of the recording industry, but not all of it. Sales going down for the RIAA members does not always equate to sales going down for the industry..."
I agree. The way the RIAA calculates sales, by the "number of units shipped to retail outlets," is very flawed. I'm sure all those purchases I've made through emusic, the iTunes Music Store, DMusic, and CD Baby haven't been included into their [RIAA] numbers.
This leads me to believe that music sales are actually up worldwide. Until *all* music sales are calculated (from digital downloads and independent/non-RIAA CDs to RIAA member CDs), I don't think we'll really know for sure what the sales numbers are like.
"I might find it hard to defend software that copies that movie"
How about so I can copy my DVD(s) to my HDD on my laptop so I don't have to carry around a bunch of DVDs which might get lost, stolen, or damaged while traveling?
What's the big deal? Ohio U. are just trying to figure out if the deal would be worthwhile to its students before jumping in. It's much better than what Penn State and the University of Rochester did. I'd be pissed if I discovered that I was being charged for yet another service which I don't want or use.
"IGN: Last question. There's co-op offline and online for Xbox, but not for the PC. I doubt it could be a technical concern, so what's the reasoning for that?
Todd: That's a good question. The Xbox version, because it's in contemporaneous development with the PC. When it was started, basically was conceived as a console implementation of what we're trying to do on the PC, as opposed to a port where they take whatever we do on the PC and "boom" slap it on the Xbox. The Xbox version was designed from the ground up to support co-operative play over System Link and Xbox Live. There [were] some changes, concessions, considerations that had to be made from a lot of different standpoints in terms of stuff as mundane as how narrow the hallways are to the ability of the AI of the enemies to focus on one versus two players -- because it's no fun to play the co-op guy that the world seems to ignore -- to how the narrative of single-player story is told.
On the PC version, it was always conceived of as a purely single-player experience. The whole, "you're alone in your room and all the lights are turned out." It's an experience where we want you to be afraid to get up and turn the lights off because you're alone. Whereas, because the console market is different, because people like to play together. Now, we won't have the ability to do split-screen, but the console consumer is more, "Hey, we love co-op" and it's all supported within the Xbox with Xbox Live and System Link. It made a lot more sense for us when we were designing [the game] to include that feature, [which] was never considered to be a critical feature for the PC [version], given that our goal from the start with the PC version was to make it the best single-player game that id had ever made."
What you should be looking for is a CD/DVD duplicator that's based on RIAA math.... You know, ones that "run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x...," ones that are "well above the average speed." That way, your duplicator will be the equivalent of 421 burners.
Well, you know those soap chips that are left over when you're almost finished using a bar of soap? My father saves them, and then compresses them into a new bar of soap when he's saved up enough of them.
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Okay. Now that's just disgusting.
Not if the site gets /.ed, in which case the email address is: tired@tired.com
Anyone else notice the OS requirements? Seems like bloated software to me.
Operating System hardware requirements:
PC/AT Compatible hardware
CPU: Pentium III, 1.0Ghz or greater recommended
Memory: 512MB recommended
Hard Drive: IDE / SCSI HDD (5GB available space (recommended)
Video Card: VGA or greater
Mouse: USB, PS/2 mouse
Misc: 3.5" floppy drive, CD-ROM drive (IDE ATAPI/SCSI), Ethernet card
Looks like my old PIII @ 500 Mhz and 512MB RAM might not be able to run this.
Slow? Come on. This is forbes, not some geocities or angelfire site. You're just being a karma whore.
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Shouldn't HP be commended instead since they're the only ones who are currently taking action to resolve this problem?
And Yes, I know this doesn't make us any safer.
Guess it didn't really matter that Napster beat Apple to launch there.
I wonder if the RIAA's listening?
Isn't that the way things are usually done, to try to improve a product?
On the Mozilla main page, there are links to download Firefox 0.9 RC.
As would I. I mean, your typical blogs don't have GNAA or goatsex posts, nor goatsex ASCII art.
Sure. Blame someone else for the consequences of your own actions. Sheesh! Grow up and take some responsibility.
From the article:
An odd-looking van sprouts 13 digital cameras that its builder wants to use to photograph 50 million buildings in the country while driving, taking pictures every 15 feet.
I thought this article looked familiar. It's actually from C|Net's news.com.com.
That's because whenever a HDD is listed in GB's, it is using the calculation of 1,000MB = 1GB. The reality is that 1024MB = 1GB. That's why your 80GB HDD is 74.5GB when formatted.
In other words, 1,024KB = 1,048,576MB = 1,073,741,824GB. But the hard drive manufacturers use a simplified calculation and assume that 1,000KB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000GB which is completely wrong.
I agree. The way the RIAA calculates sales, by the "number of units shipped to retail outlets," is very flawed. I'm sure all those purchases I've made through emusic, the iTunes Music Store, DMusic, and CD Baby haven't been included into their [RIAA] numbers.
This leads me to believe that music sales are actually up worldwide. Until *all* music sales are calculated (from digital downloads and independent/non-RIAA CDs to RIAA member CDs), I don't think we'll really know for sure what the sales numbers are like.
How about so I can copy my DVD(s) to my HDD on my laptop so I don't have to carry around a bunch of DVDs which might get lost, stolen, or damaged while traveling?
What's the big deal? Ohio U. are just trying to figure out if the deal would be worthwhile to its students before jumping in. It's much better than what Penn State and the University of Rochester did. I'd be pissed if I discovered that I was being charged for yet another service which I don't want or use.
"IGN: Last question. There's co-op offline and online for Xbox, but not for the PC. I doubt it could be a technical concern, so what's the reasoning for that?
Todd: That's a good question. The Xbox version, because it's in contemporaneous development with the PC. When it was started, basically was conceived as a console implementation of what we're trying to do on the PC, as opposed to a port where they take whatever we do on the PC and "boom" slap it on the Xbox. The Xbox version was designed from the ground up to support co-operative play over System Link and Xbox Live. There [were] some changes, concessions, considerations that had to be made from a lot of different standpoints in terms of stuff as mundane as how narrow the hallways are to the ability of the AI of the enemies to focus on one versus two players -- because it's no fun to play the co-op guy that the world seems to ignore -- to how the narrative of single-player story is told.
On the PC version, it was always conceived of as a purely single-player experience. The whole, "you're alone in your room and all the lights are turned out." It's an experience where we want you to be afraid to get up and turn the lights off because you're alone. Whereas, because the console market is different, because people like to play together. Now, we won't have the ability to do split-screen, but the console consumer is more, "Hey, we love co-op" and it's all supported within the Xbox with Xbox Live and System Link. It made a lot more sense for us when we were designing [the game] to include that feature, [which] was never considered to be a critical feature for the PC [version], given that our goal from the start with the PC version was to make it the best single-player game that id had ever made."
What you should be looking for is a CD/DVD duplicator that's based on RIAA math.... You know, ones that "run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x...," ones that are "well above the average speed." That way, your duplicator will be the equivalent of 421 burners.
You mean you actually want/expect someone to read the article? What are you thinking?
Think that's bad?
Well, you know those soap chips that are left over when you're almost finished using a bar of soap? My father saves them, and then compresses them into a new bar of soap when he's saved up enough of them.
How's that for frugal/cheap?
way to put up an ad for you site on Slashdot.
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Oh well. Prepare to be
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