I've been waiting for a good HTC phone to use my Tmobile service with for a while to replace my Ipaq 6315. The Wing was not that great. when I heard about google and android and the HTC Dream I was like cool then I saw Tmobile rumors about them getting it and offering for cheap I was sold.
Didnt goto store to buy cause online was easier. So far the battery doesnt seem to last long but that could be my fault for playing with it too much.
Several years ago I gave Debian a attempt and for weeks got it installed and working to get drivers running and such. After dealing with having to covert packages for debian I ended up saying heck with it and went back to my win98. Reason why I like win98 is I have a Hd with the win98 install files on it. If something kills my pc I pop in the Hd boot off of it and reformat and reinstall takes aprox 30min or so for basic stuff. For my laptop I use winxp with all the security I can stick on the thing but for my gaming computer it is win98.
Since I lack the technical knowledge to really setup linux and get it running and due to the fact I do not do anything with my gaming computer aside from playing wow(I dont even websurf on it) and listening to my mp3's ripped from CD's or copied from my laptop.
I am very much interested in giving linux a try in the future but unless World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 and be able to see my media HD(120g HD formated to Fat32 full of mp3's and anime and whatnot) it would also have to support some of my hardware some of which is POS #32 from the local electronics.
Someday I will drop win98 for something else possibly XP because I want to play video games on my gaming computer. I dont want to spend 1-2hrs trying to figure out how to open a port I accidently blocked or setting up the nic because the driver for it was written poorly.
With population imbalances being rather large in some cases have you thought about doing Same faction vs faction battlegrounds for no exp/rep/rewards so people can practice a map rather than waiting 30min to an hour between maps?
example.. my guild would like to practice 10man warsong but queing in as 10man group is difficult but we could find another guild who can assemble a 10man crew and practice against them to improve our teamwork rather than waiting almost an hour between matches while Horde have almost no wait between thier matches and are able to practice/play/refine thier abilities.
it is off topic but if your getting your dsl through Qwest you can now have it run without a phoneline. Qwest recently decided they were going to support DSL with a nullline or something along those lines. So you can get dsl without a wireline phone in the house.
I hit a pawn shop a year and half ago. I got myself a old ATARI laptop that came with a case. So I now have this old Case with ATARI on it. I imagine there are hundreds out there. Perhaps hit ebay or pawn shops. Those old bags were made to carry the huge and heavy laptops and typcially have plenty of room to also store a few cd cases or a notepad or three.
DSL can exist without a active phone service. Its called something like a Null phone line. Qwest is doing this every day in the phoenix metro area with thier Choice Tv/Online service. Its VDSL and there are plenty of customers there without a phone but with the VDSL working.
Your computer monitor is larger than your TV. I imagine there are quite a few people here who have a 21 inch monitor and only a little 13 inch tv. Probably even a 5.1 sound system there too.
I purchased multipule CD's through that time period. It was about the time I got my first CD player. The amount of CD's I bought was 40-50. If they did price fix 1-2$ per CD then I figure I am entitled to a lot more. I would actually rather they be forced to sell CD's for 1 year at a fixed price of 12$ Susgested retail price. Also I imagine you give up certain rights if you agree to the pay off. I would rather excude myself and get some friends also perhaps to let the judge see the judgement is unfair and is only good for the RIAA and the lawyers.
I am not seeking a Denial of service I am seeking a way to download thier add thousands of times per minute to use up thier bandwidth. I dont care about eating up my bandwidth but I feel that thier adds are intrusive and I dont enjoy the fact it pops up more ads when I move my mouse over it to close it.
I should not be forced to change browsers because they change ad styles.
Bandwidth is expensive. If we were to take 20K slashdot users and have them try and go through the website as much as possible we could eat up thier bandwidth. Thereforth costing them more money without actually buying anything.
I personally have been boycotting any company that uses a popup ad that I have run across. It doesnt appear to be doing much. But a boycott is something I can do forever while trying to get others to do the same.
though using up thier bandwidth sounds nice. theres gotta be a way to call for the download of a single.jpg x1000 without it actually caching on my machine. though a jpg would only be 50K I am looking at it along the lines 50Megs but if I get some program that could do that on 10 machines at work have them eat up 500megs of bandwidth a hour would equal what 12gigs a day. 360gigs a month. If I can get them to download a larger gif perhaps I could reach 500gigs a month. Thats gotta cost them some money. Perhaps make them go out of business so thier add wont popup anymore.
But that would be wrong too.
so boycotting it will have to be. Ignore what I just wrote. And do not use it for evil purposes.
Then we could connect to the live service and get microsoft to bann a twenty thousand Xbox numbers. Just go in sequential order and make them think there are 30-40K Xbox's out there with mod chips in them. Perhaps if all thier customers were banned microsoft would rethink thier stance on it and open it up.
As soon as I woke I knew something was wrong. And looked around my room. Noticed it was darker than usual. After turning on the bedroom light I looked and saw my pc was off. Then I found out the power went out in the middle of the night. If it wernt for my pc and my wakeing up I could have been late for work.
I actually find the gentle hum and whirl of my pc comforting. along with the blinking yellow light and the faint green glow it gives my room.
They say they can't hold due to no funding from comedy central. Well how much do they need? I mean crap if its a measly 50K then that shouldnt be that hard to raise.
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Reports of the great mage Elminster applying at a Local Seattle McDonalds are coming in. Many witnesses say they saw him standing in line for a job application practicing his lines, 'Would you like fries with that?'
I would like to find benchmarks comparing Rambus to DDR at this speed.
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When a dang popup appears. Then when I look at it to close it it opens up another add. Suddenly I am trying to close all these windows when ADULT ads started to popup. Obviously since naked women are on my screen I look at them. So suddenly I am signed up to two porn sites.
And that is why my screen is full of porn Mr smith. Please dont fire me. Its not my fault. Its this dang thing that uses my eyes to controll the computer instead of the keyboard.
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That's pretty cool device too bad it isn't in the realm of average people. How much more efficient media could be consumed.
I've been waiting for a good HTC phone to use my Tmobile service with for a while to replace my Ipaq 6315. The Wing was not that great. when I heard about google and android and the HTC Dream I was like cool then I saw Tmobile rumors about them getting it and offering for cheap I was sold.
Didnt goto store to buy cause online was easier. So far the battery doesnt seem to last long but that could be my fault for playing with it too much.
Several years ago I gave Debian a attempt and for weeks got it installed and working to get drivers running and such. After dealing with having to covert packages for debian I ended up saying heck with it and went back to my win98. Reason why I like win98 is I have a Hd with the win98 install files on it. If something kills my pc I pop in the Hd boot off of it and reformat and reinstall takes aprox 30min or so for basic stuff. For my laptop I use winxp with all the security I can stick on the thing but for my gaming computer it is win98.
Since I lack the technical knowledge to really setup linux and get it running and due to the fact I do not do anything with my gaming computer aside from playing wow(I dont even websurf on it) and listening to my mp3's ripped from CD's or copied from my laptop.
I am very much interested in giving linux a try in the future but unless World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 and be able to see my media HD(120g HD formated to Fat32 full of mp3's and anime and whatnot) it would also have to support some of my hardware some of which is POS #32 from the local electronics.
Someday I will drop win98 for something else possibly XP because I want to play video games on my gaming computer. I dont want to spend 1-2hrs trying to figure out how to open a port I accidently blocked or setting up the nic because the driver for it was written poorly.
With population imbalances being rather large in some cases have you thought about doing Same faction vs faction battlegrounds for no exp/rep/rewards so people can practice a map rather than waiting 30min to an hour between maps?
example.. my guild would like to practice 10man warsong but queing in as 10man group is difficult but we could find another guild who can assemble a 10man crew and practice against them to improve our teamwork rather than waiting almost an hour between matches while Horde have almost no wait between thier matches and are able to practice/play/refine thier abilities.
it is off topic but if your getting your dsl through Qwest you can now have it run without a phoneline. Qwest recently decided they were going to support DSL with a nullline or something along those lines. So you can get dsl without a wireline phone in the house.
I hit a pawn shop a year and half ago. I got myself a old ATARI laptop that came with a case. So I now have this old Case with ATARI on it. I imagine there are hundreds out there. Perhaps hit ebay or pawn shops. Those old bags were made to carry the huge and heavy laptops and typcially have plenty of room to also store a few cd cases or a notepad or three.
"âoeItâ(TM)s not like theyâ(TM)re gonna make you spend hours hitting Wamprats with a stick.â Oh irony, thou art a harsh mistress. "
Man I love those guys.
"To sell me back my childhood at a low price + inflation + extra profit."
-wish I could remember who said it orginally
DSL can exist without a active phone service. Its called something like a Null phone line. Qwest is doing this every day in the phoenix metro area with thier Choice Tv/Online service. Its VDSL and there are plenty of customers there without a phone but with the VDSL working.
Figured perhaps we can get some of them in on it and get more interst in it.
Your computer monitor is larger than your TV. I imagine there are quite a few people here who have a 21 inch monitor and only a little 13 inch tv. Probably even a 5.1 sound system there too.
Which old witch the wicked witch..
wait.. she not dead yet. Perhaps they will get someone with a bit more intelligence. Perhaps we can get someone who reads slashdot.
I purchased multipule CD's through that time period. It was about the time I got my first CD player. The amount of CD's I bought was 40-50. If they did price fix 1-2$ per CD then I figure I am entitled to a lot more. I would actually rather they be forced to sell CD's for 1 year at a fixed price of 12$ Susgested retail price. Also I imagine you give up certain rights if you agree to the pay off. I would rather excude myself and get some friends also perhaps to let the judge see the judgement is unfair and is only good for the RIAA and the lawyers.
if we were to store Microsofts code in its DNA. Then give it a year to see what pops out.
hmm.. then we could load up linux and see if it creates anything better.
We could then put both the Microsoft bacteria in a dish with the linux bacteria and see who wins out.
Would a beowulf cluster of microsoft bacteria be another form of cancer?
wait wait
so its out of everyones system.
In Russian the bacteria puts DNA in you!
or
All your Disease are belong to us!
blah
yep
Me: Computer follow the link someone posted on slashdot.
Computer: following link to http://goatse.cx
me : DOH no STOP STOP STOP!!!
Computer : Loading page..
Computer : ARG my EYES@!!!!!
Me : where is that smoke coming from..
*insert car accident*
I am not seeking a Denial of service I am seeking a way to download thier add thousands of times per minute to use up thier bandwidth. I dont care about eating up my bandwidth but I feel that thier adds are intrusive and I dont enjoy the fact it pops up more ads when I move my mouse over it to close it.
I should not be forced to change browsers because they change ad styles.
Bandwidth is expensive. If we were to take 20K slashdot users and have them try and go through the website as much as possible we could eat up thier bandwidth. Thereforth costing them more money without actually buying anything.
.jpg x1000 without it actually caching on my machine. though a jpg would only be 50K I am looking at it along the lines 50Megs but if I get some program that could do that on 10 machines at work have them eat up 500megs of bandwidth a hour would equal what 12gigs a day. 360gigs a month. If I can get them to download a larger gif perhaps I could reach 500gigs a month. Thats gotta cost them some money. Perhaps make them go out of business so thier add wont popup anymore.
I personally have been boycotting any company that uses a popup ad that I have run across. It doesnt appear to be doing much. But a boycott is something I can do forever while trying to get others to do the same.
though using up thier bandwidth sounds nice. theres gotta be a way to call for the download of a single
But that would be wrong too.
so boycotting it will have to be.
Ignore what I just wrote. And do not use it for evil purposes.
Then we could connect to the live service and get microsoft to bann a twenty thousand Xbox numbers.
Just go in sequential order and make them think there are 30-40K Xbox's out there with mod chips in them. Perhaps if all thier customers were banned microsoft would rethink thier stance on it and open it up.
As soon as I woke I knew something was wrong. And looked around my room. Noticed it was darker than usual. After turning on the bedroom light I looked and saw my pc was off. Then I found out the power went out in the middle of the night. If it wernt for my pc and my wakeing up I could have been late for work.
I actually find the gentle hum and whirl of my pc comforting. along with the blinking yellow light and the faint green glow it gives my room.
When Optical mice came out me and my friends referd to them as female mice. ...no ball(s)
...tail was cut off..
With cordless mice we called them Neutered Mice.
Now we have neutered female mice ya gotta recharge thier batteries before ya can play with them. We do not have anything to call them.
Anyone have a susgestion?
They say they can't hold due to no funding from comedy central. Well how much do they need? I mean crap if its a measly 50K then that shouldnt be that hard to raise.
Reports of the great mage Elminster applying at a Local Seattle McDonalds are coming in. Many witnesses say they saw him standing in line for a job application practicing his lines, 'Would you like fries with that?'
More as the story breaks.
I would like to find benchmarks comparing Rambus to DDR at this speed.
When a dang popup appears. Then when I look at it to close it it opens up another add. Suddenly I am trying to close all these windows when ADULT ads started to popup. Obviously since naked women are on my screen I look at them. So suddenly I am signed up to two porn sites.
And that is why my screen is full of porn Mr smith. Please dont fire me. Its not my fault. Its this dang thing that uses my eyes to controll the computer instead of the keyboard.