I work in a restaurant. I owned one for a while, too. I can tell you, there are those that want the stuff.
The company I had taking mine away, at first, charged me to do so. Another company approached and said they'd charge less, they got into a bidding war with each other. Ended up having it done for free. At the time, I believe it was going into C4 production.
Now, at the restaurant I work at, the gentlemen who delivers our mushrooms takes it, and actually PAYS us for it (in the form of an extra box of mushrooms; product we'd use anyway). They use it to keep their 'cave' system at ideal temps, we get free product and free removal of something we have no use for. Win/Win.
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I still just don't 'get it'. What, exactly, is the big deal with Facebook? What purpose does it serve?
If I want to publish information about myself, I just see it as easier to do my own website.
Facebook == Geocities for idiots who can't learn a smattering of HTML, in my book.
I live in a rural area here in South Central Wisconsin. Cable stops 2 miles away, DSL is a good 20 miles away. I looked into satellite, and the prices are VERY cost prohibitive.
AllTel recently launched an EVDO service. The setup was a snap, Motorola MotoRAZR V3m phone, USB cable, and about 5 min of tinkering in linux, and I was online at a very respectible 400k/100k connection, with around 90-100ms latency.
Having said this, it doesn't make it easy to do a whole network this way. I did some research, and found a solution to that as well. Kyrocera offers a router (the KR1) that has both a simple USB port on it, and a spot for an EV-DO PCMCIA card. Quite literally, it would be plug 'n go, and an AllTel tier2 rep even said it works great for them at the office.
Best of all, the plan is already decent for cell phone service (4 people are on my plan, and I pay $100/month in total, and have more minutes than I know what to do with).
I've been hobbling along at 26.4kbps for quite a long time. It's very nice to finally get out of the stoneage:)
I'd like to see a semi-affordable (around $250) solid state storage device in a standard form factor and connection (3.5" SATA), at a decent size (15GiB).
This would be an ideal boot and OS drive for me. / and most of it's directories, along with a decent sized swap (2-3 GiB). Put/home and/tmp on a 'normal' large drive (standard SATA drive of decent speed, RAID array, etc.).
I've thought about doing this for a while, in fact... but every time I research it out I either come to dead ends with no price info, high prices, or odd interface requirements that aren't suitable for a desktop machine.
Chorizo is a common type of (usually pork, if memory serves) sausage in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. It's hard to find good chorizo outside of there though. The crap they usually sell cooks down to grease that sticks REALLY well to frying pans, it's supposed to 'ball up' like ground beef, sort of.
I've taken to ordering mine through the restaurant I work at. We get good quality ingrediants there, and while 5 lbs. of chorizo is a bit much, it freezes fine, and lasts me a good long while.:)
For some, there is more power in the '2nd Seat' as it were.
The old adage is that the King does not rule, rather, the closest advisor(s) rule, by feeding the King the information and suggestions that will best influence a decision toward the direction the advisor wants. This insulates them from anything that actually goes wrong, as they simply advised, it was the King that decided.
I've had a C-Band satellite dish for years now. I've always been able to pick and choose the channels and such that I want. There are 'bundles' out there, sure, but I don't want much, so I don't get much.
Add in that the same channels are available at nearly half the cost of the cheapest service out there (compairing cable and small dish), it's really a win-win for me.
The biggest downfalls to it are a large footprint is required (I live in the boonies, so a 12' dish in my backyard is no big deal), and I do remember the startup costs were high (this was a good 12+ years ago, mind you).
Right now, I'm running a 4DTV receiver (basically, standard C-Band, as well as MPEG channels) with a KU LNB (again, standard and MPEG KU), as well as a VERY nice on screen guide. The whole system updates itself every night.
I believe I pay around $200/year for the services I want, and I have literally hundreds of free and clear channels out there, including wild feeds and such (marathon sessions of syndicated TV shows and such, for cable companies to pick up and rebroadcast, as well as the occasional raw news feed, which are FAR more entertaining than anything shown on the news).
Might be something to look into should you live in a rural area.
I'm a SpamCop user, and I have noticed they've been letting through a bit more recently.
Though, that's a bit offset as of late, due to the fact that I've been getting a lot MORE spam recently as well. I usually find a good 40-50 messages sitting in my held mail after about 8-12 hours.
It's getting better slowly as I report more and more of the stuff that makes it through though.
I have a PC in my living room, but it's more a 'toy' than anything useful.
First off, my setup is a little 'unique'. I live in the boonies of Wisconsin, and have had a C-Band satellite dish for years. I'm not interested in getting a little dish, as it just doesn't offer the same stuff I already have access to. Add in that I have 4DTV (basically an MPEG decoder for a C-Band dish), I get more channels free and clear than any little dish could ever offer me.
I don't watch much TV, and therefore don't subscribe to much. I keep around the discovery channels and such, as I do enjoy those. My subscription prices, per year, are around $100. Way way cheaper than any small dish or cable service could offer me.
So, I really doubt there's much way to make the pc in there to actually control or record the descrambler in any meaningful way. Basically, I use it to pause live tv, or record a show that I'm watching.
Outside that, I do rip DVDs and CDs to a 'media store' on my network, so all my PCs (including the one in the living room) can get to it. That's about the best use of that PC.
What I'd LIKE to see out of it would be more along the lines of TiVO with scheduled recording and such, as well as the 'predictive' saving of shows (I watched this, I might like this, drop it on the drive, and I know to get rid of it if I'm running low on space), but my other hardware kinda prevents that.
Also, another nice feature would be more along the lines of data services from the TV station itself. For example, a football game is on. I'd like to have the picture of the game come through free and clear, and have the ability to format and display the score and other data as I wish: either on a seperate PC monitor or some such, or at least de-cluter what the TV station sends me. Make that real time data sync with basic text commentary (like the World Cup website and such), and I'd be much more apt to want a PC on my TV. Even advertising could be 'extended', with the various advertisers pushing data to a 'sponser' file. Would be much more likely to visit their site myself should it be 'all easy to get to'.
All this is a pipe dream, of course. But maybe, someday... *sigh*
"The New Scientist has an article about TinyP2P, the world's smallest P2P app. It's 15 lines of Python code brought to us by Edward Felten, CS Professor at Princeton and outspoken supporter of the digital rights the Slashdot community holds so dear. He wrote the program as a proof-of-concept that P2P apps are really easy to write, don't have to be complicated, and thus banning them (a la the INDUCE Act) is pointless and silly."
So by this logic... since a single command on a windows machine (format C:/y), which is just as bad as some virii out there, is fine and dandy and we shouldn't go after the people who wrote that virus that ate your grandmother's hard drive?
Listen, I'm as much for the free sharing of information as the next person, as long as the original author is OK with it. Also, I'd like to be sure that said author gets some cash for his work. The way P2P networks are used, primarily, is to trade MP3s and video files without the concent of the original author, or their getting some form of income from it. If you use it for something else, fine, but it's the primary use of it that bothers me.
Please, I encourage you to show me where I'm wrong in this. If you use the argument "the artists don't get any money or very little from the sale of their work" understand that that is not a valid excuse. If they feel cheated, they should have went with a better contract when they started, or been smarter during their negotiations with their label.
Actually, pt works just fine, try it out. You specify pt sizes for everything, and it'll work.
The targent audience is using Windows and either Netscape or IE. Both of these browsers under windows will resize font size if you specify pt.
Now, px is another matter, of course, and you are quite right about that.
Whenever this topic comes up, I really can't help but think I may never have been born had this been a reality when I was conceived. I believe that one of the defining things that shapes our personalities as sentient creatures is the various maladies we have.
I don't think this is meddling in the work of a God, either. I believe this goes against the very processes of evolution. If we're picking the defining factors for what is good, rather than the environment we exist in, we will stagnate on the evolutionary ladder. Species that can't adapt to their environment tend to fail rather quickly.
Of course, the other birth that may never have taken place is your own.
--Coda from the deleted scenes of Gattaca
As someone who's worked on a phone help desk for 4 years, I've run into a couple things that I've found that help me when I provide support:
Fast, easy-to-use documentation database Note the "easy-to-use" part. No repition of data, easy to reopen tickets and the more integration the better (user's name should bring up address/ph#/passwords/etc.).
Customizable Knowledge Base Let the techs make their own knowledge base on the intranet. We know what we want there, more than the best content authors you can find. A good KB will keep all your techs (no matter how many) on the same page.
Freedom Let the techs solve the issues, and not get bogged down by red tape. Give them hard guidelines on what to support, then give them a say statement or the like if they can go outside them to get a user going. That just looks good to a customer, and it'll keep the company and techs out of hot water.
That's just the tip of the iceburg, but I do hope it helps you out.:)
Great, now I can pick and choose my good triats (I have those, right?) and sell them on EbaY! So long as can get past the copywrite burn protection, that is. Oh wait, I have a felt tip marker here. =]
Congratuations you've just given props to the sneaker net.
There's something to be said for the sneaker-net. That's how people think, and how people work. People like to 'carry' around their stuff, because that's how we work with everything else. Why not data too?
If you are going to suggest improvements to tech products, please have a clue about them before opening your mouth.
Whoa, easy there, fella. I know you're a Linux god and all, but a lot of us out here reading Slashdot aren't. We don't know how X11 handles the Windows IDs. This is good information, but it's not a point to berate people over. Rather, it's a flaw in the system that needs correcting to attain an awesome OS that everyone wants to use.
Having recently seen Minority Report, I can see what's being looked for. The way Anderton (Tom Cruise's character) moved from machine to machine, dragging visual representations of the data he was working on to small holographic plates was definitely a cool and intuitive way to move around in a computer.
You want this data somewhere? Drag it to a 'disk' then drag it off the disk. What could be simpler?
Now, I know we're quite a ways away from holographic interfaces of the scale in the movie, and probably will never see something exactly like that (after all it's a movie, it's not real), but the next best thing would be sending the window we're working on to another display via some easier method than saving, and reopening it elsewhere. You want the display to show exactly what you were working on; no scrolling to find the exact place in that website/document you were looking at. This helps keep a continuity of thought going or allows you to show more people what you're doing easily.
As I said, this highlights a flaw in the XWindows system, as moving what the user considers an object (the browser window in it's current state) from one machine to the next seems natural. Rather than a critical view of the poster's ignorance on the subject, how about a description of how it can be done, and what changes will need to be made to the OS to allow this to be possible. If I'm not mistaken, that was kind of the whole point of Linux being open source; it allows you to make modifications to it to make it better.
Rather than an attitude of "It's impossible, you're stupid," wouldn't it be better to take the view of "It's impossible with the way it works now, but it could happen if..." I see nothing but progress happening with that statement.
I have a Garmin eMap. The flash upgrade feature is great, I probably would've had to buy a whole new unit to get the kind of features they've packed into the latest firmware update.
The list of corrections and features they've added to this thing is amazing. The eMap was useful before, now it's downright a necessity when I'm traveling.
I use PowWeb for much the same thing. Only $7.77 a month, very fast, extremely easy to use 'Ops' interface, awesome customer service, and great web service.
I don't use much of the web services, I just put up a crappy little website to publish my resume and to play with SSI stuff.
They give you 50 POP accounts, 100 e-mail forwarding address, 100MB of disk space, 12 gigs of data transfer a month, and a real DNS manager. Check out their Service Comparison page for more info.
If ya go for it, put me in as a referral! I'll take the free 2 months they'll give.:)
Since the PS2 can now run Linux, could it be used as a "copy machine" for movies; set it up to just copy down that DVD and encode it, thus pissing off the RIAA et al.
I'm just as excited about this as all of you are, I've been waiting for this for a while, it'll be a cool new toy to play with. I just hope some suit doesn't ruin my fun:(.
Played this on demo at the local Wal-Mart, really good arcade-style racing controls, and when you slam into traffic going 100+ mph it's really fun to watch how many times your car flips:).
As you can see, I don't mask my e-mail address on these posts. I am a registered user of spamcop.net, and now I get maybe 1 spam a month.
When asked for an e-mail address on a survey, a website, or to fill in anywhere, I provide my spamcop address. Also, when giving e-mail addys out to friends/family, I provide the spamcop address.
When you send a message to my account, you automatically get a bounce reply. You can reply to this message, and your message will be sent as normal. From then on, you never have to worry about it. Alternatly, I can authorize you from their simple web admin system. Also, I can deny whole domains, specific users, anything, just by filling out a couple forms.
If I don't like what I see on there (I check it about once a week), I can simply report it as spam to their ISPs, delete it, or allow it, with a few simple clicks.
They also filter out all attachments (you can turn this off if you want). My family is a group of computer neophytes, they are constantly getting viruses. I'm notified that there was an attachment, but it never gets to my box. I can safely tell them they're infected, and I never see it again.
The price is extremely good. I paid $25 for 50MB of e-mail almost a year ago. I've still got some 40MB left (most mailings are no more than 10k, usually much less).
I know I sound like a commercial, but I feel it's important to point out the great business when I find 'em.
To anyone who's been trying to get 'em to disk (esp. thoes of us on dial-up connections who want to watch these in a real framerate):
Head over here and grab the ASFRecorder.
Now, go here. Left click the Windows Media Player link for the video you want.
As the video window loads up, center click and hold, then right click while still center clicking, and view source on the doc (you have to do this to get around the "no right click" script).
Extract the path to the ASX file from the HTML.
Drop that into ASFRecorder, and download the damn things:).
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I work in a restaurant. I owned one for a while, too. I can tell you, there are those that want the stuff. The company I had taking mine away, at first, charged me to do so. Another company approached and said they'd charge less, they got into a bidding war with each other. Ended up having it done for free. At the time, I believe it was going into C4 production. Now, at the restaurant I work at, the gentlemen who delivers our mushrooms takes it, and actually PAYS us for it (in the form of an extra box of mushrooms; product we'd use anyway). They use it to keep their 'cave' system at ideal temps, we get free product and free removal of something we have no use for. Win/Win.
I still just don't 'get it'. What, exactly, is the big deal with Facebook? What purpose does it serve? If I want to publish information about myself, I just see it as easier to do my own website. Facebook == Geocities for idiots who can't learn a smattering of HTML, in my book.
I live in a rural area here in South Central Wisconsin. Cable stops 2 miles away, DSL is a good 20 miles away. I looked into satellite, and the prices are VERY cost prohibitive.
:)
AllTel recently launched an EVDO service. The setup was a snap, Motorola MotoRAZR V3m phone, USB cable, and about 5 min of tinkering in linux, and I was online at a very respectible 400k/100k connection, with around 90-100ms latency.
Having said this, it doesn't make it easy to do a whole network this way. I did some research, and found a solution to that as well. Kyrocera offers a router (the KR1) that has both a simple USB port on it, and a spot for an EV-DO PCMCIA card. Quite literally, it would be plug 'n go, and an AllTel tier2 rep even said it works great for them at the office.
Best of all, the plan is already decent for cell phone service (4 people are on my plan, and I pay $100/month in total, and have more minutes than I know what to do with).
I've been hobbling along at 26.4kbps for quite a long time. It's very nice to finally get out of the stoneage
I'd like to see a semi-affordable (around $250) solid state storage device in a standard form factor and connection (3.5" SATA), at a decent size (15GiB).
/home and /tmp on a 'normal' large drive (standard SATA drive of decent speed, RAID array, etc.).
This would be an ideal boot and OS drive for me. / and most of it's directories, along with a decent sized swap (2-3 GiB). Put
I've thought about doing this for a while, in fact... but every time I research it out I either come to dead ends with no price info, high prices, or odd interface requirements that aren't suitable for a desktop machine.
Chorizo is a common type of (usually pork, if memory serves) sausage in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. It's hard to find good chorizo outside of there though. The crap they usually sell cooks down to grease that sticks REALLY well to frying pans, it's supposed to 'ball up' like ground beef, sort of.
I've taken to ordering mine through the restaurant I work at. We get good quality ingrediants there, and while 5 lbs. of chorizo is a bit much, it freezes fine, and lasts me a good long while. :)
For some, there is more power in the '2nd Seat' as it were. The old adage is that the King does not rule, rather, the closest advisor(s) rule, by feeding the King the information and suggestions that will best influence a decision toward the direction the advisor wants. This insulates them from anything that actually goes wrong, as they simply advised, it was the King that decided.
I've had a C-Band satellite dish for years now. I've always been able to pick and choose the channels and such that I want. There are 'bundles' out there, sure, but I don't want much, so I don't get much.
Add in that the same channels are available at nearly half the cost of the cheapest service out there (compairing cable and small dish), it's really a win-win for me.
The biggest downfalls to it are a large footprint is required (I live in the boonies, so a 12' dish in my backyard is no big deal), and I do remember the startup costs were high (this was a good 12+ years ago, mind you).
Right now, I'm running a 4DTV receiver (basically, standard C-Band, as well as MPEG channels) with a KU LNB (again, standard and MPEG KU), as well as a VERY nice on screen guide. The whole system updates itself every night.
I believe I pay around $200/year for the services I want, and I have literally hundreds of free and clear channels out there, including wild feeds and such (marathon sessions of syndicated TV shows and such, for cable companies to pick up and rebroadcast, as well as the occasional raw news feed, which are FAR more entertaining than anything shown on the news).
Might be something to look into should you live in a rural area.
I'm a SpamCop user, and I have noticed they've been letting through a bit more recently.
Though, that's a bit offset as of late, due to the fact that I've been getting a lot MORE spam recently as well. I usually find a good 40-50 messages sitting in my held mail after about 8-12 hours.
It's getting better slowly as I report more and more of the stuff that makes it through though.
I have a PC in my living room, but it's more a 'toy' than anything useful.
First off, my setup is a little 'unique'. I live in the boonies of Wisconsin, and have had a C-Band satellite dish for years. I'm not interested in getting a little dish, as it just doesn't offer the same stuff I already have access to. Add in that I have 4DTV (basically an MPEG decoder for a C-Band dish), I get more channels free and clear than any little dish could ever offer me.
I don't watch much TV, and therefore don't subscribe to much. I keep around the discovery channels and such, as I do enjoy those. My subscription prices, per year, are around $100. Way way cheaper than any small dish or cable service could offer me.
So, I really doubt there's much way to make the pc in there to actually control or record the descrambler in any meaningful way. Basically, I use it to pause live tv, or record a show that I'm watching.
Outside that, I do rip DVDs and CDs to a 'media store' on my network, so all my PCs (including the one in the living room) can get to it. That's about the best use of that PC.
What I'd LIKE to see out of it would be more along the lines of TiVO with scheduled recording and such, as well as the 'predictive' saving of shows (I watched this, I might like this, drop it on the drive, and I know to get rid of it if I'm running low on space), but my other hardware kinda prevents that.
Also, another nice feature would be more along the lines of data services from the TV station itself. For example, a football game is on. I'd like to have the picture of the game come through free and clear, and have the ability to format and display the score and other data as I wish: either on a seperate PC monitor or some such, or at least de-cluter what the TV station sends me. Make that real time data sync with basic text commentary (like the World Cup website and such), and I'd be much more apt to want a PC on my TV. Even advertising could be 'extended', with the various advertisers pushing data to a 'sponser' file. Would be much more likely to visit their site myself should it be 'all easy to get to'.
All this is a pipe dream, of course. But maybe, someday... *sigh*
"The New Scientist has an article about TinyP2P, the world's smallest P2P app. It's 15 lines of Python code brought to us by Edward Felten, CS Professor at Princeton and outspoken supporter of the digital rights the Slashdot community holds so dear. He wrote the program as a proof-of-concept that P2P apps are really easy to write, don't have to be complicated, and thus banning them (a la the INDUCE Act) is pointless and silly."
So by this logic... since a single command on a windows machine (format C: /y), which is just as bad as some virii out there, is fine and dandy and we shouldn't go after the people who wrote that virus that ate your grandmother's hard drive?
Listen, I'm as much for the free sharing of information as the next person, as long as the original author is OK with it. Also, I'd like to be sure that said author gets some cash for his work. The way P2P networks are used, primarily, is to trade MP3s and video files without the concent of the original author, or their getting some form of income from it. If you use it for something else, fine, but it's the primary use of it that bothers me.
Please, I encourage you to show me where I'm wrong in this. If you use the argument "the artists don't get any money or very little from the sale of their work" understand that that is not a valid excuse. If they feel cheated, they should have went with a better contract when they started, or been smarter during their negotiations with their label.
Actually, pt works just fine, try it out. You specify pt sizes for everything, and it'll work. The targent audience is using Windows and either Netscape or IE. Both of these browsers under windows will resize font size if you specify pt. Now, px is another matter, of course, and you are quite right about that.
Whenever this topic comes up, I really can't help but think I may never have been born had this been a reality when I was conceived. I believe that one of the defining things that shapes our personalities as sentient creatures is the various maladies we have.
I don't think this is meddling in the work of a God, either. I believe this goes against the very processes of evolution. If we're picking the defining factors for what is good, rather than the environment we exist in, we will stagnate on the evolutionary ladder. Species that can't adapt to their environment tend to fail rather quickly.
As someone who's worked on a phone help desk for 4 years, I've run into a couple things that I've found that help me when I provide support:
Note the "easy-to-use" part. No repition of data, easy to reopen tickets and the more integration the better (user's name should bring up address/ph#/passwords/etc.).
Let the techs make their own knowledge base on the intranet. We know what we want there, more than the best content authors you can find. A good KB will keep all your techs (no matter how many) on the same page.
Let the techs solve the issues, and not get bogged down by red tape. Give them hard guidelines on what to support, then give them a say statement or the like if they can go outside them to get a user going. That just looks good to a customer, and it'll keep the company and techs out of hot water.
That's just the tip of the iceburg, but I do hope it helps you out. :)
Valiss said:
No, actually, you can't. I'm going to bet that the eBay Police will say no because of their Questionable Items page, specifically the Human Parts and Remains part.
After all, they got all pissy when you try to sell your soul on their site.
There's something to be said for the sneaker-net. That's how people think, and how people work. People like to 'carry' around their stuff, because that's how we work with everything else. Why not data too?
Whoa, easy there, fella. I know you're a Linux god and all, but a lot of us out here reading Slashdot aren't. We don't know how X11 handles the Windows IDs. This is good information, but it's not a point to berate people over. Rather, it's a flaw in the system that needs correcting to attain an awesome OS that everyone wants to use.
Having recently seen Minority Report, I can see what's being looked for. The way Anderton (Tom Cruise's character) moved from machine to machine, dragging visual representations of the data he was working on to small holographic plates was definitely a cool and intuitive way to move around in a computer.
You want this data somewhere? Drag it to a 'disk' then drag it off the disk. What could be simpler?
Now, I know we're quite a ways away from holographic interfaces of the scale in the movie, and probably will never see something exactly like that (after all it's a movie, it's not real), but the next best thing would be sending the window we're working on to another display via some easier method than saving, and reopening it elsewhere. You want the display to show exactly what you were working on; no scrolling to find the exact place in that website/document you were looking at. This helps keep a continuity of thought going or allows you to show more people what you're doing easily.
As I said, this highlights a flaw in the XWindows system, as moving what the user considers an object (the browser window in it's current state) from one machine to the next seems natural. Rather than a critical view of the poster's ignorance on the subject, how about a description of how it can be done, and what changes will need to be made to the OS to allow this to be possible. If I'm not mistaken, that was kind of the whole point of Linux being open source; it allows you to make modifications to it to make it better.
Rather than an attitude of "It's impossible, you're stupid," wouldn't it be better to take the view of "It's impossible with the way it works now, but it could happen if..." I see nothing but progress happening with that statement.
My current addictions are:
Combining racing, shooting, dark humor and wonton viloence in one game. Plus, you get to be the bad guy for once
Practice at home to play Tekken 4 in arcades and provide maximum pain to my adversaries.
Ooooo... pretty...
No one else in my family plays, so I play with complete strangers.
Team Deathmatch and Domination with 3+ teams is good. Mods like Jailbreak and FragBall are also highly time-consuming.
Great little Shockwave game. I play this constantly at work
Wow, looking at the list, it's amazing that I'm bored all the time...
I have a Garmin eMap. The flash upgrade feature is great, I probably would've had to buy a whole new unit to get the kind of features they've packed into the latest firmware update.
The list of corrections and features they've added to this thing is amazing. The eMap was useful before, now it's downright a necessity when I'm traveling.
I use PowWeb for much the same thing. Only $7.77 a month, very fast, extremely easy to use 'Ops' interface, awesome customer service, and great web service.
I don't use much of the web services, I just put up a crappy little website to publish my resume and to play with SSI stuff.
They give you 50 POP accounts, 100 e-mail forwarding address, 100MB of disk space, 12 gigs of data transfer a month, and a real DNS manager. Check out their Service Comparison page for more info.
If ya go for it, put me in as a referral! I'll take the free 2 months they'll give. :)
Hmmm...
Since the PS2 can now run Linux, could it be used as a "copy machine" for movies; set it up to just copy down that DVD and encode it, thus pissing off the RIAA et al.
I'm just as excited about this as all of you are, I've been waiting for this for a while, it'll be a cool new toy to play with. I just hope some suit doesn't ruin my fun :(.
I've got 3 people here at work hooked on this game. Great story, decent graphics, very involving.
Burnout for the Playstation 2.
Played this on demo at the local Wal-Mart, really good arcade-style racing controls, and when you slam into traffic going 100+ mph it's really fun to watch how many times your car flips :).
Yes! Now I can watch my streaming pr0n right on my porch! I can now be a truly high-tech redneck!
As you can see, I don't mask my e-mail address on these posts. I am a registered user of spamcop.net, and now I get maybe 1 spam a month.
When asked for an e-mail address on a survey, a website, or to fill in anywhere, I provide my spamcop address. Also, when giving e-mail addys out to friends/family, I provide the spamcop address.
When you send a message to my account, you automatically get a bounce reply. You can reply to this message, and your message will be sent as normal. From then on, you never have to worry about it. Alternatly, I can authorize you from their simple web admin system. Also, I can deny whole domains, specific users, anything, just by filling out a couple forms.
If I don't like what I see on there (I check it about once a week), I can simply report it as spam to their ISPs, delete it, or allow it, with a few simple clicks.
They also filter out all attachments (you can turn this off if you want). My family is a group of computer neophytes, they are constantly getting viruses. I'm notified that there was an attachment, but it never gets to my box. I can safely tell them they're infected, and I never see it again.
The price is extremely good. I paid $25 for 50MB of e-mail almost a year ago. I've still got some 40MB left (most mailings are no more than 10k, usually much less).
I know I sound like a commercial, but I feel it's important to point out the great business when I find 'em.
To anyone who's been trying to get 'em to disk (esp. thoes of us on dial-up connections who want to watch these in a real framerate): Head over here and grab the ASFRecorder.
Now, go here. Left click the Windows Media Player link for the video you want.
As the video window loads up, center click and hold, then right click while still center clicking, and view source on the doc (you have to do this to get around the "no right click" script).
Extract the path to the ASX file from the HTML.
Drop that into ASFRecorder, and download the damn things :).