When I play a game that uses my SOCOM headset, I have to plug it in otherwise ALL audio routes through it. In order to save wear & tear on the USB port on my case, I just use one of those 7-inch USB extension cables. If I wear that out, no big deal.
Just wish Windows would let ME turn off & on the headset in software.
I remember seeing a video where someone at a lan party was made an example of. He was cheating, so officials at said LAN party ripped out his case and threw it on the ground outside. It shattered.
I get automated phone calls from my car dealership being Motorwerks BMW, again that is MOTORWERKS BMW in Bloomington, MN. Yeah, I have an established prior relationship with them, but it's really tacky of them to do that. Especially with how much they charge for certain parts. $75 for a license plate holder?
I have the opposite view. I have the default Xandros on my EEE PC and like it more than Ubuntu. Still no gcc(haven't figured that one out), but I can:
1. Tweak my mousewheel settings(still can't find that in Ubuntu) 2. tweak the GUI easily(through that big config manager) 3. add/remove/tweak start menu items easily. Look at that, I added MAME to the Games section. Look at that, it put wireshark in a start menu section by itself. 4. Effortlessly hook up to a wireless network 5. Numerous other things that have been frustrating in Unbuntu.
I bought a used IBM desktop(4 Ghz) and it seems sluggish with Unbuntu on it compared to the EEE. Even turning off the bells & whistles didn't do much of a difference.
You are 100% correct, Flash is completely out of control when it comes to resource allotment. Apparently it thinks it's Adobe Acrobat reader, needing more CPU power than Crysis ever needed to render anything.
Also another problem is that Flash ads are now the mainstream, and they insist on downloading more and more content as time goes by. I can't seem to find too many websites that don't insist on embedded Flash ads that try to load video, sound, etc.
Add the memory leaks, etc to Firefox, and all is not well in websurf land. I know of a few videos on screwattack that completely locked up my website.
s, there have been laws passed here in the UK granting extra protection to their trademarks.
And we all know the IOC is nice & fair & reasonable, just like the RIAA and MPAA in regards to copyright claims.
Really, why does the IOC get "extra" protection in regards to trademarks compared to anyone else? What makes the IOC so special? I have grown tired of these organizations that seem to think they are more important than everyone else, trampling over what they see fit.
There's the ultimate battle royale for you: A pirated MP3 song by band called "The Olympix".
I was at Harriet Island in St. Paul, MN for the Irish fair. Whipped out the laptop, and couldn't find any unsecured AP that had more than 1% strength. ALL the other APs, all with strong signals are secured. Kinda pissed me off as I wanted to check my email.
I've never liked the Olympics due to the overwhelming amount of political crap that goes around it. Suddenly, sites that host the olympics turn into a police state. Friendly merchants now gouge the hell out of everyone. The IOC act like they are some sort of immortal god when it comes to anything olympics related, seeming to trump state & local government authority. And that's not even the dirty politics that people play just to get the olympics hosted in their neck of the woods.
Having it hosted in China seems like an Orwellian match made in haven. At least they did one thing nice to combat the smog: they postponed burning of political prisoners(okay, that was a joke).
Its not like there was any good summer programming on NBC anyways.
I work in an area that gets ULTRA-congested during rush hour(Plymouth, MN). So I instead drive 3 miles from my workplace, hit the gym, and then after the gym, it's a smooth ride home. I figure my time is better spent burning calories at the gym, than burning gas waiting at Hwy 55's 100000 stoplights(and yes, you will hit each one).
Mind you, my biggest weight loss(9 pounds) happened recently over loss of appetite, due to depression over not having a job for 2.5 months prior. Being in an office environment, I gotta compensate it by hitting the gym more often.
Any programs listed for SpikeTV seem to be peppered with a "HD" tag at the beginning of the description. Yet I can't find the Spike HD channel on my Comcast lineup. Also, some VH1 shows are listed in HD, despite there being no HD channel I know of, and with such low production values, I doubt "I love money" is in HD.
You would think there would be a bit more refinement in Comcast's online guide not to lie, or tease people about HD versions of programs on a HD channel you can't get.
Ha, try setting it on an LCD TV. Took forever. And what kind of medieval graphical environment wants you to select the freaking refresh rate on your monitor? There's no excuse for that.
Linux is superior to Windows in that regard. It requires you to know the horizontal refresh rate in addition to the vertical. Like who the hell is going to know the horizontal refresh rate of a freakin' monitor? We never needed to know that in Windows.
And don't say it's for greater hardware support across more monitors. Just don't. Having to look it up(and failing) just makes setting something as simple as a resolution for the desktop an even greater pain in the ass.
My old junker 700MHz Linux box fell to the 'linux curse' where hardware started failing left & right, thus making the OS fail. It happens on every 2ndhand system I install Linux on. So I get a refurbished computer & reinstall linux. Spent over an hour getting the resolutioon BACK to 1024x768 on a Micron monitor. Nothing, NOTHING should ever take that long just to change the desktop resolution. Ubuntu's "desktop resolution" is like a showcase of resolutions you honestly dont want(640x480)
Tbe rest of my time was spent trying to get my account to authenticate in Samba. I have never been so frustrated with one app than Samba. It's just one authentication problem after another.
Spam seems to be heavily tied with yahoo, hotmail, and just about every free email service. Maybe we need to introduce some more hoop jumping to get a new (free) email account, or shut it down altogether. The lack of accounting of an email addy to an address/phone # is nice, but it seems to come at a VERY high cost.
....when I thought about all the privacy risk potential for that oh-so-wonderful website known as facebook. I balked at the idea of using my real name on there. The site seems to be nearly useless if you have no friends who are already on the site. There's options for putting in your home address & phone number, and about 20 other things a website honestly doesn't to know about you.
Now it's expansing. Makes me wonder why all the people who loved facebook yet hated myspace think so highly of this site. Yes, I use linkedin.com and my real name on there, but that's for job hunting prospects & checking out recruiters. That's different, for in the corporate world I do use my real name.
The more I see spammers/scammers infect the Internet, the more of a good idea it is. Yahoo.com seems to be the one-stop shop for all sorts of nefarious types. Just as how we shouldn't broadcast our email address everywhere, perhaps we should be limiting the public to an instantly-made email account.
Sure, that would kill off the existance for my gmail account, as there's no sure-fire human authenticaiton method. However, my comcast account is going to be legit, for I pay for that.
How about we experiment with a universal blacklisting of yahoo email addys? Let's see where that takes us. Sure, they will all just move to hotmail or the next free one, but let's see what happens. Take any website prone to abuse from 419ers and take yahoo out of the equation.
Several years ago, I was at the state fair, and there was this pretty slick looking sci-fi themed video game. Well, it crashed. The poor tech had to fix it rebooted it, and it was Windows 2000. She had to click OK through a ton of dialogs to get the game started again. Forgot the name of the game, but it involved flying through some narrow tunnels. And obviously, it was made after 2000. Heh, probably easy to emulate in MAME, as MAME is not exactly needed!
I think one of the Golden Tee games runs Windows too, as I've seen that BSOD.
I remember many moons ago seeing the Windows 95 desktop on public access TV stations. Before that, I remember seeing the Amiga bootup screen, prompting you to insert the Workbench disk!
Also back in the early 1980s on Minneapolis cable systems, one bizarre channel was a Commodore 64 desktop, er BASIC with a bunch of cryptic numbers. Those were the days cable stations had the "story" channel, which featured children's stories rendered on some computer, with slow-drawing graphics, page by page. Good times.
...that you can 'subscribe to'(for money) to get links to tech stories earlier than the non-subscribers. Yes, paying for links to other stories, earlier than anyone else would see it.
At work, there was a Mustek A3 scanner. This is THE biggest scanner I've ever seen. two 8.5 x 11 pages fit in there perfectly. In my spare time at work, I scanned in every issue of Videogaming & Computergaming illustrated magazine I had. Why? They were fragile(some pages were falling apart), and it was an AMAZING magazine that put other publications to shame. Made in the early 1980s, it was fun & nostalgic to read over & over again.
Not wanting to keep this to myself, I scanned in all the issues at 300 dpi, straightened 'em out & uploaded them to my picasa account for everyone to enjoy. Did the same thing with a few other mags(99er HCM, etc) so they would live forever in digital immortality. Originally, they were in paint shop pro format, but after straightening them out, I saved them to a more agnostic TIF format, which also saved hard drive space.
The key? Get that Mustek a3 scanner. Sadly, it has the absolute WORST drivers ever made for a device. Expect to power-cycle the scanner and hope for the best. Shame, really, as it's quite affordable compared to the competition, and I can scan album covers in 2 passes + stitching. Trying to do that with a regular smaller scanner means I had to do it 4 times in a radial pattern, and too much distortion(bending of the cover) meant things never lined up right.
I'm sick and tired of people whing about "What if that hits an SUV?" as their justification for getting an SUV the same(or larger) the same size in case they crash into someone.
I really hate to break it to you, but no matter what vehicle configuration it is, BAD THINGS HAPPEN in a car crash. No magical $ you spend on an suv will turn a car crash from blood *& guts to rainbows & puppies. Airbags are everywhere now, which does a better job compared to optional seatbelts & no airbaigs of yesteryear's vehicles. You roll your saving throw, and hope for the best.
interactively adding a table in Google pages? I am honestly surprised it's not a feature there. C'mon, tables in a web page! I would rather cut my own instead of using pre-definied page layouts(too high level). Can't they port the code from their document creator?
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When I play a game that uses my SOCOM headset, I have to plug it in otherwise ALL audio routes through it. In order to save wear & tear on the USB port on my case, I just use one of those 7-inch USB extension cables. If I wear that out, no big deal.
Just wish Windows would let ME turn off & on the headset in software.
We can have a few dead deaf people crossing the street a year, or we ALL die from global warming & air pollution. Which is better for you?
Better yet, if you're deaf, look both ways before crossing the dang street.
You're right. This Ide section of Slashdot is like what FarkTV was to fark.
I remember seeing a video where someone at a lan party was made an example of. He was cheating, so officials at said LAN party ripped out his case and threw it on the ground outside. It shattered.
I get automated phone calls from my car dealership being Motorwerks BMW, again that is MOTORWERKS BMW in Bloomington, MN. Yeah, I have an established prior relationship with them, but it's really tacky of them to do that. Especially with how much they charge for certain parts. $75 for a license plate holder?
I have the opposite view. I have the default Xandros on my EEE PC and like it more than Ubuntu. Still no gcc(haven't figured that one out), but I can:
1. Tweak my mousewheel settings(still can't find that in Ubuntu)
2. tweak the GUI easily(through that big config manager)
3. add/remove/tweak start menu items easily. Look at that, I added MAME to the Games section. Look at that, it put wireshark in a start menu section by itself.
4. Effortlessly hook up to a wireless network
5. Numerous other things that have been frustrating in Unbuntu.
I bought a used IBM desktop(4 Ghz) and it seems sluggish with Unbuntu on it compared to the EEE. Even turning off the bells & whistles didn't do much of a difference.
You are 100% correct, Flash is completely out of control when it comes to resource allotment. Apparently it thinks it's Adobe Acrobat reader, needing more CPU power than Crysis ever needed to render anything.
Also another problem is that Flash ads are now the mainstream, and they insist on downloading more and more content as time goes by. I can't seem to find too many websites that don't insist on embedded Flash ads that try to load video, sound, etc.
Add the memory leaks, etc to Firefox, and all is not well in websurf land. I know of a few videos on screwattack that completely locked up my website.
s, there have been laws passed here in the UK granting extra protection to their trademarks.
And we all know the IOC is nice & fair & reasonable, just like the RIAA and MPAA in regards to copyright claims.
Really, why does the IOC get "extra" protection in regards to trademarks compared to anyone else? What makes the IOC so special? I have grown tired of these organizations that seem to think they are more important than everyone else, trampling over what they see fit.
There's the ultimate battle royale for you: A pirated MP3 song by band called "The Olympix".
I was at Harriet Island in St. Paul, MN for the Irish fair. Whipped out the laptop, and couldn't find any unsecured AP that had more than 1% strength. ALL the other APs, all with strong signals are secured. Kinda pissed me off as I wanted to check my email.
I've never liked the Olympics due to the overwhelming amount of political crap that goes around it. Suddenly, sites that host the olympics turn into a police state. Friendly merchants now gouge the hell out of everyone. The IOC act like they are some sort of immortal god when it comes to anything olympics related, seeming to trump state & local government authority. And that's not even the dirty politics that people play just to get the olympics hosted in their neck of the woods.
Having it hosted in China seems like an Orwellian match made in haven. At least they did one thing nice to combat the smog: they postponed burning of political prisoners(okay, that was a joke).
Its not like there was any good summer programming on NBC anyways.
the NSA doesn't like competition.
I work in an area that gets ULTRA-congested during rush hour(Plymouth, MN). So I instead drive 3 miles from my workplace, hit the gym, and then after the gym, it's a smooth ride home. I figure my time is better spent burning calories at the gym, than burning gas waiting at Hwy 55's 100000 stoplights(and yes, you will hit each one).
Mind you, my biggest weight loss(9 pounds) happened recently over loss of appetite, due to depression over not having a job for 2.5 months prior. Being in an office environment, I gotta compensate it by hitting the gym more often.
Any programs listed for SpikeTV seem to be peppered with a "HD" tag at the beginning of the description. Yet I can't find the Spike HD channel on my Comcast lineup. Also, some VH1 shows are listed in HD, despite there being no HD channel I know of, and with such low production values, I doubt "I love money" is in HD.
You would think there would be a bit more refinement in Comcast's online guide not to lie, or tease people about HD versions of programs on a HD channel you can't get.
Ha, try setting it on an LCD TV. Took forever. And what kind of medieval graphical environment wants you to select the freaking refresh rate on your monitor? There's no excuse for that.
Linux is superior to Windows in that regard. It requires you to know the horizontal refresh rate in addition to the vertical. Like who the hell is going to know the horizontal refresh rate of a freakin' monitor? We never needed to know that in Windows.
And don't say it's for greater hardware support across more monitors. Just don't. Having to look it up(and failing) just makes setting something as simple as a resolution for the desktop an even greater pain in the ass.
My old junker 700MHz Linux box fell to the 'linux curse' where hardware started failing left & right, thus making the OS fail. It happens on every 2ndhand system I install Linux on. So I get a refurbished computer & reinstall linux. Spent over an hour getting the resolutioon BACK to 1024x768 on a Micron monitor. Nothing, NOTHING should ever take that long just to change the desktop resolution. Ubuntu's "desktop resolution" is like a showcase of resolutions you honestly dont want(640x480)
Tbe rest of my time was spent trying to get my account to authenticate in Samba. I have never been so frustrated with one app than Samba. It's just one authentication problem after another.
Spam seems to be heavily tied with yahoo, hotmail, and just about every free email service. Maybe we need to introduce some more hoop jumping to get a new (free) email account, or shut it down altogether. The lack of accounting of an email addy to an address/phone # is nice, but it seems to come at a VERY high cost.
....when I thought about all the privacy risk potential for that oh-so-wonderful website known as facebook. I balked at the idea of using my real name on there. The site seems to be nearly useless if you have no friends who are already on the site. There's options for putting in your home address & phone number, and about 20 other things a website honestly doesn't to know about you.
Now it's expansing. Makes me wonder why all the people who loved facebook yet hated myspace think so highly of this site. Yes, I use linkedin.com and my real name on there, but that's for job hunting prospects & checking out recruiters. That's different, for in the corporate world I do use my real name.
The more I see spammers/scammers infect the Internet, the more of a good idea it is. Yahoo.com seems to be the one-stop shop for all sorts of nefarious types. Just as how we shouldn't broadcast our email address everywhere, perhaps we should be limiting the public to an instantly-made email account.
Sure, that would kill off the existance for my gmail account, as there's no sure-fire human authenticaiton method. However, my comcast account is going to be legit, for I pay for that.
How about we experiment with a universal blacklisting of yahoo email addys? Let's see where that takes us. Sure, they will all just move to hotmail or the next free one, but let's see what happens. Take any website prone to abuse from 419ers and take yahoo out of the equation.
Several years ago, I was at the state fair, and there was this pretty slick looking sci-fi themed video game. Well, it crashed. The poor tech had to fix it rebooted it, and it was Windows 2000. She had to click OK through a ton of dialogs to get the game started again. Forgot the name of the game, but it involved flying through some narrow tunnels. And obviously, it was made after 2000. Heh, probably easy to emulate in MAME, as MAME is not exactly needed!
I think one of the Golden Tee games runs Windows too, as I've seen that BSOD.
I remember many moons ago seeing the Windows 95 desktop on public access TV stations. Before that, I remember seeing the Amiga bootup screen, prompting you to insert the Workbench disk!
Also back in the early 1980s on Minneapolis cable systems, one bizarre channel was a Commodore 64 desktop, er BASIC with a bunch of cryptic numbers. Those were the days cable stations had the "story" channel, which featured children's stories rendered on some computer, with slow-drawing graphics, page by page. Good times.
...that you can 'subscribe to'(for money) to get links to tech stories earlier than the non-subscribers. Yes, paying for links to other stories, earlier than anyone else would see it.
Like really, who the heck would pay for THAT? :)
At work, there was a Mustek A3 scanner. This is THE biggest scanner I've ever seen. two 8.5 x 11 pages fit in there perfectly. In my spare time at work, I scanned in every issue of Videogaming & Computergaming illustrated magazine I had. Why? They were fragile(some pages were falling apart), and it was an AMAZING magazine that put other publications to shame. Made in the early 1980s, it was fun & nostalgic to read over & over again.
Not wanting to keep this to myself, I scanned in all the issues at 300 dpi, straightened 'em out & uploaded them to my picasa account for everyone to enjoy. Did the same thing with a few other mags(99er HCM, etc) so they would live forever in digital immortality. Originally, they were in paint shop pro format, but after straightening them out, I saved them to a more agnostic TIF format, which also saved hard drive space.
The key? Get that Mustek a3 scanner. Sadly, it has the absolute WORST drivers ever made for a device. Expect to power-cycle the scanner and hope for the best. Shame, really, as it's quite affordable compared to the competition, and I can scan album covers in 2 passes + stitching. Trying to do that with a regular smaller scanner means I had to do it 4 times in a radial pattern, and too much distortion(bending of the cover) meant things never lined up right.
I'm sick and tired of people whing about "What if that hits an SUV?" as their justification for getting an SUV the same(or larger) the same size in case they crash into someone.
I really hate to break it to you, but no matter what vehicle configuration it is, BAD THINGS HAPPEN in a car crash. No magical $ you spend on an suv will turn a car crash from blood *& guts to rainbows & puppies. Airbags are everywhere now, which does a better job compared to optional seatbelts & no airbaigs of yesteryear's vehicles. You roll your saving throw, and hope for the best.
I dispatched an email to YouTube about this order,
Did you call their main switchboard, my good man?
I love old-timey talk!
interactively adding a table in Google pages? I am honestly surprised it's not a feature there. C'mon, tables in a web page! I would rather cut my own instead of using pre-definied page layouts(too high level). Can't they port the code from their document creator?