This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
That slippery slope will no doubt be lubed with Astroglide.
4TB drives sell for $165 right now on Newegg. So five of those would cost $825. Your friend could stick them all into a large PC with multiple bays and create an enormous RAID-0 array of 20TB. Then he could use FreeFileSync to copy those files.
Or he could set up another NAS with those 5 4TB drives and just do a copy/sync. It'd take days for the initial load, but it would be backed up.
The problem with having that much data on CrashPlan (also my cloud backup of choice) is that it would take so long to restore it -- too long, I'd think. You'd blow all sorts of bandwidth limit to do so. And you can't use their restore-to-door plan for backups greater than 3.5TB. Until we have Google Fiber running everywhere, bandwidth just doesn't make it feasible to push all that data to the cloud.
The following suggestion at first seems impractical because it is so simple: What if we, as a society, simply give consumers money to spend in the economy? In other words: What if the way to achieve the strongest possible economy is to give every citizen more money to spend? For example, what if we gave every citizen of the United States $25,000 to spend? $25,000 sounds impossible the first time you hear it, but consider the possibility.
Would this simple step -- giving money to every consumer -- accomplish the five economic goals set forth in the previous section? Yes. It would be a huge boost to the American economy:
* The economy would be strong because of all of the consumer spending.
* The economy would be stable because income (and therefore spending) would be guaranteed.
* With $25,000 per year to spend, innovators would no longer be forced to work -- they could focus their energy on innovation, living off of the $25K per year they receive. Inventors would have time to invent, writers to write, entrepreneurs to breed new companies, etc. They could devote all of their time to innovation.
There would be billions of dollars for people to invest, especially in their own businesses. And investors would have a stable marketplace into which to introduce new products.
Most importantly, it would create a nation where the citizens are truly free. If every person had $25,000 per year in today's dollars to spend, they would be able to live their lives even if they lost their jobs. If robots took their jobs it would not be catastrophic. People would be able to weather the robotic takeover, retrain and move into new careers.
I remember the slow 1541 disk drive, but folks, don't forget -- Epyx's FastLoad cartridge solved 90% of these problems. And for the remaining 10%, they had their own fast-loading software.
And if you got your software cracked, which was probably like 99% of the people out there, they all came with the cracking crew's fast loader...
And not a single grammatical or typographical error (at least none glaring) in TFA. Bravo!
Solid FPS...but that's all it is
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BioShock Review
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· Score: 2, Insightful
It's a very solid FPS, but that's all it is. It's gorgeous, and the seamless storytelling is all excellent (like it was with Half-Life), but it's basically it's a zombie shooter. That, to me, is what is disappointing about it because the hype surrounding the game made it seem like it would be more.
For me, a game like Jade Empire does a better job of introducing something new. For example, there's a moment in that game where you have to pose as an actor and say certain lines in a certain order to get the palace guards to understand what's going on. It's different, funny, and just really entertaining in a way that BioShock never is. BioShock, for all of its underweater beauty and flawless execution, is a standard FPS.
Cheaper Breadcrumbs
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Pimp Your XP
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· Score: 5, Informative
Can't go wrong with Explorer Breadcrumbs -- I'm using it on XP right now, and I don't miss Vista one bit.
I don't expect my inkjet-printed photos to survive, but I absolutely expect my data to be there. Even though I burn my photos to a CD-R, I also keep a copy on my hard drive. By this point, I must've moved those JPGs about half a dozen times now, so it's not like I expect to lose them all when my drive crashes.
I also keep lower-res copies on sites like picasa and fotki. It's all about redundancy.
The move from VHS to DVD was huge, as we know: random access, superior picture quality, widescreen, menus, specials, etc. The move from DVD to Blu-ray/HD-DVD is analogous to going from an Athlon XP 3200+ to an Athlon64 3700+: frankly, not that much.
I think many of us on/. realize this...so what's next? Somebody predicted 2020 to be the year when the new thing comes out. My take: 3D. 3D will usher in another massive adoption, because it would be a technological leap instead of a baby step. Stereoscopic 3D will be a cash cow, as the technology will not be 100% mature in the beginning, meaning the entertainment companies will be able to release version after version for many years.
There's only one thin client that I've liked, and that's Terminal Services. Granted, it isn't exactly a thin client, since you need the M$ OS to run it...but I think it's the best of both worlds: fully desktop functionality, blazing speed, and little upkeep.
In ten-year's time, I'm betting TS becoming a very popular solution for the "WebTV" crowd...
No, not the movie itself. The pacing is what's overly optimistic. In ten years, I guarantee you that NYT will not be a paper-only rag that services the elite and the elderly. NYT is not only an institution, it's a brand, like Nike. And if the mediascape becomes useless due to convergence like this author predicts, I'd think filtered/controlled organizations like NYT become even more powerful.
What some futurists seem to forget is that what happens with new technology (and convergence-delivered media would be a new form of tech) is that it doesn't replace anything. Yeah, CDs replaced cassettes, but are cassettes gone? Nope, still around, and still doing a damn fine job when you want to perform a linear recording. Did TV replace radio? Did the Internet replace TV? No, no, no. I like some of what this author said -- freelance reporters getting a cut of Google's Ad fee -- but all this will be is another option and nothing more. Is it possible that TNY will be reduced when mega-convergence happens? It's possible, but not likely.
And the bit about the Supreme Court in 2011 (or whenver it was) ruling for Googlezon? Please! Does this author even realize who just got elected as Pres for the next four years? The court's gonna be stacked with as many conservatives as Bush can muster.
And bots will not have the intelligence to manipulate words into coherent sentences. Not by 2014.
I also had nausea issues playing HL2 -- I've had it to lesser degrees with other FPSes, like Doom 3, Quake 2/3, and Max Payne 1/2. HL2 is much nastier, though; after the first hour, I really thought I was gonna hurl.
So is there a solution? Here's mine: don't play in full screen mode. I run 1280x1024, so I'm currently playing it at 1024x768, and it helps a lot. Seeing it in a window seems to do the trick.
Re:why does this review seem very familiar...
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Here's the real link:
http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2004/11/22/half_life_sequel_enters_exciting_new_territory?mo de=PF
Dunno why SuperBanana thinks they're similar...I didn't think so.
The core: Athlon XP 2800+, 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9600, Hauppauge WinDVR-250MCE, DVD-ROM, CDROM
OS: WinXP Pro
Software: PowerDVD 5.0, SageTV 2.1
Network: Netgear Powerline Networking
Video Output: 27" TV, InFocus SP4805 Projector (to 76" screen)
Audio Output: harmon/kardon Dolby Pro-Logic 5.1 system
About the only thing I wish I had was Ethernet (so I don't have to dump movies onto a DVD-RW), but I'm in an old house (circa 1844) and the prospect of running cable just doesn't really jibe. I tried wireless with a repeater, but it kept dropping, so Powerline was the way to go. It's been very solid, with a power cycle needed once a week or so.
I can do just about everything with this machine: watch DVDs (SP4805 projector is just breathtaking) and divxes, listen to MP3s, etc. Sage 2.1 is a fantastic product, great userbase, highly recommended.
I did some research for schizophrenia not too long ago and found this great link. It's from NPR, and it actually has a multimedia simulation on what it's like to have this terrible disease.
Check it out.
Re:When do we start punching holes in them?
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High Density CDs
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I even had one of those handy-dandy floppy punchers...not the kind that had a cheapo L-shaped attachment to an ordinary single hole puncher but a real one that punched out rectangular-shaped holes. Turned those 170KB Commie floppies into 340KB mega-storage media! Woo-hoo!
Although I doubt this will ever happen on a wider scale, I've always believed that for most liberal arts (English, Music, Art, etc.), qualitative evaluations (like a paragraph or a page describing the student's strengths and weaknesses) are a much better solution than quantitative measures. For example, Bennington College provides a genering "pass/fail" grades for all disciplines but it is always accompanied with a thorough description of how the student *really* fared during the semester.
I graduated with an English major and I never did understand how professors could assign letter grades to papers...
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...because all the materials to be sent out into space will be shipped via Amazon Prime. So you know, just $99 a year.
This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
That slippery slope will no doubt be lubed with Astroglide.
4TB drives sell for $165 right now on Newegg. So five of those would cost $825. Your friend could stick them all into a large PC with multiple bays and create an enormous RAID-0 array of 20TB. Then he could use FreeFileSync to copy those files. Or he could set up another NAS with those 5 4TB drives and just do a copy/sync. It'd take days for the initial load, but it would be backed up. The problem with having that much data on CrashPlan (also my cloud backup of choice) is that it would take so long to restore it -- too long, I'd think. You'd blow all sorts of bandwidth limit to do so. And you can't use their restore-to-door plan for backups greater than 3.5TB. Until we have Google Fiber running everywhere, bandwidth just doesn't make it feasible to push all that data to the cloud.
Capitalism Supersized
The following suggestion at first seems impractical because it is so simple: What if we, as a society, simply give consumers money to spend in the economy? In other words: What if the way to achieve the strongest possible economy is to give every citizen more money to spend? For example, what if we gave every citizen of the United States $25,000 to spend? $25,000 sounds impossible the first time you hear it, but consider the possibility.
Would this simple step -- giving money to every consumer -- accomplish the five economic goals set forth in the previous section? Yes. It would be a huge boost to the American economy:
* The economy would be strong because of all of the consumer spending.
* The economy would be stable because income (and therefore spending) would be guaranteed.
* With $25,000 per year to spend, innovators would no longer be forced to work -- they could focus their energy on innovation, living off of the $25K per year they receive. Inventors would have time to invent, writers to write, entrepreneurs to breed new companies, etc. They could devote all of their time to innovation. There would be billions of dollars for people to invest, especially in their own businesses. And investors would have a stable marketplace into which to introduce new products.
Most importantly, it would create a nation where the citizens are truly free. If every person had $25,000 per year in today's dollars to spend, they would be able to live their lives even if they lost their jobs. If robots took their jobs it would not be catastrophic. People would be able to weather the robotic takeover, retrain and move into new careers.
I remember the slow 1541 disk drive, but folks, don't forget -- Epyx's FastLoad cartridge solved 90% of these problems. And for the remaining 10%, they had their own fast-loading software.
And if you got your software cracked, which was probably like 99% of the people out there, they all came with the cracking crew's fast loader...
Anybody remember SYS64738? Gotta love it.
And not a single grammatical or typographical error (at least none glaring) in TFA. Bravo!
It's a very solid FPS, but that's all it is. It's gorgeous, and the seamless storytelling is all excellent (like it was with Half-Life), but it's basically it's a zombie shooter. That, to me, is what is disappointing about it because the hype surrounding the game made it seem like it would be more.
For me, a game like Jade Empire does a better job of introducing something new. For example, there's a moment in that game where you have to pose as an actor and say certain lines in a certain order to get the palace guards to understand what's going on. It's different, funny, and just really entertaining in a way that BioShock never is. BioShock, for all of its underweater beauty and flawless execution, is a standard FPS.
Can't go wrong with Explorer Breadcrumbs -- I'm using it on XP right now, and I don't miss Vista one bit.
I don't expect my inkjet-printed photos to survive, but I absolutely expect my data to be there. Even though I burn my photos to a CD-R, I also keep a copy on my hard drive. By this point, I must've moved those JPGs about half a dozen times now, so it's not like I expect to lose them all when my drive crashes.
I also keep lower-res copies on sites like picasa and fotki. It's all about redundancy.
I thought the first two rules of computer security go like this:
1) You do not talk about computer security.
2) You do not talk about computer security.
The move from VHS to DVD was huge, as we know: random access, superior picture quality, widescreen, menus, specials, etc. The move from DVD to Blu-ray/HD-DVD is analogous to going from an Athlon XP 3200+ to an Athlon64 3700+: frankly, not that much.
/. realize this...so what's next? Somebody predicted 2020 to be the year when the new thing comes out. My take: 3D. 3D will usher in another massive adoption, because it would be a technological leap instead of a baby step. Stereoscopic 3D will be a cash cow, as the technology will not be 100% mature in the beginning, meaning the entertainment companies will be able to release version after version for many years.
I think many of us on
Make sure you store them vertically in a cool dry place.
I hear Gary Coleman will be reprising his role in the made-for-TV movie.
Am I the only one who is unable to see/use the credit card info portion of AutoFill? If so, what the hell am I doing wrong?
There's only one thin client that I've liked, and that's Terminal Services. Granted, it isn't exactly a thin client, since you need the M$ OS to run it...but I think it's the best of both worlds: fully desktop functionality, blazing speed, and little upkeep.
In ten-year's time, I'm betting TS becoming a very popular solution for the "WebTV" crowd...
We've been using this for years:
http://www.autopetfeeder.com/p_feeder.asp
Not a DIY, but hey, it works like a charm, and the cats love it.
-SJW
No, not the movie itself. The pacing is what's overly optimistic. In ten years, I guarantee you that NYT will not be a paper-only rag that services the elite and the elderly. NYT is not only an institution, it's a brand, like Nike. And if the mediascape becomes useless due to convergence like this author predicts, I'd think filtered/controlled organizations like NYT become even more powerful.
What some futurists seem to forget is that what happens with new technology (and convergence-delivered media would be a new form of tech) is that it doesn't replace anything. Yeah, CDs replaced cassettes, but are cassettes gone? Nope, still around, and still doing a damn fine job when you want to perform a linear recording. Did TV replace radio? Did the Internet replace TV? No, no, no. I like some of what this author said -- freelance reporters getting a cut of Google's Ad fee -- but all this will be is another option and nothing more. Is it possible that TNY will be reduced when mega-convergence happens? It's possible, but not likely.
And the bit about the Supreme Court in 2011 (or whenver it was) ruling for Googlezon? Please! Does this author even realize who just got elected as Pres for the next four years? The court's gonna be stacked with as many conservatives as Bush can muster.
And bots will not have the intelligence to manipulate words into coherent sentences. Not by 2014.
I also had nausea issues playing HL2 -- I've had it to lesser degrees with other FPSes, like Doom 3, Quake 2/3, and Max Payne 1/2. HL2 is much nastier, though; after the first hour, I really thought I was gonna hurl.
So is there a solution? Here's mine: don't play in full screen mode. I run 1280x1024, so I'm currently playing it at 1024x768, and it helps a lot. Seeing it in a window seems to do the trick.
Here's the real link: http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2004/11/22 /half_life_sequel_enters_exciting_new_territory?mo de=PF
Dunno why SuperBanana thinks they're similar...I didn't think so.
Here's my HTPC (home theater PC) setup:
The core: Athlon XP 2800+, 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9600, Hauppauge WinDVR-250MCE, DVD-ROM, CDROM
OS: WinXP Pro
Software: PowerDVD 5.0, SageTV 2.1
Network: Netgear Powerline Networking
Video Output: 27" TV, InFocus SP4805 Projector (to 76" screen)
Audio Output: harmon/kardon Dolby Pro-Logic 5.1 system
About the only thing I wish I had was Ethernet (so I don't have to dump movies onto a DVD-RW), but I'm in an old house (circa 1844) and the prospect of running cable just doesn't really jibe. I tried wireless with a repeater, but it kept dropping, so Powerline was the way to go. It's been very solid, with a power cycle needed once a week or so.
I can do just about everything with this machine: watch DVDs (SP4805 projector is just breathtaking) and divxes, listen to MP3s, etc. Sage 2.1 is a fantastic product, great userbase, highly recommended.
...to "upgrade" my existing single-layer 4x DVD-Rs to dual-layer...
I don't know about you folks, but the blank media for DL is still just way too expensive. I can't find anything under $7 per DVD.
I did some research for schizophrenia not too long ago and found this great link. It's from NPR, and it actually has a multimedia simulation on what it's like to have this terrible disease. Check it out.
I even had one of those handy-dandy floppy punchers...not the kind that had a cheapo L-shaped attachment to an ordinary single hole puncher but a real one that punched out rectangular-shaped holes. Turned those 170KB Commie floppies into 340KB mega-storage media! Woo-hoo!
Although I doubt this will ever happen on a wider scale, I've always believed that for most liberal arts (English, Music, Art, etc.), qualitative evaluations (like a paragraph or a page describing the student's strengths and weaknesses) are a much better solution than quantitative measures. For example, Bennington College provides a genering "pass/fail" grades for all disciplines but it is always accompanied with a thorough description of how the student *really* fared during the semester.
I graduated with an English major and I never did understand how professors could assign letter grades to papers...
Redd Foxx will rise from the dead via CGI. Maybe you'll see his clunker on the freeway scene...