"Are you sure this isn't the SCO Museum (which is hopefully soon to come)?"
What, you mean the one where they give you free souvenirs then sue you for stealing? Or perhaps the one with all the exhibits they say are there, and that any idiot can see, but when you go it is just an empty room?
I doubt that is the reason. There are plenty of phones that don't plug into the wall that would have worked. The phone line carries its own voltage to power the speaker and reciever (~5V i think). I've had no power before and my phones worked fine. A cell phone would be more prone as without power to recharge it, once the battery is dead, so is the phone.
"Home game consoles have never really be backward compatible. PS2 is the first real back-ward compatible that I know of (though someone will end up telling me differently)."
Well, there's the game boy advance which plays all the old game boy games (true, the GBA is just a slightly updated original GB, but still). There was an adaptor available for the sega genesis which would allow you to play your old sega master system games on that system too. There are probably others, but those are the only ones i've dealt with first-hand.
more like 300s. i think the delay to mars is around 5 minutes, depending on where in their orbits earth and mars are in respect to each other. we need that "subspace" transmitter they keep talking about in star trek and even in stargate SG-1.
um... gamecube! anyway, i read a report (may have been on slashdot even, i'm too lazy to look) that nintendo and microsoft may be going in together on their next gen consoles. two playstation underdogs teaming up to gain market share. an interesting idea, but we'll see.
"aside from the fact that even my mom wouldn't have been dumb enough to type sensitive information into a form like that, AND she uses Mozilla anyway."
I had to slap myself after reading your post for thinking that you had a pretty "hip" (for lack of a better word) mom because she uses mozilla. Man, I need to unplug...
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".... is how fast you can get to good porn. And so far Google has everything beat hands down."
IMHO, both Real Player and Windows Media Player are both bloated, ugly, and slow. I do tend to prefer WMP over Real One, because the video quality is better, but seeking in streaming tracks is slower and their interface (well, both of them actually) looks like they came out of windows 3.11. I don't know why they didn't opt for something more open, like MPEG 4 (yes, I know about the consortium fees... still gotta be better than dealing with MS). I'd say quicktime, as it seems to be the most responsive and flexible in regards to dealing with different connection speeds, but that would rule out anyone not running windows or mac. I don't know how big of a step up it is, more like a side step, I suppose. I do agree with them about the blatant upgrade plugs real networks throws in everywhere though.
I disagree. The youth of america have no mind of their own, from what I can tell, and as long as stupid teen idols say, "like, oh my god! brittany spears is so totally awesome!" their herd of mindless followers will buy the exact same stuff. To get rid of bad music, we need to get these kids backbones, and fast.
"'"We will give you 3 dollars wholesale for that book, we have enough.'
I would rather burn this 72.50 book for warmth in the middle of the summer stuck in the fucking sahara desert than give it to your for 3 bucks."
Ok, so I went to Purdue University. There, there are a few different bookstores, which I believe must be affiliated with the university at least a bit (which may or may not have anything to do with my story, but whatever, half of these posts have been bitching about the university's influence over the bookstores). Anyway, there, if they won't buy your book back, they won't even take it off your hands to, well, recycle or something, if you don't want it. They MAKE you take it with you. One time, I refused to take it with me (a $75 fucking communications book... no, not like tcp/ip or telephone, stupid speech writing and that crap), and they actually got security to chase me down after I told them to fuck off, left the book on the counter, and started to walk (later run) out. Yes, it was immature for me to do, but come on, a bookstore, which probably has the means to dispose of big hunks of paper and glue, wouldn't even give it a proper burial. They'd rather clog up the dorm room garbage cans than actually help someone out. Frankly, that $75 I paid should have included a disposal fee, doncha think?
"I don't quite understand how people are good at mining data off of *nix but not off of a Mac though -- that part didn't make too much sense. I find it hard to believe that the people they were referring to were on OS9, and if they were on OSX then the boxes basically *are* *nix machines..."
Well, except they don't (usually) use a UFS formatted drive, they use HFS+, which is a totally different animal. Yes you can install OS X on a UFS partition, but many apps will not run on a drive formatted as such. I suspect what he was referring to is the lack of a data mining program written for HFS+.
"And a CLI user can work on machines anywhere on the Net as easily as the onee on their desktop."
Sorry, I'm going to have to call shenanigans on you, go get Barbrady. There is something called Remote Desktop if you use a Mac, or Remote Desktop/Terminal Services and on Linux i'm sure there is something similar. Don't tell me that it isn't as easy to use one of those as slogin in the CLI? Granted one takes a bit more bandwidth, but it gets the job done.
"If you use Windows Media Player to purchase music, don't you expect that it will send you to whomever Microsoft wants you to purchase music from?"
The problem isn't with the site that it connects to, but the browser used to do the connecting. If I set Mozilla as my default browser, I expect to use that as my browser for everything web-related (except perhaps windows update, as that uses ActiveX and I don't think there is a plug-in for any browser, but I don't run windows, so I'm not sure on that).
Since when is it Microsoft's policy to implement changes without an actual lawsuit? Granted this is probably nothing more than a registry change, but does this signal a new non-court driven Microsoft? I tend to think not. In this case, they probably calculated that it would be cheaper to change the link than to spend years in court feeding their legal team.
"just think, string together half a dozen of these w/ a controller, and you'd have... iPod RAID!"
I hate to be the one who pisses on a funny joke, but I gotta be a geek. If this thing comes out, i'm sure it has firewire, which means it has a controller on it. soft-RAIDable firewire drives. tiny ones at that. for the sort-burst HD video recorder on the move.:-D
"Why would anyone buy an iPod too small to hold their entire collection."
why do you need your entire music collection with you at all times? Personally, I think I can get the songs i'd want to listen to in a week in around 2GB, I gotta sleep sometime. iTunes I'm sure will let you easily drag and drop songs between your main library and the device. For ~$300 difference compared to the "big" iPod, I can handle that. Bring it on!
"I am quite excited about this. VLC has always been my media player of choice, now the ability to play AAC DRM files in it just ups its ante."Urm... if i read correctly, it doesn't do that. It converts it into a format other than AAC, so there will still be a drop in sound quality due to re-encoding (unless you keep it raw, i guess). when they port the actual AAC drivers to linux, knowing the key will be more useful.
"Yeah, but in America, as christian as we claim to be..."
I've never claimed that, and never will, thank you very much (you insensitive clod?). I'll stick to a religion where I have a chance in getting into heaven (still haven't found one....).
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What, you mean the one where they give you free souvenirs then sue you for stealing? Or perhaps the one with all the exhibits they say are there, and that any idiot can see, but when you go it is just an empty room?
well that's detroit for ya! man, i'm sorry you have to live there. that has to be the slummiest town i've ever visited.
I doubt that is the reason. There are plenty of phones that don't plug into the wall that would have worked. The phone line carries its own voltage to power the speaker and reciever (~5V i think). I've had no power before and my phones worked fine. A cell phone would be more prone as without power to recharge it, once the battery is dead, so is the phone.
Well, there's the game boy advance which plays all the old game boy games (true, the GBA is just a slightly updated original GB, but still). There was an adaptor available for the sega genesis which would allow you to play your old sega master system games on that system too. There are probably others, but those are the only ones i've dealt with first-hand.
more like 300s. i think the delay to mars is around 5 minutes, depending on where in their orbits earth and mars are in respect to each other. we need that "subspace" transmitter they keep talking about in star trek and even in stargate SG-1.
what is this C: folder of which you speak? and i'll be damned if all your slashes are going the wrong way. silly dos user.
um... gamecube! anyway, i read a report (may have been on slashdot even, i'm too lazy to look) that nintendo and microsoft may be going in together on their next gen consoles. two playstation underdogs teaming up to gain market share. an interesting idea, but we'll see.
I had to slap myself after reading your post for thinking that you had a pretty "hip" (for lack of a better word) mom because she uses mozilla. Man, I need to unplug...
Perhaps you meant hand over fist? ;)
IMHO, both Real Player and Windows Media Player are both bloated, ugly, and slow. I do tend to prefer WMP over Real One, because the video quality is better, but seeking in streaming tracks is slower and their interface (well, both of them actually) looks like they came out of windows 3.11. I don't know why they didn't opt for something more open, like MPEG 4 (yes, I know about the consortium fees... still gotta be better than dealing with MS). I'd say quicktime, as it seems to be the most responsive and flexible in regards to dealing with different connection speeds, but that would rule out anyone not running windows or mac. I don't know how big of a step up it is, more like a side step, I suppose. I do agree with them about the blatant upgrade plugs real networks throws in everywhere though.
I disagree. The youth of america have no mind of their own, from what I can tell, and as long as stupid teen idols say, "like, oh my god! brittany spears is so totally awesome!" their herd of mindless followers will buy the exact same stuff. To get rid of bad music, we need to get these kids backbones, and fast.
I would rather burn this 72.50 book for warmth in the middle of the summer stuck in the fucking sahara desert than give it to your for 3 bucks."
Ok, so I went to Purdue University. There, there are a few different bookstores, which I believe must be affiliated with the university at least a bit (which may or may not have anything to do with my story, but whatever, half of these posts have been bitching about the university's influence over the bookstores). Anyway, there, if they won't buy your book back, they won't even take it off your hands to, well, recycle or something, if you don't want it. They MAKE you take it with you. One time, I refused to take it with me (a $75 fucking communications book... no, not like tcp/ip or telephone, stupid speech writing and that crap), and they actually got security to chase me down after I told them to fuck off, left the book on the counter, and started to walk (later run) out. Yes, it was immature for me to do, but come on, a bookstore, which probably has the means to dispose of big hunks of paper and glue, wouldn't even give it a proper burial. They'd rather clog up the dorm room garbage cans than actually help someone out. Frankly, that $75 I paid should have included a disposal fee, doncha think?
Well, except they don't (usually) use a UFS formatted drive, they use HFS+, which is a totally different animal. Yes you can install OS X on a UFS partition, but many apps will not run on a drive formatted as such. I suspect what he was referring to is the lack of a data mining program written for HFS+.
Sorry, I need a vacation.
Sorry, I'm going to have to call shenanigans on you, go get Barbrady. There is something called Remote Desktop if you use a Mac, or Remote Desktop/Terminal Services and on Linux i'm sure there is something similar. Don't tell me that it isn't as easy to use one of those as slogin in the CLI? Granted one takes a bit more bandwidth, but it gets the job done.
Ok, i'll roll up the network in one, but I'm sure as hell not sparking it.
So can we send it an intergalactic three fingered salute to reboot it?
The problem isn't with the site that it connects to, but the browser used to do the connecting. If I set Mozilla as my default browser, I expect to use that as my browser for everything web-related (except perhaps windows update, as that uses ActiveX and I don't think there is a plug-in for any browser, but I don't run windows, so I'm not sure on that).
Since when is it Microsoft's policy to implement changes without an actual lawsuit? Granted this is probably nothing more than a registry change, but does this signal a new non-court driven Microsoft? I tend to think not. In this case, they probably calculated that it would be cheaper to change the link than to spend years in court feeding their legal team.
Does anyone else cringe when you see/hear the words "choice" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence?"
Now where exactly does it say microsoft in that sentence?
I hate to be the one who pisses on a funny joke, but I gotta be a geek. If this thing comes out, i'm sure it has firewire, which means it has a controller on it. soft-RAIDable firewire drives. tiny ones at that. for the sort-burst HD video recorder on the move. :-D
why do you need your entire music collection with you at all times? Personally, I think I can get the songs i'd want to listen to in a week in around 2GB, I gotta sleep sometime. iTunes I'm sure will let you easily drag and drop songs between your main library and the device. For ~$300 difference compared to the "big" iPod, I can handle that. Bring it on!
why not just right-click on the file and choose "convert to MP3"?
"I am quite excited about this. VLC has always been my media player of choice, now the ability to play AAC DRM files in it just ups its ante."Urm... if i read correctly, it doesn't do that. It converts it into a format other than AAC, so there will still be a drop in sound quality due to re-encoding (unless you keep it raw, i guess). when they port the actual AAC drivers to linux, knowing the key will be more useful.
I've never claimed that, and never will, thank you very much (you insensitive clod?). I'll stick to a religion where I have a chance in getting into heaven (still haven't found one....).