Re:Not only aux in, but what about cell phones?
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onstar, imho, doesn't quite count. It has some cool features, and also has the ability to use it for personal calling as they call it, but its not quite the same as being able to jack your current cell phone into your car.
to make it even remotely usefull, youd have to have the ability to forward your cellphone to your onstar number. wouldnt it suck when you keep forgetting to unforward it, having everyone calling your car while you are no where near your car for very long periods of time....
sure, you can forget your cellphone, but whats easier to remember? a physical cell phone, or the fact that you didnt change a feature of that cellphone as you are walking down the street...
Not only aux in, but what about cell phones?
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I've also been asking for years why car companies dont create an interface (most likely in the stereo) that would allow you to connect your cellphone to a mic built into your sunvisor or rearview mirror, and your car speakers?
All it would take would be for manufacturers to decide on the jack type, and walla, no more need for fools getting in car wrecks because they are driving one handed and/or looking down at their phones, trying to dial a number.
add in a cellphone with voice dialing, and some features to control your stereo with voice commands and you have a sure winner, after a very trivial manufacturer cost...
there are other partition tools besides partition magic. such as parted, and even ones that come w/ various distros of linux.
imho, this whole article is BS. the reason computer makers utilise these "restore" disks is for their main customers, people who have no clue and just want to be able to point and click. They realise that those who know what they are doing will get around it, and do what ever they want anyways. quit bitching, its pointless, and stop acting like your wheaties just got pissed in or something.
also, since when do you need windows disks? resize the partion, and hell, you can even use the boot.ini to boot to linux, dont even need to screw with the drives MBR.
its not hard people, get over it, and constantly looking for reasons to jump on the "M$ sucks, DAMN THE MAN" bandwagon over every miniscule little thing. choose your battles, you just make us look stupid.
I think he is right though. 700 bucks, you *can* get a laptop. Sure, a lot of geeks may/will be willing to pay that kind of money for a pda, but joe schmoe consumer will look at that 700 dollar pda in best buy, then look over towards the laptop section and see a laptop for about that amount, and think "what the hell?"
yes, they have different usage patterns, but very very few people imho need 700 bucks worth of those usage patterns
that is not very effective though. The reason being that a torrent's lifetime is very short... You'll likely get 2000 results, of which only 2% might actually be active torrents where you can download at a reasonable speed.
not only that, but japan solves a lot of its domestic problems by being a "government subsidised construction economy"
what I mean by that, is that they often solve unemployment and other issues by tearing down, and rebuilding stuff just for the sake of giving workers something to do under the guise of "improvement"
couple that with the smaller geographic area per capita of japan, and its a lot more feasible to lay the needed pipe so to speak...
well, ut2k3 has a great graphics engine, but its netcode sucks the big one.... its a HUGE hog, and otherwise is only really "responsive" on lan. Compared to the quake series netcode, and Half-life's, it completely sucks. The only other game that might be considered worse online might be battlefield 1942's netcode, another game that I only enjoy on lan.
And this is not coming from a dial up user, but rather an extremely high quality 1.5/512 dsl customer who gets amazing quality pings/gameplay in q3 and HL games, among others. I also have compared ut2k3 vs HL servers from the exact same server online. completely different ballparks
I'm pretty dubious both ways... for one thing, we've only heard his side of it, but on another thing, it sounds pretty shady for him to have contributed all that, then having DR cut him out of the loop, seemingly wanting to keep the future money prospects to himself.
(why they couldnt have worked together, I have no idea. Could have been a nice contractual partnership)
I love gentoo. I haven't installed another linux distro since the early betas. But when it comes to linux and politics, nothign would suprise me anymore. Certainly not when it comes to finding a buisness model to supporta GPL project.
Yeah, I had a good laugh at that. I dream that they are the cause of it all, but in reality, I highly doubt it, and think rather that the company is just run by a bunch of tools... I reach this conclusion due to how they handled the incredibly good strawberry shortcake parody comic that PA did in the first place...
the link has a space in it, so its defaulting to the latest comic instead of the true one... its them taking the piss out of some guy talking about micropayments, not harry potter.
Yep, considering scholastic as an example, they just released Harry potter 5, the biggest book release in history, breaking pretty much every possible record, and scholastic's stock still fell directly after....
Problem is, there still aren't any *good*, reasonably priced Ebook readers that I have seen...
the only thing cool that I have seen that I have considered buying, and is slightly unrelated, is that viewsonic wireless touchscreen flatpanel monitor... too bad its 800 bucks, or I'd be all over it.
heck yeah, Penny-Arcade is great. they had a "slump" for a while there, but the past year or so has been some pretty good stuff. their news posts are usually enough amusement all by themselves...
personal favorites are the jesus/q3atest comic, and the q3a paper scissors rock fuck you comic...
I'd link them, but then again, I don't want them swearing at me on friday for slashdotting their server hehehe.
I've heard of plenty of people to buy a phat daddy apple laptop lately, to just put linux on it...
Sure, I would never buy atm a workstation, but the laptops kick ass! Although I have found that osx/fink has more than taken care of most of my linux app needs. Add the new gentoo/fink/darwinports metaproject thing that is coming about, and OSX is going to have a ultra phat daddy toolset...
But, regardless, I wouldnt put yellowdog linux on my new Powerbook.... I'd put gentoo. ; )
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onstar, imho, doesn't quite count. It has some cool features, and also has the ability to use it for personal calling as they call it, but its not quite the same as being able to jack your current cell phone into your car.
to make it even remotely usefull, youd have to have the ability to forward your cellphone to your onstar number. wouldnt it suck when you keep forgetting to unforward it, having everyone calling your car while you are no where near your car for very long periods of time....
sure, you can forget your cellphone, but whats easier to remember? a physical cell phone, or the fact that you didnt change a feature of that cellphone as you are walking down the street...
you would think so, but you would also be suprised at how many people I have heard tell me that +r/rw discs are the ones with higher compatibility....
at least you said "beta" instead of "bop"
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I've also been asking for years why car companies dont create an interface (most likely in the stereo) that would allow you to connect your cellphone to a mic built into your sunvisor or rearview mirror, and your car speakers?
All it would take would be for manufacturers to decide on the jack type, and walla, no more need for fools getting in car wrecks because they are driving one handed and/or looking down at their phones, trying to dial a number.
add in a cellphone with voice dialing, and some features to control your stereo with voice commands and you have a sure winner, after a very trivial manufacturer cost...
there are programs other than PM that can resize ntfs.
and, I quote from up above "and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting."
in other words, FUD
there are other partition tools besides partition magic. such as parted, and even ones that come w/ various distros of linux.
imho, this whole article is BS. the reason computer makers utilise these "restore" disks is for their main customers, people who have no clue and just want to be able to point and click. They realise that those who know what they are doing will get around it, and do what ever they want anyways. quit bitching, its pointless, and stop acting like your wheaties just got pissed in or something.
also, since when do you need windows disks? resize the partion, and hell, you can even use the boot.ini to boot to linux, dont even need to screw with the drives MBR.
its not hard people, get over it, and constantly looking for reasons to jump on the "M$ sucks, DAMN THE MAN" bandwagon over every miniscule little thing. choose your battles, you just make us look stupid.
I think he is right though. 700 bucks, you *can* get a laptop. Sure, a lot of geeks may/will be willing to pay that kind of money for a pda, but joe schmoe consumer will look at that 700 dollar pda in best buy, then look over towards the laptop section and see a laptop for about that amount, and think "what the hell?"
yes, they have different usage patterns, but very very few people imho need 700 bucks worth of those usage patterns
that is not very effective though. The reason being that a torrent's lifetime is very short... You'll likely get 2000 results, of which only 2% might actually be active torrents where you can download at a reasonable speed.
The only question I have, is would it be possible to do something like bittorrent from w/in freenet?
not only that, but japan solves a lot of its domestic problems by being a "government subsidised construction economy"
what I mean by that, is that they often solve unemployment and other issues by tearing down, and rebuilding stuff just for the sake of giving workers something to do under the guise of "improvement"
couple that with the smaller geographic area per capita of japan, and its a lot more feasible to lay the needed pipe so to speak...
you act as if its not extremely easy to get info from the torrent tracker etc on who is downloading the mpg after getting the torrent...
I have to ask, what are you guys talking about?
well, ut2k3 has a great graphics engine, but its netcode sucks the big one.... its a HUGE hog, and otherwise is only really "responsive" on lan. Compared to the quake series netcode, and Half-life's, it completely sucks. The only other game that might be considered worse online might be battlefield 1942's netcode, another game that I only enjoy on lan.
And this is not coming from a dial up user, but rather an extremely high quality 1.5/512 dsl customer who gets amazing quality pings/gameplay in q3 and HL games, among others. I also have compared ut2k3 vs HL servers from the exact same server online. completely different ballparks
Imagine running a Counter-Strike server on this!!!
just download clusterknoppix and knock yourself out. ; )
http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
they going to release their kernel that allows them to globally share memory? or is it more of a hardware thing, than software?
hehe. I just dont trust most of what they say, but this looks interesting...
... you act as if the kennedys aren't a cult...
where you been man?
I'm pretty dubious both ways... for one thing, we've only heard his side of it, but on another thing, it sounds pretty shady for him to have contributed all that, then having DR cut him out of the loop, seemingly wanting to keep the future money prospects to himself.
(why they couldnt have worked together, I have no idea. Could have been a nice contractual partnership)
I love gentoo. I haven't installed another linux distro since the early betas. But when it comes to linux and politics, nothign would suprise me anymore. Certainly not when it comes to finding a buisness model to supporta GPL project.
Yeah, I had a good laugh at that. I dream that they are the cause of it all, but in reality, I highly doubt it, and think rather that the company is just run by a bunch of tools... I reach this conclusion due to how they handled the incredibly good strawberry shortcake parody comic that PA did in the first place...
the link has a space in it, so its defaulting to the latest comic instead of the true one... its them taking the piss out of some guy talking about micropayments, not harry potter.
Re: wired and 180 pages for 5 bucks...
how many of those pages are tommy hilfiger advertisements?
heck, I have seen like 5 different deals in the last few months to get magazines for free, just because they want you to look at all the ads....
thats where they make their money, not selling on stands or subscriptions.
Yep, considering scholastic as an example, they just released Harry potter 5, the biggest book release in history, breaking pretty much every possible record, and scholastic's stock still fell directly after....
Problem is, there still aren't any *good*, reasonably priced Ebook readers that I have seen...
the only thing cool that I have seen that I have considered buying, and is slightly unrelated, is that viewsonic wireless touchscreen flatpanel monitor... too bad its 800 bucks, or I'd be all over it.
kev
heck yeah, Penny-Arcade is great. they had a "slump" for a while there, but the past year or so has been some pretty good stuff. their news posts are usually enough amusement all by themselves... personal favorites are the jesus/q3atest comic, and the q3a paper scissors rock fuck you comic... I'd link them, but then again, I don't want them swearing at me on friday for slashdotting their server hehehe.
I've heard of plenty of people to buy a phat daddy apple laptop lately, to just put linux on it...
Sure, I would never buy atm a workstation, but the laptops kick ass! Although I have found that osx/fink has more than taken care of most of my linux app needs. Add the new gentoo/fink/darwinports metaproject thing that is coming about, and OSX is going to have a ultra phat daddy toolset...
But, regardless, I wouldnt put yellowdog linux on my new Powerbook.... I'd put gentoo. ; )