I finally upgraded to an iRiver iHP-120 from an old Archos and am very pleased. Highly recommended.
My main requirements were:
- Automatically detected (no additional drivers required) as a USB 2.0 Drive when plugged into a Win2k or XP machine.
- Drag and drop mp3s. No software needed.
- Autoresume.
- Smaller than the Archos. (though I must admit that those blue rubber bumpers saved my ass on many occasion)
- Reasonably good interface.
iRiver satisfies all of these.
I did try out the Rio Karma player but brought it back almost immediately. It took the Rio software two hours to index my 20,000 or so mp3s and then it tried to do it again for no apparent reason. Not to mention the square shape just sucked.
iRiver does have SRS, WOW and Trubass but it's unlikely you'd ever want turn them on. All I got out of it was less volume. Just a gimmick if you ask me.
I'm cancelling my netflix account because I rarely watch more than 3 netflix movies a month. This is because:
1.) I'm a lazy SOB and either don't watch the movies soon after they arrive or forget to mail the DVDs back or both. Then tend to sit around way too long.
2.) I have a hard time finding things I want to watch on Netflix. I'm too lazy to do much research and rely on things jumping out at me. Never much of a problem in a real store. Maybe its just me but it appears that Netflix has a limited selection and are slow to get new releases.
3.) I keep running across things I want to watch on USENET or bittorrent so I download them and watch them, delaying the watching of what ever I got from Netflix and minimizing my investment.
4.) No instant gratification with Netflix. If I feel like watching something right now but the movies haven't arrived, that sucks.
Now, I would pay money to be able to browse recent releases and download 600-1500 MB films that I can play anywhere (even if the file self destructs) and is of comparable quality to what is being released by the rippers these days. I could live with a download time of several hours if necessary.
I also use the 'iFree' and it gets the job done pretty well. I don't get the range that the previous poster claims but it works fine from the couch (8-10 feet) Batteries don't last as long as the Scorpius keyboard I used previously. Had to replace that one as my 2.5 year old daughter tends to beat the crap out of these when she gets her hands on them, which is frequently. Couldn't find a replacement Scorpius at the time so I bought the iFree instead.
Some more thoughts: Get one with a trackball. The joystick type devices don't give you the same control
The 'versapoint' stuff is overrated and VERY overpriced.
Get RF not IR. IR is frustrating when you're lying on the couch.
Quicktime. (or mpeg, real, or whatever) If you are going to release a film that can't be viewed using the real-time engine it was created with, I'm not all that interested in viewing it.
I assume this is done to protect assets created for the films but I feel it detracts from the viewing pleasure.
"You cannot play games at 35 or 40 and seem like anything but an intellectually-stunted manchild, there in your sweater vest, the control pad tangled in your long, gray, drool-soaked beard."
I resent that comment. I don't wear sweater vests and I shave regularly. So there!
The Army is already running Microsft OS & apps EVERYWHERE as far as I can tell (I work for them). And I keep hearing that it's part of the licensing agreement (in USAREUR anyway) that users can install office on their home machines for free. Even if that isn't true many people think it is and do so freely.
This happens even though the Army still clings to the achaic idea that the physical CD the license and tries to keep them locked them up....Yet they manage to get their product keys published on the internet: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13633
Who ever it was who said "Since it is so hard to fire a govie, the govt. is bloated with people who haven't meaningfully increased their techincal skillset since they graduated from college in the 70s." is right on the money.
How does a project which is on hold for two or more years while the lawyers argue about rights and the director works on something else qualify as being "in the works"?
This is not news. It is well know that Jackson would like to direct the Hobbit when possible. He is not currently working on it.
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Why is new mail notification (on 3 of the 5) "Audio Only"? I much prefer not having sound and just having a popup notification (or a small blurb come up):
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Thunderbird (win32 anyway) has a little system tray notifier that pops up when new mail is detectd. It's not configurable via the options tab and it seems to be a little slow at notifying you... However it DOES work while playing a full-screen quake engine game with out screwing anything up or interupting play which is a first as far as I've seen.
Keep track of servers you like. Don't just join a random server every time you want to play. There are alot slight variations in server setups that can throw your game and make the learning curve more difficult. Use something like All Seeing Eye or Gamespy to track your favorites if necessary and when you find servers you like, go back.
Play real team games. Generally speaking, you will die alot more playing deathmatch/team deathmatch oriented game types. These can be fun from time to time but capture/retrieve/destroy/ mission oriented games are more fun IMO, and will teach you more. Cheaters also tend to be caught and dealt with quicker.
When you find a game type you like, stick with it for while. Don't switch around until you are comfortable with it.
Don't get too frustrated by losing. Nobody wins all the time (well maybe a few). Just stick with it. I've been paying online FPS since doom and still get spanked royally on occasion. (ok.. frequently)
Give Call of Duty a try. It's not too complicated/not too simple and is new enough that you won't always be completely out-classed. It's also one of most stable games, right out of the box, ever relased... in the tradition of Quake. Everything just works and feels right.
And finally, and this is the key to EVERY FPS: Learn the maps. Learn them well. Play them until you know where everything is and what the most popular strategies are. This will give you your greatest advantage.
I don't know what the hell everyone's problem is... I guess they expect everyone to be as selfish as they are.
Anyway... for 7K I'd bet you could have this done professionally but if I were going to try it myself, I'd get two or 3 access points (bridges), install them on one floor and arrange them so I get the best coverage. Then I'd duplicate that arrangement on every floor. Assuming I'm going to maintain the wired internet connection, I'd place the WLAN behind a NAT router running DHCP. I'd put my own network behind another router/firewall, adjacent to the WLAN. I'd keep the WLAN open and tell everyone they are on their own as far as security goes and I would provide no support other than keeping the internet connection up and keeping the APs functional. It should be pretty much maintenance free once it's running.
The hardest and possibly most expensive part will be running cables to all the access points. Depending on how your building is constructed you may need more access points.
Yeah... depressing isn't it? I would have never guessed. I can understand a certain amount of selfishness but to be this selfish about someone else's money is pathetic.
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It's sort of like, oh I dunno... say 'hyperbole'? hyperbole ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h-purb-l) n.
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
Ummm... After doing hard drive installs of knoppix on several computers because it's so damn convenient and easy, I became aquainted with apt-get and now ALL my linux boxen are Debian based. Prior to Knoppix I used mostly Mandrake/Red Hat.
Need to check out the apt-rpm thing I keep hearing about though.
That's the conclusion I came to. Libranet is installing as I speak.
Knoppix is also an option. Just boot it and run knx-install as root. Fully functional debian box in about 15-20 minutes.
Lego Guns?!!!
Get 24" ruler or similar flat stick.
Tape a clothespin to one end.
Tape a nice strong rubberband to the other.
Pull rubber band back and clip it with the clothespin.
Insert lego block in front of rubberband, next to clothespin.
Release rubberband.
We used to shoot the crap out of each other with these when I was kid.
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I finally upgraded to an iRiver iHP-120 from an old Archos and am very pleased. Highly recommended.
My main requirements were:
- Automatically detected (no additional drivers required) as a USB 2.0 Drive when plugged into a Win2k or XP machine.
- Drag and drop mp3s. No software needed.
- Autoresume.
- Smaller than the Archos. (though I must admit that those blue rubber bumpers saved my ass on many occasion)
- Reasonably good interface.
iRiver satisfies all of these.
I did try out the Rio Karma player but brought it back almost immediately. It took the Rio software two hours to index my 20,000 or so mp3s and then it tried to do it again for no apparent reason.
Not to mention the square shape just sucked.
iRiver does have SRS, WOW and Trubass but it's unlikely you'd ever want turn them on. All I got out of it was less volume. Just a gimmick if you ask me.
I'm cancelling my netflix account because I rarely watch more than 3 netflix movies a month. This is because:
1.) I'm a lazy SOB and either don't watch the movies soon after they arrive or forget to mail the DVDs back or both. Then tend to sit around way too long.
2.) I have a hard time finding things I want to watch on Netflix. I'm too lazy to do much research and rely on things jumping out at me. Never much of a problem in a real store. Maybe its just me but it appears that Netflix has a limited selection and are slow to get new releases.
3.) I keep running across things I want to watch on USENET or bittorrent so I download them and watch them, delaying the watching of what ever I got from Netflix and minimizing my investment.
4.) No instant gratification with Netflix. If I feel like watching something right now but the movies haven't arrived, that sucks.
Now, I would pay money to be able to browse recent releases and download 600-1500 MB films that I can play anywhere (even if the file self destructs) and is of comparable quality to what is being released by the rippers these days. I could live with a download time of several hours if necessary.
Aren't they?
I also use the 'iFree' and it gets the job done pretty well. I don't get the range that the previous poster claims but it works fine from the couch (8-10 feet) Batteries don't last as long as the Scorpius keyboard I used previously. Had to replace that one as my 2.5 year old daughter tends to beat the crap out of these when she gets her hands on them, which is frequently. Couldn't find a replacement Scorpius at the time so I bought the iFree instead.
Some more thoughts:
Get one with a trackball. The joystick type devices don't give you the same control
The 'versapoint' stuff is overrated and VERY overpriced.
Get RF not IR. IR is frustrating when you're lying on the couch.
If you're that paranoid, why are you still running Win 98?
Not everyone on the net is out to get you. Not even most of them.
Back up your valuables and give it a try.
Too many people were taking gMail seriously so they had to up the ante...
I had the same version of Phoenix installed on two machines. One worked flawlessly and one almost always displayed /. all messed up.
.08 so far, on any machine.
I'll go with the corrupt install explanation.
No problems with Firefox
Quicktime. (or mpeg, real, or whatever) If you are going to release a film that can't be viewed using the real-time engine it was created with, I'm not all that interested in viewing it.
I assume this is done to protect assets created for the films but I feel it detracts from the viewing pleasure.
Good point but I still wouldn't have bothered.
It's not that hard of a sell.
I would be very surprised if the Army didn't just upgrade all by themselves.
The Army has thousands of microsoft certified, ex-military but now civilian system administrators who know NOTHING else. And you can't fire them.
"You cannot play games at 35 or 40 and seem like anything but an intellectually-stunted manchild, there in your sweater vest, the control pad tangled in your long, gray, drool-soaked beard."
I resent that comment. I don't wear sweater vests and I shave regularly. So there!
The Army is already running Microsft OS & apps EVERYWHERE as far as I can tell (I work for them). And I keep hearing that it's part of the licensing agreement (in USAREUR anyway) that users can install office on their home machines for free. Even if that isn't true many people think it is and do so freely.
...Yet they manage to get their product keys published on the internet: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13633
This happens even though the Army still clings to the achaic idea that the physical CD the license and tries to keep them locked them up.
Who ever it was who said "Since it is so hard to fire a govie, the govt. is bloated with people who haven't meaningfully increased their techincal skillset since they graduated from college in the 70s." is right on the money.
How does a project which is on hold for two or more years while the lawyers argue about rights and the director works on something else qualify as being "in the works"?
This is not news. It is well know that Jackson would like to direct the Hobbit when possible. He is not currently working on it.
----------- Why is new mail notification (on 3 of the 5) "Audio Only"? I much prefer not having sound and just having a popup notification (or a small blurb come up): ----------- Thunderbird (win32 anyway) has a little system tray notifier that pops up when new mail is detectd. It's not configurable via the options tab and it seems to be a little slow at notifying you... However it DOES work while playing a full-screen quake engine game with out screwing anything up or interupting play which is a first as far as I've seen.
Sco would probably let you, just to see if the attack has died down as programmed.
It was a joke. ;)
Any chance they could win by saying Lindows is a parody of Windows?
Keep track of servers you like. Don't just join a random server every time you want to play. There are alot slight variations in server setups that can throw your game and make the learning curve more difficult. Use something like All Seeing Eye or Gamespy to track your favorites if necessary and when you find servers you like, go back. Play real team games. Generally speaking, you will die alot more playing deathmatch/team deathmatch oriented game types. These can be fun from time to time but capture/retrieve/destroy/ mission oriented games are more fun IMO, and will teach you more. Cheaters also tend to be caught and dealt with quicker. When you find a game type you like, stick with it for while. Don't switch around until you are comfortable with it. Don't get too frustrated by losing. Nobody wins all the time (well maybe a few). Just stick with it. I've been paying online FPS since doom and still get spanked royally on occasion. (ok.. frequently) Give Call of Duty a try. It's not too complicated/not too simple and is new enough that you won't always be completely out-classed. It's also one of most stable games, right out of the box, ever relased... in the tradition of Quake. Everything just works and feels right. And finally, and this is the key to EVERY FPS: Learn the maps. Learn them well. Play them until you know where everything is and what the most popular strategies are. This will give you your greatest advantage.
I don't know what the hell everyone's problem is... I guess they expect everyone to be as selfish as they are.
Anyway... for 7K I'd bet you could have this done professionally but if I were going to try it myself, I'd get two or 3 access points (bridges), install them on one floor and arrange them so I get the best coverage. Then I'd duplicate that arrangement on every floor. Assuming I'm going to maintain the wired internet connection, I'd place the WLAN behind a NAT router running DHCP. I'd put my own network behind another router/firewall, adjacent to the WLAN. I'd keep the WLAN open and tell everyone they are on their own as far as security goes and I would provide no support other than keeping the internet connection up and keeping the APs functional. It should be pretty much maintenance free once it's running.
The hardest and possibly most expensive part will be running cables to all the access points. Depending on how your building is constructed you may need more access points.
Good luck.
Yeah... depressing isn't it? I would have never guessed. I can understand a certain amount of selfishness but to be this selfish about someone else's money is pathetic.
It's sort of like, oh I dunno... say 'hyperbole'? hyperbole ( P ) Pronunciation Key (h-purb-l)
n.
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
Get it now?
It's used to sell you stuff all the time.
Ummm... After doing hard drive installs of knoppix on several computers because it's so damn convenient and easy, I became aquainted with apt-get and now ALL my linux boxen are Debian based. Prior to Knoppix I used mostly Mandrake/Red Hat. Need to check out the apt-rpm thing I keep hearing about though.
2.7. Happy with it so far. Recompiling the kernel was never so easy!
That's the conclusion I came to. Libranet is installing as I speak. Knoppix is also an option. Just boot it and run knx-install as root. Fully functional debian box in about 15-20 minutes.
Lego Guns?!!! Get 24" ruler or similar flat stick. Tape a clothespin to one end. Tape a nice strong rubberband to the other. Pull rubber band back and clip it with the clothespin. Insert lego block in front of rubberband, next to clothespin. Release rubberband. We used to shoot the crap out of each other with these when I was kid.
" People actually respect the law and no one complains." Not in Germany. People on the phone while driving all over the place.