...and then some jackass spammer will write a virus that finds and uses as much of the free bandwidth and cycles as possible while renaming your mp3's and e-mailing everyone you know devout expressions of your love for them, with a MAKE MONEY FA$$$$T attachment that autoexecutes. Ain't the internet great? --
s/(\.\.\. (disco)/ like the Monkees/ and you'd be a bit more acurate. I was watching a show about 60's-70's bands with my parents, and it said the Monkees didn't even know how to play thier instruments. I asked my parents, "Was all of the music from your generation a lie?" And they both turned to me, stared for a second, and said in unison, "Yup." --
I was quite fond of your efforts at playing that lovable scamp, Booger, in the numerous Revenge of the Nerds films. How did you get into character for this difficult role? Was it based on your own life expirience? Was the Dean really that big of an asshole? --
Why would he try to get himself arrested? Oh, you mean somebody *else* who sold his daughter pot! Yeah, I guess I'd be pretty pissed to, but I'd be more insulted that my own daughter didn't want my ganja. --
I'm sure that a wink wink nudge nudge suggestion to beta test it will have rabid linux geeks knocking down the doors to test it. Hell, I walked out of my one and only game testing job from how shitty a job it is, and I'd be willing to do it. --
Just a theory, but playing data CD's through speakers can blow them out. Why not hook up your old walkman with a 100 Free Hours On AOL! cd to a big red button on your phone that turns off your receiver (to avoid damaging it), then starts to play the cd? Should fry the telescum's (usually non-cheap) equipment, yes?
Ah, just a thought. At least until I get some schematics. --
Fsck it all, if I hear one of those things go off while I'm taking a leak, that box is going to say hello to Mr. Leatherman. Then I'm going to start slowly mailing pieces of it to ABC and demanding ransom.
There's got to be a more direct way of affecting change in big corps' marketing depts. Vigilantiism, for instance. --
While this may help the oddball company with a legacy system, I don't think this will help average consumers all that much. Actually, I think this would contribute more to the "Buy the latest release" upgrade cycle treadmill that 90% of the computing world is already on. The pressure for companies to add feature bloat so that the company is actually selling something new will be overpowering. You think M$ Word is big now at about 70 Megs with all the goodies? It'll take up a good gig if M$ has to worry about its software deathgrip expiring. --
If the quantities are as limited at the rest of the Cu series, then you can expect Dell and Compaq to get the only case, and they'll probably have to share. Bring on the Athlon love, baby! --
You must still be in Advertising 101. I shouldn't be telling you this, but they don't let you in on the secret that the purpose of advertising is in fact to deceive until Advertising 302. --
"Yeah, give me a fifth of Wild Turkey, a copy of Debbie does Dallas, a box of condoms, and... what the hell... throw in that copy of Quake III. To go please...:)"
To go?! What, like you have the choice of dining on your Debbie Does Dallas tape a la' Quake III CD whilst sipping Wild Turkey out of unrolled condoms at the store?!
Well, they were undoubtedly really *smelly* peasents. They may have even had pitchforks and torches. And foul breath. Don't underestimate the power of a frenchman's funk. --
Outlook. Not only does the glossy brochure indicate that it has all the features you could possibly want or need, it also comes FULLY SCRIPTABLE! Imagine the fun you can have sending little programs back and forth to your friends! Can't do that with mutt, pine OR/bin/mail. --
Totally. But unlike your sound card, which exposes the components and traces directly to the noise field, this will at least have a shielded box around it, cutting the noise floor by tens of dB's. I'm not saying that it's going to be audiophile quality, just that it's starting from a better position than a standard soundcard; that there are benefits to this scheme
But the article seems to imply that the decoding will be going on inside the box- that means there's a processor, RAM, NIC (or whatever they're going to use to get the input), and sound card in there with it. Sure, the noisiest component (the hard drive) won't be there, but there's still going to be enough electronic whine to make me wince. And if it's that bad, it'll probably be enought to put an audiophile into some sort of epileptic episode. Especially if they go with a *shudder* Sound Blaster 16 or similiar sound card.
-- The average sound card in a computer is crap. Complete and utter garbage when it comes to the fidelity of the audio outputs and the quality of the DACs.
What, a $250 box from Dell is going to be better?
-- You can buy high-end sound cards with much better DACs and outputs, but they're going to cost much more than $199, because of all the extra foo that usually goes into such a card, wavetable synths, PCI chipsets, etc etc.
Sure you can. But if you're the type to do that, you wouldn't a) run cables from your computer sound card to your receiver OR b) buy a $250 MP3 gizmo from Dell. This device is targeted towords the drooling masses that haven't yet realized a) is an option, not towords audiophiles.
-- The inside of your computer is one of the electrically noisiest places you have access to (apart from about a foot from your car's distributor...). Your sound card picks up modifications to the signal from this, sometimes as overt as audible noise, sometimes just as subtle changes to the frequency response.
I somehow doubt the box this article talks about will be much better. It's going to have plenty of noise around it, too.
Product idea: a PCI card that renders MP3 to standard S/PDIF or optical that can be run directly into the back of your digital-enabled receiver....)
Now THAT I would pay for. This Dell toy is only good for one thing:/. flame fests.
-- You can offload the cycles from your CPU with an outboard box. Nobody's running into CPU crunches with current decoders, it's true, but, hey, that's more distributed.net keys for Team Slashdot, right?
That's not really a concern for me, I've got a whole other machine for that.
Yeah, this is *much* better than my set up now. I'd much rather pay $250 for a box to connect to my pc and my receiver than to pay $8 for the cable from from my pc to my receiver. You can never have too many middle men, especially when that middle man makes someone else $. --
"Rythm" is hardly a biometric. Ask anyone who's been in a freaking band. It will take about 40 seconds for there to be a "standard" typing rythm for *everything*. I recommend that old "shave and a haircut" thing that everyone already knows.
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And another thing. Copy protection is REALLY starting to piss me off. I wanted to play a game yesterday, that's all, just play a game. And I had to track down the fscking CD. It takes an additional minute to jump into a game. Not a lot in the long run, but since I only wanted to jump in, frag a few people, and get out, we're looking at an additional 10% of the time I'd spend playing.
HEY! "Intellectual property" owners! I'm only going to say this once:
The only people you're slowing down are the legitimate consumers. And they're getting pretty pissed about it. Now I'm off to find a crack for my game, so I can play without the CD.
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...and then some jackass spammer will write a virus that finds and uses as much of the free bandwidth and cycles as possible while renaming your mp3's and e-mailing everyone you know devout expressions of your love for them, with a MAKE MONEY FA$$$$T attachment that autoexecutes. Ain't the internet great?
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s/(\.\.\. (disco)/ like the Monkees/ and you'd be a bit more acurate. I was watching a show about 60's-70's bands with my parents, and it said the Monkees didn't even know how to play thier instruments. I asked my parents, "Was all of the music from your generation a lie?" And they both turned to me, stared for a second, and said in unison, "Yup."
--
I was quite fond of your efforts at playing that lovable scamp, Booger, in the numerous Revenge of the Nerds films. How did you get into character for this difficult role? Was it based on your own life expirience? Was the Dean really that big of an asshole?
--
Did you ever want to leap across the table and savagely beat one of your interviewees? *cough*Ballmer*cough*
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Why would he try to get himself arrested? Oh, you mean somebody *else* who sold his daughter pot! Yeah, I guess I'd be pretty pissed to, but I'd be more insulted that my own daughter didn't want my ganja.
--
I'm sure that a wink wink nudge nudge suggestion to beta test it will have rabid linux geeks knocking down the doors to test it. Hell, I walked out of my one and only game testing job from how shitty a job it is, and I'd be willing to do it.
--
Just a theory, but playing data CD's through speakers can blow them out. Why not hook up your old walkman with a 100 Free Hours On AOL! cd to a big red button on your phone that turns off your receiver (to avoid damaging it), then starts to play the cd? Should fry the telescum's (usually non-cheap) equipment, yes?
Ah, just a thought. At least until I get some schematics.
--
Fsck it all, if I hear one of those things go off while I'm taking a leak, that box is going to say hello to Mr. Leatherman. Then I'm going to start slowly mailing pieces of it to ABC and demanding ransom.
There's got to be a more direct way of affecting change in big corps' marketing depts. Vigilantiism, for instance.
--
While this may help the oddball company with a legacy system, I don't think this will help average consumers all that much. Actually, I think this would contribute more to the "Buy the latest release" upgrade cycle treadmill that 90% of the computing world is already on. The pressure for companies to add feature bloat so that the company is actually selling something new will be overpowering. You think M$ Word is big now at about 70 Megs with all the goodies? It'll take up a good gig if M$ has to worry about its software deathgrip expiring.
--
You mean they'd finally have a reason to ditch cubicles? And this is a bad thing?
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Hardly! I'll happily attest to the power of the keyboard causing RSI.
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If the quantities are as limited at the rest of the Cu series, then you can expect Dell and Compaq to get the only case, and they'll probably have to share. Bring on the Athlon love, baby!
--
You must still be in Advertising 101. I shouldn't be telling you this, but they don't let you in on the secret that the purpose of advertising is in fact to deceive until Advertising 302.
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To go?! What, like you have the choice of dining on your Debbie Does Dallas tape a la' Quake III CD whilst sipping Wild Turkey out of unrolled condoms at the store?!
Looks like I just found me a new hobby!
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I've heard it as, "I'm a Capricorn, and Capricorns don't really buy into superstition."
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Well, they were undoubtedly really *smelly* peasents. They may have even had pitchforks and torches. And foul breath. Don't underestimate the power of a frenchman's funk.
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Have you considered eating your friends?
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Sure you could. But since to do this you need a clean room and a squad of folks with electro-microscopes, the latency will be terrible!
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No, actually O'Brien just has a good RAID-5 setup.
HTH. HAND.
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Outlook. Not only does the glossy brochure indicate that it has all the features you could possibly want or need, it also comes FULLY SCRIPTABLE! Imagine the fun you can have sending little programs back and forth to your friends! Can't do that with mutt, pine OR /bin/mail.
--
Read the BOFH stories and arrange an "accident".
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But the article seems to imply that the decoding will be going on inside the box- that means there's a processor, RAM, NIC (or whatever they're going to use to get the input), and sound card in there with it. Sure, the noisiest component (the hard drive) won't be there, but there's still going to be enough electronic whine to make me wince. And if it's that bad, it'll probably be enought to put an audiophile into some sort of epileptic episode. Especially if they go with a *shudder* Sound Blaster 16 or similiar sound card.
--
What, a $250 box from Dell is going to be better?
-- You can buy high-end sound cards with much better DACs and outputs, but they're going to cost much more than $199, because of all the extra foo that usually goes into such a card, wavetable synths, PCI chipsets, etc etc.
Sure you can. But if you're the type to do that, you wouldn't a) run cables from your computer sound card to your receiver OR b) buy a $250 MP3 gizmo from Dell. This device is targeted towords the drooling masses that haven't yet realized a) is an option, not towords audiophiles.
-- The inside of your computer is one of the electrically noisiest places you have access to (apart from about a foot from your car's distributor...). Your sound card picks up modifications to the signal from this, sometimes as overt as audible noise, sometimes just as subtle changes to the frequency response.
I somehow doubt the box this article talks about will be much better. It's going to have plenty of noise around it, too.
Product idea: a PCI card that renders MP3 to standard S/PDIF or optical that can be run directly into the back of your digital-enabled receiver....)
Now THAT I would pay for. This Dell toy is only good for one thing: /. flame fests.
-- You can offload the cycles from your CPU with an outboard box. Nobody's running into CPU crunches with current decoders, it's true, but, hey, that's more distributed.net keys for Team Slashdot, right?
That's not really a concern for me, I've got a whole other machine for that.
--
Yeah, this is *much* better than my set up now. I'd much rather pay $250 for a box to connect to my pc and my receiver than to pay $8 for the cable from from my pc to my receiver. You can never have too many middle men, especially when that middle man makes someone else $.
--
"Rythm" is hardly a biometric. Ask anyone who's been in a freaking band. It will take about 40 seconds for there to be a "standard" typing rythm for *everything*. I recommend that old "shave and a haircut" thing that everyone already knows.
<rant>
And another thing. Copy protection is REALLY starting to piss me off. I wanted to play a game yesterday, that's all, just play a game. And I had to track down the fscking CD. It takes an additional minute to jump into a game. Not a lot in the long run, but since I only wanted to jump in, frag a few people, and get out, we're looking at an additional 10% of the time I'd spend playing.
HEY! "Intellectual property" owners! I'm only going to say this once:
The only people you're slowing down are the legitimate consumers. And they're getting pretty pissed about it.
Now I'm off to find a crack for my game, so I can play without the CD.
</rant>
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