Don't laugh too hard. The man has, or almost had, a Masters in Education and IIRC taught special ed classes for awhile before his obvious talent landed him a gig in porno.
Ron Jeremy is a hero for large, hirsute men everywhere, even if I don't wanna look at his hairy ass, either.
If you're someone who stores CDs label-side down on a desk, you're doing it wrong. The label side is much closer and has much less polycarbonate between it and the reflective coating that you REALLY don't want to have scratched. CD Players are designed to read through scratches on the data side of the disc. There's no coping mechanism for damage to the reflective coating.
My methods for organizing 3200 audio CDs/DVDs: 3 400 disc CD changers, 3 300 disc DVD changers. The contents of each changer are indexed in a plaintext file and a searchable web db. That takes care of about 2/3s of my storage needs, and since all these units have a display and a PS/2 port, it makes labelling simple.
I like jewel cases, so I keep my cases in them. I got a local cabinetmaker to build me some nice 7' tall shelves to store cases. They're simple, pine construction, but he put on oak trim. They look nice, and keep my collection visible. The overflow is kept in $10 3' bookcases I got from Kmart. I organize cases alphabetically.
For data discs, I just throw everything in 200-CD binders. Those sit on the bookshelves in my computer room. I have a couple for games, a couple for drivers, one for OSes and apps, and about 10 for my prodigious collection of pr0n.
Looks clean in every browser I've tried, except lynx.:(
The people who run the ICQ homepage should be shot. mirabilis.com looks like about four normal web sites threw up on it. Same thing with the large group of sites associated with voyeurweb.com. Their web designer needs to be beaten to death with a 14" dildo.
Also, a lot of sites use flash or something similar to get to a "clean" design. I'm on a super-low-speed connection, and know well the pain of having to wait 25 minutes while some fuckwit's version of the Sistine Chapel tries to load on my machine so I can see the flash-only navigation to download a driver. For those people, I'd offer that they be forced to watch while their wives and children are beaten for the duration of time it takes to load their pages over a 14.4 connection. With a 14" dildo.
NCSA Mosaic loads up pretty quickly on my XP3000+.
Oh, yeah. I still use lynx. I'm using it right now. Where I live, I can't get a modem to connect faster than 14.4kbps, and lynx is functional over that type of connection. Mozilla does OK, with its image permissions and blocking, if I need to look at graphics. I still do a lot of browsing with lynx.
Er... one of my neighbors is a cop. I asked him about "type B"-porno. He didn't know, so he checked with some of the detectives at his station. Their take was that pictures of 17 year olds would almost never get you in trouble in the US. Almost. Basically, the burden of proof is such that if a visual determination wouldn't be a certainty - and a lot of porn in the US is of a "barely legal" variety - they're not going to spend much time worrying about it. The de-facto cutoff is basically with barely-pubescent children if the images are anonymous. Of course, if you have pictures of two identifiable 17 year olds or your local DA is a prick, you still have a problem.
Y'know, I looked on various P2P networks for a couple of weeks for Wendy Carlos music... just out of curiousity about what Bach sounds like on a synthesizer.
If you're serious, I'd be happy to snag one from you.
An overclocked Tbred is actually a bit cooler than a barton at default FSB. The barton core, at low speeds, is really a fairly uncompelling purchase.
A $45 Tbred 1700+ can VERY easily slide in to barton territory if it's both unlocked and on a 166MHz FSB. I've even managed to get them up over 2 -actual- GHz (again, 2600-equivalent).
To the best of my knowledge, the GA7VAX(P/P-Ultra) does not support a 200MHz FSB. The 1.1 rev of the PCB has a DIP switch setting for 166MHz, and the 1.2 rev (current AFAIK) has a setting for 100MHz or "other", basically switching to 133/166MHz operation. Gigabyte is not terribly overclocker friendly, although the 1.1 rev of that board does just fine with a Tbred "B" at 166.
My two knocks on that board are the northbridge fan, which is a piece of crap that really doesn't need to be there (the GA-7VRX didn't have one), and the onboard sound, which loses its ability to handle line-in when you enable the SPDIF.
Also, the KT400A will be available Real Soon Now(tm). It'll offer better sound hardware than the ACL650 on the that gigabyte board and according to most of the stuff I've read, a nice bump in performance, too, particularly in memory bandwidth.
If you need something decent right now, and stability is a top concern, the GA-7VAX is a great choice. For budget users I usually suggest the current Shuttle offering, the AK32A. Performance junkies get nforce2s, but there's enough variation among those to need a personal choice.
The sweet spot CPU right now is probably the XP2000+. I'd pair that with a Speeze (Spire)5F263B1M3 80mm (and damn near silent) HSF and, if it were my machine, flip it to 166MHz operation. That'd get you a "2600+" for about $60.
I'd think that the team that gets the most points for this would be the one to points for this item would be the one to post those numbers on slashdot.;)
Er, actually, I was complaining more about the inclusion of the toy that is Media Player 9. Why install Media player at all without sound, and why the version that does all the visualization crap if you're doing all the processing for it on your box's CPU, instead of it's graphics card?
XP DOES have some DRM features, built in to Media Player (e.g. you can rip a file from a CD, but only in dumbass WMA format, and only at a low bit-rate).
2003 Server includes DirectX 6 but WMP9, BTW. This is hilarious, since sound and graphics acceleration are off by default, and if you *DO* play a media file or a CD with media player, all the visualizations are on and completely handled by your CPU.
Anyway, through the linkages that have a tendency to happen with Microsoft programs, probably 20 minutes after MS developes pervasive software DRM, they'll make sure that their next required patches to some-important-Windows-technology (say, IE) include that patch... and the next so-bad-it-makes-the-evening-news security patch for Windows will require updated IE. Problem solved. Or started, if you're clueful and don't want DRM.
In my area, the engineers that Lucent and Motorola laid off are fighting over $7/hour retail jobs. The guy I bought a suit from Friday had 12 years' experience programming embedded systems (I am really not kidding).
I'll bet those guys are asking the same question you are, only they have families, mortgages and car payments.
"To wish death upon a person simply because her viewpoints are different from yours is completely barbaric."
Republican. Barbaric. Whichever.
More seriously, WTF is up with worrying about IP laws in a country that collectively doesn't have running water? Are photocopiers and CD burners so much a problem in a nation where most "modern" technology has been embargo'd for the last 12 years?
I can see it now: "Whip the camels faster, Ali, we almost have 'Jagged Little Pill'"
OTOH, Ms. Rosen is free for the first time to establish her dream: The Elite P2P Death Squad.
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful."
-- The Hacker's Dictionary.
The strip in question features an "America Greetings" employee saluting Hitler. Ergo, given the above defintion (comparison to Hitler), Godwin's law has been invoked, by them, not by me.
I read a few weeks worth of Penny Arcade during the previous mention on slashdot. I didn't get it then, even though I'm in touch enough that I've played some of the PC games they discuss. I'm really having a hard time seeing how this "comic" can generate so much interest on slashdot.
Just asking, 'cause I don't get it. I just played "try to find the joke" in that latest strip. I didn't see it. They use naughty words and invoke Godwin's Law WRT American Greetings.
I'd suggest Samsung. Yes, I'm being serious. Even the best of their drives is slow, but "slow" just means that the 7200rpm 80GB Samsung brings up the tail of the pack of _current_ ATA drives, performing better than current 5400rpm entries from WD and Seagate and just a hair slower than current Seagate and Maxtor drives. Before someone jumps on me about performance, do TRY to keep in mind that any current ATA drive is going to be substantially faster than any two-year-old ATA drive, mainly due to the benefits of increased platter density.
My main reason for suggesting Samsung, aside from the joys of a real 3 year warranty and the fact that Samsung drives really are value-priced, is that my return rate, and the return rates of several other resellers I know, has been exceedingly low.
AMD's chipsets are very reilable. AMD 750/751/760/761 are some of the best ever made for Athlon. Easily on par with Intel.
Via's AMD chipsets have been very good since the KT266A. Not quite on par with Intel or AMD, but more than good enough. Big thumbs up for a unified driver package, but I'm a little underwhelmed by the onboard IDE performance with Via chipsets. Still a great value for the money.
IMO the major problem with Abit motherboards is the "Abit" part. I have bunches of dead Abit boards that Abit won't take bacl, Intel and Via both. Try Gigabyte or Epox instead, for your AMD-based motherboard needs.
Durons actually haven't been manufacturered for awhile. Since the Tbred XPs were introduced, I think. The proper comparison would be a $50 Tbred 1700+.
Tbred 1700s also have the marvelous properties of being the coolest Athlons ever and also being magnificent overclockers. I've got one at 2600-equivalent speeds on a 166MHz bus.
Combine with a Shuttle AK32A or ECS (bleh) K7S5A motherboard, and you don't even have to upgrade RAM.
Total cost for the pair will be maybe $120, shipped, or around what the Celeron costs by itself.
(I'd also toss in a Speeze/Spire WhisperRock II HSF and probably 256MB of PC2700 RAM, bringing the total to around $160).
Next are you gonna tell me my mother is ugly? Of course I'm a leftist. Calling me a communist without the information needed to back that up (e.g. my call for redistribution of wealth to the people) would be just as egregious as me calling you a fascist prick. Which, as you'll note, I haven't done. I'm an atheist, too. You can go ahead and hurt my feelings by telling me I'm going to hell, too. G'wan. It's funny.
The ideal I'm suggesting is *not* "tax our way to prosperity". It's "let's pay for the expenditures we actually plan to make". This is called "fiscal responsibility".
You've provided no substantive proof of your assertion that a tax cut in the current economy would lead to growth and income replacement. Another poster has suggested that the inverse is true. My personal feeling is that giving back some of those taxes will lead to an increase in irresponsible consumer spending (and, to put that in perspective, I have an upper middle-class income and lifestyle, and live in an apartment complex that's about 50% welfare housing, and I see the results of irresponsible consumer spending every day), rather than spending that might actually improve the tax base (long term investment leading to growing business by improving goods and services leading to job creation etc). Relatively few people in the US are in a position where the extra $50 a week or whatever a tax cut would bring, would be put in a position for real economic stimulus. Instead, that $50 or $100 or whatever it is would almost certainly be spent on consumer goods or services. Sure you'd get marginal growth by manufacturers of raw materials and consumer goods. Fine. Is that going to cause job creation or large-scale business expansion? I don't think so. I think this economy has enough excess capacity and efficiency to absorb increases in consumer spending without either of the above. Apparently at least some analysts agree with me.
In short, I don't think a tax cut is helpful in the present situation. Job creation would no-doubt be helpful, as would new markets for existing goods and services.
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Don't laugh too hard. The man has, or almost had, a Masters in Education and IIRC taught special ed classes for awhile before his obvious talent landed him a gig in porno.
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Ron Jeremy is a hero for large, hirsute men everywhere, even if I don't wanna look at his hairy ass, either.
Link: http://www.lukeford.com/stars/male/ron_jeremy.htm
If you're someone who stores CDs label-side down on a desk, you're doing it wrong. The label side is much closer and has much less polycarbonate between it and the reflective coating that you REALLY don't want to have scratched. CD Players are designed to read through scratches on the data side of the disc. There's no coping mechanism for damage to the reflective coating.
My methods for organizing 3200 audio CDs/DVDs: 3 400 disc CD changers, 3 300 disc DVD changers. The contents of each changer are indexed in a plaintext file and a searchable web db. That takes care of about 2/3s of my storage needs, and since all these units have a display and a PS/2 port, it makes labelling simple.
I like jewel cases, so I keep my cases in them. I got a local cabinetmaker to build me some nice 7' tall shelves to store cases. They're simple, pine construction, but he put on oak trim. They look nice, and keep my collection visible. The overflow is kept in $10 3' bookcases I got from Kmart. I organize cases alphabetically.
For data discs, I just throw everything in 200-CD binders. Those sit on the bookshelves in my computer room. I have a couple for games, a couple for drivers, one for OSes and apps, and about 10 for my prodigious collection of pr0n.
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Looks clean in every browser I've tried, except lynx.
The people who run the ICQ homepage should be shot. mirabilis.com looks like about four normal web sites threw up on it. Same thing with the large group of sites associated with voyeurweb.com. Their web designer needs to be beaten to death with a 14" dildo.
Also, a lot of sites use flash or something similar to get to a "clean" design. I'm on a super-low-speed connection, and know well the pain of having to wait 25 minutes while some fuckwit's version of the Sistine Chapel tries to load on my machine so I can see the flash-only navigation to download a driver. For those people, I'd offer that they be forced to watch while their wives and children are beaten for the duration of time it takes to load their pages over a 14.4 connection. With a 14" dildo.
NCSA Mosaic loads up pretty quickly on my XP3000+.
Oh, yeah. I still use lynx. I'm using it right now. Where I live, I can't get a modem to connect faster than 14.4kbps, and lynx is functional over that type of connection. Mozilla does OK, with its image permissions and blocking, if I need to look at graphics. I still do a lot of browsing with lynx.
Er... one of my neighbors is a cop. I asked him about "type B"-porno. He didn't know, so he checked with some of the detectives at his station.
Their take was that pictures of 17 year olds would almost never get you in trouble in the US. Almost. Basically, the burden of proof is such that if a visual determination wouldn't be a certainty - and a lot of porn in the US is of a "barely legal" variety - they're not going to spend much time worrying about it. The de-facto cutoff is basically with barely-pubescent children if the images are anonymous. Of course, if you have pictures of two identifiable 17 year olds or your local DA is a prick, you still have a problem.
Y'know, I looked on various P2P networks for a couple of weeks for Wendy Carlos music... just out of curiousity about what Bach sounds like on a synthesizer.
If you're serious, I'd be happy to snag one from you.
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An overclocked Tbred is actually a bit cooler than a barton at default FSB. The barton core, at low speeds, is really a fairly uncompelling purchase.
A $45 Tbred 1700+ can VERY easily slide in to barton territory if it's both unlocked and on a 166MHz FSB. I've even managed to get them up over 2 -actual- GHz (again, 2600-equivalent).
To the best of my knowledge, the GA7VAX(P/P-Ultra) does not support a 200MHz FSB. The 1.1 rev of the PCB has a DIP switch setting for 166MHz, and the 1.2 rev (current AFAIK) has a setting for 100MHz or "other", basically switching to 133/166MHz operation. Gigabyte is not terribly overclocker friendly, although the 1.1 rev of that board does just fine with a Tbred "B" at 166.
My two knocks on that board are the northbridge fan, which is a piece of crap that really doesn't need to be there (the GA-7VRX didn't have one), and the onboard sound, which loses its ability to handle line-in when you enable the SPDIF.
Also, the KT400A will be available Real Soon Now(tm). It'll offer better sound hardware than the ACL650 on the that gigabyte board and according to most of the stuff I've read, a nice bump in performance, too, particularly in memory bandwidth.
If you need something decent right now, and stability is a top concern, the GA-7VAX is a great choice. For budget users I usually suggest the current Shuttle offering, the AK32A. Performance junkies get nforce2s, but there's enough variation among those to need a personal choice.
The sweet spot CPU right now is probably the XP2000+. I'd pair that with a Speeze (Spire)5F263B1M3 80mm (and damn near silent) HSF and, if it were my machine, flip it to 166MHz operation. That'd get you a "2600+" for about $60.
I already fired off an email to ask newegg about this. Hopefully they'll just move their operation to someplace that doesn't suck.
That giant sucking sound you just heard was Amazon.com's teeny tiny misicule little profit being flushed down the toilet of destiny.
Mod this up! This man's team clearly needs points!
I'd think that the team that gets the most points for this would be the one to points for this item would be the one to post those numbers on slashdot. ;)
Thanks man, that was a good laugh.
And the URL for said porn site would be...
Er, actually, I was complaining more about the inclusion of the toy that is Media Player 9. Why install Media player at all without sound, and why the version that does all the visualization crap if you're doing all the processing for it on your box's CPU, instead of it's graphics card?
XP DOES have some DRM features, built in to Media Player (e.g. you can rip a file from a CD, but only in dumbass WMA format, and only at a low bit-rate).
2003 Server includes DirectX 6 but WMP9, BTW. This is hilarious, since sound and graphics acceleration are off by default, and if you *DO* play a media file or a CD with media player, all the visualizations are on and completely handled by your CPU.
Anyway, through the linkages that have a tendency to happen with Microsoft programs, probably 20 minutes after MS developes pervasive software DRM, they'll make sure that their next required patches to some-important-Windows-technology (say, IE) include that patch... and the next so-bad-it-makes-the-evening-news security patch for Windows will require updated IE. Problem solved. Or started, if you're clueful and don't want DRM.
In my area, the engineers that Lucent and Motorola laid off are fighting over $7/hour retail jobs. The guy I bought a suit from Friday had 12 years' experience programming embedded systems (I am really not kidding).
I'll bet those guys are asking the same question you are, only they have families, mortgages and car payments.
Well, that and the ability to negotiate stairs.
"To wish death upon a person simply because her viewpoints are different from yours is completely barbaric."
Republican. Barbaric. Whichever.
More seriously, WTF is up with worrying about IP laws in a country that collectively doesn't have running water? Are photocopiers and CD burners so much a problem in a nation where most "modern" technology has been embargo'd for the last 12 years?
I can see it now: "Whip the camels faster, Ali, we almost have 'Jagged Little Pill'"
OTOH, Ms. Rosen is free for the first time to establish her dream: The Elite P2P Death Squad.
I can hate Herr Bush (--- note sneaking reference to Godwin's law) just fine all on my own.
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful."
-- The Hacker's Dictionary.
The strip in question features an "America Greetings" employee saluting Hitler. Ergo, given the above defintion (comparison to Hitler), Godwin's law has been invoked, by them, not by me.
I read a few weeks worth of Penny Arcade during the previous mention on slashdot. I didn't get it then, even though I'm in touch enough that I've played some of the PC games they discuss. I'm really having a hard time seeing how this "comic" can generate so much interest on slashdot.
Just asking, 'cause I don't get it. I just played "try to find the joke" in that latest strip. I didn't see it. They use naughty words and invoke Godwin's Law WRT American Greetings.
I'd suggest Samsung. Yes, I'm being serious. Even the best of their drives is slow, but "slow" just means that the 7200rpm 80GB Samsung brings up the tail of the pack of _current_ ATA drives, performing better than current 5400rpm entries from WD and Seagate and just a hair slower than current Seagate and Maxtor drives. Before someone jumps on me about performance, do TRY to keep in mind that any current ATA drive is going to be substantially faster than any two-year-old ATA drive, mainly due to the benefits of increased platter density.
My main reason for suggesting Samsung, aside from the joys of a real 3 year warranty and the fact that Samsung drives really are value-priced, is that my return rate, and the return rates of several other resellers I know, has been exceedingly low.
AMD's chipsets are very reilable. AMD 750/751/760/761 are some of the best ever made for Athlon. Easily on par with Intel.
Via's AMD chipsets have been very good since the KT266A. Not quite on par with Intel or AMD, but more than good enough. Big thumbs up for a unified driver package, but I'm a little underwhelmed by the onboard IDE performance with Via chipsets. Still a great value for the money.
IMO the major problem with Abit motherboards is the "Abit" part. I have bunches of dead Abit boards that Abit won't take bacl, Intel and Via both. Try Gigabyte or Epox instead, for your AMD-based motherboard needs.
Durons actually haven't been manufacturered for awhile. Since the Tbred XPs were introduced, I think. The proper comparison would be a $50 Tbred 1700+.
Tbred 1700s also have the marvelous properties of being the coolest Athlons ever and also being magnificent overclockers. I've got one at 2600-equivalent speeds on a 166MHz bus.
Combine with a Shuttle AK32A or ECS (bleh) K7S5A motherboard, and you don't even have to upgrade RAM.
Total cost for the pair will be maybe $120, shipped, or around what the Celeron costs by itself.
(I'd also toss in a Speeze/Spire WhisperRock II HSF and probably 256MB of PC2700 RAM, bringing the total to around $160).
Next are you gonna tell me my mother is ugly? Of course I'm a leftist. Calling me a communist without the information needed to back that up (e.g. my call for redistribution of wealth to the people) would be just as egregious as me calling you a fascist prick. Which, as you'll note, I haven't done. I'm an atheist, too. You can go ahead and hurt my feelings by telling me I'm going to hell, too. G'wan. It's funny.
The ideal I'm suggesting is *not* "tax our way to prosperity". It's "let's pay for the expenditures we actually plan to make". This is called "fiscal responsibility".
You've provided no substantive proof of your assertion that a tax cut in the current economy would lead to growth and income replacement. Another poster has suggested that the inverse is true. My personal feeling is that giving back some of those taxes will lead to an increase in irresponsible consumer spending (and, to put that in perspective, I have an upper middle-class income and lifestyle, and live in an apartment complex that's about 50% welfare housing, and I see the results of irresponsible consumer spending every day), rather than spending that might actually improve the tax base (long term investment leading to growing business by improving goods and services leading to job creation etc). Relatively few people in the US are in a position where the extra $50 a week or whatever a tax cut would bring, would be put in a position for real economic stimulus. Instead, that $50 or $100 or whatever it is would almost certainly be spent on consumer goods or services. Sure you'd get marginal growth by manufacturers of raw materials and consumer goods. Fine. Is that going to cause job creation or large-scale business expansion? I don't think so. I think this economy has enough excess capacity and efficiency to absorb increases in consumer spending without either of the above. Apparently at least some analysts agree with me.
In short, I don't think a tax cut is helpful in the present situation. Job creation would no-doubt be helpful, as would new markets for existing goods and services.