I did. Didn't help. If I really like static, I can usually hear, but not see, Fox, PBS and sometimes NBC. It's probably an artifact of geography or my building's construction material or something.
*MY* big monitor (32" Sony presentation display) is a lot bigger than my TV (27" JVC thing that I presumed would have a better tuner than my TV card). I bought the TV just this year, largely because I was tired of not having any knowledge of what my co-workers were talking about.
Then I found out that the only channels I can get with an indoor amplified antenna are Telemundo and Unavision (I live really close to Chicago). I'm not paying for cable. Dancing hispanic chicas in thongs are awesome and all, but somehow that didn't help me converse with my coworkers.:(
Laugh all damn day, but I built a loft when I was in college that beats the shit out of any other computer desk, anywhere.
1' under the bed area (now used for plain-old storage space), there's a recessed shelf that's deep enough for my array of home theater components, all arranged on a 6' long power strip.
2.5' below that is a desk that's wide enough for a set of large (shielded) bookshelf speakers, a 21" and a 17" monitor.
The area beneath the desk is high enough to accomodate the tallest tower cases I could find.
The sides are cross-braced, and the desk and shelf are supported on the braces. The "back" braces have their own, small shelf for rear-surround bookshelf speakers, right at ear-level.
The whole set up inspired geek awe when I was in college, and I've never found anything so functional anyplace else, so I continue to use it as a grown-up, even though I can afford real furniture.
I've watched Anime that's supposed to be good (Princess Mononoke or whatever it's called). I saw Akira in the theater. I've tried and tried to "get" anime.
I still don't see the point."Schoolgirl-raping tentacles" really AREN'T my idea of anime, but as a genre of storytelling, it has singularly failed to move me in any way. I've been more emotionally/intellectually/sexually stimulated by the advertising copy on the back of a box of breakfast cereal than I have by anything with big eyes, poor dubbing or sleep (snot?) bubbles.
Can an enthusiast PLEASE explain why this form is in any way comparable to more mainstream types of entertainment?
The remote for my home theater is an LCD screen with "keys" that change based on the context of the device I'm operating and the level of complexity I need.
A keyboard for a moron like my brother's wife (no offense, but she's been on the web for six years or so, and didn't know what the "back" button on her browser did until yesterday. AOL really does make you dumber) could be simplified down to five or six HUGE keys, while a guru might be able to access 150 keys in the same program.
I'm a pianist, so I wish chording off a single hand were possible. It's not. Too many idiots in the world can't handle hitting one key at a time, let alone combinations of three.
I'd rather have an electrode-interface for interacting with a PC than deal with voice. There are lots of privacy issues there that I don't think have been addressed.
Tried it this afternoon on one of my 2000 Servers and an XP Pro disc. I was greeted by a password prompt.
The default local security policy on every XP box I have access to seems to require authentication, but at the same time, more than half of the XP boxes I have access to also have an admin-level account that does NOT have a password on it, at all.
Not really. A fertilized embryo could be implanted in a male body fairly readily. Just because a woman has a sac already handy for it doesn't mean it couldn't latch on anywhere else.
Yes, there are. Hold down shift and right-click to "Run As". Unfortunately that doesn't work for everything, so for example I can't change the system time on my 2000 machine at work unless I log out of my "User" account and log in with my admin account (yes, I know I can fix that one easily, but I live with all the same restrictions as my users). There are lots of similar examples out there. The NT-ish system just doesn't work as well as sudo.
TDK drives, at least in the 12x - 24x range, were usually Plextors, so don't poke too much fun.
In general, I've loved the Yamaha drives I've had, starting with an old single-speed mastering system I got in '97 and on to the couple of 8x SCSI units I bought about three years ago.
Plextor I've been less impressed with. None of the 12x plextor drives I support at work, work as burners, although all will read discs. I've been replacing those drives slowly with Lite-On units, which I have found to be sturdy, quiet and reliable... just a little fussy about media.
I still have my SCSI Yamahas, but after being unable to find a "fast" CD-RW with a SCSI interface, I invested in a few Acard SCSI to IDE HBAs, and moved most of my burning to quasi-SCSI LiteOn drives. By the time Yamaha got around to bringing out a "fast" SCSI CD-RW, it was six months too late and $50 more than I paid for my IDE drive and HBA put together.
Realistically, CD-RW is at the limit of its development, anyway. 52x or 56x is as far as anyone has gone with CD-ROM drives, and even those are almost out of the marketplace (88% of the computers I built last year had a burner, the other 12 had just a DVD-ROM). We've got an absolute commodity product, much like a floppy drive or a keyboard. There's no margin in that stuff, and no good way of differentiating yourself. I think Yamaha made the right choice, even if I'm going to miss being able to order their products.
Why the fuck does a homophobic white rapper deserve an oscar nomination? Are they just giving those away now? I'll be standing in my corner waiting for someone to justify rap as "music" to begin with, and middle-class wanna-be white rappers who deserve oscar nominations specifically.
Isn't there a composer for a dogma '99 (google if you don't get it. I'm not talking about Kevin Smith here) movie out there somewhere who deserves some recognition instead?
I posted a comment similar to the above a couple weeks ago and watched it shoot from score: 5 to 0 and then back up over the next 24 hours. In the end 20-odd people modded it.
But hey, I'll reiterate: nvidia cards get hot, to the detriment of the general stability of their host computers. They seem to do this in 2D or 3D modes. I've replaced a lot of M64s, Vantas and GF2MXs because of this, and found that those replacements FIXED PROBLEMS.
I had fun in the 2 quarters worth of play I got on Gaultlet 3D. Since there was a 3dfx logo on the cabinet of the console, I was REALLY hoping someone would port it to PC. With no more midway and no more 3dfx, guess that one's out, huh?
My complaint was in support of yours. Why the fuck are the $300 Klipsch speakers $300 if Logitechs that cost less than a third of that sound just as good or better?
I'll give you another if you'd like. I bought some Klipsch 5.1s for a system I built for a gamer buddy. They go "boom boom boom", and my classical music was VERY distorted (highs muted, and boomy bass) compared to my HT setup (Onkyo TXDX989). I felt bad he spent his money on them.
Three months ago Taget stores in the US had Logitech Z340s - the 2.1 set - on sale for $23. I bought a set home and plugged it in to the PC in my bedroom. They sounded a lot like the Klipsch speakers, but less boomy, so my music didn't sound quite as... weird. For $23 I was really happy with them.
Last week newegg.com put the Z640, a non-THX/DPLII 5.1 set up for sale on their site for $74 (and there's a $20 rebate, too). I got my pair yesterday. Again, much less boomy, and great for full-range music. The couple of movies I watched last night sounded really damn good, too.
The way I see it, the Klipsch 5.1s should've been the $75 pair. The logitech speakers are a freakin' bargain and sound better to boot.
Dude, Homer's Phobia is without a doubt the best episode of all time. And I'm not just saying that 'cause I'm sitting in (the former) Bethlehem Steel's Burns Habor training center with an actual gay steelworker.
The successor to UDF is called Mt Ranier. It is supported by Linux but not (yet) by Windows, although most drives 24x and faster can handle it. It is a good thing, for it makes CD-RWs suck less.
Ahead software also makes UDF software for windows, as do Sony and NTI.
Presumably it wouldn't be that difficult to use one of the various packaging tools (Installshield etc) to figure out what changes are made by an IIS installation on an NT/2000 box, and replicate them with some combination of scripting host or resource-kit command line tools.
Slashdot Mirror
OK. But I'm taking full credit for "cumsnort" and "assweasel".
I made those two up when some cumsnorting assweasel almost rearended me on 80-94...
Nope. They forgot to @echo off, too.
I did. Didn't help. If I really like static, I can usually hear, but not see, Fox, PBS and sometimes NBC. It's probably an artifact of geography or my building's construction material or something.
Not that I'm arguing or anything, but why the heck was my snotty comment about having a bigger monitor than Tv modded "interesting"?
Was it the thongs? It was the thongs, wasn't it?
*MY* big monitor (32" Sony presentation display) is a lot bigger than my TV (27" JVC thing that I presumed would have a better tuner than my TV card). I bought the TV just this year, largely because I was tired of not having any knowledge of what my co-workers were talking about.
:(
Then I found out that the only channels I can get with an indoor amplified antenna are Telemundo and Unavision (I live really close to Chicago). I'm not paying for cable. Dancing hispanic chicas in thongs are awesome and all, but somehow that didn't help me converse with my coworkers.
The utter tragedy of my life is that I might as well be Wayne Knight's twin.
Thanks for being the 10th person today to remind me that I'm just like "the fat guy in Jurassic Park".
Laugh all damn day, but I built a loft when I was in college that beats the shit out of any other computer desk, anywhere.
1' under the bed area (now used for plain-old storage space), there's a recessed shelf that's deep enough for my array of home theater components, all arranged on a 6' long power strip.
2.5' below that is a desk that's wide enough for a set of large (shielded) bookshelf speakers, a 21" and a 17" monitor.
The area beneath the desk is high enough to accomodate the tallest tower cases I could find.
The sides are cross-braced, and the desk and shelf are supported on the braces. The "back" braces have their own, small shelf for rear-surround bookshelf speakers, right at ear-level.
The whole set up inspired geek awe when I was in college, and I've never found anything so functional anyplace else, so I continue to use it as a grown-up, even though I can afford real furniture.
You misspelled "AOL users".
I've watched Anime that's supposed to be good (Princess Mononoke or whatever it's called). I saw Akira in the theater. I've tried and tried to "get" anime.
I still don't see the point."Schoolgirl-raping tentacles" really AREN'T my idea of anime, but as a genre of storytelling, it has singularly failed to move me in any way. I've been more emotionally/intellectually/sexually stimulated by the advertising copy on the back of a box of breakfast cereal than I have by anything with big eyes, poor dubbing or sleep (snot?) bubbles.
Can an enthusiast PLEASE explain why this form is in any way comparable to more mainstream types of entertainment?
The remote for my home theater is an LCD screen with "keys" that change based on the context of the device I'm operating and the level of complexity I need.
A keyboard for a moron like my brother's wife (no offense, but she's been on the web for six years or so, and didn't know what the "back" button on her browser did until yesterday. AOL really does make you dumber) could be simplified down to five or six HUGE keys, while a guru might be able to access 150 keys in the same program.
I'm a pianist, so I wish chording off a single hand were possible. It's not. Too many idiots in the world can't handle hitting one key at a time, let alone combinations of three.
I'd rather have an electrode-interface for interacting with a PC than deal with voice. There are lots of privacy issues there that I don't think have been addressed.
Tried it this afternoon on one of my 2000 Servers and an XP Pro disc. I was greeted by a password prompt.
The default local security policy on every XP box I have access to seems to require authentication, but at the same time, more than half of the XP boxes I have access to also have an admin-level account that does NOT have a password on it, at all.
Not really. A fertilized embryo could be implanted in a male body fairly readily. Just because a woman has a sac already handy for it doesn't mean it couldn't latch on anywhere else.
Yes, there are. Hold down shift and right-click to "Run As". Unfortunately that doesn't work for everything, so for example I can't change the system time on my 2000 machine at work unless I log out of my "User" account and log in with my admin account (yes, I know I can fix that one easily, but I live with all the same restrictions as my users).
There are lots of similar examples out there. The NT-ish system just doesn't work as well as sudo.
TDK drives, at least in the 12x - 24x range, were usually Plextors, so don't poke too much fun.
In general, I've loved the Yamaha drives I've had, starting with an old single-speed mastering system I got in '97 and on to the couple of 8x SCSI units I bought about three years ago.
Plextor I've been less impressed with. None of the 12x plextor drives I support at work, work as burners, although all will read discs. I've been replacing those drives slowly with Lite-On units, which I have found to be sturdy, quiet and reliable... just a little fussy about media.
I still have my SCSI Yamahas, but after being unable to find a "fast" CD-RW with a SCSI interface, I invested in a few Acard SCSI to IDE HBAs, and moved most of my burning to quasi-SCSI LiteOn drives. By the time Yamaha got around to bringing out a "fast" SCSI CD-RW, it was six months too late and $50 more than I paid for my IDE drive and HBA put together.
Realistically, CD-RW is at the limit of its development, anyway. 52x or 56x is as far as anyone has gone with CD-ROM drives, and even those are almost out of the marketplace (88% of the computers I built last year had a burner, the other 12 had just a DVD-ROM). We've got an absolute commodity product, much like a floppy drive or a keyboard. There's no margin in that stuff, and no good way of differentiating yourself. I think Yamaha made the right choice, even if I'm going to miss being able to order their products.
Microsoft Works.
:)
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
I wrote this. I feel that the topic of hard disk humor is largely, and tragically underappreciated.
For the humor impaired, that was a joke.
Why the fuck does a homophobic white rapper deserve an oscar nomination? Are they just giving those away now?
I'll be standing in my corner waiting for someone to justify rap as "music" to begin with, and middle-class wanna-be white rappers who deserve oscar nominations specifically.
Isn't there a composer for a dogma '99 (google if you don't get it. I'm not talking about Kevin Smith here) movie out there somewhere who deserves some recognition instead?
I posted a comment similar to the above a couple weeks ago and watched it shoot from score: 5 to 0 and then back up over the next 24 hours. In the end 20-odd people modded it.
But hey, I'll reiterate: nvidia cards get hot, to the detriment of the general stability of their host computers. They seem to do this in 2D or 3D modes. I've replaced a lot of M64s, Vantas and GF2MXs because of this, and found that those replacements FIXED PROBLEMS.
If you'd care to remember back a couple of years, 3dfx open-sourced their Glide API shortly before they were ass-pirated by nvidia.
Google for "glide emulation" and you'll find goodness. I play glide games all the time on my ATI cards.
I had fun in the 2 quarters worth of play I got on Gaultlet 3D. Since there was a 3dfx logo on the cabinet of the console, I was REALLY hoping someone would port it to PC. With no more midway and no more 3dfx, guess that one's out, huh?
My complaint was in support of yours. Why the fuck are the $300 Klipsch speakers $300 if Logitechs that cost less than a third of that sound just as good or better?
For computer speakers, I mean.
I'll give you another if you'd like. I bought some Klipsch 5.1s for a system I built for a gamer buddy. They go "boom boom boom", and my classical music was VERY distorted (highs muted, and boomy bass) compared to my HT setup (Onkyo TXDX989). I felt bad he spent his money on them.
Three months ago Taget stores in the US had Logitech Z340s - the 2.1 set - on sale for $23. I bought a set home and plugged it in to the PC in my bedroom. They sounded a lot like the Klipsch speakers, but less boomy, so my music didn't sound quite as... weird. For $23 I was really happy with them.
Last week newegg.com put the Z640, a non-THX/DPLII 5.1 set up for sale on their site for $74 (and there's a $20 rebate, too). I got my pair yesterday. Again, much less boomy, and great for full-range music. The couple of movies I watched last night sounded really damn good, too.
The way I see it, the Klipsch 5.1s should've been the $75 pair. The logitech speakers are a freakin' bargain and sound better to boot.
Dude, Homer's Phobia is without a doubt the best episode of all time. And I'm not just saying that 'cause I'm sitting in (the former) Bethlehem Steel's Burns Habor training center with an actual gay steelworker.
The successor to UDF is called Mt Ranier. It is supported by Linux but not (yet) by Windows, although most drives 24x and faster can handle it. It is a good thing, for it makes CD-RWs suck less.
Ahead software also makes UDF software for windows, as do Sony and NTI.
Neither does the average current American President.
-1 Troll, yeah yeah yeah. Couldn't help myself.
Presumably it wouldn't be that difficult to use one of the various packaging tools (Installshield etc) to figure out what changes are made by an IIS installation on an NT/2000 box, and replicate them with some combination of scripting host or resource-kit command line tools.
I'm not seeing a problem.