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I'm baffled as to why this was posted. So if for some strange reason I decided to become the worlds biggest idiot and put a computer in an oven to see how long it takes before it breaks completely this is somehow news worthy or at least slashdot worthy? In that case let me put my old Palm III in the microwave for 10 minutes and see wht happens - take some pictures and post it on slashdot - maybe it will get posted and my dot mac page will get a gazzilion hits and then my boss will think i'm cool because lots of people come to my page to learn the facts about microwaves and Palm III's. NOT
While I ordered a new LION batterey for my Thinkpad i1400 from their 1-888-shop-ibm # - they have a nice disclaimer the sales person told me twice while I placed my order
"Our prices are liable to change without notice and we make no guarantees with our batterey life after the limited warranty period"
My options were either 1) don't buy the batterey and don't use my laptop or 2) Buy the batterey and hope it works for more than a day.
I actually have the Zaurus 5500 and as long as I am not using my wireless Network card with it (so I sync with a USB cable) my batteries go for literally days before I have to recharge it. I mostly use it for contact info, notes to myself, and appointments and use it quite frequently since it has a voice recorder on it and I can listen to mp3's. But if you do use a wireless card with it (like my low power consumption SMC card) it drains the battery in about 4-5 hours of constant use.
All that just to say that just becaus eit's color and has a lot of features - doesn't mean the battery life will be bad.
Honestly, how many people in MANY OTHER FIELDS got layed off within the last 2 years? Granted a lot of people in the Silicon Valley Tech industry got layed off, but that includes more than just "IT" workers.
Sales Managers, Marketing Employees, Graphic Designers, Gophers, PC Technicians, programmers, and Administrators were layed off.
Some of the Marketing people I know that were layed off had been with the company for over 15 years. You can be layed off or fired in any field - it doesn't matter. As long as your smart, have a plan, and quite a bit of luck - you can get your way through anything (almost).
Look the silly man wouldn't even take the time to "memorize complicated series of keystrokes" - every true nix fan knows every command by heart and resites the make, install, and modprobe prayers in their sleep.
He obviously doesn't know what he's talking about either - since I use and it plays just fine. All I had to do was reroute my plasma coils to xterminal and reconfigure kde to use emacs to parse the jabawakie through the starships manifold - easy as shit!
just in case some of "you" read this - I AM being SARCASTIC - it seems like a guy who knows linux enough to work in it and have fun with it and who points out REAL ISSUES with all the mentioned apps. Granted he does it in a rant sort of way and comes off as a Troll with such brilliant phrases as "fucking morons" when refuring to programmers, but the fact that a program is still crap for X reason still holds true.
this may be flamebait but - oh well....Yet another Nintendo System with yet another version of Zelda, Mario, and Metroid....3 years after that i'm sure their will be yet another NES with yet another version of Zelda, Mario, and Metroid....
not that the games are bad, but i'm going to stick with Sony or the Xbox, who's consoles have more of a variety of games and are not quite as redundant.
They could tell for sure you downloaded the songs with logs easily. But the fact that you would NOT have them in possession means you could say -
"yeah I downloaded X Song because I wanted to know if it was good. It sucked so I deleted it and chose not to buy the CD. Thanks. Good Bye."
32K+ games and all of them versions of Tetris....
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"There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months."
With such eye-shattering games as Pacman, Tetris, Tetris 3-D, Pacman 3-D, Poker, 3-D Poker, Solitare, 3-D Solitare, etc... etc....
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing agaist this company or any company who wants to make a new smaller (larger storage) media. But heres my problem right now.
I have an Olympus Digital camera that uses Smartmedia, I have my Zaurus that uses an SD card (and CF), and I am using a Sandisk CF with PCMCIA Adapter on my Laptop (for MP3's at work).
AND NOW theirs going to be YET ANOTHER type of media for me to use. I likehaving choice and all, but this is rediculous. I'd rather just have CF slots on everything and use the 1gig CompactFlash for everything. TOO MANY choices - equals a pain in the ass.
You "I'm looking for...." Sales Man "Hay this would work great in your new Shindang" You "oh? Where does it go?" Sales Man "Well you need this adpater or you can just buy the new Shindandango" You "Great"
In short - I like the idea of how Hardrives had increased in Storage capacity AND gone down in price, but they still fit the same slots:)
although it was cool back in the day - i'm really surprised that with all their support and user base they have yet to make a full 3d version like EQ or UO, etc....
Although it's nice that I can play this on my Zaurus (as well as Wyvern which is much better IMO) it's exactly like using your P4 with a 1.5mb DSL connection to play a MUD.....ummmK
He may be a great writer but I am having the hardest time in the world trying to read anything on his page - The whit on black text is alright, but all the links are dark blue and unreadable on my mac here.
Certifications are for generally for people who ALREADY have the hands on and practical knowledge/experience and just need a piece of paper to prove it.
If your needing to be taught something new then you should go to college (just take classes that are in interesting to you - not that you need to go for another 4 years or anything). Thats what it's for.
how could a company that used Dilbert as a mascot on their logo - ever have their business begin to slip?!:)
Seriously tho - I think Google has a good chance of sticking around just because they have such a large user base - which is mostly due to the fact that A LOT of people who search for "things" don't want to look at a big pile of crap like Alta Vista or Yahoo (although I like yahoo's other features). But the fact remains if I want to look for "fish" I don;t want to a site like Yahoo that has hella ads and flashing images and links ALL OVER THE PAGE. I just want to bring up a page that has a field where I type in what I want and THEN get a page full of ACCURATE links.
I think if google was going to start losing money they could very easily add on a "google-groups" feature and "google - email" and keep a significant amount of people.
"By adding a license for the audio and video compression software, or codecs, of Windows Media 9, Microsoft is extending the technology beyond its Windows operating system, where the software is available for free. Microsoft hopes that cell phone makers or Web publishers running Linux operating systems, for example, will be more willing to license Microsoft's proprietary media technology, since they will no longer be required to also adopt the Windows operating system."
It seems that what is happening is that MS got a license to provide Media Player (along with the WMA format) on any platform (that includes Linux) so that more (non-windows) users can use the WMA and AVI (or whatever their new video format is) format on their system.
I'm gonna go out on a slashdot limb here and say - thats NOT A BAD THING. Sorry but I have both MP3's and WMA's and OGG's and I can't tell the difference with my speakers (not the best, but better than most) and as far as well as MOVs, AVI's, MPG, etc... all play just as well on my monitor.
Whatever the case - MS allowing even those die-hard Linux or Mac users to play WMA's or whatever with media player IS choice and doesn't seem to me that they are doing anything that deserves a slashdot beeting.
Also the article linked on the slashdot story really only covers the fee issue, but ALL codec companies charge for their codecs - either from shareware or outright purchases. Of course most of these are warezable and most people won't buy it as well as the fact that most of the software requiring these codecs will include the codec for free (ie: vcd movies usually include some type of codec software on the cd as well as DVD's do this too)
Sorry this is a bunk story and isn't worth depating IMHO
As long as it takes into account a person's portfolio
I currently am a Graphic Designer (still working and never laid off) that has met way too many people who say "I'm a graphic designer too - look at these stickers I made using this word template".... it's people like that - that make it harder for those of us qualified to get a job to find jobs.
The Adobe certifications are decent, but they don't really look at design concepts, instead they are more of if you can find where the filter menu is and if you know how to USE the program.
USING a program and DESIGNING art is VERY DIFFERENT and it takes quite a bit more to come up with an original marketing idea for a product than just knowing how to take a picture and run filters in photoshop on it.
Heres a hint for all you wanna be graphic designers - this is what steps I take to create a package
1) Research who I am marketing too or who "they" want me to market too as well as who I am doing this for is important - just because a nude car wash will sell doesn't mean the church your working for will like that idea:)
2) Freehand draw out ideas and slogans (i feel my drawings are shitty compared to some but even still it gives a base to start from)
3) Then I go to the computer and start recreating or scanning - tracing - coloring - touchup etc...
4) I take it to my boss and he puts in his $5 worth - then I go back to step 3 and after that i'm done with that project.
GOOD Design takes time - not a few seconds filling out a word template.
although they show competance, they don't really mean crap when working in a Computer Repair dept.
When I worked at CompUSA - although I had an A+ certification already - most of the problems were specific system issues that Compaq or Pacbell new about. ie: Compaq had a flaw in their X series MB's that caused cd drives to go out - so all those systems would come in with people complaining about their cd-rom not working and we simply order the new MB and cdrom and replace them - that used about 1% of the information covered in the A+ Exam Cram.
The other common issues were people who had tried to instal Win X over Win X and turned the poweroff halfway through and needed their system restored.
You just don't play that many games - if your playig a game like Blaze and Blade and have the Sidewinder game pad you can play with up to 4 people on the same computer - as well as if your using emulators like snes9x you can play almost every sports games with multiple people (except basebal for obvious reasons).
"Seriously, do you want a megacorporation deciding what can and cannot be written to run on your computer? Isn't that PRECISELY what we're trying to avoid?"
Isn't that kind of what Sun, Silicon Graphics and a host of other companies who also make systems do?
Granted Sun systems do occassionally allow for Windows NT as i'm sure if Sony really wanted to merge home entertainment and a computer into one they would follow their same path and have both a Sony OS and allow for redhat based nix distro's as well.
I own both the Dreamcast and Playstation 2, and in all honesty the Playstation 2 is a lot more advanced (at least as far as what was written for it)
Ever since I had the Dreamcast the games were slightly better than those of my old PS1 with occassional voice over "blurbs" (like in Skies of Arcadia) - Now take a PS2 game like FFX (whether you like it or not) the graphics are amazing and the entire game is voiced over for ALL the dialogue and the "makeout" seen looks really well done IMHO:)
Granted the Xbox is more advanced than the PS2 but it also came out 2 to 3 years AFTER the PS2 so I should hope it would be.
"Cell, which is expected to come out in late 2004 or early 2005"..."will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz."
- First off I don't know if I like the fact that the word "north" was put in there - IMHO I think the wording could have been better.
Anyway my initial impression was "Cool in 1 -2 years there will be a new PS console as long as it stays backwards compatible like the PS2 I should be alright" but then I started thinking - with the Linux Kit for the PS2 and the ethernet adapter etc... the PS2 is really starting to get close to just becoming another "choice" as far as a pc (personal computer).
Example: John Doe doesn't own a computer. John Doe buys a PS2 with all the accessories - and can now surf the web, send email, code, run nix apps, and play video games - exactly what the average computer home user does (with the linux exception of course)
So if the PS3 is really going to be this "crazy fast machine of death to all other consoles" then would it surprise anyone if Sony started it's own line of Computers/Console crossovers? Where do you draw the line on what difines Computer and what defines Console with the wall beginning to crumble?
Did anyone else happen to take notice of the fact that this course(s) are going to be held at SMU - a private college that has a STRONG christian influence....I can see it now....
SMU: So what is the name of your project you are working on?
Student: Well I'm thinking of making an add-on to "Omnikron"
SMU: Oh and what do you do in this game?
Student: Well the game originally dealt with you transfering your soul into a character in another world through your game but you end up losing it to this demon and....
SMU: Excuse me but I don't think that would be a suitable game for our viewers!
Student: But i'm going to make it so Jesus saves you from hell
SMU: Oh, well in that case you get an A
*on a side note - the site wouldn't work on my Mac (as in I kept getting errors when trying to click on the links) - but on my PC it worked fine - nice going SMU!
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I'm baffled as to why this was posted. So if for some strange reason I decided to become the worlds biggest idiot and put a computer in an oven to see how long it takes before it breaks completely this is somehow news worthy or at least slashdot worthy? In that case let me put my old Palm III in the microwave for 10 minutes and see wht happens - take some pictures and post it on slashdot - maybe it will get posted and my dot mac page will get a gazzilion hits and then my boss will think i'm cool because lots of people come to my page to learn the facts about microwaves and Palm III's. NOT
While I ordered a new LION batterey for my Thinkpad i1400 from their 1-888-shop-ibm # - they have a nice disclaimer the sales person told me twice while I placed my order
"Our prices are liable to change without notice and we make no guarantees with our batterey life after the limited warranty period"
My options were either 1) don't buy the batterey and don't use my laptop or 2) Buy the batterey and hope it works for more than a day.
I actually have the Zaurus 5500 and as long as I am not using my wireless Network card with it (so I sync with a USB cable) my batteries go for literally days before I have to recharge it. I mostly use it for contact info, notes to myself, and appointments and use it quite frequently since it has a voice recorder on it and I can listen to mp3's. But if you do use a wireless card with it (like my low power consumption SMC card) it drains the battery in about 4-5 hours of constant use.
All that just to say that just becaus eit's color and has a lot of features - doesn't mean the battery life will be bad.
Honestly, how many people in MANY OTHER FIELDS got layed off within the last 2 years? Granted a lot of people in the Silicon Valley Tech industry got layed off, but that includes more than just "IT" workers.
Sales Managers, Marketing Employees, Graphic Designers, Gophers, PC Technicians, programmers, and Administrators were layed off.
Some of the Marketing people I know that were layed off had been with the company for over 15 years. You can be layed off or fired in any field - it doesn't matter. As long as your smart, have a plan, and quite a bit of luck - you can get your way through anything (almost).
Look the silly man wouldn't even take the time to "memorize complicated series of keystrokes" - every true nix fan knows every command by heart and resites the make, install, and modprobe prayers in their sleep.
He obviously doesn't know what he's talking about either - since I use and it plays just fine. All I had to do was reroute my plasma coils to xterminal and reconfigure kde to use emacs to parse the jabawakie through the starships manifold - easy as shit!
just in case some of "you" read this - I AM being SARCASTIC - it seems like a guy who knows linux enough to work in it and have fun with it and who points out REAL ISSUES with all the mentioned apps. Granted he does it in a rant sort of way and comes off as a Troll with such brilliant phrases as "fucking morons" when refuring to programmers, but the fact that a program is still crap for X reason still holds true.
this may be flamebait but - oh well....Yet another Nintendo System with yet another version of Zelda, Mario, and Metroid....3 years after that i'm sure their will be yet another NES with yet another version of Zelda, Mario, and Metroid....
not that the games are bad, but i'm going to stick with Sony or the Xbox, who's consoles have more of a variety of games and are not quite as redundant.
They could tell for sure you downloaded the songs with logs easily. But the fact that you would NOT have them in possession means you could say -
"yeah I downloaded X Song because I wanted to know if it was good. It sucked so I deleted it and chose not to buy the CD. Thanks. Good Bye."
"There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months."
With such eye-shattering games as Pacman, Tetris, Tetris 3-D, Pacman 3-D, Poker, 3-D Poker, Solitare, 3-D Solitare, etc... etc....
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing agaist this company or any company who wants to make a new smaller (larger storage) media. But heres my problem right now.
:)
I have an Olympus Digital camera that uses Smartmedia, I have my Zaurus that uses an SD card (and CF), and I am using a Sandisk CF with PCMCIA Adapter on my Laptop (for MP3's at work).
AND NOW theirs going to be YET ANOTHER type of media for me to use. I likehaving choice and all, but this is rediculous. I'd rather just have CF slots on everything and use the 1gig CompactFlash for everything. TOO MANY choices - equals a pain in the ass.
You "I'm looking for...."
Sales Man "Hay this would work great in your new Shindang"
You "oh? Where does it go?"
Sales Man "Well you need this adpater or you can just buy the new Shindandango"
You "Great"
In short - I like the idea of how Hardrives had increased in Storage capacity AND gone down in price, but they still fit the same slots
although it was cool back in the day - i'm really surprised that with all their support and user base they have yet to make a full 3d version like EQ or UO, etc....
Although it's nice that I can play this on my Zaurus (as well as Wyvern which is much better IMO) it's exactly like using your P4 with a 1.5mb DSL connection to play a MUD.....ummmK
He may be a great writer but I am having the hardest time in the world trying to read anything on his page - The whit on black text is alright, but all the links are dark blue and unreadable on my mac here.
Certifications are for generally for people who ALREADY have the hands on and practical knowledge/experience and just need a piece of paper to prove it.
If your needing to be taught something new then you should go to college (just take classes that are in interesting to you - not that you need to go for another 4 years or anything). Thats what it's for.
how could a company that used Dilbert as a mascot on their logo - ever have their business begin to slip?! :)
Seriously tho - I think Google has a good chance of sticking around just because they have such a large user base - which is mostly due to the fact that A LOT of people who search for "things" don't want to look at a big pile of crap like Alta Vista or Yahoo (although I like yahoo's other features). But the fact remains if I want to look for "fish" I don;t want to a site like Yahoo that has hella ads and flashing images and links ALL OVER THE PAGE. I just want to bring up a page that has a field where I type in what I want and THEN get a page full of ACCURATE links.
I think if google was going to start losing money they could very easily add on a "google-groups" feature and "google - email" and keep a significant amount of people.
from the license article
"By adding a license for the audio and video compression software, or codecs, of Windows Media 9, Microsoft is extending the technology beyond its Windows operating system, where the software is available for free. Microsoft hopes that cell phone makers or Web publishers running Linux operating systems, for example, will be more willing to license Microsoft's proprietary media technology, since they will no longer be required to also adopt the Windows operating system."
It seems that what is happening is that MS got a license to provide Media Player (along with the WMA format) on any platform (that includes Linux) so that more (non-windows) users can use the WMA and AVI (or whatever their new video format is) format on their system.
I'm gonna go out on a slashdot limb here and say - thats NOT A BAD THING. Sorry but I have both MP3's and WMA's and OGG's and I can't tell the difference with my speakers (not the best, but better than most) and as far as well as MOVs, AVI's, MPG, etc... all play just as well on my monitor.
Whatever the case - MS allowing even those die-hard Linux or Mac users to play WMA's or whatever with media player IS choice and doesn't seem to me that they are doing anything that deserves a slashdot beeting.
Also the article linked on the slashdot story really only covers the fee issue, but ALL codec companies charge for their codecs - either from shareware or outright purchases. Of course most of these are warezable and most people won't buy it as well as the fact that most of the software requiring these codecs will include the codec for free (ie: vcd movies usually include some type of codec software on the cd as well as DVD's do this too)
Sorry this is a bunk story and isn't worth depating IMHO
Only if you twirl your keyboard or mouse in the air while spinning to "du da du da da du da ta da" (FF battle win theme)
As long as it takes into account a person's portfolio
:)
I currently am a Graphic Designer (still working and never laid off) that has met way too many people who say "I'm a graphic designer too - look at these stickers I made using this word template".... it's people like that - that make it harder for those of us qualified to get a job to find jobs.
The Adobe certifications are decent, but they don't really look at design concepts, instead they are more of if you can find where the filter menu is and if you know how to USE the program.
USING a program and DESIGNING art is VERY DIFFERENT and it takes quite a bit more to come up with an original marketing idea for a product than just knowing how to take a picture and run filters in photoshop on it.
Heres a hint for all you wanna be graphic designers - this is what steps I take to create a package
1) Research who I am marketing too or who "they" want me to market too as well as who I am doing this for is important - just because a nude car wash will sell doesn't mean the church your working for will like that idea
2) Freehand draw out ideas and slogans (i feel my drawings are shitty compared to some but even still it gives a base to start from)
3) Then I go to the computer and start recreating or scanning - tracing - coloring - touchup etc...
4) I take it to my boss and he puts in his $5 worth - then I go back to step 3 and after that i'm done with that project.
GOOD Design takes time - not a few seconds filling out a word template.
although they show competance, they don't really mean crap when working in a Computer Repair dept.
When I worked at CompUSA - although I had an A+ certification already - most of the problems were specific system issues that Compaq or Pacbell new about. ie: Compaq had a flaw in their X series MB's that caused cd drives to go out - so all those systems would come in with people complaining about their cd-rom not working and we simply order the new MB and cdrom and replace them - that used about 1% of the information covered in the A+ Exam Cram.
The other common issues were people who had tried to instal Win X over Win X and turned the poweroff halfway through and needed their system restored.
You can attach a monitor to the PS2 tho?
You just don't play that many games - if your playig a game like Blaze and Blade and have the Sidewinder game pad you can play with up to 4 people on the same computer - as well as if your using emulators like snes9x you can play almost every sports games with multiple people (except basebal for obvious reasons).
you know if "they" don't want people linking directly to images or certain pages - it's very easy to set this up...
take a look at game faqs for example and how they don't allow outside links to directly point to there faqs.txt file for games.
any site should be able to link to any site IMHO
Isn't that kind of what Sun, Silicon Graphics and a host of other companies who also make systems do?
Granted Sun systems do occassionally allow for Windows NT as i'm sure if Sony really wanted to merge home entertainment and a computer into one they would follow their same path and have both a Sony OS and allow for redhat based nix distro's as well.
now I can pay "property tax" on my websites :)
I own both the Dreamcast and Playstation 2, and in all honesty the Playstation 2 is a lot more advanced (at least as far as what was written for it)
:)
Ever since I had the Dreamcast the games were slightly better than those of my old PS1 with occassional voice over "blurbs" (like in Skies of Arcadia) - Now take a PS2 game like FFX (whether you like it or not) the graphics are amazing and the entire game is voiced over for ALL the dialogue and the "makeout" seen looks really well done IMHO
Granted the Xbox is more advanced than the PS2 but it also came out 2 to 3 years AFTER the PS2 so I should hope it would be.
"Cell, which is expected to come out in late 2004 or early 2005"..."will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz."
- First off I don't know if I like the fact that the word "north" was put in there - IMHO I think the wording could have been better.
Anyway my initial impression was "Cool in 1 -2 years there will be a new PS console as long as it stays backwards compatible like the PS2 I should be alright" but then I started thinking - with the Linux Kit for the PS2 and the ethernet adapter etc... the PS2 is really starting to get close to just becoming another "choice" as far as a pc (personal computer).
Example: John Doe doesn't own a computer. John Doe buys a PS2 with all the accessories - and can now surf the web, send email, code, run nix apps, and play video games - exactly what the average computer home user does (with the linux exception of course)
So if the PS3 is really going to be this "crazy fast machine of death to all other consoles" then would it surprise anyone if Sony started it's own line of Computers/Console crossovers? Where do you draw the line on what difines Computer and what defines Console with the wall beginning to crumble?
Did anyone else happen to take notice of the fact that this course(s) are going to be held at SMU - a private college that has a STRONG christian influence....I can see it now....
SMU: So what is the name of your project you are working on?
Student: Well I'm thinking of making an add-on to "Omnikron"
SMU: Oh and what do you do in this game?
Student: Well the game originally dealt with you transfering your soul into a character in another world through your game but you end up losing it to this demon and....
SMU: Excuse me but I don't think that would be a suitable game for our viewers!
Student: But i'm going to make it so Jesus saves you from hell
SMU: Oh, well in that case you get an A
*on a side note - the site wouldn't work on my Mac (as in I kept getting errors when trying to click on the links) - but on my PC it worked fine - nice going SMU!