About 6 years ago when HP still was supposed to have made good products, I had a *VERY* expensive CD-RW drive, one of the first that existed.
The best it ever worked was borking one out of ever 5 cdrs (this is when they cost between 2 - 4$ a piece). It *NEVER* wrote a cd-rw correctly. They would actually degrade over the course of a few hours. You would test the CD right after you burned it and it would be ok, 30 mins later, a couple files wouldn't read correctly, and 5 hours later, the whole thing was unreadable.
Every 3 months the drive died. Complete failure. HP would ship me a new one, it would last for 3 months... then die. I went through 4 drives (including the original) before my warranty expired, and couldn't get HP to give me another model for love or money.
I wish I could say I was smart enough to quit HP after that, but I've owned 3 scanners each which died 5 or 10 days after their warranty expired. One even died *THE DAY AFTER* its warranty expired...
And pitty me3, I'm thinking about getting that new cell phone pda from HP:)
IPOD Technology? WTF is IPOD Technology? The only thing unusual about the ipod is it looks a little bit cooler then the other mp3 players. Other then that its a dsp and a hard drive just like all the other mp3 players.
I dont know a 20 something that wears a watch... maybe its a California thing? We all have cell phones and PDA's, alot of us have two cell phones (personal cell phone, work cell phone) wtf is the point of a watch?
I once had this CD player I took apart which said inside, "If you can read this you are being exposed to low level radiation." Not quite sure how that works when it was off... but nevertheless
Why even drugs? Something like 50% of amercians are now clincially obese. I weep for the future when an entire generation raised on twinkes and flipz and double $6 burgers develops diabetes and herniated discs.
You should be running a domain and using the security facilities of the domain to *prevent* users from screwing up their machines in the first place.
Of course thats in a fantasy land where IT budgets are well funded. When I worked at a mid sized university (15,000 students), our IT budgets were often "Zero" and the management/staff would constantly demand new services and features. My main servers ran at a load average of 4 - 5 (an insanely high load average).
I use flash all the time, and I hate it. Its like software purgatory. The problem is consistancy -- sometimes there are context menus, sometimes there aren't. Sometimes not all an items options appear in the properties window. Some things that should be in a context menu can only be accessed while selecting an item and then going to a pull down menu. If flash would make proper use of context menus and straighten out their GUI, then yes flash would be a great program.
Obviously you know next to dick about flash. Flash is the worst designed mass marketed program *EVER*. I would shoot every macromedia developer with a gun if I had half a chance. They have made improvements in flash 5 and MX, but its still a disaster.
I've had coworkers who made major bugs that crashed servers and workstations and caused a lot of downtime. This is because they wrote sloppy code in a hurry and never bothered to check it. Management usually wants faster turnaround time on projects.
I have an interview for a financial software company (think banks, atms, etc) next week who is looking for a programmer who can create "pragmatic solutions to challenging problems". I weep for the future:)
But there are palm branded cradles, stylses, etc.:) When I bought my PDA (a dell axim, 299$), you could order *EVERYTHING* online in one big package FROM DELL (Rhinoskin case, sandisk memory card and screen protectors, made by dell:-)), which I did because I'm one of the suckers I talked about.
Its not about cost savings. That is a time honored tradition with electronics. It's all psychology. Say you buy a PDA and it doesn't come with a cradle and screen protectors and a protective case. Said PDA is also very cheap, say, 300$.
The PDA company then sells the cradle, protectors and case at far above their "value", knowing that a large percentage of customers will just grab them when they buy the PDA. That way they get to advertise their 300$ price ont he low profit item (the PDA), and make quite a bit more on high profit items like stylses and screen protectors and what not.
GROOWLLL. Look, apple does care what format is used, they promote AAC because AAC is the format of *their* service.
If apple didn't care, they would support quite a lot of formats like WMA and OGG, and FLAC like other players do. It wouldn't take much resources to do it, so don't tell me about valuable engineer time. I happen to know quite a lot about OGG, the code is even free, worst case is they would need a slightly larger rom and slightly faster CPU. And if companies like iriver can, then apple can to.
You beat me to it:) I *want* ogg support. Is it *THAT* hard to do? No its not. Why won't they do it? Because like MS, Apple thinks they can tell me how to listen to my music.
I think it would be wise to remember that even the Americans are pissed about what the Americans are doing. I have never seen in my life an administration more hated then the bush administration. The only people that support bush are the insanely wealthy that he's handing cash to left and right, and ignorant fucks who he's convinced he's a christian. Unfourtantely, theres alot of ignorant fucks around here.
"The police referred the matter back to the university, saying it was best dealt with internally."
You know, with our whacked out legal system in the United States that sees enemies everywhere , the kids would have been sentenced to 10 years prison each for terrorism.
I read a story about a fellow once who wrote a program for a firm that had stiffed him on payments before. He inserted into the program code that would delete the program on date X. When the company *DID* pay, he called them up and (stupidly) told them about it, and he would send a new version of the program without the trojan horse. They called the police, and he spent two years in prison for nothing.
if by "entire world" you mean a relatively small contingent of geeks. Let me get this straight, they're complaining about album sales going down forom 50 million per hit to 33 million, in a depression, and when home recording equipment is making a wide selection of high quality indie music avaliable?
That's just like a Cheap Labor Republican! Supress the opinions of people who don't agree with your bullshit. Whatever pussy modded my comment Flamebait, FUCK YOU you cock sucking heathen asshole!!!
The S controller is the major weakness of the xbox -- its a complete piece of shit. Why you ask? The buttons are raised *TOO FUCKING HIGH*. You can't glide your thumbs over them quickly. Look at the GC or PS2 buttons -- very low on the controller surface so you can move quickly. Small but critical complaint.
Patriot Act"? Who comes up with these names anyway?
I don't know when it started -- but at some point the conservatives/Republican party decided to use *words* against their enemies. They've been able to insert phrases into the political lexicon which are inflamitory; "tax and spend democrats", "liberal" (said with disgust), "Clinton recession", "Activist Judges"... There's a million others but I can't think of them at the moment.
They aren't the only ones to do this, but they sure are the most active. The "Patriot Act" is a constitutional disaster, but how can something called the "patriot act" be bad?
To combat this, I call the reps, "Cheap Labor Republicans."
Anyone heard about anything similiar for hte Plextor 708a? I paid a fortune for the drive (230$, best price at the time) 8 months ago, and its worthless now:)
Yesterday I was at a concert and had a really, disheartaning moment. Before the concert started the MC says, "Please rise for the pledge of allegiance." I haven't been in a situation where I've needed to say the pledge in almost 10 years. This sick feeling washes over me, like that feeling you get if you've ever backed out of cheating on a g/f or wife. This voice in my head says, "I cant do this..." and I realize how completely I've lost faith in our country. I hesitate, stand up, look around at the crowd and a lot of people are saying the pledge, but a lot aren't. They're eating their food, talking to their friends like nothing is going on, some stand defiantly saying nothing, and still others are shifting their eyes in guilt, like you try to avoid looking at a bum in Starbucks while you sip your 5$ frappuccino.
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The best it ever worked was borking one out of ever 5 cdrs (this is when they cost between 2 - 4$ a piece). It *NEVER* wrote a cd-rw correctly. They would actually degrade over the course of a few hours. You would test the CD right after you burned it and it would be ok, 30 mins later, a couple files wouldn't read correctly, and 5 hours later, the whole thing was unreadable.
Every 3 months the drive died. Complete failure. HP would ship me a new one, it would last for 3 months ... then die. I went through 4 drives (including the original) before my warranty expired, and couldn't get HP to give me another model for love or money.
I wish I could say I was smart enough to quit HP after that, but I've owned 3 scanners each which died 5 or 10 days after their warranty expired. One even died *THE DAY AFTER* its warranty expired...
And pitty me3, I'm thinking about getting that new cell phone pda from HP:)
IPOD Technology? WTF is IPOD Technology? The only thing unusual about the ipod is it looks a little bit cooler then the other mp3 players. Other then that its a dsp and a hard drive just like all the other mp3 players.
I dont know a 20 something that wears a watch ... maybe its a California thing? We all have cell phones and PDA's, alot of us have two cell phones (personal cell phone, work cell phone) wtf is the point of a watch?
I once had this CD player I took apart which said inside, "If you can read this you are being exposed to low level radiation." Not quite sure how that works when it was off ... but nevertheless
Why even drugs? Something like 50% of amercians are now clincially obese. I weep for the future when an entire generation raised on twinkes and flipz and double $6 burgers develops diabetes and herniated discs.
Yea hate to mention it but the vast majority of kiddy porn is produced by russian organized crime.
And i've been using unfiltered urin for cooking.
Note to Utah: Its time for you guys to deal with this guy and kick his ass around the block!
Of course thats in a fantasy land where IT budgets are well funded. When I worked at a mid sized university (15,000 students), our IT budgets were often "Zero" and the management/staff would constantly demand new services and features. My main servers ran at a load average of 4 - 5 (an insanely high load average).
I use flash all the time, and I hate it. Its like software purgatory. The problem is consistancy -- sometimes there are context menus, sometimes there aren't. Sometimes not all an items options appear in the properties window. Some things that should be in a context menu can only be accessed while selecting an item and then going to a pull down menu. If flash would make proper use of context menus and straighten out their GUI, then yes flash would be a great program.
Obviously you know next to dick about flash. Flash is the worst designed mass marketed program *EVER*. I would shoot every macromedia developer with a gun if I had half a chance. They have made improvements in flash 5 and MX, but its still a disaster.
I have an interview for a financial software company (think banks, atms, etc) next week who is looking for a programmer who can create "pragmatic solutions to challenging problems". I weep for the future :)
But there are palm branded cradles, stylses, etc. :) When I bought my PDA (a dell axim, 299$), you could order *EVERYTHING* online in one big package FROM DELL (Rhinoskin case, sandisk memory card and screen protectors, made by dell :-)), which I did because I'm one of the suckers I talked about.
The PDA company then sells the cradle, protectors and case at far above their "value", knowing that a large percentage of customers will just grab them when they buy the PDA. That way they get to advertise their 300$ price ont he low profit item (the PDA), and make quite a bit more on high profit items like stylses and screen protectors and what not.
If apple didn't care, they would support quite a lot of formats like WMA and OGG, and FLAC like other players do. It wouldn't take much resources to do it, so don't tell me about valuable engineer time. I happen to know quite a lot about OGG, the code is even free, worst case is they would need a slightly larger rom and slightly faster CPU. And if companies like iriver can, then apple can to.
You beat me to it :) I *want* ogg support. Is it *THAT* hard to do? No its not. Why won't they do it? Because like MS, Apple thinks they can tell me how to listen to my music.
I think it would be wise to remember that even the Americans are pissed about what the Americans are doing. I have never seen in my life an administration more hated then the bush administration. The only people that support bush are the insanely wealthy that he's handing cash to left and right, and ignorant fucks who he's convinced he's a christian. Unfourtantely, theres alot of ignorant fucks around here.
You know, with our whacked out legal system in the United States that sees enemies everywhere , the kids would have been sentenced to 10 years prison each for terrorism.
I read a story about a fellow once who wrote a program for a firm that had stiffed him on payments before. He inserted into the program code that would delete the program on date X. When the company *DID* pay, he called them up and (stupidly) told them about it, and he would send a new version of the program without the trojan horse. They called the police, and he spent two years in prison for nothing.
if by "entire world" you mean a relatively small contingent of geeks. Let me get this straight, they're complaining about album sales going down forom 50 million per hit to 33 million, in a depression, and when home recording equipment is making a wide selection of high quality indie music avaliable?
That's just like a Cheap Labor Republican! Supress the opinions of people who don't agree with your bullshit. Whatever pussy modded my comment Flamebait, FUCK YOU you cock sucking heathen asshole!!!
The S controller is the major weakness of the xbox -- its a complete piece of shit. Why you ask? The buttons are raised *TOO FUCKING HIGH*. You can't glide your thumbs over them quickly. Look at the GC or PS2 buttons -- very low on the controller surface so you can move quickly. Small but critical complaint.
I don't know when it started -- but at some point the conservatives/Republican party decided to use *words* against their enemies. They've been able to insert phrases into the political lexicon which are inflamitory; "tax and spend democrats", "liberal" (said with disgust), "Clinton recession", "Activist Judges" ... There's a million others but I can't think of them at the moment.
They aren't the only ones to do this, but they sure are the most active. The "Patriot Act" is a constitutional disaster, but how can something called the "patriot act" be bad?
To combat this, I call the reps, "Cheap Labor Republicans."
I heard a wise soul on slashdot say "Terrorism, drugs, and kiddy porn is the root password to the constiuttion."
Anyone heard about anything similiar for hte Plextor 708a? I paid a fortune for the drive (230$, best price at the time) 8 months ago, and its worthless now :)
Yesterday I was at a concert and had a really, disheartaning moment. Before the concert started the MC says, "Please rise for the pledge of allegiance." I haven't been in a situation where I've needed to say the pledge in almost 10 years. This sick feeling washes over me, like that feeling you get if you've ever backed out of cheating on a g/f or wife. This voice in my head says, "I cant do this..." and I realize how completely I've lost faith in our country. I hesitate, stand up, look around at the crowd and a lot of people are saying the pledge, but a lot aren't. They're eating their food, talking to their friends like nothing is going on, some stand defiantly saying nothing, and still others are shifting their eyes in guilt, like you try to avoid looking at a bum in Starbucks while you sip your 5$ frappuccino.