What a bizarre bit of slashdottery... you posted this exact same thing a couple posts down here and it was modded -1 offtopic, you misspell pidgeons and add a link and a smiley face and then it ends up +2 funny. Weird.
Oh no... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by joyoflinux (thejoyoflinux AT yahoo DOT com) on Saturday October 05, @04:43PM (#4393071)
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Those pidgeons must be slacking off...
Strange, I would think "Coward" would come up with quite a few results before coming up with your personal page. That is, unless you're the owner of the Noel Coward society.
No matter how many times I hear this, I still have trouble believing it. I have a total of 5 IBM disks (3 x 40gb running full time, 1 x 80gb for server use full time, 1 x 120gb (usually removed but gets heavily used for weekly backups)). I have yet to have a single problem with any of them, not to mention a couple friends of mine who account for a total of at least 6 more who haven't had a problem.
Granted, that's only 11 hard drives. With all of these reports of failures, I'd be interested to hear the ratio of reported complaints (such as yours) to number sold. Methinks that the minority is just substantially more vocal than the problemless, but I honestly just don't know.
Of course, I've undoubtedly just jinxed myself and my server will have a failed hard drive within the hour.
Just to set the record straight, this was totally proven false a hundred times over, most notably by Ain't it Cool News (I would provide a direct link to the article, but their site is refusing connections right now). This was a result of some media idiot claiming it was on Kazaa or some such thing only because he or one of his aides saw it on a listing (i.e. didn't check to see if it was actually the movie). Besides, as others have said, watching a movie on a shitty monitor is a waste of time.
On the bright side, searching for 'two towers' on p2p brings up some substantially interesting pr0n.
Normally I wouldn't say this, but this is old news indeed. It was announced and UDS got the rights in September of 2000... there's a reason it says (c) 2001 on the bottom of that page. CGEF has a little more info here, although it's a mixture of fact and guesswork.
I honestly did enjoy some of the early Simpsons games (can't tell if other comments are being sarcastic or not - Bart vs The Space Mutants and the original arcade game are fun) and am looking forward to this. Maybe it'll be good use of a TV license.
Seems my local station is sending digital signals right now. Thanks for the info.
After jumping through a few links, I found the case studies page. According to KNPB, this is really old news, saying that digital signals were ordered by the FCC in 1997 (and that some PBS stations have been digital for over two years).
However, the costs are still pretty extraordinary according to the KPBS (San Diego) case study (from 5/1998):
KPBS begins documenting digital transition plans in grant applications to NTIA.
Ahead of many other broadcasters, KPBS has already made a significant, long-term investment in, and commitment to, digital television. Through our capital campaign/major donor efforts, we've already invested in a $7.5 million building and $4.5 million in equipment--demonstrating our dedication to building future capability and infrastructure.
Engineering management has estimated an additional $4.0 million will be required for the equipment... needed to complete the station's transition to digital television, enabling us to begin DTV broadcast operations in January 2001. To date, the station has been able to raise significant funds toward that specific goal from various sources, public and private, including corporate sponsors and philanthropies.
Granted, this is a station that multicasts 4 or 5 stations. I suppose I just never realized that these stations were so capable of acquiring $16 million. Go figure.
I was just talking to someone here at work who is somewhat acquainted with a few of the local TV stations. He said that, on average, it will cost approx. $1.7 million to outfit a television station with the necessary technology to prepare for all this nonsense. That may not be a massive amount to a big city CBS affiliate, but what about public broadcast stations? Won't they also have to participate in this?
I'll certainly bitch and moan if I have to outfit my TV with some new-fangled doo-hickey to watch anything, but I'll bitch and moan even more if I lose the small local/publically funded stations here. That's a lot of call in donations for a station already on a tight budget. Is there some sort of government money available for what they're forcing on everyone?
(please note, this is just a figure that some guy gave me. I'm not claiming it to be absolute, just what I heard.)
Games these days do seem to suck. The last real good one for me was Final Fantasy Tactics (they don't make 'em much dorkier than that). Occasionally there's that diamond in the rough that makes me keep my eyes open, though.
IMHO, that Stuntman game for PS2 is kinda original. Even though it was based on plain 'ol driving elements of racing games, the concept of being an employed stuntman is a decent idea. One of the coolest things is that they explain how some stunt type things are done in movies (i.e. American stunt drivers that have to drive right-hand cars actually drive a tiny, unseen wheel on the left side while a person on the right pretends to drive the other wheel. Whee!).
Sadly, can't think of any others off the top of my head...
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I thought it was with an 'i' (kisten), but perhaps both are valid? I dunno.
</nitpick?>
Anyways, I think boxen *is* a valid translation of the English word 'box', but that would be box as in 'boxing' as in pugilism, so it's still ridiculous. Ya know, I highly suspect most of the people that (over)use this silly term aren't actually German. Of course, if I had my way, I'd be pronouncing Linux as lye-nucks since that how we foolish Americans pronounce Linus. I can't even count the number of times I've been scolded for that grievous mistake.
(from the press release) "In game playing, the focus is on the picture - with the players requiring a life-like image. Our new line of RCA TVs with VPORT is ideal for viewing the rich graphic details of Xbox games," he added.
That's funny, I thought in game playing, the focus was on the gameplay. Man, how times change. Really, how much of a difference could some enhanced port make to graphic quality on a TV? Inquiring minds want to know.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play Burgertime.
That's a really good idea. I wonder if it would be possible to create a sort of website mirror/community that would be primary hosts for the p2p downloads (like TV stations in a way... perhaps one in every state would eventually be achieved?). Maybe only use the p2p for downloading of old/archived shows. Then have all of the servers simultaneously stream new content (using a local mirror might make modem users better able to enjoy all of this).
That would probably negate at least some of the bandwidth savings that p2p would create, but it would just be plain neat to have a full fledged internet TV network presence.
http://www.essencompu.com. My personal favorite. I used to order from newegg and switched only because Essential is sometimes (but not always) cheaper. I think they're Pricewatch whores, but they are very reliable. Just thought I'd chime in.
That's probably the hardest part of building your first computer. Finding a good cheap reliable place to buy parts.
I think you're right. It's one thing when Windows users have IE and media player shoved down their throats with their new OS, but people will take notice if they have a DRM enabled OS and realize what a bunch of junk it is. They'll tell their friends. There'll be oodles of news reports on it on more mainstream outlets.
I'll admit that it's fun to sit around and preach doom-and-gloom about the pending death of Fair Use, but I think the more likely end result is that this just won't fly. This marketing about keeping you safe from viruses is ridiculous. How many users *really* still have major virus problems these days? Unless Symantec and every other virus software manufacturer quite suddenly go out of business, that scare tactic won't work.
Now if the PR department comes up with something more feasible, maybe I'll perk my ears up a little more. For now, I just plan on not buying these products.
If you don't mind, I'd like to say that's a terrible reason to leave a public discussion forum. If you have a dissenting opinion, it's all the more important to announce regardless of moderation.
Not that I necessarily agree with you, I'm just saying that regardless of where you go, no matter how 'open-minded', there will be leanings of some majority one way or the other. Fuck it, people are still reading what you're preaching (assuming at least some people browse at 0/-1:) ). Don't be so concerned with whether or not people agree with you. If it's truly sound and well reasoned you'll eventually find that like-minded company you appear to be looking for.
Financial: Hiring a Foreign MBA will not impose any significant cost to the organization, other than a few hundred dollars down the road, when the H1-B visa needs to be processed. Relocation costs should only be provided from their school residence, not their home country.
Having said this, you also have to keep in mind that hiring a Foreign MBA student will not provide any saving to the organization. I.e. it is illegal to pay them less than what you usually pay an equivalent candidate, only because he is not a US citizen. You might save, however, some taxes (like social security).
Also suffering from ignorance, I don't know if the same info applies to a regular H1 (or if it's even really relevant), but thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Why the hell is the grandparent post modded as flamebait?
FWIW (and I know a whole slew of other people have already reemed this comment), they do this to some extent. However, so do the hardware manufacturers. The nForce boards break old compatability pretty bad, having a setup program only for Windows ME and later... supposedly you're able to get the nForce drivers to work under 98 (and only via manual configuration/driver installation), but I haven't been able to yet.
Would anyone be surprised if motherboard manufacturers added in little 'easter eggs' to the bios/jumpers that allowed you to circumvent Palladium CPU code? There are pages of codes/mods you can do to U.S. DVD players that allow them to function as region free players. Why wouldn't they? What's going to stop them? I realize that in theory they're supposed to be in on the deal, but that didn't stop the DVD player makers, and I'll bet the scrutiny from Hollywood was just as close as the scrutiny from Microsoft will be.
Now, if instead there was a way for me to send you a number, which is an encrypted one-time code for transferring a set amount from my bank account to yours, I'd love to just e-mail that instead. But as far as I know, there's nothing even close to that anywhere.
Soon I bet the Palladiumites will be using that example as a positive use of trusted computing (joking, joking....) I don't think Paypal would necessarily be bad if it hadn't garnered itself such an awful reputation. Hell, it's a good idea - allowing anyone to use credit cards over the internet to accept payment. Great for auctions and independent/small businesses. It's just a shame it didn't pan out so great. Recovery from the kind of backlash it has received is gonna be hard.
The unfortunate thing is that Ebay and Paypal were (and still are, I s'pose) linked so closely. I just sold about 30 items on Ebay and almost all of the inquiry e-mails I received contained the line "Do you accept PayPal? That's the only way I can bid." I ended up caving and getting an account just to up the chance that I would get a decent price on everything. Lo and behold, half of the auction winners ended up paying that way. So far, I've had no problems but plan on closing it immediately after I've finished collecting and shipping.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Ebay acquired Paypal. Do they have any known plans to let it die slowly and shove their credit card program to the forefront? Have similar problems emerged from the Ebay cc service?
Unless the store that you bought the board at has an obscene return policy (or is thousands of miles away), just take it back and get a new one that doesn't stink. It'll probably drive you nuts and you can't blame it on the dog forever.
Otherwise, stick a plug-in deodorizer in your power strip and keep it fresh.
As an aside, isn't the most common computer 'stink' burn-in which usually goes away? Just curious.
Wouldn't it make more sense to post slightly closer to the moment of destruction? I mean, my short attention span will have stopped caring 333000+ seconds from now...
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What a bizarre bit of slashdottery... you posted this exact same thing a couple posts down here and it was modded -1 offtopic, you misspell pidgeons and add a link and a smiley face and then it ends up +2 funny. Weird.
Oh no... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by joyoflinux (thejoyoflinux AT yahoo DOT com) on Saturday October 05, @04:43PM (#4393071)
(User #522023 Info)
Those pidgeons must be slacking off...
Strange, I would think "Coward" would come up with quite a few results before coming up with your personal page. That is, unless you're the owner of the Noel Coward society.
See this portion of the faq.
No matter how many times I hear this, I still have trouble believing it. I have a total of 5 IBM disks (3 x 40gb running full time, 1 x 80gb for server use full time, 1 x 120gb (usually removed but gets heavily used for weekly backups)). I have yet to have a single problem with any of them, not to mention a couple friends of mine who account for a total of at least 6 more who haven't had a problem.
Granted, that's only 11 hard drives. With all of these reports of failures, I'd be interested to hear the ratio of reported complaints (such as yours) to number sold. Methinks that the minority is just substantially more vocal than the problemless, but I honestly just don't know.
Of course, I've undoubtedly just jinxed myself and my server will have a failed hard drive within the hour.
Joke? Troll? Serious? Hard to tell sometimes.
Just to set the record straight, this was totally proven false a hundred times over, most notably by Ain't it Cool News (I would provide a direct link to the article, but their site is refusing connections right now). This was a result of some media idiot claiming it was on Kazaa or some such thing only because he or one of his aides saw it on a listing (i.e. didn't check to see if it was actually the movie). Besides, as others have said, watching a movie on a shitty monitor is a waste of time.
On the bright side, searching for 'two towers' on p2p brings up some substantially interesting pr0n.
Normally I wouldn't say this, but this is old news indeed. It was announced and UDS got the rights in September of 2000... there's a reason it says (c) 2001 on the bottom of that page. CGEF has a little more info here, although it's a mixture of fact and guesswork.
I honestly did enjoy some of the early Simpsons games (can't tell if other comments are being sarcastic or not - Bart vs The Space Mutants and the original arcade game are fun) and am looking forward to this. Maybe it'll be good use of a TV license.
After jumping through a few links, I found the case studies page. According to KNPB, this is really old news, saying that digital signals were ordered by the FCC in 1997 (and that some PBS stations have been digital for over two years).
However, the costs are still pretty extraordinary according to the KPBS (San Diego) case study (from 5/1998):
Granted, this is a station that multicasts 4 or 5 stations. I suppose I just never realized that these stations were so capable of acquiring $16 million. Go figure.
I was just talking to someone here at work who is somewhat acquainted with a few of the local TV stations. He said that, on average, it will cost approx. $1.7 million to outfit a television station with the necessary technology to prepare for all this nonsense. That may not be a massive amount to a big city CBS affiliate, but what about public broadcast stations? Won't they also have to participate in this?
I'll certainly bitch and moan if I have to outfit my TV with some new-fangled doo-hickey to watch anything, but I'll bitch and moan even more if I lose the small local/publically funded stations here. That's a lot of call in donations for a station already on a tight budget. Is there some sort of government money available for what they're forcing on everyone?
(please note, this is just a figure that some guy gave me. I'm not claiming it to be absolute, just what I heard.)
Games these days do seem to suck. The last real good one for me was Final Fantasy Tactics (they don't make 'em much dorkier than that). Occasionally there's that diamond in the rough that makes me keep my eyes open, though.
IMHO, that Stuntman game for PS2 is kinda original. Even though it was based on plain 'ol driving elements of racing games, the concept of being an employed stuntman is a decent idea. One of the coolest things is that they explain how some stunt type things are done in movies (i.e. American stunt drivers that have to drive right-hand cars actually drive a tiny, unseen wheel on the left side while a person on the right pretends to drive the other wheel. Whee!).
Sadly, can't think of any others off the top of my head...
I thought it was with an 'i' (kisten), but perhaps both are valid? I dunno.
</nitpick?>
Anyways, I think boxen *is* a valid translation of the English word 'box', but that would be box as in 'boxing' as in pugilism, so it's still ridiculous. Ya know, I highly suspect most of the people that (over)use this silly term aren't actually German. Of course, if I had my way, I'd be pronouncing Linux as lye-nucks since that how we foolish Americans pronounce Linus. I can't even count the number of times I've been scolded for that grievous mistake.
(from the press release)
"In game playing, the focus is on the picture - with the players requiring a life-like image. Our new line of RCA TVs with VPORT is ideal for viewing the rich graphic details of Xbox games," he added.
That's funny, I thought in game playing, the focus was on the gameplay. Man, how times change. Really, how much of a difference could some enhanced port make to graphic quality on a TV? Inquiring minds want to know.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play Burgertime.
That's a really good idea. I wonder if it would be possible to create a sort of website mirror/community that would be primary hosts for the p2p downloads (like TV stations in a way... perhaps one in every state would eventually be achieved?). Maybe only use the p2p for downloading of old/archived shows. Then have all of the servers simultaneously stream new content (using a local mirror might make modem users better able to enjoy all of this).
That would probably negate at least some of the bandwidth savings that p2p would create, but it would just be plain neat to have a full fledged internet TV network presence.
http://www.essencompu.com. My personal favorite. I used to order from newegg and switched only because Essential is sometimes (but not always) cheaper. I think they're Pricewatch whores, but they are very reliable. Just thought I'd chime in.
That's probably the hardest part of building your first computer. Finding a good cheap reliable place to buy parts.
I think you're right. It's one thing when Windows users have IE and media player shoved down their throats with their new OS, but people will take notice if they have a DRM enabled OS and realize what a bunch of junk it is. They'll tell their friends. There'll be oodles of news reports on it on more mainstream outlets.
I'll admit that it's fun to sit around and preach doom-and-gloom about the pending death of Fair Use, but I think the more likely end result is that this just won't fly. This marketing about keeping you safe from viruses is ridiculous. How many users *really* still have major virus problems these days? Unless Symantec and every other virus software manufacturer quite suddenly go out of business, that scare tactic won't work.
Now if the PR department comes up with something more feasible, maybe I'll perk my ears up a little more. For now, I just plan on not buying these products.
I agree with that completely.
In a perfect world, Cartoon Network would split into a kids version and an adults version. I would watch whichever one didn't contain Dragonball Z.
If you don't mind, I'd like to say that's a terrible reason to leave a public discussion forum. If you have a dissenting opinion, it's all the more important to announce regardless of moderation.
:) ). Don't be so concerned with whether or not people agree with you. If it's truly sound and well reasoned you'll eventually find that like-minded company you appear to be looking for.
Not that I necessarily agree with you, I'm just saying that regardless of where you go, no matter how 'open-minded', there will be leanings of some majority one way or the other. Fuck it, people are still reading what you're preaching (assuming at least some people browse at 0/-1
Also suffering from ignorance, I don't know if the same info applies to a regular H1 (or if it's even really relevant), but thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Why the hell is the grandparent post modded as flamebait?
FWIW (and I know a whole slew of other people have already reemed this comment), they do this to some extent. However, so do the hardware manufacturers. The nForce boards break old compatability pretty bad, having a setup program only for Windows ME and later... supposedly you're able to get the nForce drivers to work under 98 (and only via manual configuration/driver installation), but I haven't been able to yet.
I do agree with your sentiment, though.
Would anyone be surprised if motherboard manufacturers added in little 'easter eggs' to the bios/jumpers that allowed you to circumvent Palladium CPU code? There are pages of codes/mods you can do to U.S. DVD players that allow them to function as region free players. Why wouldn't they? What's going to stop them? I realize that in theory they're supposed to be in on the deal, but that didn't stop the DVD player makers, and I'll bet the scrutiny from Hollywood was just as close as the scrutiny from Microsoft will be.
Just an opinion, could be wrong blah blah blah...
Now, if instead there was a way for me to send you a number, which is an encrypted one-time code for transferring a set amount from my bank account to yours, I'd love to just e-mail that instead. But as far as I know, there's nothing even close to that anywhere.
Soon I bet the Palladiumites will be using that example as a positive use of trusted computing (joking, joking....) I don't think Paypal would necessarily be bad if it hadn't garnered itself such an awful reputation. Hell, it's a good idea - allowing anyone to use credit cards over the internet to accept payment. Great for auctions and independent/small businesses. It's just a shame it didn't pan out so great. Recovery from the kind of backlash it has received is gonna be hard.
Or visit his site. Now a mame hacker.
aarongiles.com
Apparently he received somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 postcards, although I'm sure he'd be happy to get a couple more.
The unfortunate thing is that Ebay and Paypal were (and still are, I s'pose) linked so closely. I just sold about 30 items on Ebay and almost all of the inquiry e-mails I received contained the line "Do you accept PayPal? That's the only way I can bid." I ended up caving and getting an account just to up the chance that I would get a decent price on everything. Lo and behold, half of the auction winners ended up paying that way. So far, I've had no problems but plan on closing it immediately after I've finished collecting and shipping.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Ebay acquired Paypal. Do they have any known plans to let it die slowly and shove their credit card program to the forefront? Have similar problems emerged from the Ebay cc service?
No kidding? Is there somewhere where I can read about it? I hadn't heard that before. Interesting.
/. that was rotting my brain while I sat in front of the computer...
And here I was thinking that it was
Unless the store that you bought the board at has an obscene return policy (or is thousands of miles away), just take it back and get a new one that doesn't stink. It'll probably drive you nuts and you can't blame it on the dog forever.
Otherwise, stick a plug-in deodorizer in your power strip and keep it fresh.
As an aside, isn't the most common computer 'stink' burn-in which usually goes away? Just curious.
Wouldn't it make more sense to post slightly closer to the moment of destruction? I mean, my short attention span will have stopped caring 333000+ seconds from now...