Considering he's having to cold-call people just for handyman work, I'll bet his IQ isn't on the higher side of the bell curve.
Of course he could be the front guy for 20 -50 "handymen" and he takes 40% off the top. I guess then his IQ might be on the higher side of the old bell curve.
Also, I find it quite odd that they won't accept ads from DSL providers, but they accept money from DirecTV and Echostar?!?
Any ads for DirecTV or Echostar that you see on your TV were not placed at the local level. They are placed at the national level. They can't block out the national ads. Just like the cable company can't block out ads that are placed on the local ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX affiliates. The ads that cable companies place are on ESPN, CNN, FOXNews, and other cable networks through negotiations with the cable networks. Cable companies make a considerable amount of revenue for these local TV spots and so do the cable networks.
Sure it doesn't have the metallic finish. It does have excellent construction, the LCD is out of this world and it beats both in replayability and storage.
What world do you live in? Think about the number of computers out there. Most are in the business community. Businesses want reliablity not overclocking. I would further venture that less than 5% of the individuals that own computers have ever opened the case. Of that 5% I doubt that even 1% overclock their computer.
Probably closer to.02% of the CPUs are overclocked.
According to the article, they're "stated" purpose is to keep unscrupulous resellers from reselling a lower speed cpu at a higher rating. The problem with this logic is that in today's market, unless you're a in a third world country, it's not that common a problem.
I have seen several 20+ computers in the last year that where overclocked by a local whitebox reseller. Not only does it give Intel a bad reputation but it tarnishes the reputation of all whitebox resellers. The reseller in question has moved on, no doubt continuing to scam unsuspecting people. The authorities were notified, but so far have been unable to locate him.
I tried about 10 types of media and I found that just as important as the type of media was how/what you used to record. The settings in Nero are very important. If I selected UDF 1.02 I could use cheap media (less than $1) and still be able to play everything in all of my DVD players. I have 6 DVD players: a 3 year-old Sony, a new Sony, RCA TV/DVD/VHS combo, a newer JVC, an APEX and a Bluapunkt.
I purchased 5 packs of about 10 different DVD-R media and went to work. It took 2 weeks of playing with the settings and burning the same 30 minutes of video to 40+ discs but I found a low cost media that worked for me. It won't work in all the players that I have tried it in, but it works in all of mine.
My suggestion would be to visit www.dvdrhelp.com and visit the forums. Find others that are using the same DVD recorder (DVD-R or DVD+R) that you have and read, read, read.
I absolutely loved the thing. It cost over $400 and blanks cost $10, but I loved the thing. I can't even imagine how many floppy disks that I didn't have to copy.
I was writing medical database software and distributing it, originally, on 18 floppies. What a pain that was. I still keep my old SCSI Yamaha 1x burner around, next to my Winchester 10 MB hard drive.
If the cable company calls me up and says, "We have discovered that you have more than one computer on your connection..." My reply, "Oh, shit someone hacked my wireless router." Click.
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Actually the poster, Cliff, never once mentioned that he wanted to record TV. He only said that it needed a TV-Card. He could be recording video from surveillance cameras and dumping to DVD for archive.
More info is really needed to answer the question at hand.
I have worked extensively with both film and digital media. Two years ago I would have said the same thing. There is no way that tradition darkrooms will be able to compete with digital. I used to do a lot of special effects in the darkroom that I can now do with a computer in a fraction of the time and repeat the process limitlessly and flawlessly. My darkroom special effects where very good, but hit-and-miss and sometimes very difficult to duplicate.
MS Paint has been around since Win3.1, when was the last time you heard of an artist trading in their paintbrush for that?
Until printers can add the third dimension no one will put down the brush and pickup a mouse. I am willing to bet that you have seen digital art and thought it was from film. I thought that I would never give up my darkroom, but I may eventually have to darken the lights in the computer room to reminisce.
I, too, am an Internet addict. It started out simple enough, shell access and a pine account. From there it progressed quickly to full Internet access and ISDN. Now I have Mega-DSL and a cable modem as a backup. I need ever-increasing amounts of the Internet, no connection is fast enough. I warn you that the Internet will consume your life.
We use a Seagate Viper 2000 Autoloader. Rackmounted about $9000. Holds 11 200GB compressed/100GB uncompressed Ultrium tapes. Fast, very fast. Backs up all the data on our TB RAID array.
Maybe your data isn't worth that much to you. Our data is worth that and more. BTW how much would it cost you to replicate your data?
I don't expect my cell phone to work when I stop paying for the service, why should I expect my Tivo to keep on functioning without paying for the service.
Yes, Tivo is both hardware and software, but Tivo is really a service. I have used my PC as a DVR, but it was nothing like my Tivo.
I have sold my family, friends, neighbors and co-workers on Tivos. I have upgraded over 50 Tivos in the last year. In July I had a upgrade party with 8 different Tivos. We spent the afternoon upgrading the Tivos. Some added a 80 GB hard drive and others replaced the hard drive and added a second.
It is hard to explain why Tivo is so great, but seeing is believing. I know at least one co-worker bought a Tivo just because he wanted to shut me up. Now he talks more about Tivo than I ever did. I guess he did shut me up, in a way. I can never get a word in edgewise.
...i don't like to pay half the price of the device just to use it
From this statement, I assume that you don't have a car, cellular phone or a TV with cable/satellite. All of these require investment after the purchase.
If you have never had a Tivo then you probably don't really understand that Tivo is a service far more than it is a device. I have seen plenty of PVRs that don't come close to the Tivo. It has nothing to with the hardward, its the service.
I have two DirecTivos and will probably get a third soon. Each has 2 tuners and I have upgraded each of them to 225 hours. I bought the lifetime service with my first. DirecTv mirrors that service and the DirecTv service over to my second for $5 per month.
Most of my family now own Tivos, as o many of my friends, neighbors and co-workers. I stand on my soapbox any chance I get and tell all about my Tivo.
they're not pushing 20-40GB drives in their "special" series, they want you to buy the 120GB monsters
Sorry, but you are just a little off on this one. Western Digital's Special Edition line starts at 40GB. Western Digital's Special Edition are all 7200 rpm with 8 MB cache. All of them have a 3 year warrany, from the lowly 40 GB up to the monster 200 GB drive.
BTW the 40 GB special edition drive is only $8.00 (US-wholesale) over the regular edition 7200 rpm drive with 2 MB cache. I wouldn't put a drive in one of my clients computers that didn't come with a 3 year warranty. I was ready to switch to a different manufacturer until I saw the lower price difference on the mid-sized drives.
Let's see - the thing that all components of your entire computer, inside and out connects to, and you want it to be the CHEAPEST component? {SIGH!}
I do, however totally agree with you here. There are places to cut corners, but....
I have been using an 802.11b network in my house for almost 4 years. I first started with a Breezecom AP and PCMCIA card. I had range that would allow me to roam around the house at 3 Mbps. I could even roam outside by the pool with a little drop in performance. The ISP I worked for setup these same units on a near by hilltop and with a larger antenna and an amplifier we were able to send Internet access out to customers up to 8 miles away. I had an external antenna receive the signal outside my house and drop it off to a BSD router with three NICS. One for incoming wireless form the hilltop, one to my switch and the third for my internal wireless network.
Two and half years ago I upgraded my internal network to a Cisco AP and got a new PC Card for my laptop. Shortly after that I upgraded from the wireless network to DSL from the same ISP. I left the run of LMR400 that runs outside. I replaced the 18 dBi directional antenna with a 9 dBi omni. Now I can browse the Internet down the street at my neighbors. The BSD router is still in place and considers everything on the wireless Ap outside the network and requires a VPN to gain access to the network, just like the Internet side.
Recently I helped a friend that lives a block down from me install an 802.11a network including an external antenna so he can use his wireless by the pool. I can get better through put from my wireless in his backyard than he can get standing right next to me. Granted his speed inside his house, especially in the family room, where the indoor antenna is located, is far and away faster than what I can get even next to my AP. Initially he had a dead spot just outside the sliding glass door. As soon as it was shut he went dead until he walked out 10-15 feet towards the pool. With a little adjustment of the exterior antenna it was eliminated. That wife of his insisted that it not be out in the open where everyone could see it.
Now he just needs to decide what he values more, limited distance and greater speed or greater roaming ability with limited speed. Those are the tradeoffs.
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However Nike was sending invoices to Reebok customers asking for money.
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Any ads for DirecTV or Echostar that you see on your TV were not placed at the local level. They are placed at the national level. They can't block out the national ads. Just like the cable company can't block out ads that are placed on the local ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX affiliates. The ads that cable companies place are on ESPN, CNN, FOXNews, and other cable networks through negotiations with the cable networks. Cable companies make a considerable amount of revenue for these local TV spots and so do the cable networks.
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And what about the time that the "fix" breaks more than it fixes. Microsoft has done this more than once. Old7
I'm rather disappointed. Slashdot usually has at least a couple of "April Fools" posts. Very disappointing this year. Old7
After Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms but before Duke Nukem Forever.
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Sure it doesn't have the metallic finish. It does have excellent construction, the LCD is out of this world and it beats both in replayability and storage.
Old7
What world do you live in? Think about the number of computers out there. Most are in the business community. Businesses want reliablity not overclocking. I would further venture that less than 5% of the individuals that own computers have ever opened the case. Of that 5% I doubt that even 1% overclock their computer.
.02% of the CPUs are overclocked.
Probably closer to
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I have seen several 20+ computers in the last year that where overclocked by a local whitebox reseller. Not only does it give Intel a bad reputation but it tarnishes the reputation of all whitebox resellers. The reseller in question has moved on, no doubt continuing to scam unsuspecting people. The authorities were notified, but so far have been unable to locate him.
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Can we just have a Microsoft hack/exploit/bug page that is always there. This will spare the rest of us the repeated bombardment of notices. Old7
I tried about 10 types of media and I found that just as important as the type of media was how/what you used to record. The settings in Nero are very important. If I selected UDF 1.02 I could use cheap media (less than $1) and still be able to play everything in all of my DVD players. I have 6 DVD players: a 3 year-old Sony, a new Sony, RCA TV/DVD/VHS combo, a newer JVC, an APEX and a Bluapunkt.
I purchased 5 packs of about 10 different DVD-R media and went to work. It took 2 weeks of playing with the settings and burning the same 30 minutes of video to 40+ discs but I found a low cost media that worked for me. It won't work in all the players that I have tried it in, but it works in all of mine.
My suggestion would be to visit www.dvdrhelp.com and visit the forums. Find others that are using the same DVD recorder (DVD-R or DVD+R) that you have and read, read, read.
Old7
I absolutely loved the thing. It cost over $400 and blanks cost $10, but I loved the thing. I can't even imagine how many floppy disks that I didn't have to copy.
I was writing medical database software and distributing it, originally, on 18 floppies. What a pain that was. I still keep my old SCSI Yamaha 1x burner around, next to my Winchester 10 MB hard drive.
Old7
If the cable company calls me up and says, "We have discovered that you have more than one computer on your connection..." My reply, "Oh, shit someone hacked my wireless router." Click. Old7
Let me know when it hits 1.1 and maybe it will be safe. I only see problems with hacking right now. Old7
Actually the poster, Cliff, never once mentioned that he wanted to record TV. He only said that it needed a TV-Card. He could be recording video from surveillance cameras and dumping to DVD for archive.
More info is really needed to answer the question at hand.
Old7
Until printers can add the third dimension no one will put down the brush and pickup a mouse. I am willing to bet that you have seen digital art and thought it was from film. I thought that I would never give up my darkroom, but I may eventually have to darken the lights in the computer room to reminisce.
Old7
I, too, am an Internet addict. It started out simple enough, shell access and a pine account. From there it progressed quickly to full Internet access and ISDN. Now I have Mega-DSL and a cable modem as a backup. I need ever-increasing amounts of the Internet, no connection is fast enough. I warn you that the Internet will consume your life.
Say, what is this EverQuest?
Old7
We use a Seagate Viper 2000 Autoloader. Rackmounted about $9000. Holds 11 200GB compressed/100GB uncompressed Ultrium tapes. Fast, very fast. Backs up all the data on our TB RAID array.
Maybe your data isn't worth that much to you. Our data is worth that and more. BTW how much would it cost you to replicate your data?
I don't expect my cell phone to work when I stop paying for the service, why should I expect my Tivo to keep on functioning without paying for the service.
Yes, Tivo is both hardware and software, but Tivo is really a service. I have used my PC as a DVR, but it was nothing like my Tivo.
Old7
Both DirecTv and AT&T sell a DVR that is "powered by Tivo." DirecTv is just getting ready to release their version, it will be under the Hughes brand.
DirecTv DVR
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I have sold my family, friends, neighbors and co-workers on Tivos. I have upgraded over 50 Tivos in the last year. In July I had a upgrade party with 8 different Tivos. We spent the afternoon upgrading the Tivos. Some added a 80 GB hard drive and others replaced the hard drive and added a second.
It is hard to explain why Tivo is so great, but seeing is believing. I know at least one co-worker bought a Tivo just because he wanted to shut me up. Now he talks more about Tivo than I ever did. I guess he did shut me up, in a way. I can never get a word in edgewise.
Old7
...i don't like to pay half the price of the device just to use it
From this statement, I assume that you don't have a car, cellular phone or a TV with cable/satellite. All of these require investment after the purchase.
If you have never had a Tivo then you probably don't really understand that Tivo is a service far more than it is a device. I have seen plenty of PVRs that don't come close to the Tivo. It has nothing to with the hardward, its the service.
I have two DirecTivos and will probably get a third soon. Each has 2 tuners and I have upgraded each of them to 225 hours. I bought the lifetime service with my first. DirecTv mirrors that service and the DirecTv service over to my second for $5 per month.
Most of my family now own Tivos, as o many of my friends, neighbors and co-workers. I stand on my soapbox any chance I get and tell all about my Tivo.
Old7
BTW the 40 GB special edition drive is only $8.00 (US-wholesale) over the regular edition 7200 rpm drive with 2 MB cache. I wouldn't put a drive in one of my clients computers that didn't come with a 3 year warranty. I was ready to switch to a different manufacturer until I saw the lower price difference on the mid-sized drives.
I do, however totally agree with you here. There are places to cut corners, but....
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the storylines of these films are not being altered in any way.
How can you edit anything and not change the storyline?
Besides I was using this as an example of the extreme. If you allow one form of editing how can you stop the other.
Where do you draw the line?
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I have been using an 802.11b network in my house for almost 4 years. I first started with a Breezecom AP and PCMCIA card. I had range that would allow me to roam around the house at 3 Mbps. I could even roam outside by the pool with a little drop in performance. The ISP I worked for setup these same units on a near by hilltop and with a larger antenna and an amplifier we were able to send Internet access out to customers up to 8 miles away. I had an external antenna receive the signal outside my house and drop it off to a BSD router with three NICS. One for incoming wireless form the hilltop, one to my switch and the third for my internal wireless network.
Two and half years ago I upgraded my internal network to a Cisco AP and got a new PC Card for my laptop. Shortly after that I upgraded from the wireless network to DSL from the same ISP. I left the run of LMR400 that runs outside. I replaced the 18 dBi directional antenna with a 9 dBi omni. Now I can browse the Internet down the street at my neighbors. The BSD router is still in place and considers everything on the wireless Ap outside the network and requires a VPN to gain access to the network, just like the Internet side.
Recently I helped a friend that lives a block down from me install an 802.11a network including an external antenna so he can use his wireless by the pool. I can get better through put from my wireless in his backyard than he can get standing right next to me. Granted his speed inside his house, especially in the family room, where the indoor antenna is located, is far and away faster than what I can get even next to my AP. Initially he had a dead spot just outside the sliding glass door. As soon as it was shut he went dead until he walked out 10-15 feet towards the pool. With a little adjustment of the exterior antenna it was eliminated. That wife of his insisted that it not be out in the open where everyone could see it.
Now he just needs to decide what he values more, limited distance and greater speed or greater roaming ability with limited speed. Those are the tradeoffs.
Old7