In the growing list of reasons NOT to use their software.
I have used TT for the Web for the last 4 years, this year, I switched. I was SO uncertain about my forms and what was being displayed and how things were entered that I went over my 1040 EZ (EZ, as in, you know, EASY) FOUR times and it still didnt look right (at one point it even showed my AGI as being more than my total income!).
I spend all that time, finally went to file, and even though the front page said "$9.95 for federal" with a vague mention of extra fees for state I get to the price and its $29.95 for fed. anf $39.95 for state....where the hell did that come from?
I looked on their forums and GOBS of people were going on about how they were ripped off by Intuit.
I went to H&R Blocks TaxCut web based service, it actually had specific impossible to miss sections for entering forms 1099-INT and 1099-G (unemployment) and not only was I more satisfied that it was done properly, I also went from getting $6 from fed and owing $190 to state I am getting back a total of $287 between the two with the taxcut method (still less than I expected but sounds better, no way I owed, and I was more comfortable with what was entered and how that I trust it more than Intuits numbers).
AVOID TURBOTAX LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Between the ever-decreasing quality of their software, the crap they pull with activation (or tried to), the shady crap going on with their prices and now this....just run, dont walk, away from them!
Oh brother. Because the Tech Report is definitely out to get them!
Seriously....i thought the picture quality looked like crap on it, and comparing apples to apples?
So take two $125+ and compare it to the NVCard, omg, those jerks are trying to screw over the eVGA card!
They are three similar cards (with the ATI jumping out because of the remote and whatnot) with similar features and similar specs, the half height issue doesnt affect the card. If the PVR 250 had a remote THEN maybe I would consider that apples to apples, but its not the same class of card. It costs twice as much without anything like a remote to eplain why it costs so much more.
Ok, I dont think Evolution is a load of crap, nor am I what you would call "religious".
I do believe in god, and I also believe that evolution and "creationism" are not mutually exclusive.
That aside for the moment, the thing science needs to work on is not "make it easy for those retarded christians", what science needs to work on is its consistency.
When I was growing up there was a dinosaur calle dthe Brontosaurus. Now, at one field trip there was a gentleman in the audience who asked the PhD toting paleontologist about some....oddities, the paleontologist then when on to verbally strip this man of any dignity he might have once had and proceeded to ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT DEFINITIVELY debunk the idea that this might not be a real creature....two years late, guess what "oops, we fucked up, no such thing". And I hope somewhere that gentleman found that scientist and punched him in the face.
Moral of the story?
There is SO much science CANNOT answer, so much that is hotly contested, so much that is completely unknown and based SOLELY on "theory".
Yet getting the vast majority of evolution humping scientists to admit that they don't know, for example, where the universe came from, what caused the big bang, that they might be wrong on certain aspects, is nearly impossible.
The problem on BOTH sides is that nobody is willing to admit that they might not have it just right, because the other side will take that as blood in the water and they will jump all over them.
Me, personally, I don't KNOW where we came from. I am perfectly willing, however, to entertain the notion that god set all of this up, kicked off the big bang, and it has evolved from that intial action ever since.
It is not, in my opinion, impossible for a being that is supposedly all powerfull, to predict with at least some accuracy, that if I begin this process, with these ingredients, i will eventually produce these results. humans will come into existence, etc. etc.
The day you can scientifically and without ANY chance of being wrong explain EVERY single gap in evolution, and where EVERY single thing came from, and futhermore what CAUSED the big bang to take place, then we will talk.
In the meantime we are just a bunch of arrogant little creatures in something far to big for us to currently understand running around schools and websites swearing up and down that we do, in fact, know the answer to life, the universe, and everything (in theaters April 29th!).
Religion and science are very similar in that they are both followed by naive, arrogant, little people who claim to know alot more than they really do, and who are alot more resistant to rational thinking than any of them would admit.
"The reason we're able to do this, and why it's so exciting is because of Steam. If we were doing this without Steam we'd have to put it in a box, we'd have to start figuring out shelf space over a year beforehand. You'd see it six years from now..."
Boy they must really think we are retarded.
Much less than a year after HL2 is released and its going to be ready, but we'd see it 6 years from now if it wasn't for steam.
I'm well aware he is exaggerating but it still doesn't remove the bullshit quotient.
So, the fact that at the launch I couldnt play the game I bought, the fact that months later at a LAN party only half the people could log in because steam puked, all that is supposed to be instantly negated by the wonderfull fact that Steam saves Valve some work.
That will mean a lot when they ditch steam and I can no longer go back and play my "vintage" copy of HL2.
Listen, for office productivity and "how fast can I open spreadsheets", nobody SHOULD need more than one CPU.
The rendering tests were a little disappointing (I seem to recall a bigger gap in the AMD benchmarks), but really the point of dual CPU's is, as anyone who has used one knows, responsiveness.
Yeah rendering times dropping to 60% of normal is nice, but let me tell you, where a normal single CPU system would sit there gurgling and choking on its own vomit because some dirty little application decides it MUST use up all the CPU time, dual CPU systems just go "eh, whatever, hes being a jerk, I can help you over here."
It is SO nice to use a dual CPU system in daily routine useage (which for me is QUITE varied) just for the increase in responsiveness alone.
....We think.
I mean, we're pretty sure....kinda....
If we are right the matter might "bounce back out"....or not....we are not certain....
But I'm pretty sure black holes don't exist.
Ok, first of all you lost me at "in an ideal world".
Second, for hitting the point that we filthy americans are knee-jerking because the UN disagrees with us you sure are taking the wrong approach by using comments like "so far it it seems people are posting before thinking after seeing 'UN' on their lovely US site." and "Put aside your opinions on the UN and how they don't agree with everything the US says for a minute".
I have no problem with the UN disagreeing with "what the US says" (not entirely sure what that means since its not like ALL of us are making the rules, if you would back off the attitude a bit you'd consider how neatly split our country is on a LOT of things).
"All of this is being governed and controlled by a private registered company in the USA, and they have the power to make policy changes that affect my current happy arangement, without any kind of monitoring or regulation."
Um, yeah....any idea where the internet originated?
Any idea who's research money got it off the ground?
I'm not saying that means your interests shouldnt be looked after to some extent, not at all, sharing amongst nations is what makes the Internet even better than it was before.
However I do not see "well, we came to the party" as reason enough to say its your house.
And considering the amount of anti-us (alot of which is politically motivated or simply because its cool to be anti-US, since we eat babies and all that) I'd have to say you can go right to hell if you think I would support giving control of something like that to people with attitudes like that.
And while were talking about this, you say the UN is better than a private company. I don't think so. Can you give me a list of some of the US-favored decisions ICANN has meted out upon the rest of the world?
Can you give me ANYTHING to backup your claim that a body of people that can't manage to stop mass genocide in certain african countries and is comprised of governments who have oil/arms deals with shady dictators (not saying ours hasnt, but thats part of the reason I DONT want the gov. in control of the internet) is a better choice than a company who has yet to perform any lewd acts of pro-US policy?
Your entire post boils down to nothing more than you don't like our policy, you don't like us very much, and you would rather see damned near anyone else in control of it besides us.
If it wasnt sprinkled with so much anti-us CRAP it would be alot better, but your point is weak, your attitude sucks and at the end of the day WE made the internet.
I'm not suggesting you go make your own if you want to control it but I am saying that maybe we should wait till ICANN ever actually does anything purely because it benefits the US before we start acting like it does.
ICANN is FAR from perfect, but going from a known imperfect controll to a known imperfect control who has no business regulating technology is not a step in the right direction.
Oh and: "Do you honestly feel that your information, and the Internet, is safer in the hands of a private unregulated "not for profit" US registered company that is given it's power by the US government and gives most (if not all) of it's contracts for vital services to US for-profit companies?"
Eh shit, all that and I forgot the dumb thing doesnt take newlines....sorry for the run-on sentence kids.
Ugh.
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"People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role. People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
Yeah, you mean like China? They dont mind you having internet access, just dont dare actually use it for anything other than finding out how wonderfull the Chinese government is.
I also like the bit: "People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role."
Really? Who are these people that realize this? Governments?
Also the whole idea here is assinine, you dont want gov. involvement, what you REALLY want is for the gov.'s to say they will enforce you rules, and to entwine yourself deeply enough with an entrenched and RELEVANT (thats the key word) institution so that when the inevitable days comes that more people say "wtf is the UN even doing anymore?" you can point and say "we keep the internet safe for your govern....I mean kids."
No thanks, keep your outmoded sluggish bureaucracy and my own countries sluggish bureaucracy out of the internet.
IF they want to regulate the internet they should damned well be forced to contribute. Don't sit there and say how we can and cannot use the internet and then stay out of infrastructure matters and upgrade issues.
It's like "Hey I want to tell you what to do but I don't want to be responsible for actually contributing to this, you build it, you pay for it, i'll say what you can do with it after that."
....that only the UN could come up with.
"People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role. People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
Yeah, you mean like China? They dont mind you having internet access, just dont dare actually use it for anything other than finding out how wonderfull the Chinese government is.
I also like the bit: "People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role."
Really? Who are these people that realize this? Governments?
Also the whole idea here is assinine, you dont want gov. involvement, what you REALLY want is for the gov.'s to say they will enforce you rules, and to entwine yourself deeply enough with an entrenched and RELEVANT (thats the key word) institution so that when the inevitable days comes that more people say "wtf is the UN even doing anymore?" you can point and say "we keep the internet safe for your govern....I mean kids."
No thanks, keep your outmoded sluggish bureaucracy and my own countries sluggish bureaucracy out of the internet.
IF they want to regulate the internet they should damned well be forced to contribute. Don't sit there and say how we can and cannot use the internet and then stay out of infrastructure matters and upgrade issues.
It's like "Hey I want to tell you what to do but I don't want to be responsible for actually contributing to this, you build it, you pay for it, i'll say what you can do with it after that."
NO
THANKS
Oh reeeaaalllly now....so thats why I got my Steam delivered copy of HL2 and couldnt play because steam was down and the people I know who downloaded it played all day long....I think the MPAA and RIAA allready learned that lesson.
You know, my longstanding position on religion is that its a great idea so long as humans stay the hell away.
What do I mean by that? Probably not what you think.
I simply do not trust the validity of a book that has been handled, mishandled, and passed through so many corrupt hands. We KNOW things have been added, removed, and generally manipulated.
That being said I do believe in God, but rather than read a book that may or may not be intact, I preffer to just goto the source. If I do the best I can in life and try my best that is about all I can do, if its not good enough, oh well....religion doesnt seem like a better alternative at the moment.
We seem hell bent on making the drives spin faster rather than putting in more heads.
Why not, for instance, put a triangle shaped series of head that has its narrow point towards the center of the disc and the wide end towards the edge. This would give you the same read speed at the center as the outter rim and if you made one big head (or a series of small ones more likely) the head would never move, thats less problems right there, the speed would be faster because instead of one head per platter that has to traverse the disk you would have a driv that literally anything on the platter could be read in one revolution.
We could cut down on the rotational speed, which as a byproduct we have tons of heat and an ever increasing level of sophistication from the bearings, a better lifespan because fewer moving parts and the ones that do move move much slower and probably have a higher level of performance.
Then again I don't make hard drives, maybe its allready been tried and I just need to STFU;)
Powerstrip.
And it may be a piece of cakke to shange the resolution, but knowing what resolution to change it to is a WHOLE other ball of wax.
You see the fact that your TV does, for instance, 720p doesnt mean you can REALLY see that much of the screen. Overscan (yay requirements from the 50's) lops off almost the entire taskbar on most TV's which, as you might expect, makes it rather difficult to use your computer. So you have to set it just low enough to be functional and high enough that the TV will still display it....all this and your arent just entering 1024x768 and the computer does the rest. You are entering specific frequencies and timings.
Another nice part of the DLP's is they somewhat account for overscan, you can set a mode on the DVI input to fit the signal to the screen that basically gets rid of overscan but not entirely....very handy.
I had the misfortune of telling my roomate I'd setup his HTPC for him. yeah, I would NEVER use an HTPC unless my TV (yay DLP's!!!!) had DVI input....you have to go in and create your own custom resolutions and figure out the specific timings (with horrible howto's written by people with NO writing skill (one huge paragraph makes it all readable....))
Yeah, suffice it to say, its a HORRIBLE solution, the text looks like crap compared to DVI, its just overall a nightmare and not worth it.
I have to say, there is a very big flaw in your logic.
We have lost freedom and gained nothing in terms of true security.
We think because it takes US ten times longer to get through an airport that somehow that equates to less harmfull entities getting through. Wrong, it takes them longer to get on the plan but they still get there.
But I honestly think the only way we are ever going to alleviate this problem is by writing, as some others have done recently, "virii" to exploit these know holes and patch the machines they exploit.
Then of courseon could forsee a sort of arms race whereby virus authors write in the ability to stop another program from using the same exploit to gain entry to the machine and patch it. So basicly it would be an early bird gets the worm sort of scenario where whomever infects the machine first wins.
Still I think its better than leaving it up to a bunch of lazy computer users who make the rest of the world suffer because they are either too inept or too lazy to patch their machines.
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Speak slower and use big hand gestures....
Not that hand gesture though....
...for everytime negative reviews came out for a movie I ended up loving....I won't be sitting here at work surfing the internet right now....
In the growing list of reasons NOT to use their software.
I have used TT for the Web for the last 4 years, this year, I switched. I was SO uncertain about my forms and what was being displayed and how things were entered that I went over my 1040 EZ (EZ, as in, you know, EASY) FOUR times and it still didnt look right (at one point it even showed my AGI as being more than my total income!).
I spend all that time, finally went to file, and even though the front page said "$9.95 for federal" with a vague mention of extra fees for state I get to the price and its $29.95 for fed. anf $39.95 for state....where the hell did that come from?
I looked on their forums and GOBS of people were going on about how they were ripped off by Intuit.
I went to H&R Blocks TaxCut web based service, it actually had specific impossible to miss sections for entering forms 1099-INT and 1099-G (unemployment) and not only was I more satisfied that it was done properly, I also went from getting $6 from fed and owing $190 to state I am getting back a total of $287 between the two with the taxcut method (still less than I expected but sounds better, no way I owed, and I was more comfortable with what was entered and how that I trust it more than Intuits numbers).
AVOID TURBOTAX LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Between the ever-decreasing quality of their software, the crap they pull with activation (or tried to), the shady crap going on with their prices and now this....just run, dont walk, away from them!
Oh brother. Because the Tech Report is definitely out to get them!
Seriously....i thought the picture quality looked like crap on it, and comparing apples to apples?
So take two $125+ and compare it to the NVCard, omg, those jerks are trying to screw over the eVGA card!
They are three similar cards (with the ATI jumping out because of the remote and whatnot) with similar features and similar specs, the half height issue doesnt affect the card. If the PVR 250 had a remote THEN maybe I would consider that apples to apples, but its not the same class of card. It costs twice as much without anything like a remote to eplain why it costs so much more.
Maybehecouldntreadthesarcasmthroughthebigrunonsent ence?
Ok, I dont think Evolution is a load of crap, nor am I what you would call "religious".
I do believe in god, and I also believe that evolution and "creationism" are not mutually exclusive.
That aside for the moment, the thing science needs to work on is not "make it easy for those retarded christians", what science needs to work on is its consistency.
When I was growing up there was a dinosaur calle dthe Brontosaurus. Now, at one field trip there was a gentleman in the audience who asked the PhD toting paleontologist about some....oddities, the paleontologist then when on to verbally strip this man of any dignity he might have once had and proceeded to ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT DEFINITIVELY debunk the idea that this might not be a real creature....two years late, guess what "oops, we fucked up, no such thing". And I hope somewhere that gentleman found that scientist and punched him in the face.
Moral of the story?
There is SO much science CANNOT answer, so much that is hotly contested, so much that is completely unknown and based SOLELY on "theory".
Yet getting the vast majority of evolution humping scientists to admit that they don't know, for example, where the universe came from, what caused the big bang, that they might be wrong on certain aspects, is nearly impossible.
The problem on BOTH sides is that nobody is willing to admit that they might not have it just right, because the other side will take that as blood in the water and they will jump all over them.
Me, personally, I don't KNOW where we came from. I am perfectly willing, however, to entertain the notion that god set all of this up, kicked off the big bang, and it has evolved from that intial action ever since.
It is not, in my opinion, impossible for a being that is supposedly all powerfull, to predict with at least some accuracy, that if I begin this process, with these ingredients, i will eventually produce these results. humans will come into existence, etc. etc.
The day you can scientifically and without ANY chance of being wrong explain EVERY single gap in evolution, and where EVERY single thing came from, and futhermore what CAUSED the big bang to take place, then we will talk.
In the meantime we are just a bunch of arrogant little creatures in something far to big for us to currently understand running around schools and websites swearing up and down that we do, in fact, know the answer to life, the universe, and everything (in theaters April 29th!).
Religion and science are very similar in that they are both followed by naive, arrogant, little people who claim to know alot more than they really do, and who are alot more resistant to rational thinking than any of them would admit.
"The reason we're able to do this, and why it's so exciting is because of Steam. If we were doing this without Steam we'd have to put it in a box, we'd have to start figuring out shelf space over a year beforehand. You'd see it six years from now..."
Boy they must really think we are retarded.
Much less than a year after HL2 is released and its going to be ready, but we'd see it 6 years from now if it wasn't for steam.
I'm well aware he is exaggerating but it still doesn't remove the bullshit quotient.
So, the fact that at the launch I couldnt play the game I bought, the fact that months later at a LAN party only half the people could log in because steam puked, all that is supposed to be instantly negated by the wonderfull fact that Steam saves Valve some work.
That will mean a lot when they ditch steam and I can no longer go back and play my "vintage" copy of HL2.
I can only wonder how fucked up its gotten around /. for THIS turd to be modded Insight.
If you follow that link all you get is the directory listing.
: www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/2005-03-26a.tx t+&hl=en&client=firefox-a
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:fXoSH2QjvcAJ
Click that to goto the actual filter cache for 3-26-05
Is the way they benchmark it.
Listen, for office productivity and "how fast can I open spreadsheets", nobody SHOULD need more than one CPU.
The rendering tests were a little disappointing (I seem to recall a bigger gap in the AMD benchmarks), but really the point of dual CPU's is, as anyone who has used one knows, responsiveness.
Yeah rendering times dropping to 60% of normal is nice, but let me tell you, where a normal single CPU system would sit there gurgling and choking on its own vomit because some dirty little application decides it MUST use up all the CPU time, dual CPU systems just go "eh, whatever, hes being a jerk, I can help you over here."
It is SO nice to use a dual CPU system in daily routine useage (which for me is QUITE varied) just for the increase in responsiveness alone.
....We think. I mean, we're pretty sure....kinda.... If we are right the matter might "bounce back out"....or not....we are not certain.... But I'm pretty sure black holes don't exist.
Ok, first of all you lost me at "in an ideal world".
Second, for hitting the point that we filthy americans are knee-jerking because the UN disagrees with us you sure are taking the wrong approach by using comments like "so far it it seems people are posting before thinking after seeing 'UN' on their lovely US site." and "Put aside your opinions on the UN and how they don't agree with everything the US says for a minute".
I have no problem with the UN disagreeing with "what the US says" (not entirely sure what that means since its not like ALL of us are making the rules, if you would back off the attitude a bit you'd consider how neatly split our country is on a LOT of things).
"All of this is being governed and controlled by a private registered company in the USA, and they have the power to make policy changes that affect my current happy arangement, without any kind of monitoring or regulation."
Um, yeah....any idea where the internet originated?
Any idea who's research money got it off the ground?
I'm not saying that means your interests shouldnt be looked after to some extent, not at all, sharing amongst nations is what makes the Internet even better than it was before.
However I do not see "well, we came to the party" as reason enough to say its your house.
And considering the amount of anti-us (alot of which is politically motivated or simply because its cool to be anti-US, since we eat babies and all that) I'd have to say you can go right to hell if you think I would support giving control of something like that to people with attitudes like that.
And while were talking about this, you say the UN is better than a private company. I don't think so. Can you give me a list of some of the US-favored decisions ICANN has meted out upon the rest of the world?
Can you give me ANYTHING to backup your claim that a body of people that can't manage to stop mass genocide in certain african countries and is comprised of governments who have oil/arms deals with shady dictators (not saying ours hasnt, but thats part of the reason I DONT want the gov. in control of the internet) is a better choice than a company who has yet to perform any lewd acts of pro-US policy?
Your entire post boils down to nothing more than you don't like our policy, you don't like us very much, and you would rather see damned near anyone else in control of it besides us.
If it wasnt sprinkled with so much anti-us CRAP it would be alot better, but your point is weak, your attitude sucks and at the end of the day WE made the internet.
I'm not suggesting you go make your own if you want to control it but I am saying that maybe we should wait till ICANN ever actually does anything purely because it benefits the US before we start acting like it does.
ICANN is FAR from perfect, but going from a known imperfect controll to a known imperfect control who has no business regulating technology is not a step in the right direction.
Oh and: "Do you honestly feel that your information, and the Internet, is safer in the hands of a private unregulated "not for profit" US registered company that is given it's power by the US government and gives most (if not all) of it's contracts for vital services to US for-profit companies?"
Yes....yes I do.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144144&cid=120 77851
Eh shit, all that and I forgot the dumb thing doesnt take newlines....sorry for the run-on sentence kids.
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Ugh.
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"People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role. People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
Yeah, you mean like China? They dont mind you having internet access, just dont dare actually use it for anything other than finding out how wonderfull the Chinese government is.
I also like the bit: "People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role."
Really? Who are these people that realize this? Governments?
Also the whole idea here is assinine, you dont want gov. involvement, what you REALLY want is for the gov.'s to say they will enforce you rules, and to entwine yourself deeply enough with an entrenched and RELEVANT (thats the key word) institution so that when the inevitable days comes that more people say "wtf is the UN even doing anymore?" you can point and say "we keep the internet safe for your govern....I mean kids."
No thanks, keep your outmoded sluggish bureaucracy and my own countries sluggish bureaucracy out of the internet.
IF they want to regulate the internet they should damned well be forced to contribute. Don't sit there and say how we can and cannot use the internet and then stay out of infrastructure matters and upgrade issues.
It's like "Hey I want to tell you what to do but I don't want to be responsible for actually contributing to this, you build it, you pay for it, i'll say what you can do with it after that."
NO
THANKS
....that only the UN could come up with. "People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role. People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?" Yeah, you mean like China? They dont mind you having internet access, just dont dare actually use it for anything other than finding out how wonderfull the Chinese government is. I also like the bit: "People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role." Really? Who are these people that realize this? Governments? Also the whole idea here is assinine, you dont want gov. involvement, what you REALLY want is for the gov.'s to say they will enforce you rules, and to entwine yourself deeply enough with an entrenched and RELEVANT (thats the key word) institution so that when the inevitable days comes that more people say "wtf is the UN even doing anymore?" you can point and say "we keep the internet safe for your govern....I mean kids." No thanks, keep your outmoded sluggish bureaucracy and my own countries sluggish bureaucracy out of the internet. IF they want to regulate the internet they should damned well be forced to contribute. Don't sit there and say how we can and cannot use the internet and then stay out of infrastructure matters and upgrade issues. It's like "Hey I want to tell you what to do but I don't want to be responsible for actually contributing to this, you build it, you pay for it, i'll say what you can do with it after that." NO THANKS
Oh reeeaaalllly now....so thats why I got my Steam delivered copy of HL2 and couldnt play because steam was down and the people I know who downloaded it played all day long....I think the MPAA and RIAA allready learned that lesson.
You know, my longstanding position on religion is that its a great idea so long as humans stay the hell away.
What do I mean by that? Probably not what you think.
I simply do not trust the validity of a book that has been handled, mishandled, and passed through so many corrupt hands. We KNOW things have been added, removed, and generally manipulated.
That being said I do believe in God, but rather than read a book that may or may not be intact, I preffer to just goto the source. If I do the best I can in life and try my best that is about all I can do, if its not good enough, oh well....religion doesnt seem like a better alternative at the moment.
I have to say, this post just sold me on FC3.
Wasn't terribly impressed with FC2 because a general lack of the things you described, however, if FC3 brings the level back up a bit, I'm in.
This comes just in time as I need (want?) to redo my linux router anyway.
...what our problem is....
;)
We seem hell bent on making the drives spin faster rather than putting in more heads.
Why not, for instance, put a triangle shaped series of head that has its narrow point towards the center of the disc and the wide end towards the edge. This would give you the same read speed at the center as the outter rim and if you made one big head (or a series of small ones more likely) the head would never move, thats less problems right there, the speed would be faster because instead of one head per platter that has to traverse the disk you would have a driv that literally anything on the platter could be read in one revolution.
We could cut down on the rotational speed, which as a byproduct we have tons of heat and an ever increasing level of sophistication from the bearings, a better lifespan because fewer moving parts and the ones that do move move much slower and probably have a higher level of performance.
Then again I don't make hard drives, maybe its allready been tried and I just need to STFU
Powerstrip. And it may be a piece of cakke to shange the resolution, but knowing what resolution to change it to is a WHOLE other ball of wax.
You see the fact that your TV does, for instance, 720p doesnt mean you can REALLY see that much of the screen. Overscan (yay requirements from the 50's) lops off almost the entire taskbar on most TV's which, as you might expect, makes it rather difficult to use your computer. So you have to set it just low enough to be functional and high enough that the TV will still display it....all this and your arent just entering 1024x768 and the computer does the rest. You are entering specific frequencies and timings.
Another nice part of the DLP's is they somewhat account for overscan, you can set a mode on the DVI input to fit the signal to the screen that basically gets rid of overscan but not entirely....very handy.
The problem is default resolutions.
I had the misfortune of telling my roomate I'd setup his HTPC for him. yeah, I would NEVER use an HTPC unless my TV (yay DLP's!!!!) had DVI input....you have to go in and create your own custom resolutions and figure out the specific timings (with horrible howto's written by people with NO writing skill (one huge paragraph makes it all readable....))
Yeah, suffice it to say, its a HORRIBLE solution, the text looks like crap compared to DVI, its just overall a nightmare and not worth it.
Um, no, lets not....lets add PCI-E slots and get rid of PCI forever!
Well, that and HardOCP sucks....gimme AT any day over HOCP.
I have to say, there is a very big flaw in your logic.
We have lost freedom and gained nothing in terms of true security.
We think because it takes US ten times longer to get through an airport that somehow that equates to less harmfull entities getting through. Wrong, it takes them longer to get on the plan but they still get there.
But I honestly think the only way we are ever going to alleviate this problem is by writing, as some others have done recently, "virii" to exploit these know holes and patch the machines they exploit.
Then of courseon could forsee a sort of arms race whereby virus authors write in the ability to stop another program from using the same exploit to gain entry to the machine and patch it. So basicly it would be an early bird gets the worm sort of scenario where whomever infects the machine first wins.
Still I think its better than leaving it up to a bunch of lazy computer users who make the rest of the world suffer because they are either too inept or too lazy to patch their machines.