If this sort of thing qualifies as a news story on slashdot I should've sent it in. The preorders have been up on Best Buy's site for almost a month now, I thought it was common knowledge Doom 3 was coming out soon, guess it just got overshadowed by Half-Life 2 and all of it's mishaps. Personally, I'm much more excited to see and play Doom 3 than HL2 the only reason HL1 was any good was the mods so I'll just have to wait a year till HL2 is any good to me.
Then Apple would sue you under the DMCA for reverse engineering their battery. Which is of course 10 times more useful and 100 times more trendy than anything a third parter could provide.
That world view is in part what made this show so amazing, and I couldn't understand how in ways it contributed to its own demise. I just wish the "status quo" american wouldn't mind thinking for themselves sometime so that we could keep quality programming on TV. THIS is why I don't watch anything but the history channel now.
This is why I haven't bought any LCDs besides my laptop yet. For almost a year now market anaylsis has said Plasmas and HDTV LCD screens are going to drop between 15 and 50 percent in cost, that's just what this is going to do. I almost pity all the people who in a rush to beat the curve and be "cool" bought those 4 or 5 thousand dollar Plasma tvs when if they could've practiced a small degree of self discipline and waited another year and a half could've saved almost 4 grand.
That sure does seem to presuppose that one could find one of these cabinets just lying around somewhere. I'm doubting these are as easy to find surplus at your friendly neighboorhood computer shop as you make it sound (I for one have never seen any Sun Sparc equipment outside of my states surplus center, and certainly never one of these).
Then again i'm a pessimist, good luck
This is why there'll always be a hard-copy version of music and much the same reason why E-Books never took off. People like the tactile quality of owning something.
Is retrieving your songs going to require signing up for the service? Which includes credit card information. Also what if then the redemption goes wrong (you entere a code wrong/etc..) and you have millions of people getting billed for songs they thought were going to be free?
Giveaways like this serve to increase a user-base out of which many will never return.
I've been using norton firewall 03 and it has the same if not very similar ad blocking. I haven't seen a banner ad in months (along with popups thanks to firebird). There are options to disable it and to add certain ads that aren't caught to the list which it then sends back to Symantec to add to their list and block the ads in the future.
-please ignore my prior post something got screwed up
Actually, i'm pretty sure they did. For now though it's rather prohibitive to run the alpha w/o a very decent system. It's not all that impressive either, maybe when the full graphics engine is leaked it could be but for now it's just XP with some new little toys and no support.
I was in the market for a portable computer for school about a month ago. I ended up settling on the closeout Compaq 2ghz celeron notebook (it was only 700 bucks). I was willing to spend up to around a thousand and would have REALLY like the digital paper functionality of a tablet (prerparing for M$ bashing) and for the new OneNote in Office 2K3. I looked at this program in the beta and it seemed like exactly what I was looking for to be able to get rid off all of my handouts (most of my proffesors create PDFs to hand out and you can simply import them digitally) and to combine ALL of my note taking. The thing is the program loses almost all of it's creative functionality on a laptop, it was really designed for a tablet. Considering I wanted to be able to play a few games and run other software on the computer a 1ghz PIII mobile vs a 2ghz celeron at a 5-800 dollar price savings seemed a no brainer. They need to come down in price and up in system performance before they'll take off. Otherwise they'll just go the way of the mini-disk.
I think people should be smart enough to look at this program and it's "company" and at FIRST glance realize something doesn't seem kosher. Even new unestablished P2P networks contain a degree of validity on their web pages, this place just LOOKS thrown together and reading their press statement makes it look like a sham. A degree of trust is implicit when you use a program or buy and use a product BUT this trust should be formed based on an understanding of the company and product you're choosing to get involved in.
Me and a few friends of mine got on a big MUD retro kick about a year ago and this program seemed to work quite well. It's trial software but is freeish enough to use, the biggest problem I saw was finding free and reliable mud servers. Anyway, check it out http://www.megamud.net/downloads.html.
After driving nothing but mid-sized trucks that on a good day get 15/mpg I decided to start looking into something more fuel efficient. What I quicly discovered is that all of the smaller more fuel efficient vehicles don't have room for me. I'm 6'3" and not skinny when I sat in an Accent/Prius/Civic/Prizm/etc... I simply don't have leg room, especially not for a stick shift. I would like to see a roomier hybrid/low mpg vehicle come out. I think what i'm leaning towards is a 5-speed gas powered jetta (for cost reasons the TDI is too much and too unavailable used). Yet even this is almost too small for me, what I would like is an impala/taurus sized car that could get me 30-35 mpg city. Sadly nothing seems to even come close to this.
I attend another UW system school (Parkside) and here we have a Follet book store. The store is completely independent of the school and is only there as a lessee of space because the provide the service of selling/buying books from students for free to the school, in exchange for store space. I've also found that Follet is by far the most expensive retailer and online re/seller of textbooks. Unfortunatley several of my classes books seem to only be availabe through Follet (my math books ISBN isn't even listed w/ amazon). Until now this hasn't bothered me so much but my textbook costs this semester almost reached 600 dollars, ans that's almost a third of my actual tuition costs (credit/hrs only). I know that several other UW schools (Whitewater) have implemented book rental programs much like in primary and secondary education in the U.S. offers. There really does need to be a more standardized online method for exchanging/personally selling your books. Half.Com seems to be the closest to accomplishing this but their system is clunky and not very intelligible at times as far as what exactly it is you're buying and from whom.
Sorry for the rant but i'm just really pissed about the cost of my textbooks this semester.
People are seem terrified of the thought that computers are going to replace humans at the menial,repetitive, go nowhere jobs. This is in actuality a GOOD thing and it IS going to happen. Computers continue to increase in processing power exponentially and eventually they'll be able to do anything a human can do. So at that point we can use our brains for creating and learning instead of asking if you'd like to try the new grilled stuffed chicken burrito. When McDonald's is automated there'll be jobs in engineering and maintenance for all of the machines there. Meaning the 40 year old living in his parent's basement is either A) out of a job or B) going to have to school, earn more money when he's done and be able to CONTRIBUTE something to society. The jobs these machines are poised to replace aren't the important ones rather the place holder jobs. Maybe this will make the USA realize we need to invest in schooling and post-secondary education rather than pushing kids through the school system as quickly as possible.
It's an early version and i'm sure they have plans for tweaks and improvments in the UI, but from what i've seen this is a serious step in the right direction. After being on for 5 minutes I unlike some people here already started talking to a fellow college student from my area, and am seeing a few people trickle in nearer to me. Also you have to realize that up until now this IM has recieved almost NO press and therefore has a small user base, if we spread the word then eventually it will propagate out and there will be plenty of locals on we can talk to.
2 things:
1)I'm sorry for all the women (the 2 i've seen anyway) who are going to have to endure the neverending popups, so guys please be tasteful and mellow, otherwise this'll be a boys club and where's the fun in that;>
2) There really needs to be a way to turn off that damn drippy sound!
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Robert Anton Wilson is one of if not THE greatest sci-fi/fantasy writers of the last 50 years. These two books are amazingly complex and could easily take up the month of time this guy has to kill if he spent it figuring out all of the intricate connections and metaphors present in these books. They're funny, intelligent and just DAMN GOOD.
Sadly as much as a despise our "elected" president the economy isn't truly his fault, it was sliding before he took office and is now simply taking the blame for that.
HOWEVER, he is to blame for getting us involved in a war for oil (which his family's fortune is based on) to ATTEMPT to help the economy and raise his popularity. I think it's sad that he would do something like this to take the attention off the economy but it's been done throughout the history of our country, and for those who actually think that this war is to "help" the people of Iraq. I'd like to point out a little incident in Cambodia where a little known dictator killed nearly 7 million of his own people and was hardly noticed until it was far too late. Why was there no major intrusion to stop these atrocities? Cambodia isn't bordering any allies of ours who would benefit from kicking him out, and there was no MONEY to be gained. This war is about saving face and making gas cheaper.
I don't want to sound antipatriotic, I love my country and on occasion I think we even do a few right things in the global society. But it's getting downright scary to think that we can exert this much force anywhere on the globe and have little worry of political retribution from a foreign power, and that this power is threatening our own freedoms. Every year countless laws are added to the books across the country and yet almost none are repealed. We're slowly putting ourselves into a police state. Much of what the government is now trying to regulate and patrol (information/communication) in the interests of "SECURITY" is only going to put the public in a position of fear of even discussing disentous remarks. It scares me that I see these things happening and yet there's little to be done about it because voters are entirely too apathetic to actually look at the issues and get out and fix these problems.
In short GO AMERICA, get rid of the government
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If this sort of thing qualifies as a news story on slashdot I should've sent it in. The preorders have been up on Best Buy's site for almost a month now, I thought it was common knowledge Doom 3 was coming out soon, guess it just got overshadowed by Half-Life 2 and all of it's mishaps. Personally, I'm much more excited to see and play Doom 3 than HL2 the only reason HL1 was any good was the mods so I'll just have to wait a year till HL2 is any good to me.
Too bad there isn't a moderation option for "disturbing".
Then Apple would sue you under the DMCA for reverse engineering their battery. Which is of course 10 times more useful and 100 times more trendy than anything a third parter could provide.
That world view is in part what made this show so amazing, and I couldn't understand how in ways it contributed to its own demise. I just wish the "status quo" american wouldn't mind thinking for themselves sometime so that we could keep quality programming on TV. THIS is why I don't watch anything but the history channel now.
This is why I haven't bought any LCDs besides my laptop yet. For almost a year now market anaylsis has said Plasmas and HDTV LCD screens are going to drop between 15 and 50 percent in cost, that's just what this is going to do. I almost pity all the people who in a rush to beat the curve and be "cool" bought those 4 or 5 thousand dollar Plasma tvs when if they could've practiced a small degree of self discipline and waited another year and a half could've saved almost 4 grand.
So the first guy to post this gets modded down for redundancy and the second up for informative, gotta love slashdot.
That sure does seem to presuppose that one could find one of these cabinets just lying around somewhere. I'm doubting these are as easy to find surplus at your friendly neighboorhood computer shop as you make it sound (I for one have never seen any Sun Sparc equipment outside of my states surplus center, and certainly never one of these). Then again i'm a pessimist, good luck
That explains it.... SCO is a bunch of mormons errr morons.
This is why there'll always be a hard-copy version of music and much the same reason why E-Books never took off. People like the tactile quality of owning something.
Is retrieving your songs going to require signing up for the service? Which includes credit card information. Also what if then the redemption goes wrong (you entere a code wrong/etc..) and you have millions of people getting billed for songs they thought were going to be free? Giveaways like this serve to increase a user-base out of which many will never return.
I've been using norton firewall 03 and it has the same if not very similar ad blocking. I haven't seen a banner ad in months (along with popups thanks to firebird). There are options to disable it and to add certain ads that aren't caught to the list which it then sends back to Symantec to add to their list and block the ads in the future. -please ignore my prior post something got screwed up
I've been using
Actually, i'm pretty sure they did. For now though it's rather prohibitive to run the alpha w/o a very decent system. It's not all that impressive either, maybe when the full graphics engine is leaked it could be but for now it's just XP with some new little toys and no support.
Far MORE the new file system (a combination of SQL and NTFS) currently uses around 400 megs of idle memory.
Maybe they should study the brains of the people who decide to make the first post and do nothing but prove how immature they are.
I was in the market for a portable computer for school about a month ago. I ended up settling on the closeout Compaq 2ghz celeron notebook (it was only 700 bucks). I was willing to spend up to around a thousand and would have REALLY like the digital paper functionality of a tablet (prerparing for M$ bashing) and for the new OneNote in Office 2K3. I looked at this program in the beta and it seemed like exactly what I was looking for to be able to get rid off all of my handouts (most of my proffesors create PDFs to hand out and you can simply import them digitally) and to combine ALL of my note taking. The thing is the program loses almost all of it's creative functionality on a laptop, it was really designed for a tablet. Considering I wanted to be able to play a few games and run other software on the computer a 1ghz PIII mobile vs a 2ghz celeron at a 5-800 dollar price savings seemed a no brainer. They need to come down in price and up in system performance before they'll take off. Otherwise they'll just go the way of the mini-disk.
You mean lovED?
I think people should be smart enough to look at this program and it's "company" and at FIRST glance realize something doesn't seem kosher. Even new unestablished P2P networks contain a degree of validity on their web pages, this place just LOOKS thrown together and reading their press statement makes it look like a sham. A degree of trust is implicit when you use a program or buy and use a product BUT this trust should be formed based on an understanding of the company and product you're choosing to get involved in.
Me and a few friends of mine got on a big MUD retro kick about a year ago and this program seemed to work quite well. It's trial software but is freeish enough to use, the biggest problem I saw was finding free and reliable mud servers. Anyway, check it out http://www.megamud.net/downloads.html.
After driving nothing but mid-sized trucks that on a good day get 15/mpg I decided to start looking into something more fuel efficient. What I quicly discovered is that all of the smaller more fuel efficient vehicles don't have room for me. I'm 6'3" and not skinny when I sat in an Accent/Prius/Civic/Prizm/etc... I simply don't have leg room, especially not for a stick shift. I would like to see a roomier hybrid/low mpg vehicle come out. I think what i'm leaning towards is a 5-speed gas powered jetta (for cost reasons the TDI is too much and too unavailable used). Yet even this is almost too small for me, what I would like is an impala/taurus sized car that could get me 30-35 mpg city. Sadly nothing seems to even come close to this.
I attend another UW system school (Parkside) and here we have a Follet book store. The store is completely independent of the school and is only there as a lessee of space because the provide the service of selling/buying books from students for free to the school, in exchange for store space. I've also found that Follet is by far the most expensive retailer and online re/seller of textbooks. Unfortunatley several of my classes books seem to only be availabe through Follet (my math books ISBN isn't even listed w/ amazon). Until now this hasn't bothered me so much but my textbook costs this semester almost reached 600 dollars, ans that's almost a third of my actual tuition costs (credit/hrs only). I know that several other UW schools (Whitewater) have implemented book rental programs much like in primary and secondary education in the U.S. offers. There really does need to be a more standardized online method for exchanging/personally selling your books. Half.Com seems to be the closest to accomplishing this but their system is clunky and not very intelligible at times as far as what exactly it is you're buying and from whom. Sorry for the rant but i'm just really pissed about the cost of my textbooks this semester.
People are seem terrified of the thought that computers are going to replace humans at the menial ,repetitive, go nowhere jobs. This is in actuality a GOOD thing and it IS going to happen. Computers continue to increase in processing power exponentially and eventually they'll be able to do anything a human can do. So at that point we can use our brains for creating and learning instead of asking if you'd like to try the new grilled stuffed chicken burrito. When McDonald's is automated there'll be jobs in engineering and maintenance for all of the machines there. Meaning the 40 year old living in his parent's basement is either A) out of a job or B) going to have to school, earn more money when he's done and be able to CONTRIBUTE something to society. The jobs these machines are poised to replace aren't the important ones rather the place holder jobs. Maybe this will make the USA realize we need to invest in schooling and post-secondary education rather than pushing kids through the school system as quickly as possible.
It's an early version and i'm sure they have plans for tweaks and improvments in the UI, but from what i've seen this is a serious step in the right direction. After being on for 5 minutes I unlike some people here already started talking to a fellow college student from my area, and am seeing a few people trickle in nearer to me. Also you have to realize that up until now this IM has recieved almost NO press and therefore has a small user base, if we spread the word then eventually it will propagate out and there will be plenty of locals on we can talk to. 2 things: 1)I'm sorry for all the women (the 2 i've seen anyway) who are going to have to endure the neverending popups, so guys please be tasteful and mellow, otherwise this'll be a boys club and where's the fun in that ;>
2) There really needs to be a way to turn off that damn drippy sound!
Geeks of the world UNITE!
Robert Anton Wilson is one of if not THE greatest sci-fi/fantasy writers of the last 50 years. These two books are amazingly complex and could easily take up the month of time this guy has to kill if he spent it figuring out all of the intricate connections and metaphors present in these books. They're funny, intelligent and just DAMN GOOD.
Sadly as much as a despise our "elected" president the economy isn't truly his fault, it was sliding before he took office and is now simply taking the blame for that.
HOWEVER, he is to blame for getting us involved in a war for oil (which his family's fortune is based on) to ATTEMPT to help the economy and raise his popularity. I think it's sad that he would do something like this to take the attention off the economy but it's been done throughout the history of our country, and for those who actually think that this war is to "help" the people of Iraq. I'd like to point out a little incident in Cambodia where a little known dictator killed nearly 7 million of his own people and was hardly noticed until it was far too late. Why was there no major intrusion to stop these atrocities? Cambodia isn't bordering any allies of ours who would benefit from kicking him out, and there was no MONEY to be gained. This war is about saving face and making gas cheaper.
I don't want to sound antipatriotic, I love my country and on occasion I think we even do a few right things in the global society. But it's getting downright scary to think that we can exert this much force anywhere on the globe and have little worry of political retribution from a foreign power, and that this power is threatening our own freedoms. Every year countless laws are added to the books across the country and yet almost none are repealed. We're slowly putting ourselves into a police state. Much of what the government is now trying to regulate and patrol (information/communication) in the interests of "SECURITY" is only going to put the public in a position of fear of even discussing disentous remarks. It scares me that I see these things happening and yet there's little to be done about it because voters are entirely too apathetic to actually look at the issues and get out and fix these problems.
In short GO AMERICA, get rid of the government
support the free state project http://freestatproject.org