And please, if there are two redundant posts, the post that occurs first should never be moderated "Redundant".
And on that note, if there are two similar posts a few minutes apart, don't mod either of them redundant. Chances are, the first post wasn't there while the second post was being written, and the second post author didn't have a chance to see the first post.
Besides, mods should be focusing on modding up, not down.
Or you could just laugh at them behind their back.
Re:No it ain't dead.
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Man, if only you were in a position to...teach them patience or something. But nevermind, you're just a parent.
Let me guess how many kids you've got...
Zero, right? No matter what you try, most toddlers don't have patience. It isn't something you can teach a 2 year old. If you really think that you can, you've got a big surprise coming when you do have kids.
Re:No it ain't dead.
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Not to mention if you have kids...
If I have a tape for my kids in the VCR, I can stop and start it right away, without having to wait for the disc to spin up, sit through advertisements, fast forward to where the video ended last, etc...
Again, if you don't like the service, don't subscribe. The same could be said of HBO; if they decided to change the terms and add commercials, then you'd always have the option to cancel.
Except I didn't have to spend $300 up front for HBO, on top of their monthly subscription. If I cancel HBO, I'm not losing anything. If I cancel the TiVo service, that $300 box just became a big paperweight.
If you feel like trying to find it, and screwing around with a few hacks, TodayPlus is an abandoned today screen replacement. It was abandoned about a year ago, while it was in beta testing. The beta versions all expired earlier this year, but there is a small but very loyal userbase that has a crack for it. I still haven't found anything that comes close to the features that this program offers, and it's free. Good luck finding a download though. http://www.jhollin1138.com/todayplus/
Seriously, slashdot hasn't been working right all morning.
And the/. editors bitch about Diebold trying to cover up and ignore defects in the software...
Re:Japs putting duct tape on a cat
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Several years ago, we had a tom cat that would walk the fence next to our house at the same time, every day. We went out there early one morning and cut up some squares of packing tape, and put them on the fence upside down.
As soon as the cat came by, he stepped in a few pieces. Then he sat down to look at his paws. As soon as he did that, we let the dog out, which scared the cat. The cat jumped off the fence and tried to take off running, but it was on bricks so he couldn't really go anywhere.
It really did look like a Tom & Jerry cartoon. It's great fun for anyone who doesn't really care for cats.
The cat never came down that fence again, but we still saw him around the neighborhood for a while.
This new generation of tech visionaries are a little older and more experienced than back in the '90s heyday. However, they're just as inspired and determined...
Sounds like they're the same people. Hopefully they learned their lesson this time around.
That seems cool...
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But $34,000 for a two year license on their most basic plan seems pretty steep.
They keep talking about how they are expecting the corporate search market to take off, but it probably won't at that price.
These have been out for a few years now, has anyone ever heard of any company shelling out for one? (Besides the companies listed in the article)
Solid as solid can be. I threw it through a plaster wall (don't ask) and after removing it from the hole in the wall, it still plays perfectly, without a scratch on it. I think I'm on about month #8 without a single problem.
Where I work, we have a radio/microwave tower located on the top of a hill. The tower is in the middle of a gated community of $500-$600,000 homes. The password to get in is 0000. I always get a good laugh that people feel so secure in there, when the password is one of the first set of numbers that a lot of people would try.
Buy a comparable Dell for half the price...
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I just bought a Dell X30 with the 624mhz proc for under $300. It has built in 802.11b, bluetooth, etc... The only thing it doesn't have that the ipaq has is the VGA screen, and CF slot.
And in their comparison of the Dell screen vs. the ipaq screen, I think the Dell displays better anyways.
Besides, isn't/. supposed to be boycotting HP and Carly Fiona?
Wouldn't Colorado be easier to type? Or, if you're just trying to make it blazingly obvious that Colorado is a state, why not "The state of Colorado "?
Personally, I learned a lot about Linux from Gentoo. I had installed and used Mandrake for a few months before trying Gentoo, so I wasn't a complete Linux newbie, but I didn't really know much about it.
Going through a complete Gentoo install from a stage 1 tarball taught me a lot, probably more than I could have picked up out of a book or two.
I still mainly use Windows, but that's because I develop Windows apps for a living. I still enjoy messing around with Linux though.
I have one (don't ask)... I will say, however, that if I had not gotten one for free (again, don't ask)
I know how he got it. He sold his soul to Bill Gates, and got 15 of his friends to do the same. Then Microsoft sent him a free one. He didn't even have to pay shipping.
Didn't an old version of Norton Utilities have this? IIRC, it was in the old DOS days. It would pop up and ask you for permission every time a program would try to write to the disk.
We had an Explorer 8000 through Charter Cable. The thing was absolutely worthless.
The first one we had would record shows, but they would record very choppy. The audio and video would play a half second or so, then freeze for 2-3 seconds continually. Nothing recorded was even watchable.
They replaced that one with a new one. The new one would play back shows ok, but it would reboot itself 10-15 times per day. When you've got two kids under the age of 3 wondering why they can't ever watch their shows, that gets real annoying, fast.
They replaced that unit with a third one. It usually worked, but would occasionally forget to record a show, or scheduled recordings would be unscheduled for some reason.
The entire thing seemed really buggy, and was SLOW. It would take a few seconds to change channels, to pause, or do anything. That may not sound bad, but it gets frustrating when you change the channel, and it doesn't respond for a few seconds, so you press the button again, and you end up going past what you wanted.
Since then we dropped Charter (Except for the internet service), and now have Dish Network. Their DVR is better, but it still sucks in my opinion. We're planning on cancelling Dish Network pretty soon, and just getting a Tivo or Replay TV with basic cable.
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And please, if there are two redundant posts, the post that occurs first should never be moderated "Redundant".
And on that note, if there are two similar posts a few minutes apart, don't mod either of them redundant. Chances are, the first post wasn't there while the second post was being written, and the second post author didn't have a chance to see the first post.
Besides, mods should be focusing on modding up, not down.
Or you could just laugh at them behind their back.
Man, if only you were in a position to...teach them patience or something. But nevermind, you're just a parent.
Let me guess how many kids you've got...
Zero, right? No matter what you try, most toddlers don't have patience. It isn't something you can teach a 2 year old. If you really think that you can, you've got a big surprise coming when you do have kids.
Not to mention if you have kids...
If I have a tape for my kids in the VCR, I can stop and start it right away, without having to wait for the disc to spin up, sit through advertisements, fast forward to where the video ended last, etc...
Toddlers don't have patience for DVDs.
Again, if you don't like the service, don't subscribe. The same could be said of HBO; if they decided to change the terms and add commercials, then you'd always have the option to cancel.
Except I didn't have to spend $300 up front for HBO, on top of their monthly subscription. If I cancel HBO, I'm not losing anything. If I cancel the TiVo service, that $300 box just became a big paperweight.
while the 'advertising bit' of the digital broadcast is on
I hope they put an advertising bit in there. Wouldn't that make it easier for programs like Freevo or MythTV to automatically skip them?
MiniStumbler. It's Net Stumbler for your PocketPC (free)
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http://www.stumbler.net
PocketLAN. It allows you to connect to network shares, and print to network printers. ($15)
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=
If you feel like trying to find it, and screwing around with a few hacks, TodayPlus is an abandoned today screen replacement. It was abandoned about a year ago, while it was in beta testing. The beta versions all expired earlier this year, but there is a small but very loyal userbase that has a crack for it. I still haven't found anything that comes close to the features that this program offers, and it's free. Good luck finding a download though.
http://www.jhollin1138.com/todayplus/
Pocket Streets. Take a map with you. The newest version also supports GPS. ($30-$120)
http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/pocketstreets/d
On Slashdot?
Next thing, you'll try telling me that the Earth is round.
Seriously, slashdot hasn't been working right all morning.
/. editors bitch about Diebold trying to cover up and ignore defects in the software...
And the
Several years ago, we had a tom cat that would walk the fence next to our house at the same time, every day. We went out there early one morning and cut up some squares of packing tape, and put them on the fence upside down.
As soon as the cat came by, he stepped in a few pieces. Then he sat down to look at his paws. As soon as he did that, we let the dog out, which scared the cat. The cat jumped off the fence and tried to take off running, but it was on bricks so he couldn't really go anywhere.
It really did look like a Tom & Jerry cartoon. It's great fun for anyone who doesn't really care for cats.
The cat never came down that fence again, but we still saw him around the neighborhood for a while.
The 7-11 by me only had Bush cups a few days ago.
Either they were trying to swing the poll, or they had sold out of the Kerry cups.
I'm guessing it's the latter, since I live in a fairly liberal area, and all of the local stop signs have been modified to read:
"STOP
BUSH"
No beer, no TV make Lifthrasir something something
Go crazy?
Most of Google's features aren't compatible with Firefox.
Even their latest offering, the desktop search says they might include FireFox support in the future, but only if enough people request it.
I would think that if they are in fact going to release a rebranded FireFox, they would be making sure that most of their services work with it.
It sounds like a bunch of wishful thinking to me.
This new generation of tech visionaries are a little older and more experienced than back in the '90s heyday. However, they're just as inspired and determined...
Sounds like they're the same people. Hopefully they learned their lesson this time around.
But $34,000 for a two year license on their most basic plan seems pretty steep.
They keep talking about how they are expecting the corporate search market to take off, but it probably won't at that price.
These have been out for a few years now, has anyone ever heard of any company shelling out for one? (Besides the companies listed in the article)
Solid as solid can be. I threw it through a plaster wall (don't ask) and after removing it from the hole in the wall, it still plays perfectly, without a scratch on it. I think I'm on about month #8 without a single problem.
:)
Except that anger problem...
It's a steaming pile :)
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I wrote about the trouble we were having with our Explorer 8000 a few months ago.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118405&cid=10
Where I work, we have a radio/microwave tower located on the top of a hill. The tower is in the middle of a gated community of $500-$600,000 homes. The password to get in is 0000. I always get a good laugh that people feel so secure in there, when the password is one of the first set of numbers that a lot of people would try.
I just bought a Dell X30 with the 624mhz proc for under $300. It has built in 802.11b, bluetooth, etc... The only thing it doesn't have that the ipaq has is the VGA screen, and CF slot.
/. supposed to be boycotting HP and Carly Fiona?
And in their comparison of the Dell screen vs. the ipaq screen, I think the Dell displays better anyways.
Besides, isn't
Wouldn't Colorado be easier to type? Or, if you're just trying to make it blazingly obvious that Colorado is a state, why not "The state of Colorado "?
Personally, I learned a lot about Linux from Gentoo. I had installed and used Mandrake for a few months before trying Gentoo, so I wasn't a complete Linux newbie, but I didn't really know much about it.
Going through a complete Gentoo install from a stage 1 tarball taught me a lot, probably more than I could have picked up out of a book or two.
I still mainly use Windows, but that's because I develop Windows apps for a living. I still enjoy messing around with Linux though.
I haven't had ANY decrease in performance. I have had a lot more stability with wireless networking now though.
I have one (don't ask) ... I will say, however, that if I had not gotten one for free (again, don't ask)
I know how he got it. He sold his soul to Bill Gates, and got 15 of his friends to do the same. Then Microsoft sent him a free one. He didn't even have to pay shipping.
You can get your own for free to. Just go to:
http://www.freemediacenter.com?referer_id=6587412
Didn't an old version of Norton Utilities have this? IIRC, it was in the old DOS days. It would pop up and ask you for permission every time a program would try to write to the disk.
We had an Explorer 8000 through Charter Cable. The thing was absolutely worthless.
The first one we had would record shows, but they would record very choppy. The audio and video would play a half second or so, then freeze for 2-3 seconds continually. Nothing recorded was even watchable.
They replaced that one with a new one. The new one would play back shows ok, but it would reboot itself 10-15 times per day. When you've got two kids under the age of 3 wondering why they can't ever watch their shows, that gets real annoying, fast.
They replaced that unit with a third one. It usually worked, but would occasionally forget to record a show, or scheduled recordings would be unscheduled for some reason.
The entire thing seemed really buggy, and was SLOW. It would take a few seconds to change channels, to pause, or do anything. That may not sound bad, but it gets frustrating when you change the channel, and it doesn't respond for a few seconds, so you press the button again, and you end up going past what you wanted.
Since then we dropped Charter (Except for the internet service), and now have Dish Network. Their DVR is better, but it still sucks in my opinion. We're planning on cancelling Dish Network pretty soon, and just getting a Tivo or Replay TV with basic cable.