I agree, I have spring pcs also, not because of 100% coverage or the best price. we actually got it because many people we wanted to talk to use it and we can have free pcs -> pcs. Also free nationwide long distance. We haven't had any problems with sprint at all, although it is a little quirky now and then. Sometimes we'll get a voicemail and the phone never rang... But that's extremely rare. We have cable internet and no landline, just two sprint phones.
I can install XP, install Vegas video, capture some DV from my camera via firewire, edit it, render to mpeg2, create a DVD via any number of tools, and burn it to my firewire DVD burner in XP. I don't have to search for this RPM or that RPM, worry about dependencies, try to figure out how to get the 1394 subsystem working, etc.
I've used windoze on my machine since win3.1. I've done the 3.11 thing, 95, 98, 2000 and now xp. I'm an engineer and did tech support for my department. I grew up with computers, I remember playing with a sinclair when I was like 6 or something.
I tried redhat 5.2 when it was current, got it installed as a dual boot, got X configured manually, got on the internet with it. Couldn't do anything else, thought it was a neat thing but not of much use, and removed it.
Tried redhat 7.2, and while the install was SO much easier, I simply didn't have the patience and time to learn how to recompile the Kernel, compile my apps, and become a command line wizard just to get anything done. (I knew a bit about the command line, I had used sun boxes at work for CAD)
Flash forward to this year, I seriously wanted to get linux to work, I want to have a fast, streamlined system with lots of good, free software. I installed Mandrake 9.2, and I *am* seriously impressed with this thing. I got so much of it working, the way it handles the rpm's is great, the desktop is great, the install was great, but why am I still using windows?
I can't figure out how to maneuver around X to update my video drivers and I can't get Firewire working. My goal is to have a killer video editing machine, and I gots to have firewire. The hoops I jumped through to get the video capture software working was dependency hell, and in the end I couldnt get the 1394 subsystem working.
Again, I don't have the time, I can install windows and have it all in just a couple hours. Maybe later... I promise, I will try again. I AM a power user. I AM competent enough. I HAVE programmed. I just don't have the patience and time to have to make things work that take a SINGLE CLICK and work OUT OF THE BOX in windows. Here's my point: Either give me to a single, difinitive guide that explains these problems or make it as easy as windows. I WANT To use linux, and I'm not alone. Help us.
There is crapware written for any OS, and since Linux is trying so hard to get mainstream desktop acceptance, Linux crapware is particularly frustrating on many levels.
If the whoosh is from the air movement itself, might be hard to cancel it. Particularly if the noise is from the air entering and exiting the case, the gear inside might not pick it up. He would need a similar system to cancel the noise of the air at the front/back of the case. Then, why not just cancel all the noise from the outside, whoosh and all? Heck, get a set of noise canceling headphones and cancel the whine, whoosh and all the other noise? I think I took it too far...
A certain level of ambient noise is needed for privacy, along with the plants, acoustical tile ceilings, etc.
I was speaking with a guy who works for an A/C industry company who gets all scientific with delivering cool air and stuff, and a big problem with buildings is being TOO quiet.
There's a certain dB level of white noise that's needed in a space, otherwise you hear everything around you in the cube farm. The ambient noise makes it so you don't really notice when the guy next to you is on the phone.
Unfortunately for the record stores, they are nothing more than the middleman. They do not own the music they sell, they merely own the discs the music is pressed on.
They're in a prison. Not a bad prison, perhaps even lower security. BUT, all of their food and water comes to them in boxes. Small, unmarked boxes. Along with hundreds of other, identical unmarked boxes. The ratio of rocks(or whatever) to actual food is about 1000 or more to 1.
To get fed, you gots to find it. Thats your task, every day. Spend all day opening tiny little boxes, mostly filled with junk, but if you don't find the ones with the morsels of food and water, you go hungry.
$750 a month rent - that's rock bottom depending on where you're at
$250 a month bills - heat, lights, phone, renters ins, etc
$300 a month food (= not much if you aren't living by yourself)
So, in the end it doesn't go very far. What's left for gas, clothes, health ins, life ins, car maintenance, etc. IE poverty.
I make just 2.5x that and I don't have that much left over after having a wife that doesn't work and a kid, once the "life" thing happens.
Finally a good use for Bluetooth? Or is that tech already buried and gone...
If I was a bike rider and needed a helmet like this, I'd want as much of the hardware on the bike for obvious reasons, and to have a wireless connection of just the display data going to the helmet.
Of course, this assumes that the hardware would be at all bulky, perhaps we've come to the point where everything needed would be as much mass as a wireless receiver!
A 747 was flying along and was full of Polish people. As they were going past some beautiful landmarks, the pilot came over the intercom and instructed all who were interested in seeing the landmark to look out the right side of the plane. Many passengers did so, and the plane promply crashed. Why?
Too many poles in the right hand plane.
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Microsoft should just buy this company and put and end to right quick.
I'm assuming of course, that they would drop the suits... Never know.
I agree, I have spring pcs also, not because of 100% coverage or the best price. we actually got it because many people we wanted to talk to use it and we can have free pcs -> pcs. Also free nationwide long distance. We haven't had any problems with sprint at all, although it is a little quirky now and then. Sometimes we'll get a voicemail and the phone never rang... But that's extremely rare. We have cable internet and no landline, just two sprint phones.
Ummm.... Yes, not a single click. Many double clicks in there, and some right clicking for good measure.
I can install XP, install Vegas video, capture some DV from my camera via firewire, edit it, render to mpeg2, create a DVD via any number of tools, and burn it to my firewire DVD burner in XP. I don't have to search for this RPM or that RPM, worry about dependencies, try to figure out how to get the 1394 subsystem working, etc.
That's what I meant about out of the box.
I've used windoze on my machine since win3.1. I've done the 3.11 thing, 95, 98, 2000 and now xp. I'm an engineer and did tech support for my department. I grew up with computers, I remember playing with a sinclair when I was like 6 or something.
I tried redhat 5.2 when it was current, got it installed as a dual boot, got X configured manually, got on the internet with it. Couldn't do anything else, thought it was a neat thing but not of much use, and removed it.
Tried redhat 7.2, and while the install was SO much easier, I simply didn't have the patience and time to learn how to recompile the Kernel, compile my apps, and become a command line wizard just to get anything done. (I knew a bit about the command line, I had used sun boxes at work for CAD)
Flash forward to this year, I seriously wanted to get linux to work, I want to have a fast, streamlined system with lots of good, free software. I installed Mandrake 9.2, and I *am* seriously impressed with this thing. I got so much of it working, the way it handles the rpm's is great, the desktop is great, the install was great, but why am I still using windows?
I can't figure out how to maneuver around X to update my video drivers and I can't get Firewire working. My goal is to have a killer video editing machine, and I gots to have firewire. The hoops I jumped through to get the video capture software working was dependency hell, and in the end I couldnt get the 1394 subsystem working.
Again, I don't have the time, I can install windows and have it all in just a couple hours. Maybe later... I promise, I will try again. I AM a power user. I AM competent enough. I HAVE programmed. I just don't have the patience and time to have to make things work that take a SINGLE CLICK and work OUT OF THE BOX in windows. Here's my point: Either give me to a single, difinitive guide that explains these problems or make it as easy as windows. I WANT To use linux, and I'm not alone. Help us.
That reminds me -
Why do we park on a driveway but drive on a parkway?
There is crapware written for any OS, and since Linux is trying so hard to get mainstream desktop acceptance, Linux crapware is particularly frustrating on many levels.
If the whoosh is from the air movement itself, might be hard to cancel it.
Particularly if the noise is from the air entering and exiting the case, the gear inside might not pick it up. He would need a similar system to cancel the noise of the air at the front/back of the case.
Then, why not just cancel all the noise from the outside, whoosh and all? Heck, get a set of noise canceling headphones and cancel the whine, whoosh and all the other noise?
I think I took it too far...
A certain level of ambient noise is needed for privacy, along with the plants, acoustical tile ceilings, etc.
I was speaking with a guy who works for an A/C industry company who gets all scientific with delivering cool air and stuff, and a big problem with buildings is being TOO quiet.
There's a certain dB level of white noise that's needed in a space, otherwise you hear everything around you in the cube farm. The ambient noise makes it so you don't really notice when the guy next to you is on the phone.
Ok, im imagining it ... Looks sorta like a library?
Unfortunately for the record stores, they are nothing more than the middleman. They do not own the music they sell, they merely own the discs the music is pressed on.
Do they even own that?
Side note - this was with a 3.1 gpa from Purdue Univ...
Wasn't purdue on a 6.0 scale at one point?
Yeah, but I think there's subarus a lot quieter than the 2.5 RS. The 2.5 RS isn't supposed to be quiet, is it?
Or, like Knighted Home Version.
Much like the full version, but with key parts yanked out.
Yeah, but was it worth it given their best guess at the fallout (not too much)?
Here's an extension of that:
They're in a prison. Not a bad prison, perhaps even lower security. BUT, all of their food and water comes to them in boxes. Small, unmarked boxes. Along with hundreds of other, identical unmarked boxes. The ratio of rocks(or whatever) to actual food is about 1000 or more to 1.
To get fed, you gots to find it. Thats your task, every day. Spend all day opening tiny little boxes, mostly filled with junk, but if you don't find the ones with the morsels of food and water, you go hungry.
I get what I would call "spam" in my snail mail box. And, when I used to have a landline phone, we would occasionally get a "spam" phone call.
To me, any kind of unsolicited, annoying advertisement could be called spam.
Yeah, just about. Think about it, $1300 a month?
$750 a month rent - that's rock bottom depending on where you're at
$250 a month bills - heat, lights, phone, renters ins, etc
$300 a month food (= not much if you aren't living by yourself)
So, in the end it doesn't go very far. What's left for gas, clothes, health ins, life ins, car maintenance, etc. IE poverty.
I make just 2.5x that and I don't have that much left over after having a wife that doesn't work and a kid, once the "life" thing happens.
Exactly, and to state the obvious, JIT is Standard Procedure in this country now because it's so much more efficient.
But it was born out of an economy that couldn't do things "the way they used to be done"
Finally a good use for Bluetooth? Or is that tech already buried and gone...
If I was a bike rider and needed a helmet like this, I'd want as much of the hardware on the bike for obvious reasons, and to have a wireless connection of just the display data going to the helmet.
Of course, this assumes that the hardware would be at all bulky, perhaps we've come to the point where everything needed would be as much mass as a wireless receiver!
A 747 was flying along and was full of Polish people. As they were going past some beautiful landmarks, the pilot came over the intercom and instructed all who were interested in seeing the landmark to look out the right side of the plane. Many passengers did so, and the plane promply crashed. Why?
Too many poles in the right hand plane.
Control Theory...
Matrox does 2D and dual/multi monitor pretty well, but that's about it.
Definitely not a gaming card, though.
What brand/model is the enclosure? How well does it work? Where did you get it from?
I heard some people in the Bosten area saw some quite nice northern lights, but as I'm in SW Florida, I don't anticipate any.
Well, actually if I did it would be a really bad thing so I hope I don't...