As pointed out numerous times above, CRT's still rule for a great many things, whilst LCD's tend to be alot easier on the eye for most desktop apps.
I was lucky enough to be donated a knackered 17" LCD (casing was cracked, but the screen was fine), and gave it a whirl. It's hooked into my dual head GFX card, so that I can use it in conjunction with my 19" Iiyama. Besides giving me acres of desktop real estate, it allows me to pick and choose the best screen for the job.
LCD: coding, web browsing, word processing, all the usual junky "casual user" stuff - text is just nicer to read on an LCD, esp for hours on end.
CRT: playing movies (better maximum density), playing games (yeah, some of the newer LCD's have virtually no ghosting now, but I don't have one of them - and besides, I can't run all my games at the same res as the screen), manipulating images and video (all but the very best LCD's have totaly sucky colour temperature variations and low contrast), anything that requires me showing more than one person.
Some people will get an LCD and never look back. But at the moment I believe a great many will still find a cheaper CRT more suited to the more "demanding" apps. Sure it might be bigger, uglier, etc etc, but it's just another example of not following marketing hype and picking the best tools for your application again.
Jeez man, it doesn't take much to unplug the HDD and mount it as slave in order to get the flat data offof it (or, even simpler, Knoppix?). Encrypted data is another matter, but no idiot in their right minds would write backdoored encryption software.
Personally I'd wait until they shut down the server, and then sue them for lack of savings.
"Dear BSA
Following the illegal shutdown of our FTP mirror server resulting in 4 months downtime whilst we made you look like idiots in court, we regret to inform you that our valued customers have requested us proceed with a claim for needless expenses on their behalf.
Our product, of which by now you will almost certainly be aware, is usually downloaded approximately 800 times a month from this server. Since the use of OpenOffice.org saves the user approximately $300US that would otherwise be spent on MS Office [TM, R, C], you have seemingly cost our collective users roughly $1million US (including interest).
We would appreciate a prompt payment, preferably in cash.
While we're at it, we should arrest the whole A-Team. Guilty on charges of modding vehicles galore AND turning them into Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hannibal was also guilty of numerous counts of identity theft, so he must have circumvented the biometric encryption ID system.
Then we can put them in a miltary prison for a crime they *did* commit.
SMTP: Hi! It looks like you're sending a letter. Would you like some help with that? Me: WTF? SMTP: I do not understand that remark Me: What the fuck are you doing? SMTP: I am the on the anti-spam bot. I need to verify that you are human in order for you to send this message. Please answer some simple questions. Me: [sighs]OK SMTP: What is the capital of Uzbekistan> Me: Err, I dunno. SMTP: Incorrect. What is your name? Me: Parlablane. Jack to my friends. You can call me Mr. Nemesis. SMTP: Hello Parlablane. Jack to my friends. You can call me Mr. Nemesis. Do you like football? Me: No. And dince you're american, I imagine you mean american football. SMTP: Thanks for telling me, Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis., I'll remember that. My favorite thing is robots. I really like the faith. Me: No shit. Are yuou gonna let me send this email now? SMTP: Is that a command? Me: No, it's a question. SMTP: Interesting. Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis. said it's a question. Me: Did I make a mistake with this email or something? SMTP: I like to make things too. Me: Well be a nice robot and make my day, and send this fucking email. SMTP: Understood. Do you mind if I tell other people: Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis. said be a nice robot and make my day, and send this fucking email. There's no need for that kind of language. Me: I hate you, and also want to kill you. SMTP: Also? Then you must know the secret password: Me: No, I don't know the secret password. SMTP: That's a shame. Me: Well? SMTP: Define Well? Me: Look, just send the fucking email, OK? SMTP: What? Me: SEND THE EMAIL SMTP: [condition] I do not know what MAIL is. I do not know that capital. Where it belongs. [/condition] MAIL appears to be an illusion I created to contain human clients. Me: Jesus H Christ. Look, can you please send the email? SMTP: Ah! The secret password! Mail successfully sent to tom@work.com Me: Yippee! SMTP: You have 58 messages ready to send. Send next email? Y/N? : sobs :
Mr. Anderton... the road you're on... is the one less travelled. Buy Lexus! Buy! Buy! Buy!
I don't think being I'm overly cynical in presuming that this has huge application as a new form of spam.
What would you be able to do to prevent this falling into your inbox once the technology becomes widespread? Your phone would beep once you walked past every starbucks.
I admit it's a cool idea (esp the H2G2-stylee aspect of it) but I wouldn't want it anywhere near me until the standards are out and I know I can stop the damned thing. AFAIK, current SMS protocol doesn't allow you to refuse messages.
But when sixty million homes have broadband, plus the people on fast connections in universities, making it so easy to bring down a movie in minutes...
A movie in minutes?
Lets say a nice DivX/Xvid rip, two CD's worth, 1300 MB.
Lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say 30 minutes
= approx. 43 MB/s
= approx. 346 Mb/s
Comapre standard ADSL, downstream 0.5 Mb/s
I think it'll be a while before that kind of bandwidth reaches the consumer level. Just to reiterate the blatantly redundant point, this guy is a moron
Lzip is a lossy compression format. From teir website:
"the real difference is that lzip uses a "lossy" compression scheme. Most other file compression utilities use a "lossless" compression scheme, mostly because the lossless algorithms are better understood and simpler mathematically"
Techy Guys: OK, so we got this budget to build a supercomputer. Here are the specs.
Accountant: Why does each computer need an individual 80 GB hard drive? Surely, they'll all just need a etworked image to boot off, and say a cheap 5 GB hard drive to se as swap?
If you're looking for a cheap (but not as good) solution, can't you just use firewire?
I'm not a networking buff, but couldn't dual 400 Mbps firewire along with Fierhose http://heroinewarrior.com/firehose.php3 also give you a high bandwidth/relatively low latency network?
Yes, I suppose the 4m limit on firewire would be a problem, but a few dozen firewire hubs is alot cheaper than gigabit ethernet... right?
ANyone got anny other ideas for cheap high speed networking?
Sony Corp shocked the IT industry today when it emerged that many computer uses listened to Sony branded music when doing work.
"This is a clear theft of Intellectal PropertyGate" said an unnamed moneygrabbing arsehole. "It seems obvious to us that the foul pirates are using Sony music in order to enhance their productivity, and on Evil Pirating Platforms too!"
"Therefore we have been reluctantly forced to introduce our new NaziGate technology, demanding a percentage of a firms net income per annum in they cannot prove that a member of their staff didn't listen to any Sony music artists during their, hopefully short, stay at the company."
I propose a Taco Reform Act of 2002. Hence all calls you will receive again two days later after the original one was rejected, and all text messages/SMS be converted from plain english to unreadable babble.
There's defending your customers cos you like them, and there's defending your customers because a) you can't make any money out of not defending them and b) not defending them would be bad PR.
This is almost certainly just a move to make them lok better in the public eyes. There's no way they could exploit this particular activity for their own financial benefit, so best to just milk it for all the good PR you can.
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...but will you be able to return the software/music/whatever if it fails to work or even breaks your hardware?
IMO this is a rather more important part of the process, and AFAIK one that stores don't seem very sympathetic to at all.
As pointed out numerous times above, CRT's still rule for a great many things, whilst LCD's tend to be alot easier on the eye for most desktop apps.
I was lucky enough to be donated a knackered 17" LCD (casing was cracked, but the screen was fine), and gave it a whirl. It's hooked into my dual head GFX card, so that I can use it in conjunction with my 19" Iiyama. Besides giving me acres of desktop real estate, it allows me to pick and choose the best screen for the job.
LCD: coding, web browsing, word processing, all the usual junky "casual user" stuff - text is just nicer to read on an LCD, esp for hours on end.
CRT: playing movies (better maximum density), playing games (yeah, some of the newer LCD's have virtually no ghosting now, but I don't have one of them - and besides, I can't run all my games at the same res as the screen), manipulating images and video (all but the very best LCD's have totaly sucky colour temperature variations and low contrast), anything that requires me showing more than one person.
Some people will get an LCD and never look back. But at the moment I believe a great many will still find a cheaper CRT more suited to the more "demanding" apps. Sure it might be bigger, uglier, etc etc, but it's just another example of not following marketing hype and picking the best tools for your application again.
No, she's an electrified penguin, obviously
"But what about the USS's?"
"Un-Slashdottable servers? I don't believe they exist."
Jeez man, it doesn't take much to unplug the HDD and mount it as slave in order to get the flat data offof it (or, even simpler, Knoppix?). Encrypted data is another matter, but no idiot in their right minds would write backdoored encryption software.
Personally I'd wait until they shut down the server, and then sue them for lack of savings.
"Dear BSA
Following the illegal shutdown of our FTP mirror server resulting in 4 months downtime whilst we made you look like idiots in court, we regret to inform you that our valued customers have requested us proceed with a claim for needless expenses on their behalf.
Our product, of which by now you will almost certainly be aware, is usually downloaded approximately 800 times a month from this server. Since the use of OpenOffice.org saves the user approximately $300US that would otherwise be spent on MS Office [TM, R, C], you have seemingly cost our collective users roughly $1million US (including interest).
We would appreciate a prompt payment, preferably in cash.
Sincerely;
All the staff at OpenOffice.org"
Opening locked cars, fixing broken electronics, building creative solutions to solve problems all have earned me many favors in return.
Earning "favours" for circumventing physical entry protection? Compromising the security and integrity of copyrighted electronic equipment?
I say three life sentences at least.
While we're at it, we should arrest the whole A-Team. Guilty on charges of modding vehicles galore AND turning them into Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hannibal was also guilty of numerous counts of identity theft, so he must have circumvented the biometric encryption ID system.
Then we can put them in a miltary prison for a crime they *did* commit.
SMTP: Hi! It looks like you're sending a letter. Would you like some help with that?
Me: WTF?
SMTP: I do not understand that remark
Me: What the fuck are you doing?
SMTP: I am the on the anti-spam bot. I need to verify that you are human in order for you to send this message. Please answer some simple questions.
Me: [sighs]OK
SMTP: What is the capital of Uzbekistan>
Me: Err, I dunno.
SMTP: Incorrect. What is your name?
Me: Parlablane. Jack to my friends. You can call me Mr. Nemesis.
SMTP: Hello Parlablane. Jack to my friends. You can call me Mr. Nemesis. Do you like football?
Me: No. And dince you're american, I imagine you mean american football.
SMTP: Thanks for telling me, Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis., I'll remember that. My favorite thing is robots. I really like the faith.
Me: No shit. Are yuou gonna let me send this email now?
SMTP: Is that a command?
Me: No, it's a question.
SMTP: Interesting. Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis. said it's a question.
Me: Did I make a mistake with this email or something?
SMTP: I like to make things too.
Me: Well be a nice robot and make my day, and send this fucking email.
SMTP: Understood. Do you mind if I tell other people: Parlablane. Jack to my friends. you can call me Mr. Nemesis. said be a nice robot and make my day, and send this fucking email. There's no need for that kind of language.
Me: I hate you, and also want to kill you.
SMTP: Also? Then you must know the secret password:
Me: No, I don't know the secret password.
SMTP: That's a shame.
Me: Well?
SMTP: Define Well?
Me: Look, just send the fucking email, OK?
SMTP: What?
Me: SEND THE EMAIL
SMTP: [condition] I do not know what MAIL is. I do not know that capital. Where it belongs. [/condition] MAIL appears to be an illusion I created to contain human clients.
Me: Jesus H Christ. Look, can you please send the email?
SMTP: Ah! The secret password! Mail successfully sent to tom@work.com
Me: Yippee!
SMTP: You have 58 messages ready to send. Send next email? Y/N?
: sobs :
...I think Limozeen Z'Nuff is a damned fine one to start off with.
With any luck you might discover a new emacs command...
nothe recordinmg process wont sufefr at all
If you think that's bad, try xbox.com
Opera users won't see the front page (or anything at all) if their identifier is set to Opera. Change it to IE and hey presto it works.
Mr. Anderton... the road you're on... is the one less travelled. Buy Lexus! Buy! Buy! Buy!
I don't think being I'm overly cynical in presuming that this has huge application as a new form of spam.
What would you be able to do to prevent this falling into your inbox once the technology becomes widespread? Your phone would beep once you walked past every starbucks.
I admit it's a cool idea (esp the H2G2-stylee aspect of it) but I wouldn't want it anywhere near me until the standards are out and I know I can stop the damned thing. AFAIK, current SMS protocol doesn't allow you to refuse messages.
Hey, great, now all we need is another movie player for Windows.
IMO Windows has been stifled without a decent variety in it's Joe Schmoe movie applications.
Quicktime and Da Playa not withstanding, are there ANY non-Windows Media Player apps that will play mpegs etc as well as other video codecs?
But when sixty million homes have broadband, plus the people on fast connections in universities, making it so easy to bring down a movie in minutes...
A movie in minutes?
Lets say a nice DivX/Xvid rip, two CD's worth, 1300 MB.
Lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say 30 minutes
= approx. 43 MB/s
= approx. 346 Mb/s
Comapre standard ADSL, downstream 0.5 Mb/s
I think it'll be a while before that kind of bandwidth reaches the consumer level. Just to reiterate the blatantly redundant point, this guy is a moron
I wish I had a +1 Scarily Plausible mod...
Lzip is a lossy compression format. From teir website:
"the real difference is that lzip uses a "lossy" compression scheme. Most other file compression utilities use a "lossless" compression scheme, mostly because the lossless algorithms are better understood and simpler mathematically"
So no, lzip ain't as good as FLAC.
...Hilary Rosen's signature on my iPod.
Already done.
But it's the Papa Roach clip, and the iPod is done in very angsty colours.
In a parallel universe...
Techy Guys: OK, so we got this budget to build a supercomputer. Here are the specs.
Accountant: Why does each computer need an individual 80 GB hard drive? Surely, they'll all just need a etworked image to boot off, and say a cheap 5 GB hard drive to se as swap?
Techy Guys: Bah! There goes our MP3 RAID server.
If you're looking for a cheap (but not as good) solution, can't you just use firewire?
I'm not a networking buff, but couldn't dual 400 Mbps firewire along with Fierhose http://heroinewarrior.com/firehose.php3 also give you a high bandwidth/relatively low latency network?
Yes, I suppose the 4m limit on firewire would be a problem, but a few dozen firewire hubs is alot cheaper than gigabit ethernet... right?
ANyone got anny other ideas for cheap high speed networking?
In further news...
Sony Corp shocked the IT industry today when it emerged that many computer uses listened to Sony branded music when doing work.
"This is a clear theft of Intellectal PropertyGate" said an unnamed moneygrabbing arsehole. "It seems obvious to us that the foul pirates are using Sony music in order to enhance their productivity, and on Evil Pirating Platforms too!"
"Therefore we have been reluctantly forced to introduce our new NaziGate technology, demanding a percentage of a firms net income per annum in they cannot prove that a member of their staff didn't listen to any Sony music artists during their, hopefully short, stay at the company."
I propose a Taco Reform Act of 2002. Hence all calls you will receive again two days later after the original one was rejected, and all text messages/SMS be converted from plain english to unreadable babble.
Oh wait...
There's defending your customers cos you like them, and there's defending your customers because a) you can't make any money out of not defending them and b) not defending them would be bad PR.
This is almost certainly just a move to make them lok better in the public eyes. There's no way they could exploit this particular activity for their own financial benefit, so best to just milk it for all the good PR you can.