I don't know if anyone's pointed out the humor in the URL yet, but I went to RTFM, and it looks like alwayson-network.com just became alwaysoff-network.com.
Obviously, you don't order and consume a 'super-sized' beverage that is at least twice the maximum human bladder capacity in the first hour of the film.
I missed the penultimate 15 minute segment of Lotr:FotR because I DID. I also discovered that when sufficiently motivated, I can be back in my seat in a time that would shame an Indy pit crew.
Man, I didn't miss any of the movie, but since you bring this up, the only time i've really -had- to leave a movie due to drinking a 'large' soda (is it just me? or do the movie theater larges remind anyone else of the bladder buster soda from LSL2? heh) anyhow, I didn't miss any of the movie (didn't piss myself either, if you're wondering) but that f'ing scene toward the end of LOTR:TTT where there was massive flooding -everywhere- was excruciatingly painful.
You can pick new-skool hits like "I'm lovin' it" and "We love to see you smile," or go back to the old days with "At McDonald's, we do it all for you," "Keep your eyes on your fries," and "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun."
Speaking of the "Two all beef --" song, I remember back in the day, they used to give you a 6"x6" record that was not much thicker than a piece of paper that had that song on it... heh, that was great.
Mostly, but I also like having the CD with it's own case, coverart and sometimes the lyrics. Sure I could download all of that and print it out, but it wouldn't be the same.
I say that now, but as printers improve who knows!
Yeah but with the price of ink, you'd probably be better off just buying the CD:)
I don't see how this can happen. Network Solutions bugs the crap out of me to renew mine well in advance. They've been sending me renewal notices for a couple of months now for domains I have that will need to be renewed by March and May of 2004!
You know, I hadn't even thought about -that- fact, shit I get reminders from like 3 different registrars to renew my domain names even though i'm not a customer of any of them!
How do you know a bill just wasn't lost somewhere? That kind of thing happens here in the real world, you know.
Yeah, that kind of thing happens, but that's the second time it's happened to a -very- major domain of theirs... There have been a couple of times customers of ours forgot to renew domains and got screwed for at least the amount of time it took to repropagate. In order to avoid this, we've got all of our company's domains on auto-renew, but in order to protect the customer, we've created a perl script to read our list of domains and generate a spreadsheet listing the domain name, the expiration date, and the registrar it's with to make it very easy to know when something's coming up for renewal soon and give us the ability to double check and remind the customer if we see a domain on there that hasn't been renewed.
Well, I think the parent was right, in a way -- I think RH Cares about their money, but if they're losing money in the deal, they have to weigh the consequences.. If i'm spending a hundred bucks a year to provide a service, but i've only got 5 subscribers at 5 bucks a year, it only makes sense to stop providing that service after a certain time.
How is this different than a CD? If you lose your CD, you have to buy another one. The record label or retail store isn't going to give you a new CD to replace the one you lost, right? Why should online stores be held to a higher standard?
I may be out of line here, but, maybe online retailers SHOULD be held to a higher standard. On my emusic account which I recently de-activated, I can still download any song or album that I downloaded when my account was active. emusic has records of everything i've downloaded, the local record store does not, and i'm sure if I provided a receipt they'd tell me to f-off. I can't prove that I lost my CD and i'm not just trying to get a second copy to resell or give away or something. With a downloaded file, I can burn and reburn it from the start, doesn't really matter if I download it once or a thousand times, whichever source I used shouldn't care. Sure it costs emusic if I download a file twice instead of once, but i'm sure the difference is negligable.. Anyhow, I figure, if they're keeping records of everything i've paid for, I should be able to re-access something that i've paid for, that they KNOW i've paid for. Am I wrong here?
A truly "X" rated game would be cool... more so if it had "tasteful" "adventures".
You know... I hadn't even seen this story with that angle, but now that you bring it up, what if they were able to get Vivid or somebody to back it and license out the women in their videos? Then every girl you're chasing after in that game is a real porn star or something?
Why do you need to go online? Just so your friends don't have to come over to your house, exchanging a 5 minute walk for a couple of bucks on the phone bill
This, as I see it, is a major problem with online console gaming, but not the biggest -- This is how I see it.. With Madden 2004 for PS2 (I love the game, but didn't buy this one this year, but I did read this on the box) it touts as a major feature the fact that you can use the online connection to download updated stats and stuff from the internet.. The problem I have with this is that it allows game companies for console gaming to be lazy and release half-assed games and follow them up with patches.. we've seen the steady decline of PC games through this tactic, granted, there's still badass games out there but you know what i'm talking about.. I liked the fact that when I buy a console game, that's what I get, it's never going to change, it's never going to get better, but it's going to work, and it's going to work well, it's not going to be buggy, it'll be thoroughly tested, and it'll just plain work... if it's going to need to be upgraded and patched as much as my PC, then I just don't want any part of it on my console. Even if it is a feature, even if my football stats will be up to date and accurate, I want to know that my game is going to be identical to my friend down the street's game, y'know?
Heck, I have the best of both worlds. My work laptop has a dual head on it. When I'm sitting at my desk on my port replicator i have my LCD running at 1400x1050 and 17" monitor running at 1280x1024... It feels awkward to work on the laptop without the 2nd monitor. (The laptop's a Compaq EVO N800c for anyone who's curious.)
Yeah, see we've got enough monitors around here that i've definitely got that option, however with my powerbook (lombard) and I don't know if this has been fixed since I haven't tried in several revisions of the OS, but whenever I move something over to the second monitor and do my thing for the day, then I shut down and go home... When I fire up my system at home without a second monitor, everything wants to be on the second monitor anywyas, and it tries to go there.. now that sucks.
My one complaint is that Alt-tab probably takes less time than a 2000 pixel mouse-pan to get across monitors. I guess it comes down to whether you have your hands on the mouse or on the keyboard.
Ok, yeah, it may be faster to alt tab than to take your hand off of the keyboard, put it on the mouse, move it over to the second monitor, hand back on the keyboard and back to work.. HOWEVER, in the instance that you're doing multiple calculations from your primary ap in your calculator.. now is it faster to:
A 1) Alt tab 2) plug in a calculation 3) alt tab 4) get the next number 5) alt tab 6) plug in the next number 7) repeat until done
or
B 1) move mouse to new ap and select 2) input calculation 3) look at other monitor to see the next number 4) look back at calculator and input 5) repeat until done
Personally, I like having one monitor, but only because I'm using used to it on my powerbook. However, 2 monitors is very handy indeed on a desktop. Here at my office we outfit everyone with dual head matrox cards (great card for dual heads, the only ones with good drivers for dual heads on one card in win2k, and they've even got tri-heads now!) and 2 17" monitors, and they seem to dig it. I used to, but I like having less stuff on my desk;) but it really is handy when you're doing a lot of stuff at a time.. I used to have a terminal or browser on my primary monitor, then winamp and email on the second monitor, it was nice being able to see what a new incoming message was and whether or not it was worth my time to stop what I was doing by glancing at another monitor as opposed to stopping what I was doing to see if it was important...
I had a Lombard, and it was a piece of shit. In your hands it looked, felt, and sounded like a plastic toy.
I have a Lombard too, and after playing with my coworker's TiBook, I still like the feel of the lombard keyboard/palmrest/trackpad better, I like the contour it has to it instead of being totally flat and metal.. maybe i'm weird like that. Yeah, the feet fell off of mine too, but when you've got rubber feet stuck to a hot plastic laptop that's being moved around and put in a carrying case then out then in then out again, that's bound to happen, whatever. I've got a COUPLE scratches, but that's to be expected from a 4 year old system that I use as my primary every day computer (yeah, primary, as opposed to the GHz PC I have sitting next to me, I get a lot more done, easier, on my 400MHz Lombard) the letters wore off of the home keys for me, and/, but I know where all of the keys are by now, and all of the other keys all seem to be in tact. My 4GB HDD lasted until this year when I upgraded out of going insane from lack of disk space, but it was still working great when I did replace it. Now the battery life, I can agree with you there, I've got about a half hour charge on my battery these days, but again, I got this thing in december of '99, that's an old damned battery. The screen? The screen still works perfectly. The only real bitch I have about this system are the battery life, the video card and the fact that I can't play DVDs after kicking down an extra $200 for the DVD drive and that when I put it to sleep, USUALLY, it won't light back up unless I reset it via the reset button on the back.. yeah, that's pretty annoying, but overall. All of these are very minor problems, not some showstopper that's going to cause me to jump on/. and shit on my powerbook's little flaws, like I said, it's powerful enough that it's STILL my daily system, and I love it.
I'm sure your 17" powerbook kicks a lot of ass, in fact, i'd love to have one. But "my 17" PB kicks the living shit out of your Wallstreet, including battery life" Well i'd sure as shit hope so! Your system is 4 years newer, if it were an equal then I'd say you've been had! and as for "So do yourself an enormous favor and start using a computer built this decade.", First off, my lombard only missed this decade by 1 year, so whatever on that, but i'd love to get myself a 17" powerbook, care to make a donation to the buy matt a new powerbook fund? because as much as i'd love one, and i'm sure i'm not the only one, I just can't afford to throw down another 3 grand on another laptop just now... I will be getting one relatively soon, just not until i'm out of debt on some other things were a little more important than replacing a killer system that isn't dead yet, with a newer killer system.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but this fix has reduced the time it takes me to copy a 17 meg file from 20 minutes to just over two!
Even Textedit has a spring in its step!
Wow, that's a pretty impressive update then, and with the other people talking about it increasing battery life, I -really- want to install this, but after it destroyed my lombard a couple days after the last update... I think i'm a little gunshy about being the first to install updates now..
move from 10.2.x to 10.3 and have your processor downgrade, your clock speed decrease by 600MHz, and your RAM decrease by 448 MB.
That'd SUCK! I'd be running at -200MHz and -52MB of RAM on my lombard.. as if I didn't feel bad enough not being able to play DVDs.. Apple hates me:( (hehehe)
Huh, that's nothing. My mouse has ten buttons, precision crosshairs and has - in place of scrollwheels - a small mousepad on top complete with a tiny mouse that I operate with my little finger.
Yeah, that's cool and all, but does yours have 25 optical trackers on the bottom for unprecidented accuracy?
I believe the market has decided otherwise. I have more than one digit on my hands, why should I be limited to using only one on a mouse? I don't run my computer wearing mittins:)
So you want a 9 or 10 button mouse? That'd just get too confusing =P
An inferior hack to solve a problem is not a better solution than just solving the problem.
Is it really a problem though? I'm -far- more comfortable with my single mouse button powerbook than those big clunky 2 button trackpads on the PC laptops... Plus I can click with either thumb now, whichever is more convenient.. with 2 button's i'd have to adjust.. if I need to get a contextual menu, I just hold the button down with whichever thumb i've chosen to use for 1 second, the menu pops up, and I select my choice.. doesn't seem like much of a problem to me.. in fact, I see it as easier..
I'll give you that, though, some programs you just need to use the 'second mouse button' more than others, sometimes it will be more convenient, but that's on the backs of the people who programmed the ap, if you're using any apple made program (and most other programs) the hotkeys and the single mouse button are FAR more than adequate.. That's just my opinion, though...
Actually, it's the ctrl key - but that doesn't make it any better. Ctrl-click is a pretty bad substitute for a second mouse button.
I don't even bother with ctrl-click, I just click/hold until the context menu pops up.. I'm never in -that- big of a hurry:)
But on another note, I've never taken issue with 1 mouse button.. it's pretty functional once you get used to it.. Plus my 3 button USB logitech works just fine when i'm at my desk and want a mouse or something with more than 1 button.. Seriously, what's the big deal?
Oh, and boycotting the new powerbooks until they add a second mouse button? That's just silly talk right there. Those powerbooks kick some serious ass, if I had the cash I'd have one on my desk right this minute I don't care if it has 1 mouse button or 10. Right now i'm using a lombard from '99 and it still kicks ass as my primary workstation. I have no issues spending that much coin on a system that's going to last me 4+ years (and still be powerful in 4+ years)
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-matt
I missed the penultimate 15 minute segment of Lotr:FotR because I DID. I also discovered that when sufficiently motivated, I can be back in my seat in a time that would shame an Indy pit crew.
Man, I didn't miss any of the movie, but since you bring this up, the only time i've really -had- to leave a movie due to drinking a 'large' soda (is it just me? or do the movie theater larges remind anyone else of the bladder buster soda from LSL2? heh) anyhow, I didn't miss any of the movie (didn't piss myself either, if you're wondering) but that f'ing scene toward the end of LOTR:TTT where there was massive flooding -everywhere- was excruciatingly painful.
-matt
Speaking of the "Two all beef --" song, I remember back in the day, they used to give you a 6"x6" record that was not much thicker than a piece of paper that had that song on it... heh, that was great.
-matt
I say that now, but as printers improve who knows!
Yeah but with the price of ink, you'd probably be better off just buying the CD :)
-matt
You know, I hadn't even thought about -that- fact, shit I get reminders from like 3 different registrars to renew my domain names even though i'm not a customer of any of them!
-matt
Yeah, that kind of thing happens, but that's the second time it's happened to a -very- major domain of theirs... There have been a couple of times customers of ours forgot to renew domains and got screwed for at least the amount of time it took to repropagate. In order to avoid this, we've got all of our company's domains on auto-renew, but in order to protect the customer, we've created a perl script to read our list of domains and generate a spreadsheet listing the domain name, the expiration date, and the registrar it's with to make it very easy to know when something's coming up for renewal soon and give us the ability to double check and remind the customer if we see a domain on there that hasn't been renewed.
-matt
Well, Although I can't attest to that, I -do- know that Pig and Elephant DNA just won't splice...
-matt
This is a foolish attitude for any business.
Well, I think the parent was right, in a way -- I think RH Cares about their money, but if they're losing money in the deal, they have to weigh the consequences.. If i'm spending a hundred bucks a year to provide a service, but i've only got 5 subscribers at 5 bucks a year, it only makes sense to stop providing that service after a certain time.
-matt
-matt
Let's be honest, having a conversation about Barney would push MOST of us over the edge :)
-matt
types: "You're not the usual pizza delivery boy..."
Yeah, i'd be the dude who only delivers when they order 'extra anchovies' heh ;)
-matt
I may be out of line here, but, maybe online retailers SHOULD be held to a higher standard. On my emusic account which I recently de-activated, I can still download any song or album that I downloaded when my account was active. emusic has records of everything i've downloaded, the local record store does not, and i'm sure if I provided a receipt they'd tell me to f-off. I can't prove that I lost my CD and i'm not just trying to get a second copy to resell or give away or something. With a downloaded file, I can burn and reburn it from the start, doesn't really matter if I download it once or a thousand times, whichever source I used shouldn't care. Sure it costs emusic if I download a file twice instead of once, but i'm sure the difference is negligable.. Anyhow, I figure, if they're keeping records of everything i've paid for, I should be able to re-access something that i've paid for, that they KNOW i've paid for. Am I wrong here?
-matt
You know... I hadn't even seen this story with that angle, but now that you bring it up, what if they were able to get Vivid or somebody to back it and license out the women in their videos? Then every girl you're chasing after in that game is a real porn star or something?
-matt
This, as I see it, is a major problem with online console gaming, but not the biggest -- This is how I see it.. With Madden 2004 for PS2 (I love the game, but didn't buy this one this year, but I did read this on the box) it touts as a major feature the fact that you can use the online connection to download updated stats and stuff from the internet.. The problem I have with this is that it allows game companies for console gaming to be lazy and release half-assed games and follow them up with patches.. we've seen the steady decline of PC games through this tactic, granted, there's still badass games out there but you know what i'm talking about.. I liked the fact that when I buy a console game, that's what I get, it's never going to change, it's never going to get better, but it's going to work, and it's going to work well, it's not going to be buggy, it'll be thoroughly tested, and it'll just plain work... if it's going to need to be upgraded and patched as much as my PC, then I just don't want any part of it on my console. Even if it is a feature, even if my football stats will be up to date and accurate, I want to know that my game is going to be identical to my friend down the street's game, y'know?
-matt
So you're saying you can DIE from this?
Wow, they really ARE cracking down huh? Maybe -that- will convince people to routinely patch their boxes!
-matt
Yeah, see we've got enough monitors around here that i've definitely got that option, however with my powerbook (lombard) and I don't know if this has been fixed since I haven't tried in several revisions of the OS, but whenever I move something over to the second monitor and do my thing for the day, then I shut down and go home... When I fire up my system at home without a second monitor, everything wants to be on the second monitor anywyas, and it tries to go there.. now that sucks.
-matt
Ok, yeah, it may be faster to alt tab than to take your hand off of the keyboard, put it on the mouse, move it over to the second monitor, hand back on the keyboard and back to work.. HOWEVER, in the instance that you're doing multiple calculations from your primary ap in your calculator.. now is it faster to:
A
1) Alt tab
2) plug in a calculation
3) alt tab
4) get the next number
5) alt tab
6) plug in the next number
7) repeat until done
or
B
1) move mouse to new ap and select
2) input calculation
3) look at other monitor to see the next number
4) look back at calculator and input
5) repeat until done
Personally, I like having one monitor, but only because I'm using used to it on my powerbook. However, 2 monitors is very handy indeed on a desktop. Here at my office we outfit everyone with dual head matrox cards (great card for dual heads, the only ones with good drivers for dual heads on one card in win2k, and they've even got tri-heads now!) and 2 17" monitors, and they seem to dig it. I used to, but I like having less stuff on my desk ;) but it really is handy when you're doing a lot of stuff at a time.. I used to have a terminal or browser on my primary monitor, then winamp and email on the second monitor, it was nice being able to see what a new incoming message was and whether or not it was worth my time to stop what I was doing by glancing at another monitor as opposed to stopping what I was doing to see if it was important...
-Matt
I have a Lombard too, and after playing with my coworker's TiBook, I still like the feel of the lombard keyboard/palmrest/trackpad better, I like the contour it has to it instead of being totally flat and metal.. maybe i'm weird like that. Yeah, the feet fell off of mine too, but when you've got rubber feet stuck to a hot plastic laptop that's being moved around and put in a carrying case then out then in then out again, that's bound to happen, whatever. I've got a COUPLE scratches, but that's to be expected from a 4 year old system that I use as my primary every day computer (yeah, primary, as opposed to the GHz PC I have sitting next to me, I get a lot more done, easier, on my 400MHz Lombard) the letters wore off of the home keys for me, and /, but I know where all of the keys are by now, and all of the other keys all seem to be in tact. My 4GB HDD lasted until this year when I upgraded out of going insane from lack of disk space, but it was still working great when I did replace it. Now the battery life, I can agree with you there, I've got about a half hour charge on my battery these days, but again, I got this thing in december of '99, that's an old damned battery. The screen? The screen still works perfectly. The only real bitch I have about this system are the battery life, the video card and the fact that I can't play DVDs after kicking down an extra $200 for the DVD drive and that when I put it to sleep, USUALLY, it won't light back up unless I reset it via the reset button on the back.. yeah, that's pretty annoying, but overall. All of these are very minor problems, not some showstopper that's going to cause me to jump on /. and shit on my powerbook's little flaws, like I said, it's powerful enough that it's STILL my daily system, and I love it.
I'm sure your 17" powerbook kicks a lot of ass, in fact, i'd love to have one. But "my 17" PB kicks the living shit out of your Wallstreet, including battery life" Well i'd sure as shit hope so! Your system is 4 years newer, if it were an equal then I'd say you've been had! and as for "So do yourself an enormous favor and start using a computer built this decade.", First off, my lombard only missed this decade by 1 year, so whatever on that, but i'd love to get myself a 17" powerbook, care to make a donation to the buy matt a new powerbook fund? because as much as i'd love one, and i'm sure i'm not the only one, I just can't afford to throw down another 3 grand on another laptop just now... I will be getting one relatively soon, just not until i'm out of debt on some other things were a little more important than replacing a killer system that isn't dead yet, with a newer killer system.
-matt
Even Textedit has a spring in its step!
Wow, that's a pretty impressive update then, and with the other people talking about it increasing battery life, I -really- want to install this, but after it destroyed my lombard a couple days after the last update... I think i'm a little gunshy about being the first to install updates now..
-matt
That'd SUCK! I'd be running at -200MHz and -52MB of RAM on my lombard.. as if I didn't feel bad enough not being able to play DVDs.. Apple hates me :( (hehehe)
-matt
A conspiracy? :P
-matt
Yeah, that's cool and all, but does yours have 25 optical trackers on the bottom for unprecidented accuracy?
-matt
So you want a 9 or 10 button mouse? That'd just get too confusing =P
-matt
Is it really a problem though? I'm -far- more comfortable with my single mouse button powerbook than those big clunky 2 button trackpads on the PC laptops... Plus I can click with either thumb now, whichever is more convenient.. with 2 button's i'd have to adjust.. if I need to get a contextual menu, I just hold the button down with whichever thumb i've chosen to use for 1 second, the menu pops up, and I select my choice.. doesn't seem like much of a problem to me.. in fact, I see it as easier..
I'll give you that, though, some programs you just need to use the 'second mouse button' more than others, sometimes it will be more convenient, but that's on the backs of the people who programmed the ap, if you're using any apple made program (and most other programs) the hotkeys and the single mouse button are FAR more than adequate.. That's just my opinion, though...
-matt
I don't even bother with ctrl-click, I just click/hold until the context menu pops up.. I'm never in -that- big of a hurry :)
But on another note, I've never taken issue with 1 mouse button.. it's pretty functional once you get used to it.. Plus my 3 button USB logitech works just fine when i'm at my desk and want a mouse or something with more than 1 button.. Seriously, what's the big deal?
Oh, and boycotting the new powerbooks until they add a second mouse button? That's just silly talk right there. Those powerbooks kick some serious ass, if I had the cash I'd have one on my desk right this minute I don't care if it has 1 mouse button or 10. Right now i'm using a lombard from '99 and it still kicks ass as my primary workstation. I have no issues spending that much coin on a system that's going to last me 4+ years (and still be powerful in 4+ years)
-matt