Make sure you ground yourself and handle the drives carefully when installing them.
Sounds like you're the type to kick the computer when you have a fight with your girlfriend (or mom?).
I dont believe you have 10+ year old 9 gig drives either, but I'm too tired to do a search to prove you wrong.
I like dirt cheap huge drives. I keep ghost images handy, and if a drive fails my system is back up and running within an hour or two. $1 a gig is much better than a 10 year old 3600 rpm 250 meg piece of crap. Heck RAID 1 would only be $2 a gig.
Besides, this technology can make drives more reliable. Ultra insane bit density means you have space to spare for redundancy.
There's more to DVD than just the sound quality/picture, there's the fact that it doesnt degrade like a tape, that you can pause/ff/rewind with perfect visual clarity, jumping to scenes, 'interactive' stuff, extras like director commentary. Most of the early adopters of DVD that I know of didn't pay much attention to the signal quality, but the other benefits.
Even so, DVD through a scan converter over coax is a visual improvement over VHS. And you can still get 5.1 audio into your stereo.
Besides, maybe the composite/svideo jack is already used on your TV by a video game or the VCR. So you want to svideo from DVD to VCR then to TV. And you dont want one of those stupid selector boxes - those things make your signal into shit.
Whether it's the optimal way to hook it up is besides the point. You should be able to, and the only reason you cant is because of some completely artificial bullshit.
You hear plenty of complaints about people who plugged their new DVD player into the line-ins of their VCR because their TV has no RCA plugs. Under such a scenario, macrovision kicks in even when just playing a DVD 'through' the VCR, whether you're recording or not.
The only recourse is a new TV, or a $20 signal booster. And I've seen many people get pretty pissed when they realized this.
A lot of medical innovations have come out of the military in the past, much like innovations in other industries (computers, aviation)
Blood plasma comes to mind. Way back some army docs realized that if you lose a huge amount of blood, you're more likely to die of shock simply because your heart has nothing to pump around.
They realized you can use a centrifuge to take out all the red blood cells, dehydrate what's left, and all you need to do is add distilled water and get it into the body of an exsanguinated soldier. Just the fact that theres some fluid in the system for the heart to pump is enough to keep you alive until you can replace the red blood cells, and other gook in there..
It works regardless of blood type, takes less space, and doesn't require refrigeration (keeps longer).
Science has long been at it's best when its at war. Make of that what you will, but it's always been so.
They've been working on railguns for awhile. They have them working, and can electromagnetically accellerate aluminum rings at insane speeds (like twice that of the average bullet).
They just can't get the thing down to a portable size, nor figure out how to supply it with the jiggawatts(TM) of juice it needs to fire.
I'm glad too. Nothing like a little vaporware PR hype to brighten my day.
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>> Would you rather your tax dollars were spent on proprietary software that is buggy, insecure and unmodifable?
You assume that all proprietary software is buggy, insecure and unmodifiable. This isn't the case.
Only a tiny portion of the governments overall IT spending has to do with the desktop. A $200 Win2k liscence is peanuts compared to the half million dollar plus yearly maintanence dispatching systems my company sells, for instance.
So the question as per gov't spending is: would you rather an agency seek out an existing solution, or hire a staff of it's own developers and wait 2-3 years for them to create the custom solution it needs. At least in our niche, the turnkey solutions are orders of magnitude cheaper. And they get source to verify, it's just not 'open source' a la gnu.
KDE vs Windows vs OSX really is a trivial issue. It really isn't about the desktop, MSFT, IBM and RedHat all know that. The money is spent on the boxes in the back room and the client-specific code.
Of course not, it's basically an "industry" magazine for government execs, which focuses on how great it is to be a government exec.
Just like if you read "Janitors Weekly" it would make cleaning up vomit sound like a thrilling adventure. Or how the "Linux Journal" makes configuring X server sound like an exciting, dynamic way to spend your day.
(No offense intended to janitors)
You don't get so much news from such rags as a bit of self-affirmation.
Every time I wiggle my mouse around or push my spacebar I need a law to clearly define what I'm doing, what my rights and responsibilities are, and what the punishments are if I wiggle that mouse a little bit too far to the left!
Laws, laws, more laws! We dont have enough laws!
People are too stupid to live lives themselves or take any sort of personal responsibility! We need laws and lawyers and lawsuits!
More LAWS! Laws are the answer.
I'm writing my congressman right now, demanding more and increasingly complicated laws!
That was the funniest fucking show of stupidity from the Beltway in eons.
"The media is biased against liberals!"
You cant legislate the 'media', because what they're talking about is entertainment (which is what Limbaugh, Hannity et al are). Back in the 60s the nightly news was very conservative, so the liberal views were the 'counterculture' that people flocked to.
Now liberal is the mainstream, and the conservative views are the 'counterculture' that makes stars.
It's ebb and flow, and cant be controlled.
And I doubt any of this has anything to do with this bill. I think it's actually feasible that some in high places actually do have the public good in mind, and realize it is not best served by a payola-driven industry owned by one corporation.
Yeah, when Apple moves to squash a P2P client's author, it's because the nasty RIAA forced them to. When MSFT does it, it's because they're inherently evil.
It's bullshit.
Apple moved to kill iCommune because it would compete with a commercial product they plan to offer with limited (read DRM-but-since-its-Apple-we-wont-call-it-DRM) capabilities. They pulled some obscure 'you may not write front-ends for our software' clause to do it.
They save money by bundling them with a boatload of adware, spyware, trialware, demoware, advertisements, ISP offers, etc. About 7 gigs on a 15 gig HDD was full of ad-ware bloat. A quick format and reinstall and you're all set.
As for the PSU, get a replacement (it's flex atx 5" wide, 4" deep - usually sold as 'for eMachines,HP, or Dells') 200 watt PSU to replace the 145 watts they ship with. 20 bucks apiece.
The PSUs in there arent really 'cheap' per se, but if you want to add HDDs and whatnot, it's worth 20 bucks. At least that's what I did with the P3-era machines I bought.
My only hassles with eMachines was trying to retrofit a real drive cage into one of 'em so I could mount more HDDs. But thats generally par for the course with boxed brands. I also had trouble getting the goofy HSP modem in the little riser slot to work since they only provided ME drivers. I didnt need or use it anyways, I like my external USRobotics, so no biggie.
The mobo is micro-atx form factor, with a fairly low profile CPU cooler, I just finished moving all of an eMachine into a slick looking little VCR-style case with a cheap TV out card. Makes a nifty media player.
You get a lot of bang for your buck in those cheap boxes. Usually cheaper than the components would cost seperately. And like I said, the cheapness is because of kickbacks from all the spyware bloat thats preinstalled, so install your own OS of choice over it.
I dont think it's fair that only the editors get to slashvertise stuff. Buy an eMachine.
I've bought 3 eMachines so far for various tasks. Swap in a new video card and some RAM and you're ready to go.
I just considered it a Mobo, CPU, Case, HDD, DVD-ROM, FDC and PSU thats cheaper than the components would cost by themselves, plus I didn't have to put it together.
Brand name fanboys deserve to go into hock to have their goofy 'Alienware' or other trendy-brand-name PCs. A fool and their money.
But who's to verify the authenticity of the 10,000 letters. That's why boilerplate letters just feed the trash can. It has the same reek of mass-mailings and petition drives.
As soon as the first letter signed by "Bart Simpson" shows up, the whole shebang hits the dumpster. At that point there's no way to know what percentage of the letters are legitimate. Perhaps 99% and a handful of jokers, or perhaps just one zealot with a Xerox machine and too much free time.
Say they get 10,000 form letters about copyright reform - they'll also get 10,000 wanting Hitlers birthday to be a federal holiday.
If you ever see a cause you want to fail, just sign up as Homer Simpson or such. Just like I did when the old ladies came around petitioning to lower the speed limit on the highway I take to work.
Pretty longwinded way of saying "I couldnt get anybody to answer anything". No news here, nothing to learn.
I imagine Roblimo spent about about a half hour on the last day asking the 'questions', if at all.
If he pressed people at all, and presented himself as a journalist instead of trying to front as some retarded 'undercover' operative, he could have gotten answers. I can't believe none of these companies had any sort of message that they would want covered on slashdot.
What a waste of time. His interviewing skills are on par with Rosie O'Donnels, more about kissing ass and talking about the "Cutie Patootie" boy with the piercings than getting any information.
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Not if it's her own homemade porno! Have you seen a picture of her?
She'd have to give out a LOT of free beer for me to watch any of that.
Seems pretty obvious he ran it in 32bit mode.
Isnt IA64 supposed to be about high-end transaction processing, and not running WinAmp and KaZaa?
Make sure you ground yourself and handle the drives carefully when installing them.
Sounds like you're the type to kick the computer when you have a fight with your girlfriend (or mom?).
I dont believe you have 10+ year old 9 gig drives either, but I'm too tired to do a search to prove you wrong.
I like dirt cheap huge drives. I keep ghost images handy, and if a drive fails my system is back up and running within an hour or two. $1 a gig is much better than a 10 year old 3600 rpm 250 meg piece of crap. Heck RAID 1 would only be $2 a gig.
Besides, this technology can make drives more reliable. Ultra insane bit density means you have space to spare for redundancy.
There's more to DVD than just the sound quality/picture, there's the fact that it doesnt degrade like a tape, that you can pause/ff/rewind with perfect visual clarity, jumping to scenes, 'interactive' stuff, extras like director commentary. Most of the early adopters of DVD that I know of didn't pay much attention to the signal quality, but the other benefits.
Even so, DVD through a scan converter over coax is a visual improvement over VHS. And you can still get 5.1 audio into your stereo.
Besides, maybe the composite/svideo jack is already used on your TV by a video game or the VCR. So you want to svideo from DVD to VCR then to TV. And you dont want one of those stupid selector boxes - those things make your signal into shit.
Whether it's the optimal way to hook it up is besides the point. You should be able to, and the only reason you cant is because of some completely artificial bullshit.
You hear plenty of complaints about people who plugged their new DVD player into the line-ins of their VCR because their TV has no RCA plugs. Under such a scenario, macrovision kicks in even when just playing a DVD 'through' the VCR, whether you're recording or not.
The only recourse is a new TV, or a $20 signal booster. And I've seen many people get pretty pissed when they realized this.
Only if it's used against human targets.
IIRC, it was being developed to shoot missiles/rockets/jets out of the air with fancy digital targetting and whatnot.
A lot of medical innovations have come out of the military in the past, much like innovations in other industries (computers, aviation)
Blood plasma comes to mind. Way back some army docs realized that if you lose a huge amount of blood, you're more likely to die of shock simply because your heart has nothing to pump around.
They realized you can use a centrifuge to take out all the red blood cells, dehydrate what's left, and all you need to do is add distilled water and get it into the body of an exsanguinated soldier. Just the fact that theres some fluid in the system for the heart to pump is enough to keep you alive until you can replace the red blood cells, and other gook in there..
It works regardless of blood type, takes less space, and doesn't require refrigeration (keeps longer).
Science has long been at it's best when its at war. Make of that what you will, but it's always been so.
Invest what?
I already beat them up and took their milk-money.
They've been working on railguns for awhile. They have them working, and can electromagnetically accellerate aluminum rings at insane speeds (like twice that of the average bullet).
They just can't get the thing down to a portable size, nor figure out how to supply it with the jiggawatts(TM) of juice it needs to fire.
But they do exist.
I'm glad too. Nothing like a little vaporware PR hype to brighten my day.
>> Would you rather your tax dollars were spent on proprietary software that is buggy, insecure and unmodifable?
You assume that all proprietary software is buggy, insecure and unmodifiable. This isn't the case.
Only a tiny portion of the governments overall IT spending has to do with the desktop. A $200 Win2k liscence is peanuts compared to the half million dollar plus yearly maintanence dispatching systems my company sells, for instance.
So the question as per gov't spending is: would you rather an agency seek out an existing solution, or hire a staff of it's own developers and wait 2-3 years for them to create the custom solution it needs. At least in our niche, the turnkey solutions are orders of magnitude cheaper. And they get source to verify, it's just not 'open source' a la gnu.
KDE vs Windows vs OSX really is a trivial issue. It really isn't about the desktop, MSFT, IBM and RedHat all know that. The money is spent on the boxes in the back room and the client-specific code.
Of course not, it's basically an "industry" magazine for government execs, which focuses on how great it is to be a government exec.
Just like if you read "Janitors Weekly" it would make cleaning up vomit sound like a thrilling adventure. Or how the "Linux Journal" makes configuring X server sound like an exciting, dynamic way to spend your day.
(No offense intended to janitors)
You don't get so much news from such rags as a bit of self-affirmation.
>> Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ...
Umm
Who gives a fuck?
Seriously, is this an article or an excuse to say 'Apple' and 'Linux'?
Did you not meet your quota today?
I dream of a day when people just stop worrying what OS everyone else is using and get some work done.
Of course it's modded up.
It blames microsoft for a completely unrelated businesses shady practices, blaming it on a 'security hole' with no evidence.
And of course, if Netscape/Mozilla/whatever gets popular enough, admonkeys will create a toolbar/plugin for them too.
We need laws for everything!
Every time I wiggle my mouse around or push my spacebar I need a law to clearly define what I'm doing, what my rights and responsibilities are, and what the punishments are if I wiggle that mouse a little bit too far to the left!
Laws, laws, more laws! We dont have enough laws!
People are too stupid to live lives themselves or take any sort of personal responsibility! We need laws and lawyers and lawsuits!
More LAWS! Laws are the answer.
I'm writing my congressman right now, demanding more and increasingly complicated laws!
That was the funniest fucking show of stupidity from the Beltway in eons.
"The media is biased against liberals!"
You cant legislate the 'media', because what they're talking about is entertainment (which is what Limbaugh, Hannity et al are). Back in the 60s the nightly news was very conservative, so the liberal views were the 'counterculture' that people flocked to.
Now liberal is the mainstream, and the conservative views are the 'counterculture' that makes stars.
It's ebb and flow, and cant be controlled.
And I doubt any of this has anything to do with this bill. I think it's actually feasible that some in high places actually do have the public good in mind, and realize it is not best served by a payola-driven industry owned by one corporation.
Yeah I love all those senators in congress.
That and people who bitch about a government they dont understand.
Those are my favorites.
It's easy.
Just write some software for OS/X.
It's a rare enough occurance that publicity is guaranteed.
Yeah, when Apple moves to squash a P2P client's author, it's because the nasty RIAA forced them to. When MSFT does it, it's because they're inherently evil.
It's bullshit.
Apple moved to kill iCommune because it would compete with a commercial product they plan to offer with limited (read DRM-but-since-its-Apple-we-wont-call-it-DRM) capabilities. They pulled some obscure 'you may not write front-ends for our software' clause to do it.
They buy underpowered PC for $5000 because they match their drapes, and have gee-whiz flat panel displays.
They've got the cheese. Why don't they just buy their CDs instead of stealing them like nasty Gnutella/KaZaa users?
They save money by bundling them with a boatload of adware, spyware, trialware, demoware, advertisements, ISP offers, etc. About 7 gigs on a 15 gig HDD was full of ad-ware bloat. A quick format and reinstall and you're all set.
,HP, or Dells') 200 watt PSU to replace the 145 watts they ship with. 20 bucks apiece.
As for the PSU, get a replacement (it's flex atx 5" wide, 4" deep - usually sold as 'for eMachines
The PSUs in there arent really 'cheap' per se, but if you want to add HDDs and whatnot, it's worth 20 bucks. At least that's what I did with the P3-era machines I bought.
My only hassles with eMachines was trying to retrofit a real drive cage into one of 'em so I could mount more HDDs. But thats generally par for the course with boxed brands. I also had trouble getting the goofy HSP modem in the little riser slot to work since they only provided ME drivers. I didnt need or use it anyways, I like my external USRobotics, so no biggie.
The mobo is micro-atx form factor, with a fairly low profile CPU cooler, I just finished moving all of an eMachine into a slick looking little VCR-style case with a cheap TV out card. Makes a nifty media player.
You get a lot of bang for your buck in those cheap boxes. Usually cheaper than the components would cost seperately. And like I said, the cheapness is because of kickbacks from all the spyware bloat thats preinstalled, so install your own OS of choice over it.
I dont think it's fair that only the editors get to slashvertise stuff. Buy an eMachine.
I've bought 3 eMachines so far for various tasks. Swap in a new video card and some RAM and you're ready to go.
I just considered it a Mobo, CPU, Case, HDD, DVD-ROM, FDC and PSU thats cheaper than the components would cost by themselves, plus I didn't have to put it together.
Brand name fanboys deserve to go into hock to have their goofy 'Alienware' or other trendy-brand-name PCs. A fool and their money.
I mean, is it?
Why dont you be fair and report on the next model eMachines, Dell or Compaq sells at Best Buy.
I mean whoopity-doo "This Just In: Apple Sells Computers"
But who's to verify the authenticity of the 10,000 letters. That's why boilerplate letters just feed the trash can. It has the same reek of mass-mailings and petition drives.
As soon as the first letter signed by "Bart Simpson" shows up, the whole shebang hits the dumpster. At that point there's no way to know what percentage of the letters are legitimate. Perhaps 99% and a handful of jokers, or perhaps just one zealot with a Xerox machine and too much free time.
Say they get 10,000 form letters about copyright reform - they'll also get 10,000 wanting Hitlers birthday to be a federal holiday.
If you ever see a cause you want to fail, just sign up as Homer Simpson or such. Just like I did when the old ladies came around petitioning to lower the speed limit on the highway I take to work.
Pretty longwinded way of saying "I couldnt get anybody to answer anything". No news here, nothing to learn.
I imagine Roblimo spent about about a half hour on the last day asking the 'questions', if at all.
If he pressed people at all, and presented himself as a journalist instead of trying to front as some retarded 'undercover' operative, he could have gotten answers. I can't believe none of these companies had any sort of message that they would want covered on slashdot.
What a waste of time. His interviewing skills are on par with Rosie O'Donnels, more about kissing ass and talking about the "Cutie Patootie" boy with the piercings than getting any information.