Does that mean that my motherboard for my Dimension 8400 isn't decent? Tell me something I don't know. Now I've got to find out how I can throttle my CPU and fan on this computer....
So the MPAA members are going to jail? What's that warning at the beginning of every VHS video tape with a legitimate movie on it? And how much do they have to cough up monetarily? And where will the money go? To the crews, like the light crews, makeup crews, etc? I think not....
Aside from the obvious deficiency in multiplication, depending upon the locality and size of the lots you may be paying most or all of that $3,000 in property taxes.
Remember to deduct income tax from the balance. Don't count on becoming Donald Trump just yet.:)
But don't forget, the windmills will lower the value of your property, thus lower taxes!
Wait, I've got it! In order to pay less in taxes, all I need to do is place a windmill in my back yard!
Using less is one option, but what about energy efficiency? Why not encourage the people (through tax rebates, zoning, building codes, etc) to better insulate their homes, purchase more energy efficient appliances, use fluorescent lights, install programmable thermostats, operate the electric grid at higher voltages to reduce transmission loss, etc.
We're talking America here, the land of city slickers driving F250's and Suburbans so the family of 4 can make it over the speed-bumps in Walmart's parking lots. And if you don't like it, why don't you just go to FRANCE? Stupid, no-good Frenchies, refusing to die so we can exercise our God-given right to drive said vehicles for a moderate price.
Less than 42 years, seeing as to how we will be spending less money on repairing the environment and everything else associated with externalities of natural gas, coal, nuclear, etc.
An important thing to note: gas and oil prices are only likely to go up, as they are a limited resource, and supply is decreasing.
Laptops are not quiet. Whenever my roommate shuts his laptop at night, the thing roars into overdrive and is louder than my desktop. Plus, storage and soundcards would be my problems with a laptop.
The squeezebox sounds interesting, I will definately have to investigate that some more, especially once I get my receiver back from my sister.
Well, Japanese trains are notorious for their punctuality. Remember the time when that one train derailed itself, crashed into a building, and killed a bunch of people just because it was trying to make up for the fact that it was a minute and a half late?
Where I live (Twin Cities, MN, USA), up to 10 minutes late is pretty normal for almost every single bus route, and our train line.
Yeah, we all know Metro Transit sucks, and that the Light-Rail system is more for putting on a good show than anything else. What I don't get is why we tore up our street-car lines when we started putting in 94, 494, and 694, only to have a group go "We've got a brilliant idea, let's put in street cars!" 50 years later....
Really, it all depends on what the device is going to be used for. I have been planning on making a unit for a while, and here is what I will use it for, and here are my requirements: Useage: Playing music, and only music, through a receiver.
Requirements: Storage: Preferably at least 200GB. Sound quality: Very good - meaning outstanding Linux support and digital optical out. Noise: silent. There's no point in listening to FLAC files if you have to overpower the machine with the music. Interaction: wireless remote - shouldn't be too complicated, basically a DVD player's remote, but with even less buttons. Speed: How fast it boots up - I don't want to have to wait more than 10 seconds, which means that POST better take no time at all, and that kernel better load quickley as well.
Extra-nice touchs: A case that I fabricate myself to blend in with stereo equipment LED display like those on CD and DVD players in addition to the on-screen display/navigation.
Why I havn't built it yet: 1) Price - it's too expensive for a college student to have a PSU that doesn't need a fan, and good sound cards cost too much money for said group. With the parts available today (which I wouldn't even want to use, read #2), I would have to spend over $700, which is a lot of money right now for me to listen to music. 2) Availability of parts - I don't want to build one of these until we have solid-state storage that has the capacities I want, and at a moderate price.
That being the case, you're saying that I should go out and purchase an Xbox memory card for the sole purpose of transfering games to my "backwards compatible" X360 console?
I'll apologize for him. We're sorry. I guess you don't have any friends, otherwise you could have thought of mooching off of them, or having them all pitch together so that you all could share the memory card to transfer all of your saves over.
Has anyone thought of just networking the XBoxes, and transfering saves that way?
and I for one am thankful - the holographic projection will not kick your heart out through the back of your ribcage like my grandpa's old draft nag was always trying to do to anyone who was within ten feet of his back end. No flies either.
From what I remember from what my AP US History teacher told me, it's that the government is holding prices artificially low. I'm surprised Bush hasn't attacked this yet, but yet, I'm still not surprised, seeing as how wasteful and polluting Texas is ala all of its industry.
Holy crap! An average house where I live costs ~$300k. Granted, we do have townhouses the street next to me, but the housing boom really sucks when you're looking to buy (and not speculate.) Where do you live, some small town of ~5K people? My city has ~85K people, and I'm sure that if I wanted to live north about 10 miles, a house of similar size would cost near $500k-$750k, depending on if it's close to a lake. And just to give you a reference, I live in Minnesota, not even a costal state!
In response to other people's comments, however, my Radeon 8500 lasted me about 3 years, and we purchased that thing for about $200. I'm pretty sure that a 6600GT or a 6800 would last just as long.
And don't think that dev's aren't there, but that they aren't necessarily ready. Remember, it took them a long time to learn how to program for Windows. I'd imagine it would take them a while to learn how to program for Linux.
Linux is ready for corporate use. Except for IT, nobody needs to get under the hood for 99.9% of corporations. All that needs to be done is have speciality software ported over to Linux, and have IT lockdown the system so that the average user can't mess things up. At the bank I work at, we use 2 tools that are installed on the computer, and one that's web-based. One tools is where we run all of our transactions, one is a suite of programs where we look up accounts, statuses, and anything else related to the account, and the web-based is to look up signature cards. If we (since the bank I work at owns the software company that produces our software) made Linux ports for the transaction program and the inquery suite, we could port to Linux without any problems. The only thing I can think of right now for why we haven't is because we haven't had a need. For us, what we have works. I've never had Win2K freeze up on me, and the only problems I've had with the computer are with the programs that my bank made. Now, I suppose once Microsoft stops supporting Win2K, my bank might have a reason to make the switch, but for right now, it would be an un-necessary cost.
I guess this means that the 6600GT is going to go down in price, meaning that I can upgrade from my X300SE to something that is supported under Linux (meaning lets me watch DVD's under Linux). I think I'll wait a few months, see if Newegg keeps them in stock or has a clearance on them. Or who knows, maybe we'll see a flood of discounted video cards on ebay?
On a serious note, I'd much rather have the F/OSS and Linux communities embracing people that cry out for my features, as they will attract corporate attention. Who knows, maybe we can see 3d Studio Max natively under Linux, so we can have a professional CAD program to compete against Maya (and don't ANYBODY mention Blender, as that's not professional)
I got my Samsung 1740 for around $60, I believe. My Dad bought Dell's version of it (Dell's 1100 Laser Printer), but when I mentioned that it was Dell's only laser that didn't support Linux, he threw a hissy-fit. Then we saw the 1740, which not only supports Linux and Mac, but also has 8MB of memory instead of Dell's 2MB of memory.
If you're serious about printing photos, though, don't use inkjet. Go dye-sub printers. In all practicalty, it's amazing inkjets still exist. If you want mediocre results, then get an inkjet. If you want quality results, but two printers: a laser and a dye-sub.
The only way I can access my computer files safely from a remote location is to use the webserver. FTP doesn't work because apparently all of the FTP daemons I've used don't like to work behind routers, even after ports 70 and 71, or whatever the two FTP ports are, are forwarded to the computer. Before you mention SSH, let me say that I simply don't want to go to the hassles of learning yet another service and have to upgrade it. Apache works well for me to access my MP3's and such from remote locations, and also is the best way for me to test webpages before putting them on commercial servers.
...they rely on Gaim. Could Microsoft have admitted defeat?
Ok, on a serious note, I'm also with the camp that is wondering how much is this Bill's beliefs, and how much contradicts witht he other Bill's beliefs and opinions, as well as the stance of the company.
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Does that mean that my motherboard for my Dimension 8400 isn't decent? Tell me something I don't know. Now I've got to find out how I can throttle my CPU and fan on this computer....
So the MPAA members are going to jail? What's that warning at the beginning of every VHS video tape with a legitimate movie on it? And how much do they have to cough up monetarily? And where will the money go? To the crews, like the light crews, makeup crews, etc? I think not....
Remember to deduct income tax from the balance. Don't count on becoming Donald Trump just yet. :)
But don't forget, the windmills will lower the value of your property, thus lower taxes!
Wait, I've got it! In order to pay less in taxes, all I need to do is place a windmill in my back yard!
We're talking America here, the land of city slickers driving F250's and Suburbans so the family of 4 can make it over the speed-bumps in Walmart's parking lots. And if you don't like it, why don't you just go to FRANCE? Stupid, no-good Frenchies, refusing to die so we can exercise our God-given right to drive said vehicles for a moderate price.
Less than 42 years, seeing as to how we will be spending less money on repairing the environment and everything else associated with externalities of natural gas, coal, nuclear, etc. An important thing to note: gas and oil prices are only likely to go up, as they are a limited resource, and supply is decreasing.
The squeezebox sounds interesting, I will definately have to investigate that some more, especially once I get my receiver back from my sister.
Where I live (Twin Cities, MN, USA), up to 10 minutes late is pretty normal for almost every single bus route, and our train line.
Yeah, we all know Metro Transit sucks, and that the Light-Rail system is more for putting on a good show than anything else. What I don't get is why we tore up our street-car lines when we started putting in 94, 494, and 694, only to have a group go "We've got a brilliant idea, let's put in street cars!" 50 years later....
Really, it all depends on what the device is going to be used for. I have been planning on making a unit for a while, and here is what I will use it for, and here are my requirements:
Useage: Playing music, and only music, through a receiver.
Requirements:
Storage: Preferably at least 200GB.
Sound quality: Very good - meaning outstanding Linux support and digital optical out.
Noise: silent. There's no point in listening to FLAC files if you have to overpower the machine with the music.
Interaction: wireless remote - shouldn't be too complicated, basically a DVD player's remote, but with even less buttons.
Speed: How fast it boots up - I don't want to have to wait more than 10 seconds, which means that POST better take no time at all, and that kernel better load quickley as well.
Extra-nice touchs:
A case that I fabricate myself to blend in with stereo equipment
LED display like those on CD and DVD players in addition to the on-screen display/navigation.
Why I havn't built it yet:
1) Price - it's too expensive for a college student to have a PSU that doesn't need a fan, and good sound cards cost too much money for said group. With the parts available today (which I wouldn't even want to use, read #2), I would have to spend over $700, which is a lot of money right now for me to listen to music.
2) Availability of parts - I don't want to build one of these until we have solid-state storage that has the capacities I want, and at a moderate price.
You can call durring bussinness hours 9am-5pm easter time
So I guess they're only open for bussinness one day a year, and that's on a Sunday.
Easter time is 50 days, you insensitive clod.
Here, look it up, and search for "easter time":
http://www.nativity.org/Triduum.html
I'll apologize for him. We're sorry. I guess you don't have any friends, otherwise you could have thought of mooching off of them, or having them all pitch together so that you all could share the memory card to transfer all of your saves over.
Has anyone thought of just networking the XBoxes, and transfering saves that way?
Oh, but the Matrix makes it real!
From what I remember from what my AP US History teacher told me, it's that the government is holding prices artificially low. I'm surprised Bush hasn't attacked this yet, but yet, I'm still not surprised, seeing as how wasteful and polluting Texas is ala all of its industry.
Bush: Don't mess with Texas!
In response to other people's comments, however, my Radeon 8500 lasted me about 3 years, and we purchased that thing for about $200. I'm pretty sure that a 6600GT or a 6800 would last just as long.
No wonder the game market is still predominately male!
Linux is ready for corporate use. Except for IT, nobody needs to get under the hood for 99.9% of corporations. All that needs to be done is have speciality software ported over to Linux, and have IT lockdown the system so that the average user can't mess things up. At the bank I work at, we use 2 tools that are installed on the computer, and one that's web-based. One tools is where we run all of our transactions, one is a suite of programs where we look up accounts, statuses, and anything else related to the account, and the web-based is to look up signature cards. If we (since the bank I work at owns the software company that produces our software) made Linux ports for the transaction program and the inquery suite, we could port to Linux without any problems. The only thing I can think of right now for why we haven't is because we haven't had a need. For us, what we have works. I've never had Win2K freeze up on me, and the only problems I've had with the computer are with the programs that my bank made. Now, I suppose once Microsoft stops supporting Win2K, my bank might have a reason to make the switch, but for right now, it would be an un-necessary cost.
I guess this means that the 6600GT is going to go down in price, meaning that I can upgrade from my X300SE to something that is supported under Linux (meaning lets me watch DVD's under Linux). I think I'll wait a few months, see if Newegg keeps them in stock or has a clearance on them. Or who knows, maybe we'll see a flood of discounted video cards on ebay?
..then how is it going to stop the pirated copies that it's supposed to be stopping? What was the point of this "feature," again?
Does it run under Linux?
On a serious note, I'd much rather have the F/OSS and Linux communities embracing people that cry out for my features, as they will attract corporate attention. Who knows, maybe we can see 3d Studio Max natively under Linux, so we can have a professional CAD program to compete against Maya (and don't ANYBODY mention Blender, as that's not professional)
If you're serious about printing photos, though, don't use inkjet. Go dye-sub printers. In all practicalty, it's amazing inkjets still exist. If you want mediocre results, then get an inkjet. If you want quality results, but two printers: a laser and a dye-sub.
The only way I can access my computer files safely from a remote location is to use the webserver. FTP doesn't work because apparently all of the FTP daemons I've used don't like to work behind routers, even after ports 70 and 71, or whatever the two FTP ports are, are forwarded to the computer. Before you mention SSH, let me say that I simply don't want to go to the hassles of learning yet another service and have to upgrade it. Apache works well for me to access my MP3's and such from remote locations, and also is the best way for me to test webpages before putting them on commercial servers.
Ok, on a serious note, I'm also with the camp that is wondering how much is this Bill's beliefs, and how much contradicts witht he other Bill's beliefs and opinions, as well as the stance of the company.
Or were those only so we wouldn't ever have to land on the moon again, allowing us to cut the trip distance in half?
Then, my comrades, we have a paradox....