Throw that p.o.s. out. Lexmark is the low of the low, the trash at the bottom of the landfill, the last piece of bacteria in your intestine that gets the last nutrient from what is now a stinky terd.
Popping noise - not very descriptive, so I can't offer much advice.
Flickering screen when the mouse moves? You're most likely using the VESA driver and some ultra low resolution - or it's some crappy onboard video that needs some windows tricks to work around the broken hardware. It flickers when your windows move too, right? When there's any movement on the screen? .
Ubuntu alone has links all over the place pointing to their unofficial FAQ. Following it, you can be playing mp3s in less than 60 seconds. The first time I installed ubuntu, I noticed this too. Some googling got me to the doc.
I'm not going to address sound, though it worked on two of my machines out of the box, I have done some hair pulling so it'd be unfair if I said it was easy:)
Graphics haven't always been slick for me, but they have been for 2+ years - especially since nvidia started actually caring. Wireless - well, we're just stuck. A lot of wireless vendors haven't been hardware vendors before - and as such, they think they can basically ignore the linux market - like broadcom tried to a few years ago. The ones that haven't ignored it have been the ones with some experience and with cards that are more hardware based than software based - the intel centrino wireless cards, upper end linksys cards, etc. If you buy John Doe's wirElessXtreme, he probably won't give you linux drivers. If you stick with cards that have some quality, you shouldn't have any issues.
The point of this reply is this:
Don't expect to work on the cheapest of the cheap. It barely even works all of the time on Windows. Do some research, buy reputable hardware, and don't forget to google. A lot of distros, like ubuntu, can't just package mp3 support - they're free - they will be as long as they are around. They also cannot fight the patent office because - well - they don't exactly have a lot of cash flow. When you install linux, you're not just installing another operating system, you're installing the product of many people's hard work. This hardwork is often a dedication to get you royalty free, unencumbered software you don't sign you're life away on. The next time you install linux, look at all of the rights/freedoms it GIVES you. The next time you install windows/OSX, look at all of the rights/freedom it TAKES from you.
Software like mediawiki can be controlled so that if you're not logged in, you can't see or edit any pages. By flipping a true/false option, you can prevent anonymous users from registering, and apache contains Directory lines to only allow certain IPs, users, groups, etc. If you dedicate a few minutes, mediawiki actually makes a pretty good internal documentation tool - and not just documenting source code.
There are only a few things I'll give solaris credit for, one is stability (If you never want to update your system, patches for a standard solaris install come out 3-5 times a week or more.) and two is binary compatibility: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/guarantee.jsp
I think it's safe to say that asking for "Next Tab" to bring you from tab #10 to tab #1 is fair.
By unlimited, I mean I want to control it. 64MB is low. Very low. I admin hundreds of linux machines, by ssh only. Although most of the administration is centralized, I still log in to specific machines and do stuff for hours at a time, often with hundreds of thousands of lines of output. If I mess up something, or am working on something extremely critical, I like to save my history at that very spot so I have evidence of what I did. 100k lines is nothing in a normal day for me. I use konsole with unlimited history, often have 25+ tabs open, and when it goes to swap (Very rare), I pay the price and close/recycle some non-critical tabs.
Konsole also lets me "search in history" and "save history" to a file.
C-A-n might be nice for the emacs-addicts, but quick, efficient shortcuts are what I like. I loved tera-term, which gave me things like alt-c for copy, alt-v for past and alt-n for new (terminal). I still love those shortcuts and they rarely interfere with other applications. Even if they did, I only have one active window at a time so it doesn't matter so much. In any case, konsole lets me add any shortcuts I like.
Ah forget it, I do not know about that options...
Hehe, sorry to be so demanding but I can do some cool things with konsole. Different profiles - one for running a screen session, one for a swatch session, one for a green on black session, others for yellow on black. I can send input to one konsole with 4 tabs open, while leaving my other konsole with 12 tabs alone. Often, I'll run about 3 instances of konsole, one with say 10 tabs open to my 10 mail servers with tails and history of 100k lines. One with 10 tabs open to 10 dhcp servers with tails and 20k lines, one with the 10 servers I'm working on at the same time that I can send output to all at the same time. I can also have another konsole tailing an error log that beeps/indicates when there's output in the terminal (say tail -f error.log) so I can get notified when there's output. I can also have it notify/beep when output has stopped coming - say a access.log.
Thanks for the shortcut advice though, I'll see what I can do.
Actually, there are all of the standard navigational arrows in the file browsers, so moving up/back/etc. is easy. Secondly, no one explicitly told me I had to type and the path bar showed up, I merely typed a letter in while in a directory full of files hoping it'd take me to the files, and instead it brought up the dialog.
I'm with ya. Also, give me the ability to add shortcuts like "Next tab" and "Previous tab" that cycle back to tab 1 after I hit "Next tab" on the last tab. Give me an unlimited history (I can manage my own memory, don't stop me at 300k because you don't like I ever need that much). Give me the ability to add my own shortcut. Adding "Alt-n" as a short cut for "new tab" doesn't work - instead, it operates other commands in that window.
Finally, like konsole does, give me the ability to control my tabs/sessions/apps from the command line.
P.s. Konsole really does have all of these options, and along with kopete, these are the only two kde apps I run under gnome.
Agreed, time messes with farmers more than helps them.
Grain elevators, milk trucks (for dairy farms), and grain delivery all run on DST and farmers run on day-time. Cows need to be milked at the same time so whether it's 6:00am or 7:00am, it needs to be done. Trains from grain elevators need to leave on DST so if you're trying to get your grain in by a deadline, you're now at the mercy of DST. Elevators usually have agreements to deliver grain to feeders, etc. by 9:00am - although pigs and most other livestock aren't physically affected by food arriving at a different time - it can cause stress, etc.
(1) Launch Google.cn. We have recently launched Google.cn, a version of Google's search engine that we will filter in response to Chinese laws and regulations on illegal content. This website will supplement, and not replace, the existing, unfiltered Chinese-language interface on Google.com. That website will remain open and unfiltered for Chinese-speaking users worldwide.
My apologies for posting a "suggestion" that happened to be exactly what they were doing. I was under the impression google.ch and google.com were the same thing and Google did their thing based on IP.
Google should have appeased China by setting up google.ch, and giving in to China on that. This would have helped in a few ways:
#1. Any query to that domain could be filtered. #2. google.com would have stayed fully open. #3. It would have been China's burden to block/redirect to google.ch, not google's. Important thing here folks. Put the burden on China and China's ISPs. #4. Wouldn't have to worry about inaccurately determining an address in china as non-chinese and not filtering results, and the opposite - IPs not in china mistakingly identified as Chinese and subsequently filtered.
Alternatively, China could could work on entering the 18th,19th,20th, or even 21st century. Kind of sad that such a large society has such a patethetic record.
"The Government, of course, has told the Court none of this. Instead, it relies on a talismanic incantation that the standard of relevance is met 'so long as [the request] is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.'"
Talismanic incantion! LOL!
Google's lawyers appear to be a good job refuting the Government's "expert":
"The court should view the Cutts Declaration as standing in strong contrast to the Government's declarant, Professor Phillip Stark, a statistician who apparently has been hired to produce a study to support the Government's contentions. The Stark Declaration is vague, cursory, and uninformed about the operation of Google's search engine. In any event, Professor Stark's opinion ought to be viewed with some scrutiny. Although positioned as the Government's expert, he has not yet been qualified as a reliable expert by the Pennsylvania court trying the underlying case pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993). The Pennsylvania court has thus not yet determined whether Professor Stark's testimony is reliable and of any assistance to the trier of fact."
And I'd have to side with Google on this. I'd venture to guess that most of google's data is completely irrelevant when taken out of context, which Stark is trying to do. If Google does have to turn the data over, I wouldn't be suprised if Stark tried to strongarm his way into learning Google's methods, algorithms, etc.
Another good argument is the following:
"In addition, the Government will not be able to ascertain the content of a Web page from its descriptive URL name. A Web site's name that suggests potential harmful material may be benign. Conversely, a URL that seems innocent may actually return pornographic material. The classic example is www.whitehouse.com, which was a pornography site. Here, the adage "you can't judge a book by its cover" applies. A URL such as http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/prontline/shows/porn /etc/links.html contains the word "porn" but actually provides links to anti-pornography organizations."
I too, have experienced this. A video game level I've tried 5 times or maybe even a bit of code or technology problem I'm having seems extraordinarily complex or hard to achieve. I'll sleep on it and and seems the next day I can reliably pass the level every time (like the last level of Battlefield 2), or I come up with a better solution for the code, or a nice solutions for a technological problem - something that baffled me the day before. I unofficially exploit this all of the time now - buying a car, fixing that problem at work, solving the latest problem with the ex-wife, etc.
My mom had the caravan with the Mitsubishi engine. One night, she was driving it home and it broke down on her. She ended up calling us from another farm house to have us come and get her. Since I was the blossoming farm mechanic, I offered to check it out and see what went wrong. First time I've ever seen a rod break near the piston and actually knock a hole in the block the size of a coaster. Still won't go near anything mitsubishi-ish.
XFS is one of the worst formats I've ever worked with. Not only have I lost gigs of data from terabytes of XFS partitions, but they've all been results of XFS bugs. A cursory glance at their bug list, and you'll see why it's not a prudent choice.
Ok, now you might say to yourself, "Well, they're fixing the bugs, so the version I'm on isn't subject to them". In which case, I'd say you're sorely mistaken. First, check the date of their last release:
Check out the latest the latest. What? 2003? Haven't there been any bug fixes since then?
Truth be told, ext3 may be worse on paper, but at least they:
a. Acknowledge their bugs. b. Attempt to patch their bugs. c. Admit they're not the world's cure for every problem. d. Are backed by a company that will be around for the next few years. e. Have recent changes that fix bugs reported within the past year +.
You spend all that money on a game system not to play games? Ok. I'm off to the car dealer to by a new car because it's great to store my clothes in it. Whatever floats you boat, I'm glad you found a great way to justify your ridiculous purchase.
I'm sorry, I just have to point on how wrong this is. I own a modded and non modded xbox. Guess which one I use more? Modded. At least 2-3 times a week I download/rip/etc a new movie and have friends/relatives over watching it. What else, besides Nero, can play a x264 LA-AAC MPEG2? That's right, XBMC. How about downloading the latest Tiger woods before you decide to buy it? How about those videos of the kids? Perhaps that collection of 2600+ Nintendo ROMS? How about checking the weather while watching a movie? XBMC downloads it automatically for your area and you can view the current/forecasted weather while watching a movie in XBMC's PiP setup.
Dolby surround sound from that DVD you just downloaded? Your computer cannot do it, but XBMC can. Region locked dvd? Xbmc. Streaming movies from your computer in the closet? Your media center needs its own hard drive - mine can stream off any computer in the house.
If you've got a bit (60 minutes) of time to dedicate, + a $60 modchip, and an xbox, Xbox+Avalaunch+XBMC makes a media center years ahead of what else is on the market.
Anyone that's not in the stock market for the long run, please do us all a favor and leave. The following exerpt from an AP article this morning sums everything up:
No, don't shoo them away, capitalizing on their emotions, shortsightedness and inexperience is part of the cycle.
You do realize that the price of an individual share is an essentially trivial attribute, don't you? Sure, it sets the entry barrier a bit higher, but it plays no role in anything else. Shorting this stock is about the dumbest move you can make. There's no cap on how much you can lose if you short a stock, and a volitale stock like this means it has extraordinarily high risk and a comparitively small gain.
Individual investors are ruled by emotion. Many stocks go down, even on high earnings, if their earnings are not as high as regular projects or "whisper" numbers. Smart investors capitalize on this very fact. Google has a lot of institutional (Huge amounts of money controlled by very experienced and rational investors) investor support, which is exactly why it didn't take a 30%+ hit - institutional support. If you look at the IBD chart (sorry, have to subscribe), you'll find that Google didn't even close under its 50 day moving average - a very, very good sign.
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My Lexmark printer has been out over 3 years...
Throw that p.o.s. out. Lexmark is the low of the low, the trash at the bottom of the landfill, the last piece of bacteria in your intestine that gets the last nutrient from what is now a stinky terd.
Popping noise - not very descriptive, so I can't offer much advice.
Flickering screen when the mouse moves? You're most likely using the VESA driver and some ultra low resolution - or it's some crappy onboard video that needs some windows tricks to work around the broken hardware. It flickers when your windows move too, right? When there's any movement on the screen?
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What kind of Dell? I have a D800 with centrion that's ran linux and ipw2100 since day one...
Ubuntu alone has links all over the place pointing to their unofficial FAQ. Following it, you can be playing mp3s in less than 60 seconds. The first time I installed ubuntu, I noticed this too. Some googling got me to the doc.
I'm not going to address sound, though it worked on two of my machines out of the box, I have done some hair pulling so it'd be unfair if I said it was easy:)
Graphics haven't always been slick for me, but they have been for 2+ years - especially since nvidia started actually caring. Wireless - well, we're just stuck. A lot of wireless vendors haven't been hardware vendors before - and as such, they think they can basically ignore the linux market - like broadcom tried to a few years ago. The ones that haven't ignored it have been the ones with some experience and with cards that are more hardware based than software based - the intel centrino wireless cards, upper end linksys cards, etc. If you buy John Doe's wirElessXtreme, he probably won't give you linux drivers. If you stick with cards that have some quality, you shouldn't have any issues.
The point of this reply is this:
Don't expect to work on the cheapest of the cheap. It barely even works all of the time on Windows. Do some research, buy reputable hardware, and don't forget to google. A lot of distros, like ubuntu, can't just package mp3 support - they're free - they will be as long as they are around. They also cannot fight the patent office because - well - they don't exactly have a lot of cash flow. When you install linux, you're not just installing another operating system, you're installing the product of many people's hard work. This hardwork is often a dedication to get you royalty free, unencumbered software you don't sign you're life away on. The next time you install linux, look at all of the rights/freedoms it GIVES you. The next time you install windows/OSX, look at all of the rights/freedom it TAKES from you.
Software like mediawiki can be controlled so that if you're not logged in, you can't see or edit any pages. By flipping a true/false option, you can prevent anonymous users from registering, and apache contains Directory lines to only allow certain IPs, users, groups, etc. If you dedicate a few minutes, mediawiki actually makes a pretty good internal documentation tool - and not just documenting source code.
There are only a few things I'll give solaris credit for, one is stability (If you never want to update your system, patches for a standard solaris install come out 3-5 times a week or more.) and two is binary compatibility: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/guarantee.jsp
I think it's safe to say that asking for "Next Tab" to bring you from tab #10 to tab #1 is fair.
By unlimited, I mean I want to control it. 64MB is low. Very low. I admin hundreds of linux machines, by ssh only. Although most of the administration is centralized, I still log in to specific machines and do stuff for hours at a time, often with hundreds of thousands of lines of output. If I mess up something, or am working on something extremely critical, I like to save my history at that very spot so I have evidence of what I did. 100k lines is nothing in a normal day for me. I use konsole with unlimited history, often have 25+ tabs open, and when it goes to swap (Very rare), I pay the price and close/recycle some non-critical tabs.
Konsole also lets me "search in history" and "save history" to a file.
C-A-n might be nice for the emacs-addicts, but quick, efficient shortcuts are what I like. I loved tera-term, which gave me things like alt-c for copy, alt-v for past and alt-n for new (terminal). I still love those shortcuts and they rarely interfere with other applications. Even if they did, I only have one active window at a time so it doesn't matter so much. In any case, konsole lets me add any shortcuts I like.
Ah forget it, I do not know about that options...
Hehe, sorry to be so demanding but I can do some cool things with konsole. Different profiles - one for running a screen session, one for a swatch session, one for a green on black session, others for yellow on black. I can send input to one konsole with 4 tabs open, while leaving my other konsole with 12 tabs alone. Often, I'll run about 3 instances of konsole, one with say 10 tabs open to my 10 mail servers with tails and history of 100k lines. One with 10 tabs open to 10 dhcp servers with tails and 20k lines, one with the 10 servers I'm working on at the same time that I can send output to all at the same time. I can also have another konsole tailing an error log that beeps/indicates when there's output in the terminal (say tail -f error.log) so I can get notified when there's output. I can also have it notify/beep when output has stopped coming - say a access.log.
Thanks for the shortcut advice though, I'll see what I can do.
Well if you have linux installed, "lspci -vvv" will give you some output. In there, you can find some lines like this:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0179
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop+ ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-
In my case, you can see the relevent line is "GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x".
If you use the "nvidia" drive in Xorg, you'll see something like this from:
"
ubuntu:~$ grep -i nvidia
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] rev 161, Mem @ 0xfc000000/24, 0xf0000000/26, BIOS
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce4 4200 Go
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.28.20.31.10
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kBytes
"
Actually, there are all of the standard navigational arrows in the file browsers, so moving up/back/etc. is easy. Secondly, no one explicitly told me I had to type and the path bar showed up, I merely typed a letter in while in a directory full of files hoping it'd take me to the files, and instead it brought up the dialog.
Intuitive??? Who wouldda thunk?
I'm with ya. Also, give me the ability to add shortcuts like "Next tab" and "Previous tab" that cycle back to tab 1 after I hit "Next tab" on the last tab. Give me an unlimited history (I can manage my own memory, don't stop me at 300k because you don't like I ever need that much). Give me the ability to add my own shortcut. Adding "Alt-n" as a short cut for "new tab" doesn't work - instead, it operates other commands in that window.
Finally, like konsole does, give me the ability to control my tabs/sessions/apps from the command line.
P.s. Konsole really does have all of these options, and along with kopete, these are the only two kde apps I run under gnome.
Out of curiosity, do you have a geforce2go, or a geforce4 2 go?
The 4 to go has the nfiniteFX II engine which has pixel shaders.
Ref: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce4go.html
Agreed, time messes with farmers more than helps them.
Grain elevators, milk trucks (for dairy farms), and grain delivery all run on DST and farmers run on day-time. Cows need to be milked at the same time so whether it's 6:00am or 7:00am, it needs to be done. Trains from grain elevators need to leave on DST so if you're trying to get your grain in by a deadline, you're now at the mercy of DST. Elevators usually have agreements to deliver grain to feeders, etc. by 9:00am - although pigs and most other livestock aren't physically affected by food arriving at a different time - it can cause stress, etc.
I think you're right, according to their latest blog post:
(1) Launch Google.cn.
We have recently launched Google.cn, a version of Google's search engine that we will filter in response to Chinese laws and regulations on illegal content. This website will supplement, and not replace, the existing, unfiltered Chinese-language interface on Google.com. That website will remain open and unfiltered for Chinese-speaking users worldwide.
My apologies for posting a "suggestion" that happened to be exactly what they were doing. I was under the impression google.ch and google.com were the same thing and Google did their thing based on IP.
Oh whoops, my bad:)
As an American, I demand credit for understanding there's another country other than my own!
I get one point for a pathetic spelling of pathetic.
Google should have appeased China by setting up google.ch, and giving in to China on that. This would have helped in a few ways:
#1. Any query to that domain could be filtered.
#2. google.com would have stayed fully open.
#3. It would have been China's burden to block/redirect to google.ch, not google's. Important thing here folks. Put the burden on China and China's ISPs.
#4. Wouldn't have to worry about inaccurately determining an address in china as non-chinese and not filtering results, and the opposite - IPs not in china mistakingly identified as Chinese and subsequently filtered.
Alternatively, China could could work on entering the 18th,19th,20th, or even 21st century. Kind of sad that such a large society has such a patethetic record.
The funniest part of TFS follows:
n /etc/links.html contains the word "porn" but
"The Government, of course, has told the Court none of this. Instead, it relies on a
talismanic incantation that the standard of relevance is met 'so long as [the request] is reasonably
calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.'"
Talismanic incantion! LOL!
Google's lawyers appear to be a good job refuting the Government's "expert":
"The court should view the Cutts Declaration as standing in strong contrast to the
Government's declarant, Professor Phillip Stark, a statistician who apparently has been hired to
produce a study to support the Government's contentions. The Stark Declaration is vague,
cursory, and uninformed about the operation of Google's search engine. In any event, Professor
Stark's opinion ought to be viewed with some scrutiny. Although positioned as the Government's
expert, he has not yet been qualified as a reliable expert by the Pennsylvania court trying the
underlying case pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms.,
Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993). The Pennsylvania court has thus not yet determined whether Professor
Stark's testimony is reliable and of any assistance to the trier of fact."
And I'd have to side with Google on this. I'd venture to guess that most of google's data is completely irrelevant when taken out of context, which Stark is trying to do. If Google does have to turn the data over, I wouldn't be suprised if Stark tried to strongarm his way into learning Google's methods, algorithms, etc.
Another good argument is the following:
"In addition, the Government will not be able to ascertain the content of a Web page from
its descriptive URL name. A Web site's name that suggests potential harmful material may be
benign. Conversely, a URL that seems innocent may actually return pornographic material. The
classic example is www.whitehouse.com, which was a pornography site. Here, the adage "you
can't judge a book by its cover" applies. A URL such as
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/prontline/shows/por
actually provides links to anti-pornography organizations."
I too, have experienced this. A video game level I've tried 5 times or maybe even a bit of code or technology problem I'm having seems extraordinarily complex or hard to achieve. I'll sleep on it and and seems the next day I can reliably pass the level every time (like the last level of Battlefield 2), or I come up with a better solution for the code, or a nice solutions for a technological problem - something that baffled me the day before. I unofficially exploit this all of the time now - buying a car, fixing that problem at work, solving the latest problem with the ex-wife, etc.
My mom had the caravan with the Mitsubishi engine. One night, she was driving it home and it broke down on her. She ended up calling us from another farm house to have us come and get her. Since I was the blossoming farm mechanic, I offered to check it out and see what went wrong. First time I've ever seen a rod break near the piston and actually knock a hole in the block the size of a coaster. Still won't go near anything mitsubishi-ish.
XFS is one of the worst formats I've ever worked with. Not only have I lost gigs of data from terabytes of XFS partitions, but they've all been results of XFS bugs. A cursory glance at their bug list, and you'll see why it's not a prudent choice.
m at=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open __&product=&content=
Let me get you started:
http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_for
Ok, now you might say to yourself, "Well, they're fixing the bugs, so the version I'm on isn't subject to them". In which case, I'd say you're sorely mistaken. First, check the date of their last release:
FTP
Check out the latest the latest. What? 2003? Haven't there been any bug fixes since then?
Truth be told, ext3 may be worse on paper, but at least they:
a. Acknowledge their bugs.
b. Attempt to patch their bugs.
c. Admit they're not the world's cure for every problem.
d. Are backed by a company that will be around for the next few years.
e. Have recent changes that fix bugs reported within the past year +.
You spend all that money on a game system not to play games? Ok. I'm off to the car dealer to by a new car because it's great to store my clothes in it. Whatever floats you boat, I'm glad you found a great way to justify your ridiculous purchase.
I'm sorry, I just have to point on how wrong this is. I own a modded and non modded xbox. Guess which one I use more? Modded. At least 2-3 times a week I download/rip/etc a new movie and have friends/relatives over watching it. What else, besides Nero, can play a x264 LA-AAC MPEG2? That's right, XBMC. How about downloading the latest Tiger woods before you decide to buy it? How about those videos of the kids? Perhaps that collection of 2600+ Nintendo ROMS? How about checking the weather while watching a movie? XBMC downloads it automatically for your area and you can view the current/forecasted weather while watching a movie in XBMC's PiP setup.
Dolby surround sound from that DVD you just downloaded? Your computer cannot do it, but XBMC can. Region locked dvd? Xbmc. Streaming movies from your computer in the closet? Your media center needs its own hard drive - mine can stream off any computer in the house.
If you've got a bit (60 minutes) of time to dedicate, + a $60 modchip, and an xbox, Xbox+Avalaunch+XBMC makes a media center years ahead of what else is on the market.
Anyone that's not in the stock market for the long run, please do us all a favor and leave. The following exerpt from an AP article this morning sums everything up:
No, don't shoo them away, capitalizing on their emotions, shortsightedness and inexperience is part of the cycle.
You do realize that the price of an individual share is an essentially trivial attribute, don't you? Sure, it sets the entry barrier a bit higher, but it plays no role in anything else. Shorting this stock is about the dumbest move you can make. There's no cap on how much you can lose if you short a stock, and a volitale stock like this means it has extraordinarily high risk and a comparitively small gain.
Individual investors are ruled by emotion. Many stocks go down, even on high earnings, if their earnings are not as high as regular projects or "whisper" numbers. Smart investors capitalize on this very fact. Google has a lot of institutional (Huge amounts of money controlled by very experienced and rational investors) investor support, which is exactly why it didn't take a 30%+ hit - institutional support. If you look at the IBD chart (sorry, have to subscribe), you'll find that Google didn't even close under its 50 day moving average - a very, very good sign.
n quiry.asp?userid=xD6wFbUCot&isbn=0760750106&itm=1
If you want to learn more, I suggest at least doing a trial of IBD. I've recently listened to an audio book that was quite helpful as well: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnI
Bills Gates constantly donates substantial amounts of money, and you're arguing that this guy in a fairy tale deserves more recognition?
My fault, I meant to write faster. Thx for the link though.