Columbia House will have the following business plan.
1. To ensure people will have a reason to purchase new units, every few months, they will use those shitty OEM Maxtor drive and install it in the unit with no fans or any ventalation.
2. For five months, the customer enjoyed watching a new movie every night until the unit over-heated and died.
3. Customer wants their conveience and is forced to pay for a new unit. (*)
4. Go to step 2
(*) - The price will be determined at the purchase time of the replacement unit. do nto expect the unit to be less than $800 or some unreasonable price.
Your question is off topic, but I will be willing to answer your question. You have several options. but before I get into them, I am going to ask you this. Why are all your PCI slots full? Post me what you have installed on the unit.
First lets assume you have an older system (P-166 and below) and your PCI slots are full (as mention and does not have USB ports. You can install yourself a nice ISA IDE or SCSI controller. Depending on which IDE/SCSI controller you get, will depend on how many items you can use. If your sound car is a ISA card, you may consider replacing it with a Sound Blaster Pro or 16 ASP. Those cards came with a standard IDE port which you can connect two additional IDE devices (from the sound card). You can also purchase an external 1 or 2 gig Jaz Drive by Iomega. These units are SCSI but they also came with SCSI to Parrell printer port converter. so this woudl allow you to conenct the device and have it working VIA printer port. Of course you will take a slight performace hit but it will work just fine.
Lets say you have a newer system (P-200 and higher). Cahnces are that you have USB. So you can get an external USB drive. Basically it is an IDE drive installed in a USB case. If you do nto need a large size drive jsut something small/portable get a USB memory stick reader and a big memory stick. It will work faster than a regular hard drive. Some units (NEC, DELL, AST, and Toshiba) have infer-red ports that can be used for this. If you haev one, do soem more research on your own.
I still have the problem with there fonts/image quality. If they have decent have decent fonts/image quaility, the battery lasts not much longer than 12 hours. This is really sad. All the technology we are investing into makes these phones with more features and games (which take a hit on the battery), and not extending the battery life.
What if I am running customized on-bootup scripts (i.e. connect to my mp3 audio server)? What about all my wma files? Once moved can they be played? Since it is moving all my files, shall I assume all of my PC games will be moved and work correctly also? Soemthing tells me no, just another gimick.
Will it include all the rare texts? Including the prediction of the fall of the cathlic empire? Or will it jsut put texts to show the struggle of the cahtholic religon to make it look more appealign to the general public?
BTW I am a cathlic, and I am not bashing, just curious.
I wonder if the students can start any kind of business. What if their company policies clash with the school's policies? This would include nuddie sites, adult toy sales and companies the dedicated themselves to spaming college students. Can the school draw the line somewhere?
The actor that plays Daniel Jackson, I heard he wanted to leave the show to start his own career. As a result, the writers wrote him out (death but with the possiblty of coming back as a guest). Anyone else heard the same? Let me know.
Others than the webheads looks mighty fine. Anyone can comment what hardware differences it has running in comparision of the current east coast one? Thanks
Wow.. now nudie sites will not only be virtual reality but semi-reality. It will allow users to keep both hands on the keyboard and still get the "full" expeirence of "nudie surfin."
As sick as it sounds I did something similar two years ago. I was running low on gas on the Mass Pike and I knew my car will make it another 2 miles. The nearest stations was at least 6 miles. So what did I do? Got soem of my diet coke and put 1/4 liter into the tank. The engine sounded like shit but made it fine. Pumped it up and my firebird has no problems.
Please do not mod this, just wanted to add to the other poster and thought others might find it funny.
This this case it is the happy Penguin (think of the size of the State-Puff Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters, with his smile) versus the 900 foot Bill Gates (Think of his shoes size beign half of a city block).
If all else fails, do what I do. I call up my buddie Bruno for proffesional assistance (charges 10%). He is about 6,5'', 300 pounds and all muscle. Needless to say, we we both walk in (about the same size as him), they pay me within the hour.
"Hello Pizza Hut? I would like a large cheese pizza and some hot wings deleveried to the Atlanta Domestic airport. What....where am I right now? I am about 3,000 feet above North Carolina, but I will be at the airport in 20 minutes."
I am a geek/wife and all I need is a microwave, toaster oven and a husband to use them.
I hate going out on a limb like this, but (assuming the huisband can't cook) why does your husband even need to have this kind of wife? Part of the benifits about having a wife (I am married too) is the cooking part and making the beds. Otherwise why not stay girlfriend and boyfriend? And if there is no love, why not just get an escort? Escort would be much cheaper and easier than having a woman nagging you to clean up, go to bed with her, and buy here shit.
Anyways, they are both geeks, I woudl assume both make a decent salary. Then why not hire a cook or always go to resturants? The whole computer in the kitcken can be avoided.
...if you cross police lines and pose a security risk you most definitely should go to jail.....obstructing justice should have a penalty.
That is a double standard right there. Did you ever think that by reporting an incident (that the police may decide should not be reported) perhaps more witenesses might be compelled to step forward?
For example, Police may decide to with hold a victims name of a murder. Someone else was reading that report, with the name censored. That person might ignore it and jsut read the next article. But, if that name was printed, the reader might be a friend of which he has seen that victim and provide valuable information. Again this is only one example and I know many others can make more.
Humans breath air.
Water is wet.
Deserts are dry.
etc...
So why is this news? Ovously people going to use every resource they can; land, air and water. A few locations, upon the surface, are too difficult to use; high altitudes and deserts. Hence why it is not 100% Is it me.. or is this just common sense?
I totally agree with you. If the upfront costs were just $399 and no monthly fees then I would serious consider it. With monthly fees, lets say $10, there receiver should be leased or given to you for free (under 2 year contract or something). the onyl way I would pay $399 for the receiver and a $10 service fee is it was portable (like an over sized cd player). This would give me the ability to hook it up to my home receiver and carry it around as a diskman. Perhaps even throw ina compact flash card port in there to save your favorite song when playing.
I am asking myself, why do people really need a portable DVD player? Are not cdr/mp3/audio-cd disk players enough? Sounds to me just another product to make consumers pay up.
This reminds me of one of those Jaque Crousto (bad spelling, but it is the marine ecologiest)shows back in the day. HE always explored the depth of something.
Here is a simple javacript code snippet how to make the website comatible for the disabled.
void user_checker()
{
if !(blind_teletype_detected)
{ //this method call display the entire website.
Display_Regular_Website();
}
else
{ //Output used for blind people.
Teletype_sender("Nothing to see here, move along!");
}
}
Why even obther doing that? Why not put audio on the current buttons. It would save alot of new re-design/development time. With audio alone, most of the ADA standards would be meet. All you would require some web space, javascript on mouse-over option and a nice voice. There are so many adult actresses out there, any one of those would make an excellent commentary.
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Columbia House will have the following business plan.
1. To ensure people will have a reason to purchase new units, every few months, they will use those shitty OEM Maxtor drive and install it in the unit with no fans or any ventalation.
2. For five months, the customer enjoyed watching a new movie every night until the unit over-heated and died.
3. Customer wants their conveience and is forced to pay for a new unit. (*)
4. Go to step 2
(*) - The price will be determined at the purchase time of the replacement unit. do nto expect the unit to be less than $800 or some unreasonable price.
Your question is off topic, but I will be willing to answer your question. You have several options. but before I get into them, I am going to ask you this. Why are all your PCI slots full? Post me what you have installed on the unit.
First lets assume you have an older system (P-166 and below) and your PCI slots are full (as mention and does not have USB ports. You can install yourself a nice ISA IDE or SCSI controller. Depending on which IDE/SCSI controller you get, will depend on how many items you can use. If your sound car is a ISA card, you may consider replacing it with a Sound Blaster Pro or 16 ASP. Those cards came with a standard IDE port which you can connect two additional IDE devices (from the sound card). You can also purchase an external 1 or 2 gig Jaz Drive by Iomega. These units are SCSI but they also came with SCSI to Parrell printer port converter. so this woudl allow you to conenct the device and have it working VIA printer port. Of course you will take a slight performace hit but it will work just fine.
Lets say you have a newer system (P-200 and higher). Cahnces are that you have USB. So you can get an external USB drive. Basically it is an IDE drive installed in a USB case. If you do nto need a large size drive jsut something small/portable get a USB memory stick reader and a big memory stick. It will work faster than a regular hard drive. Some units (NEC, DELL, AST, and Toshiba) have infer-red ports that can be used for this. If you haev one, do soem more research on your own.
I still have the problem with there fonts/image quality. If they have decent have decent fonts/image quaility, the battery lasts not much longer than 12 hours. This is really sad. All the technology we are investing into makes these phones with more features and games (which take a hit on the battery), and not extending the battery life.
What if I am running customized on-bootup scripts (i.e. connect to my mp3 audio server)? What about all my wma files? Once moved can they be played? Since it is moving all my files, shall I assume all of my PC games will be moved and work correctly also? Soemthing tells me no, just another gimick.
Will it include all the rare texts? Including the prediction of the fall of the cathlic empire? Or will it jsut put texts to show the struggle of the cahtholic religon to make it look more appealign to the general public?
BTW I am a cathlic, and I am not bashing, just curious.
I wonder if the students can start any kind of business. What if their company policies clash with the school's policies? This would include nuddie sites, adult toy sales and companies the dedicated themselves to spaming college students. Can the school draw the line somewhere?
The actor that plays Daniel Jackson, I heard he wanted to leave the show to start his own career. As a result, the writers wrote him out (death but with the possiblty of coming back as a guest). Anyone else heard the same? Let me know.
Others than the webheads looks mighty fine. Anyone can comment what hardware differences it has running in comparision of the current east coast one? Thanks
Wow.. now nudie sites will not only be virtual reality but semi-reality. It will allow users to keep both hands on the keyboard and still get the "full" expeirence of "nudie surfin."
As sick as it sounds I did something similar two years ago. I was running low on gas on the Mass Pike and I knew my car will make it another 2 miles. The nearest stations was at least 6 miles. So what did I do? Got soem of my diet coke and put 1/4 liter into the tank. The engine sounded like shit but made it fine. Pumped it up and my firebird has no problems.
Please do not mod this, just wanted to add to the other poster and thought others might find it funny.
It would be interesting to see a gay Hulk fighting it off with Batman and Superman. Of course the Hulk woudl win by pinning them both to the ground.
My Porsche car gets me laid..... can we assume the same about this Porsche Notebook? If so, I can see us geeks buying these babies by the dozen!
This this case it is the happy Penguin (think of the size of the State-Puff Marshmellow Man from Ghostbusters, with his smile) versus the 900 foot Bill Gates (Think of his shoes size beign half of a city block).
If all else fails, do what I do. I call up my buddie Bruno for proffesional assistance (charges 10%). He is about 6,5'', 300 pounds and all muscle. Needless to say, we we both walk in (about the same size as him), they pay me within the hour.
"Hello Pizza Hut? I would like a large cheese pizza and some hot wings deleveried to the Atlanta Domestic airport. What....where am I right now? I am about 3,000 feet above North Carolina, but I will be at the airport in 20 minutes."
I am a geek/wife and all I need is a microwave, toaster oven and a husband to use them.
I hate going out on a limb like this, but (assuming the huisband can't cook) why does your husband even need to have this kind of wife? Part of the benifits about having a wife (I am married too) is the cooking part and making the beds. Otherwise why not stay girlfriend and boyfriend? And if there is no love, why not just get an escort? Escort would be much cheaper and easier than having a woman nagging you to clean up, go to bed with her, and buy here shit.
Anyways, they are both geeks, I woudl assume both make a decent salary. Then why not hire a cook or always go to resturants? The whole computer in the kitcken can be avoided.
Mess with the best, die like the rest. - Quote from the Movie Hackers.
/. em and show them how it is to mess with us online folk!
Thats right.. let's
...if you cross police lines and pose a security risk you most definitely should go to jail. ....obstructing justice should have a penalty.
That is a double standard right there. Did you ever think that by reporting an incident (that the police may decide should not be reported) perhaps more witenesses might be compelled to step forward?
For example, Police may decide to with hold a victims name of a murder. Someone else was reading that report, with the name censored. That person might ignore it and jsut read the next article. But, if that name was printed, the reader might be a friend of which he has seen that victim and provide valuable information. Again this is only one example and I know many others can make more.
Humans breath air.
Water is wet.
Deserts are dry.
etc...
So why is this news? Ovously people going to use every resource they can; land, air and water. A few locations, upon the surface, are too difficult to use; high altitudes and deserts. Hence why it is not 100% Is it me.. or is this just common sense?
Is it Logitech or Enron that is producing this pen?
I totally agree with you. If the upfront costs were just $399 and no monthly fees then I would serious consider it. With monthly fees, lets say $10, there receiver should be leased or given to you for free (under 2 year contract or something). the onyl way I would pay $399 for the receiver and a $10 service fee is it was portable (like an over sized cd player). This would give me the ability to hook it up to my home receiver and carry it around as a diskman. Perhaps even throw ina compact flash card port in there to save your favorite song when playing.
Just my personal thoughts. Any comments?
I am asking myself, why do people really need a portable DVD player? Are not cdr/mp3/audio-cd disk players enough? Sounds to me just another product to make consumers pay up.
This reminds me of one of those Jaque Crousto (bad spelling, but it is the marine ecologiest)shows back in the day. HE always explored the depth of something.
Here is a simple javacript code snippet how to make the website comatible for the disabled.
//this method call display the entire website.
Display_Regular_Website();
//Output used for blind people.
void user_checker()
{
if !(blind_teletype_detected)
{
}
else
{
Teletype_sender("Nothing to see here, move along!");
}
}
Why even obther doing that? Why not put audio on the current buttons. It would save alot of new re-design/development time. With audio alone, most of the ADA standards would be meet. All you would require some web space, javascript on mouse-over option and a nice voice. There are so many adult actresses out there, any one of those would make an excellent commentary.