With all the storage capacity available on these blu-ray discs why should there be any downloading of additional content? Does the movie really fill up the whole disc?
Forgive my ignorace, I still haven't made the blu-ray jump.
i think your brakes analogy is exactly what's happening in chinese factories these days. i'm saying that there is a difference between MS taking existing ideas that worked (ipod) and doing their own thing (zune) versus if MS owned the factories in which ipods were made, took (stole) the specs, changed the case, hacked on an FM tuner, then called it the zune.
come on now, it's still piracy. if i'm given the specs to make a car, and then throw in a TV tuner and a nintendo emulator, and change the shape a little bit...it's still the same car. I still used someone else's designs as a shortcut.
i do repairs under Toshiba's Manufacturer warranty and under the extended warranty from The Big Blue and Yellow Retail Crap Emporium.
i feel it a public service to proclaim that Toshiba laptops are pieces of shit.
case in point: if you're unlucky enough to have one of the models with the metal speaker covers, A45, M35, among others...well...those speaker covers aren't grounded. Which means if you rub your feet on the carpet and then rest your palm on the speaker, the static discharges through the speaker cover and arcs to the motherboard i promise, this happens *every*single*time* you touch your laptop. if you're of the lucky variety, it will only shut down and turn back on. if you're cursed, your laptop gets Trogdor'd. I hope somebody on the design team got canned for that one.
"under-engineering" is a good word for Toshibas.
and then on the complete opposite of the Shit Spectrum is Sony. i never really knew how something could be over-engineered until i opened one of those goddamn R505's. Little pieces of metal and plastic screwed down all over the place. They're never held together with less than 6 different sizes of screws. Daughterboards for *everything*, in the spirit of "oh we'll only have to fix the one thing!". Video board. Modem. Battery input board. RJ11 jack. RJ45 jack. DC jack. Control/Power button board. LED status board. PCMCIA board. This would all be fine if any of these pieces were accessable without actually taking apart the entire fucking unit. But they're not. And if *anything* at all is wrong with it, the thing won't POST. The backlight turns on, and the black screen just stares. Taunting. Like it's saying, "HA! I'm not working. And it could be anything! But I'm not telling YOU! Have a day, bitch!" So, in order to actually diagnose the problem, I have to end up swapping all the fucking daughter boards until I finally get the Sony logo to show up on the screen. I FUCKING HATE SONY. even worse than toshiba.
free advice from someone who's seen the guts of every piece of shit out there: IBM or Emachine. IBMs are just solid. Emachines have some issues, but are very cheap and easy to fix.
but please, stay the hell away from toshiba and sony. they suck.
oh come on mods, insightful? he's got to be kidding.
personally, if i were running any business in LA i would want video surveillance all over the damn place. And the article never said the government would be running the tapes, just that a new law would require the businesses to have it. Regardless, who cares who runs it? the "evil government" isn't going to bother a bunch of kids playing counter-strike until somebody ends up DEAD, and if my kid has to be "spied on" while fragging at a public business, that's fine by me.
Only on slashdot can a story concerning three murders and two assaults turn in to a Big Brother conspiracy theory.
from a little Googling, it looks like your IBM Thinkpad 390 will accept a standard issue 4200RPM hard drive, which I'm finding for much less than $130 USD. Newegg.com has a 20GB Toshiba drive for less than $80 USD. Also, it looks like 512MB flash drives run for about $70... running linux w/o a hard drive has a 'cool' factor, sure, but i'd rather have about 40 times the storage space for a few dollars more.
i find that i can't get anything done at my desk. Especially if you'll be living in the dorms your first couple semesters, i think you should know right now that if you want to get any studying done in your room, you need to close your door, unplug your TV, uninstall all the video games, etc etc. Unfortunately, this makes you an antisocial study nerd. SO... i too would say get a 12" ibook or powerbook, and then find a place in the library to study. it's a LOT easier to get stuff done when it feels like you're "at work" and not at home.
They survived long enough to have more kids of their own, didn't they?
yes, idiot, a human being can survive on a cup or two of rice and water every day or so.
I say we try to promote more of type "A" people.
yeah, Ok Adolf. so, should we just...kill all the rest, then? Or perhaps sterilization would be more humane, because of course those pathetic losers have no right to pollute your superior gene pool, huh.
And you're pretty damn stupid to think that these people can just "move" to wherever there's food, or that 'determination' makes a difference. You think they can hop in a Chevy and drive down the highway to Life Liberty and Happiness?...wow. As an american, you've been raised to believe that determination reaps rewards. you're just too naiive to realize that maybe life doesn't work that way elsewhere in the world.
try living in third-world india for a while, "asshole". then, maybe, you can pretend to have an idea what you're talking about. Right now, you obviously don't. Example:And when the hundreds of millions are starving to death instead of tens of thousands, we'll have people like you to thank for your 'insight' in making it that way.
There already are hundreds of millions, you fool. Tens of thousands?? Were you...kidding?
Is that your 'insight'?
and americans do live in deserts, moron. there's about a million of them in and around a little place called Pheonix. heh...you don't even know much about your own country, and you think you have a clue about the rest of the world? since you're too stupid to think that there's a difference between people in death valley USA and the middle-of-nowhere sahara, here's some hints: grocery stores...automobiles...irrigation...air conditioning...employment...the concept of money....need any more?
stereotypical idiot american view of poverty.
i'd like to see you live in the middle of a famine-struck 3rd world country where poverty isn't about being a "poor slob". it sounds like you expect people in poverty to just go get a job, so they can make money, so they can buy food... in the real world (read: not america, you spoiled brat) it doesn't work that way. There IS no food. ANYWHERE. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or how much you "contribute" to your community or society or whatever...there's nothing to eat, period. You believe that anybody can "make [his] own world", which is pathetically naiive. You write this pity-story about how you "know poverty" and how hard your life has been... shut the fuck up. There are a lot of people in this world who live in places where there aren't two jobs or a local state college. Where there isn't a "household", single drug-addicted parent or not, because there aren't even any houses. So the next time you think your life has been "hard", think of the kid in Ethiopia who was born with AIDS, whose parents both died of said disease when he was two, and who hasn't had a -thing- to eat in a week. Then tell me the kind of life this "poor slob" is supposed to make for himself.
Check out MS Streets and Trips. If you use online map services frequently, Streets and Trips is worth every penny. It's incredibly more powerful and flexible, not to mention faster since it's all on your local machine.
"Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making games?"
unfortunately..where there's a multi-billion dollar industry, there's shady business deals.
ATi's tweak yields a 1.9% gain by rearranging the instructions 3dmark issues it's hardware. Anyone familiar with assembly language knows that properly arranging your instructions prevents stalls; the end result, however, is exactly as intended. It sounds to me that this is what ATi did.
nVidia, on the other hand...40% gains with very obvious visual errors is..well, wrong.
if this is true, then shouldn't Unreal 2 have been the best FPS to date?
well..it isn't, because pretty much everyone agreed that while the graphics and action were great, there wasn't much emotion or purpose to back it up.
sure, 10um is really small, but if Intel and AMD already have 90um processes ready for *commercial launch, i'm not so sure this newborn method will provide any revolution.
also, i fail to see how any amount of genetic engineering can tell a bunch of one celled bacterium to make me a 32 bit ALU.
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With all the storage capacity available on these blu-ray discs why should there be any downloading of additional content? Does the movie really fill up the whole disc? Forgive my ignorace, I still haven't made the blu-ray jump.
by this logic, doesn't my computer use the internet, and I just tell it what to do? (i do get the point though, just being contentious)
i think your brakes analogy is exactly what's happening in chinese factories these days. i'm saying that there is a difference between MS taking existing ideas that worked (ipod) and doing their own thing (zune) versus if MS owned the factories in which ipods were made, took (stole) the specs, changed the case, hacked on an FM tuner, then called it the zune.
come on now, it's still piracy. if i'm given the specs to make a car, and then throw in a TV tuner and a nintendo emulator, and change the shape a little bit...it's still the same car. I still used someone else's designs as a shortcut.
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i do repairs under Toshiba's Manufacturer warranty and under the extended warranty from The Big Blue and Yellow Retail Crap Emporium.
i feel it a public service to proclaim that Toshiba laptops are pieces of shit.
case in point: if you're unlucky enough to have one of the models with the metal speaker covers, A45, M35, among others...well...those speaker covers aren't grounded. Which means if you rub your feet on the carpet and then rest your palm on the speaker, the static discharges through the speaker cover and arcs to the motherboard i promise, this happens *every*single*time* you touch your laptop. if you're of the lucky variety, it will only shut down and turn back on. if you're cursed, your laptop gets Trogdor'd. I hope somebody on the design team got canned for that one.
"under-engineering" is a good word for Toshibas.
and then on the complete opposite of the Shit Spectrum is Sony. i never really knew how something could be over-engineered until i opened one of those goddamn R505's. Little pieces of metal and plastic screwed down all over the place. They're never held together with less than 6 different sizes of screws. Daughterboards for *everything*, in the spirit of "oh we'll only have to fix the one thing!". Video board. Modem. Battery input board. RJ11 jack. RJ45 jack. DC jack. Control/Power button board. LED status board. PCMCIA board. This would all be fine if any of these pieces were accessable without actually taking apart the entire fucking unit. But they're not. And if *anything* at all is wrong with it, the thing won't POST. The backlight turns on, and the black screen just stares. Taunting. Like it's saying, "HA! I'm not working. And it could be anything! But I'm not telling YOU! Have a day, bitch!" So, in order to actually diagnose the problem, I have to end up swapping all the fucking daughter boards until I finally get the Sony logo to show up on the screen. I FUCKING HATE SONY. even worse than toshiba.
free advice from someone who's seen the guts of every piece of shit out there: IBM or Emachine. IBMs are just solid. Emachines have some issues, but are very cheap and easy to fix.
but please, stay the hell away from toshiba and sony. they suck.
goodnight...
the XY driver works fine on my 15" al pb 1.25 from early 2004. I didn't try the circular one.
Change has to come from within, not be imposed from outside. yeah, tell that to the Iraqis
Yeah, god forbid the youth in America be passionate about a political candidate.
personally, if i were running any business in LA i would want video surveillance all over the damn place. And the article never said the government would be running the tapes, just that a new law would require the businesses to have it. Regardless, who cares who runs it? the "evil government" isn't going to bother a bunch of kids playing counter-strike until somebody ends up DEAD, and if my kid has to be "spied on" while fragging at a public business, that's fine by me.
Only on slashdot can a story concerning three murders and two assaults turn in to a Big Brother conspiracy theory.
priorities?
from a little Googling, it looks like your IBM Thinkpad 390 will accept a standard issue 4200RPM hard drive, which I'm finding for much less than $130 USD. Newegg.com has a 20GB Toshiba drive for less than $80 USD. Also, it looks like 512MB flash drives run for about $70... running linux w/o a hard drive has a 'cool' factor, sure, but i'd rather have about 40 times the storage space for a few dollars more.
Don't you guys have shotguns in the UK?
anyone else find it humorous that the lawyers who wrote the threat letter are at www.mofo.com ?
i find that i can't get anything done at my desk. Especially if you'll be living in the dorms your first couple semesters, i think you should know right now that if you want to get any studying done in your room, you need to close your door, unplug your TV, uninstall all the video games, etc etc. Unfortunately, this makes you an antisocial study nerd. SO... i too would say get a 12" ibook or powerbook, and then find a place in the library to study. it's a LOT easier to get stuff done when it feels like you're "at work" and not at home.
rofl! seriously folks, that would be hilarious if the OSS movement releases a vastly improved version of Win2K by April 1.
change bool bugs = TRUE; to bool bugs = FALSE; recompile
They survived long enough to have more kids of their own, didn't they? yes, idiot, a human being can survive on a cup or two of rice and water every day or so. I say we try to promote more of type "A" people. yeah, Ok Adolf. so, should we just...kill all the rest, then? Or perhaps sterilization would be more humane, because of course those pathetic losers have no right to pollute your superior gene pool, huh. And you're pretty damn stupid to think that these people can just "move" to wherever there's food, or that 'determination' makes a difference. You think they can hop in a Chevy and drive down the highway to Life Liberty and Happiness?...wow. As an american, you've been raised to believe that determination reaps rewards. you're just too naiive to realize that maybe life doesn't work that way elsewhere in the world. try living in third-world india for a while, "asshole". then, maybe, you can pretend to have an idea what you're talking about. Right now, you obviously don't. Example:And when the hundreds of millions are starving to death instead of tens of thousands, we'll have people like you to thank for your 'insight' in making it that way. There already are hundreds of millions, you fool. Tens of thousands?? Were you...kidding? Is that your 'insight'? and americans do live in deserts, moron. there's about a million of them in and around a little place called Pheonix. heh...you don't even know much about your own country, and you think you have a clue about the rest of the world? since you're too stupid to think that there's a difference between people in death valley USA and the middle-of-nowhere sahara, here's some hints: grocery stores...automobiles...irrigation...air conditioning...employment...the concept of money....need any more?
stereotypical idiot american view of poverty. i'd like to see you live in the middle of a famine-struck 3rd world country where poverty isn't about being a "poor slob". it sounds like you expect people in poverty to just go get a job, so they can make money, so they can buy food... in the real world (read: not america, you spoiled brat) it doesn't work that way. There IS no food. ANYWHERE. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or how much you "contribute" to your community or society or whatever...there's nothing to eat, period. You believe that anybody can "make [his] own world", which is pathetically naiive. You write this pity-story about how you "know poverty" and how hard your life has been... shut the fuck up. There are a lot of people in this world who live in places where there aren't two jobs or a local state college. Where there isn't a "household", single drug-addicted parent or not, because there aren't even any houses. So the next time you think your life has been "hard", think of the kid in Ethiopia who was born with AIDS, whose parents both died of said disease when he was two, and who hasn't had a -thing- to eat in a week. Then tell me the kind of life this "poor slob" is supposed to make for himself.
Check out MS Streets and Trips. If you use online map services frequently, Streets and Trips is worth every penny. It's incredibly more powerful and flexible, not to mention faster since it's all on your local machine.
Survey 2,000 people from anywhere, and yes, a large percentage of them won't have any use for the wealth of information the internet offers.
"Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making games?" unfortunately..where there's a multi-billion dollar industry, there's shady business deals.
ATi's tweak yields a 1.9% gain by rearranging the instructions 3dmark issues it's hardware. Anyone familiar with assembly language knows that properly arranging your instructions prevents stalls; the end result, however, is exactly as intended. It sounds to me that this is what ATi did. nVidia, on the other hand...40% gains with very obvious visual errors is..well, wrong.
if this is true, then shouldn't Unreal 2 have been the best FPS to date? well..it isn't, because pretty much everyone agreed that while the graphics and action were great, there wasn't much emotion or purpose to back it up.
sure, 10um is really small, but if Intel and AMD already have 90um processes ready for *commercial launch, i'm not so sure this newborn method will provide any revolution. also, i fail to see how any amount of genetic engineering can tell a bunch of one celled bacterium to make me a 32 bit ALU.