Will the poor users of the X-box have to relicense their console each time they buy three new games? Format their memory cards, change the channel on TV?
I had been holding out for an X-box, but with the decline of my opinion about Microsoft this year I decided to wait no more and get a PS-2. After being hit with Code-Red, a DNS server vulnerability, and many more problems this year, I no longer have faith in Microsoft Products.
Just movies. The series is tired. Watching Babylon 5 ruined trek almost completely for me. (I liked B5 much more). Currently Farscape is the only series worth watching.
I can't see why people would gripe about this. If apple sells more flat panels the cost will go down and the quality of flat panels will go up.
one third the desk space, one third the power consumption, one third the heat. Maybe this could stop rolling blackouts in California with the reduction in energy usage. (G.W. Bush certianly can't fix the problem, maybe apple can.)
Ever since I saw the kitchen/dining area in "Total Recall" I have wanted some huge flat panel displays. We get closer to this.
It'd also be nice if I could just roll up my monitor and tote it to the next lan party. Sherman Peabody had a kick-ass chalkboard, I want that in a monitor!
Those discs are coasters or modern art now. You can't watch them anymore.
My only hope is that Microsoft suffers the same fate as Divx in it's rental software venture.
The day Divx went out of business I went down to the local Circuit City and bought a useless divx coaster for $1.00 and then danced on it in the parking lot. Where we gonna dance when Micro$oft does the same? Seattle's a bit of a trip from Holland, MI!
When flat panel prices become affordable I think well see them start to sell like crazy. The energy and space savings are huge and companies with lots of CRT's are going to appreciate the electric and air conditioning savings that they get.
If the price comes down quick then LCD is going to be hugh, if it takes another two years then I think that LED flat panels may be selling like crazy.
When mandrakesoft gets around to doing a secure-kernel version of 8.0 I hope that this time it will be able to run more than 1 Samba user at a time. In 7.1 & 7.2 the secure-kernel makes multiple users impossible with Samba.
That's my only gripe with 7.2 for now. Other than that it's pretty darn nice.
You folks in CA would probably be better off switching to Flat Panel monitors. Looks like about a 70% power savings compared to a tube monitor. From what I hear about the price gouging on power out there it'd probably be cheaper to buy the new FDP units than continue operation your old monitors.
Besides, once you start buying them maybe their price will come down enough so that we can do the same thing.
As leaders of the Geek Nation they will serve well under me, Steve, the Emperor of the Universe. Conveinently enough for them, they live just down the road.
When is someone going to come out with an affordable backup system so that we can ensure the reliability of these large data stores?
Contemporary Cybernetics is actually proud that it costs $1.63 USD/GB to use their drives/media compared to $2.20/GB to use DLT. Both of these prices are insanely high.
Backup costs have barely come down in price in the last 7-10 years (only about 40%). While disk space has become about a thousand times more affordable.
Can someone please come up with a more affordable solution?
The preview for this episode looked like it might be something cool. Hey, wait. Actually I think this episode may have been correct. I mean how many games have you brought home for your PC cause you downloaded the sweetest looking intro demo file from the net only to find out that the game is a festering P.O.S.
There's a fair review up on Somethingawful.
See http://www.somethingawful.com/reviews/review-xfile s.htm
Anyone in Holland Township want to sign a petition to cut the library's funding from the Township unless they remove all materials of the AFA and FRC?
I'M ONLY KIDDING OF COURSE. I'm just still a little miffed that the issue came up in such an underhanded way that excluded 3/4 of the librarys supporters/patrons from voting on the issue.
Good luck to the next community where they try to pull this nonsense. And it is likely they will. Remember, next time they are going to be better organized so you better get ready!
Here's a few links to help you get ready. http://www.freedomforum.org/ http://www.firstamendment.com/resources.html
Also, let's make it a clean fight. Don't stoop as low as they will.
"Jamie needs to stop mocking the voters in his town and start listening to them."
I have to agree here. You can't tell someone they're an idiot for what they believe and then expect them to listen to you while you try to persaude them that they are wrong.
I had to wince when I saw Jamie on TV8 (WOODTV, a local station). I'm anti-filter and yet Jamie seemed like a radical loonie from the clips that TV8 showed. I thought when I saw it, "he's not doing any good for the cause".
I understand Jamie's passion for the cause. I just hope he can tone it down to a level that might work in Holland MI. Don't slap the people you need to reach out to.
And being a Holland-er all my life I can say that words like "memes" scare a lot of Holland folk. Words like "protect your children" don't.
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Let's not think that now it's ok to install camera's everywhere to monitor everything.
Will the poor users of the X-box have to relicense their console each time they buy three new games? Format their memory cards, change the channel on TV?
I had been holding out for an X-box, but with the decline of my opinion about Microsoft this year I decided to wait no more and get a PS-2. After being hit with Code-Red, a DNS server vulnerability, and many more problems this year, I no longer have faith in Microsoft Products.
Tom DeMarco also covers this in "Slack: " ~getting past busyness, burnout, and the myth of total efficiency.
Well worth the read.
Just movies. The series is tired. Watching Babylon 5 ruined trek almost completely for me. (I liked B5 much more). Currently Farscape is the only series worth watching.
I want this in a spray can so I can hose down some stinky co-workers.
Now available in Roll-on, spray-on, or crawl-on. Ewww!
Everytime I have had a system with a Seagate drive it has died within 3 years. I just assumed that they've built that into the drives.
All the other hard drive brands have always lasted longer for me than I wanted to keep the computer.
I hope NASA sends them some kind of preface to the list or else our alien friends may decide that it's the recipe for a yummy human pie.
-For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
Exactly! If people don't care about music they're not going to be downloading it, or buying it.
I would say that people who buy more CD's are more likely to use Napster as well.
I can't see why people would gripe about this. If apple sells more flat panels the cost will go down and the quality of flat panels will go up.
one third the desk space, one third the power consumption, one third the heat. Maybe this could stop rolling blackouts in California with the reduction in energy usage. (G.W. Bush certianly can't fix the problem, maybe apple can.)
Ever since I saw the kitchen/dining area in "Total Recall" I have wanted some huge flat panel displays. We get closer to this.
It'd also be nice if I could just roll up my monitor and tote it to the next lan party. Sherman Peabody had a kick-ass chalkboard, I want that in a monitor!
Yep, and I'm puttin it on my American Express card too!
Sure, we could restore you if you died accidently or something but what if we all decided that you were obsolete?
Those discs are coasters or modern art now. You can't watch them anymore.
My only hope is that Microsoft suffers the same fate as Divx in it's rental software venture.
The day Divx went out of business I went down to the local Circuit City and bought a useless divx coaster for $1.00 and then danced on it in the parking lot. Where we gonna dance when Micro$oft does the same? Seattle's a bit of a trip from Holland, MI!
When flat panel prices become affordable I think well see them start to sell like crazy. The energy and space savings are huge and companies with lots of CRT's are going to appreciate the electric and air conditioning savings that they get.
If the price comes down quick then LCD is going to be hugh, if it takes another two years then I think that LED flat panels may be selling like crazy.
Who's to say MS isn't a bit of both?
The Federal Goverment is becoming less of a power than the corporations.
When mandrakesoft gets around to doing a secure-kernel version of 8.0 I hope that this time it will be able to run more than 1 Samba user at a time. In 7.1 & 7.2 the secure-kernel makes multiple users impossible with Samba.
That's my only gripe with 7.2 for now. Other than that it's pretty darn nice.
"You can play Mortal Kombat, with a friend, in Vietnam!"
You folks in CA would probably be better off switching to Flat Panel monitors. Looks like about a 70% power savings compared to a tube monitor. From what I hear about the price gouging on power out there it'd probably be cheaper to buy the new FDP units than continue operation your old monitors.
Besides, once you start buying them maybe their price will come down enough so that we can do the same thing.
8000 Votes for Buchanan in the republican primary were MOST LIKELY from democrats trying to sandbag your primary. DUH!
Hell, I voted for McCain in the Michigan primary, knowing full well that I wouldn't vote for him in the election.
So, jbridges, consider the source when you here these numbers whipped out by scared republicans who are now being caught at election hijaacking.
Who pulled the coup?
Perhaps it was the people who sent out a sample ballot and then changed it.
If the universe is finite... What's on the other side?
As leaders of the Geek Nation they will serve well under me, Steve, the Emperor of the Universe. Conveinently enough for them, they live just down the road.
When is someone going to come out with an affordable backup system so that we can ensure the reliability of these large data stores?
/GB to use their drives/media compared to $2.20 /GB to use DLT. Both of these prices are insanely high.
Contemporary Cybernetics is actually proud that it costs $1.63 USD
Backup costs have barely come down in price in the last 7-10 years (only about 40%). While disk space has become about a thousand times more affordable.
Can someone please come up with a more affordable solution?
The preview for this episode looked like it might be something cool. Hey, wait. Actually I think this episode may have been correct. I mean how many games have you brought home for your PC cause you downloaded the sweetest looking intro demo file from the net only to find out that the game is a festering P.O.S.
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There's a fair review up on Somethingawful.
See http://www.somethingawful.com/reviews/review-xfil
Anyone in Holland Township want to sign a petition to cut the library's funding from the Township unless they remove all materials of the AFA and FRC?
I'M ONLY KIDDING OF COURSE. I'm just still a little miffed that the issue came up in such an underhanded way that excluded 3/4 of the librarys supporters/patrons from voting on the issue.
Good luck to the next community where they try to pull this nonsense. And it is likely they will. Remember, next time they are going to be better organized so you better get ready!
Here's a few links to help you get ready.
http://www.freedomforum.org/
http://www.firstamendment.com/resources.html
Also, let's make it a clean fight. Don't stoop as low as they will.
"Jamie needs to stop mocking the voters in his town and start listening to them."
I have to agree here. You can't tell someone they're an idiot for what they believe and then expect them to listen to you while you try to persaude them that they are wrong.
I had to wince when I saw Jamie on TV8 (WOODTV, a local station). I'm anti-filter and yet Jamie seemed like a radical loonie from the clips that TV8 showed. I thought when I saw it, "he's not doing any good for the cause".
I understand Jamie's passion for the cause. I just hope he can tone it down to a level that might work in Holland MI. Don't slap the people you need to reach out to.
And being a Holland-er all my life I can say that words like "memes" scare a lot of Holland folk. Words like "protect your children" don't.