What percentage of restaurants fail? Bookstores? Coffee shops? Are these number way out of whack with business as a whole?
Let's not forget restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops actually sell things. Many of the dot-bombs didn't have any products and seemed to be just money-laundering houses for venture capitalists.
...who aren't smart enough to use older versions of their software!!
Fscking amateurs. Everybody knows the real hardcore counterfeiters mint their own Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in bulk. Much easier to pass off than these fancy new bills.
I'm not sure why the parent is moderated as funny, but it's completely true. That's probably what their IP address verifier used. It's low-tech, but will catch many morons.
Would you have a problem with your DNA being on government file?
No. In fact, I think it should be mandatory as well. DNA evidence has been very important in a number of criminal investigations. If there was a national database of all citizens in the US as well as all people entering and exiting the country it would be a HUGE step to helping solve various unsolved criminal investigations. In some of these cases they have DNA evidence, but nothing to match it to because they have no suspects. If there was a national database they could run matches against it like they do with finger printing and be able to solve many more crimes than they can today. It's a win-win situation for everyone. The only people that complain about finger-printing and DNA checks are people who have (or think they will have in the future) something to hide. I would think most businesses run a fingerprint and background check on applicants today, at least the banks and federal agencies I've worked for have.
That was simply aweful. Way to ruin a classic. I wonder if George Lucas was involved...
I don't understand what you're complaining about. That they photoshopped her wearing an iPod instead of whatever she used to be wearing? So what? I still don't get that commercial though... if anything relies on unthinking followers it seems to be Apple. If you're a PC person you have thousands of choices available. With Apple you have around 5 models... Think Different... unlikely.
Given that they have managed to cram a G5 into a xServe, hopefully without heat issues, does this mean that we could be seeing a Powerbook G5 this time next year?
The average 1U case has more fans than a desktop does running at even higher speeds to pass the air through it. A Powerbook is expected to run with perhaps one tiny fan that only comes on when it gets warm enough to keep it quiet and save power. There's no comparison between a laptop and a 1U server case.
Everybody here has a high ID number. The smart people with low ID numbers left long ago because they got sick of the trolls. Either that or the low ID people just created new accounts with higher ID numbers so they can troll without blowing their old karma. I guess that's for you to figure out.
So why do we have speedometers that go up so high, and why can many cars actually go that fast? After all, it's illegal, and we don't NEED that speed, or speedometer.
I don't know about you, but if I'm only doing 100mph you're probably in front of me in the fast lane slowing me down. Get the hell out of the way so I can pass without swerving in and out of traffic.
Of course, you could just buy a Tivo box for less, and even with the lifetime subscription, probably end up cheaper once you are all said and done, and still be running linux.
Cost is not a big deal for me and I find the Tivos to be frustratingly limited. The system I will be replacing had dual tuners w/software encoding to DivX and 400GB of space and I've outgrown it. The new system will include a seperate back end file server w/600GB RAID-5 file system for show storage and dual Hauppauge PVR-250 tuners for encoding to mpeg-2. That will allow me to take advantage of the EPIA's built in hardware mpeg-2 decoding support (although the 1GHz Nehemiah is more than adequate for decoding my DivX recordings using software). I'd prefer to switch to mpeg-2 to make archiving to DVD-R's easier so I don't have to transcode from DivX (mpeg-4) to mpeg-2 before I burn a DVD of the shows.
Anyway, as you can see, my needs are a little outside the scope of a normal Tivo box with a single tuner since they don't allow you to offload shows to a file server or burn them to DVD-R without hacks. Don't even get me started on the DirecTivo toys with 35 hours of recording time and no ethernet!:-/ The ONLY one that caught my eye was the Pioneer unit that had a built in DVD-R burner, but even then it doesn't let you create a skiplist to cut out commercials before archiving to DVD and it only has a single tuner. Dual tuners is an absolute necessity in my house since we have a bunch of shows on different channels that are all on at the same time slot.
I'm a dirt cheap geek who is thisclose to actually braving the redneck land of Wal-Mart to get a $99 PC that I can muck around with.
Not to sound rude, but why don't you try getting a better job? Spend the $100 on a decent used suit to use at job interviews or buy a training book with the money. Do something to better yourself instead of wasting your money on toys. Once you have a good job you'll have plenty of money to throw away on toys like 40GB iPods and Powerbooks.
With micronPC selling white box systems for as low as $200, it's a shame I can't get a decent price on something as small as a shuttle.
On the other hand, some of us will pay a premium for a small, very quiet, PC. I recently built a machine using the mini-ITX board with the Via Nehemiah 1GHz chip on an EPIA motherboard and it rocks. It's not fast at all, but perfect for a MythTV frontend box for the living room and it fits in a tiny case. Now all I need to do is build a homebrew IR receiver and I can get the big desktop-sized coolermaster case out of my living room (even though it's nearly silent as well.. takes up too much space and the Athlon XP 2400+ generates too much heat).
What was solved? Nothing. Consumers don't have more rights. It's still a pain in the ass to decode DVDs
Well, maybe if you're stuck using Linux, but if you're on Windows it's painfully easy to decode DVDs. Fire up DVD Shrink, re-author the tracks from your favorite DVDs, burn to a DVD-R with Nero. I had 4 movies copied from the video store within 2 hours of putting my DVD burner in. There's nothing complicated about it.
BTW, even under Linux there's no excuse if you're using MythTV. MythDVD will rip and encode movies into DivX format (or even just save the raw vob files) without the user needing to understand complicated things like DeCSS.
Are companies still paying for that shit? I can't imagine them getting anything approaching a good return on investment for popup ads these days.
Once the Windows IE users switchover to having default pop-up blocking expect a HUGE increase in click-through full page advertising before you can see content. How are you going to get around that when you'll need to wait for it to meta-refresh to the actual content for a certain length of time. If you try to go directly they can just set the referer to deny access unless you came form the ad page.
care to document the assertion that uptime will be a max of two weeks at any given moment due to reoccuring vulns/exploits?
If he would've said a month uptime between reboots then I would agree. The 2.4.23 release came out at the end of November to fix a major kernel root exploit (do_brk) and now 2.4.24 is coming out about a month later to fix another major kernel root exploit. This isn't a very good track record to present to potential customers/users. I'm sick of rebooting my Linux boxes to load new kernels. When are we going to get kernels that can be dynamically reloaded without killing all the active processes?
Win98 is not open, and now everyone who drank the coolaid is beginning to feel the effects of the arsenic.
So the cheap bastards should upgrade. It's less than $100 to upgrade to WindowsXP Home which is a hundred times better and more stable, based on the stable NT kernel, etc. Why should Microsoft support 7 year old products when there are newer better alternatives available that aren't that expensive? I don't see you guys bitching that they're not supporting DOS 3.3 anymore.
Why do you think that the US Government/Military doesn't outsource?
But they DO outsource. The Government outsources all the time. Haven't you heard of government contractors? In many agencies all the technical work is done by contractors while the actual civil servant government employees are left in middle management positions to act as project management for the contractors.
The trouble is, if we rightfully boycott a poor and intentionally crippled product, the record companies will blame their declining sales on P2P networks. The government will then step in to provide them a corporate crutch and start putting people using the future of media distribution in jail.
Then the best thing we can do is boycott P2P networks and help them get banned so that the RIAA can't use them as a crutch in their fight against declining music sales. As it is they have a very good argument. I, personally, haven't bought any music since the 1990's and download any songs from Kazaa that catch my ear on the radio. If Kazaa and others were gone I would probably be forced to buy the music instead.
These kinds of rumours may not not have anything to do with reality, but at least they can explain why Microsoft has not released the x86-64 Windows for sale even though there have been fully functional betas available for almost a year now.
It's official then. AMD is dying.
Just kidding. Personally I'll buy an AMD64 processor any day over the Intel processor unless they completely change their business practices and price it either comparable or less than the AMD 64-bit CPU. Somehow I doubt Intel will do that since they still think they are the 2000lb behemoth of the CPU business and don't see that they have some very good competition from AMD among hardware enthusiasts. If I had the $750 I would get the Athlon FX-51 chip in a heartbeat.
If you owned a net cafe, I would assume you would have Visio, Pro Tools, and Photoshop licenses for every seat. What? That's too expensive?
People that would go into a cafe and ask to use Visio, Pro Tools, and Photoshop are the same kind of people who probably got beat up in high school for being ultra-geeks. Why don't you sit down, order some coffee, and read the paper or chat with friends? Why does everyone have to be a god damn Borg drone connected to the collective at all times with their 3G cell phones, pagers, laptops with 802.11b, bluetooth connections, etc. Get a life.
Got a 256 MB key, use it at college, store my files to it, rather than the networks HDD, then take it home. Nobody copies my stuff.
I've got a 256 meg keyfob too but never use it (also have a 128 meg one I also carry that I never use). It's just easier to scp the data back to one of my shell machines than worry about copying it to my keyfob and uploading it later.
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And no Ogg Vorbis support! How dare they not conform to the whims of techno-elitists.
College has been the best 9 years of my life so far and I owe it all to my HP 48GX.
I just put a picture of JFK in my scanner and imported it into Photoshop CS just fine.
Let's not forget restaurants, bookstores and coffee shops actually sell things. Many of the dot-bombs didn't have any products and seemed to be just money-laundering houses for venture capitalists.
Fscking amateurs. Everybody knows the real hardcore counterfeiters mint their own Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in bulk. Much easier to pass off than these fancy new bills.
I hope they budget $150k/year for the yearly OS X upgrades.
I'm not sure why the parent is moderated as funny, but it's completely true. That's probably what their IP address verifier used. It's low-tech, but will catch many morons.
No. In fact, I think it should be mandatory as well. DNA evidence has been very important in a number of criminal investigations. If there was a national database of all citizens in the US as well as all people entering and exiting the country it would be a HUGE step to helping solve various unsolved criminal investigations. In some of these cases they have DNA evidence, but nothing to match it to because they have no suspects. If there was a national database they could run matches against it like they do with finger printing and be able to solve many more crimes than they can today. It's a win-win situation for everyone. The only people that complain about finger-printing and DNA checks are people who have (or think they will have in the future) something to hide. I would think most businesses run a fingerprint and background check on applicants today, at least the banks and federal agencies I've worked for have.
I don't understand what you're complaining about. That they photoshopped her wearing an iPod instead of whatever she used to be wearing? So what? I still don't get that commercial though... if anything relies on unthinking followers it seems to be Apple. If you're a PC person you have thousands of choices available. With Apple you have around 5 models... Think Different... unlikely.
The average 1U case has more fans than a desktop does running at even higher speeds to pass the air through it. A Powerbook is expected to run with perhaps one tiny fan that only comes on when it gets warm enough to keep it quiet and save power. There's no comparison between a laptop and a 1U server case.
Everybody here has a high ID number. The smart people with low ID numbers left long ago because they got sick of the trolls. Either that or the low ID people just created new accounts with higher ID numbers so they can troll without blowing their old karma. I guess that's for you to figure out.
I don't know about you, but if I'm only doing 100mph you're probably in front of me in the fast lane slowing me down. Get the hell out of the way so I can pass without swerving in and out of traffic.
Cost is not a big deal for me and I find the Tivos to be frustratingly limited. The system I will be replacing had dual tuners w/software encoding to DivX and 400GB of space and I've outgrown it. The new system will include a seperate back end file server w/600GB RAID-5 file system for show storage and dual Hauppauge PVR-250 tuners for encoding to mpeg-2. That will allow me to take advantage of the EPIA's built in hardware mpeg-2 decoding support (although the 1GHz Nehemiah is more than adequate for decoding my DivX recordings using software). I'd prefer to switch to mpeg-2 to make archiving to DVD-R's easier so I don't have to transcode from DivX (mpeg-4) to mpeg-2 before I burn a DVD of the shows.
Anyway, as you can see, my needs are a little outside the scope of a normal Tivo box with a single tuner since they don't allow you to offload shows to a file server or burn them to DVD-R without hacks. Don't even get me started on the DirecTivo toys with 35 hours of recording time and no ethernet! :-/ The ONLY one that caught my eye was the Pioneer unit that had a built in DVD-R burner, but even then it doesn't let you create a skiplist to cut out commercials before archiving to DVD and it only has a single tuner. Dual tuners is an absolute necessity in my house since we have a bunch of shows on different channels that are all on at the same time slot.
Not to sound rude, but why don't you try getting a better job? Spend the $100 on a decent used suit to use at job interviews or buy a training book with the money. Do something to better yourself instead of wasting your money on toys. Once you have a good job you'll have plenty of money to throw away on toys like 40GB iPods and Powerbooks.
On the other hand, some of us will pay a premium for a small, very quiet, PC. I recently built a machine using the mini-ITX board with the Via Nehemiah 1GHz chip on an EPIA motherboard and it rocks. It's not fast at all, but perfect for a MythTV frontend box for the living room and it fits in a tiny case. Now all I need to do is build a homebrew IR receiver and I can get the big desktop-sized coolermaster case out of my living room (even though it's nearly silent as well.. takes up too much space and the Athlon XP 2400+ generates too much heat).
Well, maybe if you're stuck using Linux, but if you're on Windows it's painfully easy to decode DVDs. Fire up DVD Shrink, re-author the tracks from your favorite DVDs, burn to a DVD-R with Nero. I had 4 movies copied from the video store within 2 hours of putting my DVD burner in. There's nothing complicated about it.
BTW, even under Linux there's no excuse if you're using MythTV. MythDVD will rip and encode movies into DivX format (or even just save the raw vob files) without the user needing to understand complicated things like DeCSS.
Once the Windows IE users switchover to having default pop-up blocking expect a HUGE increase in click-through full page advertising before you can see content. How are you going to get around that when you'll need to wait for it to meta-refresh to the actual content for a certain length of time. If you try to go directly they can just set the referer to deny access unless you came form the ad page.
If he would've said a month uptime between reboots then I would agree. The 2.4.23 release came out at the end of November to fix a major kernel root exploit (do_brk) and now 2.4.24 is coming out about a month later to fix another major kernel root exploit. This isn't a very good track record to present to potential customers/users. I'm sick of rebooting my Linux boxes to load new kernels. When are we going to get kernels that can be dynamically reloaded without killing all the active processes?
Isn't that the thing where you type in your PIN number?
So the cheap bastards should upgrade. It's less than $100 to upgrade to WindowsXP Home which is a hundred times better and more stable, based on the stable NT kernel, etc. Why should Microsoft support 7 year old products when there are newer better alternatives available that aren't that expensive? I don't see you guys bitching that they're not supporting DOS 3.3 anymore.
But they DO outsource. The Government outsources all the time. Haven't you heard of government contractors? In many agencies all the technical work is done by contractors while the actual civil servant government employees are left in middle management positions to act as project management for the contractors.
Then the best thing we can do is boycott P2P networks and help them get banned so that the RIAA can't use them as a crutch in their fight against declining music sales. As it is they have a very good argument. I, personally, haven't bought any music since the 1990's and download any songs from Kazaa that catch my ear on the radio. If Kazaa and others were gone I would probably be forced to buy the music instead.
It's official then. AMD is dying.
Just kidding. Personally I'll buy an AMD64 processor any day over the Intel processor unless they completely change their business practices and price it either comparable or less than the AMD 64-bit CPU. Somehow I doubt Intel will do that since they still think they are the 2000lb behemoth of the CPU business and don't see that they have some very good competition from AMD among hardware enthusiasts. If I had the $750 I would get the Athlon FX-51 chip in a heartbeat.
People that would go into a cafe and ask to use Visio, Pro Tools, and Photoshop are the same kind of people who probably got beat up in high school for being ultra-geeks. Why don't you sit down, order some coffee, and read the paper or chat with friends? Why does everyone have to be a god damn Borg drone connected to the collective at all times with their 3G cell phones, pagers, laptops with 802.11b, bluetooth connections, etc. Get a life.
I've got a 256 meg keyfob too but never use it (also have a 128 meg one I also carry that I never use). It's just easier to scp the data back to one of my shell machines than worry about copying it to my keyfob and uploading it later.