I'm also a DJ and am starting to get worried about this. I spin Trance and House and I'm constantly exposed to the 4-4 bass. That coupled w/ the fact that I listen to my headphones ALL DAY at work, on the ride back and forth to work... I feel like I'm living my life in headphones... someone told me that once actually.
Have you seen "It's All About Pete Tong" ? It's a great movie.. if you're a fan of dance music you can certainly appreciate it much more, but I think it's a MUST-SEE for all DJ's!
After seeing that movie, I started thinking about getting custom DJ earplugs, and after your comment I think I'm leaning closer towards getting a pair!
"so you don't like verison because they use phones that make calls and have a large service area? if i wanted "features" i'd get a laptop or PDA, Phones are for mking calls and storing basic contact info."
See that's where you're wrong. Just because YOU want a phone to only make calls and have a large service area, doesn't mean everyone else does. Phones are for... whatever people want to use them for. Companies offer high speed internet, e-mail, cameras, bluetooth, synching etc. because people want these features. If YOU want a phone to store basic contact info, and make calls, then buy a cheap phone (which I'm sure you have). There are lots of other people out there (myself, and many people here included) who want top of the line features in top of the line phones, and are willing to pay for them.
I bought a Motorola v600 and use Cingular for this exact reason. I paid close to $300 for it, another $100 for the Motorola Bluetooh Headset, different colored faceplates etc.. I bought the phone because it's top of the line, and has all the features I want. And guess what? They work!
The point is, a lot of people want lots of features in their phone, and when they find a phone that's advertised with all of these features, and pay hundreds of dollars for it and accessories, they expect it to work!
The v710 is a sweet phone as manufactured, but this has destroyed the hype. I'll gladly stick using KBluetooth in Linux to transfer pictures, games, songs, and ringtones from my laptop to my v600.
I'm not a moto employee, nor would I consider myself a "bluetooth expert" however I am very knowledgeable about bluetooth technology, and this v710 situation in general.
I have a Motorola V600, and have had it for months. It's a GSM phone, and I use it through Cingular, but there are versions of the v600 from At&T Wireless and T-Mobile. It's a great phone, and bluetooth works flawlessly in every profile, it's not crippled at all. My buddy from work, after seeing my phone badly wanted a bluetooth phone, and almost switched to Cingular just for this phone, but when he heard the v710 was coming out for Verizon, he stayed put and waited...
Well he got the phone and is pretty furious that he's paid all of this money, and the only functionality he gets out of it is the use of his Bluetooth headset. There are rumors floating all over saying Verizon crippled it, or that it's a firmware issue and will be fixed with a firmware upgrade but who really knows? Verizon does and that's about it.
My Moto v600: Cingular, perfect bluetooth functionality, and runs java and isn't locked down.
Verizon v710: Not working bluetooth, runs this BREW which they use to lock you in by making you pay for every ringtone or game.
There are thousands of free games and ringtones out there, but Verizon wants to make as much money off of their "precious customers" as they can. The bottom line is it's bad for business if you have unhappy customers. The demand for Bluetooth and all of the features of the v710 was there, and Moto provided it, only to have it crippled by Verizon. Don't blame Moto that's for sure. When you pay close to $300 because you want all of the gadgets in a phone, you expect them to work.
My advice? Get a v600 and switch to GSM.
I'm a happy v600 owner, and will never think twice about my purchase.
Of course they'll try and pass it. Anything that makes a lot of money for companies is likely to get passed due to the ridiculous amounts of lobbying they all do. Which is a shame because so many things get overlooked due to the monetarily-heavy-backed lobbyists making sure the focus is all on them. When it gets to be companies making money, over the well-being of a school then it more of a problem than most people are willing to recognize.
FP BTW!
Well I live in Upstate, NY and I JUST got power 1:00am Friday. You live in Tennessee, they don't do anything down there anyway, so not having power obviously didn't disrupt your social life. However, here in NY, and the entire east coast, being without power 1)is bound to put a pretty big dent in the economy 2) cause chaos (not bloody likely in TN), and 3) make a bunch of New Yorkers pretty fucking angry, especially when they finally get power back, read slashdot, and have to read ridiculous posts like yours. Enjoy Justin Timberlake
I have never seen a bsod and it runs 24/7, acting as gateway for my home network as well as running a websever and ftp server so it does get heavy use.
Please tell me you aren't running IIS on that box. Also, if this box is your home gateway, web and ftp server "only", i.e. not used for anything else, why on Earth would you buy an XP license for these purposes?
That's a few hundred bucks wasted if you ask me!
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You're right, you're supposed to work hard. And many of us do just that. However I disagree with you. You use the word "slacker" in your post... How can someone who works OVER 40 hours a week be considered a slacker? Yes you're taught that hard work will get you whatever you desire in life, and in many cases that is true, however if you're a hard-working employee, you deserve the right to be compensated for all of the hard work you are doing for your employer.
Taking away overtime is just a slap in the face to every employee in that: If every worker out there puts in his/her all for their employer, and receives no benefit from it, where exactly is the motivation to continue to work hard?
Are you an idiot? All they have to do is sign a binary to run on the hardware. There is no source code or anything involved in that, no giving away of trade secrets. Hint: aquire clue before posting.
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Despite all this, whenever I've tried Linux it has never felt like I could make my computer truly mine
I would consider myself in the top 1% or.1% of people who would feel comfortable using Linux
Well if you consider yourself comfortable enough with Linux, then you should be able to make it feel "at home" relatively quickly.
Most of the newest distros have installers that have come so far, I might even go as far as to say that they rival Windows installers (Mandrake 9.1 installer is beautiful).
If your complaint is about X11 drivers, then you should of course know that most distros can't bundle certain graphics drivers due to licensing issues i.e. Nvidia, Ati. A quick install of the driver, and a quick mod to XF86Config-4 usually does the trick (at least from my experience w/ Nvidia cards)
Dependency Hell?? Well I use Mandrake 9.1, a quick 2 min. URPMI from the PLF to add contrib, sources, main, and of course Texstar's repository, and dependency hell is pretty much taken care of, as grpmi also gets the deps. this is for an rpm-based distro, however apt-get is equally as powerful.
It may be that KDE or GNOME don't feel right from an ease of use standpoint
hmmmm.... this one baffles me a bit. I use KDE as my desktop, a quick trip to Kde-look.org and my desktop will look and feel exactly how I want it to. I know what you're probably thinking, and no I'm not a KDE-only zealot... Gnome is very good, I just like KDE better...Plus there are many other window managers out there, it's up to you to use whatever makes you feel "at home". Linux has come a long way in the last few years, and I'm proud to tell people I use Linux, and will always explain it to them what it is when they ask, "what's that?"
What it really comes down to is choice and options. You have choice, and you have lots of options. You can choose to run Windows be locked in, and have everything forced upon you. You can choose Mac OS and have a closed (but becoming more open minded) OS but one that def. beats Windows in ease of use, but can't quite tinker with it as much as the normal geek would like. OR you can choose Linux. If you can't make your linux box feel as if you were "at home", I'd re-think your statement about being "comfortable enough" to use Linux. Customization is just one of the many perks of Linux.
"I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end.. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin"..... "Where we go from here, is a choice I leave up to you"
Lets say a person is hired by a company, hourly not salaried, to do system administration. Well throughout the employment the person was asked to do a website for the company. The site isn't finished yet, and still being worked on daily in addition to normal sys admin tasks. The conditions at the workplace have deteriorated rapidly and the pay certainly isn't consummate to the workload. If the person were to leave whether it be by resignation or laid off, what are the legal rights the person has in terms of taking the code for the website with him when he goes? Whether or not the company folds or stays in business seems irrelevant in this case, but if the person leaves and decides to take the website and any other work he's done with him, what are the legal ramifications of doing this? Mind you it's not a contract position, and there is no contract at all, and certainly nothing about ownership of code, project schedule etc.
I put in a call to James Earl Jones. His personal assistant forwarded the message and he took time out of his busy break-dancing schedule to call me back.
James (in signature voice): What's up bud?
Me: Big Jimbo, you know this mess w/ Verizon trying to stop Cell Number portability? Is there anything ya can do about that?
James: oh ho ho ho, Let me see what I can do my friend.
Me: Well since we're on the subject, see what you can do about that "can you hear me now?" dude will ya?
James: I'm only one man guy. One very famous, very well-respected, Toni Award-winning man *pauses* On second thought, let me see what I can do about that guy too, I just saw him on a commercial for the 132nd time today. I'll get back to ya.
I have been running Mandrake 9.1 with XFree 4.3.x and I have to say that the speed concerns in X isn't as bad anymore. On an Athlon XP 1700+ and 512mb ram, Mandrake on X, KDE 3.1, and the newest Nvidia drivers, is just as fast, and in the majority of cases (mozilla loading time excluded) is faster than Windows. KDE is a mem hog, and I wish they would optimize it a bit better, however I have no complaints as to the overall slowness of X. Especially in games, OpenGl on X playing UT2003 is just as fast as windows in most cases. If a new X server re-written from scratch with newer optimizations came out, this problem that many do have would disappear, and the speed of X would be a moot point.
Well if someone's going to make a "SCO Headquarters Shootout" Quake mod" then surely they won't leave us hanging and make a SCO Headquarters Shootout UT2003 mod. And you can add Microsoft Headquarters Shootout Quake and UT2003 mods to that list as well. I play enough as it is, however if these maps were released I might never stop! Especialy if they made the UT2003 mod for the Invasion game type where the monsters are changes to certain MS employees.... yea that'd be cool.. *sighs* i have no life
No you cannot buy an Athlon and put it in a P4 motherboard, they are not pin-compatible (diff pin structure and number of pins on the chip as well as the socket) or bus compatible(bus architecture is completely different). The pin compatibility Via got is so they can make their chips compatible with Intel chipsets on Motherboards. I.E. You coulld buy an Intel-based motherboard, and put a Via chip in it.
As a former student and IT lackey of Niagara University (20 Min. down the road from UB) I was always upset at the fear of the IT dept. to open their minds, and give Open Source a chance (even after all of my pleading). I have since transfered out, and out of the area but still maintain contacts in the area UB included. Geeks alike are very happy about this, others who are clueless are sure to be impressed (after the microsoft cleansing) so everyone wins. And this currently has me thinking about transfering to UB!
This reminds me of the movie Zoolander. While idiotic, Ben Still is hilarious. Using the term Eugoogly. Kinda funny. Also, the scene where they are trying to get the "files from the computer", and the are shaking the IMac all around trying to figure out how to open it. Great stuff.
Well obviously Matrox didn't have the either the capability, whether it be technologically or intellectually, nor the resources to keep up with others. Does this mean they couldn't make a "solid product?" I dunno, but they tried, and now video card prices are sky-high ridiculous. MS can charge $500+ for a Office Suite, and that's fair? I call it price gouging.
Ok when did Bill Gates start posting as fadeaway? Basically your supporting the monopolistic industries, and only 1 or 2 companies should rule every industry. That completely destroys competition, and as a result is BAD BAD BAD for the consumer. Monopolies can drive up their prices to unGodly highs. You the consumer, would benefit from more solid companies, creating good product, increasing competition, and therefore lowering product prices for all consumers alike. Either your Mr. Gates, or the anti-consumerist. Oh wait, they're one in the same!
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Have you seen "It's All About Pete Tong" ? It's a great movie.. if you're a fan of dance music you can certainly appreciate it much more, but I think it's a MUST-SEE for all DJ's!
After seeing that movie, I started thinking about getting custom DJ earplugs, and after your comment I think I'm leaning closer towards getting a pair!
See that's where you're wrong. Just because YOU want a phone to only make calls and have a large service area, doesn't mean everyone else does. Phones are for... whatever people want to use them for. Companies offer high speed internet, e-mail, cameras, bluetooth, synching etc. because people want these features. If YOU want a phone to store basic contact info, and make calls, then buy a cheap phone (which I'm sure you have). There are lots of other people out there (myself, and many people here included) who want top of the line features in top of the line phones, and are willing to pay for them.
I bought a Motorola v600 and use Cingular for this exact reason. I paid close to $300 for it, another $100 for the Motorola Bluetooh Headset, different colored faceplates etc.. I bought the phone because it's top of the line, and has all the features I want. And guess what? They work!
The point is, a lot of people want lots of features in their phone, and when they find a phone that's advertised with all of these features, and pay hundreds of dollars for it and accessories, they expect it to work!
The v710 is a sweet phone as manufactured, but this has destroyed the hype. I'll gladly stick using KBluetooth in Linux to transfer pictures, games, songs, and ringtones from my laptop to my v600.
I have a Motorola V600, and have had it for months. It's a GSM phone, and I use it through Cingular, but there are versions of the v600 from At&T Wireless and T-Mobile. It's a great phone, and bluetooth works flawlessly in every profile, it's not crippled at all. My buddy from work, after seeing my phone badly wanted a bluetooth phone, and almost switched to Cingular just for this phone, but when he heard the v710 was coming out for Verizon, he stayed put and waited...
Well he got the phone and is pretty furious that he's paid all of this money, and the only functionality he gets out of it is the use of his Bluetooth headset. There are rumors floating all over saying Verizon crippled it, or that it's a firmware issue and will be fixed with a firmware upgrade but who really knows? Verizon does and that's about it.
My Moto v600: Cingular, perfect bluetooth functionality, and runs java and isn't locked down.
Verizon v710: Not working bluetooth, runs this BREW which they use to lock you in by making you pay for every ringtone or game.
There are thousands of free games and ringtones out there, but Verizon wants to make as much money off of their "precious customers" as they can. The bottom line is it's bad for business if you have unhappy customers. The demand for Bluetooth and all of the features of the v710 was there, and Moto provided it, only to have it crippled by Verizon. Don't blame Moto that's for sure. When you pay close to $300 because you want all of the gadgets in a phone, you expect them to work.
My advice? Get a v600 and switch to GSM.
I'm a happy v600 owner, and will never think twice about my purchase.
My 1st FP EVER... So Happy..*tear*
Of course they'll try and pass it. Anything that makes a lot of money for companies is likely to get passed due to the ridiculous amounts of lobbying they all do. Which is a shame because so many things get overlooked due to the monetarily-heavy-backed lobbyists making sure the focus is all on them. When it gets to be companies making money, over the well-being of a school then it more of a problem than most people are willing to recognize. FP BTW!
"Not I", said the fly!!
Well I live in Upstate, NY and I JUST got power 1:00am Friday. You live in Tennessee, they don't do anything down there anyway, so not having power obviously didn't disrupt your social life. However, here in NY, and the entire east coast, being without power 1)is bound to put a pretty big dent in the economy 2) cause chaos (not bloody likely in TN), and 3) make a bunch of New Yorkers pretty fucking angry, especially when they finally get power back, read slashdot, and have to read ridiculous posts like yours. Enjoy Justin Timberlake
Please tell me you aren't running IIS on that box. Also, if this box is your home gateway, web and ftp server "only", i.e. not used for anything else, why on Earth would you buy an XP license for these purposes?
That's a few hundred bucks wasted if you ask me!
Taking away overtime is just a slap in the face to every employee in that: If every worker out there puts in his/her all for their employer, and receives no benefit from it, where exactly is the motivation to continue to work hard?
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Hey, it only makes sense ;-)
That is correct, that iiiiiiis correct. Felt it was appropriate to break out for this one
"You'll Never Shut Down the REAL Napster!!!"
I would consider myself in the top 1% or .1% of people who would feel comfortable using Linux
Well if you consider yourself comfortable enough with Linux, then you should be able to make it feel "at home" relatively quickly.
Most of the newest distros have installers that have come so far, I might even go as far as to say that they rival Windows installers (Mandrake 9.1 installer is beautiful).
If your complaint is about X11 drivers, then you should of course know that most distros can't bundle certain graphics drivers due to licensing issues i.e. Nvidia, Ati. A quick install of the driver, and a quick mod to XF86Config-4 usually does the trick (at least from my experience w/ Nvidia cards)
Dependency Hell?? Well I use Mandrake 9.1, a quick 2 min. URPMI from the PLF to add contrib, sources, main, and of course Texstar's repository, and dependency hell is pretty much taken care of, as grpmi also gets the deps. this is for an rpm-based distro, however apt-get is equally as powerful.
It may be that KDE or GNOME don't feel right from an ease of use standpoint
hmmmm.... this one baffles me a bit. I use KDE as my desktop, a quick trip to Kde-look.org and my desktop will look and feel exactly how I want it to. I know what you're probably thinking, and no I'm not a KDE-only zealot... Gnome is very good, I just like KDE better...Plus there are many other window managers out there, it's up to you to use whatever makes you feel "at home". Linux has come a long way in the last few years, and I'm proud to tell people I use Linux, and will always explain it to them what it is when they ask, "what's that?"
What it really comes down to is choice and options. You have choice, and you have lots of options. You can choose to run Windows be locked in, and have everything forced upon you. You can choose Mac OS and have a closed (but becoming more open minded) OS but one that def. beats Windows in ease of use, but can't quite tinker with it as much as the normal geek would like. OR you can choose Linux. If you can't make your linux box feel as if you were "at home", I'd re-think your statement about being "comfortable enough" to use Linux. Customization is just one of the many perks of Linux.
"I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end.. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin"..... "Where we go from here, is a choice I leave up to you"
Well if you're going to quote Spaceballs and expect to get modded funny,for God Sakes man don't botch the quote!!
it's "They've gone to plaid!"
Lets say a person is hired by a company, hourly not salaried, to do system administration. Well throughout the employment the person was asked to do a website for the company. The site isn't finished yet, and still being worked on daily in addition to normal sys admin tasks. The conditions at the workplace have deteriorated rapidly and the pay certainly isn't consummate to the workload. If the person were to leave whether it be by resignation or laid off, what are the legal rights the person has in terms of taking the code for the website with him when he goes? Whether or not the company folds or stays in business seems irrelevant in this case, but if the person leaves and decides to take the website and any other work he's done with him, what are the legal ramifications of doing this? Mind you it's not a contract position, and there is no contract at all, and certainly nothing about ownership of code, project schedule etc.
James (in signature voice): What's up bud?
Me: Big Jimbo, you know this mess w/ Verizon trying to stop Cell Number portability? Is there anything ya can do about that?
James: oh ho ho ho, Let me see what I can do my friend.
Me: Well since we're on the subject, see what you can do about that "can you hear me now?" dude will ya?
James: I'm only one man guy. One very famous, very well-respected, Toni Award-winning man *pauses* On second thought, let me see what I can do about that guy too, I just saw him on a commercial for the 132nd time today. I'll get back to ya.
One down, one to go! Jimbo's clutch :)
I have been running Mandrake 9.1 with XFree 4.3.x and I have to say that the speed concerns in X isn't as bad anymore. On an Athlon XP 1700+ and 512mb ram, Mandrake on X, KDE 3.1, and the newest Nvidia drivers, is just as fast, and in the majority of cases (mozilla loading time excluded) is faster than Windows. KDE is a mem hog, and I wish they would optimize it a bit better, however I have no complaints as to the overall slowness of X. Especially in games, OpenGl on X playing UT2003 is just as fast as windows in most cases. If a new X server re-written from scratch with newer optimizations came out, this problem that many do have would disappear, and the speed of X would be a moot point.
Well if someone's going to make a "SCO Headquarters Shootout" Quake mod" then surely they won't leave us hanging and make a SCO Headquarters Shootout UT2003 mod. And you can add Microsoft Headquarters Shootout Quake and UT2003 mods to that list as well. I play enough as it is, however if these maps were released I might never stop! Especialy if they made the UT2003 mod for the Invasion game type where the monsters are changes to certain MS employees.... yea that'd be cool.. *sighs* i have no life
Well that sums it up, when this comes out Bush will declare Intel as the new member of the Axis of Evil
No you cannot buy an Athlon and put it in a P4 motherboard, they are not pin-compatible (diff pin structure and number of pins on the chip as well as the socket) or bus compatible(bus architecture is completely different). The pin compatibility Via got is so they can make their chips compatible with Intel chipsets on Motherboards. I.E. You coulld buy an Intel-based motherboard, and put a Via chip in it.
As a former student and IT lackey of Niagara University (20 Min. down the road from UB) I was always upset at the fear of the IT dept. to open their minds, and give Open Source a chance (even after all of my pleading). I have since transfered out, and out of the area but still maintain contacts in the area UB included. Geeks alike are very happy about this, others who are clueless are sure to be impressed (after the microsoft cleansing) so everyone wins. And this currently has me thinking about transfering to UB!
Dude did anyone even notice that Miguel De Icaza just posted in this thread?!?! Surely that comment deserves to be modded up. :)
This reminds me of the movie Zoolander. While idiotic, Ben Still is hilarious. Using the term Eugoogly. Kinda funny. Also, the scene where they are trying to get the "files from the computer", and the are shaking the IMac all around trying to figure out how to open it. Great stuff.
Well obviously Matrox didn't have the either the capability, whether it be technologically or intellectually, nor the resources to keep up with others. Does this mean they couldn't make a "solid product?" I dunno, but they tried, and now video card prices are sky-high ridiculous. MS can charge $500+ for a Office Suite, and that's fair? I call it price gouging.
Ok when did Bill Gates start posting as fadeaway? Basically your supporting the monopolistic industries, and only 1 or 2 companies should rule every industry. That completely destroys competition, and as a result is BAD BAD BAD for the consumer. Monopolies can drive up their prices to unGodly highs. You the consumer, would benefit from more solid companies, creating good product, increasing competition, and therefore lowering product prices for all consumers alike. Either your Mr. Gates, or the anti-consumerist. Oh wait, they're one in the same!