In the world of mainframe and Unix farms, a lot of companies sell their products based on 'server class' or number of CPUs besides Oracle.
In big business, when a company asks "how much", the vendor says "How much do you have". They know companines that can afford million dollar servers will shell out more for the same thing.
As mentioned in the article: the country/governing body ".tv corporation" becomes a "wholly owned subsidiary " but still runs the admin of the TLD like they have since 1998.
So technically, on shaky and ethical grounds as it is, it's the same as it was before. On paper anyway.
Re:Stay away from Creative Products: full of bugs
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Testing the Audigy
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I concur. SB16 was the last decent product out of creative about 6 years ago now. I bought a $400 lemon of a Voodoo2 from them, returned it, and received another lemon. By this (slow returns) time V3 cards were about $150 so I switched.
For my new computer I bought a SB Live! and I am very disappointed with it.
As you say, drivers are useless, installs a pile of junk software. I want an audio driver that works for your own hardware thanks.
Creative Labs WAS audio which is why people still buy them but they've been making shit and selling it to people for the last 4 years.
Why don't you install one unit in a Starbucks and see how it works. If you actually make a profit, take the profit and reinvest in your company, possibly buying one or two more units.
As these start to turn a profit, again, reinvest the money back into the company.
Once the (small) business starts to get too large you can't handle it yourself, hire someone. Time and time again, this is how sucessful business get started.
In other words, let the business grow naturally and don't expect to install 500 units, hire 88 people and figure out where the money is.
This is a learning remote not one of those type-in-a-code jobs. If you know what they are, you can manually copy the code into the pronto via the PC software. There are databases on the net that have a lot of discrete codes.
If the original remote can send the signal, pronto should have no problems. At worst it could have different buttons set for each ir signal
"Dude, sweet tunes! Why aren't you playing it on your PC"
"Oh, I bought it. I woulda warezed it, but you can't play CD's in your computer any more. But this way I can play it on my boom box and play Max Payne at the same time!"
Re:I wish VA Linux had better management
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VA Layoff Rumors
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Went with Dell instead.
So have quite a few others. VA is basically at the bottom of units sold for Linux systems, 8.6% market share behind Compaq (31), Dell (14), and IBM (14).
I wonder how much of those 9-10 hours were spent actually working. These are not the factory workers who are monitored quite well.
How much time does a typical office worker spend on extra long coffee breaks, chatting with co-workers, surfing the web, talking on the phone to friends and family, going for an hour lunch when the union time is thirty minutes?
And then at the end of the work day, they have to stay late because they are falling behind schedule.
The worse part is that it normally affects other workers who get 'priority' work handed to them at 4pm when their boss should of had it to them much sooner.
I don't blame Dell regarding the battery recall (I was even a victim).
What I don't like is their policy of using refurbished parts for replacements. My hard drive crashed a few years back on a Dell PC under full warranty. They quickly shipped me a 'new' drive. The refurbished sticker on it gave it away however. When I called to complain they said it was now their policy to use returned parts. I wasn't too happy having a 'fixed like new' drive as my storage medium. It took a strongly worded letter to our regional Dell office to get a factory new drive.
As a side note, my co-workers secretly opened the box and replaced the drive with an even more decrepid one, wrapped in plastic wrap.
We bought two Inspiron 3800s last June. My battery wouldn't hold a charge for more than 20 mins. When I called the support centre the tech was amazed it hadn't exploded yet. It was releasing its charge at a VERY high rate.
They replaced the battery and all has been well since (had to have to keyboard replaced after 9 months).
Two weeks later I saw the notice on their website regarding a battery recall. When I checked the other notebook's battery, it was completely dead. The user never noticed as he kept it in the docking station 24x7.
The fact is, at least in Canada, you are legally responsible for the actions of others if you serve brooze at your house (guess workplace is similar). As corny as it may seem considering these are adults who should be responsible for their own actions it is the law.
And so if someone breaks the law and you get injured because of it, why can you not sue them for damages?
Don't let things like morals and ethics get in the way of a juicy lawsuit.
When this is over, can I sue my parents for getting a divorce when I was a young kid. Or sue my father for making me move around the country every two years? "It disrupted my life and I could have turned out better."
Not only could you sue, you'd have a great chance of winning. Maybe if you commit some henious crime first, you could blame your actions on your childhood. Once you are aquitted because obviously you're not to blame - responsible but not guilty et all - you could sue your father into the poorhouse and like the American Dream!
Or, move to Canada where we watch American stations and ignore what's happening here.
Re:the stuff under the block of book information
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Ugh, I got it backwards. My bad. Yes the frontpage is Tim's statement of distaste. Clear enough.
This has got me a few times as well and here's why:
Reader Pseudonym contributed this review of the visually dense tome The Art of the Matrix.
Article posted by Tim mentions that reader Pseudonym contributed a review. Clear enough.
I spent an hour with this coffee-table-size book a few weeks ago, and even though I'm not a big fan of the film itself, the book made me appreciate it a lot more
Who is saying this? Tim or Pseudo? Since there is no quotation, the "I" would make most readers think this is Timothy's viewpoint since/. editors throw their opinions all over articles.
Netscape got to its position because it was better
Wrong. Netscape got to its position because it was the only choice. When MS (InterWHAT?) finally decided to make a browser they had to push into a nearly 100% dominated market. For several years Netscape still had a 80% share of the browers.
But instead of improving their product they sat back while the ever hungry Microsoft Corporation came out with better and better versions.
People will drift to the better product and when version IE 5.x came out, Netscape was a floating, bloated, dead corpse.
I'm blessed to be flamed by a wannabe 'Signal 11'. Took a high intellect to come up with that nick I'm sure.
Using a word to try and make yourself seem smart actually underscores your stupidity when you use it incorrectly.
In this case you're doubly stupid, because using a slash between two words is for inept writers and your big word of the day, moot, means to discuss or debate. In trying to use it for a replacement of the word irrelevant to make yourself seem important, you only ended up making yourself look like the jackass that you are.
Especially for game related sites. Just like television, whom the net wants to copy, it gives me a few mins to grab a drink, food, or talk to the girlfriend and keep her interested.
Slashdot Mirror
In the world of mainframe and Unix farms, a lot of companies sell their products based on 'server class' or number of CPUs besides Oracle.
In big business, when a company asks "how much", the vendor says "How much do you have". They know companines that can afford million dollar servers will shell out more for the same thing.
As mentioned in the article: the country/governing body ".tv corporation" becomes a "wholly owned subsidiary " but still runs the admin of the TLD like they have since 1998.
So technically, on shaky and ethical grounds as it is, it's the same as it was before. On paper anyway.
I concur. SB16 was the last decent product out of creative about 6 years ago now. I bought a $400 lemon of a Voodoo2 from them, returned it, and received another lemon. By this (slow returns) time V3 cards were about $150 so I switched.
For my new computer I bought a SB Live! and I am very disappointed with it.
As you say, drivers are useless, installs a pile of junk software. I want an audio driver that works for your own hardware thanks.
Creative Labs WAS audio which is why people still buy them but they've been making shit and selling it to people for the last 4 years.
Malor, I'm outta here...
Why don't you install one unit in a Starbucks and see how it works. If you actually make a profit, take the profit and reinvest in your company, possibly buying one or two more units.
As these start to turn a profit, again, reinvest the money back into the company.
Once the (small) business starts to get too large you can't handle it yourself, hire someone. Time and time again, this is how sucessful business get started.
In other words, let the business grow naturally and don't expect to install 500 units, hire 88 people and figure out where the money is.
Or...Does it mean either 10% of revenue or $2.5 billion, possibly because of some upper limit.
This is a learning remote not one of those type-in-a-code jobs. If you know what they are, you can manually copy the code into the pronto via the PC software. There are databases on the net that have a lot of discrete codes.
If the original remote can send the signal, pronto should have no problems. At worst it could have different buttons set for each ir signal
Or the reversal
"Dude, sweet tunes! Why aren't you playing it on your PC"
"Oh, I bought it. I woulda warezed it, but you can't play CD's in your computer any more. But this way I can play it on my boom box and play Max Payne at the same time!"
Went with Dell instead.
So have quite a few others. VA is basically at the bottom of units sold for Linux systems, 8.6% market share behind Compaq (31), Dell (14), and IBM (14).
"entymology" means absoluting nothing.
entomology - Study of insects etymology - Study of word origins
I am not a dork.
Check out this guys clone of Ultima III for the Gameboy Color
http://gonow.to/sven
You'd need to burn a copy to a gameboy rom (not to uncommon an item) or play on an emulator.
I wonder how much of those 9-10 hours were spent actually working. These are not the factory workers who are monitored quite well.
How much time does a typical office worker spend on extra long coffee breaks, chatting with co-workers, surfing the web, talking on the phone to friends and family, going for an hour lunch when the union time is thirty minutes?
And then at the end of the work day, they have to stay late because they are falling behind schedule.
The worse part is that it normally affects other workers who get 'priority' work handed to them at 4pm when their boss should of had it to them much sooner.
I don't blame Dell regarding the battery recall (I was even a victim).
What I don't like is their policy of using refurbished parts for replacements. My hard drive crashed a few years back on a Dell PC under full warranty. They quickly shipped me a 'new' drive. The refurbished sticker on it gave it away however. When I called to complain they said it was now their policy to use returned parts. I wasn't too happy having a 'fixed like new' drive as my storage medium. It took a strongly worded letter to our regional Dell office to get a factory new drive.
As a side note, my co-workers secretly opened the box and replaced the drive with an even more decrepid one, wrapped in plastic wrap.
I was incredulus! They got me good...
We bought two Inspiron 3800s last June. My battery wouldn't hold a charge for more than 20 mins. When I called the support centre the tech was amazed it hadn't exploded yet. It was releasing its charge at a VERY high rate.
They replaced the battery and all has been well since (had to have to keyboard replaced after 9 months).
Two weeks later I saw the notice on their website regarding a battery recall. When I checked the other notebook's battery, it was completely dead. The user never noticed as he kept it in the docking station 24x7.
I'm sure all the English majors enjoy reading Slashdot as much as the geeks.
I can overhear them now:
Voice 1 : "My personal favorite has to be 'Having to had provide'"
Voice 2 : "Safetly"
Voice 1 : "HA HA HA"
Voice 2 : "HA HA HA I love this site!"
Sounds to be to be user related. Windows NT 'put them in the wrong place'. uh huh. Sure it wasn't Tibor?
Out of memory space on the disk. Ah, how about out of disk space period. You fill the root volume on a *nix machine and see what happens.
. Very little to do with Windows and a lot to do ill trained spacemen.
The fact is, at least in Canada, you are legally responsible for the actions of others if you serve brooze at your house (guess workplace is similar). As corny as it may seem considering these are adults who should be responsible for their own actions it is the law.
And so if someone breaks the law and you get injured because of it, why can you not sue them for damages?
Don't let things like morals and ethics get in the way of a juicy lawsuit.
When this is over, can I sue my parents for getting a divorce when I was a young kid. Or sue my father for making me move around the country every two years? "It disrupted my life and I could have turned out better."
Not only could you sue, you'd have a great chance of winning. Maybe if you commit some henious crime first, you could blame your actions on your childhood. Once you are aquitted because obviously you're not to blame - responsible but not guilty et all - you could sue your father into the poorhouse and like the American Dream!
Or, move to Canada where we watch American stations and ignore what's happening here.
Ugh, I got it backwards. My bad. Yes the frontpage is Tim's statement of distaste. Clear enough.
This has got me a few times as well and here's why:
/. editors throw their opinions all over articles.
Reader Pseudonym contributed this review of the visually dense tome The Art of the Matrix.
Article posted by Tim mentions that reader Pseudonym contributed a review. Clear enough.
I spent an hour with this coffee-table-size book a few weeks ago, and even though I'm not a big fan of the film itself, the book made me appreciate it a lot more
Who is saying this? Tim or Pseudo? Since there is no quotation, the "I" would make most readers think this is Timothy's viewpoint since
Netscape got to its position because it was better
Wrong. Netscape got to its position because it was the only choice. When MS (InterWHAT?) finally decided to make a browser they had to push into a nearly 100% dominated market. For several years Netscape still had a 80% share of the browers.
But instead of improving their product they sat back while the ever hungry Microsoft Corporation came out with better and better versions.
People will drift to the better product and when version IE 5.x came out, Netscape was a floating, bloated, dead corpse.
I'm blessed to be flamed by a wannabe 'Signal 11'. Took a high intellect to come up with that nick I'm sure.
Using a word to try and make yourself seem smart actually underscores your stupidity when you use it incorrectly.
In this case you're doubly stupid, because using a slash between two words is for inept writers and your big word of the day, moot, means to discuss or debate. In trying to use it for a replacement of the word irrelevant to make yourself seem important, you only ended up making yourself look like the jackass that you are.
Go back to helping mommie unpack the groceries.
Especially for game related sites. Just like television, whom the net wants to copy, it gives me a few mins to grab a drink, food, or talk to the girlfriend and keep her interested.
Well, I guess Andy Smith would have to work at the USPO to make this pass.
Hemos can keep his day job.
There are any number of webbased sites that use 'intermissions' 'commercials' or 'e-mercials' or whatever you want to call them.
This is nothing new, move along. Obviously if Hemos worked in the USPO these guys would of got the patent for this 'new' technology.