I can attest to those Lite-On burners. I got my 52x24x52x for less than $65 including tax and fedex, and it is simply the best CD burner I've ever owned. If you're in the market for an IDE drive, you can't beat the Lite-On 48x or 52x for price/performance. 24x re-write capability sounds great; I just haven't picked up any fast RW disks yet.
Some items of interest regarding these Lite-Ons (I don't work for them....really):
- Copy protected software CDs are handled well. Copy-protected audio CDs are not (as expected). - Many (if not most or all) Sony, Memorex, and Cendyne IDE CD-RW drives are Lite-Ons that can be flashed to use the Lite-On firmware (to gain Mt. Rainier RW support, for example). They all share the same face plate if they are Lite-Ons - manual eject hole directly above the right side of the volume control. If you can get a good deal on any of them, you will be very happy with it. But Lite-Ons are typically even cheaper than these other brands, including after rebate deals. - In Windows, CloneCD loves this drive, and if you buy Lite-On brand, it comes with Nero. - Disk eject sounds noisy, but that's because the mechanism is gear-driven, not belt-driven. Disk writing is mostly quiet. - It only has a 2MB buffer, whereas other drives have 4MB and 8MB buffers now. Not too bad, especially if your burning software can take advantage of Smart-Burn, like Nero.
Lite-On seems to be pushing Plextor around these days, especially when IDE Plextors are about $40 more expensive and are not as accurate as the Lite-Ons. I'm not surprised that Yamaha is backing away from this market, when good drives are getting so cheap as to be unprofitable for upscale manufacturers. They will be missed for their super-fast and accurate SCSI RW "tattoo" drives, though.
Very simple. They set up two companies, one in Japan, and one in the U.S. The U.S. one is called "Square Electronic Arts LLC" and is the one that publishes some of the Final Fantasy series. The rest were/are published by Nintendo of America (daughter company of Nintendo of Japan) and SCEA (sister company of SCEI, etc.). The Japanese one is called "EA Square KK," which is the Japanese publishers of EA games and Square's fighting games.
Well, according to an online bio, she wouldn't have been much of a kid in the late 80s. Having been born in 1964 would make the chances of that quite slim.
But dang if she didn't look 12 on Square One TV.
Anyone ever see her as a little kid on the Square One TV math show on PBS?
I'm revealing my relative youth here (maybe not, Slashdot seems full of teenagers who might not know what Square One is), but on the detective story segment on the show (called "Mathnet" as a parody of Dragnet, I think), she played the caretaker of a gorilla that had gone missing. And the detectives she hired used math to find it, as expected.
Getting back on-topic, Ms. Smith sounds EXACTLY the same now as she did then, in the eighties and when she was a little kid. Not like that's some big revelation, but when I first started watching the Tracy Ullman show and later on Herman's Head (which starred both her and Hank Azaria as major characters), I couldn't shake the association of that voice with that of the "Mathnet gorilla girl."....Well, after some quick googling, apparently it looks like Square One is being shown on the Noggin educational cable channel. Found that bit of info on a site dedicated to the show.
You may have clicked the link, your eyes may have passed over some words that your brain recognized as comprehensible English, but you did not READ the article.
Please do so at your leisure, then come back and post your thoughts when stupid things like the above quoted subject stop running around in your brain stabbing to death all the insightful comments trying to get out.
No offense, of course. I'm not insulting you. Brainfarts happen to me all the time, so I know where you're coming from.
Somebody else posted this, but every single Sega GBA title that's been released in Japan is programmed by Sega. These are new games, not ports of old games.
THQ takes other titles and co-develops them with Sega, but a lot of them are Sega-developed and are only published (not programmed) in the US by THQ.
Sega has no hand in the design, manufacture, or sale of the yet-to-be-released N-gage hardware. All the PR you've been seeing is from the one press release that Sega sent out announcing that they would produce games for the thing. Talk about lending credibility.
Along that line of thinking, I will keep playing Nintendo's/Capcom's/Konami's/Namco's/Sega's Gameboy Advance for now. Nintendo may have a monopoly in handheld games, but the market thrives regardless. Current generation of GB hardware AND games are cheap, numerous, high-quality. Add a phone to the mix, and you create a more sophisticated phone, not a better game system (and definitely not an inexpensive or universally-accessible one). Bah, whatever. In the games industry it's always fun to watch what companies are willing to try what.
Just a quick OT anecdote. Saw this very same technology on a documentary of the ten best bathrooms in the world.
There's some ice cream parlor in Florida that has a bathroom with a clear door. As soon as a patron walks in and locks the door, the door goes opaque on the other side. Very important to lock the door, because some people apparently forget to lock it, and can be seen by customers.
Proprietor said that when the power goes out, the door stays opaque. Good thing for bathroom doors, bad thing for home theater windows, I guess.
I'm sure this works for some people, but for me it kind of proves my point that if I have to contort my hand or otherwise stray from a sane typing style (I shouldn't be forced to use my palm as a mock-finger), the shortcut is just poorly thought out.
So, in my opinion, all modifier-key/fkey combinations are stupid, especially ones that are typed with one hand. That includes (in Windows) ctrl-esc, ctrl-shift-esc, and alt-f4, maybe there are others that I thankfully don't know about. I guess it can be considered my own fault for refusing to use the right-hand modifier keys in conjunction with these shortcuts, but I'd rather just plain blame Microsoft.:)
Sure, of course modern IE and Windows Explorer supports ctrl-w in addition to the traditional alt-f4. But it doesn't work system-wide across all applications. When shortcut keys don't work consistently across programs, users are forced into a position where they either have to memorize different bindings for each program, or they simply avoid using them. I've taken to practicing the first when I use Windows, just to get around the brain-dead way things work there and still retain any kind of working speed.
I only wanted to point out that this particular exploit (I do consider it an exploit) already has well-known workarounds in most common, clueful browsers. The "Who cares" in my subject was meant only to specifically address this so-called "Next-Gen Pop-up Ad"; I actually do care a great deal about the topic of browser behavior in general.
That's one reason why it's pretty much essential nowadays to remember the keyboard equivalent for closing windows in your OS of choice. Ever been hijacked by a full-screen ad that hides all menu bars? Close it with the keyboard.
OT, who the hell thought that alt-f4 would make any sense for closing a window in Windows? Typing it with the left hand alone forces you to twist your wrist, and who would associate "f4" with "close" anyway? Mac OS got it down right the first time, as did BeOS.
Sure, but sticking with software that doesn't behave in the best interests of the users just makes it easier for advertisers to force their impressions.
I'm not giving up without a fight. I'm going to force THEM to try harder, until THEY give up.
If this flesh-encasing theory was feasible, why didn't Michael Biehn (can't remember the character's name) stuff some clothes and advanced weapons in a turkey and bring it with him, giving himself some kind of advantage?
Hell, why didn't Arnie bring anything in a meatbag with him either?
KMeleon had some major problems for the better part of a year, between versions 0.6, 0.65 (discrete beta release), and the recent 0.7. The lack of publicity hurt them a lot, as did the fact that their home page was stagnant for the whole time. The poor design of their website didn't help either. (I had left kmeleon.sf.net as my home page in KMeleon, and it was about a week before I noticed the puny announcement of the 0.7 release near the bottom of the page.)
KMeleon still has a few advantages over Phoenix, particularly with configuration/preference options.
But for me, the killer feature is that it does not use XUL for its interface. On a lot of my test machines, XUL just flat out runs slowly. Windows version doesn't matter, amount of RAM, processor speed all don't make a difference, Mozilla and Phoenix just take forever to close their dialog boxes, expecially if you open the preferences panel and browse through a few different options (you don't have to change anything, and it doesn't matter what control you use to close the dialog box). 45 seconds to close a dialog box is inexcusable, and that is the major reason I can't run Mozilla, Phoenix, or Netscape 6/7 on some of my machines. KMeleon just flies on these same PCs.
Abandoned London Underground stations play a somewhat major part in several scenes in the new James Bond movie, including being the intro location for the new Bond car (a little disappointing this time around). You also get to find out what happens to old equipment, in one particular abandoned station.
"....when most people don't even believe that mainframes exist anymore...."
Uh, sure. In the minds of many of my non-technical clients, "mainframe" is a term used to refer to almost any kind of server.
The management of one organization (less than 150 employees) seems to think they have like 12 mainframes. You know, their web server, their mail server, file/print, the really fast dual-Celeron (Abit BP6 mainframe, running linux!) in the corner office....
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I can attest to those Lite-On burners. I got my 52x24x52x for less than $65 including tax and fedex, and it is simply the best CD burner I've ever owned. If you're in the market for an IDE drive, you can't beat the Lite-On 48x or 52x for price/performance. 24x re-write capability sounds great; I just haven't picked up any fast RW disks yet.
Some items of interest regarding these Lite-Ons (I don't work for them....really):
- Copy protected software CDs are handled well. Copy-protected audio CDs are not (as expected).
- Many (if not most or all) Sony, Memorex, and Cendyne IDE CD-RW drives are Lite-Ons that can be flashed to use the Lite-On firmware (to gain Mt. Rainier RW support, for example). They all share the same face plate if they are Lite-Ons - manual eject hole directly above the right side of the volume control. If you can get a good deal on any of them, you will be very happy with it. But Lite-Ons are typically even cheaper than these other brands, including after rebate deals.
- In Windows, CloneCD loves this drive, and if you buy Lite-On brand, it comes with Nero.
- Disk eject sounds noisy, but that's because the mechanism is gear-driven, not belt-driven. Disk writing is mostly quiet.
- It only has a 2MB buffer, whereas other drives have 4MB and 8MB buffers now. Not too bad, especially if your burning software can take advantage of Smart-Burn, like Nero.
Lite-On seems to be pushing Plextor around these days, especially when IDE Plextors are about $40 more expensive and are not as accurate as the Lite-Ons. I'm not surprised that Yamaha is backing away from this market, when good drives are getting so cheap as to be unprofitable for upscale manufacturers. They will be missed for their super-fast and accurate SCSI RW "tattoo" drives, though.
That was a Nintendo of America addition. In the Japanese version of FF1, as is widely known, that was the tomb of LINK.
Of course, Nintendo of America published both Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy here.
Very simple. They set up two companies, one in Japan, and one in the U.S. The U.S. one is called "Square Electronic Arts LLC" and is the one that publishes some of the Final Fantasy series. The rest were/are published by Nintendo of America (daughter company of Nintendo of Japan) and SCEA (sister company of SCEI, etc.). The Japanese one is called "EA Square KK," which is the Japanese publishers of EA games and Square's fighting games.
Companies can start new companies, you know.
Well, according to an online bio, she wouldn't have been much of a kid in the late 80s. Having been born in 1964 would make the chances of that quite slim. But dang if she didn't look 12 on Square One TV.
Anyone ever see her as a little kid on the Square One TV math show on PBS? I'm revealing my relative youth here (maybe not, Slashdot seems full of teenagers who might not know what Square One is), but on the detective story segment on the show (called "Mathnet" as a parody of Dragnet, I think), she played the caretaker of a gorilla that had gone missing. And the detectives she hired used math to find it, as expected. Getting back on-topic, Ms. Smith sounds EXACTLY the same now as she did then, in the eighties and when she was a little kid. Not like that's some big revelation, but when I first started watching the Tracy Ullman show and later on Herman's Head (which starred both her and Hank Azaria as major characters), I couldn't shake the association of that voice with that of the "Mathnet gorilla girl." ....Well, after some quick googling, apparently it looks like Square One is being shown on the Noggin educational cable channel. Found that bit of info on a site dedicated to the show.
YOU DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE.
You may have clicked the link, your eyes may have passed over some words that your brain recognized as comprehensible English, but you did not READ the article.
Please do so at your leisure, then come back and post your thoughts when stupid things like the above quoted subject stop running around in your brain stabbing to death all the insightful comments trying to get out.
No offense, of course. I'm not insulting you. Brainfarts happen to me all the time, so I know where you're coming from.
Or, have Apple draw it for you.
Somebody else posted this, but every single Sega GBA title that's been released in Japan is programmed by Sega. These are new games, not ports of old games.
THQ takes other titles and co-develops them with Sega, but a lot of them are Sega-developed and are only published (not programmed) in the US by THQ.
GBA Getting Bluetooth
Story's about a year old, about a company trying to use bluetooth on GBA, with bluetooth hotspots in malls and other public areas.
Sega has no hand in the design, manufacture, or sale of the yet-to-be-released N-gage hardware. All the PR you've been seeing is from the one press release that Sega sent out announcing that they would produce games for the thing. Talk about lending credibility.
Along that line of thinking, I will keep playing Nintendo's/Capcom's/Konami's/Namco's/Sega's Gameboy Advance for now. Nintendo may have a monopoly in handheld games, but the market thrives regardless. Current generation of GB hardware AND games are cheap, numerous, high-quality. Add a phone to the mix, and you create a more sophisticated phone, not a better game system (and definitely not an inexpensive or universally-accessible one). Bah, whatever. In the games industry it's always fun to watch what companies are willing to try what.
Just a quick OT anecdote. Saw this very same technology on a documentary of the ten best bathrooms in the world.
There's some ice cream parlor in Florida that has a bathroom with a clear door. As soon as a patron walks in and locks the door, the door goes opaque on the other side. Very important to lock the door, because some people apparently forget to lock it, and can be seen by customers.
Proprietor said that when the power goes out, the door stays opaque. Good thing for bathroom doors, bad thing for home theater windows, I guess.
"Several generations of Britain's scientists and technologists grew up watching TM."
Well if they grew up watching TM, then hopefully they will not mind the passing of Tomorrow's World too terribly.
What kind of games are you playing?
Ever heard of a little thing called AI?
I'm sure this works for some people, but for me it kind of proves my point that if I have to contort my hand or otherwise stray from a sane typing style (I shouldn't be forced to use my palm as a mock-finger), the shortcut is just poorly thought out.
:)
So, in my opinion, all modifier-key/fkey combinations are stupid, especially ones that are typed with one hand. That includes (in Windows) ctrl-esc, ctrl-shift-esc, and alt-f4, maybe there are others that I thankfully don't know about. I guess it can be considered my own fault for refusing to use the right-hand modifier keys in conjunction with these shortcuts, but I'd rather just plain blame Microsoft.
Sure, of course modern IE and Windows Explorer supports ctrl-w in addition to the traditional alt-f4. But it doesn't work system-wide across all applications. When shortcut keys don't work consistently across programs, users are forced into a position where they either have to memorize different bindings for each program, or they simply avoid using them. I've taken to practicing the first when I use Windows, just to get around the brain-dead way things work there and still retain any kind of working speed.
:)
But that's another topic. I said it was OT.
Well, I agree with you completely.
I only wanted to point out that this particular exploit (I do consider it an exploit) already has well-known workarounds in most common, clueful browsers. The "Who cares" in my subject was meant only to specifically address this so-called "Next-Gen Pop-up Ad"; I actually do care a great deal about the topic of browser behavior in general.
That's one reason why it's pretty much essential nowadays to remember the keyboard equivalent for closing windows in your OS of choice. Ever been hijacked by a full-screen ad that hides all menu bars? Close it with the keyboard.
OT, who the hell thought that alt-f4 would make any sense for closing a window in Windows? Typing it with the left hand alone forces you to twist your wrist, and who would associate "f4" with "close" anyway? Mac OS got it down right the first time, as did BeOS.
Sure, but sticking with software that doesn't behave in the best interests of the users just makes it easier for advertisers to force their impressions.
I'm not giving up without a fight. I'm going to force THEM to try harder, until THEY give up.
If the pop-ups don't show up in the first place, you don't have to worry about any mousing over them.
Gotta love modern browsers. Oh, IE doesn't do that without the use of additional tools? Huh.
If this flesh-encasing theory was feasible, why didn't Michael Biehn (can't remember the character's name) stuff some clothes and advanced weapons in a turkey and bring it with him, giving himself some kind of advantage?
Hell, why didn't Arnie bring anything in a meatbag with him either?
KMeleon had some major problems for the better part of a year, between versions 0.6, 0.65 (discrete beta release), and the recent 0.7. The lack of publicity hurt them a lot, as did the fact that their home page was stagnant for the whole time. The poor design of their website didn't help either. (I had left kmeleon.sf.net as my home page in KMeleon, and it was about a week before I noticed the puny announcement of the 0.7 release near the bottom of the page.)
KMeleon still has a few advantages over Phoenix, particularly with configuration/preference options.
But for me, the killer feature is that it does not use XUL for its interface. On a lot of my test machines, XUL just flat out runs slowly. Windows version doesn't matter, amount of RAM, processor speed all don't make a difference, Mozilla and Phoenix just take forever to close their dialog boxes, expecially if you open the preferences panel and browse through a few different options (you don't have to change anything, and it doesn't matter what control you use to close the dialog box). 45 seconds to close a dialog box is inexcusable, and that is the major reason I can't run Mozilla, Phoenix, or Netscape 6/7 on some of my machines. KMeleon just flies on these same PCs.
Abandoned London Underground stations play a somewhat major part in several scenes in the new James Bond movie, including being the intro location for the new Bond car (a little disappointing this time around). You also get to find out what happens to old equipment, in one particular abandoned station.
Gotcha.
Watch for my next story submission, "Playstation Bluetooth Tenchi DMCA Beowulf Strikes Back. Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
from the now-you've-got-our-attention dept.
* 2002-12-05 06:49:10 Japan vs. Disney: Spirited Away DVD lawsuit (articles,anime) (rejected)
Thanks!
"....when most people don't even believe that mainframes exist anymore...."
Uh, sure. In the minds of many of my non-technical clients, "mainframe" is a term used to refer to almost any kind of server.
The management of one organization (less than 150 employees) seems to think they have like 12 mainframes. You know, their web server, their mail server, file/print, the really fast dual-Celeron (Abit BP6 mainframe, running linux!) in the corner office....