I have to admint that during the beta it was a good back and forth with the developers, but 2005 was just way to late. Maybe a year or two after the first movie, but by 2005 the steam has gone out. The end of the beta rocked, but after about a month or two, it just felt like SWG.
I mean they killed Morpheus! That didn't even bring in the numbers. Only reason I am going to log in is to see the ending.
$400-$500 IS awesome! God do you know how much bulbs cost for even the "cheap" projectors? Hell, even if you WANT to get a bulb, try to get one for just a 4 year old projector. Its worst than god damn ink cartridges.
Its why I have been looking at the LED based ones, but they are just not bright enough for my purposes. Give me one of these with just a 10k laser life AND an HD out? I am as good as sold.
Have you seen how many apps are out ofr Symbian now vs just 4 years ago? They GUTTED their user base when they started to charge for it. You still can't get a developer to reply to you unless you pay them a butt load of cash. Palm did the same think Nokia has done. Their developers are not allowed to release software for their own store site, they are NEVER going to develop a good UI that rivels the G1 or the iPhone.
Not to mention the SDK is a pice of crap. My Windows Mobile 6.1 phone is not great. It randomly freezes, apps sometimes drain the battery, but when I can fire up a copy of C# express and make an app, it makes up for all of it.
Sigh. Sad part was I was really looking at a Palm Pre because of the WebOS. Seems like thats off the table. God I wish the G1 came CDMA.
Yea, Nokia does the same thing too. Hell, they have a BONDED guy come by to shred the damn things once we fill up the bucket. Thats after the DOD wipe too.
Did I mention all laptop drives there are encrypted as well? Even if you could recover from a DOD wipe, you got an encrypted drive.
It REALLY irks me. This just shows they have no overall security policy and let everyone do what they want. I am just glad the IRS has precautions.
Check with your HR department. I get 19% off at Verizon through work, but they also have deals with 2-3 other carriers for similar discounts (heck our work phones have always been Alltel, and these arrangements were in place long before the Verizon/Alltel merger).
Sigh, tried that. They have this exclusively deal. Its funny though, I have never had a problem with phone prices more just thep plan prices. Who knows though, maybe will will change to Att if Sprint gets to uppity.
Marketwatch reports that Microsoft and Verizon are in talks to develop a touch-screen mobile phone that would run on Windows Mobile.
I mean seriously. They got the market clout AND a touch/non-touch version of WinCE on tap. For as bad as eveyone thinks the Zune is, at the very least, it shows THEY CAN DO IT.
Is it THAT hard to slap an iPhone interface to WinCE? God damn, "One Foot in the Grave(tm)", Palm is doing it and its a completely diffrent os than the old Palm. In the same timeframe, we get CE 6.1... Yeeaa! Finaly we can see text messages in a chat log, like most cheaper cell phones been doing for YEARS.
PS - I have been using the WinCE for the last 4 years and I am goingto the Palm Pre when it comes out. The ironic part about it is that I gave up the palm those years ago because their os was going nowhere:P
PSS - Yes, I want the G1 but till its CDMA I am not giving up my 20% off Sprint from work:P
The new test is detailed in the journal Annals of Neurology. It measures the cerebral-spinal fluid concentration of two biochemicals associated with the disease â" amyloidbeta42peptide and tau protein."
They sound like rap stars. I hope there isn't some kind of "group" name for these protein's.
Have you even PLAYED anything on xBox live? I stopped playing Halo 3 online because of all the morons, 12-who-like-to-swear, and people who don't shut up about the "fucking fags" in the game.
The whole community is a hodgepodge of the some of the worst of people. I don't put ANYTHING in my tag on the off chance someone will hunt me down. Anyone who has been gay in the southern states knows when to keep there mouth shut about it. Don't ask, Don't tell is stupid but it keeps people civil.
While Microsoft are dick for banning her, I am not surprised she was "followed". Seen to much of it in Halo as well:P
Personally I have been using mpmemory myself. If you download dell diagnostics for server's and get the mpmemory.exe dos program out of the iso it makes it works great in other systems.
It will error out initially when it can't find a way to pull logs, but now it runs on most systems. Haven't tried it on nvidia boards yet.
Nice thing about it is that it activates all the cpus/cores you have so it makes memory testing that much faster.
I picked up two re imaging calls last week for this woman who couldn't work because the icons on her screen are missing. The problem was that the desktop was remotely mounted, so when she tried it on another machine she called AGAIN. I don't know who to blame though. The user or the techs in inda:P (PS - I think its Brazil now)
I hear you. I can't tell you how many sites I have been at where the customer is made at us because they lost two drives in a RAID5. I had one site that lost THREE (One hot-spare), but it clearly showed drives 1-2 died close to a year ago....
While I will blame user's I personaly hate those crappy motherboard raid's. There is no way for you to know when a drive goes bad unless you reboot or you install their utiltiy that may or may not notify the user.
Unisys had a contract to do MPC computers. I think it was a hold over from the "oh fuck the customer is MAD, send a tech out there!" contract we had with gateway before they bought them.
There was one case where they sent motherboard after motherboard. (5 in total) to a gateway customer. Looked like someone in shipping kept substituting the wrong board. Though how you could substitute an ATA interface laptop board with with a SATA interface and expect it to work is beyond me.
But that was their laptops, there servers were very solid and support was GREAT. Always got on the phone with an experienced techs. I just think they shouldn't of bought the Gateway stuff.
MPC didn't have a big foot print though. Its hard to be the little guy in a bit Dell/HP world. Hate to see them go.
I have to agree there. Playing the game with a large MMORG experience in my background made me ignore the interface and story issues. But my roommate couldn't stand it more than 2 days himself. Yet we both get on lord of the rings and play that thing for hours and hours straight.
Sure, first LCD project I did was with an hd44780. But my god, you know how many CHEAP graphic displays are out there? Easy 2-3 wire interfaces. Heck even most still have the hd44780 data buss interface. How about those bulk rate cell phone LCD's that you can get under 10 bucks a pop? Takes a bit to find the pdf for them but much more satisfying putting a picture instead of "hello world":P
That being said, I would still consider this device. While its still just 2 lines, people seem to ignore the buttons around it. I could put in a USB aware micro-controler and instead of having to cut a place for the LCD all the time, I just use a usb port to plug this thing in. Hummm.
Nice thing about doing it on the cheep is they make up for "quality" with "quantity".
It also means that there is nothing on god's green earth you can give me to get on one of those death traps:P But if they can bring the cost down to their advertised price of $7,826 a kilogram (hopefully WITH insurance) to GTO, then it just might be the future.
Bring it down to $5000 a kg with a 95% launch and land success rate? We could send a person to GTO for under $450,000 (Average weight of a guy being 86.1kg) vs the $4mill for a person in the shuttle:P
PS - Used this document for numbers. Take it with a grain of salt as it even clams to use 2000 prices.
God, second I saw those boxes I thought Dell as well. There is an excuse for 4 hours, as they have to be in a box as the driver doesn't know anything about parts. But for next days there isn't an excuse:P
More chillingly, if eBay had launched the scheme in America would they have got away with it?
Yes:P There aren't any wildly accepted payment processors you can go with with ebay. While I don't like the arbitrary way Paypal handles accounts, its hard for me to go back to mailing a check or money order with its convenience. I doubt enough Americans would care one way or the other sadly.
Thats what I was going to ask. Its still the best place to get art (porn), movies (porn), and er reading.
All seriousness though. I never did like the alt line however. Your lucky to get a good mod and most people who post there are idiots. Oh lets don't forget about the spam.
There is good content though, but I just never see it under alt. Its all moot anyway, ISP's always gave newsgroups the shaft so I go with Giganews anyway. Gives you SSL and multiple ports to use.
I'm really hoping that those medical face masks get popular again. That's a look that should really be cyclic like bell-bottoms and thongs.
You need full Respirator gear if you want to stop nano-tubes from getting in your lungs. Even then, with it being so small, your only chance of stop those tubes is if they are even long enough to get caught in the filter.
Our boss wanted something similar to what the poster wanted. I suggested this as I got us into the beta (Version 1 no less) so the software was free. At close to $499 a license, it was worth it for the 4 we got.
Sadly, it never worked good for us. We were a junk store that had no hope of EVER inventorying anything. The beginning system didn't have buttons for "memory" or "misc" like the cheap registers we had did. Lots of manual typing, but we did get records!
I would recommend it, except we stopped upgrading since v3. Each reversion would change WAY to much and my boss was not liking the support "beta" gave:P
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I have to admint that during the beta it was a good back and forth with the developers, but 2005 was just way to late. Maybe a year or two after the first movie, but by 2005 the steam has gone out. The end of the beta rocked, but after about a month or two, it just felt like SWG.
I mean they killed Morpheus! That didn't even bring in the numbers. Only reason I am going to log in is to see the ending.
$400-$500 IS awesome! God do you know how much bulbs cost for even the "cheap" projectors? Hell, even if you WANT to get a bulb, try to get one for just a 4 year old projector. Its worst than god damn ink cartridges.
Its why I have been looking at the LED based ones, but they are just not bright enough for my purposes. Give me one of these with just a 10k laser life AND an HD out? I am as good as sold.
Have you seen how many apps are out ofr Symbian now vs just 4 years ago? They GUTTED their user base when they started to charge for it. You still can't get a developer to reply to you unless you pay them a butt load of cash. Palm did the same think Nokia has done. Their developers are not allowed to release software for their own store site, they are NEVER going to develop a good UI that rivels the G1 or the iPhone.
Not to mention the SDK is a pice of crap. My Windows Mobile 6.1 phone is not great. It randomly freezes, apps sometimes drain the battery, but when I can fire up a copy of C# express and make an app, it makes up for all of it.
Sigh. Sad part was I was really looking at a Palm Pre because of the WebOS. Seems like thats off the table. God I wish the G1 came CDMA.
WB produced it and they have the DVD rights. Even if it does REALLY good on DVD, Fox still won't have any motivation to make new seasons.
I remember drooling after that card. I saw it on sale for 50 bucks a few years ago at a swap to. Sigh. I thought it was overpriced now too.
Yea, Nokia does the same thing too. Hell, they have a BONDED guy come by to shred the damn things once we fill up the bucket. Thats after the DOD wipe too.
Did I mention all laptop drives there are encrypted as well? Even if you could recover from a DOD wipe, you got an encrypted drive.
It REALLY irks me. This just shows they have no overall security policy and let everyone do what they want. I am just glad the IRS has precautions.
Check with your HR department. I get 19% off at Verizon through work, but they also have deals with 2-3 other carriers for similar discounts (heck our work phones have always been Alltel, and these arrangements were in place long before the Verizon/Alltel merger).
Sigh, tried that. They have this exclusively deal. Its funny though, I have never had a problem with phone prices more just thep plan prices. Who knows though, maybe will will change to Att if Sprint gets to uppity.
Marketwatch reports that Microsoft and Verizon are in talks to develop a touch-screen mobile phone that would run on Windows Mobile.
I mean seriously. They got the market clout AND a touch/non-touch version of WinCE on tap. For as bad as eveyone thinks the Zune is, at the very least, it shows THEY CAN DO IT.
Is it THAT hard to slap an iPhone interface to WinCE? God damn, "One Foot in the Grave(tm)", Palm is doing it and its a completely diffrent os than the old Palm. In the same timeframe, we get CE 6.1... Yeeaa! Finaly we can see text messages in a chat log, like most cheaper cell phones been doing for YEARS.
PS - I have been using the WinCE for the last 4 years and I am goingto the Palm Pre when it comes out. The ironic part about it is that I gave up the palm those years ago because their os was going nowhere:P
PSS - Yes, I want the G1 but till its CDMA I am not giving up my 20% off Sprint from work:P
The new test is detailed in the journal Annals of Neurology. It measures the cerebral-spinal fluid concentration of two biochemicals associated with the disease â" amyloid beta42 peptide and tau protein."
They sound like rap stars. I hope there isn't some kind of "group" name for these protein's.
Have you even PLAYED anything on xBox live? I stopped playing Halo 3 online because of all the morons, 12-who-like-to-swear, and people who don't shut up about the "fucking fags" in the game.
The whole community is a hodgepodge of the some of the worst of people. I don't put ANYTHING in my tag on the off chance someone will hunt me down. Anyone who has been gay in the southern states knows when to keep there mouth shut about it. Don't ask, Don't tell is stupid but it keeps people civil.
While Microsoft are dick for banning her, I am not surprised she was "followed". Seen to much of it in Halo as well:P
Personally I have been using mpmemory myself. If you download dell diagnostics for server's and get the mpmemory.exe dos program out of the iso it makes it works great in other systems.
It will error out initially when it can't find a way to pull logs, but now it runs on most systems. Haven't tried it on nvidia boards yet.
Nice thing about it is that it activates all the cpus/cores you have so it makes memory testing that much faster.
Sigh, I wish dell would release the source.
I picked up two re imaging calls last week for this woman who couldn't work because the icons on her screen are missing. The problem was that the desktop was remotely mounted, so when she tried it on another machine she called AGAIN. I don't know who to blame though. The user or the techs in inda:P (PS - I think its Brazil now)
Not to mention no easy local recovery. Try replacing a burned out motherboard on a server with bit locker. No recovery disk, no data:P
I hear you. I can't tell you how many sites I have been at where the customer is made at us because they lost two drives in a RAID5. I had one site that lost THREE (One hot-spare), but it clearly showed drives 1-2 died close to a year ago....
While I will blame user's I personaly hate those crappy motherboard raid's. There is no way for you to know when a drive goes bad unless you reboot or you install their utiltiy that may or may not notify the user.
Unisys had a contract to do MPC computers. I think it was a hold over from the "oh fuck the customer is MAD, send a tech out there!" contract we had with gateway before they bought them.
There was one case where they sent motherboard after motherboard. (5 in total) to a gateway customer. Looked like someone in shipping kept substituting the wrong board. Though how you could substitute an ATA interface laptop board with with a SATA interface and expect it to work is beyond me.
But that was their laptops, there servers were very solid and support was GREAT. Always got on the phone with an experienced techs. I just think they shouldn't of bought the Gateway stuff.
MPC didn't have a big foot print though. Its hard to be the little guy in a bit Dell/HP world. Hate to see them go.
It already exisits
I don't get why this is news. This thing, or similar to it has been out for 3 years.
I have to agree there. Playing the game with a large MMORG experience in my background made me ignore the interface and story issues. But my roommate couldn't stand it more than 2 days himself. Yet we both get on lord of the rings and play that thing for hours and hours straight.
Sometimes it takes another perspective.
Sure, first LCD project I did was with an hd44780. But my god, you know how many CHEAP graphic displays are out there? Easy 2-3 wire interfaces. Heck even most still have the hd44780 data buss interface. How about those bulk rate cell phone LCD's that you can get under 10 bucks a pop? Takes a bit to find the pdf for them but much more satisfying putting a picture instead of "hello world":P
That being said, I would still consider this device. While its still just 2 lines, people seem to ignore the buttons around it. I could put in a USB aware micro-controler and instead of having to cut a place for the LCD all the time, I just use a usb port to plug this thing in. Hummm.
Nice thing about doing it on the cheep is they make up for "quality" with "quantity".
It also means that there is nothing on god's green earth you can give me to get on one of those death traps:P But if they can bring the cost down to their advertised price of $7,826 a kilogram (hopefully WITH insurance) to GTO, then it just might be the future.
Bring it down to $5000 a kg with a 95% launch and land success rate? We could send a person to GTO for under $450,000 (Average weight of a guy being 86.1kg) vs the $4mill for a person in the shuttle:P
PS - Used this document for numbers. Take it with a grain of salt as it even clams to use 2000 prices.
Gezz. I know people are gun hoe about first post, but that's jcrazy. Makes me wonder how many people do the "first post" on shuttle disasters now.
God, second I saw those boxes I thought Dell as well. There is an excuse for 4 hours, as they have to be in a box as the driver doesn't know anything about parts. But for next days there isn't an excuse:P
More chillingly, if eBay had launched the scheme in America would they have got away with it?
Yes:P There aren't any wildly accepted payment processors you can go with with ebay. While I don't like the arbitrary way Paypal handles accounts, its hard for me to go back to mailing a check or money order with its convenience. I doubt enough Americans would care one way or the other sadly.
Thats what I was going to ask. Its still the best place to get art (porn), movies (porn), and er reading.
All seriousness though. I never did like the alt line however. Your lucky to get a good mod and most people who post there are idiots. Oh lets don't forget about the spam.
There is good content though, but I just never see it under alt. Its all moot anyway, ISP's always gave newsgroups the shaft so I go with Giganews anyway. Gives you SSL and multiple ports to use.
I'm really hoping that those medical face masks get popular again. That's a look that should really be cyclic like bell-bottoms and thongs.
You need full Respirator gear if you want to stop nano-tubes from getting in your lungs. Even then, with it being so small, your only chance of stop those tubes is if they are even long enough to get caught in the filter.
Thank GOD people have taken the initiative and developing nanotube filters.
Our boss wanted something similar to what the poster wanted. I suggested this as I got us into the beta (Version 1 no less) so the software was free. At close to $499 a license, it was worth it for the 4 we got.
Sadly, it never worked good for us. We were a junk store that had no hope of EVER inventorying anything. The beginning system didn't have buttons for "memory" or "misc" like the cheap registers we had did. Lots of manual typing, but we did get records!
I would recommend it, except we stopped upgrading since v3. Each reversion would change WAY to much and my boss was not liking the support "beta" gave:P