When martial law strikes, I'm sure those will most likely be the "leftist tree hugging peace loving hippies" as will be so eloquently described in the Pentagon system, who will be arrested and sent to prison camps for not being patriotic.:P
Yup. Canada for I as well. It's just MSN MSN MSN. Even the ICQ users that I knew have dual MSN/ICQ accounts and much prefer using MSN (I do not understand why) over ICQ, even though you can't send any offline messages.
MSN Messenger is the crazy glue that holds together the consumer with the hotmail account. I gave all of my friends gmail accounts which are far superior going by interface alone (and they agree with this). However because they use MSN Messenger they almost always prefer to check their hotmail accounts.
What Google needs to do to successfully compete with MSN is to release their own messenger program that's tied in with GMail, only then will it be easier to switch your friends over to another free email service.
You're definitely right. And also if you look at some of the gains, you'd notice that they're from really high refresh rates to begin with, so it doesn't really make THAT much of a difference with respect to how much you're paying for the card.
6600GT seems to be the best bang for the buck right now, and unless you have money to burn and do nothing but play video games (or you make money off of using such a high quality video card) then there's no point in buying it.
A BitTorrent user downloading a movie clip only becomes aware of the associated adware after the files are reassembled. At that stage, when the user attempts to load the reassembled file, he or she is greeted by an installation notice for an adware bundle distributed by MMG (Marketing Metrix Group), a Canadian company that specializes in P2P network marketing.
Yeah...but those movie files tend to be.exe files, right? How can you install spyware if you're just playing an avi file? And when you're downloading a bittorrent file you can go into your directory and SEE what files you're getting! I sometimes click on torrent files and yes it might be an.exe even though I was expecting an.avi. but then I just cancel the download and grab something else.
Maybe this will get people who don't really know anything?
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VLC is probably the best movie viewer for windows that I've ever seen, just because of the fact that it plays practically everything you can imagine without having to download random codecs here and there (most of the time anyway).
Can DivX 6.0 do the same?
"Apple is switching to Intel. This has some interesting ramifications, one of the foremost is that you will now, in all probability, be able download a copy of OS X on a P2P site and run it on any plain vanilla Wintel box by employing some sort of hack."
So he's assuming that you'll be able to hack OSX so it can run on non-MAC hardware. Just pointing this out because when I first read this story I was thinking: "OSZ can run on my PC now???".
I definitely agree with this. I'm still trying to figure out how to solve arguments that I have with my gf and naturally I try to come up with all these "logical solutions" - which may seem like completely normal things to do in the situation - but that's simply not the way things really work.
When I installed Debian for the first time, it really urged me to have a regular user account, and to only use super user for things that require it, but otherwise I would just log in regularly.
In Windows when you install it, you're an administrator automatically.
How about they ship Windows with lower rights as well? I'm not being a troll or anything, but damn it - they need to do this for the greater good (i.e. internet).
More competition is a good thing (and by competition I mean releasing source, and striving to compete with the likes of mozilla, as opposed to being just a rotting corporation that no geek would bother with).
"go out and find something better, I dare you."
My dad's the kind of salesman who won't get offended if you go looking at other products (he sells high end CNC machinery), but so many other sales guys in the industry just lie right through their teeth, saying one thing or another to get business, and new customers generally don't know, and it's difficult to be trusted once people start talking shit about you, because then you don't really trust anybody, whereas before one person really is the honest one, and the other is the lying bastard who ruins it for the rest - but that's the way it works.
The artists should pressure their record labels to leave the RIAA. Then again artists are the record label's bitch so I guess that won't happen. Maybe the artists should be more entrepreneurial and open up more record labels and just deal directly with distribution companies. Maybe have non-profit or coop distro companies for a bunch of record labels, and then you'd end up cutting out the RIAA backing record labels.
No more need for an expensive car player, just broadcast from home using the same technology!
And hey, maybe it'd be possible to somehow setup a text message system where you can type in:
artist - album - track#...and it plays from there? I'm sure this could totally be done. It may not have as many benefits if it's just you (because an mp3 player would do a better job), BUT what if you setup a server and told all of your friends the number to text, so that you can all use the same service (and setup a queue so that the songs wouldn't switch automatically if you're using it at the same time).
At other times it could just be shuffled randomly or whatever.
I suppose I have memory for Windows 2000. Then again it'd be more fun to try linux. Who knows, if I can get it working nicely then I could move other family members to linux, as opposed to pirating software all the time (i.e. windows).
Similar to what my brother and parents learned in Poland. I remember I once looked at my brothers grade 1 math work book (from Poland), and realized that some of those questions were the same as my Canadian grade 7 classes!
I'm not too sure what I'll do when I start to have kids. Maybe a montessori school or something.
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Actually he already found out. He's getting these arms so he can be a bad-ass dual light saber fighter. Something to keep up on.
When martial law strikes, I'm sure those will most likely be the "leftist tree hugging peace loving hippies" as will be so eloquently described in the Pentagon system, who will be arrested and sent to prison camps for not being patriotic. :P
Yup. Canada for I as well. It's just MSN MSN MSN. Even the ICQ users that I knew have dual MSN/ICQ accounts and much prefer using MSN (I do not understand why) over ICQ, even though you can't send any offline messages.
MSN Messenger is the crazy glue that holds together the consumer with the hotmail account. I gave all of my friends gmail accounts which are far superior going by interface alone (and they agree with this). However because they use MSN Messenger they almost always prefer to check their hotmail accounts. What Google needs to do to successfully compete with MSN is to release their own messenger program that's tied in with GMail, only then will it be easier to switch your friends over to another free email service.
You're definitely right. And also if you look at some of the gains, you'd notice that they're from really high refresh rates to begin with, so it doesn't really make THAT much of a difference with respect to how much you're paying for the card.
Okay that article did teach me one thing: SLI = best improvement for anti aliasing features.
6600GT seems to be the best bang for the buck right now, and unless you have money to burn and do nothing but play video games (or you make money off of using such a high quality video card) then there's no point in buying it.
I'd be robin hood. :D
Yeah...but those movie files tend to be .exe files, right? How can you install spyware if you're just playing an avi file? And when you're downloading a bittorrent file you can go into your directory and SEE what files you're getting! I sometimes click on torrent files and yes it might be an .exe even though I was expecting an .avi. but then I just cancel the download and grab something else.
Maybe this will get people who don't really know anything?
VLC is probably the best movie viewer for windows that I've ever seen, just because of the fact that it plays practically everything you can imagine without having to download random codecs here and there (most of the time anyway). Can DivX 6.0 do the same?
"Apple is switching to Intel. This has some interesting ramifications, one of the foremost is that you will now, in all probability, be able download a copy of OS X on a P2P site and run it on any plain vanilla Wintel box by employing some sort of hack."
So he's assuming that you'll be able to hack OSX so it can run on non-MAC hardware. Just pointing this out because when I first read this story I was thinking: "OSZ can run on my PC now???".
Yes, but they wouldn't even buy it from India. They wouldn't even put it in if they got it for free, simply because Microsoft = XBox = competitor.
This is not suprising. Of course they wouldn't ship it with Windows, they don't want to fund their direct competitor!
I definitely agree with this. I'm still trying to figure out how to solve arguments that I have with my gf and naturally I try to come up with all these "logical solutions" - which may seem like completely normal things to do in the situation - but that's simply not the way things really work.
When I installed Debian for the first time, it really urged me to have a regular user account, and to only use super user for things that require it, but otherwise I would just log in regularly. In Windows when you install it, you're an administrator automatically. How about they ship Windows with lower rights as well? I'm not being a troll or anything, but damn it - they need to do this for the greater good (i.e. internet).
"Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense?" Not if Chewbacca is from the planet Endor.
More competition is a good thing (and by competition I mean releasing source, and striving to compete with the likes of mozilla, as opposed to being just a rotting corporation that no geek would bother with).
"go out and find something better, I dare you." My dad's the kind of salesman who won't get offended if you go looking at other products (he sells high end CNC machinery), but so many other sales guys in the industry just lie right through their teeth, saying one thing or another to get business, and new customers generally don't know, and it's difficult to be trusted once people start talking shit about you, because then you don't really trust anybody, whereas before one person really is the honest one, and the other is the lying bastard who ruins it for the rest - but that's the way it works.
That's the perfect job! Computer nerd during the day, crime fighter at night. I think this is every nerd's dream.
The artists should pressure their record labels to leave the RIAA. Then again artists are the record label's bitch so I guess that won't happen. Maybe the artists should be more entrepreneurial and open up more record labels and just deal directly with distribution companies. Maybe have non-profit or coop distro companies for a bunch of record labels, and then you'd end up cutting out the RIAA backing record labels.
Rookie. :P
No more need for an expensive car player, just broadcast from home using the same technology!
...and it plays from there? I'm sure this could totally be done. It may not have as many benefits if it's just you (because an mp3 player would do a better job), BUT what if you setup a server and told all of your friends the number to text, so that you can all use the same service (and setup a queue so that the songs wouldn't switch automatically if you're using it at the same time).
And hey, maybe it'd be possible to somehow setup a text message system where you can type in:
artist - album - track#
At other times it could just be shuffled randomly or whatever.
I suppose I have memory for Windows 2000. Then again it'd be more fun to try linux. Who knows, if I can get it working nicely then I could move other family members to linux, as opposed to pirating software all the time (i.e. windows).
I just got the same type of machine as well (P2 233mhz, although I added 256 ram to it :P).
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Abiword, trillian, winamp, firefox, avg, all work well on it, but it's using Windows ME.
Similar to what my brother and parents learned in Poland. I remember I once looked at my brothers grade 1 math work book (from Poland), and realized that some of those questions were the same as my Canadian grade 7 classes! I'm not too sure what I'll do when I start to have kids. Maybe a montessori school or something.