I can't believe how many people in this thread can't read. the guy is talking about the WHEEL, not the mechanical ball mice.
My home mouse doesn't have a problem with the wheel, but at work, many different people use a machine in a week, and I've seen wheels that no longer can be turned. I haven't done it, but I'm sure soaking it in alcohol and scrubbing it with a brush would fix the problem.
Another solution: clean your hands, filthy pig. 6 hours of Quake 3 makes some nasty grim coe out of your hands. Wash them, and keep some alcohol gel in a squirt bottle by your computer.
Um, I think you're thinking of the RC-64 and 128 projects, which took years. Don't quote me on this, but back when I was actually running a D.net client, they had talked about doing 56 bit contests, and they usually only lasted a few days, then everyone would go back to doing the 128 bit contest.
I got bored of it all and switched to the Intel Cancer project. More useful. Too bad it doesn't run on linux.
Yup, $15. I built my computer into one. Chopped out a side, mounted the mobo tray in it (had to cut it out of an old ATX case with a jigsaw). Cut holes in the other side for drives and power supply. It isn't nearly as sturdy as that case he is using there though. The $15 aluminum case you are referring to actually is just thin aluminum over plywood. Thin plywood at that. The aluminum is just for looks, not stability.
I would imagine so. I don't think the actual decoding of a codec would be windows-version dependant. I suppose a good test would be to check some of your working codecs between the two machines, if the files are the same then they don't change between win versions, and you could probably just copy and register the missing codec.
Hmmm. I have no experience with Drip. Do you know what the default audio codec is? I'd try pulling it up in Virtualdub and see if I could rip it apart. Audio SHOULD be in standard CBR or VBR MP3 for typical divx.
What's so hard about going to www.divx.com and downloading the official codec? v5 will read v4 and v5 encoded files, the only thing missing is the original hacked v3, which unless you are leaching warezed movied from years ago, you probably won't run into.
Your second problem was installing Media Player 9. My opinion is that whenever MS tries to add new features, it's going to suck ass. I'm using Media Player v6.4. It doesn't have skins, but that is a good thing. Minimalist windows. It still has the codec auto-download, I can play just about anything. Except those crappy Xvid's. I don't know who's stupid idea it was to encode stuff in that when you can't even get a decent codec for it.
Most of them are made of plastic, and the part that attaches to the keys is usually pretty thin. I woudln't put mine on my keychain. Throw it in my pocket, yes. Maybe get a really thin one and throw it in a wallet or in my PDA case. The one I got came with a lanyard and a little clip to easily pull it off the rope, but it looks dorky. I wouldn't wear it. Besides that, the clip looks weak, and I wouldn't want my $40 128meg drive to fall off and me not notice.
As far as the distros go, I've been looking for a while. On a previous thread someone told me about puppy linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/) which uncompresses itself of a 20 meg file on your FAT formatted drive into a 48 meg ramdrive and runs from there.
USB keychains are mostly kind of slow, and I haven't tried another distro off the keychain. damnsmallinux can be installed on a keychain, weighing in at 50 megs. www.damnsmalllinux.org
I haven't gotten it working yet, because I can't get my Duron 900 & mobo to boot off usb, but Puppy Linux is a great little distro designed to run off flash cards. The files on the dongle are 20 megs, the distro is compressed and uncompresses on boot into 48 megs of memory. The whole thing runs in RAM. google for puppy linux.
Other than that, I have a dd image of the windows 98 boot floppy, some drivers for various computers. I use it a lot when I visit my family and they need stuff setup. A copy of Adaware or Spybot Search and Destroy is good too.
Really asshole? What protections were available before it's passing? How did people stop smokers before this law? Malicious? What is malicious about not wanting to die from some idiot's mistakes?
You must be jonesing for a cigarette right now. Nicotine withdrawl tends to make people act stupid. I feel sorry for your addiction. Don't push it on other people.
idiot. No one is saying people can't smoke, they are just saying you can't smoke INSIDE where it affects other people. It is one person's "freedom" encroaching on another person's right to life. Remember that "life liberty, pursuit" shit? That's the life part. Don't be a moron. No one is stopping cigarrettes from being manufactured. Troll.
bullshit. Smokers are the minority. It's a proven health risk, and you are going to force it on people? Having been a smoker and quit, I can attest that once you quit, smoke becomes more offensive to you.
California has has a smoking ban for a while now, and when I visited there I was a smoker. You know how bars got around it? They have patios, and everyone masses on the patio to smoke. Inside is supposed to be smoke free. What is so bad about this? If you want to kill yourself, go do it outside where there is proper ventilation, not a closed-system AC environment.
funny how freedom of speech, one of the oldest federal rights, becomes a state issue. Then you look at California and their marijuana laws and the government case there. Federal law trumping state law. What a mess the US government is.
Um, I work for ameritech (SBC actually). They offer static IPs. I'm not sure what kind of blocking they do on the residential accounts, but for business I highly doubt they would block ANYTHING, considering you are buying static IPs and those are typically only used if you want to run a server.
Slightly off topic, but having just bought a USB keychain (AVB Mobile Drive 128mb version, in the $35-40 range), I was looking for a Linux distro to put on it. Is it possible to boot linux off one of these? I would assume you have to format it. How would you get the boot code on it? Or would it be possible to just use Loadlin with a kernel on the regular Fat16 partition with perhaps a UMSDOS directory?
Are you kidding? If I owned that thing, I'd hang it over my bed. My ultimate plan is to become rich, raise H. R. Geiger from the dead (when he does actually die, that is) and have him design my house.
They even have a stillsuit from the '84 Dune movie! That rules.
While I do find the idea fascinating in your typical geek "it's not intel and it's not AMD" fashion, I find myself wary of anything coming from a country known for it's great Walls, both internet and physical. Not that I trust the US government, but I like to think the chinese government has more of a hand in things, and they may be putting stuff in their chips to exert control. Possible some special op code to turn off memory protection, on the simple end, or microcode to somehow allow control over the machine on the more expensive end. Thoughts?
The problem is there are folks who STILL believe that they DESERVE a certain standard of living. What they don't realize is you have to EARN this. And by earning it I mean more than simply going to high school, college, then 30 years of employment at one company until you can retire with a nice pension. The period after WWII that the GI Bill ushered in was a TEMPORARY existence. Just because one works hard or goes to college does not mean they will succeed. You must work SMART not just hard. Be innovative, resourceful and flexible. Most of all, THINK. I AM thinking with my brain. Thats why I don't think any industry or business owes me anything. I hand over my labor (or I used to) for a wage in return. Thats the contract. Why should I or anyone else expect anything more?
But your logical falls apart and I'll tell you why.
A person in India is the same as a person in the United States. They're both humans. A wolf in the US doesn't give a rats ass about the eating conditions of another wolf in Europe. If the eating is good in one place thats where all the wolves will be. Same for any other animal. Humans are animals too.
While this is true, a person is just a person, a worker is not just a person. A worker is a product of their environment; that is, they work for a wage. That wage is determined mostly by what the employer can afford to pay that worker. You pay the worker what the market demands that job is worth, and what is reasonable for that worker's environment. Yeah, you could pay someone $.50 a day to pick up trash, but no one does that. Why? Because you can't make a living in america on $.50 a day. My point is that an Indian worker making $6/hr can do the same job as an american worker getting $20/hr. (these are made up numbers). To the company, it is the same money. To the american worker, they could no longer survive on that kind of money, between loans and education, etc. The american worker is willing to hand over their work for a paycheck, but they can't compete with a foreign economy that is so skewed in comparisson.
Another thing why the heck does that article keep hyping over the fact that the Bank of America has the name "America" in it? the name is irrelevant. Its a business. Would you feel better if Deutch Bank screwed you over?
Not at all. But when the BoA website says something like "By helping people achieve their financial goals, we strengthen the fabric of communities where we do business." I tend to think of them as liars. If they are advertising to me that they improve communities, then I expect they mean MY community. I actually didn't read the whole article, so I cant' comment on why they are harping on it. I coudln't find the original articles I read on the story, so I just did a quick google search in the middle of writing that post. There is a lot of news out there on this. Google for Kevin Flanagan.
He obviously had pre-existing mental problems that are completely irrelevant to the overal outsourcing trend.
If they are irrelevant, then why did he kill himself after losing his job? Why not before? Why not months later? It just HAPPENS to be a coincidence?
My argument is more people benefit. Just because they aren't Americans doesn't mean they aren't entitled to compete with Americans. Yes, the quality of life is different that allows them to work less. Big deal.
A better solution would be for them to build their own local economies, and for the US to do the same. I'm not saying they can't compete with americans, they should compete with americans, but at an equal level. If someone can survive in india on $6/hr where they would get $20/hr in the US, that isn't equal footing. It will cause the market to drain to india. I can only hope this whoel thing will balance out. That eventually when there aren't enough americans that can afford the services that have been offshored, that they will come back to the US.
Yes, because 6 billion people are more important than 300 million.
They are welcome to improve their own economy all they want. I just don't want to ruin ours.
Reality already has happened, dozens of times in the history of the world. Where were your clothes made? Probably not in the US.
The shoes I just took off are made in the US. Converse. My Lee Pipes jeanshorts: Made in the US. Shirt was in China though. What is your point?
I'm a troll because I say someone who kills themselves over a job is weak. Right. People die. It's what they do. Life is a incurable, always fatal, sexually transmitted disease. The weak always die, and modern society hasn't completely destroyed survival of the fittest. You don't even see this, yet you claim I'm the one with a distorted reality.
People die, yes. People commit suicide because they think their world is crashing in on them because someone has forced them to train their replacement? Whatever dude. And as far as your survival of the fittest, tell that to the families of the dead in Meridian at the Lockheed plant. Where their dead loved ones weeded out by survival of the fittest? What about victims of violent crime in cities that have gone to shit because big business decided to offshore and put a few thousand workers in the red? Yes, OF COURSE they should go get a job elsewhere, but circumstances aren't that simple. When suddenly 2000 jobs go under in a town, and everyone has similar qualifications, the industry isn't just going to swoop them back up again. It becomes a problem. A problem you choose to ignore and accuse people of being weak over. Whiner. "Oh, they should just SWITCH CAREERS".
I honestly don't see AT ALL how this benefits america. A few people get rich, but eventually no one here except those super-rich are going to be able to AFFORD any services.
Want to know why you worry about losing your job? Because you don't see.
SEE WHAT? I'm not hearing any debate on your side. Where is your argument?
Efficient global economy. You are just reciting the same arguments spewed forth through the generations on why manufacturing and textiles should have never left America. The reason why VCRs would bankrupt the MPAA.
As for people "dying" over this, if someone is so weak they need to commit suicide, than the world is better off without them.
And they shouldn't have left america. I'm thinking about this country, and you're spouting off about global economics. Nice theory, but not very good reality. What happens to all the jobless tech workers? As for your weakness comment, I hope next time someone is weak enough to off you while they are at it. That's a real shitty attitude. Troll.
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I can't believe how many people in this thread can't read. the guy is talking about the WHEEL, not the mechanical ball mice.
My home mouse doesn't have a problem with the wheel, but at work, many different people use a machine in a week, and I've seen wheels that no longer can be turned. I haven't done it, but I'm sure soaking it in alcohol and scrubbing it with a brush would fix the problem.
Another solution: clean your hands, filthy pig. 6 hours of Quake 3 makes some nasty grim coe out of your hands. Wash them, and keep some alcohol gel in a squirt bottle by your computer.
Um, I think you're thinking of the RC-64 and 128 projects, which took years. Don't quote me on this, but back when I was actually running a D.net client, they had talked about doing 56 bit contests, and they usually only lasted a few days, then everyone would go back to doing the 128 bit contest.
I got bored of it all and switched to the Intel Cancer project. More useful. Too bad it doesn't run on linux.
Yup, $15. I built my computer into one. Chopped out a side, mounted the mobo tray in it (had to cut it out of an old ATX case with a jigsaw). Cut holes in the other side for drives and power supply. It isn't nearly as sturdy as that case he is using there though. The $15 aluminum case you are referring to actually is just thin aluminum over plywood. Thin plywood at that. The aluminum is just for looks, not stability.
I would imagine so. I don't think the actual decoding of a codec would be windows-version dependant. I suppose a good test would be to check some of your working codecs between the two machines, if the files are the same then they don't change between win versions, and you could probably just copy and register the missing codec.
Hmmm. I have no experience with Drip. Do you know what the default audio codec is? I'd try pulling it up in Virtualdub and see if I could rip it apart. Audio SHOULD be in standard CBR or VBR MP3 for typical divx.
What's so hard about going to www.divx.com and downloading the official codec? v5 will read v4 and v5 encoded files, the only thing missing is the original hacked v3, which unless you are leaching warezed movied from years ago, you probably won't run into.
Your second problem was installing Media Player 9. My opinion is that whenever MS tries to add new features, it's going to suck ass. I'm using Media Player v6.4. It doesn't have skins, but that is a good thing. Minimalist windows. It still has the codec auto-download, I can play just about anything. Except those crappy Xvid's. I don't know who's stupid idea it was to encode stuff in that when you can't even get a decent codec for it.
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got to storage->hard drives, they are listed by size.
Most of them are made of plastic, and the part that attaches to the keys is usually pretty thin. I woudln't put mine on my keychain. Throw it in my pocket, yes. Maybe get a really thin one and throw it in a wallet or in my PDA case. The one I got came with a lanyard and a little clip to easily pull it off the rope, but it looks dorky. I wouldn't wear it. Besides that, the clip looks weak, and I wouldn't want my $40 128meg drive to fall off and me not notice.
As far as the distros go, I've been looking for a while. On a previous thread someone told me about puppy linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/) which uncompresses itself of a 20 meg file on your FAT formatted drive into a 48 meg ramdrive and runs from there.
USB keychains are mostly kind of slow, and I haven't tried another distro off the keychain. damnsmallinux can be installed on a keychain, weighing in at 50 megs. www.damnsmalllinux.org
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
I haven't gotten it working yet, because I can't get my Duron 900 & mobo to boot off usb, but Puppy Linux is a great little distro designed to run off flash cards. The files on the dongle are 20 megs, the distro is compressed and uncompresses on boot into 48 megs of memory. The whole thing runs in RAM. google for puppy linux.
Other than that, I have a dd image of the windows 98 boot floppy, some drivers for various computers. I use it a lot when I visit my family and they need stuff setup. A copy of Adaware or Spybot Search and Destroy is good too.
Really asshole? What protections were available before it's passing? How did people stop smokers before this law? Malicious? What is malicious about not wanting to die from some idiot's mistakes?
You must be jonesing for a cigarette right now. Nicotine withdrawl tends to make people act stupid. I feel sorry for your addiction. Don't push it on other people.
True, true, but don't you people have winter clothing!? If the nicotine is that worth it, people will brave te cold.
idiot. No one is saying people can't smoke, they are just saying you can't smoke INSIDE where it affects other people. It is one person's "freedom" encroaching on another person's right to life. Remember that "life liberty, pursuit" shit? That's the life part. Don't be a moron. No one is stopping cigarrettes from being manufactured. Troll.
bullshit. Smokers are the minority. It's a proven health risk, and you are going to force it on people? Having been a smoker and quit, I can attest that once you quit, smoke becomes more offensive to you.
California has has a smoking ban for a while now, and when I visited there I was a smoker. You know how bars got around it? They have patios, and everyone masses on the patio to smoke. Inside is supposed to be smoke free. What is so bad about this? If you want to kill yourself, go do it outside where there is proper ventilation, not a closed-system AC environment.
funny how freedom of speech, one of the oldest federal rights, becomes a state issue. Then you look at California and their marijuana laws and the government case there. Federal law trumping state law. What a mess the US government is.
And the machines had found... (dramatic pause) all the energy they would ever need.
Um, I work for ameritech (SBC actually). They offer static IPs. I'm not sure what kind of blocking they do on the residential accounts, but for business I highly doubt they would block ANYTHING, considering you are buying static IPs and those are typically only used if you want to run a server.
Slightly off topic, but having just bought a USB keychain (AVB Mobile Drive 128mb version, in the $35-40 range), I was looking for a Linux distro to put on it. Is it possible to boot linux off one of these? I would assume you have to format it. How would you get the boot code on it? Or would it be possible to just use Loadlin with a kernel on the regular Fat16 partition with perhaps a UMSDOS directory?
Are you kidding? If I owned that thing, I'd hang it over my bed. My ultimate plan is to become rich, raise H. R. Geiger from the dead (when he does actually die, that is) and have him design my house.
They even have a stillsuit from the '84 Dune movie! That rules.
While I do find the idea fascinating in your typical geek "it's not intel and it's not AMD" fashion, I find myself wary of anything coming from a country known for it's great Walls, both internet and physical. Not that I trust the US government, but I like to think the chinese government has more of a hand in things, and they may be putting stuff in their chips to exert control. Possible some special op code to turn off memory protection, on the simple end, or microcode to somehow allow control over the machine on the more expensive end. Thoughts?
While this is true, a person is just a person, a worker is not just a person. A worker is a product of their environment; that is, they work for a wage. That wage is determined mostly by what the employer can afford to pay that worker. You pay the worker what the market demands that job is worth, and what is reasonable for that worker's environment. Yeah, you could pay someone $.50 a day to pick up trash, but no one does that. Why? Because you can't make a living in america on $.50 a day. My point is that an Indian worker making $6/hr can do the same job as an american worker getting $20/hr. (these are made up numbers). To the company, it is the same money. To the american worker, they could no longer survive on that kind of money, between loans and education, etc. The american worker is willing to hand over their work for a paycheck, but they can't compete with a foreign economy that is so skewed in comparisson.
Not at all. But when the BoA website says something like "By helping people achieve their financial goals, we strengthen the fabric of communities where we do business." I tend to think of them as liars. If they are advertising to me that they improve communities, then I expect they mean MY community. I actually didn't read the whole article, so I cant' comment on why they are harping on it. I coudln't find the original articles I read on the story, so I just did a quick google search in the middle of writing that post. There is a lot of news out there on this. Google for Kevin Flanagan.
If they are irrelevant, then why did he kill himself after losing his job? Why not before? Why not months later? It just HAPPENS to be a coincidence?
They are welcome to improve their own economy all they want. I just don't want to ruin ours.
The shoes I just took off are made in the US. Converse. My Lee Pipes jeanshorts: Made in the US. Shirt was in China though. What is your point?
People die, yes. People commit suicide because they think their world is crashing in on them because someone has forced them to train their replacement? Whatever dude. And as far as your survival of the fittest, tell that to the families of the dead in Meridian at the Lockheed plant. Where their dead loved ones weeded out by survival of the fittest? What about victims of violent crime in cities that have gone to shit because big business decided to offshore and put a few thousand workers in the red? Yes, OF COURSE they should go get a job elsewhere, but circumstances aren't that simple. When suddenly 2000 jobs go under in a town, and everyone has similar qualifications, the industry isn't just going to swoop them back up again. It becomes a problem. A problem you choose to ignore and accuse people of being weak over. Whiner. "Oh, they should just SWITCH CAREERS".
And they shouldn't have left america. I'm thinking about this country, and you're spouting off about global economics. Nice theory, but not very good reality. What happens to all the jobless tech workers? As for your weakness comment, I hope next time someone is weak enough to off you while they are at it. That's a real shitty attitude. Troll.