Has HP stopped making HP Vectras? That would be pretty disappointing, as used PIII/low-end P4 Vectras are a favorite of mine whenever I need a cheap computer for something, as they are very fast, reliable, and well built.
HP's line of home computers are crap and I could care less about those.
I was under the impression suprnova.org gets bounced around between hosting companies a lot because no one wants to host them for very long because of legal and/or bandwidth issues. But I might be wrong.
The biggest problem with the iRiver flash players is that they don't support OGG under 96kbps! Since most OGG files are VBR, they have to be encoded at an even higher average bitrate so that the quality never dips below 96kbps. Battery life is excellent though, I get a lot of usage out of a single AA.
There's a Doom 3 torrent doing that. Like 4 months after the game came out.
Well, I have a Duke Nukem forever torrent open right now, moving at ~.001k/s trying to download a 10GB file. I'll have the game sometime around June, 2013.
Napster was fractured too. I remember there would be different results depending on what server you ended up connected too. I remember some third party site that attempted to figure what servers pooled their results together. I remember connecting and disconnecting in order to bounce between servers trying to find some of the rarer stuff.
Actually, I find it easier nowadays, if I'm patient. With always on DSL, I just queue up what I want, and let the computer spend the next few days trying to get it for me. Much better than hour or two stints on Napster with a 56k.
It's kind of a form of the prisoner's delimma. One network can gain an advantage over the other ones by manipulating the times - but only so long as the other networks don't do it. If every network does it in order to try to gain an advantage, chaos will ensue, people will get pissed (TiVo or not), and all the networks will end up worse off.
Not a bad idea, but all I see is the manufacturer lowering the maximum specs to any tests will show it 'overachieving'.
That's not a bad thing in my book. By rating the machine slightly below what they can handle, you know that if the machine is run right at the maximum specs it will perform fine, rather than being on the edge of stability.
If broken windows really stimulated the economy, countries would bomb themselves to stimulate the economy.
Close, but not quite. The current philosophy is to bomb other countries. This serves two purposes. First, it props up big defense contractors. Secondly, it props up large, corrupt companies who are paid obscene sums of money to rebuild other countries after we get done sending them back to the stone age (only so we can blow them up again, of course - starting the cycle over again).
That link clearly shows that people that completed a college degrees voted for Kerry, and those that didn't voted for Bush.
This is actually a good example of lying by statistics, as you can't really say that "High school graduates favor Bush", because the statistic on that page for "high school graduates" really should read "high school graduates that never did any college".
I still find the numbers strange though, as "College Graduate (with no grad school)" in the first list is 52% for Bush, while in the second list "College Graduate" is just 49% for Bush. So unless there are a lot of people currently in grad school, something is odd.
Also, if you total up "No High school", "High School Graduate", and "some college" in the first list, you get 56% of the people polled. I would assume that is what they mean by "No college degree" in the second list, but they somehow come up with 58%. I'm not sure how.
Not plugged in? Those are the kinds of problems I like. It's obvious what's wrong, it's easy to fix, and I'm on my way. The ones I hate are the strange, hard to reproduce, intermittant problem with some software package I've never used that I usually end up having to fix for people.
I remember back in the days when I went to school, and they had those Macs running some flavor of MacOS and their floppy drives. We all quickly learned that you didn't dare insert a floppy into a Mac without a paperclip handy, because chances are that's how your going to be getting your floppy back. I also recall some of the first iMacs would eat CDs that it didn't like, and the only recourse was to take the whole computer apart.
Funny enough, I haven't run into a PC user yet that doesn't understand that you can't save anything to a floppy disk you ejected from the drive.
You think everyone should just take the 'official' election results as truth? Just give up and say "fuck it"?
Even if it's proved that the election was rigged and Kerry actually won, it is still very close. Democrats need to be asking themselves not only why they did/didn't win, but why it wasn't a landslide in their favor.
Assuming this is like their other PCs, a power supply is not included. So unless you already have your own 12V DC source handy, you're going to be spending more than $100.
The Apple Laptops aren't so easy to upgrade, not everyone wants to carry a USB mouse around everywhere with them. I don't understand why Apple doesn't include the extra mouse buttons, it's not like it would destroy the simplicity of the design or something.
Well, you can download ripped music off the internet, burn it to CD, and have a copy that is indistinguishable from the original as far as the audio is concerned. You can't do the same for records. So I guess it's no surprise that records sales are up, as the people who prefer the sound of vinyl aren't going to be downloading music off the internet... or maybe I am just reading the headline wrong.
While I don't make a habit of turning off my PC improperly, I have never lost a single byte of data on a FAT formatted partition due to killing the power, even back in the 8088 days. Either I'm just lucky, or the redundancy in FAT is good enough. YMMV, of course.
Housing isn't so terrible over in India. I know of someone over there who has a 2 bedroom apartment to themself. I forgot how much it cost exactly, but it was just about 1/3 of what they brought home each month. Sounds a bit pricy at first, but not that different from what the rent is in the US for many cities.
Cars are a different matter. My old Nissan is worth about $1000 here in the states. If that same car was over in India, it would be worth... about $1000. The difference is, over there $1000 is a lot of money! Atleast in the US when you spend a significant portion of your income on a car, you'll probably get something fairly new and [hopefully] reliable.
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Has HP stopped making HP Vectras? That would be pretty disappointing, as used PIII/low-end P4 Vectras are a favorite of mine whenever I need a cheap computer for something, as they are very fast, reliable, and well built.
HP's line of home computers are crap and I could care less about those.
I work in a rather large company (Fortune 5) and for us the price difference between a similarly configured IBM T41 and a Dell D600 is $300.
That would be $300 very well spent. But just to try to convince the bean counters of that...
I was under the impression suprnova.org gets bounced around between hosting companies a lot because no one wants to host them for very long because of legal and/or bandwidth issues. But I might be wrong.
The biggest problem with the iRiver flash players is that they don't support OGG under 96kbps! Since most OGG files are VBR, they have to be encoded at an even higher average bitrate so that the quality never dips below 96kbps. Battery life is excellent though, I get a lot of usage out of a single AA.
There's a Doom 3 torrent doing that. Like 4 months after the game came out.
Well, I have a Duke Nukem forever torrent open right now, moving at ~.001k/s trying to download a 10GB file. I'll have the game sometime around June, 2013.
Napster was fractured too. I remember there would be different results depending on what server you ended up connected too. I remember some third party site that attempted to figure what servers pooled their results together. I remember connecting and disconnecting in order to bounce between servers trying to find some of the rarer stuff.
Actually, I find it easier nowadays, if I'm patient. With always on DSL, I just queue up what I want, and let the computer spend the next few days trying to get it for me. Much better than hour or two stints on Napster with a 56k.
It's kind of a form of the prisoner's delimma. One network can gain an advantage over the other ones by manipulating the times - but only so long as the other networks don't do it. If every network does it in order to try to gain an advantage, chaos will ensue, people will get pissed (TiVo or not), and all the networks will end up worse off.
Not a bad idea, but all I see is the manufacturer lowering the maximum specs to any tests will show it 'overachieving'.
That's not a bad thing in my book. By rating the machine slightly below what they can handle, you know that if the machine is run right at the maximum specs it will perform fine, rather than being on the edge of stability.
What the fuck does "spilt" mean?"
For the uniformed: Click.
By the way, you are a moron.
Apple says an HD H.264 stream fits in 6-8Mbps.
I don't care what Apple has if I need to install Quicktime to view it.
If broken windows really stimulated the economy, countries would bomb themselves to stimulate the economy.
Close, but not quite. The current philosophy is to bomb other countries. This serves two purposes. First, it props up big defense contractors. Secondly, it props up large, corrupt companies who are paid obscene sums of money to rebuild other countries after we get done sending them back to the stone age (only so we can blow them up again, of course - starting the cycle over again).
If I invent cold fusion, I would put all the patents and other information in the public domain. The oil companies would be irrelevant overnight.
You might say I'm crazy, but I say I'm probably not going to invent cold fusion anyway.
That link clearly shows that people that completed a college degrees voted for Kerry, and those that didn't voted for Bush.
This is actually a good example of lying by statistics, as you can't really say that "High school graduates favor Bush", because the statistic on that page for "high school graduates" really should read "high school graduates that never did any college".
I still find the numbers strange though, as "College Graduate (with no grad school)" in the first list is 52% for Bush, while in the second list "College Graduate" is just 49% for Bush. So unless there are a lot of people currently in grad school, something is odd.
Also, if you total up "No High school", "High School Graduate", and "some college" in the first list, you get 56% of the people polled. I would assume that is what they mean by "No college degree" in the second list, but they somehow come up with 58%. I'm not sure how.
Not plugged in? Those are the kinds of problems I like. It's obvious what's wrong, it's easy to fix, and I'm on my way. The ones I hate are the strange, hard to reproduce, intermittant problem with some software package I've never used that I usually end up having to fix for people.
Issue Seven: Disk Drive Nazi.
I remember back in the days when I went to school, and they had those Macs running some flavor of MacOS and their floppy drives. We all quickly learned that you didn't dare insert a floppy into a Mac without a paperclip handy, because chances are that's how your going to be getting your floppy back. I also recall some of the first iMacs would eat CDs that it didn't like, and the only recourse was to take the whole computer apart.
Funny enough, I haven't run into a PC user yet that doesn't understand that you can't save anything to a floppy disk you ejected from the drive.
You think everyone should just take the 'official' election results as truth? Just give up and say "fuck it"?
Even if it's proved that the election was rigged and Kerry actually won, it is still very close. Democrats need to be asking themselves not only why they did/didn't win, but why it wasn't a landslide in their favor.
Mac users have it easy, they can easily enable sendmail in their systems, since sendmail is packaged but inactive in the standard Mac OS X system.
Great, just what the internet needs. Thousands of Joe Users attempting to run mail servers on their desktop machines.
Assuming this is like their other PCs, a power supply is not included. So unless you already have your own 12V DC source handy, you're going to be spending more than $100.
Still, a nice deal assuming it has decent specs.
The Apple Laptops aren't so easy to upgrade, not everyone wants to carry a USB mouse around everywhere with them. I don't understand why Apple doesn't include the extra mouse buttons, it's not like it would destroy the simplicity of the design or something.
Well, you can download ripped music off the internet, burn it to CD, and have a copy that is indistinguishable from the original as far as the audio is concerned. You can't do the same for records. So I guess it's no surprise that records sales are up, as the people who prefer the sound of vinyl aren't going to be downloading music off the internet... or maybe I am just reading the headline wrong.
While I don't make a habit of turning off my PC improperly, I have never lost a single byte of data on a FAT formatted partition due to killing the power, even back in the 8088 days. Either I'm just lucky, or the redundancy in FAT is good enough. YMMV, of course.
My Windows boot partition (around 10-15GB) is always FAT32 so that I can read/write to it with just about anything.
FAT32 isn't really inefficient either (FAT16 is really bad for partitions over 1024MB), very reliable, and if perfectly secure on a one user machine.
What else is there to do while the parent's PC slowly downloads a service pack over 56k?
Housing isn't so terrible over in India. I know of someone over there who has a 2 bedroom apartment to themself. I forgot how much it cost exactly, but it was just about 1/3 of what they brought home each month. Sounds a bit pricy at first, but not that different from what the rent is in the US for many cities.
Cars are a different matter. My old Nissan is worth about $1000 here in the states. If that same car was over in India, it would be worth... about $1000. The difference is, over there $1000 is a lot of money! Atleast in the US when you spend a significant portion of your income on a car, you'll probably get something fairly new and [hopefully] reliable.
Let me guess, you drive a German car? Every American and Japanese car I can think of does:
1 3 5
2 4 R
Unless it's a six speed, then it's:
1 3 5
2 4 6 R
It's only the German cars which like to constantly switch the locations around for reasons I don't understand.