"why shouldn't the stores just get rid of this 'lets open the store at an unearthly hour' practice, and just move all of the 'Black Friday' sales online?"
yes, let's move everything online. never mind the fact that on that one friday morning my net connection is actually fast (or something approaching fast anyway) because everyone is at the mall.
in all honesty, i suspect most people take one of two positions on the event: 1) they enjoy going out with the masses. 2) they enjoy making fun of everyone who goes out. i suspect most of the/. crowd falls in the latter.
yeah, but considered the state of the tech job market, that wouldn't be so bad. verisign could then put out a press release about creating tons of [windows admin] jobs.
as the article mentioned in passing, the real problem is having two formats. i'm just enough of an audiophile that i'd seriously look at buying _one_ player. i already have a 5.1 receiver, so that's no burden. but, as we've encountered multiple times before (beta/vhs, dvd/divx, etc), most people, including myself, will not buy two players. and i won't gamble on one format. (although, gambling against sony's sacd might be the right choice.)
also, does any one have experience with dvd-audio playing on _any_ dvd player? i've been looking at dvd players lately, and a few of the mid to high line ones claim to play dvd-audio (roughly $150 and up). but i have not seen any inexpensive players claim to play dvd-audio. what's the truth?
finally, i am intrigued by sacd's ability to contain a basic cd-audio compatible track. although it then makes me wonder why every sacd doesn't include it. i am not ever going to install surround sound in my little pickup cab and will stick with cds. being able to play the same disc in the living room and my truck would be an incentive to buy into the format early.
spamassassin is great. it does sort out out a lot of mail. but, it is possible to get a false positive out of it. it took me a few days to get some of the newsletters i receive on to the whitelist properly. and i have had a couple false positives on inbound personal emails. and that's after i set my threshold higher than the default. it does eliminate 90%+ of it though. in my case i've set it up with a dual threshold of sorts. the junk with a ton of points goes straight to/dev/null and what's in the middle goes to a special folder. still, i'd rather spam go away entirely or i'd like to have a quarter each. it really would add up quickly.
correct, the majority of users aren't geeks. but then, explain the popularity of the imac. looks _do_ matter. no, people won't often base their purchase primarily on the look, but they will consider it, and it will often be the deciding factor between two or more similar (not even equal) options.
i think more attention to style and small cases has potential to go somewhere. i know in my parent's house, dad wants the power and size isn't an issue (he's got two desks anyway). but mom doesn't have space to waste on her desk and the tower is noticably intrusive. she already has a flatpanel which helps. now, a tiny-footprint pc would take care of the rest. and power? except for bragging rights, heavy-animated games, and a couple other limited applications, who needs more power? most of what i do it comfortably done on far less power than i have. trading in power isn't a problem today. i hope these gain more popularity and soon.
along side this is a question i've had for a while: why, after paying this "tax" on blank media, have i not been considered to have paid for the copies i have made (or will make)? since it is assumed that i will use my blank media for music copies, why is it wrong for me to then use my blank media for copies of music?
one, it was higher bandwidth than you'll get for your $50/mo dsl... also, it was easy to add 2nd (3rd, 4th, etc) phone lines on the same copper pair, which admittedly isn't earth shattering, but very much convenient.
it's really a shame sprint ion is going down. i was on their site just last night wondering if it'd be in my area soon. guess not.
i'm trying to remember if the phone service included long distance minutes (which would be very much relavant), but it did include voice mail, caller id, and the like... much like typical pcs service.
because wine is a reimplementation designed to support running native windows code and because os x is generally running powerpc machines, i would suspect the answer is no. 99.9% of windows programs are written for i386 and won't run on a powerpc, regardless of os. yes, you probably could get wine itself ported, but you'd have nothing to run on it. you would need a full emulator to deal with the i386 instructions -- a bit more than wine offers.
considering the original question is about "software reviews" and the like, i would think that a hardware emulator such as vmware or plex86 would be a reasonable way to accomplish most of this without necessitating lots of hardware. the host os should be able to capture most of what one would be after: boot sequences and everything following . only in the case of testing say motherboards and their bioses would this be unreasonable.
the hardware described would be cool, but i havn't seen anything like it. (unfortunately!)
of interest will be how intel will respond to this (and if they'll even be forced to). the article mentions that intel holds a stake in rambus. so, will rambus force the issue with intel at all, and if so, will intel simply start paying? i was sort of hoping that intel would resist and they have the money and clout to put up a big fight. but now i'm a little doubtful that will actually happen.
if we are all really that bothered by rambus, perhaps we need to find a way to deflate them. i am reminded of etoy.com's successful campaign against etoys.com.
i don't have the board's model number handy. (i think it may predate the 5300 though. might not even be a socket 7 board now that i think about it. maybe a 50x0 series?)
it actually has a jumper on it to select whether you're dropping in 5v edo dimms or 3.3v sdram. the board and memory are from probably about 3 years ago. so, while i wouldn't deny the possibility of having older, more tolerant sdram, i would hope that the board runs at 3.3v if it has a jumper to do so.;-)
and you're correct, they don't have all the manuals online.
i have a cheap a-trend mobo here that supports 5v simms and 3.3v dimms simultaneously and it worked fine when i used to do that. however, i was using early (read: slower, 12ns i think, pc66) sdram in the 3.3v slots.
in another system i had a pc66 10 or 12ns chip combined with a pc100 6ns chip, both 3.3v sdram and the system was unstable. either chip works fine alone or with like chips, can't use them together though. perhaps it's more of a timing problem?
my experience has been that some telcos will readily agree (or even offer) to not publish info for secondary lines. in the last place i lived, i had two lines and was offered up front the chance to have the second line unpublished at no charge -- they would have charged for the primary line though. i decided to put the modem on the primary line and used the secondary as the voice line. got only one telemarketing call in 5 months.
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yes, let's move everything online. never mind the fact that on that one friday morning my net connection is actually fast (or something approaching fast anyway) because everyone is at the mall.
in all honesty, i suspect most people take one of two positions on the event: 1) they enjoy going out with the masses. 2) they enjoy making fun of everyone who goes out. i suspect most of the /. crowd falls in the latter.
remember everyone, one more hit on their server will bring them to their end just a little sooner.
yeah, but considered the state of the tech job market, that wouldn't be so bad. verisign could then put out a press release about creating tons of [windows admin] jobs.
as the article mentioned in passing, the real problem is having two formats. i'm just enough of an audiophile that i'd seriously look at buying _one_ player. i already have a 5.1 receiver, so that's no burden. but, as we've encountered multiple times before (beta/vhs, dvd/divx, etc), most people, including myself, will not buy two players. and i won't gamble on one format. (although, gambling against sony's sacd might be the right choice.)
also, does any one have experience with dvd-audio playing on _any_ dvd player? i've been looking at dvd players lately, and a few of the mid to high line ones claim to play dvd-audio (roughly $150 and up). but i have not seen any inexpensive players claim to play dvd-audio. what's the truth?
finally, i am intrigued by sacd's ability to contain a basic cd-audio compatible track. although it then makes me wonder why every sacd doesn't include it. i am not ever going to install surround sound in my little pickup cab and will stick with cds. being able to play the same disc in the living room and my truck would be an incentive to buy into the format early.
spamassassin is great. it does sort out out a lot of mail. but, it is possible to get a false positive out of it. it took me a few days to get some of the newsletters i receive on to the whitelist properly. and i have had a couple false positives on inbound personal emails. and that's after i set my threshold higher than the default. it does eliminate 90%+ of it though. in my case i've set it up with a dual threshold of sorts. the junk with a ton of points goes straight to /dev/null and what's in the middle goes to a special folder. still, i'd rather spam go away entirely or i'd like to have a quarter each. it really would add up quickly.
correct, the majority of users aren't geeks. but then, explain the popularity of the imac. looks _do_ matter. no, people won't often base their purchase primarily on the look, but they will consider it, and it will often be the deciding factor between two or more similar (not even equal) options.
i think more attention to style and small cases has potential to go somewhere. i know in my parent's house, dad wants the power and size isn't an issue (he's got two desks anyway). but mom doesn't have space to waste on her desk and the tower is noticably intrusive. she already has a flatpanel which helps. now, a tiny-footprint pc would take care of the rest. and power? except for bragging rights, heavy-animated games, and a couple other limited applications, who needs more power? most of what i do it comfortably done on far less power than i have. trading in power isn't a problem today. i hope these gain more popularity and soon.
along side this is a question i've had for a while: why, after paying this "tax" on blank media, have i not been considered to have paid for the copies i have made (or will make)? since it is assumed that i will use my blank media for music copies, why is it wrong for me to then use my blank media for copies of music?
for those interested in what ion was offering, check out: http://www.sprintbiz.com/business/ion.html
one, it was higher bandwidth than you'll get for your $50/mo dsl... also, it was easy to add 2nd (3rd, 4th, etc) phone lines on the same copper pair, which admittedly isn't earth shattering, but very much convenient.
it's really a shame sprint ion is going down. i was on their site just last night wondering if it'd be in my area soon. guess not.
i'm trying to remember if the phone service included long distance minutes (which would be very much relavant), but it did include voice mail, caller id, and the like... much like typical pcs service.
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the hardware described would be cool, but i havn't seen anything like it. (unfortunately!)
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if we are all really that bothered by rambus, perhaps we need to find a way to deflate them. i am reminded of etoy.com's successful campaign against etoys.com.
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it actually has a jumper on it to select whether you're dropping in 5v edo dimms or 3.3v sdram. the board and memory are from probably about 3 years ago. so, while i wouldn't deny the possibility of having older, more tolerant sdram, i would hope that the board runs at 3.3v if it has a jumper to do so.
and you're correct, they don't have all the manuals online.
food for thought.
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in another system i had a pc66 10 or 12ns chip combined with a pc100 6ns chip, both 3.3v sdram and the system was unstable. either chip works fine alone or with like chips, can't use them together though. perhaps it's more of a timing problem?
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my experience has been that some telcos will readily agree (or even offer) to not publish info for secondary lines. in the last place i lived, i had two lines and was offered up front the chance to have the second line unpublished at no charge -- they would have charged for the primary line though. i decided to put the modem on the primary line and used the secondary as the voice line. got only one telemarketing call in 5 months.