XBox -> $150 Modchip -> $50 This Kit -> $50 New Harddrive -> $50 2 USB XBox Adapater -> $40 USB Keyboard -> $20 (no sharing components, right?) USB Mouse -> $20
So for about $380 you can turn an Xbox into a PC. Not $150. I'm baffled why everyone uses your argument. "You can't build a PC for $150!" Well you still can't if you use a Xbox.
http://www.blackchopper.com/ has an modular adapter that allows the use of PSX, NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers on one device. Each of the different "cable types" have an adapter that plugs in.
If you still like using PSX controllers, you can easily switch to NES controllers every once in a while...... and unlike the other PSX->USB type converters sold, this one is made in the USA.;)
What's funny is that a high quality coax cable is a controlled impedance. This gives coax type cables (read any text or paper on transmission-line theory) a very high amount of bandwidth. In fact, a coax cable can provide higher quality content (analog or "digital") than any other connection scheme. The reason a CableTV's system doesn't provide the highest quality picture is that its bandwidth is shared with how many other channels?
Just to cma, I know what the author meant. Its just that someone who says "a coax connection is not the best choice for image quality" doesn't understand what a coax cable really is...
The opening line in the article says "... a few weeks ago... my companion Dr. Gizmo... urged [readers] to go to the Wikipedia Web site... an online encyclopedia, for more information on computer history. The doctor and I had figured Wikipedia was a good independent source. "
Yet later in the article the author states: "From the home page:
"Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by its readers. The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can also edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears at the top of every Wikipedia article." "
The quote was sent to them by a school librarian. So these journalist were incapable of reading the front page to determine the source of the information in the Wiki.
So my question is, who's validity is in question? The Wiki's or this paper's staff writer?
The other day I was driving around in my car and it stopped running. While it was being repaired I was driving another car that stopped running too! I'm pretty sure that I'm the cause of it.
See where I'm going with this?
Nobody has suggested the extremely obvious possibility: both DVD drives failed. Perhaps they were going to fail for some time but they didn't start showing problems until you played a dual-layer DVD.
Its highly unlikely anything about that disc could "damage" your DVD drives. Its far more likely that both drives were near their failure point and failed by coincidence.
Let's see, you stay at Starbucks for hours, you write english like my left foot, and you know police officers get free coffee: you wouldn't happen to be the guy behind the counter would you?
Colons are used for structures such as lists, quotations, or supporting comments. You have used it to combine two sentances or two thoughts together. Your only "sentance" of that the paragraph is a run-on.
I have a problem with spelling. You have a problem with syntax. Now, get back to work boss. We don't close until 10.
When I'm at Starbucks for a few hours, the caffine gives way eventually. Fortuantely the Starbucks I frequent gives police officers free coffee. I'm nieve enough to hope that one of them would notice if someone was taking pliars or a bic pen to my laptop while I was peeing.
Even so, it prevents someone from just picking it up as they walk by. That's all I ever hoped the cable would do.
I read the Gamebiz interview and I'm pretty surprised that Thompson is a lawyer. Any decently competent lawyer knows better than to say "we are going to destory the other side" and throw out name calling. Until the last half of the interview, I thought the article was a joke... At least he'll make this whole affair entertaining to follow.
I'm surprised at the range of people saying its good to the people saying its terrible. I was going to say its pretty darn excellent. I use a catch-all address for my domain which I forward to wherever. Filtering on X-Forward I use to be able to catch most of the spam. However, some were so badly formatted that the headers weren't processed properly.
When I switched to using GMail I didn't realize it at first. I was still getting 2-3 spams a day (which is was what I use to get.) Then I realized I never set up any filters or anything! On the 2nd day using it I opened the Spam "folder" and found over 80.
I've checked the folder every so often and haven't found any false positives.
Personally, I'm impressed with GMail's spam filter capability.
"The reason gyms work at all for weight loss is that once someone has paid for something, they feel compelled to use it, which forms a simple but effective motivation."
The reason the Gym worked for me is because there are a ton of hot women there. What's even better... most of them are confident about their bodies so they don't care if you look at them.
As the original poster on this thread said, just do it. If you can't commit yourself to a regular schedule for working out now, how is DDR going to make it any different? Keep in mind that if you don't vary your workout, you can only loose so much. You have to remember the human body is a VERY good capacitor. If you take in X amount of calories and burn Y amount over a period of time, it averages what needs to be stored. By varing your workout you disrupt the rate of change which makes it harder for your body to stabilize to 1 particular weight/body fat ratio.
All you need is 30 minutes a day. That's less than 4% of an entire day. Its still less than 6% of the a day where you are awake!
I'd like to point out that SCE is really good at promoting vaporware. They *always* announce incredible specs and features with their products, but then change over time.
These are just fresh on my mind... I'm sure there are older examples:
Remember how the PS2 was going to ship with a hard drive?
How about the LCD panel or AOL?
All the cool features that were going to be included in America's version of the HDD... web browser, music jukebox, etc... nope.
The PSX with all its great features... scaled back at the last minute.
I'd love to believe that the PS3 and PSP will come out with the features and specs promised, but I just don't think it'll happen.
I guess we'll see what happens. Of course, despite my negativity, I'm sure I'll end up buying a PSP to go with my PS2...;)
Webwarehouse or something like that is what it was called. They did the same service for gas...
I loved both of these while I was in college. Each month when I got paid I bought $50-100 in gas (depending on how much I had left) and then did my groccery shopping. I got to the point where I knew which items my Meijer did and didn't have... I thought it was great... especially since I could get the charge in right on payday and then go shopping when I got around to it.
I was really said to see it shutdown (especially the gas side of it.)
BlackChopper has a multi-controller USB adapter coming out. It'll be compatible with SNES, NES, Genesis (other DB9), N64, etc. The root module is USB and then cable adapters plug into it.
It works like a HID-keyboard so it works fine under Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
The article clearly says France. In Europe most cars are manual. Automatics are not very popular.
That isn't what this is. If you look at the link you'll see this has nothing to do with rack mounting the Xbox.
The link-sang description makes mention of "mini-rack mount" once and that's it. No where else is that mentioned or pictured.
XBox -> $150
Modchip -> $50
This Kit -> $50
New Harddrive -> $50
2 USB XBox Adapater -> $40
USB Keyboard -> $20 (no sharing components, right?)
USB Mouse -> $20
So for about $380 you can turn an Xbox into a PC. Not $150. I'm baffled why everyone uses your argument. "You can't build a PC for $150!" Well you still can't if you use a Xbox.
http://www.blackchopper.com/ has an modular adapter that allows the use of PSX, NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers on one device. Each of the different "cable types" have an adapter that plugs in.
... and unlike the other PSX->USB type converters sold, this one is made in the USA. ;)
If you still like using PSX controllers, you can easily switch to NES controllers every once in a while...
What's funny is that a high quality coax cable is a controlled impedance. This gives coax type cables (read any text or paper on transmission-line theory) a very high amount of bandwidth. In fact, a coax cable can provide higher quality content (analog or "digital") than any other connection scheme. The reason a CableTV's system doesn't provide the highest quality picture is that its bandwidth is shared with how many other channels?
Just to cma, I know what the author meant. Its just that someone who says "a coax connection is not the best choice for image quality" doesn't understand what a coax cable really is...
Or perhaps you're more pessimistic than I am
"Actually I'm an optimist. However, experience has taught me pessmisim is generally correct." -- Garek DS9.
The opening line in the article says "... a few weeks ago ... my companion Dr. Gizmo ... urged [readers] to go to the Wikipedia Web site ... an online encyclopedia, for more information on computer history. The doctor and I had figured Wikipedia was a good independent source. "
Yet later in the article the author states: "From the home page:
"Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by its readers. The site is a Wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can also edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears at the top of every Wikipedia article."
"
The quote was sent to them by a school librarian. So these journalist were incapable of reading the front page to determine the source of the information in the Wiki.
So my question is, who's validity is in question? The Wiki's or this paper's staff writer?
The other day I was driving around in my car and it stopped running. While it was being repaired I was driving another car that stopped running too! I'm pretty sure that I'm the cause of it.
See where I'm going with this?
Nobody has suggested the extremely obvious possibility: both DVD drives failed. Perhaps they were going to fail for some time but they didn't start showing problems until you played a dual-layer DVD.
Its highly unlikely anything about that disc could "damage" your DVD drives. Its far more likely that both drives were near their failure point and failed by coincidence.
I wonder if the SP gives you more horsepower than the regular GBA. If it does, I'm sure a SP sticker would do the trick.
Let's see, you stay at Starbucks for hours, you write english like my left foot, and you know police officers get free coffee: you wouldn't happen to be the guy behind the counter would you?
Colons are used for structures such as lists, quotations, or supporting comments. You have used it to combine two sentances or two thoughts together. Your only "sentance" of that the paragraph is a run-on.
I have a problem with spelling. You have a problem with syntax. Now, get back to work boss. We don't close until 10.
When I'm at Starbucks for a few hours, the caffine gives way eventually. Fortuantely the Starbucks I frequent gives police officers free coffee. I'm nieve enough to hope that one of them would notice if someone was taking pliars or a bic pen to my laptop while I was peeing.
Even so, it prevents someone from just picking it up as they walk by. That's all I ever hoped the cable would do.
and I even moved. It came to the forwarded address (w/out a yellow sticker.)
I read the Gamebiz interview and I'm pretty surprised that Thompson is a lawyer. Any decently competent lawyer knows better than to say "we are going to destory the other side" and throw out name calling. Until the last half of the interview, I thought the article was a joke... At least he'll make this whole affair entertaining to follow.
Since all of today's games seem to require a story I have one additional request... All cut scenes need to offer Pause, Replay, and Skip.
The most annoying thing about MGS and MGS2 was when the phone rang during a 10 minute cut scene.
fork();
I'm surprised at the range of people saying its good to the people saying its terrible. I was going to say its pretty darn excellent. I use a catch-all address for my domain which I forward to wherever. Filtering on X-Forward I use to be able to catch most of the spam. However, some were so badly formatted that the headers weren't processed properly.
When I switched to using GMail I didn't realize it at first. I was still getting 2-3 spams a day (which is was what I use to get.) Then I realized I never set up any filters or anything! On the 2nd day using it I opened the Spam "folder" and found over 80.
I've checked the folder every so often and haven't found any false positives.
Personally, I'm impressed with GMail's spam filter capability.
From the original question: "I have two wire lines that I'd love to get rid of"
I believe he wants to get rid of the wire lines all together. Forwarding the cell phone to the wire lines wouldn't accomplish this...
There is an official GTK-based client for Linux and FreeBSD.
"The reason gyms work at all for weight loss is that once someone has paid for something, they feel compelled to use it, which forms a simple but effective motivation."
The reason the Gym worked for me is because there are a ton of hot women there. What's even better... most of them are confident about their bodies so they don't care if you look at them.
As the original poster on this thread said, just do it. If you can't commit yourself to a regular schedule for working out now, how is DDR going to make it any different? Keep in mind that if you don't vary your workout, you can only loose so much. You have to remember the human body is a VERY good capacitor. If you take in X amount of calories and burn Y amount over a period of time, it averages what needs to be stored. By varing your workout you disrupt the rate of change which makes it harder for your body to stabilize to 1 particular weight/body fat ratio.
All you need is 30 minutes a day. That's less than 4% of an entire day. Its still less than 6% of the a day where you are awake!
I'd like to point out that SCE is really good at promoting vaporware. They *always* announce incredible specs and features with their products, but then change over time.
;)
These are just fresh on my mind... I'm sure there are older examples:
Remember how the PS2 was going to ship with a hard drive?
How about the LCD panel or AOL?
All the cool features that were going to be included in America's version of the HDD... web browser, music jukebox, etc... nope.
The PSX with all its great features... scaled back at the last minute.
I'd love to believe that the PS3 and PSP will come out with the features and specs promised, but I just don't think it'll happen.
I guess we'll see what happens. Of course, despite my negativity, I'm sure I'll end up buying a PSP to go with my PS2...
Getting things to work on USB isn't as trival as the parallel port.
Webwarehouse or something like that is what it was called. They did the same service for gas...
... I thought it was great... especially since I could get the charge in right on payday and then go shopping when I got around to it.
I loved both of these while I was in college. Each month when I got paid I bought $50-100 in gas (depending on how much I had left) and then did my groccery shopping. I got to the point where I knew which items my Meijer did and didn't have
I was really said to see it shutdown (especially the gas side of it.)
Interesting....
define: google
BlackChopper has a multi-controller USB adapter coming out. It'll be compatible with SNES, NES, Genesis (other DB9), N64, etc. The root module is USB and then cable adapters plug into it.
It works like a HID-keyboard so it works fine under Linux.
Anyone use Mad Hatter's Worm-hole add-on? There were ALL kinds of bugs associated with it.
I remember running bigbang.exe and giving it 30-45 mins to create an universe.
I really miss Tradewars. It was an incredible game.