If I've gone through all the trouble to make sure all my workstations have licensed versions of -say- AutoCad (5000$) and my competitor has simply cracked it then I want him stabbed in the ass. Its that easy. Some companies will do anything to take out a competitor and if they have cracked software might as well report them. Not going to do that with some jerk down the street downloading limp bizkut.
damn dude you must be old (because I am). I cant remember a midi cable that wasn't the DIN (round) type. But I do remember the external "ribbon cable" that I used to hook up 5.25" drives to my (my parents) apple IIe. I have no idea what those ports were - but they were ancient.
Probably even older ports- token ring network port (BNC if I remember)- totally sweet. Those seemed to have gone out of fashion.
If they were going to go with ISA then they should have talked about VESA. Which I remembered was crap. And what about VGA (DB-15) ports and serial (DB-9). (honestly serial is still used in many many industrial applications- but not so much in the home). And I don't agree with the firewire- I just bought a 1tb external drive and was happy to see firewire still on it. Also usb 1.1 should have been included- boy was that crap! And remember those gamer ports of the past (DA-15)- for joysticks- those were silly.
And the only way I keep it alive is that I put it in a Pelican Case 1495. The hummer of laptop cases if you will. Its super heavy and will one day fall out of a overhead bin and crush some grandma's skull. I work offshore so the idea that its waterproof appeals to me. However for lightness Pelican also sells a smaller waterproof case. I dont have the model number but its new. It doesn't have the large latches on the sides so its not as rugged as a normal pelican case. I would just get a small laptop (macbook) and put it in there. Just try to protect as much as possible when moving- a pelican case will do exactly that.
I stopped buying vinyl records because of the totally defective analog rights management. I mean have you ever tried to duplicate a record? I tried to simply copy the record's files to my desktop and it just would happen! Then I heard of a way to "rip" the record to my harddrive. It only worked at 1x and it took forever. And the ARM put some weird static on my tracks. I think it watermarked my ripped tracks with noise! The result wasn't nearly as clear as the original. I say a pox on this analog right management and the RIAA!
I fly one way all the time - and at the last second. If you do you get a special "SSSS" at the bottom of your ticket. You are going to get pulled over 50% of the time with the SSSS. Stupid thing is I always fly from a small local airport at least twice a month. You think the TSA guys would have remembered me by now.
Imagine someone from th UK saying that the US GPS is going to die. Why would he do that? Possibly to show how important it is for Europe to have its own systems? Thats right kids- the EU wants their own GPS system. Anyways the GPS system will work fine, I'm sure if there is less then 24 sats we will simply move orbits on some sats so that the US will retain total coverage. And we are launching new sats all the time. On top of that and there is already the Russian backup- GLONASS. Which many new handheld receivers pick up. So dont fret.
I think that this is really just a stopgap measure for Apple. Its just not all the way there. Unlike the first ipods- which were great except the small hd space. I see the main problem in the downloads because they are at 320x240. Might look fine on a ipod, but sucks on a computer. AND we still (and possibly never) can easily rip our own videos into itunes. This is really the key- but near impossible. If Jobs convinced MPAA to allow itunes users to rip their DVD's we would still have to reencode them into 320x240 h.264. And on my mac mini this would take probably a day per DVD. A super chore with all the DVD's I own. Probably could take up to a year just to import them. Right now it is obvious, this is just a work in progress for Apple- lets just hope its not another newton.
When apple came out with Quicktime 7.0.2 many mac users had problems with MATLAB and other programs. I specifically had problems with MATLAB (would crash on start) the fix was to roll back to 7.0.1 using a reinstaller on apple's website. Anyways this new Itunes 6 seems to update to 7.0.3 (thats what is says on my xp box)- I don't know if it will cause problems. Mac users might want to check www.macfixit.com to see if their programs are affected. For myself I am just going to avoid upgrading- as I need to use MATLAB more than I need to watch Lost!
I don't know how the legislation is going- but the newer single dish setup from dish network picks up two sats on one dish. These new dishes have a funny shape and have two pickups. Take a look around town- the usually have a "dish pro" stamp on the front of them.
So I wonder if this new CPU doesn't run as well on desktops as the AMD64. I wonder if the intel guys were waiting for doom3 to come out to see how it ran against a amd64.
I don't knw what kind of radar these guys are planning to send. But GPR (ground penetrating radar) only goes a few meters. I seriously doubt that they are going to launch an AGEIS system. All this proves- manned space flight (while possibly silly) is terribly better at geology. Why? We got shovels sukka.
Really now- how could a curise missle not also deliver packages. This is the obvious application of cruise missle tech. Autonomous missle gets filled with packages and flys itself to the local fed ex hub. Step number 2 is profit!!!!
I will agree- their trinitron monitors and TV's are good. I have a 15 inch trinitron monitor that has lasted forever. Other than that sorny is crap. Almost everything I have bought from them breaks or stops working right in a few years. This goes for every peice of sony equipment that I can think of (including my dad's and friends). For instance my video camera is about two years old and its been in the shop twice. A good friend of mine's stereo tuner doesn't work right and my dad's sony tuner just straight up stopped working. I think people buy sony because when its new it works great and has all the newest features. But I would say that sony and longevity don't go hand in hand.
Thats right. I saw the sweet commercial. The nentendo guy like playing all these all sweet games on his old car. SWEET. I've always wanted to play SMB on the old GBA.
So I went to the local game store (Wal mart) only to find out that I could buy all the games - sepratly!!! I'm old enough to have owned most of these games in the NES version (at least SMB and Exictebike) Whay the fork should I buy them again for 25.00$ That sucks - I really thought (by the commercial) that these games were all together.
I wonder- if I could go back to myself in 1987 and say "hey dude you know that game SMB?"
id say:
"yea dude its pretty cool"
Future me:
" well guess what- you didn't find a good enough job and our mom has to pay for it again- Beleive that!"
I was looking to see if someone had seen the t-mobile maps before. I once was going to buy a t-mobile phone but the salesman talked me OUT of it because of the location of my home. He then showed me a very detailed map of my area and it looked that my entire block was in a gray zone. (surrounded by good reception). I did happen to live on the side of a small hill. I assume they modeled the signal with the location of their towers and topography. I was very suprised because this was at a T-mobile store in Gulfport Mississippi. If they have these maps for Mississippi then they must have them for more major markets.
I guess it will really depend on what energy source that will be invented next. I don't think that hydrogen will ever be a adopted fuel (to cold or too high pressure) for internal combustion. So I think that for cars we will eventually have to go to batteries or fuel cells- which sucks performance wise. As for large transport- trains do have a advantgage in that they don't need to cary their fuel if they are electric. Large fusion plants can supply the power to high speed trains trains. The big problem will come with airplanes- if we ever start running low on oil these contraptions will be to expensive to fly, or require to much space for an alternate fuel. Short term I am hoping the boeing sees the future and begins to fund its Blended Wing Body. A air transport that is truly massive and efficient.
Say your "check engine" light comes on. Back in the day (just a few years ago) you could turn your key to the "on" position a few times and the light would blink out the error code. You could look it up in your shop manual and you generally knew what the problem was. For some reason on my 2000 Jeep they did away with this feature. I always thought it was so that you had to go to the dealer. Know I know. I hate car companies.
The biggest thing that has affected me with the ipod is to take "ipod naps" while say in line or waiting. I don't want to listen to it all the time for saftey reasons. For instance once or twice I became so lost in thought then when I finally snapped too I was suprised that I missed an important announcement, bus, subway, or approaching car. But say I'm waiting for a plane and I know that I'm not going to miss anything for the next 10 min or so. And say I'm hungover. Then the situation calls for "God send death" by slayer. A quick 5 min "ipod nap". Then say I'm waiting for lunch break to finish (or waiting for lunch break to begin) then I might listen to another song. Whatever fits my mood at the second. I think the article misses the fact that your have 2500 songs or so at your disposal. And at any second - if nothing is going on- you can select the song that most matches your mood.
The blank cd-r are for "personal use only". The whole problem of people making copies and distributing them to their friends is still there. It would have been more news worthy if you were allowed to give away two free copies of the album to your buddies.
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If I've gone through all the trouble to make sure all my workstations have licensed versions of -say- AutoCad (5000$) and my competitor has simply cracked it then I want him stabbed in the ass. Its that easy. Some companies will do anything to take out a competitor and if they have cracked software might as well report them. Not going to do that with some jerk down the street downloading limp bizkut.
damn dude you must be old (because I am). I cant remember a midi cable that wasn't the DIN (round) type. But I do remember the external "ribbon cable" that I used to hook up 5.25" drives to my (my parents) apple IIe. I have no idea what those ports were - but they were ancient. Probably even older ports- token ring network port (BNC if I remember)- totally sweet. Those seemed to have gone out of fashion.
If they were going to go with ISA then they should have talked about VESA. Which I remembered was crap. And what about VGA (DB-15) ports and serial (DB-9). (honestly serial is still used in many many industrial applications- but not so much in the home). And I don't agree with the firewire- I just bought a 1tb external drive and was happy to see firewire still on it. Also usb 1.1 should have been included- boy was that crap! And remember those gamer ports of the past (DA-15)- for joysticks- those were silly.
And the only way I keep it alive is that I put it in a Pelican Case 1495. The hummer of laptop cases if you will. Its super heavy and will one day fall out of a overhead bin and crush some grandma's skull. I work offshore so the idea that its waterproof appeals to me. However for lightness Pelican also sells a smaller waterproof case. I dont have the model number but its new. It doesn't have the large latches on the sides so its not as rugged as a normal pelican case. I would just get a small laptop (macbook) and put it in there. Just try to protect as much as possible when moving- a pelican case will do exactly that.
I stopped buying vinyl records because of the totally defective analog rights management. I mean have you ever tried to duplicate a record? I tried to simply copy the record's files to my desktop and it just would happen! Then I heard of a way to "rip" the record to my harddrive. It only worked at 1x and it took forever. And the ARM put some weird static on my tracks. I think it watermarked my ripped tracks with noise! The result wasn't nearly as clear as the original. I say a pox on this analog right management and the RIAA!
If they want more people then they should get rid of that silly bonic thing. I never liked it.
Hmm I wonder what that blue pixel is made out of. SEND IN THE ICE PIRATES!!
I fly one way all the time - and at the last second. If you do you get a special "SSSS" at the bottom of your ticket. You are going to get pulled over 50% of the time with the SSSS. Stupid thing is I always fly from a small local airport at least twice a month. You think the TSA guys would have remembered me by now.
Imagine someone from th UK saying that the US GPS is going to die. Why would he do that? Possibly to show how important it is for Europe to have its own systems? Thats right kids- the EU wants their own GPS system. Anyways the GPS system will work fine, I'm sure if there is less then 24 sats we will simply move orbits on some sats so that the US will retain total coverage. And we are launching new sats all the time. On top of that and there is already the Russian backup- GLONASS. Which many new handheld receivers pick up. So dont fret.
I think that this is really just a stopgap measure for Apple. Its just not all the way there. Unlike the first ipods- which were great except the small hd space. I see the main problem in the downloads because they are at 320x240. Might look fine on a ipod, but sucks on a computer. AND we still (and possibly never) can easily rip our own videos into itunes. This is really the key- but near impossible. If Jobs convinced MPAA to allow itunes users to rip their DVD's we would still have to reencode them into 320x240 h.264. And on my mac mini this would take probably a day per DVD. A super chore with all the DVD's I own. Probably could take up to a year just to import them. Right now it is obvious, this is just a work in progress for Apple- lets just hope its not another newton.
When apple came out with Quicktime 7.0.2 many mac users had problems with MATLAB and other programs. I specifically had problems with MATLAB (would crash on start) the fix was to roll back to 7.0.1 using a reinstaller on apple's website. Anyways this new Itunes 6 seems to update to 7.0.3 (thats what is says on my xp box)- I don't know if it will cause problems. Mac users might want to check www.macfixit.com to see if their programs are affected. For myself I am just going to avoid upgrading- as I need to use MATLAB more than I need to watch Lost!
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I don't know how the legislation is going- but the newer single dish setup from dish network picks up two sats on one dish. These new dishes have a funny shape and have two pickups. Take a look around town- the usually have a "dish pro" stamp on the front of them.
So I wonder if this new CPU doesn't run as well on desktops as the AMD64. I wonder if the intel guys were waiting for doom3 to come out to see how it ran against a amd64.
how about webcrawler.... I think that pre-dated hotbot.
I don't knw what kind of radar these guys are planning to send. But GPR (ground penetrating radar) only goes a few meters. I seriously doubt that they are going to launch an AGEIS system. All this proves- manned space flight (while possibly silly) is terribly better at geology. Why? We got shovels sukka.
Really now- how could a curise missle not also deliver packages. This is the obvious application of cruise missle tech. Autonomous missle gets filled with packages and flys itself to the local fed ex hub. Step number 2 is profit!!!!
I will agree- their trinitron monitors and TV's are good. I have a 15 inch trinitron monitor that has lasted forever. Other than that sorny is crap. Almost everything I have bought from them breaks or stops working right in a few years. This goes for every peice of sony equipment that I can think of (including my dad's and friends). For instance my video camera is about two years old and its been in the shop twice. A good friend of mine's stereo tuner doesn't work right and my dad's sony tuner just straight up stopped working. I think people buy sony because when its new it works great and has all the newest features. But I would say that sony and longevity don't go hand in hand.
Thats right. I saw the sweet commercial. The nentendo guy like playing all these all sweet games on his old car. SWEET. I've always wanted to play SMB on the old GBA. So I went to the local game store (Wal mart) only to find out that I could buy all the games - sepratly!!! I'm old enough to have owned most of these games in the NES version (at least SMB and Exictebike) Whay the fork should I buy them again for 25.00$ That sucks - I really thought (by the commercial) that these games were all together. I wonder- if I could go back to myself in 1987 and say "hey dude you know that game SMB?" id say: "yea dude its pretty cool" Future me: " well guess what- you didn't find a good enough job and our mom has to pay for it again- Beleive that!"
I was looking to see if someone had seen the t-mobile maps before. I once was going to buy a t-mobile phone but the salesman talked me OUT of it because of the location of my home. He then showed me a very detailed map of my area and it looked that my entire block was in a gray zone. (surrounded by good reception). I did happen to live on the side of a small hill. I assume they modeled the signal with the location of their towers and topography. I was very suprised because this was at a T-mobile store in Gulfport Mississippi. If they have these maps for Mississippi then they must have them for more major markets.
I guess it will really depend on what energy source that will be invented next. I don't think that hydrogen will ever be a adopted fuel (to cold or too high pressure) for internal combustion. So I think that for cars we will eventually have to go to batteries or fuel cells- which sucks performance wise. As for large transport- trains do have a advantgage in that they don't need to cary their fuel if they are electric. Large fusion plants can supply the power to high speed trains trains. The big problem will come with airplanes- if we ever start running low on oil these contraptions will be to expensive to fly, or require to much space for an alternate fuel. Short term I am hoping the boeing sees the future and begins to fund its Blended Wing Body. A air transport that is truly massive and efficient.
Say your "check engine" light comes on. Back in the day (just a few years ago) you could turn your key to the "on" position a few times and the light would blink out the error code. You could look it up in your shop manual and you generally knew what the problem was. For some reason on my 2000 Jeep they did away with this feature. I always thought it was so that you had to go to the dealer. Know I know. I hate car companies.
The biggest thing that has affected me with the ipod is to take "ipod naps" while say in line or waiting. I don't want to listen to it all the time for saftey reasons. For instance once or twice I became so lost in thought then when I finally snapped too I was suprised that I missed an important announcement, bus, subway, or approaching car. But say I'm waiting for a plane and I know that I'm not going to miss anything for the next 10 min or so. And say I'm hungover. Then the situation calls for "God send death" by slayer. A quick 5 min "ipod nap". Then say I'm waiting for lunch break to finish (or waiting for lunch break to begin) then I might listen to another song. Whatever fits my mood at the second. I think the article misses the fact that your have 2500 songs or so at your disposal. And at any second - if nothing is going on- you can select the song that most matches your mood.
The blank cd-r are for "personal use only". The whole problem of people making copies and distributing them to their friends is still there. It would have been more news worthy if you were allowed to give away two free copies of the album to your buddies.