I stopped reading about half way through. The bulleted lists are added more for visual appeal than any real organization, and the grammatical errors were overwhelming whatever point the author was trying to make. Definately some good info there, but IMHO needs a complete rewrite. This is more of a draft.
I don't think there is any be-all end-all solution to this problem other than dedicated moderators (and meta-moderators.) People need to be modded off topic if they are. Perhaps there could be some sort of penalty for bad moderation? ie. if 4 people mod a comment +1 Insightful, somebody mods it -1 flamebait, and then someone else mods it +1 insightful, the person who modded it 'against the grain' could be punnished by somehow being less likely to get mod points again. Maybe there could be some sort of 'smart' auto meta-moderation.
just a few thoughts, too early in the morning bored at work...
Actually, I've found that the quality of LP4 NetMD recordings, while supposedly ~64kbps (in VBR mind you) sounds just as good as 128kbps MP3s on my computer. There really is no loss of quality, at least in my mind.
I have to agree. Nobody cares about prank calls anyway. When I was younger (sue me - I'm in Canada) I used to make the occaisional prank call, and recieved a few of them too. I actually called the local police one time to inquire about the actual penalties after I recieved some angry threats from people I had called. Essentially they told me they would not even look into the matter until I had recieved three (3) harassing calls from the same phone number - and I had to verify that it was indeed the same number with a pay-only service such as caller ID. A nuisance, yes, but does this really require federal legislation?
A few dozen fun things to do with your ipod? Don't you mean 4.167 dozen? Anyway, I much prefer my sony netmd because it will play for 54 hours on a single AA battery.
The reason none of those issues are documented is twofold - One, the majority of computer users fix problems accidentally and don't know what was wrong, let alone what fixed it. The second is that Even when people do know what fixed it, they are not usually in the mood to document it because they are anxious to make up their lost time. Nobody ever thinks "what if somebody else has this issue."
My training was almost complete. Now where will I learn to make realstic fake IDs?
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My (retired) dad is currently trying to teach himself C++, among his many other side projects. On the reccomendation of many IRC users, I bought the book Accelerated C++ by Barbara Moo. When I read this book, I found it an excellent resource - both complete and concise. My dad, however, has only started to 'get' some of the concepts of coding by reading a variety of books, including SAMS, Dummies, and a few others too. Everyone learns differently, and while I agree that learning C++ in 24 hours or 30 days is a pipe dream, those books definately fill a niche.
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Complete text follows for karma-whoring purposes
Introduction
Well CES is only a day away now, but there is a special press only event called CES Unveiled. This event gives manufacturers a chance to showcase new products before the big event. There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event, and there is free complementary food and drinks, which makes it even better. So today we will be showing you some of the cool new products that were showed at this event.
The Event
The event was held at the Bellini Ballroom at the Venetian. It was a really cool setup, but a bit cramped. Products were displayed on small tables so there was not that much to look at. Most companies focused on 2 or 3 of their new products, some of which were announced the day of the event.
Before we get into the products I wanted to let you guys know what kind of food they were serving. The best thing they had was the seafood. There was a huge platter of shrimp, crab, and oysters. The shrimp was in a huge ice bowl, which added some extra style to the platter. Also to eat was many different types of lunch meat, bread, breadsticks, pasta, and much more. The best part was it was all free!
Logitech
Ok enough with the free stuff, let's check out the products. First let's start out with a company you all know, Logitech. Logitech did not have many new things to debut, but they did have 2 new Bluetooth headsets, the HS 200 and HS 210. These headsets are basically the same. The HS 200 has round ear pieces and the HS 210 has square earpieces. These will work with any Bluetooth device including your phone. These headphones also have microphones so you can answer your phone while listening to music. These headphones will be available in spring 2006 and will retail for around $129.
Logitech also has revamped the G7 mouse and made it look a little bit better.
Another product Logitech has redone is the Harmony 880. They have come out with the Harmony 890 which has the added RF capability.
AMD
Some new digital media players have been announced based on AMD's Au1200 processor. The first one is the Humax PMP platform. It is designed for Direct TV's new 2 Go service. It has a 4 inch widescreen LCD, 20GB hard drive, and a user-replaceable battery. It is expected to hit the US in early 2006 retailing for around $399.
Next is Digital Cube's PMP series of devices. There are 3 different devices that feature a 4.3-inch TFT LCD touch screen, 14/7 hours of audio/video, direct downloads from multiple sources, and GPS navigational features.
The coolest looking product at the AMD table was the Samsung Digital Photo Frame. This is a 7 inch LCD frame that has Ethernet, USB, SD, and CF connections. A great feature of the digital photo frame is that you can send pictures directly to it from your camera phone over the web. This is out in Korea now for $299, and when it ships to the US it is expected to be lower than that.
Lexar
Lexar had some very cool new entries in USB drive segment, one in particular is the Lexar JumpDrive Mercury. Take a look at the pics, it has a 'digital paper technology' display on the outside that displays the drives remaining capacity. The meter is displayed even when the drive is unplugged! The availability will be around 2nd quarter 2006. They also introduced a mini JumpDrive called the FireFly, extremely small and portable.
FIC
FIC made a nice showing at CES unveiled tonight with more than just motherboards. They premiered some very cool new laptops, but the most interesting thing was the GE2, The Golden Gate Entertainment PC. This was by far one of the coolest new things I saw there today. The GE2 is extremely small is size with dimensions of 226x172x42 (mm) and weighs in at just 1.3kg. When I first saw it I thought it was another hard drive enclosure, it is that small. It features an Intel Yonah Dual-Core CPU, and Intel 945gm Chipset, supports ddr2 mem,
I love how right after the giant warning "WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU" it says "In the mean time, please visit our other sites" In the mean time... like until I am arrested or what?
If you have multiple virtual processors running on one actual box, you will pay more. If you have multiple physical processors running together, a la the oh-so-overused beowulf cluster joke, you will pay less. What's the big deal?
How usable is opera out of the box on linux? When I installed firefox a few days ago on my new gentoo box, it took alot of fiddling to get it to support all the plugins/features that are fairly standard on a windows install, such as streaming quicktime, real and windows media, flash etc. I'd like to switch to opera because of mouse gestures, among other things, but can someone tell me how difficult it will be to get it into a usable state quickly?
I have been using E17 for about a month on Ubuntu 5.04 and I have to say I really like it. The OS-X style iBar functions as a task manager/app launcher, and the file manager Evidence works quite nicely. My biggest problem with the entire environment is configuration is quite difficult. I can't seem to make the file manager right click menus work properly. They are supposed to use extensions and mime types to provide custom menus based on file content, but they dont usually show you what you need. The menus are quite nice, and I like the default window focus scheme of following the cursor. As far as stablility is concerned, it only usually crashes when I restart it to update the menus, and it starts again instantly at its previous state. Once it is polished a bit more I think E17 could be the flagship DE for Linux.
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I stopped reading about half way through. The bulleted lists are added more for visual appeal than any real organization, and the grammatical errors were overwhelming whatever point the author was trying to make. Definately some good info there, but IMHO needs a complete rewrite. This is more of a draft.
an intel based apple notebook? how sexy... how long before it runs ubuntu?
I don't think there is any be-all end-all solution to this problem other than dedicated moderators (and meta-moderators.) People need to be modded off topic if they are. Perhaps there could be some sort of penalty for bad moderation? ie. if 4 people mod a comment +1 Insightful, somebody mods it -1 flamebait, and then someone else mods it +1 insightful, the person who modded it 'against the grain' could be punnished by somehow being less likely to get mod points again. Maybe there could be some sort of 'smart' auto meta-moderation. just a few thoughts, too early in the morning bored at work...
This is a fun solution for hobbyists, but with the current prices of oil it would be cheaper to fly in bags of ice from arctic expeditions. *ducks*
Actually, I've found that the quality of LP4 NetMD recordings, while supposedly ~64kbps (in VBR mind you) sounds just as good as 128kbps MP3s on my computer. There really is no loss of quality, at least in my mind.
I have to agree. Nobody cares about prank calls anyway. When I was younger (sue me - I'm in Canada) I used to make the occaisional prank call, and recieved a few of them too. I actually called the local police one time to inquire about the actual penalties after I recieved some angry threats from people I had called. Essentially they told me they would not even look into the matter until I had recieved three (3) harassing calls from the same phone number - and I had to verify that it was indeed the same number with a pay-only service such as caller ID. A nuisance, yes, but does this really require federal legislation?
A few dozen fun things to do with your ipod? Don't you mean 4.167 dozen? Anyway, I much prefer my sony netmd because it will play for 54 hours on a single AA battery.
The reason none of those issues are documented is twofold - One, the majority of computer users fix problems accidentally and don't know what was wrong, let alone what fixed it. The second is that Even when people do know what fixed it, they are not usually in the mood to document it because they are anxious to make up their lost time. Nobody ever thinks "what if somebody else has this issue."
My training was almost complete. Now where will I learn to make realstic fake IDs?
My (retired) dad is currently trying to teach himself C++, among his many other side projects. On the reccomendation of many IRC users, I bought the book Accelerated C++ by Barbara Moo. When I read this book, I found it an excellent resource - both complete and concise. My dad, however, has only started to 'get' some of the concepts of coding by reading a variety of books, including SAMS, Dummies, and a few others too. Everyone learns differently, and while I agree that learning C++ in 24 hours or 30 days is a pipe dream, those books definately fill a niche.
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The site is loading, but the server is choking. Half of the images are not loading, and for some reason none of the banner ads are either. Article text is there tho. Complete text follows for karma-whoring purposes Introduction Well CES is only a day away now, but there is a special press only event called CES Unveiled. This event gives manufacturers a chance to showcase new products before the big event. There are only a handful of companies that chose to exhibit at this event, and there is free complementary food and drinks, which makes it even better. So today we will be showing you some of the cool new products that were showed at this event. The Event The event was held at the Bellini Ballroom at the Venetian. It was a really cool setup, but a bit cramped. Products were displayed on small tables so there was not that much to look at. Most companies focused on 2 or 3 of their new products, some of which were announced the day of the event. Before we get into the products I wanted to let you guys know what kind of food they were serving. The best thing they had was the seafood. There was a huge platter of shrimp, crab, and oysters. The shrimp was in a huge ice bowl, which added some extra style to the platter. Also to eat was many different types of lunch meat, bread, breadsticks, pasta, and much more. The best part was it was all free! Logitech Ok enough with the free stuff, let's check out the products. First let's start out with a company you all know, Logitech. Logitech did not have many new things to debut, but they did have 2 new Bluetooth headsets, the HS 200 and HS 210. These headsets are basically the same. The HS 200 has round ear pieces and the HS 210 has square earpieces. These will work with any Bluetooth device including your phone. These headphones also have microphones so you can answer your phone while listening to music. These headphones will be available in spring 2006 and will retail for around $129. Logitech also has revamped the G7 mouse and made it look a little bit better. Another product Logitech has redone is the Harmony 880. They have come out with the Harmony 890 which has the added RF capability. AMD Some new digital media players have been announced based on AMD's Au1200 processor. The first one is the Humax PMP platform. It is designed for Direct TV's new 2 Go service. It has a 4 inch widescreen LCD, 20GB hard drive, and a user-replaceable battery. It is expected to hit the US in early 2006 retailing for around $399. Next is Digital Cube's PMP series of devices. There are 3 different devices that feature a 4.3-inch TFT LCD touch screen, 14/7 hours of audio/video, direct downloads from multiple sources, and GPS navigational features. The coolest looking product at the AMD table was the Samsung Digital Photo Frame. This is a 7 inch LCD frame that has Ethernet, USB, SD, and CF connections. A great feature of the digital photo frame is that you can send pictures directly to it from your camera phone over the web. This is out in Korea now for $299, and when it ships to the US it is expected to be lower than that. Lexar Lexar had some very cool new entries in USB drive segment, one in particular is the Lexar JumpDrive Mercury. Take a look at the pics, it has a 'digital paper technology' display on the outside that displays the drives remaining capacity. The meter is displayed even when the drive is unplugged! The availability will be around 2nd quarter 2006. They also introduced a mini JumpDrive called the FireFly, extremely small and portable. FIC FIC made a nice showing at CES unveiled tonight with more than just motherboards. They premiered some very cool new laptops, but the most interesting thing was the GE2, The Golden Gate Entertainment PC. This was by far one of the coolest new things I saw there today. The GE2 is extremely small is size with dimensions of 226x172x42 (mm) and weighs in at just 1.3kg. When I first saw it I thought it was another hard drive enclosure, it is that small. It features an Intel Yonah Dual-Core CPU, and Intel 945gm Chipset, supports ddr2 mem,
"Slashdot has done it once again. They have an article running down the process of water cooling an Xbox 360" http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/31/ 1414248&tid=211&tid=222
Not to defend MS on this issue, but I think you cross your fingers for a week in either scenario
I love how right after the giant warning "WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU" it says "In the mean time, please visit our other sites"
In the mean time... like until I am arrested or what?
If they told you it wouldn't exactly be obscure, now would it?
are you a troll?
*makes a cross with fingers*
If you have multiple virtual processors running on one actual box, you will pay more. If you have multiple physical processors running together, a la the oh-so-overused beowulf cluster joke, you will pay less. What's the big deal?
how is wikipedia not #1?
I just installed opera 8.50 on gentoo linux, and there is no flash support by default. Does that mean It wont work at all?
How usable is opera out of the box on linux?
When I installed firefox a few days ago on my new gentoo box, it took alot of fiddling to get it to support all the plugins/features that are fairly standard on a windows install, such as streaming quicktime, real and windows media, flash etc. I'd like to switch to opera because of mouse gestures, among other things, but can someone tell me how difficult it will be to get it into a usable state quickly?
I wish I could consider $78,000,000 expendable
I have been using E17 for about a month on Ubuntu 5.04 and I have to say I really like it. The OS-X style iBar functions as a task manager/app launcher, and the file manager Evidence works quite nicely. My biggest problem with the entire environment is configuration is quite difficult. I can't seem to make the file manager right click menus work properly. They are supposed to use extensions and mime types to provide custom menus based on file content, but they dont usually show you what you need. The menus are quite nice, and I like the default window focus scheme of following the cursor. As far as stablility is concerned, it only usually crashes when I restart it to update the menus, and it starts again instantly at its previous state. Once it is polished a bit more I think E17 could be the flagship DE for Linux.
The commercials always bother me when the announcer says "Voiping with Vonage" I hate it when people pronounce acronyms like VoIP and URL
VHS will fade away as soon as DVD burners are mainstream read: standard issue and universally compatible