Well I would assume that the 1.25 is made the same as the 1.42. I have the 1.42 myself and it runs quite cool while being extremely quiet (as long as you aren't reading a CD/DVD).
If you bump the 1.25 to 1.42 I'm sure it's fine. I wouldn't want to bump the 1.42 any higher as it's not worth voiding the warranty for the TINY speed increase and the possibilty of the case not being able to handle the increased heat.
I have bought many items over the years from Amazon as I'm always relatively pleased with their prices and ALWAYS pleased with their service... Just yesterday I purchased a new GPS for myself. Being an avid geocacher I am always upgrading my GPSr to make my life a little easier.
This particular upgrade wasn't just for geocaching but more for actual navigating. My fiancé needed to use autorouting to get around town with her sister dress shopping and autorouting would be the best way. What a great excuse for me to plop down $430 on a new GPS!
Ok, so I do some research with froogle and some of the other price watching sites and check Amazon just for kicks. They of course weren't showing me their price on the site so I add it to my cart to find out that it's $499.99 for the GPSMap76C. Eh, for kicks I check out the price on their 76CS (usually $75+ more than the C). I find it on sale for $428 and free STANDARD SAVER shipping. Estimated arrival sometime after the 10th and before the 15th.
With prices for shipping starting at $7.65 and me not really needing this for the fiancé until the end of February I took the free shipping. I am THRILLED I did. Last night I received word that even though Amazon.com original claimed the device wouldn't even ship until the 4th it was already out the door and en-route to me. This morning I check and find that the estimated ARRIVAL time from UPS is the 4th of February.
For no additional cost I just got 3-day shipping via UPS.
I guess Amazon's "Prime" service could be useful for families that order more than 7 items from Amazon yearly but don't spend enough to get the freebie shipping. I really can't imagine it paying off for many others but I am glad I held off on upgrading the shipping this time:)
Your entire response was exactly the sort of petty crap you're so bravely fomenting against. You just did exactly what you'd do in real life -- which is, go spew a bunch of attitude.
Cool, I didn't know any of my coworkers read Slashdot. Glad to hear of you over the net and never in person...
I don't spew attitude. I tell people straight up that I am uninterested in workplace drama.
And it doesn't matter whether the phone is hand-held or handsfree, he said. Any activity requiring a driver to "actively be part of a conversation" likely will impair driving abilities, Strayer said.
First off, I love the word "likely" which means that they really don't know. Second off, we should create only single passenger cars as talking to other people in the vehicle requires you to be actively involved in conversation and we should ban CB radios from all delivery vehicles and Police cars. Should this move on to airplanes as well?
Strayer said they found that when 18- to-25-year-olds were placed in a driving simulator and talked on a cellular phone, they reacted to brake lights from a car in front of them as slowly as 65- to 74-year-olds who were not using a cell phone.
And what? I don't see the point here. The elderly can still drive.
The numbers, which come down to milliseconds, might not seem like much, but it could be the difference to stopping in time to avoid hitting a child in the street, Strayer said.
Ahhhh yes, this affects your children!
The only silver lining to the new research is that elderly drivers using a cell phone aren't any more of a hazard to themselves and others than young drivers. Previous research suggested older drivers may face what Strayer described as a "triple whammy."
Hah. So it's only the younger generations that have these problems. The older people have learned over the years how to walk and chew gum at the same time. Driving and cell phone use... The TRIPLE WHAMMY THREAT against your children! News at 11!
At another "campus," seeing that would have provoked a positive ton of good-natured ribbing. The person with the iPod would have given some back, and in the end maybe the music division would have gotten a(nother) quick sense of why even an MS employee could have made that choice. Might have resulted in an actual competitive advantage for the eventual MS product.
Oh barf. Who fucking cares? If the original scenario actually happened you know what I would have done? Walked away. You know why? Because I just don't get involved in the petty little bullshit that goes on with workplace drama.
If Suzy is banging Mark after work who the fuck cares? If Amy is wearing the same clothes as Jenny but only less expensive versions I just don't care.
Stupid, petty, childish, work-place drama exists everywhere. There's no need to whine about it online and there's certainly no need to bring it up on Slashdot just because it has MSFT, Apple, and iPod contained in the story.
Use whatever fucking MP3 player you like. Drive whatever car you want. Fuck whoever you want to fuck. Keep your mouths shut about what other people do unless it has some direct impact on your fucking job.
It was just a joke and because someone else modded me up incorrectly as "Insightful" it is supposed to be something other than was originally intended?
For some odd reason I don't see anybody coming to Kazaa's defense in court now like Napster saw when they were up on the chopping block.
It's a little different now... Too many lawsuits, too much media coverage, and too much money pumped into "educating" the public about the "evils" of P2P and Kazaa.
A growing number of so-called bulletproof Web host services like Mr. Gillespie's offer spam-friendly merchants access to stable offshore computer servers - most of them in China - where they can park their Web sites, with the promise that they will not be shut down because of spam complaints.
And this is exactly what we have been saying all along. No matter what laws are passed, no matter what we do to combat spam, the spammers will always find another way to make a buck.
One of the spammers quoted in the article claimed that he didn't care about the lawsuits... He was making too much money to stop.
If you're making too much money and they somehow make a law that actually works stick do you think that they are just going to go away? Yeah, I do, to other countries where those laws won't mean anything...
Keep those firewalls banning entire countries (.kr and.br) and keep banning/16's and/8's until it is gone. The spammers are here to stay.
It will set the clock most of the time. Sometimes it times out there as well. It does get the schedule updates after a while but most of the time it does not.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut, is billed as the largest of its kind. More than 100,000 students, nearly 8,000 teachers and more than 500 administrators at 544 public and private high schools took part in early 2004.
Now this is NOT an insignificant study. 100k students and only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories? Excuse me? This misinformation must be coming from somewhere... Are these kids skipping American History/Civics and moving into Psychology and Sociology courses instead?
About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet. It can't.
Well, unfortunately it HAS been restricting indecent material. Forcing various institutions to enable filters on content. Yeah, it can't stop ALL the content out there but it is getting closer and closer to that. With the scare tactics and every parent believing that every sensationalist news "story" on the TV is GOING TO AFFECT THEIR CHILDREN they are pushing this crap through without thinking about the consequences.
The study suggests that students embrace First Amendment freedoms if they are taught about them and given a chance to practice them, but schools don't make the matter a priority.
Of course they don't. Going through high-school English classes I was told repeatedly how I was to respond when it came time for essay exams. If you did not give the teacher what they wanted you were given a poor grade. It wasn't until college (and I remember our second semester English professor being appalled) that I was able to write how I felt about a topic and back it up with real information. The professor would grade you on your research and your proof and not how he/she particularly felt the topic should be supported.
How can we expect high-school aged kids to think that they should be given a chance to practice their First Amendment rights when they are under the constant force feeding of information?
More than one in five schools offer no student media opportunities; of the high schools that do not offer student newspapers, 40 percent have eliminated them in the last five years.
That's because the government and consolidated media doesn't want free thinkers. They want people who follow the status quo. Why stir the pot when you can just report the silly rumors, scare tactics and sensationalism, and car chases above California?
1) A handful of researchers think that using your Blackberry "repeatedly" might cause thumb damage.
But text messaging doesn't cause such damage because you are limited to how much you can send... I guess.
Personally I have found that after only a few days (about 5 or 6) I became quite comfortable using my thumbpad device and honestly I find a lot less hand pain than I do when using my regular computer.
Wasn't there some initial research that showed Asian users were going to have stronger thumbs because of their usage during texting? That it might eventually become like their pointer finger? Like using it to run a door bell instead?
Nah, it has nothing to do w/my network. The network connects just fine for everything else just not Tivo.
Other people have been complaining on the Tivo forums about similiar problems recently. The network has been up and running for several months without issue. It's only been the last couple of weeks that I have noticed this.
While I have never used a hardware DVR that wasn't Tivo I must say that there are plenty of things that really irk me about my Tivo...
1. Tivo released this supposed software update to be able to use Tivo2Go. I signed up as soon as I saw it available and I still have yet to receive the Tivo upgrade to my unit.
2. Tivo service has been spotty for getting listings. I have been getting days and days worth of "Failed while negotiating" errors. Yeah it might not matter but I wouldn't know as I rarely watch TV live. What happens if something changed and my fiance lost an episode? I'd never hear the end of it.
3. And various other things that have been hashed and rehashed on all the tech site forums over the years so I won't mention them again here...
Will the SDK fix my negotiation problems? No, because Tivo is going to keep that locked up tight as it's their only money making scheme (which BTW I have no problem with as long as the service works).
Of course, none of these files give me super-high-quality video and audio. For that, I will buy the DVDs.
I buy some stuff on DVD and I have some stuff that I downloaded. I don't much care about watching TV sitcoms in high quality (and honestly most of the stuff on the net is great quality). I mean my favorite TVs shows of all time include two cartoon shows (Family Guy and Simpsons) how much quality do I need?
I enjoy the fact that I could burn stuff to DVD if necessary but I don't mind paying for the episodes on DVD either. That's me.
If you didn't want DRM, you'd buy the CD. It seems like a lot of hassle to set up an account, buy the music, download the music, crack the music, then convert the music to get to the same end result.
I wasn't aware you were able to get custom made mix CDs at stores with tracks numbering in the 100s of thousands. Cool.
Obviously iTunes is popular because some people don't like to spend $13+ on an entire album when they only want one song. They want to make their own mixes and still not have DRM on them I guess.
Well considering that Sony offered a Linux kit for the PS2 and it really never took off (due to price because of the HD) I can't imagine this will happen.
What happens when the links are to newspaper articles available on the web? The media outlets determine that any outside linking is stealing their Flash popup ad revenue and sue.
Yet people still pay through the nose for Windows. It's inexplicable.
It's not inexplicable... Microsoft started out by squashing competition in every arena they could until they were above and beyond the most dominant force in the computer industry.
They received a slap on the wrist from the Government and continue to dominate...
The reason that people continue to go with upgrades and new versions of software like Office is because they don't have a choice. If you want to interoperate in the business world today you do it via Microsoft products.
contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty "unless you break something when you open it.")
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.
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Well I would assume that the 1.25 is made the same as the 1.42. I have the 1.42 myself and it runs quite cool while being extremely quiet (as long as you aren't reading a CD/DVD).
If you bump the 1.25 to 1.42 I'm sure it's fine. I wouldn't want to bump the 1.42 any higher as it's not worth voiding the warranty for the TINY speed increase and the possibilty of the case not being able to handle the increased heat.
I have bought many items over the years from Amazon as I'm always relatively pleased with their prices and ALWAYS pleased with their service... Just yesterday I purchased a new GPS for myself. Being an avid geocacher I am always upgrading my GPSr to make my life a little easier.
:)
This particular upgrade wasn't just for geocaching but more for actual navigating. My fiancé needed to use autorouting to get around town with her sister dress shopping and autorouting would be the best way. What a great excuse for me to plop down $430 on a new GPS!
Ok, so I do some research with froogle and some of the other price watching sites and check Amazon just for kicks. They of course weren't showing me their price on the site so I add it to my cart to find out that it's $499.99 for the GPSMap76C. Eh, for kicks I check out the price on their 76CS (usually $75+ more than the C). I find it on sale for $428 and free STANDARD SAVER shipping. Estimated arrival sometime after the 10th and before the 15th.
With prices for shipping starting at $7.65 and me not really needing this for the fiancé until the end of February I took the free shipping. I am THRILLED I did. Last night I received word that even though Amazon.com original claimed the device wouldn't even ship until the 4th it was already out the door and en-route to me. This morning I check and find that the estimated ARRIVAL time from UPS is the 4th of February.
For no additional cost I just got 3-day shipping via UPS.
I guess Amazon's "Prime" service could be useful for families that order more than 7 items from Amazon yearly but don't spend enough to get the freebie shipping. I really can't imagine it paying off for many others but I am glad I held off on upgrading the shipping this time
Your entire response was exactly the sort of petty crap you're so bravely fomenting against. You just did exactly what you'd do in real life -- which is, go spew a bunch of attitude.
Cool, I didn't know any of my coworkers read Slashdot. Glad to hear of you over the net and never in person...
I don't spew attitude. I tell people straight up that I am uninterested in workplace drama.
And it doesn't matter whether the phone is hand-held or handsfree, he said. Any activity requiring a driver to "actively be part of a conversation" likely will impair driving abilities, Strayer said.
First off, I love the word "likely" which means that they really don't know. Second off, we should create only single passenger cars as talking to other people in the vehicle requires you to be actively involved in conversation and we should ban CB radios from all delivery vehicles and Police cars. Should this move on to airplanes as well?
Strayer said they found that when 18- to-25-year-olds were placed in a driving simulator and talked on a cellular phone, they reacted to brake lights from a car in front of them as slowly as 65- to 74-year-olds who were not using a cell phone.
And what? I don't see the point here. The elderly can still drive.
The numbers, which come down to milliseconds, might not seem like much, but it could be the difference to stopping in time to avoid hitting a child in the street, Strayer said.
Ahhhh yes, this affects your children!
The only silver lining to the new research is that elderly drivers using a cell phone aren't any more of a hazard to themselves and others than young drivers. Previous research suggested older drivers may face what Strayer described as a "triple whammy."
Hah. So it's only the younger generations that have these problems. The older people have learned over the years how to walk and chew gum at the same time. Driving and cell phone use... The TRIPLE WHAMMY THREAT against your children! News at 11!
At another "campus," seeing that would have provoked a positive ton of good-natured ribbing. The person with the iPod would have given some back, and in the end maybe the music division would have gotten a(nother) quick sense of why even an MS employee could have made that choice. Might have resulted in an actual competitive advantage for the eventual MS product.
Oh barf. Who fucking cares? If the original scenario actually happened you know what I would have done? Walked away. You know why? Because I just don't get involved in the petty little bullshit that goes on with workplace drama.
If Suzy is banging Mark after work who the fuck cares? If Amy is wearing the same clothes as Jenny but only less expensive versions I just don't care.
Stupid, petty, childish, work-place drama exists everywhere. There's no need to whine about it online and there's certainly no need to bring it up on Slashdot just because it has MSFT, Apple, and iPod contained in the story.
Use whatever fucking MP3 player you like. Drive whatever car you want. Fuck whoever you want to fuck. Keep your mouths shut about what other people do unless it has some direct impact on your fucking job.
It was just a joke and because someone else modded me up incorrectly as "Insightful" it is supposed to be something other than was originally intended?
Lighten up.
Obviously you're just the president of Harvard.
For some odd reason I don't see anybody coming to Kazaa's defense in court now like Napster saw when they were up on the chopping block.
It's a little different now... Too many lawsuits, too much media coverage, and too much money pumped into "educating" the public about the "evils" of P2P and Kazaa.
A growing number of so-called bulletproof Web host services like Mr. Gillespie's offer spam-friendly merchants access to stable offshore computer servers - most of them in China - where they can park their Web sites, with the promise that they will not be shut down because of spam complaints.
.br) and keep banning /16's and /8's until it is gone. The spammers are here to stay.
And this is exactly what we have been saying all along. No matter what laws are passed, no matter what we do to combat spam, the spammers will always find another way to make a buck.
One of the spammers quoted in the article claimed that he didn't care about the lawsuits... He was making too much money to stop.
If you're making too much money and they somehow make a law that actually works stick do you think that they are just going to go away? Yeah, I do, to other countries where those laws won't mean anything...
Keep those firewalls banning entire countries (.kr and
Well I just unplugged the USB wlan adapter, plugged it back in, watched it get signal and it works. Who knows?
It will set the clock most of the time. Sometimes it times out there as well. It does get the schedule updates after a while but most of the time it does not.
What do psychology and sociology classes have to do with a lack of understanding of the first amendment?
High-schoolers are given the option to take sociology or psychology (or both) instead of history/civics courses.
They all fall into the same "credit" but teach completely different topics.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut, is billed as the largest of its kind. More than 100,000 students, nearly 8,000 teachers and more than 500 administrators at 544 public and private high schools took part in early 2004.
Now this is NOT an insignificant study. 100k students and only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories? Excuse me? This misinformation must be coming from somewhere... Are these kids skipping American History/Civics and moving into Psychology and Sociology courses instead?
About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet. It can't.
Well, unfortunately it HAS been restricting indecent material. Forcing various institutions to enable filters on content. Yeah, it can't stop ALL the content out there but it is getting closer and closer to that. With the scare tactics and every parent believing that every sensationalist news "story" on the TV is GOING TO AFFECT THEIR CHILDREN they are pushing this crap through without thinking about the consequences.
The study suggests that students embrace First Amendment freedoms if they are taught about them and given a chance to practice them, but schools don't make the matter a priority.
Of course they don't. Going through high-school English classes I was told repeatedly how I was to respond when it came time for essay exams. If you did not give the teacher what they wanted you were given a poor grade. It wasn't until college (and I remember our second semester English professor being appalled) that I was able to write how I felt about a topic and back it up with real information. The professor would grade you on your research and your proof and not how he/she particularly felt the topic should be supported.
How can we expect high-school aged kids to think that they should be given a chance to practice their First Amendment rights when they are under the constant force feeding of information?
More than one in five schools offer no student media opportunities; of the high schools that do not offer student newspapers, 40 percent have eliminated them in the last five years.
That's because the government and consolidated media doesn't want free thinkers. They want people who follow the status quo. Why stir the pot when you can just report the silly rumors, scare tactics and sensationalism, and car chases above California?
1) A handful of researchers think that using your Blackberry "repeatedly" might cause thumb damage.
But text messaging doesn't cause such damage because you are limited to how much you can send... I guess.
Personally I have found that after only a few days (about 5 or 6) I became quite comfortable using my thumbpad device and honestly I find a lot less hand pain than I do when using my regular computer.
Wasn't there some initial research that showed Asian users were going to have stronger thumbs because of their usage during texting? That it might eventually become like their pointer finger? Like using it to run a door bell instead?
Nah, it has nothing to do w/my network. The network connects just fine for everything else just not Tivo.
Other people have been complaining on the Tivo forums about similiar problems recently. The network has been up and running for several months without issue. It's only been the last couple of weeks that I have noticed this.
He's certainly "pretty" enough to be a politician stroker.
You gotta love the fact that they seemed to have digitally enhanced the whiteness of his teeth.
While I have never used a hardware DVR that wasn't Tivo I must say that there are plenty of things that really irk me about my Tivo...
1. Tivo released this supposed software update to be able to use Tivo2Go. I signed up as soon as I saw it available and I still have yet to receive the Tivo upgrade to my unit.
2. Tivo service has been spotty for getting listings. I have been getting days and days worth of "Failed while negotiating" errors. Yeah it might not matter but I wouldn't know as I rarely watch TV live. What happens if something changed and my fiance lost an episode? I'd never hear the end of it.
3. And various other things that have been hashed and rehashed on all the tech site forums over the years so I won't mention them again here...
Will the SDK fix my negotiation problems? No, because Tivo is going to keep that locked up tight as it's their only money making scheme (which BTW I have no problem with as long as the service works).
Of course, none of these files give me super-high-quality video and audio. For that, I will buy the DVDs.
I buy some stuff on DVD and I have some stuff that I downloaded. I don't much care about watching TV sitcoms in high quality (and honestly most of the stuff on the net is great quality). I mean my favorite TVs shows of all time include two cartoon shows (Family Guy and Simpsons) how much quality do I need?
I enjoy the fact that I could burn stuff to DVD if necessary but I don't mind paying for the episodes on DVD either. That's me.
If you didn't want DRM, you'd buy the CD. It seems like a lot of hassle to set up an account, buy the music, download the music, crack the music, then convert the music to get to the same end result.
I wasn't aware you were able to get custom made mix CDs at stores with tracks numbering in the 100s of thousands. Cool.
Obviously iTunes is popular because some people don't like to spend $13+ on an entire album when they only want one song. They want to make their own mixes and still not have DRM on them I guess.
Well, you might have been trying to be funny but it was modded insightful which it isn't.
Creative writing is interesting and the thoughts behind the piece were definitly thought provoking.
Well considering that Sony offered a Linux kit for the PS2 and it really never took off (due to price because of the HD) I can't imagine this will happen.
;)
It would be interesting though
What happens when the links are to newspaper articles available on the web? The media outlets determine that any outside linking is stealing their Flash popup ad revenue and sue.
Does that count?
There are many good replacements for MS business products today. (not home products) Not all of them are free/OpenSourced but they are non-MS.
No matter what the OSS zealots tell you the OSS software alternatives available do NOT work well enough to interoperate in the business world 100%.
It's a fact of life for right now and sadly will probalby be for quite some time.
Yet people still pay through the nose for Windows. It's inexplicable.
It's not inexplicable... Microsoft started out by squashing competition in every arena they could until they were above and beyond the most dominant force in the computer industry.
They received a slap on the wrist from the Government and continue to dominate...
The reason that people continue to go with upgrades and new versions of software like Office is because they don't have a choice. If you want to interoperate in the business world today you do it via Microsoft products.
contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty "unless you break something when you open it.")
Looks like heresy to me just like every other statement out there. When I said that I want an official statement I mean OFFICIAL. From Apple on Apple.com.