Get all the information you can before you buy. Look at it in a store. Look up the specs online. Find a friend who has it, or has experience with it and ask them about it. If you do enough research, you will usually find one or two that stand out among the rest. Unfortunately, you usually have to make sacrifices when buying a monitor. All the ones I've seen have had some sort of problem. I've had two Sony Trinitrons that have crapped out about a month after the warranty expired. My school buys nothing but Viewsonics, which are very cost-effective, but the picture isn't as good and the OSD sucks. My current monitor is a 19" Hitachi flat screen CRT. I've had it a few months, and I love it so far, but it has a minor problem with colors bleeding. It's not too noticable except with high contrast static images. (like a terminal) However the bright, sharp image, the excellend OSD, and the 5 year warranty more than make up for that. I would highly recommend that anyone looking for a new CRT take a look at this one.
The first printer I had was an HP Deskjet. It was loud, slow, print quality was poor, and it died after a year or so. The next one was an Epson, and it was also slow and loud, but it lasted about 3 years. Just recently I got a Canon. It's fast, and it's too quiet, because I can't even tell if it's working or not, since it's virtually silent. I've only had it a few months, so I can't compare life, but it was way cheaper than any other printer I ever had, print quality is as good as you could ask for, and it does the whole seperate ink cartridges for each color thing. I've been happier and happier with each successive printer I've had.
If anyone here is looking into a new inkjet printer, this is what I have and I would highly recommend it.
CD containing/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/games/qua ke3
For hard drive problems, you need to have fdisk, fsck, and hdparm. PCI problems you need scanpci and/or lspci. procfs also helps a lot in diagnosing any hardware problems. And you can use lilo to repair the MBR. And then of course, you have quake 3 to play when you finish.
So register, post each of the 100 individually, get each modded to 5, and instantly you have +500 karma! Then sell the account on ebay. Then submit a story about it to slashdot. Then submit the story half a dozen more times.
This is why CmdrTaco is the most active author in the hall of fame. If we assume half his posts are dups, (a conservative estimate) he should be fifth. But instead he chooses to cheat timothy out of the fame and wealth he deserves that comes with being the most active author on slashdot. Shame on you, CmdrTaco.
Re:Naturally it IS price fixing
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Coca Cola isn't in charge of vending machine prices. I see them as low as $0.45. There are three reasons I can think of for the higher price per can. (in order of importance) 1: If you're at a vending machine, you have no other option. You're forced to buy it or be thirsty. 2: You're not buying in bulk. It's a lot easier to give 1 person 100 cans than to give 100 people each 1 can. 3: The machine costs money to operate. Refrigerators use a lot of energy, plus they have to pay the salary of the person who stocks the machine.
All of these arguments apply to LCDs as well, as does the different in price you see in single Coke cans. Just as you can get a can of coke for anywhere from 50 to $1, you can get the same LCD for about $250-$500 depending on where you shop. Some places will give you a better deal than others, but nobody will give you the deal that Dell gets. They probably pay no more than $150 each. (going by analogy; in reality I have no idea)
Well, you could use it with KDE. It's NETWM compatible, so you could just replace the kwin window manager with enlightment. If you want to try it out, just edit you startkde script, or set the environmental variable KDEWM to the path to enlightenment (that sounds funny) before you start KDE and it should use that instead.
You don't even have to buy the most expensive heatsink and the high quality thermal paste. I stuck an 8 dollar heatsink on an XP 1600+ and it idles at 40C and peaks at 42. This is my heatsink. I highly recommend it.
Re:why do the Japanese love these things so much?
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But see, that can't be it, because if they were soulless, they wouldn't love anything.
(and yes, soulless has 2 l's, I looked it up)
Just what I need...
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For fighting off those evil ninja pirates! This thing does have laser eyes and gatling guns mounted on each arm, right? With an option for the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher? Or am I thinking of a different robot?
And release it as 9.1 without a 9.0. IBM does that with DB2, because apparently point-oh releases scare people away. It seems to me that version numbers for most things don't mean anything anymore. If you're going to just make up a number that sounds good to customers, then just name the release instead.
Some of those are faked, of course, but it would seem that a lot of it comes from free providers.
(And thanks to SpamAssassin, none of that made it to my inbox)
And all those genres have somethin gin common...
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All those (with the exception of text adventure) are 2d games. Any new game is going to be 3d. All the consoles are optimized for 3d, PC graphics cards are made for 3d, and 3d games are a lot more popular. Nobody wants to make 2d games anymore. Those of us who still like to play Tetris and Galaga have to use MAME or play some freeware clone. There's no money left to be made in 2d games anymore. Of course, you do occasionally come across a new 2d game every once in a while. KDE has a whole lot of really good games, some clones of old games, some original.
Off-topic, but anyway, it would be nice to see dedicated MPEG-2 decoders aimed at consumers. Something like that would be great for sticking in a MythTV box. Right now you need a fast CPU to do anything useful on those, only because of the encoding.
Yeah, science sucks. I refuse to believe anything that doesn't offer logical and consistant explanations for everything in the universe, with ample evidence to back it up. That's why I'm sticking with Christianity.
Well of course there will be now./. has made him look like an idiot, and you gave him an idea for an easy way out. Next month, we'll find out whether he reads/. or not...
I'm confused about this. Yeah, it's great for CNN, I know that, but why did FOX cancel all their shows, and just run the news? They weren't running commercials. Now I know they're not doing this just to keep the public informed, so what's their motivation for running news with no commercials? I don't get it. There's got to be something.
I can think of over a hundred personal associates who are opposed to this war, and only a few who are for the war.
Let me try to guess a few things about you. You're middle class. Your "personal associates" are mostly middle class. You have little contact with the lower class. Non of your friends are on welfare, or have career aspirations of being the manager of their local McDonalds. Your demographic does not represent the average American citizen.
According to all the polls I've seen, even those put out by liberals, the majority of the US is for the war. (At least the majority of those that have an opinion one way or the other) You and your friends think for themselves. Most Americans let their TV do the thinking for them. I would venture to guess that our Canadian friend is fairly accurate in his stereotype.
It's can't be 802.11b if no access point is required. My guess would be that it uses low frequency radio. I've got a clock that uses that to get the time from NIST. You could build a radio controlled ball. Home-built radios are a lot more popular than home-built serial crap, so the materials would be easier to find. (It is Radio Shack, after all) It can't be too diffiult to find a commercial radio transmitter that goes into a serial or usb port, and that would probably be a lot easier to program. Plus it would most likely have a longer range than 802.11b, and would definitely be preferable to a wired connection. Using 802.11b for something like this is pointless, since the throughput you actually need would be about 1 bps.
It's simple. It is easy to install, though it's not as pretty as Redhat or Mandrake. It's got a very simple package management system, and it's got a much simpler directory structure. I started on Slackware and switched to Debian a few months ago. I'd say that what I miss most about Slackware is how easy it is to make it work the way you want (it's really easy to mix source and binary packages) and the layout of the startup scripts. I don't like this giant mess of symbolic links that most distros use. But it was worth the switch to get apt-get. (if they would only update the packages)
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Get all the information you can before you buy. Look at it in a store. Look up the specs online. Find a friend who has it, or has experience with it and ask them about it. If you do enough research, you will usually find one or two that stand out among the rest. Unfortunately, you usually have to make sacrifices when buying a monitor. All the ones I've seen have had some sort of problem. I've had two Sony Trinitrons that have crapped out about a month after the warranty expired. My school buys nothing but Viewsonics, which are very cost-effective, but the picture isn't as good and the OSD sucks. My current monitor is a 19" Hitachi flat screen CRT. I've had it a few months, and I love it so far, but it has a minor problem with colors bleeding. It's not too noticable except with high contrast static images. (like a terminal) However the bright, sharp image, the excellend OSD, and the 5 year warranty more than make up for that. I would highly recommend that anyone looking for a new CRT take a look at this one.
How much would you expect video to compress?
What about damned statistics? I think this falls under that category.
The first printer I had was an HP Deskjet. It was loud, slow, print quality was poor, and it died after a year or so. The next one was an Epson, and it was also slow and loud, but it lasted about 3 years. Just recently I got a Canon. It's fast, and it's too quiet, because I can't even tell if it's working or not, since it's virtually silent. I've only had it a few months, so I can't compare life, but it was way cheaper than any other printer I ever had, print quality is as good as you could ask for, and it does the whole seperate ink cartridges for each color thing. I've been happier and happier with each successive printer I've had.
If anyone here is looking into a new inkjet printer, this is what I have and I would highly recommend it.
I believe he was commenting on his girlfriend, not the chip.
- Slackware boot/root disks
- CD containing
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/games/qua ke3
For hard drive problems, you need to have fdisk, fsck, and hdparm. PCI problems you need scanpci and/or lspci. procfs also helps a lot in diagnosing any hardware problems. And you can use lilo to repair the MBR. And then of course, you have quake 3 to play when you finish.Article's slashdotted, but I would think PVC would be just fine. Obviously you wouldn't use metal piping unless you wanted to be drinking rust.
Teeth are overrated, and fat keeps you warm in the winter. I'll take the soda fountain, thank you.
So what disk did people make their Enterprises out of? Blank one? Windows boot disk?
I found a Redhat 3.0.3 root disk to make it out of. I don't think I'll be needing that anymore.
So register, post each of the 100 individually, get each modded to 5, and instantly you have +500 karma! Then sell the account on ebay. Then submit a story about it to slashdot. Then submit the story half a dozen more times.
This is why CmdrTaco is the most active author in the hall of fame. If we assume half his posts are dups, (a conservative estimate) he should be fifth. But instead he chooses to cheat timothy out of the fame and wealth he deserves that comes with being the most active author on slashdot. Shame on you, CmdrTaco.
Coca Cola isn't in charge of vending machine prices. I see them as low as $0.45. There are three reasons I can think of for the higher price per can. (in order of importance)
1: If you're at a vending machine, you have no other option. You're forced to buy it or be thirsty.
2: You're not buying in bulk. It's a lot easier to give 1 person 100 cans than to give 100 people each 1 can.
3: The machine costs money to operate. Refrigerators use a lot of energy, plus they have to pay the salary of the person who stocks the machine.
All of these arguments apply to LCDs as well, as does the different in price you see in single Coke cans. Just as you can get a can of coke for anywhere from 50 to $1, you can get the same LCD for about $250-$500 depending on where you shop. Some places will give you a better deal than others, but nobody will give you the deal that Dell gets. They probably pay no more than $150 each. (going by analogy; in reality I have no idea)
Well, you could use it with KDE. It's NETWM compatible, so you could just replace the kwin window manager with enlightment. If you want to try it out, just edit you startkde script, or set the environmental variable KDEWM to the path to enlightenment (that sounds funny) before you start KDE and it should use that instead.
You don't even have to buy the most expensive heatsink and the high quality thermal paste. I stuck an 8 dollar heatsink on an XP 1600+ and it idles at 40C and peaks at 42. This is my heatsink. I highly recommend it.
But see, that can't be it, because if they were soulless, they wouldn't love anything.
(and yes, soulless has 2 l's, I looked it up)
For fighting off those evil ninja pirates! This thing does have laser eyes and gatling guns mounted on each arm, right? With an option for the shoulder-mounted rocket launcher? Or am I thinking of a different robot?
And release it as 9.1 without a 9.0. IBM does that with DB2, because apparently point-oh releases scare people away. It seems to me that version numbers for most things don't mean anything anymore. If you're going to just make up a number that sounds good to customers, then just name the release instead.
Domains in today's batch of spam:
yahoo.com (3)
hotmail.com (2)
earthlink.net (1)
popstar.com (1)
hot-shot.com (1)
ayna.com (1)
voile.net (1)
bigfoot.com (1)
mindless.com (1)
amexmail.com (1)
forum.dk (1)
servadmin.com (1)
Some of those are faked, of course, but it would seem that a lot of it comes from free providers.
(And thanks to SpamAssassin, none of that made it to my inbox)
All those (with the exception of text adventure) are 2d games. Any new game is going to be 3d. All the consoles are optimized for 3d, PC graphics cards are made for 3d, and 3d games are a lot more popular. Nobody wants to make 2d games anymore. Those of us who still like to play Tetris and Galaga have to use MAME or play some freeware clone. There's no money left to be made in 2d games anymore. Of course, you do occasionally come across a new 2d game every once in a while. KDE has a whole lot of really good games, some clones of old games, some original.
Other interesting ideas for dedicated cards?
Off-topic, but anyway, it would be nice to see dedicated MPEG-2 decoders aimed at consumers. Something like that would be great for sticking in a MythTV box. Right now you need a fast CPU to do anything useful on those, only because of the encoding.
Yeah, science sucks. I refuse to believe anything that doesn't offer logical and consistant explanations for everything in the universe, with ample evidence to back it up. That's why I'm sticking with Christianity.
Well of course there will be now. /. has made him look like an idiot, and you gave him an idea for an easy way out. Next month, we'll find out whether he reads /. or not...
Conflict sells commercials.
I'm confused about this. Yeah, it's great for CNN, I know that, but why did FOX cancel all their shows, and just run the news? They weren't running commercials. Now I know they're not doing this just to keep the public informed, so what's their motivation for running news with no commercials? I don't get it. There's got to be something.
I can think of over a hundred personal associates who are opposed to this war, and only a few who are for the war.
Let me try to guess a few things about you. You're middle class. Your "personal associates" are mostly middle class. You have little contact with the lower class. Non of your friends are on welfare, or have career aspirations of being the manager of their local McDonalds. Your demographic does not represent the average American citizen.
According to all the polls I've seen, even those put out by liberals, the majority of the US is for the war. (At least the majority of those that have an opinion one way or the other) You and your friends think for themselves. Most Americans let their TV do the thinking for them. I would venture to guess that our Canadian friend is fairly accurate in his stereotype.
And for the record, I'm opposed to the war.
It's can't be 802.11b if no access point is required. My guess would be that it uses low frequency radio. I've got a clock that uses that to get the time from NIST. You could build a radio controlled ball. Home-built radios are a lot more popular than home-built serial crap, so the materials would be easier to find. (It is Radio Shack, after all) It can't be too diffiult to find a commercial radio transmitter that goes into a serial or usb port, and that would probably be a lot easier to program. Plus it would most likely have a longer range than 802.11b, and would definitely be preferable to a wired connection. Using 802.11b for something like this is pointless, since the throughput you actually need would be about 1 bps.
It's simple. It is easy to install, though it's not as pretty as Redhat or Mandrake. It's got a very simple package management system, and it's got a much simpler directory structure. I started on Slackware and switched to Debian a few months ago. I'd say that what I miss most about Slackware is how easy it is to make it work the way you want (it's really easy to mix source and binary packages) and the layout of the startup scripts. I don't like this giant mess of symbolic links that most distros use. But it was worth the switch to get apt-get. (if they would only update the packages)