Uhhm...in case you haven't watched an episode in the past oh I don't know eight years, thats about how long its been since the Simpsons jumped the shark. It's been ages since the show has been consistently funny. Now it's just...sad. Kind of like seeing David Schwimmer in an off-Broadway play.
Incidentally, do Macs still have that Ethernet hack that allows you to connect two systems without a hub or a special cable? That's the classical "Yeah, a good idea, but not worth the cost it adds to a system" -- how many folks have precisely two systems and no broadband internet connection?
Yeah they have it (newer ones at least).
I've actually used it quite a lot because I have a few friends who have computers but no internet (what's the point of even owning a computer then??) needing me to transfer files or music back and forth...or when a friend is stealing someone's 11Mbps wireless connection and I don't want to transfer several GBs of stuff to them at 500kb/sec.
I can't seeing this costing that much, shouldn't it really be more of a software thing? It's not like they need a special connectior or anything (or do they?). Even if thats the case when you sell 12 million computers in a year with each one most likely using the same ethernet connector or buying 12 million from the same supplier, they probably give you a pretty heavy discount..
Large companies have more to lose if they don't toe the MPAA line (I'm seriously wondering how long it will be until players refuse to play a movie more than once a week or so).
old bios module can be supported under EFI too. Like i said i am not blameing them for not supporting it, i am blaming them for telling people they did go out of their way to prevent running windows
Legacy BIOS support in EFI is completely optional.
Apple doesn't need BIOS to boot Mac OS, so they simply did not add the extra software needed for it., the same with UDF and El Torito support. They are not going out of there way to keep Windows from booting on a Mac, but they also aren't doing any extra work to help people boot Windows. Why should they?
"Cash, prepaid cellular." is now Illegal in this country. Seriously. You can still put cash on a pay-phone, though..
Both times I've bought prepaid in Canada and the one time in the US I was just asked for my info, never asked to see an ID. When I signed up for Fido prepaid in Canada I gave them my home address (which was not in Canada) and the salesman just put the a made up phone number and the stores address. When I got back to the US, I then sold the activated SIM on eBay and then changed the name on the account over the phone. For all I know that SIM is still in use.
As for the US, get on eBay and look for Cingular and T-Mobile prepaid SIM cards. You can get them for a few dollars and they almost always come activated with $10 or $20 in air time on it.
Where was I going with this? With prepaid its increadibly easy to remain anonymous.
I have an observation... *EVERY* MS OS has had something in it that people thought was going to be the end of the world. And in the end MS backed down or *NOBODY ADOPTED IT*. Im fairly certain that stuff will happen here.
It comes as a DualDisc you twat. DVD-A on one side (24bit/48khz 5.1 and 24bit/96khz 2 channel in addition to some videos/discography) and CD on the other. The Downward Spiral and (possibly) The Fragile are also available as DualDiscs.
And I wasn't trying to be funny either. It was a pain in the ass but I finally got everything reencoded into 5.1/24bit/48khz lossless WMAs (flac kept crashing my computer). Well worth it though, as now my disc will never need to be opened again!
As one of the 3 people in the world who actually own DVD-Audio discs I am very excited about this. Thankfully I was able to get the story and programs before the server went up in flames. I'm alredy ripping my Nine Inch Nails With Teeth DualDisc and it seems to be working quite well. I also had to rip the VIDEO_TS folder after using DVDADecrypter to get WinDVD to read the files when I loaded PPCMRipper. Now it's decoding, and I can't seem to get it to get the multichannel audio. Also, its cutting off the first few seconds of the first track on the disc, but if you hit the back button it starts reencoding the first track. Maybe I could just use a normal dvd audio ripper for this part...
I've never actually met anyone who likes Raymond at all. Its terrible. Even my roommates very Catholic/wholesome family can't stand it. But somehow it lasted 9 years. It's not even remotely funny.
Still, between my roommate, I, the ailing G3, and the MythTV box in the living room, we have 928GBs in our 2 bedroom apartment. And as soon as I can we'll be above a terabyte, and probably to two terabytes by the end of next year. And we're really poor. A paltry 150 terabytes...pfft! Maybe they'll rethink that. But whatever works for them...I guess they aren't storing 400 full TV series or insane amounts of porn.
OK, so it took me all of three minutes to find what you are looking for.
First, I googled Satellite Pager and found out that Motorola used to make a pager called the 9501 for well known satellite phone company Iridium. Next, I checked a few of the first links. I found that the Motorola 9501 has been discontinued but originally retailed for $149.95. I also found that the service had a $100 activation fee and was $69 a month, and Iridium still offers it. Ahah! Theres something! So then I clicked on the seventh link down and found out that a company called World COmmunications Center sells refurbished ones for $195. You can buy the pager from them and activate it with Iridium's service. There's a link that says How to Buy on the WCC page that lists their phone numbers, including one in Portland, OR. Close enough for Seattle for ya?
Now I could probably find more, but I have to be back at work in 20 minutes and don't really feel like more googling. So enjoy, I hope this works for you.
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Since there are so many different proprietary phone OS's out there, (even the same phone from Samsung, one being CDMA, one being GSM, uses different hardware and different OSs), I don't think phone viruses will ever be much of a threat. Because the people carrying Symbian smartphones are still rare, and some of them only affect UIQ (p800/p9xx SE) and some of them only affect Series 60 (Nokia) phones. Also, most of them are harmless, and you can always turn Bluetooth off. But still, with there being a dozen phone manufacturers and little compatibility between phone OSs, I don't see phone viruses ever being much of a threat.
Time Warner just switched us over to 5.0Mb/384Kb and I thought that was great. For $43US a month. Bah! Lucky Australians. When we do get ADSL2+ over here we'll be at the mercy of SBC for $40+ a month.
I had written a 900 word response all about the T608, just for you. And then my computer rebooted right before I finished it. Thanks, Microsoft!
Anyway, I am going to suggest you go to the Sprintusers.com Forum where we will be able to answer all of your T608 questions. I myself have owned four, and activation should be easy. But as for it's qualities as a phone...well, I myself have owned four. Bluetooth is awesome and better than any other Sprint BT phone, though.
Nikon has had a wireless transmitter for their D2H (high end $2k+ SLR digital camera) for about a year or more. It's nice to see this filtering down into the consumer area. Nikon WT-1 Wireless Transmitter
I myself would make out with Amanda Tapping [...] [who] is currently pregnant. And, uh... I'm not into that sort of thing.
You sound like someone who's never had sex [*], let alone never had sex with a pregnant women. Don't knock it until you've done it. Especially third trimester...
Thanks to Bittorrent, I never need to watch my TV anymore. I just download any TV episodes I want to watch through sites like tvtorrents. Ironically, this has increased my viewing of TV related material, but I have hardly any use for the TV except for the DVD player.
Yeah...all national carriers here offer free mobile to mobile...and our rates seem to be much cheaper than yours...1600 minutes with 2 lines, unl n/w, unl mobile to mobile for $120CDN from T-Mobile (US). Our phones are cheaper too...and we don't have to pay a monthly $6.95 line charge or whatever that is. Oh, and 3 year contracts for personal use in the US are unheard of, where they seem to be kind of standard with some of your providers. This is one of the areas the US excels at.
"A question in light of the EA controversy. I'm an academic researcher who does his own programming -- I have to eat what I kill. In my 35 years of coding experience, any time I try to work on a complex program for more than, say, 60 hours a week (coding, not just showing up) for a couple weeks at a time, I'm just asking for trouble: I generate buggy code and debugging it only makes it buggier. Numerous studies in other fields (law firms, hospitals) have shown that mistakes rise exponentially after anyone works about 50 hours per week (don't think about this if you go to the emergency room at 3 a.m.)."
EA Controversy + Latest quality of EA Games = explanation for their crappiness
Actually no. Gather round children it's history time.
IE 1 was basically Spyglass Mosiac (and IE still has a credit in the about box for that), but MS rapidly productised it in a couple of revisions, to version 1.5 then 2.
Then Netscape 2 appeared.
IE 3 came out, initally part of the plus pack for Win95 (pay for), then become "free" as well as being implemented on Windows 3.11 as part of the TCP/IP stack. IE3 was nearly on a par with Netscape, frames, plug-ins (ah, activex), a "clean room" implementation of JScript and some CSS.
Then v4 arrived, both Netscape 4 and IE4, and that's when Netscape imploded due in no small part to suckiness.
OK, I must correct you on a few things.
First of all, it was IE 1.x that was included with the plus pack. Plus! was released right with Win95, then IE2 was rushed out for free. IE 1.x was the only version of IE you ever had to pay for.
IE2 (basically) was what was included in NT 4 and also available as a free download. I remembered downloading and using IE 2.0...as a young boy I loved that horrible <MARQUEE> tag. IE2 had some of the Microsoft Blackbird technologies in it (such as the marquee tag)...one of Microsofts early attempts at breaking an internet standard (HTML).
IE 3 was released in a very high profile beta form (beta 1, beta 2...easy to download right off of MSs website), and then Microsoft had this huge Midnight Madness thing when IE3 final was released. The first thousand people to download it got a free t-shirt! Alas, I was not one of them as the contest totally killed Microsoft's bandwidth (this was back in 96 or something)
I voted absentee this year (still registered in Oklahoma)and I was wondering what kind of machines they use to take your ballots. Last time I was in the state and voted (two years ago or more) I didn't really care so I was just wondering what they're using.
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Uhhm...in case you haven't watched an episode in the past oh I don't know eight years, thats about how long its been since the Simpsons jumped the shark. It's been ages since the show has been consistently funny. Now it's just...sad. Kind of like seeing David Schwimmer in an off-Broadway play.
Yeah they have it (newer ones at least).
I've actually used it quite a lot because I have a few friends who have computers but no internet (what's the point of even owning a computer then??) needing me to transfer files or music back and forth...or when a friend is stealing someone's 11Mbps wireless connection and I don't want to transfer several GBs of stuff to them at 500kb/sec.
I can't seeing this costing that much, shouldn't it really be more of a software thing? It's not like they need a special connectior or anything (or do they?). Even if thats the case when you sell 12 million computers in a year with each one most likely using the same ethernet connector or buying 12 million from the same supplier, they probably give you a pretty heavy discount..
They already tried this in 1998. Perhaps it was just a bit before it's time?
Legacy BIOS support in EFI is completely optional.
Apple doesn't need BIOS to boot Mac OS, so they simply did not add the extra software needed for it., the same with UDF and El Torito support. They are not going out of there way to keep Windows from booting on a Mac, but they also aren't doing any extra work to help people boot Windows. Why should they?
Both times I've bought prepaid in Canada and the one time in the US I was just asked for my info, never asked to see an ID. When I signed up for Fido prepaid in Canada I gave them my home address (which was not in Canada) and the salesman just put the a made up phone number and the stores address. When I got back to the US, I then sold the activated SIM on eBay and then changed the name on the account over the phone. For all I know that SIM is still in use. As for the US, get on eBay and look for Cingular and T-Mobile prepaid SIM cards. You can get them for a few dollars and they almost always come activated with $10 or $20 in air time on it.
Where was I going with this? With prepaid its increadibly easy to remain anonymous.
Just like XP's activation. Oh wait...
It comes as a DualDisc you twat. DVD-A on one side (24bit/48khz 5.1 and 24bit/96khz 2 channel in addition to some videos/discography) and CD on the other. The Downward Spiral and (possibly) The Fragile are also available as DualDiscs.
And I wasn't trying to be funny either. It was a pain in the ass but I finally got everything reencoded into 5.1/24bit/48khz lossless WMAs (flac kept crashing my computer). Well worth it though, as now my disc will never need to be opened again!
Try searching for DualDisc. Those are hybrid DVD-A/CDs and they are becomming quite popular.
As one of the 3 people in the world who actually own DVD-Audio discs I am very excited about this. Thankfully I was able to get the story and programs before the server went up in flames. I'm alredy ripping my Nine Inch Nails With Teeth DualDisc and it seems to be working quite well. I also had to rip the VIDEO_TS folder after using DVDADecrypter to get WinDVD to read the files when I loaded PPCMRipper. Now it's decoding, and I can't seem to get it to get the multichannel audio. Also, its cutting off the first few seconds of the first track on the disc, but if you hit the back button it starts reencoding the first track. Maybe I could just use a normal dvd audio ripper for this part...
I was hoping it was a bunch of apple fans going WHAT THE FUCK. No such luck. Just some lame video with a mac geek.
Should be Everybody Barely Tolerates Raymond.
Still, between my roommate, I, the ailing G3, and the MythTV box in the living room, we have 928GBs in our 2 bedroom apartment. And as soon as I can we'll be above a terabyte, and probably to two terabytes by the end of next year. And we're really poor. A paltry 150 terabytes...pfft! Maybe they'll rethink that.
But whatever works for them...I guess they aren't storing 400 full TV series or insane amounts of porn.
OK, so it took me all of three minutes to find what you are looking for.
First, I googled Satellite Pager and found out that Motorola used to make a pager called the 9501 for well known satellite phone company Iridium. Next, I checked a few of the first links. I found that the Motorola 9501 has been discontinued but originally retailed for $149.95. I also found that the service had a $100 activation fee and was $69 a month, and Iridium still offers it. Ahah! Theres something! So then I clicked on the seventh link down and found out that a company called World COmmunications Center sells refurbished ones for $195. You can buy the pager from them and activate it with Iridium's service. There's a link that says How to Buy on the WCC page that lists their phone numbers, including one in Portland, OR. Close enough for Seattle for ya?
Now I could probably find more, but I have to be back at work in 20 minutes and don't really feel like more googling. So enjoy, I hope this works for you.
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And oh yeah...FP!
My Sharp TM150 has a very high quality 1MP CCD camera. With some high end phones now having optical zoom and more than 2MPs, its very possible.
Since there are so many different proprietary phone OS's out there, (even the same phone from Samsung, one being CDMA, one being GSM, uses different hardware and different OSs), I don't think phone viruses will ever be much of a threat. Because the people carrying Symbian smartphones are still rare, and some of them only affect UIQ (p800/p9xx SE) and some of them only affect Series 60 (Nokia) phones. Also, most of them are harmless, and you can always turn Bluetooth off. But still, with there being a dozen phone manufacturers and little compatibility between phone OSs, I don't see phone viruses ever being much of a threat.
Time Warner just switched us over to 5.0Mb/384Kb and I thought that was great. For $43US a month. Bah! Lucky Australians. When we do get ADSL2+ over here we'll be at the mercy of SBC for $40+ a month.
I had written a 900 word response all about the T608, just for you. And then my computer rebooted right before I finished it. Thanks, Microsoft!
Anyway, I am going to suggest you go to the Sprintusers.com Forum where we will be able to answer all of your T608 questions. I myself have owned four, and activation should be easy. But as for it's qualities as a phone...well, I myself have owned four. Bluetooth is awesome and better than any other Sprint BT phone, though.
Because the 802.11n spec isn't finalized, therefore it isn't 802.11n compliant?
Nikon has had a wireless transmitter for their D2H (high end $2k+ SLR digital camera) for about a year or more. It's nice to see this filtering down into the consumer area.
Nikon WT-1 Wireless Transmitter
You sound like someone who's never had sex [*], let alone never had sex with a pregnant women. Don't knock it until you've done it. Especially third trimester...
Wow. Too bad there's no mod +1 Creepy.
Thanks to Bittorrent, I never need to watch my TV anymore. I just download any TV episodes I want to watch through sites like tvtorrents. Ironically, this has increased my viewing of TV related material, but I have hardly any use for the TV except for the DVD player.
Yeah...all national carriers here offer free mobile to mobile...and our rates seem to be much cheaper than yours...1600 minutes with 2 lines, unl n/w, unl mobile to mobile for $120CDN from T-Mobile (US). Our phones are cheaper too...and we don't have to pay a monthly $6.95 line charge or whatever that is. Oh, and 3 year contracts for personal use in the US are unheard of, where they seem to be kind of standard with some of your providers. This is one of the areas the US excels at.
EA Controversy + Latest quality of EA Games = explanation for their crappiness
IE 1 was basically Spyglass Mosiac (and IE still has a credit in the about box for that), but MS rapidly productised it in a couple of revisions, to version 1.5 then 2.
Then Netscape 2 appeared.
IE 3 came out, initally part of the plus pack for Win95 (pay for), then become "free" as well as being implemented on Windows 3.11 as part of the TCP/IP stack. IE3 was nearly on a par with Netscape, frames, plug-ins (ah, activex), a "clean room" implementation of JScript and some CSS.
Then v4 arrived, both Netscape 4 and IE4, and that's when Netscape imploded due in no small part to suckiness.
OK, I must correct you on a few things.
First of all, it was IE 1.x that was included with the plus pack. Plus! was released right with Win95, then IE2 was rushed out for free. IE 1.x was the only version of IE you ever had to pay for.
IE2 (basically) was what was included in NT 4 and also available as a free download. I remembered downloading and using IE 2.0...as a young boy I loved that horrible <MARQUEE> tag. IE2 had some of the Microsoft Blackbird technologies in it (such as the marquee tag)...one of Microsofts early attempts at breaking an internet standard (HTML).
IE 3 was released in a very high profile beta form (beta 1, beta 2...easy to download right off of MSs website), and then Microsoft had this huge Midnight Madness thing when IE3 final was released. The first thousand people to download it got a free t-shirt! Alas, I was not one of them as the contest totally killed Microsoft's bandwidth (this was back in 96 or something)
And to prove my facts I just googled a bit:
Record Demand for Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0... Microsoft Apologizes for Excessive Download Times
IE3 was really the first version worth using, then IE4 came, killed Netscape (helped by it's Win98 integration) and the rest is history.
I voted absentee this year (still registered in Oklahoma)and I was wondering what kind of machines they use to take your ballots. Last time I was in the state and voted (two years ago or more) I didn't really care so I was just wondering what they're using.