Oh boy! Another claim of bringing high speed connections to the masses!
Do I have access to Digital Cable? NO! Comcast has "no plans" of adding new infrastructure to my area.
Do I have access to DSL? Well yes...sorta. On a good day, when the wind is blowing right, and the stars are in the proper alignment, I will acheive a stunning 200kbps download on my DSL connection.
Now you may ask, do I live in the boonies?
No.
I live 1.3 miles from EBAY's north San Jose campus.
I post well thought out reasons why I do not own a cellphone and that constitutes flamebait?!?!
FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKING CELLPHONE FANBOY!!!
Now THERES some FLAMEBAIT!!!
I'm in my 30's and have lived my entire life in silicon valley. I've had every electronic gadget imaginable, except for a cellphone! The things are evil and unnecessary, and I refuse to have one. Everthing about the industry is slimy, and every time I have been slightly tempted, this slime repels me back.
1) Why does every cellphone salesperson have to be an annoying teenager? These people are the used car salespeople of the malls!
2) I have email and voicemail at home and at work. If you cannot reach me at either of these two places, chances are I really don't want to talk to you in the first place.
3) The things are designed with planned obsolence. Have you noticed how cheaply your phone is built? Have you noticed how horribly the power connector was engineered? Have you noticed that your 6 month old phone lacks the latest features?
4) In the case of a real emergency, theres a cheap pager. What do these things cost? $0.08 a year?
5) If you use them where most people use them (in the car, on the bus, in the theatre, within earshot of anyone) you will piss me (and others) the hell off! Any place where a cellphone CAN be used politely will have a payphone/cube phone anyway.
6) You are spending hard earned money on an industry who purposefully tries to deceive you at every turn. Now if that's not enough, what is?
A STOCK Xbox will not output Progressive DVD signals.
A MODIFIED Xbox will.
You returned your Xbox to Fry's, while I enjoy Progressive DVD output from my $150 box.
The xbox comes with 64MB RAM. There are open spaces on the motherboard that allow you to add another 64MB, bringing the total to 128MB. The process is not as complicated as you might think.
You can even buy an xbox with the 128MB modification already done for you.
Streaming MP3s wirelessly is cool. Using this device as a remote control for a video player that still requires a seperate link to move the video to your TV is just lame!
For about the same price, I can mod an XBOX with Xbox Media Center that WILL do what this hack attempts to do. (and a WHOLE lot more)
With XBMP/XBMC you can run a small server app (http://www.xbox-scene.com/tools/tools.php?page=st reaming) on your PC, and access the directory via your xbox. Upon selectiong the movie in your collection, the entire movie will stream to your xbox. You get FF/REW?PAUSE controlls as well!
Every day, my cell phone drops out TWICE during my five mile commute to work, but the Japanese get 70 channels of TV on their cellphones?!?! WTF?!? They also have those fancy toilets that blow ours away. What's it like in Tokyo this time of year?
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Oh boy! Another claim of bringing high speed connections to the masses!
Do I have access to Digital Cable? NO! Comcast has "no plans" of adding new infrastructure to my area.
Do I have access to DSL? Well yes...sorta. On a good day, when the wind is blowing right, and the stars are in the proper alignment, I will acheive a stunning 200kbps download on my DSL connection.
Now you may ask, do I live in the boonies?
No.
I live 1.3 miles from EBAY's north San Jose campus.
Like I said, I WILL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT!
I first read this as "Disturbing Manga", which makes sense, given that I've seen LOTS of disturbing manga!
I post well thought out reasons why I do not own a cellphone and that constitutes flamebait?!?! FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKING CELLPHONE FANBOY!!! Now THERES some FLAMEBAIT!!!
I'm in my 30's and have lived my entire life in silicon valley. I've had every electronic gadget imaginable, except for a cellphone! The things are evil and unnecessary, and I refuse to have one. Everthing about the industry is slimy, and every time I have been slightly tempted, this slime repels me back. 1) Why does every cellphone salesperson have to be an annoying teenager? These people are the used car salespeople of the malls! 2) I have email and voicemail at home and at work. If you cannot reach me at either of these two places, chances are I really don't want to talk to you in the first place. 3) The things are designed with planned obsolence. Have you noticed how cheaply your phone is built? Have you noticed how horribly the power connector was engineered? Have you noticed that your 6 month old phone lacks the latest features? 4) In the case of a real emergency, theres a cheap pager. What do these things cost? $0.08 a year? 5) If you use them where most people use them (in the car, on the bus, in the theatre, within earshot of anyone) you will piss me (and others) the hell off! Any place where a cellphone CAN be used politely will have a payphone/cube phone anyway. 6) You are spending hard earned money on an industry who purposefully tries to deceive you at every turn. Now if that's not enough, what is?
HERE is another progressive patch for all XBOX xbe's.
THIS (download legal) patch can be applied over DVD-X to enable Progressive output.
A STOCK Xbox will not output Progressive DVD signals. A MODIFIED Xbox will. You returned your Xbox to Fry's, while I enjoy Progressive DVD output from my $150 box.
As everyone knows, the woods is a great place to find porn. Just think if we had this technology back in the day...
Where do they get these names?
Seems kind of intimidating!
The xbox comes with 64MB RAM. There are open spaces on the motherboard that allow you to add another 64MB, bringing the total to 128MB. The process is not as complicated as you might think. You can even buy an xbox with the 128MB modification already done for you.
Streaming MP3s wirelessly is cool. Using this device as a remote control for a video player that still requires a seperate link to move the video to your TV is just lame! For about the same price, I can mod an XBOX with Xbox Media Center that WILL do what this hack attempts to do. (and a WHOLE lot more)
What's the big deal? This information has been "freely" available on LexisNexis.com for ages!
NOPE! :) This is not necessary!
t reaming) on your PC, and access the directory via your xbox. Upon selectiong the movie in your collection, the entire movie will stream to your xbox. You get FF/REW?PAUSE controlls as well!
With XBMP/XBMC you can run a small server app (http://www.xbox-scene.com/tools/tools.php?page=s
Let me be the first to welcome our new rat overlords. BTW, do they have lasers coming out of their heads yet?
Every day, my cell phone drops out TWICE during my five mile commute to work, but the Japanese get 70 channels of TV on their cellphones?!?! WTF?!? They also have those fancy toilets that blow ours away. What's it like in Tokyo this time of year?
Why screw around with this lame four-wheeled "scooter", when you can make your very own segway clone???
http://www.tlb.org/scooter.html
Of course it costs nearly as much as a cheap laptop, but you can't beat the functionality for its size!
Also, a great site to check regularly is I4U. This site is updated on a daily basis with the greatest drool-inducing toys you've ever seen!
Everyone knows that it's the job of the surpreme court to choose the president!
When /. brings a Google server to its knees!
First, Afganistan, then Iraq, and now JUPITER!!!
When will this administration stop?!?!?!?
Yes, I bring my Palm to the toilet, but I wouldn't exactly call it "reading"