i had a targus and the piece of shit plastic clips broke once it frosted over. i did not like it. my new samsonite bag from best buy was about $50 after some rebates a while back. this things is AMAZING. i love it to death. many pockets and clever holding places, stylish yet subtle, and it also has great ergonomics for me. good luck.
i call bullshit on this. the fact is, if you can't handle driving on the highway (whatever the reason) AND you keep crashing your car into other peoples cars (read: zombie spam machine), you shouldn't be on the damn road.
yes, window's has fundamental design flaws, but that does not logically imply that all technology/pc industry designs are flawed. it just means the current popular consumer software is. in the future (when trees are made of translucent plastic), people will not have problems, like this...we will have an entirely different set of equally shitty, newer problems.
your time writing that and then posting on/. would have been better spent sending her a link to http://www.gentoo.org or http://store.apple.com
who is pissed that she is angry at "hackers?" hackers did not destroy her computer, a combination of her own ignorance and the nature of corporate exploitation did. in my vocabulary, hackers would be more likely to help you fix the problem instead of creating it. i believe she is concerned more with crackers, script-kiddies, etc.
also, if you actually RTFAs, you would realize pretty quikly that "Glen" the tech is a complete dumbass who is perhaps a green belt in fixing-pc-kung-fu...i'm sure the average/.er is at least a black-belt...he is the real reason she went through so much grief...she automatically waited a full week for him (but tried to solve it herself anyway? wtf!), and then he ends up making her buy more memory (instead of a hardware firewall/router/thing). plus, he encourages the obsession over an obscure AV/software bug. some things cannot be solved with the current set of knowledge! move on! path of least resistance is the solution to problems!
argh! this whole article just made me want to bang my head into the wall and cry.
somewhere a few monthes back i had read that a torrent only scales up to about 2k users and around 5k it stops scaling well. i can't remember the source, but as someone who faithfully watches Naruto releases (which get up to 10K users on a single torrent during peak times), i can attest to the fact that torrents can quite easily get hosed just by a few thousand...and since the/. effect several orders of magnitude about this, i can only imagine that the torrent might not make it.
wow this article wasn't written by anyone who has done a lot of research. it makes little mention of the benefits of progressive scan and instead focuses on the much less important issue of aspect ratio.
sometimes it is plain wrong (LCoS displays are roughly the same size as DLP, contrary to the "nor does it make for a small form factor." comment on page 3). And their recommended LCD of 15" costing $1800? What a horrible recommendation! A 17" LCD (meant for PC display) w/ TV-tuner costs way under $1000 and would make a much better display.
I personally would recommend going with an EDTV (480p) until the 1080p DLP or LCoS displays drop. A nice 32" EDTV CRT can be found for well under $1000 and will be fine until the new tech starts making it onto shelves.
the market has made this the standard os because a) average person has no use for a computer w/o os and b) the fact that ms office is the dominant software package for general purpose home and office use. office is what makes ms all the money, windows is but a fraction of their profits compared to office.
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i wasn't really talking about HDTV, but good job correcting that other guy. HDTV is too confusing for mass media to understand.
However, the real point is, 1080p is legit and a few high end displays already support it. 720p is not a high enough resolution and 1080i...well, interlaced is silly IMHO. I'd rather have 50% better framerate than an 11% vertical resolution improvement. I'll stick with my ED CRT for quite a while.
the firefox/mozilla plug-in googlebar will probably integrate this soon. it is already very equivalent to the IE toolbar provided by google, in terms of its google-related functionality. although i don't find the information useful, it is good to see this progress.
the truth hurts, but the only reason i keep a windows pc around is for digital audio software. existing software has the following problems:
1) not compatible with pro hardware
2) not feature-complete/competetive
3) beta/unstable/under-developed
i don't like the notion of a specific platform getting an exclusive feature of the game, especially something as fundamental as co-op. the original doom co-op was awesome, i don't know why they have to screw the pc users...again. *cough*HALO*cough*
I own one (CML-174B) and A/B/C comparisons with CRT and other LCD are like night/day. It is on par w/ CRT in terms of ghosting and colors, not quite as bright. It *destroys* all other LCDs I have seen in terms of pixel response. Read a real, in depth technical review of this >1 year old display. The submitter of the article must have been living under a rock for the last year.
my cd collection has doubled with the advent of filesharing. i download albums to see if i like them, and then delete or buy accordingly. the only time i download something and then do not buy or delete it is if it is unavailable for purchase in the format i want. i have many albums that i would like to buy on vinyl, but i cannot because the stores make it difficult to near impossible to buy vinyl. to quote Duke from fear and loathing, "it's straight economics." when the market can't produce, a black market (read: p2p) emerges.
this is ironic, since the original intent of the RIAA was to create standards for vinyl playback and recording, not be a lobby for the music industry.
until i can buy the albums i want via the internet in a losslessly compressed, open source format w/o DRM or on vinyl at the local stores, the music industry has failed me.
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i had a targus and the piece of shit plastic clips broke once it frosted over. i did not like it. my new samsonite bag from best buy was about $50 after some rebates a while back. this things is AMAZING. i love it to death. many pockets and clever holding places, stylish yet subtle, and it also has great ergonomics for me. good luck.
the new voters project is a criminal fraud organization.
this is the deal...
BUSH:
870 Votes
20%
KERRY:
3,154 Votes
72%
how does this match the story text of "Kerry leads on the site overwhelmingly, while Bush is ahead in the U.S."?
i call bullshit on this. the fact is, if you can't handle driving on the highway (whatever the reason) AND you keep crashing your car into other peoples cars (read: zombie spam machine), you shouldn't be on the damn road.
/. would have been better spent sending her a link to http://www.gentoo.org or http://store.apple.com
yes, window's has fundamental design flaws, but that does not logically imply that all technology/pc industry designs are flawed. it just means the current popular consumer software is. in the future (when trees are made of translucent plastic), people will not have problems, like this...we will have an entirely different set of equally shitty, newer problems.
your time writing that and then posting on
who is pissed that she is angry at "hackers?" hackers did not destroy her computer, a combination of her own ignorance and the nature of corporate exploitation did. in my vocabulary, hackers would be more likely to help you fix the problem instead of creating it. i believe she is concerned more with crackers, script-kiddies, etc.
/.er is at least a black-belt...he is the real reason she went through so much grief...she automatically waited a full week for him (but tried to solve it herself anyway? wtf!), and then he ends up making her buy more memory (instead of a hardware firewall/router/thing). plus, he encourages the obsession over an obscure AV/software bug. some things cannot be solved with the current set of knowledge! move on! path of least resistance is the solution to problems!
also, if you actually RTFAs, you would realize pretty quikly that "Glen" the tech is a complete dumbass who is perhaps a green belt in fixing-pc-kung-fu...i'm sure the average
argh! this whole article just made me want to bang my head into the wall and cry.
somewhere a few monthes back i had read that a torrent only scales up to about 2k users and around 5k it stops scaling well. i can't remember the source, but as someone who faithfully watches Naruto releases (which get up to 10K users on a single torrent during peak times), i can attest to the fact that torrents can quite easily get hosed just by a few thousand...and since the /. effect several orders of magnitude about this, i can only imagine that the torrent might not make it.
damn yeah...
# emerge cubase-clone protools-clone
wow this article wasn't written by anyone who has done a lot of research. it makes little mention of the benefits of progressive scan and instead focuses on the much less important issue of aspect ratio.
sometimes it is plain wrong (LCoS displays are roughly the same size as DLP, contrary to the "nor does it make for a small form factor." comment on page 3). And their recommended LCD of 15" costing $1800? What a horrible recommendation! A 17" LCD (meant for PC display) w/ TV-tuner costs way under $1000 and would make a much better display.
I personally would recommend going with an EDTV (480p) until the 1080p DLP or LCoS displays drop. A nice 32" EDTV CRT can be found for well under $1000 and will be fine until the new tech starts making it onto shelves.
the market has made this the standard os because a) average person has no use for a computer w/o os and b) the fact that ms office is the dominant software package for general purpose home and office use. office is what makes ms all the money, windows is but a fraction of their profits compared to office.
link i wasn't really talking about HDTV, but good job correcting that other guy. HDTV is too confusing for mass media to understand. However, the real point is, 1080p is legit and a few high end displays already support it. 720p is not a high enough resolution and 1080i...well, interlaced is silly IMHO. I'd rather have 50% better framerate than an 11% vertical resolution improvement. I'll stick with my ED CRT for quite a while.
The links from the extremetech article are /.ed it seems, does anyone know if this final standard will be 1080p or 1080i?
I can't believe no one else has linked this already...
you mistake PC as in Wintel/x86 for PC engine as in the console made by NEC that was called Turbografx 16 in USA
the firefox/mozilla plug-in googlebar will probably integrate this soon. it is already very equivalent to the IE toolbar provided by google, in terms of its google-related functionality. although i don't find the information useful, it is good to see this progress.
ughhh...music?
the truth hurts, but the only reason i keep a windows pc around is for digital audio software. existing software has the following problems:
1) not compatible with pro hardware
2) not feature-complete/competetive
3) beta/unstable/under-developed
last time i checked, apple and xbox have about the same market shares in their respective worldwide markets...what is it now, like 1%?
i don't like the notion of a specific platform getting an exclusive feature of the game, especially something as fundamental as co-op. the original doom co-op was awesome, i don't know why they have to screw the pc users...again. *cough*HALO*cough*
I own one (CML-174B) and A/B/C comparisons with CRT and other LCD are like night/day. It is on par w/ CRT in terms of ghosting and colors, not quite as bright. It *destroys* all other LCDs I have seen in terms of pixel response. Read a real, in depth technical review of this >1 year old display. The submitter of the article must have been living under a rock for the last year.
...that symphonic ensembles used mixing boards.
Phantasy Star Online (Ep 1 & 2) is not the only game for GameCube that has official Internet support. PSO Episode 3 also does.
when i was playing pacman last night, it only required one gba for 4 players.
my cd collection has doubled with the advent of filesharing. i download albums to see if i like them, and then delete or buy accordingly. the only time i download something and then do not buy or delete it is if it is unavailable for purchase in the format i want. i have many albums that i would like to buy on vinyl, but i cannot because the stores make it difficult to near impossible to buy vinyl. to quote Duke from fear and loathing, "it's straight economics." when the market can't produce, a black market (read: p2p) emerges.
this is ironic, since the original intent of the RIAA was to create standards for vinyl playback and recording, not be a lobby for the music industry.
until i can buy the albums i want via the internet in a losslessly compressed, open source format w/o DRM or on vinyl at the local stores, the music industry has failed me.
At my school, they teach the students to use UML.
New Hampshire -- why do you assume i'm a democrat? LP all the way.