I checked, and my 1330 has a grounded three-prong plug going into the wall, and a three-prong plug going in to the power brick. Maybe the UK 1330s/1530s are different than the American ones? seen it happen to a workmate the other day. quite rare though. ungrounded.
Yes, I've heard some 112/128mbps MP3s with obvious (and annoying) artifacts, but I suspect that this is down to either transcoding or simply a poor-quality encoder in the first place. I've got many MP3s that I ripped using NotLame at 128mbps, and they're actually okay. I'd use 192 or 256 nowadays, but the point is that you can't damn the format solely on the basis of a poor encoder alone. 128mbps MP3s should sound fucking cool, I'm sure. and if you can't hear the difference between 128/192 128/256 you got hearing problems, plain and simple.
I have a question for you: why do you advocate mediocrity? this is slashdot after all, we should be appreciating quality things.
I use pine, GMail and Opera mail and find them all somewhat useful.
pine is good at firing up a quick email or checking something fast because I always have a few terminals open.
Opera mail is my main client because it's fast, has a great interface and does not keep all the emails in one bigass file, which makes me sleep better at night and allows me to just browse/search the filesystem for a particular message.
and GMail is good for those times when I'm not at work or home and I don't have access to my usual machines. but it's slow as shit (the basic HTML interface is OK, but I can't find a way to make it default, I always have to switch to it) and generally awkward to work with. yes, with the introduction of SMTP things are a lot better because of the hefty amount of space it provides. and sane access for once.
so yeah, there's lots of way to read your email but web clients are the "best" only if you have no idea how good the alternatives are. webmail is just a necessary evil. feel free to disagree, but quality != popularity.
Yeah, so I heard, but apparently its not that simple for Unreal Tournament 3, the one I want to play.... you may be right. UT3 installer bailed out complaining that the system is not supported. I haven't tried any "m4d h4x" yet, I just got back to Portal.
You money spending ignorant b00b. Try Vista on a 2.4GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM. Then try XP on the same hardware. XP runs faster and better than The Pile Of Poop Known As Vista (c)(tm). no need for that. by installing Vista his shiny quad core with umpteenth gigs of RAM surely runs like a 2.4 ghz with 512 megs.
Still using Windows 2000 here, even for games, however new games no longer "support" it. Usually its for some absurd reason like some DLL isn't allowed on Windows 2000 (Xinput ?). you can usually bolt that on and run shit like Bioshock (probably others too, this is the last situation I encountered that). "unsupported" software is a small hurdle for people that still use 2000.
Most games at the time were written for Win9x and didn't run under 2k. Additionally, XP had better support for old DOS games, and I had plenty of those. 2000 has the compatibility modes that XP has it's just that the feature isn't enabled by default. for me it worked pretty good. and there's always dosbox.
Windows XP was only better than Windows 2000 in that it had/has good 3D support and support for games. no, that would be DirectX (or sadly, less and less nowadays OpenGL) which runs fine on 2000. this week I ran Portal on my crusty 2000 system, and earlier I just finished a long (too long) EVE session. if I were to "upgrade" to XP would they magically run better or what? I keep hearing this argument and I'm on the verge of benchmarking just to prove some people wrong.
I could maybe understand if this fixed a bug, but they created a patch to make it look prettier and ended up screwing with the OS. Isn't this like trying to fix a paint-chip in a hurry and destroying the wall? it was a big release not just "prettier look". new engine, new content, etc. please see here for all the details. it just happens that the "prettier look" is packaged separately and only installable if your system supports it. everyone gets the bulk of the update.
EVE's userbase is probably the most mature / oldest of any mmo out there, certainly the most mature out of the 506 i've played. There isn;t a person in my corp under 30, except me:P the average age was 27, IIRC.
Okay, I downloaded it but how do I get it to install? I keep getting errors about what to use to open the.exe with and I can't find any help on installing it on FreeBSD, not even Linux.
no, it's not free but it does come with the accountability of a purchased product. I get no guarantees with FF. I don't know how things are in your alternate Microsoft universe, but here in the real world IE is downloadable for free. did you get a receipit?
Yet something like Facebook allows for lighter interaction (pokes/prods/nudges/writing on walls), as well as being able to lurk and view their visible profile/photos/etc. oh, OK I get it. this is the "social" aspect. one bigass circle jerk for drama seeking attention whores.
Your attitude almost reminds me of folks who were nay sayers on cell phones, or heck, even e-mail: "What's wrong with just calling people? Who needs this newfangled e-mail thing?" here's where youre wrong. cells and email have their actual use. social networks are just a fad. like HTML email: stupid. it surprises me to see this kind of shit praised here. news for nerds? stuff that matters for pimply 14 year olds.
I know you're just a troll, but I'll bite anyway. I am not a troll. I am just expressing my opinion. that's what I think, and you are free to disagree.
Do you know the e-mail addresses or cell phone numbers of all your friends from high school, many of which you've lost touch with over the years? friends? you bet. I have kept in touch with my friends from highschool. acquaintances? nope. if they'd be my friends I wouldn't have to track them down.
There are plenty of other benefits to social networks that go beyond e-mail and phone. such as?
Frankly, I'm surprised that a lot of Slashdotters (like yourself) are so anti-social networks. Luddites I say! slashdotters with low and lowish UIDs keep dissapointing me too. but what can you do, right?
For those who merely want to be able to have a public diary or a forum where they can communicate with their friends, I think it's a good thing that we have sites like Facebook which provide all of the basic tools. It's certainly much more usable to my friends who I still want to keep in touch with, but aren't computer savvy at all. I think this is a tired argument. what, these people don't have email or a phone? social networks are for attention whores and you know it. anything else is just an excuse.
Yes, there is a good reason. The market isn't willing to pay someone to spend the time to fit a modern GUI into 32MB of RAM. It's much more cost effective for everyone to just have 300MB of RAM instead. thank $DEITY for open source then. for example X and OpenBox run fine on a 32M system. now it also depends what you mean by "modern". I think OB is pretty modern: it has multiple desktop support, awesome key bindings, launcher etc. modern can mean simple and efficient, not just bloated.
I've done deep Cisco work directly in IOS, and loath the Oracle work I've done for its painful interfaces. I throw them out as fast as possible for interfaces that let me get on with my work. I too have tried to throw out IOS for an interface that lets me get on with my work but was never able to figure out where I plug the mouse.
posted by a very pretty geek girl with whom I am madly in love. she looks like a trap. but I do find the parrot to be quite a nice touch. arr, shiver me timbers. too bad she doesn't have an eye patch. or a serious case of scurvy.
Kind of tough when you're best friend is a homosexual serial killer who wanted to sleep with you then decided to give it to your Russian wife when you said no. Jesus fucking Christ, Hans, are there no other people in the world to make friends with? this story is so badass (especially if he killed her, manages not to get convicted then kills his buddy by bashing his head in with an oversized dildo) that Tarantino should consider it for one of his next movies.
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I have a question for you: why do you advocate mediocrity? this is slashdot after all, we should be appreciating quality things.
I use pine, GMail and Opera mail and find them all somewhat useful.
pine is good at firing up a quick email or checking something fast because I always have a few terminals open.
Opera mail is my main client because it's fast, has a great interface and does not keep all the emails in one bigass file, which makes me sleep better at night and allows me to just browse/search the filesystem for a particular message.
and GMail is good for those times when I'm not at work or home and I don't have access to my usual machines. but it's slow as shit (the basic HTML interface is OK, but I can't find a way to make it default, I always have to switch to it) and generally awkward to work with. yes, with the introduction of SMTP things are a lot better because of the hefty amount of space it provides. and sane access for once.
so yeah, there's lots of way to read your email but web clients are the "best" only if you have no idea how good the alternatives are. webmail is just a necessary evil. feel free to disagree, but quality != popularity.
wine
but I don't know why you'd want to do that when you could use a real browser.
like, groovy, maaaan.