I've been to many businesses that state that you can not write a check or make a credit card purchase under a certain amount and over a certain amount for the sole reason of avoiding excessive fees.
Best Buy is headquartered in Richfield, MN at the intersection of 494 and 35W. I hate how everything that happens in or is from Minnesota is labeled as either in the "Twin Cities" or in "Minneapolis".
I find that as I've moved jobs my skill set has improved enough that I can reproduce work from a previous position in a fraction of the time. There is no need to keep scripts, processes, proprietary information etc. Also most businesses have a distinct way of doing things that would complicate a different business. That is why most business to business applications and processes are full of problems.
The High budget system needs solid state hard drives. All major heat producing elements should also be liquid cooled.
I agree with many other posts. You could put together a much better system for 9,000.
You can do this pretty cheap if you need to. Here is my setup.
ATX computer case and power supply - I have a spendy lian li but that only gets you style points and little functionality gain over any other case.
Gforce 7600gs - This is a relatively cheap card that will be able to decode 1080p hd content if you need it to.
AMD X2 3800+ - Two cores is nice here so that you can run more than one cpu intensive process without getting choppiness while watching TV.
I have 4GB of memory in the machine. I would recommend at least 2GB because optimally you want any HD content to be well buffered into memory. Swapping to disk will destroy your experience.
A motherboard that does what you need it to do. You can get the cheapest motherboard possible and it should meet your needs.
AV-710 sound card. This card will cost around 20 US dollars and it sounds just as good as an expensive creative card. It has 7.1 analog jacks and an SPDIF Optical out (if you have a receiver).
HD-5500 HD tuner card - works out of the box. The only negative to this card is that the IR receiver that comes with it is somewhat of a hack to get working. I have it working if anyone has questions about that.
80GB hard drive or larger to allow for those really large HD tv feeds. A 1hr program takes up about 7GB space.
mice, keyboards, displays are all things that don't really matter in the scheme of things.
Mythbuntu linux works out of the box for me. I consider myself a Unix expert but I would trust my father to be able to install Mythbuntu, and all he knows how to do on a computer is turn it on and get to Solitaire.:-)
Finally HE/C ACC TERK | HDTVS HDTV ANTENNA is the antenna I use.
Parts list:
HE/C ACC TERK | HDTVS HDTV ANTENNA $89.99
DVD_BURN NEC|7170A-01 $31.99
SND CARD CHAINTECH|CT-AV710 7.1 $21.99
Gigabyte 7600GS $85.07
CPU AMD|A64 X2 3800+ 65W AM2 $66.75
ABIT AN52 NFORCE520 AM2 $69.99
MEM 1Gx4|CORSAIR $129.98
PSU KINGWIN|ABT-350MM 350W $23.99
80GB Sata 2 hard drive ~$45
Mythbuntu http://mythbuntu.org/ $(cost of internet service+time involved with downloading it)
These prices are pretty old. I'd guess that the same computer today could be put together for a few hundred less.
Ziggy wore pajama's on his way to extasy. joe walks his grandma. B e s t d e en hanc eme nt
solution your Te $t0st eron3.
I'd love to see something like this come through my email box some day. It is true that consuming large ammounts of licorice can reduce the ammount of testosterone created by the body. It does not however reduce testosterone already there. I have not found any supporting evidence that this has an affect on women however. In China the goverment suggests consumers to limit their intake of licorice to 200mg daily.
Ultimately drug companies do need to make a buck too. How are drug companies supposed to effectively control supply and demand to drive up prices if countries like Brazil just get drugs as they please. I suppose this is also a good argument against outsourcing the production of your drugs to countries that are not within your control or goverments that are not on your payroll.
Sad...
I always wanted to make maps of various places too. I did make a quake2 map of my parents house back in grade school. I never made maps of schools or colleges that I attended for this very same reason however. I agree with the first poster, instead of arresting the kid, give him a mentor and if he is a really good map designer engage his curiosity, inginuity, and creativity. People need to realize that playing a game or creating a game is much safer and more productive than wandering the streets doing drugs and getting into real trouble.
As a side note someone should arrest the programmers of the newer Microsoft flight simulator games. The games are encredibly accurate because they use satelite imagery and GPS coordinates to plot buildings in major world cities. The day after the 9/11 US WTC incident I jumped in my Boeing 737-300 and tried to fly the same route as they showed hijackers taking in the news. I did this in MS Flight Simulator 2000 of course and I found it fairly realistic and easy to fly. Although I did find that there were a lot of up drafts as I got close to the buildings in NYC.
In anycase I'm no terrorist and I am sure this kid isn't either. Besides he is innocent until proven guilty.:-)
Hello my name is Aaron Berg from Minnesota. As an individual consumer I believe it is not appropriate to allow a business to name a food type as "original" when it contains artificial or inferior "taste a like" products. The new proposed plan of allowing candy makers to mark their candies as chocolate when the only thing they contain is a very small percentage of coco powder and the rest being fillers is, I believe, not the correct way to handle the situation. Historically chocolate has consisted of two key ingredients coco power and coco butter. Products labeled Milk Chocolate contain milk. Allowing manufactures to name products not consisting of these ingredients means misleading consumers. Allowing this new naming standard would monetarily help companies that produce whey protein, like local Minnesota based Davisco foods, however it will not mean more jobs as these products are highly mechanically automated. It would also lower the high purity and quality standards that the FDA is known for. I appreciate your time and efforts to establish and justify standards. Please do not allow Docket: 2007P-0085 to pass.
Thank you,
Aaron Berg
I also live within a mile of the Best Buy HQ. I have speakeasy (which is really just redistributed covad). IMHO the CO's in Richfield need to be upgraded and/or there needs to be more CO's added to the area. Pretty much the entire town was built in 1950 and as you can imagine a lot of infrastructure is just as old. Maybe BestBuy's money and Speakeasy's telephone company connections will cause upgrades in the immediate area. Though doubtful as there are low income apartment housing across the street from Best Buy...
It is nice to see the Judicial branch keep the Executive branch in check. What's even nicer is that the lower court will have the power to see if the Executive branch has been telling the truth without going to the supreme court. As a US citizen I am comforted by this news.
Ya, I'd have to say accoona, has a long way to go. I did a simple search for "Aaron C. Berg" and I got a resume from a geocities page. Now granted that is mine but it is also about 5 years old. Google returns 64 URL's which details my online presense for the last 8 years where I used my name. MSN.com returned 5 and Yahoo returned 15. Google wins again. None of the search engines found aaronberg.org.:-(
All of the poorest nations of the world have both food and beer available. Beer is surprisingly cheep and easy to produce and really only requires yeast(can be gotten for free since your breathing it right now) and grain. Remember all those sacks of flour that you see air dropped into Ethiopia? Nations such as Kenya or the poorest parts of India have street vendors that are just as convient and probably a cheaper and healthier alternative to Mc Donalds. Personally I think that it would be pretty cool to be able to get fresh grilled goat or chicken just by stepping outside the skyscraper where I work. The biggest issue with poor nations is corruption of their leadership. The leadership uses the resources that we as first world nations give them. Then again... The biggest issue with any nation is the corruption of their leadership.
FYI rm -r * isn't going to do much a well setup unix system other then prompt you for a y/N
Also if your logged in as root (~root) being the cwd than your just going to delete the contents inside the root directory which is usually not much for a desktop.
Try rm -rf / on for size.
It has been suggested before that microsoft might have Gartner group in its pockets. Gartner group has a long history of Linux bashing so I don't see this report at credible. Show me the proof!
This article explains a bit more about the CEO's explaination for what happened and what he hopes to happen for the future.
An important note is that without this artificial heart all of the test subjects would have died slowly one organ failing at a time in a hospitol. The artificial heart allowed one patient to move back home. While others were allowed leave briefly for out of hospitol visits. Two died on the operating table. 42% eventually died from stroke. The reason why they died of stroke is because they were not given blood thinners which is common when a large non-tissue device is inserted into the body. The reason for not giving blood thinners was because all the patients had internal bleeding as a result of their failing heart. So its either bleed to death a few days after surgery or live for 6-18months more or less instantly from a stroke.
IMHO I think that if the device has been found to work for 5-6 months minimum then it is worth making available to those who want to live just a little while longer. It should be the patients right to choose when and how to die if they can.
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I've been to many businesses that state that you can not write a check or make a credit card purchase under a certain amount and over a certain amount for the sole reason of avoiding excessive fees.
Best Buy is headquartered in Richfield, MN at the intersection of 494 and 35W. I hate how everything that happens in or is from Minnesota is labeled as either in the "Twin Cities" or in "Minneapolis".
I find that as I've moved jobs my skill set has improved enough that I can reproduce work from a previous position in a fraction of the time. There is no need to keep scripts, processes, proprietary information etc. Also most businesses have a distinct way of doing things that would complicate a different business. That is why most business to business applications and processes are full of problems.
The High budget system needs solid state hard drives. All major heat producing elements should also be liquid cooled. I agree with many other posts. You could put together a much better system for 9,000.
You can do this pretty cheap if you need to. Here is my setup. ATX computer case and power supply - I have a spendy lian li but that only gets you style points and little functionality gain over any other case. Gforce 7600gs - This is a relatively cheap card that will be able to decode 1080p hd content if you need it to. AMD X2 3800+ - Two cores is nice here so that you can run more than one cpu intensive process without getting choppiness while watching TV. I have 4GB of memory in the machine. I would recommend at least 2GB because optimally you want any HD content to be well buffered into memory. Swapping to disk will destroy your experience. A motherboard that does what you need it to do. You can get the cheapest motherboard possible and it should meet your needs. AV-710 sound card. This card will cost around 20 US dollars and it sounds just as good as an expensive creative card. It has 7.1 analog jacks and an SPDIF Optical out (if you have a receiver). HD-5500 HD tuner card - works out of the box. The only negative to this card is that the IR receiver that comes with it is somewhat of a hack to get working. I have it working if anyone has questions about that. 80GB hard drive or larger to allow for those really large HD tv feeds. A 1hr program takes up about 7GB space. mice, keyboards, displays are all things that don't really matter in the scheme of things. Mythbuntu linux works out of the box for me. I consider myself a Unix expert but I would trust my father to be able to install Mythbuntu, and all he knows how to do on a computer is turn it on and get to Solitaire. :-)
Finally HE/C ACC TERK | HDTVS HDTV ANTENNA is the antenna I use.
Parts list:
HE/C ACC TERK | HDTVS HDTV ANTENNA $89.99
DVD_BURN NEC|7170A-01 $31.99
SND CARD CHAINTECH|CT-AV710 7.1 $21.99
Gigabyte 7600GS $85.07
CPU AMD|A64 X2 3800+ 65W AM2 $66.75
ABIT AN52 NFORCE520 AM2 $69.99
MEM 1Gx4|CORSAIR $129.98
PSU KINGWIN|ABT-350MM 350W $23.99
80GB Sata 2 hard drive ~$45
Mythbuntu http://mythbuntu.org/ $(cost of internet service+time involved with downloading it)
These prices are pretty old. I'd guess that the same computer today could be put together for a few hundred less.
Ziggy wore pajama's on his way to extasy. joe walks his grandma. B e s t d e en hanc eme nt solution your Te $t0st eron3. I'd love to see something like this come through my email box some day. It is true that consuming large ammounts of licorice can reduce the ammount of testosterone created by the body. It does not however reduce testosterone already there. I have not found any supporting evidence that this has an affect on women however. In China the goverment suggests consumers to limit their intake of licorice to 200mg daily.
Ultimately drug companies do need to make a buck too. How are drug companies supposed to effectively control supply and demand to drive up prices if countries like Brazil just get drugs as they please. I suppose this is also a good argument against outsourcing the production of your drugs to countries that are not within your control or goverments that are not on your payroll. Sad...
I always wanted to make maps of various places too. I did make a quake2 map of my parents house back in grade school. I never made maps of schools or colleges that I attended for this very same reason however. I agree with the first poster, instead of arresting the kid, give him a mentor and if he is a really good map designer engage his curiosity, inginuity, and creativity. People need to realize that playing a game or creating a game is much safer and more productive than wandering the streets doing drugs and getting into real trouble. As a side note someone should arrest the programmers of the newer Microsoft flight simulator games. The games are encredibly accurate because they use satelite imagery and GPS coordinates to plot buildings in major world cities. The day after the 9/11 US WTC incident I jumped in my Boeing 737-300 and tried to fly the same route as they showed hijackers taking in the news. I did this in MS Flight Simulator 2000 of course and I found it fairly realistic and easy to fly. Although I did find that there were a lot of up drafts as I got close to the buildings in NYC. In anycase I'm no terrorist and I am sure this kid isn't either. Besides he is innocent until proven guilty. :-)
Hello my name is Aaron Berg from Minnesota. As an individual consumer I believe it is not appropriate to allow a business to name a food type as "original" when it contains artificial or inferior "taste a like" products. The new proposed plan of allowing candy makers to mark their candies as chocolate when the only thing they contain is a very small percentage of coco powder and the rest being fillers is, I believe, not the correct way to handle the situation. Historically chocolate has consisted of two key ingredients coco power and coco butter. Products labeled Milk Chocolate contain milk. Allowing manufactures to name products not consisting of these ingredients means misleading consumers. Allowing this new naming standard would monetarily help companies that produce whey protein, like local Minnesota based Davisco foods, however it will not mean more jobs as these products are highly mechanically automated. It would also lower the high purity and quality standards that the FDA is known for. I appreciate your time and efforts to establish and justify standards. Please do not allow Docket: 2007P-0085 to pass. Thank you, Aaron Berg
I also live within a mile of the Best Buy HQ. I have speakeasy (which is really just redistributed covad). IMHO the CO's in Richfield need to be upgraded and/or there needs to be more CO's added to the area. Pretty much the entire town was built in 1950 and as you can imagine a lot of infrastructure is just as old. Maybe BestBuy's money and Speakeasy's telephone company connections will cause upgrades in the immediate area. Though doubtful as there are low income apartment housing across the street from Best Buy...
It is nice to see the Judicial branch keep the Executive branch in check. What's even nicer is that the lower court will have the power to see if the Executive branch has been telling the truth without going to the supreme court. As a US citizen I am comforted by this news.
Ya, I'd have to say accoona, has a long way to go. I did a simple search for "Aaron C. Berg" and I got a resume from a geocities page. Now granted that is mine but it is also about 5 years old. Google returns 64 URL's which details my online presense for the last 8 years where I used my name. MSN.com returned 5 and Yahoo returned 15. Google wins again. None of the search engines found aaronberg.org. :-(
All of the poorest nations of the world have both food and beer available. Beer is surprisingly cheep and easy to produce and really only requires yeast(can be gotten for free since your breathing it right now) and grain. Remember all those sacks of flour that you see air dropped into Ethiopia? Nations such as Kenya or the poorest parts of India have street vendors that are just as convient and probably a cheaper and healthier alternative to Mc Donalds. Personally I think that it would be pretty cool to be able to get fresh grilled goat or chicken just by stepping outside the skyscraper where I work. The biggest issue with poor nations is corruption of their leadership. The leadership uses the resources that we as first world nations give them. Then again... The biggest issue with any nation is the corruption of their leadership.
Agreed
Interesting point, I must be hardwired for known rewards that I must work very hard for. See Civilization series of games.
They often times can be as if not more so addicting than drugs. See recovering evercrack addicts and world of warcraft addicts.
FYI rm -r * isn't going to do much a well setup unix system other then prompt you for a y/N Also if your logged in as root (~root) being the cwd than your just going to delete the contents inside the root directory which is usually not much for a desktop. Try rm -rf / on for size.
I can I safely say I did not vote for him! Go Ventura!
It has been suggested before that microsoft might have Gartner group in its pockets. Gartner group has a long history of Linux bashing so I don't see this report at credible. Show me the proof!
Gift ideas:"green laser pointer(NOT red)" This is funny because it is so true. As a Systems Administrator, I am terrified of red lights.
This article explains a bit more about the CEO's explaination for what happened and what he hopes to happen for the future. An important note is that without this artificial heart all of the test subjects would have died slowly one organ failing at a time in a hospitol. The artificial heart allowed one patient to move back home. While others were allowed leave briefly for out of hospitol visits. Two died on the operating table. 42% eventually died from stroke. The reason why they died of stroke is because they were not given blood thinners which is common when a large non-tissue device is inserted into the body. The reason for not giving blood thinners was because all the patients had internal bleeding as a result of their failing heart. So its either bleed to death a few days after surgery or live for 6-18months more or less instantly from a stroke. IMHO I think that if the device has been found to work for 5-6 months minimum then it is worth making available to those who want to live just a little while longer. It should be the patients right to choose when and how to die if they can.
Sorry about that. try again.
Here is a torrent that is pretty good.t orrent
http://shuz.homelinux.com/Battlefield_2_Demo.exe.
*sigh* PETA is just too extreme. And red meat is just too tasty.
-It' ok to eat fish because fish don't have any feelings. -KC
The main reason everyone is so upset/scared over internet hunting are the safety concerns.
Also hunting on foot is a lot more noble and is a tradition that has been carried out for thousands of years.