I'm not saying it's there or not (I have no idea) but grep is case sensitive. if the process is named mDNSResponder your grep will find nothing. double check by using grep with the -i flag
I did not state that I hate it, only that I dont want it and see no value in it. I want something to play video games on. I dont care if it has bluray, it's not something I value so when you roll it into the price of the console it brings down it's value to me. sort of like if sony integrated a toaster iron into the fucking thing and upped the price some more. I dont want a toaster iron, I want a console. the increased price caused by integrating unneeded features drops the overall value of the system. although... if you're after a console/bluray player/toaster iron I'm sure it might be a great deal for you... just not to the other 99% of people who dont want such a combo.
no ps3 price drop announced for australia yet, and for the AU$400 difference you could afford a goddamn wii. same price my ass
as for reliability, you're right. I have not bought a 360 yet, because i dont like the failure rates that are being reported. I havent bought a wii because there's been no interesting games releases since it's launch (where the hell is mario galaxy already?). I havent bought a PS3 because it costs more than the other two combined and has less interesting games than the wii.
So you have a multi thousand dollar PC sitting there holding your ripped DVD's. I have a 24" LCD and I can tell a HUGE difference between 720P and 1080P
I stopped reading right there. a: I never claimed to have spend thousands on the htpc, it's actually a collection of parts from retired pcs. and b: I already stated my tv is 720p. signals greater than that will give me personally no benefit.
so bluray is good? so what? I dont want a hd video player right now, I want a video game console. I have a perfectly good upscaling dvd player that sits there unused because basically everything I watch is kept in digital formats on my home server and then streamed to my TV via HTPC. sure, the upsampled picture doesnt have the definition of bluray, but seeing as it's only being played back on a 26" 720p tv the difference is ignorable. it seems impossible for sony apologists to say why the ps3 is good value for money without resorting to it's wonderful "blue rays", something that most consumers neither need or want.
microsoft may be evil but at least they arent trying to jam their stupid hd format down my throat, and charging me more for the privilege.
that's exactly my predicament right now. I want a console to play GTA IV and Assassin's Creed on. I refuse to buy sony products, but i dont want to buy a 360 with the failure rate as high as it is right now. perhaps if the reports of failures drop between now and christmas I'll buy a 360, otherwise I dont know what I'll do. I'd almost consider getting a ps3 if they get pirated games running off the hard drive. knowing that sony lost money on the hardware and then got nothing back in games would leave me feeling good inside:P
Without locking, people would sign up for a contract to get a phone that is subsidised on the assumption of usage, then immediately swap the SIM for a cheaper pay as you go module. Now the original phone company is losing money because they bought you a phone but you aren't making any calls with them.
I'm confused, in the states are you able to get a contract that doesnt actually oblige you to pay anything? what does the contract actually accomplish for the phone company? the way you describe it makes it sound no worse than pre-paid accounts in that you only pay for what you use
Here in Australia if you get a phone contract, you're agreeing to pay $X per month in exchange for $Y worth of calls, whether or not you make those calls. If you get a phone on contract and put a pre-paid sim in it you're still gonna be paying $X every month even if you never make a call. either that or you'll have to pay out the contract which usually costs as much as $X times the number of months left in your contract.
no, if we're going for bad car analogies, this is more like putting a cardboard body kit and neons under your car, realizing you were an idiot for doing so and then not being allowed to take them off again
yeah but it's a broken system when you can get +10 funny, -9 overrated, total score 1, and lose 9 karma points. I've got no problem with no karma bonus for funny mods, but a funny mod should counter the karma loss of a downmod
err... no. you using unencrypted wireless ensures you have no privacy. he doesnt even need to connect to your network to sniff your data (ie. spy on you). that's like showering out on your front footpath and then complaining that the man across the street is violating your privacy
For example I could create an automator script that converts, and renames all the files in folder a, uploads them to my webserver, and places a thumbnail on another server, creates an HTML file with the thumbnails linking the images, and finally deletes the source files.
I dont suppose you have a link to a good tutorial or something? everytime I've tried to use it I've found it lacking actions to do anything useful. is there some way to create/record new actions or something else that I've missed?
if your mac is an older one and showing the signs of age (or even if you have a shiny new mac and just want things to be faster still) you should try installing quicksilver for your app launching instead of spotlight. if you set it up to only index your applications it will return results significantly faster than spotlight, and theres no need to push cmd+enter, because the top match is already highlighted. I have spotlight on ctrl + space and quicksilver on cmd + space. it does mean having to use one shortcut for apps and another for documents, but i find the faster results worth it. just remember to turn of quicksilvers indexing of any folder that wont have applications in it.
I bought the equivalent of 100W bulbs but they only use 27 watts each. That's four bulbs so I'm using only slightly more power than one regular bulb to power four bulbs. I sure hope they improve the technology.
i think they already have, I'm sure I've seen equivalent 100W fluros that only used 20W. thats 5 fluros for one incandescent.
yeah, to be completely honest I didnt even realise it was supposed to be some fancy new technology while I was at the show. I just thought that about 10 years had passed and someone had decided it was time to try and flog off 3d cards with stupid 3d glasses again.
"The best feedback is the letters appearing on the screen anyway."
You must type rather slowly...
perhaps you need a new pc? even just mashing the keyboard in vim on this old powerbook causes no trouble, with letters appearing on the screen as they are mashed
haha americans, for once I can say I was there... and it sucked. perhaps it'd be useful if you want to induce epileptic fits in people, but honestly, the "3D Video" stall was really lame. people would pick up the glasses, look for a while wondering why nothing happened, then someone would point out then needed to be infront of the little sensor/projector thing. so they'd move in front of it, and think to themselves "wow, this looks like crap and is giving me a headache" and put the glasses back down. total turnaround time of about a minute.
Five years from now console gamers are going to look back at the idiots trying to hype this silly gimmick Nintendo is trying to pull and laugh their asses off at the suckers dumb enough to waste 250 bucks on a GameCube turbo with a pointer bolted on.
yeah! it's gonna be the DS all over again! Nintendo and their fancy gimmick thinking they're going to beat sony and all their horsepower... wait a second...
If you are a buyer, it works the other way around. If you pay for something and it never arrives, PayPal will refuse to refund the money.
Having never sold anything via paypal, but have heard similar stories to what you told I believed you until you wrote the above line. I've had 3 people try and scam me as a buyer, each one I've put in a dispute and each one I've received all my money back. some as minor as $10-$15. 3 out of 3 makes me think that I didn't just get lucky. Previously I'd heard that paypal always lent in favour of the buyer and my own experiences tend to agree with that.
I use a cheapo mirror from the $1 shop and i dont have issues with it fogging, you just need to understand why mirrors fog up. it's due to the surface of the mirror being colder than the air in your bathroom leading to condensation forming. to stop this, hold the cheapo mirror under your hot shower for 30 seconds or so and you're set for the next 5-10 minutes. more than enough time to shave
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I'm not saying it's there or not (I have no idea) but grep is case sensitive. if the process is named mDNSResponder your grep will find nothing. double check by using grep with the -i flag
I did not state that I hate it, only that I dont want it and see no value in it. I want something to play video games on. I dont care if it has bluray, it's not something I value so when you roll it into the price of the console it brings down it's value to me. sort of like if sony integrated a toaster iron into the fucking thing and upped the price some more. I dont want a toaster iron, I want a console. the increased price caused by integrating unneeded features drops the overall value of the system. although... if you're after a console/bluray player/toaster iron I'm sure it might be a great deal for you... just not to the other 99% of people who dont want such a combo.
same price?
ps3 (AU$999)
xbox 360 (AU$599)
no ps3 price drop announced for australia yet, and for the AU$400 difference you could afford a goddamn wii. same price my ass
as for reliability, you're right. I have not bought a 360 yet, because i dont like the failure rates that are being reported. I havent bought a wii because there's been no interesting games releases since it's launch (where the hell is mario galaxy already?). I havent bought a PS3 because it costs more than the other two combined and has less interesting games than the wii.
"that's the way it's always been done" doesnt make it right
it's certainly better than claiming to speak for everyone as a whole, isn't it?
so bluray is good? so what? I dont want a hd video player right now, I want a video game console. I have a perfectly good upscaling dvd player that sits there unused because basically everything I watch is kept in digital formats on my home server and then streamed to my TV via HTPC. sure, the upsampled picture doesnt have the definition of bluray, but seeing as it's only being played back on a 26" 720p tv the difference is ignorable. it seems impossible for sony apologists to say why the ps3 is good value for money without resorting to it's wonderful "blue rays", something that most consumers neither need or want.
microsoft may be evil but at least they arent trying to jam their stupid hd format down my throat, and charging me more for the privilege.
that's exactly my predicament right now. I want a console to play GTA IV and Assassin's Creed on. I refuse to buy sony products, but i dont want to buy a 360 with the failure rate as high as it is right now. perhaps if the reports of failures drop between now and christmas I'll buy a 360, otherwise I dont know what I'll do. I'd almost consider getting a ps3 if they get pirated games running off the hard drive. knowing that sony lost money on the hardware and then got nothing back in games would leave me feeling good inside :P
Here in Australia if you get a phone contract, you're agreeing to pay $X per month in exchange for $Y worth of calls, whether or not you make those calls. If you get a phone on contract and put a pre-paid sim in it you're still gonna be paying $X every month even if you never make a call. either that or you'll have to pay out the contract which usually costs as much as $X times the number of months left in your contract.
no, if we're going for bad car analogies, this is more like putting a cardboard body kit and neons under your car, realizing you were an idiot for doing so and then not being allowed to take them off again
yeah but it's a broken system when you can get +10 funny, -9 overrated, total score 1, and lose 9 karma points. I've got no problem with no karma bonus for funny mods, but a funny mod should counter the karma loss of a downmod
magic lantern rocks
if your mac is an older one and showing the signs of age (or even if you have a shiny new mac and just want things to be faster still) you should try installing quicksilver for your app launching instead of spotlight. if you set it up to only index your applications it will return results significantly faster than spotlight, and theres no need to push cmd+enter, because the top match is already highlighted. I have spotlight on ctrl + space and quicksilver on cmd + space. it does mean having to use one shortcut for apps and another for documents, but i find the faster results worth it. just remember to turn of quicksilvers indexing of any folder that wont have applications in it.
ah, a fair point I guess.
yeah, to be completely honest I didnt even realise it was supposed to be some fancy new technology while I was at the show. I just thought that about 10 years had passed and someone had decided it was time to try and flog off 3d cards with stupid 3d glasses again.
haha americans, for once I can say I was there... and it sucked. perhaps it'd be useful if you want to induce epileptic fits in people, but honestly, the "3D Video" stall was really lame. people would pick up the glasses, look for a while wondering why nothing happened, then someone would point out then needed to be infront of the little sensor/projector thing. so they'd move in front of it, and think to themselves "wow, this looks like crap and is giving me a headache" and put the glasses back down. total turnaround time of about a minute.
yeah! it's gonna be the DS all over again! Nintendo and their fancy gimmick thinking they're going to beat sony and all their horsepower... wait a second...
If you are a buyer, it works the other way around. If you pay for something and it never arrives, PayPal will refuse to refund the money.
Having never sold anything via paypal, but have heard similar stories to what you told I believed you until you wrote the above line. I've had 3 people try and scam me as a buyer, each one I've put in a dispute and each one I've received all my money back. some as minor as $10-$15. 3 out of 3 makes me think that I didn't just get lucky. Previously I'd heard that paypal always lent in favour of the buyer and my own experiences tend to agree with that.
I use a cheapo mirror from the $1 shop and i dont have issues with it fogging, you just need to understand why mirrors fog up. it's due to the surface of the mirror being colder than the air in your bathroom leading to condensation forming. to stop this, hold the cheapo mirror under your hot shower for 30 seconds or so and you're set for the next 5-10 minutes. more than enough time to shave