Actually, I've seen The Matrix in IMAX. Well, it wasn't true IMAX, but they showed it in the Sony IMAX theatre in San Francisco one night. It was a special, one-time thing (as far as I know), and most of the people that showed up were dressed as Neo. Because of the difference in aspect ratios, the entire screen was not utilized, but the movie was HUGE and right in your face. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone!
Ah, I wasn't aware that M$ was witholding USB support. I do remember them witholding PNP support on NT4 for quite some time, and even after it was released, it seemed like quite a chore to enable it. This seems like an ongoing trend with them. Let's hope that we can get a few more service packs out of Win2K before it dies.
If your users only use Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer, like probably 90+% of the office drones in the world, a PII/400 spends most of its time waiting for the user to do something.
This may be true, but when the newer, faster machines are actually put to use, they do move noticably faster. And that's why we keep upgrading. For example, try opening a large document in Word on your p2/400 and then try the same operation on a p4/2000.
If Win2K SP4 were out by now, we'd be complaining (as most did with NT4) that too many updates were being released. I think MS is doing a decent job of addressing this problem with Win2K. I'm not trying to make any excuses for them, though, because I know that the list of post-SP2 hotfixes was huge when I last looked at it over nine months ago.
Or else I'll switch to OS X. And no, I'm not one of those Mac evangelists. In fact, I'm typing this comment on my IBM Thinkpad which came to me with XP preinstalled.
But I also administer about 20 FreeBSD 4.x servers. I suppose that's where the bias begins.
I recently bought an old G3 and loaded OS X on it. It's rock solid. My next desktop PC will certainly be a Mac.
Fight Palladium with the Great OS Freeze: tell your friends who won't switch to Linux to stick with Win2k or Win98
Great sig! I've never heard of this "Great OS Freeze" movement, but I've been an unknowing supporter all along. Some friends of mine have a Win98 system that REALLY needs some help. I suggested they move to Win2K, knowing that XP is probably more to their liking. It all boils down to 2K being faster and more stable in today's computing environments.
If you really want to know when a new release of FreeBSD is available,/. is just not the answer. Subscribe to the freebsd-announce list for some better coverage.
I think this is a great device, but I think I've heard about it somewhere before. Oh yeah, now I remember. Timothy, do you remember your previousarticles? It's not really news the second and third time. Remember: News for Nerds.
Be sure to check out Chris Tom's ongoing review of the AquaPad over at AMDZone.
Advertisers should penalize sites that use no-cache to increase ad impression counts. It slows down browsing...
I couldn't agree with you more on this topic. If I had a penny for every time a shady website caused my browser to refresh upon clicking the back button, I'd be a very rich man today. What happened to the days when we all just made quality websites and weren't so concerned about stealing pageviews with such underhanded tactics?
Your sig is just too funny in light of recent events surrounding everyone's favorite favorite corporate bankruptcy. Sorry, just couldn't resist that one.;-)
I read an enraged slashdot user's manifesto on this particular topic just a couple of days back. Unfortunately I don't have a link for you, but here's how it supposedly works:
Moderator flags a +5 post as Troll. Post becomes +4, Troll. Then, moderator posts a comment on that same article. This post removes the moderation the operator gave to the article, making that original post a +5 again. But there's a known bug with this part of slash, which I understand the maintainers refuse to fix. Apparently, while the score is properly adjusted, the label is not. So, unless this post goes through a -1 +1 cycle, it remains +5, Troll.
One idea would be to have a search option that's part of a handshake. When two devices connect, they exchange a list of search keywords. If device A wants the latest Britney Spears song from device B, it will be transferred if B has it. This could eliminate a lot of the unnecessary scanning and would certainly eliminate the need for capturing everything.
And similar devices have been popular in Japan for quite a while, but I believe that the story speaks more to a goal of being able to share music and/or video files when in close proximity with others with similar interests. These devices which you refer to do not share nearly the quantity of data required by media files.
The police can't really do that. Well, at least here in America anyway. They can't just stop people on the street, searching each and every one of them to see if one might possibly have this offending device in a pocket or backpack. It just doesn't work that way. This idea is quite possibly the beginning of something VERY possible, and I know that I for one am interested in making something like this happen.
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Third Price these Pioneer drives are already around $240 to purchase online.
Would you mind sharing where I can find these drives for $240 online? The cheapest that I've found them is about $280. TIA!
I suppose I need to pay more attention to the schedule at the local IMAX then. ;-)
Actually, I've seen The Matrix in IMAX. Well, it wasn't true IMAX, but they showed it in the Sony IMAX theatre in San Francisco one night. It was a special, one-time thing (as far as I know), and most of the people that showed up were dressed as Neo. Because of the difference in aspect ratios, the entire screen was not utilized, but the movie was HUGE and right in your face. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone!
Dude, chill out. The man was joking. I think you might need to get out this weekend. How long has it been? 4 years?
Actually, Honda says that hybrids already do qualify. Check out this link.
From my experiences with HP printers many years back, this message was caused far more often by simply running out of paper.
You and me both. And I'm sure most of the /. readership will probably agree, too.
Ah, I wasn't aware that M$ was witholding USB support. I do remember them witholding PNP support on NT4 for quite some time, and even after it was released, it seemed like quite a chore to enable it. This seems like an ongoing trend with them. Let's hope that we can get a few more service packs out of Win2K before it dies.
If your users only use Office, Outlook, and Internet Explorer, like probably 90+% of the office drones in the world, a PII/400 spends most of its time waiting for the user to do something.
This may be true, but when the newer, faster machines are actually put to use, they do move noticably faster. And that's why we keep upgrading. For example, try opening a large document in Word on your p2/400 and then try the same operation on a p4/2000.
Shouldn't your username be 0x0a? ;-)
If Win2K SP4 were out by now, we'd be complaining (as most did with NT4) that too many updates were being released. I think MS is doing a decent job of addressing this problem with Win2K. I'm not trying to make any excuses for them, though, because I know that the list of post-SP2 hotfixes was huge when I last looked at it over nine months ago.
Or else I'll switch to OS X. And no, I'm not one of those Mac evangelists. In fact, I'm typing this comment on my IBM Thinkpad which came to me with XP preinstalled.
But I also administer about 20 FreeBSD 4.x servers. I suppose that's where the bias begins.
I recently bought an old G3 and loaded OS X on it. It's rock solid. My next desktop PC will certainly be a Mac.
Fight Palladium with the Great OS Freeze: tell your friends who won't switch to Linux to stick with Win2k or Win98
Great sig! I've never heard of this "Great OS Freeze" movement, but I've been an unknowing supporter all along. Some friends of mine have a Win98 system that REALLY needs some help. I suggested they move to Win2K, knowing that XP is probably more to their liking. It all boils down to 2K being faster and more stable in today's computing environments.
Thanks for putting that guy in his place. There's no room for rudeness like that in forums like this. Take it back to USENET.
If you really want to know when a new release of FreeBSD is available, /. is just not the answer. Subscribe to the freebsd-announce list for some better coverage.
Why would anybody want to go to Michigan for a party anyway?
I think this is a great device, but I think I've heard about it somewhere before. Oh yeah, now I remember. Timothy, do you remember your previous articles? It's not really news the second and third time. Remember: News for Nerds.
Be sure to check out Chris Tom's ongoing review of the AquaPad over at AMDZone.
Advertisers should penalize sites that use no-cache to increase ad impression counts. It slows down browsing ...
I couldn't agree with you more on this topic. If I had a penny for every time a shady website caused my browser to refresh upon clicking the back button, I'd be a very rich man today. What happened to the days when we all just made quality websites and weren't so concerned about stealing pageviews with such underhanded tactics?
The shareholder is always right.
;-)
Your sig is just too funny in light of recent events surrounding everyone's favorite favorite corporate bankruptcy. Sorry, just couldn't resist that one.
I read an enraged slashdot user's manifesto on this particular topic just a couple of days back. Unfortunately I don't have a link for you, but here's how it supposedly works:
Moderator flags a +5 post as Troll. Post becomes +4, Troll. Then, moderator posts a comment on that same article. This post removes the moderation the operator gave to the article, making that original post a +5 again. But there's a known bug with this part of slash, which I understand the maintainers refuse to fix. Apparently, while the score is properly adjusted, the label is not. So, unless this post goes through a -1 +1 cycle, it remains +5, Troll.
You haven't really accomplished anything on Slashdot until you've had a post moderated "Score:4, Troll"
Actually, I hear that (Score 5: Troll) is really the coveted score around here.
One idea would be to have a search option that's part of a handshake. When two devices connect, they exchange a list of search keywords. If device A wants the latest Britney Spears song from device B, it will be transferred if B has it. This could eliminate a lot of the unnecessary scanning and would certainly eliminate the need for capturing everything.
And similar devices have been popular in Japan for quite a while, but I believe that the story speaks more to a goal of being able to share music and/or video files when in close proximity with others with similar interests. These devices which you refer to do not share nearly the quantity of data required by media files.
The police can't really do that. Well, at least here in America anyway. They can't just stop people on the street, searching each and every one of them to see if one might possibly have this offending device in a pocket or backpack. It just doesn't work that way. This idea is quite possibly the beginning of something VERY possible, and I know that I for one am interested in making something like this happen.
Why is this article, which is barely legible, moderated to a score of 4?