Fight pollution with more pollution? Shit' that''s insane! And this post got modded up to +5? There HAS to be something wrong with the average Slashdot moderator!
The exoskeleton or the water integrator computer were more worthy of./'s attention. (The articles&pictures are on the same page where the vertical keyboard is)
I have a very nice collection of DVDs and VHS tapes. It's nice not because it's vast, because it's not. I consider it nice because it contains some rare movies which I really love but will never be reprinted on DVD. What are teh chances that those movies will be transferred to the new standard? Zero.
They will stop making traditional VCRs and DVD players. No big deal for the DVD, since I am reasonably sure they'll do them backwards compatible (or will they? Let's not forget that greed is powerful, maybe they will force the consumers to buy again all their titles), but not VCRs. And I have some of the best things on VHS tapes.
Just look at those poor bastards with laser discs. Noone makes LD players anymore. Who the hell cares? Once your last LD player breaks, you are fucked. Not to talk about the fact that some titles had much nicer features on LD than on DVD. Why? Because the movie industry doesn't give a shit about customer satisfaction. They are after the dough. All these bastards care about making money, not about high quality whatever. They shape your needs "you need HDTV because it's so much better, you need DD 6.1, because the sound is so much better, and btw. you need a new DVD player that can do HD, and a new VCR that can do HD..."
I am actually glad that pushing HDTV runs into so much obstacles. I have really no use for HDTV because I just don't see any fucking difference! No, really, and I believe there are people who do, but is it really that relevant? To me, this is like those freaks that shun CD players because the sound is "so unnatural", and prefere 100 times more expensive turntable players, with egzotic mechanisms, materials and pickups. Maybe they can hear some difference, but not me. Heck, I am even thinking of selling my Adcom GCA 510, because it's just too good for my ears, I don't hear any difference between this and some cheap Pioneer receiver.
If HDTV becomes a mandated product (because of FCC's decision) and more of them hit the market, in no time will current VCR and DVD players become obsolete. Oh sure, there is backwards compatibility... till when? The same which happens with home surround systems: my Yamaha DSP E1000 does only Dolby Surround 2.0, so it's obsolete, I should rather buy a AX1 which supports 5.1 and DTS. And what next? Some fucker will invent Dolby Shorpround 10.5, for a "really really realistic experience". Fuck that.
If you visit their website http://www.mealtimeideas.com/ you will be presented with a spam dialog box, where you are supposed to put your own e-mail address etc. And of course, you can put someone else's e-mail address.
I leve the rest to your fantasy.
(BTW, I couldnt' believe a company could be so moronic, even in USA where tehy, *sigsh*, can!)
Sorry, but if "direct withdrawal" was my only option for internet banking, I would probably use checks, too. Here in Europe, though, direct withdrawal is not used. At least not in Finland. I was very surprised the first time I heared that in US you can use only direct withdrawal if you want to do telebanking. Checks? I haven't seen a fucking check in many years!
You guys -are- backwards, and you don't even realize it. I am sorry to say it, because I have met many americans whom I liked a lot, but something about your system is broken.
Amdahl? I thought they left the "IBM-mainframe-clone" market? They said they would do NT-based servers (how fucking lame!). I am glad they still do some good stuff.
Another thing I learn now: that there are 31-bit s/390 systems.
Thanks for the info!
There was a line of IBM mainframes 8360 (used to run VM/ESA stuff) that had 31 bit CPUs! Yep, and it indeed could address 2 GB memory. I remember I was quite surpirsed, something like "WTF?! 31?" It still doesn't make sense to me......
OKAY, but what about this: I have setup a slackware box to have 2 nics, because on one it gets the IP address via DHCP, from the DSL device (it's some sort of hub, but it gives you only 1 IP address) while on the other it works as a DHCP server for my internal network. How would you solve this, with only one nic? Making all the internal network addresses static is not very good, as I like to hook my laptop there sometimes, when I bring it from work, so it's much less trouble to just boot it and get an IP address, than boot it, change to static IP address, and then reboot it. The other computers enjoy the benefit of DHCP in a similar fashion.
If you have a solution to this, I would be very grateful. I would save one perfectly good NE2000, and the wiring would be much simpler.
Yes you can mirror IDE drives, even if they are on the same bus! I have done exactly that, zillions of times on a network OS that most people around here don't like: on NetWare! Of course, it's possible to mirror acros buses, too, and on the same SCSI bus or acrosss SCSI buses. And of course, performance is better (but not THAT better) if you mirror across buses.
From this post of yours, one would conclude that you are a flaming idiot. However, a quick look at this newer post suggests rather that you are paid by Intel. Do you work in marketing?
What do you mean by "thry"? www.slackware.com is hosted ny BSDi, as far as I know. And I believe it's not the Slackware guys that take care of the routing and domain issues. But maybe you have better informations?
Choose the Pioneer DV 525. It's probably out of production now, but it has some features that are really hard to find. Not only does it play CDRs, but it can even play VCDs burned on CDRs. Those familiar with VCDs know that it's hard to find a DVD player that will play VCDs burnt on CDRs. Usually they only play "proper" VCDs, or those burnt on CD-RW.
If you think VCDs are not interesting, wait until one day you decide you want to transfer your collection of VHS tapes to something more lasting. I know I will do this with some of my rare movies on VHS.
Another good thing with the DV 525 is that there are many solutions to multi-region enable it. Also, it's generally considered one of the best value DVD players. A real shame it's not produced anymore.
If Memory Stick tech is licensed, then you WILL need a possibly expensive/clumsy/power-consuming drive to read them.
Uh, you are not trying to troll here, are you? Do I even need to answer this flaming BS?
But I guess, based on the rest of your post, that you are not trolling, so I will try to answer: there is no need for a "drive" in the case of memory sticks, as they are solid-state. All you need is a port, with electronics integrated somewhere on the PCB (totally invisible, actually, due to it's simplicity. It's not like you need an AHA 2940 to write into a memory stick). So, it's not clumsy, and it's not expensive. Sony woud shoot itself in thefoot if it asked lots of $$$ for the license. They want to sell the media, not the license for the readers. Power consuming? Ummm... maybe you were trolling, after all.
You're not even a good sport, you don't see how such a miniature media, that can carry a LOT of data, can appeal to people. And it does. MDs are still widely popular in Japan and in Europe. Have you seen those MD walkmans that can record? They're so tiny, and totally cool! Now imagine how tiny you can go when you replace an MD with a very very small memory stick. Oh yes, this thingy has a huge potential, just you wait 'enry 'iggins, just you wait!
And people are immediately going t obelieve you, even though you don't put any link to BeDevTalk that would prove this.
Oh well, anything goes, as long as you can trash an alternative (BeOS) OS.
As someone who lives and works in the same city as you, I say: forget it! I very much like the laws as they are now, thank you very much! I have no problems with the employers thinking real hard before hiring someone permanently. What's wrong with that? If they hire you, it means they trust you, and it also means that they won't kick you off so easily. It's all just positive. Or is this the typical Finnish sindrome of the "grass is greaner in America..."? If it's the syndrome, please, control yourself! We are in a public forum!:o)
Oh yes, it does! I am going to send this thread to a friend who was thinking of moving to USA. She will be happy to know that you get 0 notice when you are fired, not to say that sometimes you are treated even more like junk. This thread sure was an eye-opener for me, and I will make sure it becomes an eye opener for many of my european colleagues.
This is not intended to badmouth US, and expecially not to insult my colleagues in the US. However, I am so happy I don't face this sadistic behaviour of employers. I have 60 day notice, so if they decide to fire me, they have to let me know well in advance. Furthermore, I have 5 weeks of holidays per year. I think that's more than what is standard, for US. And, as an added bonus, we don't get fired for pesky little things like using the Internet for our own purposes, or even (shock horror) browsing sex sites. I hear that in US there is a paranoic atmosphere around employers monitoring what their employees do on the Internet. Well, fuck them! I have not sold my soul to my employer!
What I am stll dissatisfied of, and this is a commono trait with all IT workers, is that we, people in IT, don't organize well enough, don't network enough and protect our rights through unions and such. We are a bit too individualistic, and the employers can fuck with us however they like. Not good!
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Fight pollution with more pollution? Shit' that''s insane! And this post got modded up to +5? There HAS to be something wrong with the average Slashdot moderator!
Kiitos! Heck, 370.000 FIM, that would kill our family budget thrice! It's not like the guy walked away unpunished.... jeez!
The exoskeleton or the water integrator computer were more worthy of ./'s attention. (The articles&pictures are on the same page where the vertical keyboard is)
I have a very nice collection of DVDs and VHS tapes. It's nice not because it's vast, because it's not. I consider it nice because it contains some rare movies which I really love but will never be reprinted on DVD. What are teh chances that those movies will be transferred to the new standard? Zero.
They will stop making traditional VCRs and DVD players. No big deal for the DVD, since I am reasonably sure they'll do them backwards compatible (or will they? Let's not forget that greed is powerful, maybe they will force the consumers to buy again all their titles), but not VCRs. And I have some of the best things on VHS tapes.
Just look at those poor bastards with laser discs. Noone makes LD players anymore. Who the hell cares? Once your last LD player breaks, you are fucked. Not to talk about the fact that some titles had much nicer features on LD than on DVD. Why? Because the movie industry doesn't give a shit about customer satisfaction. They are after the dough. All these bastards care about making money, not about high quality whatever. They shape your needs "you need HDTV because it's so much better, you need DD 6.1, because the sound is so much better, and btw. you need a new DVD player that can do HD, and a new VCR that can do HD..."
It's all screwed up.
I am actually glad that pushing HDTV runs into so much obstacles. I have really no use for HDTV because I just don't see any fucking difference! No, really, and I believe there are people who do, but is it really that relevant? To me, this is like those freaks that shun CD players because the sound is "so unnatural", and prefere 100 times more expensive turntable players, with egzotic mechanisms, materials and pickups. Maybe they can hear some difference, but not me. Heck, I am even thinking of selling my Adcom GCA 510, because it's just too good for my ears, I don't hear any difference between this and some cheap Pioneer receiver.
If HDTV becomes a mandated product (because of FCC's decision) and more of them hit the market, in no time will current VCR and DVD players become obsolete. Oh sure, there is backwards compatibility... till when? The same which happens with home surround systems: my Yamaha DSP E1000 does only Dolby Surround 2.0, so it's obsolete, I should rather buy a AX1 which supports 5.1 and DTS. And what next? Some fucker will invent Dolby Shorpround 10.5, for a "really really realistic experience". Fuck that.
So, HDTV anyone? And why?
If you visit their website http://www.mealtimeideas.com/ you will be presented with a spam dialog box, where you are supposed to put your own e-mail address etc. And of course, you can put someone else's e-mail address.
I leve the rest to your fantasy.
(BTW, I couldnt' believe a company could be so moronic, even in USA where tehy, *sigsh*, can!)
Is there a link on Hesari or somewhere wlse, about this? I also would like to get an update on the decision of the Supreme Court.
Too bad my finnish is (still) pathetic. Luckily most finns speak english flawlessly.
Sorry, but if "direct withdrawal" was my only option for internet banking, I would probably use checks, too. Here in Europe, though, direct withdrawal is not used. At least not in Finland. I was very surprised the first time I heared that in US you can use only direct withdrawal if you want to do telebanking. Checks? I haven't seen a fucking check in many years!
You guys -are- backwards, and you don't even realize it. I am sorry to say it, because I have met many americans whom I liked a lot, but something about your system is broken.
Amdahl? I thought they left the "IBM-mainframe-clone" market? They said they would do NT-based servers (how fucking lame!). I am glad they still do some good stuff.
Another thing I learn now: that there are 31-bit s/390 systems.
Thanks for the info!
There was a line of IBM mainframes 8360 (used to run VM/ESA stuff) that had 31 bit CPUs! Yep, and it indeed could address 2 GB memory. I remember I was quite surpirsed, something like "WTF?! 31?" It still doesn't make sense to me......
OKAY, but what about this: I have setup a slackware box to have 2 nics, because on one it gets the IP address via DHCP, from the DSL device (it's some sort of hub, but it gives you only 1 IP address) while on the other it works as a DHCP server for my internal network. How would you solve this, with only one nic? Making all the internal network addresses static is not very good, as I like to hook my laptop there sometimes, when I bring it from work, so it's much less trouble to just boot it and get an IP address, than boot it, change to static IP address, and then reboot it. The other computers enjoy the benefit of DHCP in a similar fashion.
If you have a solution to this, I would be very grateful. I would save one perfectly good NE2000, and the wiring would be much simpler.
Yes you can mirror IDE drives, even if they are on the same bus! I have done exactly that, zillions of times on a network OS that most people around here don't like: on NetWare! Of course, it's possible to mirror acros buses, too, and on the same SCSI bus or acrosss SCSI buses. And of course, performance is better (but not THAT better) if you mirror across buses.
From this post of yours, one would conclude that you are a flaming idiot. However, a quick look at this newer post suggests rather that you are paid by Intel. Do you work in marketing?
What do you mean by "thry"? www.slackware.com is hosted ny BSDi, as far as I know. And I believe it's not the Slackware guys that take care of the routing and domain issues. But maybe you have better informations?
Interesting. Another BeOS and Slackware fan around. Looks like the best things keep sticking together. Bet you liked Princess Mononoke, too!
Choose the Pioneer DV 525. It's probably out of production now, but it has some features that are really hard to find. Not only does it play CDRs, but it can even play VCDs burned on CDRs. Those familiar with VCDs know that it's hard to find a DVD player that will play VCDs burnt on CDRs. Usually they only play "proper" VCDs, or those burnt on CD-RW.
If you think VCDs are not interesting, wait until one day you decide you want to transfer your collection of VHS tapes to something more lasting. I know I will do this with some of my rare movies on VHS.
Another good thing with the DV 525 is that there are many solutions to multi-region enable it. Also, it's generally considered one of the best value DVD players. A real shame it's not produced anymore.
Proxima Centauri is the closest one (that's why it's called Proxima), and it's about 5 or 6 lightyears away.
If Memory Stick tech is licensed, then you WILL need a possibly expensive/clumsy/power-consuming drive to read them.
Uh, you are not trying to troll here, are you? Do I even need to answer this flaming BS?
But I guess, based on the rest of your post, that you are not trolling, so I will try to answer: there is no need for a "drive" in the case of memory sticks, as they are solid-state. All you need is a port, with electronics integrated somewhere on the PCB (totally invisible, actually, due to it's simplicity. It's not like you need an AHA 2940 to write into a memory stick). So, it's not clumsy, and it's not expensive. Sony woud shoot itself in thefoot if it asked lots of $$$ for the license. They want to sell the media, not the license for the readers. Power consuming? Ummm... maybe you were trolling, after all.
You're not even a good sport, you don't see how such a miniature media, that can carry a LOT of data, can appeal to people. And it does. MDs are still widely popular in Japan and in Europe. Have you seen those MD walkmans that can record? They're so tiny, and totally cool! Now imagine how tiny you can go when you replace an MD with a very very small memory stick. Oh yes, this thingy has a huge potential, just you wait 'enry 'iggins, just you wait!
And people are immediately going t obelieve you, even though you don't put any link to BeDevTalk that would prove this.
Oh well, anything goes, as long as you can trash an alternative (BeOS) OS.
As someone who lives and works in the same city as you, I say: forget it! I very much like the laws as they are now, thank you very much! I have no problems with the employers thinking real hard before hiring someone permanently. What's wrong with that? If they hire you, it means they trust you, and it also means that they won't kick you off so easily. It's all just positive. Or is this the typical Finnish sindrome of the "grass is greaner in America..."? If it's the syndrome, please, control yourself! We are in a public forum! :o)
Oh yes, it does! I am going to send this thread to a friend who was thinking of moving to USA. She will be happy to know that you get 0 notice when you are fired, not to say that sometimes you are treated even more like junk. This thread sure was an eye-opener for me, and I will make sure it becomes an eye opener for many of my european colleagues.
Imagine, at my company nobody gives a hoot whether your wallpaper, screensaver or anything is porn. Nobody was ever fired for such things, either.
And my company is a 50k+ employee company, so not some little startup.
This is not intended to badmouth US, and expecially not to insult my colleagues in the US. However, I am so happy I don't face this sadistic behaviour of employers. I have 60 day notice, so if they decide to fire me, they have to let me know well in advance. Furthermore, I have 5 weeks of holidays per year. I think that's more than what is standard, for US. And, as an added bonus, we don't get fired for pesky little things like using the Internet for our own purposes, or even (shock horror) browsing sex sites. I hear that in US there is a paranoic atmosphere around employers monitoring what their employees do on the Internet. Well, fuck them! I have not sold my soul to my employer!
What I am stll dissatisfied of, and this is a commono trait with all IT workers, is that we, people in IT, don't organize well enough, don't network enough and protect our rights through unions and such. We are a bit too individualistic, and the employers can fuck with us however they like. Not good!
Oh well, I was modded down for correcting a spelling mistake that's right smack in the title of the post: interplanar? wtf??
Don't sweat the stuff, there are many iiots at Slashdot, and not only among the readers.
Since my original post was modded down, this confirms that Slashdot effectively IS the site for editors who cannot spell.