i'd second this. however, while SCO didn't appear to have TOO many deep pockets behind them, the RIAA does (albeit a bit skittish in spending money as of late).
i bought and returned 4 sets of bulbs of various brands before finding a really good CFL at Home Depot. can't remember the brand name, but it was in a large 6 or 8pack for around $11-12. all i can really say describing it is that it was in a large plastic bubble-pack (opposed to the compact cardboard opposite-facing packaging standard bulbs come in).
from what i understand of the event, dcma, and fair usage, this was intended for a discussion, intellectual debate, educational setting. also, it wasn't an entire broadcast (like the way illicit mp3s and movies are). NFL has very little to stand on. using your eyeballs is not acknowleging a click-wrap EULA.
sir, turn in your Geek Card now. if you're not in the Overclocking crowd, you are in the Silent PC crowd. if not, you are stuck in between in a Purgatory-like void. I myself am stuck in a housing situation that only has electric heat, so rather than waste electricity simply generating heat, why not at least be productive (or tell yourself the computers are being productive) by running medical distributed computing projects? i run two computers on distributed computing (one of which is an HT/Gaming PC) and a third to download/IRC during the winter. it's barely enough, but it keeps things plenty warm as long as it's not 10F or below...
i bought a KT333 that's working, rock solid, to this day (even with two -- not just bulging, but *burst-open-and-empty* -- caps), built one for my parents. a friend swore by KT266As. same friend had no end to issues with a KT400 and the VIA 800-something. really rocky track record, but the lines that work, work like a champ.
>But at Microsoft you can at least go hiking or something on the weekends.
WARNING! WARNING!
Employee 540263 and 441325 are engaging in physical contact in sector 7-G of the Microsoft Nature Habitat 11A! Dispatch the drones to bring them in for reprogramming. And erase them from their teammate's memories...
wasn't feb or mar or april Breast Cancer Awareness month?
call me bitter, but i don't support any of those "causes"... i've already lost my mom to breast cancer in my teens. i do contribute to medical distributed computing (mainly for showing off my ePenis on stats pages) but i guess i'm just too bitter to "contribute" or hang a ribbon around:P
did it take into consideration other multi-billion dollar industries that have been INCREASING, such as the video games industry? i did a speech on this (in favor of legalizing filesharing (with or without compensation) and found that videogames sales have been growing by leaps and bounds. don't remember what the numbers were and if it correlated with music sales declines, but there's just more and more toys out there...
in my bathroom and room, i have CFLs. i found some bajillion-pack from Home Depot, after trying 2-3 different brands from Wal-Mart (how dare Home Depot make me shop while the sun is out!), to have color that i can put up with, and even like. it does take a bit of time to warm up, but i got a 75-watt equivalent, and it's bright enough "cool" to work. i replaced my 4 60-watt bulbs with 2 23-watt (75 equiv) CFLs.
CCE is the standard? that's a $2,000 program... maybe in YOUR world of legal archiving using illegal software... not to mention the interface is more the kind video compressionists understand (or hardened/.ers)
TMPGEnc has a slightly less geeky interface. 2.5 is powerful and has a 15 or 30 day trial... 3.0 Xpress has a very user friendly interface (but can't do HD).
i hear HC is good, but a knowledge in AVISynth may be required... (and the interface is CCE-like, too).
there's also all sorts of other encoders like MainConcept, Procoder, but i'm happy with TMPGEnc and *cough* CCE
i read the EULAs for ALL of the XP series, Home, Pro and MCE (retail and OEM versions). ALL of them say they may not be used in "Production" or as a server (as does the MS Action Pack, which is where i first saw the phrase). this makes no sense, especially for the Retail Pro version. i think the definition of Production is misused in the EULA or misunderstood by me and the at least the last two replies... unless there's some UBER $500 or $999 version of XP Pro i'm not aware of...
http://plonkmedia.org/tracker
the MD5 of the ISO from Microsoft.Windows.Vista.64Bit.Build.5384.4.DVD-Win Beta seems to match the public beta ISO's MD5, so please help out seed to those too lazy/with not enough time to refresh the Microsoft page that seems to be overwhelmed at times
i've also organized my collection like this.. i gave up organizing by genre.. with the exception of my small rap/hip-hop collection and 10-song collection of country.
0numbers
a
b
c...
w
xyz
y_country
y_demoscene
y_humor
y_jpop
y_mixes
y_rap-hiphop...
z_itunes
z_lossless
z_mods
z_psf
z_spc
Nintendo sure has learned a lot since the days of the SNES
-they learned that developers went gaga over the prospect of tons of space even tho it took a while to master the downsides to the format
-they learned that they could make a little more money by bending their "family oriented" games rule
-they learned that ~~ i have no idea wtf the whole N64 fiasco was ~~ something about overhyped, underdelivering, hard-to-program-for hardware?
and, well, my videogame rag subs ran out sometime in the first few quarters of the GC's existence, so.. yeah
you know Contact Lenses were not meant for you (or at least while at LAN parties) when one of your lenses falls out of your eye due to dryness, possibly from lack of blinking:'(
according to Wikipedia (and we all know wikipedia is always correct;)
Bitrate 13.33 kbit/s (399 bits, packetised in 50 bytes) for the frame size of 30 ms and 15.2 kbit/s (303 bits, packetised in 38 bytes) for the frame size of 20 ms
so would a 3 way call simply be 3*13.33/15.2kbps? or some highschool math equation that's leaked out of my brain since?
my friend (who had to quit due to a new job and new city) said that you should play your characters to lvl 20 before making any decisions on races or even likely the game itself... and i found that to be OH so true, even on my first, pretty weak character. the world, your abilities and just things in general start to open up at level 16-18 and are just beginning to get fun at 20. i'd suggest giving it one more month. it's a blast! the only reason i'm not playing is due to a hardware shuffle that's left me waiting for a decent, affordable vid card (7600GT/GS, go go go)
are you kidding me? i worked in an environment where we had cd-rom drives used about 8-10 hours a day, 365 days a year. suffise to say, in the 3-4 years i was there, i replaced the caddy drives 8-10 times the entire time i was there, and never touched the tray drives.
what was the application? DTS audio units in a theater. 2 SCSI drives per soundtower/theater, 8 of the 10 theaters with DTS audio. 2 of the 8 theaters had trays, the rest were caddies. i changed at least 1 drive out every single tower with caddies. oh, i take back that we never had an issue with a tray drive. i DID change one.
it was pretty fun, tho ^_^ not even the city manager(s) knew how to fix one of the units. they'd just roll a $100+/hr tech. it was good feeling in that geeky kind of way:)
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i'd second this. however, while SCO didn't appear to have TOO many deep pockets behind them, the RIAA does (albeit a bit skittish in spending money as of late).
i read GOTO as GTFO. as in Tits or GTFO D:
my workplace has $10K or slightly more in life insurance for a few dollars a year.
i bought and returned 4 sets of bulbs of various brands before finding a really good CFL at Home Depot. can't remember the brand name, but it was in a large 6 or 8pack for around $11-12. all i can really say describing it is that it was in a large plastic bubble-pack (opposed to the compact cardboard opposite-facing packaging standard bulbs come in).
i actually looked this up myself (on Wikipedia) ..
WikiOnDVD had 2,000.
IIRC Encarta had ~68,000.
1997 (paper) Collier's had 23,000
i guess they need to get cracking!
from what i understand of the event, dcma, and fair usage, this was intended for a discussion, intellectual debate, educational setting. also, it wasn't an entire broadcast (like the way illicit mp3s and movies are). NFL has very little to stand on. using your eyeballs is not acknowleging a click-wrap EULA.
sir, turn in your Geek Card now. if you're not in the Overclocking crowd, you are in the Silent PC crowd. if not, you are stuck in between in a Purgatory-like void. I myself am stuck in a housing situation that only has electric heat, so rather than waste electricity simply generating heat, why not at least be productive (or tell yourself the computers are being productive) by running medical distributed computing projects? i run two computers on distributed computing (one of which is an HT/Gaming PC) and a third to download/IRC during the winter. it's barely enough, but it keeps things plenty warm as long as it's not 10F or below...
i doubt they made it up... i saw it on 4chan as a set of screencaps from one of the other -chans :)
i bought a KT333 that's working, rock solid, to this day (even with two -- not just bulging, but *burst-open-and-empty* -- caps), built one for my parents. a friend swore by KT266As. same friend had no end to issues with a KT400 and the VIA 800-something. really rocky track record, but the lines that work, work like a champ.
>But at Microsoft you can at least go hiking or something on the weekends. WARNING! WARNING!
Employee 540263 and 441325 are engaging in physical contact in sector 7-G of the Microsoft Nature Habitat 11A! Dispatch the drones to bring them in for reprogramming. And erase them from their teammate's memories...
http://plonkmedia.org/thorn/images/32/the%20specia l%20hell.jpg
:-)
wasn't feb or mar or april Breast Cancer Awareness month?
... i've already lost my mom to breast cancer in my teens. i do contribute to medical distributed computing (mainly for showing off my ePenis on stats pages) but i guess i'm just too bitter to "contribute" or hang a ribbon around :P
call me bitter, but i don't support any of those "causes"
did it take into consideration other multi-billion dollar industries that have been INCREASING, such as the video games industry? i did a speech on this (in favor of legalizing filesharing (with or without compensation) and found that videogames sales have been growing by leaps and bounds. don't remember what the numbers were and if it correlated with music sales declines, but there's just more and more toys out there...
if this is the right report (i have no idea what to look for inside of it), here we go with a 4chan rapidsharing flood
l ism_report.pdf.html
n g_localism_report.pdf.html
i sm_report.pdf.html
http://depositfiles.com/files/259792/missing_loca
http://up.spbland.ru/files/0609167/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/305b6c/
http://www.f-forge.com?d=USezyG458nCRrPwZuboE
http://www.hemenpaylas.com/download/1575825/missi
http://ushare.in/d29507371b3da0bc4ed48b7a3b834917
http://rapidshare.de/files/33271523/missing_local
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KEL9IGOX
in my bathroom and room, i have CFLs. i found some bajillion-pack from Home Depot, after trying 2-3 different brands from Wal-Mart (how dare Home Depot make me shop while the sun is out!), to have color that i can put up with, and even like. it does take a bit of time to warm up, but i got a 75-watt equivalent, and it's bright enough "cool" to work. i replaced my 4 60-watt bulbs with 2 23-watt (75 equiv) CFLs.
however, in my living room, i use halogens
CCE is the standard? that's a $2,000 program... maybe in YOUR world of legal archiving using illegal software... not to mention the interface is more the kind video compressionists understand (or hardened /.ers)
TMPGEnc has a slightly less geeky interface. 2.5 is powerful and has a 15 or 30 day trial... 3.0 Xpress has a very user friendly interface (but can't do HD).
i hear HC is good, but a knowledge in AVISynth may be required... (and the interface is CCE-like, too).
there's also all sorts of other encoders like MainConcept, Procoder, but i'm happy with TMPGEnc and *cough* CCE
i read the EULAs for ALL of the XP series, Home, Pro and MCE (retail and OEM versions). ALL of them say they may not be used in "Production" or as a server (as does the MS Action Pack, which is where i first saw the phrase). this makes no sense, especially for the Retail Pro version. i think the definition of Production is misused in the EULA or misunderstood by me and the at least the last two replies... unless there's some UBER $500 or $999 version of XP Pro i'm not aware of...
Re:I'ma coming, F/OSS folks!
that's a bit dirty sounding... >_>
http://plonkmedia.org/tracker the MD5 of the ISO from Microsoft.Windows.Vista.64Bit.Build.5384.4.DVD-Win Beta seems to match the public beta ISO's MD5, so please help out seed to those too lazy/with not enough time to refresh the Microsoft page that seems to be overwhelmed at times
i've also organized my collection like this .. i gave up organizing by genre .. with the exception of my small rap/hip-hop collection and 10-song collection of country.
0numbers
a
b
c ...
w
xyz
y_country
y_demoscene
y_humor
y_jpop
y_mixes
y_rap-hiphop ...
z_itunes
z_lossless
z_mods
z_psf
z_spc
Nintendo sure has learned a lot since the days of the SNES -they learned that developers went gaga over the prospect of tons of space even tho it took a while to master the downsides to the format -they learned that they could make a little more money by bending their "family oriented" games rule -they learned that ~~ i have no idea wtf the whole N64 fiasco was ~~ something about overhyped, underdelivering, hard-to-program-for hardware? and, well, my videogame rag subs ran out sometime in the first few quarters of the GC's existence, so .. yeah
you know Contact Lenses were not meant for you (or at least while at LAN parties) when one of your lenses falls out of your eye due to dryness, possibly from lack of blinking :'(
according to Wikipedia (and we all know wikipedia is always correct ;)
Bitrate 13.33 kbit/s (399 bits, packetised in 50 bytes) for the frame size of 30 ms and 15.2 kbit/s (303 bits, packetised in 38 bytes) for the frame size of 20 ms
so would a 3 way call simply be 3*13.33/15.2kbps? or some highschool math equation that's leaked out of my brain since?
my friend (who had to quit due to a new job and new city) said that you should play your characters to lvl 20 before making any decisions on races or even likely the game itself... and i found that to be OH so true, even on my first, pretty weak character. the world, your abilities and just things in general start to open up at level 16-18 and are just beginning to get fun at 20. i'd suggest giving it one more month. it's a blast! the only reason i'm not playing is due to a hardware shuffle that's left me waiting for a decent, affordable vid card (7600GT/GS, go go go)
are you kidding me? i worked in an environment where we had cd-rom drives used about 8-10 hours a day, 365 days a year. suffise to say, in the 3-4 years i was there, i replaced the caddy drives 8-10 times the entire time i was there, and never touched the tray drives.
:)
what was the application? DTS audio units in a theater. 2 SCSI drives per soundtower/theater, 8 of the 10 theaters with DTS audio. 2 of the 8 theaters had trays, the rest were caddies. i changed at least 1 drive out every single tower with caddies. oh, i take back that we never had an issue with a tray drive. i DID change one.
it was pretty fun, tho ^_^ not even the city manager(s) knew how to fix one of the units. they'd just roll a $100+/hr tech. it was good feeling in that geeky kind of way