But the masses don't know better. The free market isn't "geeks who know better" unfortunately. Best Buy and Circuit City will continue to sell these to people who just need something that "works".
Wow, that's a pretty neat idea. I've been on a bunch of websites with a pretty active forum *ahem* but that's a little different than just chatting with passers-by.
I really like the idea, and I'd use it on my own website.
Really? I have always consistently had much better luck with 2000 (on fresh installs of course) than the times I've tried with XP. There seems to be much less "fluff" to shut off in 2000, and I actually would get some bluescreens in XP. Maybe it's because my machine is a little bit older? Athlon 1200 or something like that (I don't even remember, it's a junkyard machine).
I think unfortunately that people like you (and I to some extent) are a niche market. People want "cute" or "personalized" slightly ahead of "functional" and "useful". A lot people will put up with limited service, because they live in big cities, and don't venture out into the wilderness where reception is less than keen.
I have only owned one cellphone ever, I used it maybe twice for emergency calls, and then not again. I don't like cellphones in general other than for emergency use, and think it is completely rude when someone will interrupt a conversation to receive a call. Apparently random callers are more important than the conversation at hand.
If I did get a cellphone though, I'd want it to have some capabilities beyond just making calls, like some basic mail/web abilities. I can imagine myself getting into the photo-blog scene also.
I just "made the switch" a couple of weeks ago. I'm definitely dualbooting though, because when it comes down to it, I just can't _do_ stuff in Linux as well as I am used to in Windows. I'm trying though! And I have many much support from the local Guru, hehe.
One of my favorite scenes from the series that pops into my head is when they all visit Dr. Zoidberg's planet, but he's too much of a loser to mate with anybody, and Fry ends up fighting Zoidberg in that big arena, and they play their national anthem. It's a very ferocious song, and also happens to be the oldschool Star Trek fight music I believe:D
Very interesting thought there:) I can't really think of a practical use for it... Maybe a really quick light-mail delivery service, for important hard-copies of documents? Hmm.
My Highschool had an amazingly good computer / network setup.
We had two giant switch racks on either end of the building connected to eachother via fiber. There were at least 4 100Mb wall sockets in each room, and most had 10+. We had three computer labs (two were macintosh labs with a wide variety of different macs available) and the CAD-lab was PC. Every student had server space from the beefy (I don't remember the exact specs though) Mac server in the main lab room.
The biggest problem was the connection to the outside world. It was a donated ISDN line from the local phone company, and didn't get very good speeds.
BTW, this was all in a school of 300 people total spanning grades 7-12. br
-Jesse
Wouldn't said serial number also likely be munged / lost due to the wahsed out / degraded / encoded rip of the movie? It'd be like on family guy, when Peter works for the cigarette company, and they're showing all the old commercials.
They settle out of court for a reasonable amount... What's the problem with that. If you don't know that pirating music is illegal, than you are dumber than a rock, and deserve to be fined steadily through the rest of your life just for being so stupid. Though your use of the caps lock key does make a convincing argument... I have never had a half million dollar speeding ticket obviously, but I've had tickets close to the cost of the out-of-court settlement that is offered to all/most music pirates. If the punishment were supposed to fit the crime, then things would be a lot different. You can't have a rigid scale of "badness" for a crime that assigns a monitary or jailtime value on the crime. It's all subjective.
I'm just saying that people shouldn't pirate music, and should be punished for doing so, which is happening, and makes me happy that piracy is finally being cracked down on. If they want free music, they're certainly free to make all their own, as much as they want, without any charge to themselves by themselves.
But regardless, it's still against the law, and morally incorrect. It's as morally incorrect to speed in your car as it is to share and/or copy stuff that isn't yours. Personally, I think that a jail sentence is harsh, but the fine is just fine with me.
There are some of us out there who prefer minimalism to the bloat of everything these days, whether it be memory requirements, power requirements, or what have you. I think we're fairly few-and-far-between though.
I agree. While it's probably not the best idea for the government to be burying detector things on "public" ground, the example about the public park restrooms with the faucets hits the nail on the head.
We all know that the government does research in that area that the public shouldn't know about, lest we blab it to the wrong people. I don't think our government should keep as much as it does secret, but there are some things that are important to be kept secret, so that our country is safe, like new military vehicles and the like.
No, I've always wondered about that scientifically. If something had actually 0 friction, then wouldn't the atoms and what-have-you in your body be able to just slip right through it, like it wasn't there? Also, would it just fall towards the nearest gravitational source, because there's nothing able to stop it?
Or... would that be 8 speakers in total? Because if it's four stereo speakers, that makes me think of four pairs of speakers (as in.. one stereo speaker is really two speakers). Maybe it's like "pair of pants". Or maybe I'm just bored at work
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You're either being _Very_ sarcastic, or have no idea about hardware.
Look up the stats on the GBA, It runs at less than 20 MHz.
-Jesse, unhappy at both hardware and software bloat, returning to the "good ole' days".
I meant... to start the bittorrent. I d/led it finally the "regular" way, and have it now, and want to share it
-Jesse
Yagh! I've got it downloaded, but I've never started a bittorrent before. Can anybody post a quick how-to? :D
-Jesse
If someone can get a bittorrent started, I'll leave it hosted all day at work here. At the moment, I can't even download the file though.
-Jesse
But the masses don't know better. The free market isn't "geeks who know better" unfortunately. Best Buy and Circuit City will continue to sell these to people who just need something that "works".
-Jesse
Wow, that's a pretty neat idea. I've been on a bunch of websites with a pretty active forum *ahem* but that's a little different than just chatting with passers-by.
I really like the idea, and I'd use it on my own website.
-Jesse
Really? I have always consistently had much better luck with 2000 (on fresh installs of course) than the times I've tried with XP. There seems to be much less "fluff" to shut off in 2000, and I actually would get some bluescreens in XP. Maybe it's because my machine is a little bit older? Athlon 1200 or something like that (I don't even remember, it's a junkyard machine).
-Jesse
More like bottom 50%. You'd be surprised at just how many _stupid_ people there are that have managed to get their grubby fat fingers on a computer.
-Jesse
And mine is HUUGE, and I drive a sportscar! And I have a sweet-ass computer.
-Jesse
I think unfortunately that people like you (and I to some extent) are a niche market. People want "cute" or "personalized" slightly ahead of "functional" and "useful". A lot people will put up with limited service, because they live in big cities, and don't venture out into the wilderness where reception is less than keen.
I have only owned one cellphone ever, I used it maybe twice for emergency calls, and then not again. I don't like cellphones in general other than for emergency use, and think it is completely rude when someone will interrupt a conversation to receive a call. Apparently random callers are more important than the conversation at hand.
If I did get a cellphone though, I'd want it to have some capabilities beyond just making calls, like some basic mail/web abilities. I can imagine myself getting into the photo-blog scene also.
And I'd want it to be glossy red.
-Jesse
I am a full-on Linux dummy :D
I just "made the switch" a couple of weeks ago. I'm definitely dualbooting though, because when it comes down to it, I just can't _do_ stuff in Linux as well as I am used to in Windows. I'm trying though! And I have many much support from the local Guru, hehe.
-Jesse
That's normal, Next Patient!
:D
-Dr. Zoidberg
One of my favorite scenes from the series that pops into my head is when they all visit Dr. Zoidberg's planet, but he's too much of a loser to mate with anybody, and Fry ends up fighting Zoidberg in that big arena, and they play their national anthem. It's a very ferocious song, and also happens to be the oldschool Star Trek fight music I believe
-Jesse
Very interesting thought there :) I can't really think of a practical use for it... Maybe a really quick light-mail delivery service, for important hard-copies of documents? Hmm.
-Jesse
Who said murdering young children? There's a difference between wearing a rubber or getting your tubes tied and killing babies... Yeesh
-Jesse
Did you RTFA? There's a good dismissal of your comments at the end of it.
-Jesse
My Highschool had an amazingly good computer / network setup.
We had two giant switch racks on either end of the building connected to eachother via fiber. There were at least 4 100Mb wall sockets in each room, and most had 10+. We had three computer labs (two were macintosh labs with a wide variety of different macs available) and the CAD-lab was PC. Every student had server space from the beefy (I don't remember the exact specs though) Mac server in the main lab room.
The biggest problem was the connection to the outside world. It was a donated ISDN line from the local phone company, and didn't get very good speeds.
BTW, this was all in a school of 300 people total spanning grades 7-12.
br -Jesse
Wouldn't said serial number also likely be munged / lost due to the wahsed out / degraded / encoded rip of the movie? It'd be like on family guy, when Peter works for the cigarette company, and they're showing all the old commercials.
-Jesse
They settle out of court for a reasonable amount... What's the problem with that. If you don't know that pirating music is illegal, than you are dumber than a rock, and deserve to be fined steadily through the rest of your life just for being so stupid. Though your use of the caps lock key does make a convincing argument... I have never had a half million dollar speeding ticket obviously, but I've had tickets close to the cost of the out-of-court settlement that is offered to all/most music pirates. If the punishment were supposed to fit the crime, then things would be a lot different. You can't have a rigid scale of "badness" for a crime that assigns a monitary or jailtime value on the crime. It's all subjective.
I'm just saying that people shouldn't pirate music, and should be punished for doing so, which is happening, and makes me happy that piracy is finally being cracked down on. If they want free music, they're certainly free to make all their own, as much as they want, without any charge to themselves by themselves.
-Jesse
Reading replies like that makes _me_ sick to my stomach.
Oh officer, I am a poor poor mother of one. I didn't know it was illegal to speed down this road, I am so very sorry. Can I not pay the fine now?
This isn't a troll, it's exactly how I feel.
-Jesse
But regardless, it's still against the law, and morally incorrect. It's as morally incorrect to speed in your car as it is to share and/or copy stuff that isn't yours. Personally, I think that a jail sentence is harsh, but the fine is just fine with me.
-Jesse
There are some of us out there who prefer minimalism to the bloat of everything these days, whether it be memory requirements, power requirements, or what have you. I think we're fairly few-and-far-between though.
-Jesse
Haha! That was by far the best spelling of the sound an un-tied off balloon makes as it flies around the room, slobbering :D
-Jesse
I agree. While it's probably not the best idea for the government to be burying detector things on "public" ground, the example about the public park restrooms with the faucets hits the nail on the head.
We all know that the government does research in that area that the public shouldn't know about, lest we blab it to the wrong people. I don't think our government should keep as much as it does secret, but there are some things that are important to be kept secret, so that our country is safe, like new military vehicles and the like.
-Jesse
No, I've always wondered about that scientifically. If something had actually 0 friction, then wouldn't the atoms and what-have-you in your body be able to just slip right through it, like it wasn't there? Also, would it just fall towards the nearest gravitational source, because there's nothing able to stop it?
-Jesse
Or... would that be 8 speakers in total? Because if it's four stereo speakers, that makes me think of four pairs of speakers (as in.. one stereo speaker is really two speakers). Maybe it's like "pair of pants". Or maybe I'm just bored at work
-Jesse