they're likely to move to HD-DVD later. So anyone buying when it first comes out may want to take into account what upgrade costs may be. Realistically, assume another $50-100 at least, especially if it requires an authorized center to install.
When I got a few Battlestar Galactica props from the same auction house in an earlier auction, they did the same thing, adding the premium plus an extra percentage for using a credit card. As you can imagine, I wasn't thrilled about it, but I had read the rules beforehand and planned accordingly. Lesson learned: try to have enough funds on hand to wire:)
I didn't have a problem with Apple dumping Power architecture as much as the idea that, by going with Intel, they will turn their backs on HyperTransport and AMD's excellent use of it. Apple could try to steal Dell's shoes if they'd come out with desktops with that kind of power and AMD under the hood.
I really have to wonder if Intel's choice wasn't so much the pretense of "power per watt" as much as it was Steve Jobs taking offense at the shade of green in the AMD logo, or something. I'm not flaming; I want Apple to succeed -- my mini is my main box now. I just seem immune to the (worst of) the RDF. That, and my other box is an Athlon XP:)
But that's as close as most players will ever get to playing major league.
A lot of people want to go to space. They'll never qualify for even the equivalent of the minor leagues, in that regard. But they'd still like just a little taste. Why rain on the little game they are able to get together?
As for being impressed, I'm happy for them that they're taking their dreams as far as they can, instead of sitting around not doing anything and making fun of others. I say that as a friend to someone who's already had a seat reserved for months. And I'll be happy for him to tell me all about it for a long time after, because I can't even get into the dugout at the sandlot, myself.
Chris, sure would help if you picked a common server name. Some mail servers actually try to check your HELO and your reverse to see if you match up who you claim to be.
Guys, he's got a TXT record for SPF. If he starts relaying through his ISP's mail servers, he's either got to give up SPF, or add the appropriate include: modifier. Neither is particularly thrilling.
Chris, I'm assuming you want to send out only from mail.~, since you have no PTR in the SPF, right? Still might be useful to add "A" to the SPF, since mail.~ is a CNAME. Or maybe not.:)
And if it helps any, you seem to be clear off all the RBLs I was able to check.
If I remember right, the pricing used to be $899 for the low-end ibook model. Now it's $949. The mac mini pricing appears to be the same $20 off it was before.
Oh, and if you're going to use edu pricing on the minis, consider paying Apple for the 1GB ram upgrade, instead of doing it yourself. The premium looks to be about $30 over buying the memory from someone like Crucial, and you won't have a stick left over, but you won't have to crack the case and it'll all be under the same Apple warranty.
(What would you do with the leftover stick, anyway? I have a 256MB stick from my revA mini that I need to sell or find a use for, now. It's faster than the gig of DDR266 memory in my XP box, but if I stick it in the third slot, it will slow down even further, because this particular Nvidia chipset works fastest splitting the memory between two slots, not 1 or 3. And I haven't really seen that I run out of memory w/1GB in XP, anyway.)
I'm almost ready to deny all wan traffic in to the XP box here at home, anyway, now that my mac mini handles all of my mail and surfing and streaming, etc. It's a legit licensed copy, but I don't care anymore, I am tired of the hassle. I won't need to keep patching that box unless there's some critical issues with NTFS or something, if I just wall it off.
I have a friend who alerts me in IRC when it's time to watch, so the Dallas paper didn't mess me up. Unfortunately, neither the Yahoo servers nor the Akamai servers (both of which were NASATV's "partners") gave me anything to watch. Closest I got was a frozen "live" image of the shuttle with gantry still attached, then the screen going grey and the audio coming on and telling me they were 500 miles out. And that was in realplayer, which I was desperate enough to dl because Yahoo's link just gave me blank pages.
During Deep Impact, when NASATV hosted a different way, my mac was getting excellent high-rate video through windows media player for mac. This time, I got nothing useful. I'm disappointed.
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Why FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, etc.? The article was really sketchy on this point.
I use Sage for my reader, so I really don't care what format feeds are in. Actually, I never researched the differences, so every time I had a choice between Atom and RSS feeds from the same source, I always chose RSS, because I thought Atom was an older style, and also thought that if I ever switched to another reader, it'd be easier to move my feeds if they were all RSS.
The future of video isn't HD, it's little portable devices with overpriced, DRM-encumbered media and small, low-res screens, like the PSP, cell phones, and the iPod.
There's a lot of factors; what if the price of electricity from the utility company goes up during those twelve years? What if you use the solar panels to charge up your electric or hybrid car, too?:)
On the other hand, what if new technology rolls out later that significantly reduces the cost or improves reliability/lifetime of solar technology? Like solar "mats" that withstand damage and are made more cheaply, and can be more easily installed, instead of inflexible, heavy panels? You have to wonder whether it'd be cheaper to wait a couple of years, and then install the latest tech...
If you are referring to bank accounts, I'm an accountant, and I deal with many different checking, credit, savings, ex...Accounts through the day, therefore I want my books to be as simple as possible.
Separate accounts at Amazon. That way you can each shop for each other, and not know what the other has gotten. You can even make use of a little feature they added maybe 5 or 6 years ago called wish lists. Just make sure that after you check out you don't hit that link that says share a discounted deal out to all your Amazon friends, if you've listed her as a friend.
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The same group of people who are affected most if public television dies, and for the same reasons.
The poor don't have discretionary income to spend on digital tv right now, or satellite or even basic cable subscriptions.
Oh, certainly some of them do spend on these luxuries anyway, but they end up cutting out other things, like new clothes, or breakfasts, etc. For a family unit with only $2000/month income, a $40/mo cable subscription would be 2% of the budget, all by itself. That may not sound like much, but for people already scraping to make it to the next payday, it's a lot.
Actually, through the end of today, there are some 20% off coupons over at Deep Discount DVD that will get you the box set of Firelfy for under $25, shipped.
The coupons are listed at slickdeals.net, if you can't find them.
I'm a sponsor of a regional film festival, and get several invitations to free screenings every month, especially in the summer months. And yet, I hardly ever go, these days. For years, I went to most of them, even the ones I thought would be dogs. Now, though, I generally wait until they come out on DVD, when I can request them at leisure from online rental services. That's right, I'm happy to pay for the convenience. I'm tired of crowds, of parking lots, of all that. Of course, I have such a huge backlog on my rental lists that I'll never actually get to all of them, anyway, at the rate I keep adding new ones.
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It'd be cooler if they were zombie psychotics.
they're likely to move to HD-DVD later. So anyone buying when it first comes out may want to take into account what upgrade costs may be. Realistically, assume another $50-100 at least, especially if it requires an authorized center to install.
Hmm. TC over power. So much for the customers' best interests.
When I got a few Battlestar Galactica props from the same auction house in an earlier auction, they did the same thing, adding the premium plus an extra percentage for using a credit card. As you can imagine, I wasn't thrilled about it, but I had read the rules beforehand and planned accordingly. Lesson learned: try to have enough funds on hand to wire :)
I didn't have a problem with Apple dumping Power architecture as much as the idea that, by going with Intel, they will turn their backs on HyperTransport and AMD's excellent use of it. Apple could try to steal Dell's shoes if they'd come out with desktops with that kind of power and AMD under the hood.
:)
I really have to wonder if Intel's choice wasn't so much the pretense of "power per watt" as much as it was Steve Jobs taking offense at the shade of green in the AMD logo, or something. I'm not flaming; I want Apple to succeed -- my mini is my main box now. I just seem immune to the (worst of) the RDF. That, and my other box is an Athlon XP
A lot of people spend a lot more than that, and never get close to realizing theirs. ;)
So it's a good deal, all things considered
But that's as close as most players will ever get to playing major league.
A lot of people want to go to space. They'll never qualify for even the equivalent of the minor leagues, in that regard. But they'd still like just a little taste. Why rain on the little game they are able to get together?
As for being impressed, I'm happy for them that they're taking their dreams as far as they can, instead of sitting around not doing anything and making fun of others. I say that as a friend to someone who's already had a seat reserved for months. And I'll be happy for him to tell me all about it for a long time after, because I can't even get into the dugout at the sandlot, myself.
followup to my other comment, elsewhere:
1) 220 gawaine.chrisbartle.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.11.6; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:04:46 -0600 (MDT)
2) 189.137.17.216.in-addr.arpa name = ns.chrisbartle.com.
3) mail.chrisbartle.com. 3600 IN CNAME chrisbartle.com.
Chris, sure would help if you picked a common server name. Some mail servers actually try to check your HELO and your reverse to see if you match up who you claim to be.
Also, have you considered "v=spf1 a mx ~all" ?
Guys, he's got a TXT record for SPF. If he starts relaying through his ISP's mail servers, he's either got to give up SPF, or add the appropriate include: modifier. Neither is particularly thrilling.
:)
Chris, I'm assuming you want to send out only from mail.~, since you have no PTR in the SPF, right? Still might be useful to add "A" to the SPF, since mail.~ is a CNAME. Or maybe not.
And if it helps any, you seem to be clear off all the RBLs I was able to check.
If I remember right, the pricing used to be $899 for the low-end ibook model. Now it's $949. The mac mini pricing appears to be the same $20 off it was before.
Oh, and if you're going to use edu pricing on the minis, consider paying Apple for the 1GB ram upgrade, instead of doing it yourself. The premium looks to be about $30 over buying the memory from someone like Crucial, and you won't have a stick left over, but you won't have to crack the case and it'll all be under the same Apple warranty.
(What would you do with the leftover stick, anyway? I have a 256MB stick from my revA mini that I need to sell or find a use for, now. It's faster than the gig of DDR266 memory in my XP box, but if I stick it in the third slot, it will slow down even further, because this particular Nvidia chipset works fastest splitting the memory between two slots, not 1 or 3. And I haven't really seen that I run out of memory w/1GB in XP, anyway.)
I'm almost ready to deny all wan traffic in to the XP box here at home, anyway, now that my mac mini handles all of my mail and surfing and streaming, etc. It's a legit licensed copy, but I don't care anymore, I am tired of the hassle. I won't need to keep patching that box unless there's some critical issues with NTFS or something, if I just wall it off.
I have a friend who alerts me in IRC when it's time to watch, so the Dallas paper didn't mess me up. Unfortunately, neither the Yahoo servers nor the Akamai servers (both of which were NASATV's "partners") gave me anything to watch. Closest I got was a frozen "live" image of the shuttle with gantry still attached, then the screen going grey and the audio coming on and telling me they were 500 miles out. And that was in realplayer, which I was desperate enough to dl because Yahoo's link just gave me blank pages.
During Deep Impact, when NASATV hosted a different way, my mac was getting excellent high-rate video through windows media player for mac. This time, I got nothing useful. I'm disappointed.
Why FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, etc.?
The article was really sketchy on this point.
They were just following Apple's lead, yet again?
I use Sage for my reader, so I really don't care what format feeds are in.
Actually, I never researched the differences, so every time I had a choice between Atom and RSS feeds from the same source, I always chose RSS, because I thought Atom was an older style, and also thought that if I ever switched to another reader, it'd be easier to move my feeds if they were all RSS.
The future of video isn't HD, it's little portable devices with overpriced, DRM-encumbered media and small, low-res screens, like the PSP, cell phones, and the iPod.
but as my signature and journal entry show, legitimate methods of complaining to service providers often don't work.
There's a lot of factors; what if the price of electricity from the utility company goes up during those twelve years? What if you use the solar panels to charge up your electric or hybrid car, too? :)
On the other hand, what if new technology rolls out later that significantly reduces the cost or improves reliability/lifetime of solar technology? Like solar "mats" that withstand damage and are made more cheaply, and can be more easily installed, instead of inflexible, heavy panels? You have to wonder whether it'd be cheaper to wait a couple of years, and then install the latest tech...
Separate accounts at Amazon. That way you can each shop for each other, and not know what the other has gotten. You can even make use of a little feature they added maybe 5 or 6 years ago called wish lists. Just make sure that after you check out you don't hit that link that says share a discounted deal out to all your Amazon friends, if you've listed her as a friend.
here.
Haven't they put senators on no-fly lists, before?
Yeah, they'd be great for keeping identities separate and secure.
The same group of people who are affected most if public television dies, and for the same reasons.
The poor don't have discretionary income to spend on digital tv right now, or satellite or even basic cable subscriptions.
Oh, certainly some of them do spend on these luxuries anyway, but they end up cutting out other things, like new clothes, or breakfasts, etc. For a family unit with only $2000/month income, a $40/mo cable subscription would be 2% of the budget, all by itself. That may not sound like much, but for people already scraping to make it to the next payday, it's a lot.
He's telling the truth! I won't tell you how I know, but... he's using an insufficiently patched Windows XP.
Actually, through the end of today, there are some 20% off coupons over at Deep Discount DVD that will get you the box set of Firelfy for under $25, shipped.
The coupons are listed at slickdeals.net, if you can't find them.
I'm a sponsor of a regional film festival, and get several invitations to free screenings every month, especially in the summer months. And yet, I hardly ever go, these days. For years, I went to most of them, even the ones I thought would be dogs. Now, though, I generally wait until they come out on DVD, when I can request them at leisure from online rental services. That's right, I'm happy to pay for the convenience. I'm tired of crowds, of parking lots, of all that. Of course, I have such a huge backlog on my rental lists that I'll never actually get to all of them, anyway, at the rate I keep adding new ones.