This actually has been a large problem and is one of the reasons people mod their boxes. As stated earlier, the drive does not spin down if there is a disk in it. This puts tons of excess wear on the drive. Design flaw.
If you mod your box you can rip your games to a large HDD any only use your DVD drive when playing on !Live.
I know of no store who will take an item back after the manufacturers warrenty expires (90 days in this case) without an extended warrenty having been purchased.
On a semi-related note, The number one repair I see in my "shop" is assed up mod attempts, followed closely by dying DVD-rom drives. The reason? The drives never spin down once a game is inserted. if the game disk is out of round for any reason, even by a timy ammount the drive doesn't stand a chance. -nB
What about the check stock you can buy at office supply stores. What about the checks I'v drafted on my deposit slips? (granted it can be tough to get the retailer to accept those:-) -nB
you are both geeks. My point is that many of the "Geeks" are not. Geekdom IMHO is an in depth understanding of one's field that can only be gotten with a love for that field. If you're doing "a job" you are not a geek. If you are getting paid to play with whatever you love then you are a geek. -nB
We could have broadband enabled BBSs that could interlink to each other and we could pass messages at little to no cost across the world from one BBS to the next. .. wait. . ..
I too am a geek who solders. I even make money at it when those who think they are soldering geeks aren't (see sig, repairs section).
Anyone who does not know how things work is not a pureblood geek. They are a half breed and are polluting the geek master . . . uh, this is getting ugly isn't it?
Ok. .. Hacker geek: one who solders, bodges logic and code to do ones bidding Nerdy geek: one who doesn't.
excellent link. I've added it to my links to teach people how to solder./crosses fingers people don't learn so I can continue making $$ on repairs...
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Have you visited my site? If you have you will no-where find tools or instructions for piracy of games. I have two open letters to M$ about homebrew content on their console. I have received numerous visits from M$ IP addresses three DMCA notices, though I post no (C) IP on my site. I understand the double standard that is apparent and I see plenty of irony. The difference is that homebrew does not take money away from the game studios, piracy does; same for ripping and distributing movies. -nB
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I am gainfully employed, but of my income half my take-home (minus $60) goes to rent. I am curerntly supporting a wife and a kid and my wife is a full time student at a UC school. Per quarter books average $200+ Tuition is $$$$ per quarter (not semester). I have so little disposable income that it would make your head spin. The website in my sig? The money I make from that pays for my DSL line and the excess will be paying for Halo2 (already pre-ordered). I'm as broke as you, yet I don't pirate. . . go figure. -nB
Actually I live fairly close to a wind farm in CA and it would appear that it is not FUD. The personal sized wind turbines are not the problem, it is the large three blade ones that get within a foot of the ground. On a windy day the outside edge of the blades are moving fast enough to "not be there" through persistance of vision. A hawk will see it's prey and fly at it, often enough the path is through the blades zone of travel and THUNK, dead bird. -nB
My point is that there is not a clean method to make it. The closest is frow corn, ferment it, distill it, crack it. If you use wind there is an environmental impact in killing birds (notably birds of prey), solar is so dirty it almost makes oil look clean. Nuke is the best but has such a bad rep that it'll never happen in my lifetime. -nB
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I'd add to that: Grey-beards and those who are gainfully employed in the non-IT segment of high tech.
I work with a couple of fellow hackers and we always get miffed with our co-workers wo e-mule this and kazza that . .. I'm only 28 and yet I find myself in a position which is very conservative when compared to my peers. On the IT note, I don't know quite why it is but those who are in IT positions vs. those like myself who may perform the occasional IT function as part of a larger job scope tend to have remarkably different attitudes. . . good or bad I don't know, but different, yes.
"There are already hydrogen-burning vehicle prototypes which have negative emissions."
I call shenanigans!
This is the single biggest line of BS being fed to the media to promote H2 as a fuel.
The truth is that any (current) form of hydrogen fueled vehicle has more emissions than a properly tuned hydrocarbon fuel based vehicle of reasonable efficiency (hybrid for example).
Why? Because the production of the Hydrogen uses energy and lots of it! Most is begotten from petrol anyway because cracking the hydrocarbon chain takes less energy than cracking water (which takes nearly twice the amount of useful work energy as you'll get back burning the hydrogen IIRC).
" Given that Orrin wants all P2P technology banned, would this be terminated as well if he succeeds? Or does this give P2P the legitimacy it needs to exists."
This is the first app to give P2P legitimacy. If corps start using it over VPNs to connect branch/remote locations to the main office then P2P is here to stay as they will buy Hach's opinion. -nB
What is really scarry, is that I know a guy that really is this parinoid. He routinely connects up his 110 mains to the phone lines to kill any "bugs" (nevermind that the ring voltage on a phone is at least 90 VAC).
I used to think all this was funny till I met him. Now I fear one of the loonies will do someting to "protect" everyone that ends up killing me;-) -nB
--"For all the XBMC fans here - MCE has moved far beyond what XMBC offers in terms functionality - and knee jerk reactions won't change that. XMBC is itself a pretty blatant rip-off of the MCE interface (I never realized how true this was till I looked at Tivo and ReplayTV and realized that they DON'T look like MCE - but XBMC does.)"
Just the skin looks like a rip-off I don't think it has the same codebase:-)
--" The MCE Extenders give you the ability to watch live tv and use the guide, pause/rewind/skip, scedule recordings etc. All of the PVR functionality that is in Media Center on the PC is also available on the extender device. The fact that all the real work is taking place on the PC 'server' is transparent."
I often work with both my LCD and notebook displays on using the notebook display as my primary and the LCD for reference guides/schematics/etc. Big boost to productivity and less mousing!
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*rolls eyes*
_raises middle finger_
This actually has been a large problem and is one of the reasons people mod their boxes. As stated earlier, the drive does not spin down if there is a disk in it. This puts tons of excess wear on the drive. Design flaw.
If you mod your box you can rip your games to a large HDD any only use your DVD drive when playing on !Live.
-nB
That'd be fine if the Xbox used an off the shelf DVD drive. . .
-nB
I know of no store who will take an item back after the manufacturers warrenty expires (90 days in this case) without an extended warrenty having been purchased.
On a semi-related note,
The number one repair I see in my "shop" is assed up mod attempts, followed closely by dying DVD-rom drives. The reason? The drives never spin down once a game is inserted. if the game disk is out of round for any reason, even by a timy ammount the drive doesn't stand a chance.
-nB
Got a media reference? I live in the area and have heard nothing about it.
-nB
I call bullshit.
:-)
What about the check stock you can buy at office supply stores. What about the checks I'v drafted on my deposit slips? (granted it can be tough to get the retailer to accept those
-nB
what's really funny is you gor an insightful mod!
-nB
you are both geeks.
My point is that many of the "Geeks" are not. Geekdom IMHO is an in depth understanding of one's field that can only be gotten with a love for that field.
If you're doing "a job" you are not a geek. If you are getting paid to play with whatever you love then you are a geek.
-nB
I've had 2K crash hard on me a couple times.
-nB
way to waste mod points on a karma modifier dumbass(es)!
I thought it was a funny joke!
you know:
The king is dead, long live the king!
BSD is dead, long live BSD!
I realize if I have to explain the joke it was not sufficiently funny but geeze the mods bug me sometimes
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Oooh that would be fun!
. .
We could have broadband enabled BBSs that could interlink to each other and we could pass messages at little to no cost across the world from one BBS to the next. .
wait. . .
-nB
" BSD is dead"
Long live BSD
-nB
it's just that IE is so tied to the OS that when it goes down so does the whole 'puter
-Nb
" Real geeks don't need instructions..."
Especially on something this basic... seriously.
-nB
I too am a geek who solders. I even make money at it when those who think they are soldering geeks aren't (see sig, repairs section).
.
Anyone who does not know how things work is not a pureblood geek. They are a half breed and are polluting the geek master . . . uh, this is getting ugly isn't it?
Ok. .
Hacker geek: one who solders, bodges logic and code to do ones bidding
Nerdy geek: one who doesn't.
how's that.?
-nB
excellent link. I've added it to my links to teach people how to solder. /crosses fingers people don't learn so I can continue making $$ on repairs...
Have you visited my site?
If you have you will no-where find tools or instructions for piracy of games. I have two open letters to M$ about homebrew content on their console. I have received numerous visits from M$ IP addresses three DMCA notices, though I post no (C) IP on my site. I understand the double standard that is apparent and I see plenty of irony. The difference is that homebrew does not take money away from the game studios, piracy does; same for ripping and distributing movies.
-nB
I am gainfully employed, but of my income half my take-home (minus $60) goes to rent. I am curerntly supporting a wife and a kid and my wife is a full time student at a UC school. Per quarter books average $200+ Tuition is $$$$ per quarter (not semester). I have so little disposable income that it would make your head spin.
The website in my sig? The money I make from that pays for my DSL line and the excess will be paying for Halo2 (already pre-ordered). I'm as broke as you, yet I don't pirate. . . go figure.
-nB
Actually I live fairly close to a wind farm in CA and it would appear that it is not FUD. The personal sized wind turbines are not the problem, it is the large three blade ones that get within a foot of the ground. On a windy day the outside edge of the blades are moving fast enough to "not be there" through persistance of vision. A hawk will see it's prey and fly at it, often enough the path is through the blades zone of travel and THUNK, dead bird.
-nB
My point is that there is not a clean method to make it. The closest is frow corn, ferment it, distill it, crack it.
If you use wind there is an environmental impact in killing birds (notably birds of prey), solar is so dirty it almost makes oil look clean. Nuke is the best but has such a bad rep that it'll never happen in my lifetime.
-nB
I'd add to that:
.
Grey-beards and those who are gainfully employed in the non-IT segment of high tech.
I work with a couple of fellow hackers and we always get miffed with our co-workers wo e-mule this and kazza that . .
I'm only 28 and yet I find myself in a position which is very conservative when compared to my peers.
On the IT note, I don't know quite why it is but those who are in IT positions vs. those like myself who may perform the occasional IT function as part of a larger job scope tend to have remarkably different attitudes. . . good or bad I don't know, but different, yes.
-nB
"There are already hydrogen-burning vehicle prototypes which have negative emissions."
I call shenanigans!
This is the single biggest line of BS being fed to the media to promote H2 as a fuel.
The truth is that any (current) form of hydrogen fueled vehicle has more emissions than a properly tuned hydrocarbon fuel based vehicle of reasonable efficiency (hybrid for example).
Why? Because the production of the Hydrogen uses energy and lots of it! Most is begotten from petrol anyway because cracking the hydrocarbon chain takes less energy than cracking water (which takes nearly twice the amount of useful work energy as you'll get back burning the hydrogen IIRC).
" Given that Orrin wants all P2P technology banned, would this be terminated as well if he succeeds?
Or does this give P2P the legitimacy it needs to exists."
This is the first app to give P2P legitimacy.
If corps start using it over VPNs to connect branch/remote locations to the main office then P2P is here to stay as they will buy Hach's opinion.
-nB
What is really scarry, is that I know a guy that really is this parinoid. He routinely connects up his 110 mains to the phone lines to kill any "bugs" (nevermind that the ring voltage on a phone is at least 90 VAC).
;-)
I used to think all this was funny till I met him. Now I fear one of the loonies will do someting to "protect" everyone that ends up killing me
-nB
--"For all the XBMC fans here - MCE has moved far beyond what XMBC offers in terms functionality - and knee jerk reactions won't change that. XMBC is itself a pretty blatant rip-off of the MCE interface (I never realized how true this was till I looked at Tivo and ReplayTV and realized that they DON'T look like MCE - but XBMC does.)"
:-)
Just the skin looks like a rip-off I don't think it has the same codebase
--" The MCE Extenders give you the ability to watch live tv and use the guide, pause/rewind/skip, scedule recordings etc. All of the PVR functionality that is in Media Center on the PC is also available on the extender device. The fact that all the real work is taking place on the PC 'server' is transparent."
Not on the Xbox. It's a playback only device.
-nB
I often work with both my LCD and notebook displays on using the notebook display as my primary and the LCD for reference guides/schematics/etc. Big boost to productivity and less mousing!
-nB