Hmm, maybe they don't want people turning their Athlon XP's into MP's? I don't know man that might be a reason why the Opterons have 940 pins while the Athlon64 have 754 and 939pins but I doubt it. All I know is, AMD didn't like that XP>MP Mod, at least I think. Would you?:X
'Unfortunately, the earbuds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players'
This is bullshit. The size of earphones don't mean anything but the type.
If the huge muff-type earphones are sound isolating, then I'd say they are safer because you can listen to your music at a much lower volume. Same goes for the earbuds that are in-ear design like etymotics and shure's. Since it isolates outside sound, you don't need to crank the volume at an insane level.
That being said, I love it when i hop on the bus or subway and I hear this music coming from someone's earphones, so friggin loud that everyone sitting can hear. They are so going deaf.
If we can hear your music, there's a problem and you better fix it unless you want to use a huge funnel and stick that in your ear.
Some sort of machine that tells people that they just did what they hate.
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We in America might be addicted to technology but it's nothing compared to Japan IMO.
Japan has toilets with buttons that sprays water at a temperature adapted to your anal temperature and whatnot, loads of electronics that we won't see for at least months to come and so many cellphones that all look like hello kitty or another japanese known animal.
Japan is by all means a really cool country with electronics more advanced than ours so really, are WE technology-addicted or are the people with electronic toilets?
That is not to say that it's weird. I'd love to own one of those toilets. I'd take a shit every minute to mess around with the buttons.
Seriously, why defend a piece of hardware and a company that equally wants as much money as the other that you think is bad?
Use whatever suits you. Regardless, I have to add a few things.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!?
WHo needs more than 640K of RAM? My point exactly. Although I agree that more doesn't necessarly mean better, you can't say that nobody needs seven controllers as they could somehow make use of that. Instead of 7 controllers, it might be like a few controllers, a remote like you can get for the PS2 for the dvd player and other various devices all plugged at the same time.
3) Developer backing. Bungie and Rare...and that's only naming two big name developers....EA is also signed on.
No I'm sorry but EA Games? What have they seriously fucking done well? Their games are always what they previously released with added trivial modifications like change the color of a hero's pubic hair. Yes, Rare and Bungie are big names in consoles but EA Games is doing exactly what we agreed that is bad, Quantity over Quality. Just thought I'd add that...
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right?Nope. 320x240.
Apple sure did a lot of things right in the past but this is one thing that's wrong and here I agree with your attitude towards this.
Even some porn sites offer you choices of many resolutions to satisfy most customers and yet, a big company like Apple cannot do a task as simple as recompressing a video into different resolutions. 320x240? That's so, not today.
I'll stick to normal TV for now even though I barely watch it, for things like Family Guy.
let me say that I get kind of tired of asking for help at a store only to be told that I should read the box
Depends what kind of questions you ask really. If the customer asks "How much memory this computer has" and it clearly says 1gb, what is the employee suppose to do? Dance and say it's la fiesta?
On the other hand, if the person asks something like "How much cache does this athlon64 have" and there's no information given, yeah obviously the employee sucks for making you read stuff when they are suppose to know the producst they sell, at least that's how it's suppose to. Obviously none of them really know other than how to sell extended waranties.
I do agree that shopping online kicks ass. The fact that I can shop anything without moving my ass, that you can have reviews written by customers on stores like Amazon and Newegg is a major major plus IMHO. On top of that, it's rather quite challenging to hack the prices out of an online store compared to what this dude pulled off with his barcodes.
If American citizens are frustrated and annoyed with their government's behavior, can someone please explain how expatriating will do anything but make the problem worse?
That's like saying If Windows users are frustrated and annoyed with the viruses/trojans/crash that they get, can someone please explain how moving to OS-X will do any good?
Yes, Microsoft does gather big revenues probably from their ads, but from people like you who don't take the time to read while configuring/installing stuff.
MSN Messenger's installer offers you the choice to setup MSN as your home page with the MSN toolbar and all the other crap. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO UNCHECK THOSE. Therefore, it's your fault if you complain about those because they give you a choice. Same for WMP. Bookmarks with IE? Delete them or don't use IE. Products sold through Windows Catalogue? Who's pointing a gun to your head telling you to look at it?
Are you telling me, with a straight face, that you aren't a lazy geek who complains about MS-Related ads/services that can be turned off/disabled? Get that poker face out because you'll need it.
Would one be able to finally compile cedega under an intel-running OS-X system to play games so that people can stop bitching about the lack of games running on Macs?
high budget microphones to hear their voices while singing every 2 minutes.
Rapsani: You killed my brother, how dare you then sleep with my sister! Hajil: No, it was him Gandapana! Look, he's running away. Let's Sing!
Then you see 30 indians break into a dance while the evil killer is running away WHILE singing AND dancing.
I bet the stories in Bollywood movies are much more interesting than the stories of today's Hollywood movies, regardless of how much they sing and/or dance.
Enough with the proprietary memory stick technology already!
Yesyes, because we all know that 90%, heck even 60% of the consumers spend their time messing around with hardware and developing for an open format.
I hate company's that use a stick to sell their product.
Oh wow. I didn't know it was abnormal for a company to support its products. If you had a company and your company created some kind of USB-like device claiming that it's as good if not, better than USB Memory Keys and your company ends up using USB keys, I'll bet my last dollar that you wouldn't be too happy about it. They spend time and millions researching and developing into whatever project and you expect the company to just ditch it and support things made by other companies?
A memory carrot would be more to my liking. (Can you say SD, or MMC?)
If you want SD go with an SD-compatible Device. End of story. I'm surprised that it surprised you that Sony would use memory stick. There is a long history behind Sony renown to work hard in pushing its closed/proprietary formats (betamax, minidisc, memory stick, etc.) so really, no need for bitching about the obvious. It took how long for Sony to start supporting mp3's on their minidiscs and other mp3 players? They tried hard with the ATRAC format but they recognized a problem, that it sucked and that mp3 was to widespread so they fixed that after years of sticking up to their ambition.
What do you care what? they use to make the movie? You must be like the uber linux/oss zealot.
All I ask from Hollywood is movies worth paying for and lately, in general, they are failing. I don't give a shit what equipment or software they use whether its OSS or Microsoft products. I just want to get out from the movie theatre and say to myself "Now that was a good movie!". I haven't had one of those in a long time.
If you wake up every morning and think "wow, I'm pumped up to get to work because I love the stuff I do" then you'll always be happy.
Why did I just remember Seinfeld?
GEORGE: I got me an appointment with a hardware store. I'm not saying I want to do it for the rest of my life, but hardware really fascinates me. Wouldn't you love to make a key!?
George Costanza, a wise man indeed.
What you _DONT_ want to do is to sell computers with your Dad such as George did.
Frank: You single-handedly brought Costanza and Son to the brink of bankruptcy. George: Well what about all the Lloyd Braun sales? Frank: He's crazy. His phone wasn't even hooked up. He just liked ringing that bell.
or you'll end up yelling HOOCHIEEEE MAMAAAAAAAAA during your shifts.
You respect a rich and powerful man for living a modest life but don't think for a second how you would live your life if you were that person.
Do you think the average person would live a modest life with a Ford Tempo if they were rich? I know I wouldn't and I doubt you or the average slashdotter would.
I know I'd buy a shitload of crap like an expensive house and car and send my kids to the best school possible. Why not take advantage of the opportunity? It's not like it will turn you into an evil business men. That's a choice.
I don't know where this "California" of yours is but on Earth, every teenager has an old civic with a muffler that plays the trumpet with a few TYPE-R stickers on it and a so-called skirt kit that is good enough to plow the snow of our drive ways.
You ask them what a charger or a mustang boss429 is and they'll reply "What? HEY DID YOU WATCH THE BACHELORETTE SHE'S HAWT!" -_-
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start with COBOL, unless you need to learn English.
Will they always wear the same clothes to make it more accurate?
Hmm, maybe they don't want people turning their Athlon XP's into MP's? I don't know man that might be a reason why the Opterons have 940 pins while the Athlon64 have 754 and 939pins but I doubt it. All I know is, AMD didn't like that XP>MP Mod, at least I think. Would you? :X
implement a voice that says "Up And ATHEM!"
Yeah it will be enough to draw the desktop but forget about seeing Clippy move. He's gonna be one laggy mofo!
'Unfortunately, the earbuds are even more likely to cause hearing loss than the muff-type earphones that were used on Walkman and portable CD players' This is bullshit. The size of earphones don't mean anything but the type. If the huge muff-type earphones are sound isolating, then I'd say they are safer because you can listen to your music at a much lower volume. Same goes for the earbuds that are in-ear design like etymotics and shure's. Since it isolates outside sound, you don't need to crank the volume at an insane level. That being said, I love it when i hop on the bus or subway and I hear this music coming from someone's earphones, so friggin loud that everyone sitting can hear. They are so going deaf. If we can hear your music, there's a problem and you better fix it unless you want to use a huge funnel and stick that in your ear.
Some sort of machine that tells people that they just did what they hate.
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We in America might be addicted to technology but it's nothing compared to Japan IMO.
Japan has toilets with buttons that sprays water at a temperature adapted to your anal temperature and whatnot, loads of electronics that we won't see for at least months to come and so many cellphones that all look like hello kitty or another japanese known animal.
Japan is by all means a really cool country with electronics more advanced than ours so really, are WE technology-addicted or are the people with electronic toilets?
That is not to say that it's weird. I'd love to own one of those toilets. I'd take a shit every minute to mess around with the buttons.
And guess what? You'll never need to go that far. Your nearest convenient store is perfect to look up stuff about Janet Jackson :X
Seriously, why defend a piece of hardware and a company that equally wants as much money as the other that you think is bad?
Use whatever suits you. Regardless, I have to add a few things.
WHO NEEDS SEVEN CONTROLLERS ON ONE BOX!?
WHo needs more than 640K of RAM? My point exactly. Although I agree that more doesn't necessarly mean better, you can't say that nobody needs seven controllers as they could somehow make use of that. Instead of 7 controllers, it might be like a few controllers, a remote like you can get for the PS2 for the dvd player and other various devices all plugged at the same time.
3) Developer backing. Bungie and Rare...and that's only naming two big name developers....EA is also signed on.
No I'm sorry but EA Games? What have they seriously fucking done well? Their games are always what they previously released with added trivial modifications like change the color of a hero's pubic hair. Yes, Rare and Bungie are big names in consoles but EA Games is doing exactly what we agreed that is bad, Quantity over Quality. Just thought I'd add that...
I am Cornholio!
I need RSS for my bunghole!
Well at least the new episodes of Law & Order, which are filmed in HDTV, will be shown in brilliant 1280x720 resolution, right?Nope. 320x240.
Apple sure did a lot of things right in the past but this is one thing that's wrong and here I agree with your attitude towards this.
Even some porn sites offer you choices of many resolutions to satisfy most customers and yet, a big company like Apple cannot do a task as simple as recompressing a video into different resolutions. 320x240? That's so, not today.
I'll stick to normal TV for now even though I barely watch it, for things like Family Guy.
let me say that I get kind of tired of asking for help at a store only to be told that I should read the box
Depends what kind of questions you ask really. If the customer asks "How much memory this computer has" and it clearly says 1gb, what is the employee suppose to do? Dance and say it's la fiesta?
On the other hand, if the person asks something like "How much cache does this athlon64 have" and there's no information given, yeah obviously the employee sucks for making you read stuff when they are suppose to know the producst they sell, at least that's how it's suppose to. Obviously none of them really know other than how to sell extended waranties.
I do agree that shopping online kicks ass. The fact that I can shop anything without moving my ass, that you can have reviews written by customers on stores like Amazon and Newegg is a major major plus IMHO. On top of that, it's rather quite challenging to hack the prices out of an online store compared to what this dude pulled off with his barcodes.
If American citizens are frustrated and annoyed with their government's behavior, can someone please explain how expatriating will do anything but make the problem worse?
:X
That's like saying If Windows users are frustrated and annoyed with the viruses/trojans/crash that they get, can someone please explain how moving to OS-X will do any good?
**runs away from OSX Zealots**
Yes, Microsoft does gather big revenues probably from their ads, but from people like you who don't take the time to read while configuring/installing stuff.
MSN Messenger's installer offers you the choice to setup MSN as your home page with the MSN toolbar and all the other crap. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO UNCHECK THOSE. Therefore, it's your fault if you complain about those because they give you a choice. Same for WMP. Bookmarks with IE? Delete them or don't use IE. Products sold through Windows Catalogue? Who's pointing a gun to your head telling you to look at it?
Are you telling me, with a straight face, that you aren't a lazy geek who complains about MS-Related ads/services that can be turned off/disabled? Get that poker face out because you'll need it.
How is that different from cars?
Would one be able to finally compile cedega under an intel-running OS-X system to play games so that people can stop bitching about the lack of games running on Macs?
high budget microphones to hear their voices while singing every 2 minutes.
Rapsani: You killed my brother, how dare you then sleep with my sister!
Hajil: No, it was him Gandapana! Look, he's running away. Let's Sing!
Then you see 30 indians break into a dance while the evil killer is running away WHILE singing AND dancing.
I bet the stories in Bollywood movies are much more interesting than the stories of today's Hollywood movies, regardless of how much they sing and/or dance.
Enough with the proprietary memory stick technology already!
Yesyes, because we all know that 90%, heck even 60% of the consumers spend their time messing around with hardware and developing for an open format.
I hate company's that use a stick to sell their product.
Oh wow. I didn't know it was abnormal for a company to support its products. If you had a company and your company created some kind of USB-like device claiming that it's as good if not, better than USB Memory Keys and your company ends up using USB keys, I'll bet my last dollar that you wouldn't be too happy about it. They spend time and millions researching and developing into whatever project and you expect the company to just ditch it and support things made by other companies?
A memory carrot would be more to my liking. (Can you say SD, or MMC?)
If you want SD go with an SD-compatible Device. End of story. I'm surprised that it surprised you that Sony would use memory stick. There is a long history behind Sony renown to work hard in pushing its closed/proprietary formats (betamax, minidisc, memory stick, etc.) so really, no need for bitching about the obvious. It took how long for Sony to start supporting mp3's on their minidiscs and other mp3 players? They tried hard with the ATRAC format but they recognized a problem, that it sucked and that mp3 was to widespread so they fixed that after years of sticking up to their ambition.
What do you care what? they use to make the movie? You must be like the uber linux/oss zealot.
All I ask from Hollywood is movies worth paying for and lately, in general, they are failing. I don't give a shit what equipment or software they use whether its OSS or Microsoft products. I just want to get out from the movie theatre and say to myself "Now that was a good movie!". I haven't had one of those in a long time.
In Korea, old people do surveys.
If you wake up every morning and think "wow, I'm pumped up to get to work because I love the stuff I do" then you'll always be happy.
Why did I just remember Seinfeld?
GEORGE: I got me an appointment with a hardware store. I'm not saying I want to do it for the rest of my life, but hardware really fascinates me. Wouldn't you love to make a key!?
George Costanza, a wise man indeed.
What you _DONT_ want to do is to sell computers with your Dad such as George did.
Frank: You single-handedly brought Costanza and Son to the brink of bankruptcy.
George: Well what about all the Lloyd Braun sales?
Frank: He's crazy. His phone wasn't even hooked up. He just liked ringing that bell.
or you'll end up yelling HOOCHIEEEE MAMAAAAAAAAA during your shifts.
You respect a rich and powerful man for living a modest life but don't think for a second how you would live your life if you were that person.
Do you think the average person would live a modest life with a Ford Tempo if they were rich? I know I wouldn't and I doubt you or the average slashdotter would.
I know I'd buy a shitload of crap like an expensive house and car and send my kids to the best school possible. Why not take advantage of the opportunity? It's not like it will turn you into an evil business men. That's a choice.
Google will probably claim that Mars is made of Cheese like The Moon
I don't know where this "California" of yours is but on Earth, every teenager has an old civic with a muffler that plays the trumpet with a few TYPE-R stickers on it and a so-called skirt kit that is good enough to plow the snow of our drive ways.
You ask them what a charger or a mustang boss429 is and they'll reply "What? HEY DID YOU WATCH THE BACHELORETTE SHE'S HAWT!" -_-