Um, hi, um, I drive a used 2001 Ford Taurus, it has over 100k miles on it, the mass air flow sensor is out, I just had to replace my alternator and battery and my heater does not work. Most everyone that I know (these are the "working class") drive old used cars and not shiny new SUVs. Take your moronic stereotype and shut the fuck up. Now, on the other hand, all of the "upper class", like my jerk-off cousin, drive shiny new gas guzzling cars that they don't need, but "can afford" and they just feel all special and if I don't like it, I am just "jealous" (right Alan Burns?). Problem is, to really fix that, we will need to be a socialist country, so, jump on board the Hillary Express and you too can be even with everyone else (well, except her and her buddies and her buddies buddies and so on and so on (like the Brek Girl commercials)). That is just part of capitalism and this culture here of "if you can't kiss ass better than someone else, you don't make as much money". I work hard and barely make a living, yes I have some extras but that's because I am living at home with mommy in some vain attempt to save enough to buy my own home to the tune of nearly half my paycheck each month. I can't afford to be legislated to fucking death by the worshipers of social health care and global warming. I just don't make enough money. It's honestly not "America" that has it's head up it's ass, it's CORPORATE AMERICA, which is honestly what runs this fucked up country right now, not the people. We have LONG since given up our power to the corporations. There is very little the little guy like I can do except educate myself and not vote for someone because they are female and the wife of an ex-president that "I think will do a good job". Flame on my brothers and sisters, flame on!
A good way to get started is an entry level Dobsonian mounted Newtonian reflector of about the 4' to 8" range depending on what's on sale and your level of light pollution. They sometimes will come with some starter lenses. If not that route, a good set of QUALITY binoculars. Check www.telescope.com, this is the home page for Orion who sells tons of astronomy stuff and has several getting started guides. Later, get good glass; i.e. lenses (glass is everything). This is true for the SLR area as well. The camera body is nothing, the glass is everything. Any old 35mm body will work, actually better than digital because of the overheating issues with CCDs. Thing is, $1000 would get you either a really good scope, OR a good mount and coming from having a really crappy mount, the mount is more important as you can change the scope body with a larger aperture very easily. Crappy mounts shake and are hard to control, imagine finally finding Saturn, then you go to focus and it moves the scope and you loose it, ugh. Happy viewing.
to fly a plane around the world non-stop without refueling was NOT Steve Fossett, it was Burt Rutan and Jeana Yeager in the Voyager that Dick Rutan designed and built.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
They don't try to force the customers to pay for this, they offer it as a service. Just like the service of installing antivirus software. Yes to us it's easy to do, but to j6p, doing this for them is making things easier. The reason you charge, is because it takes time, actually, this takes more time than updating the operating system, installing AV, removing the crapware and anything else. The main reason it's offered, is because 9 out of 10 of these customers will just ignore the dialog asking them to make the discs and then all of the sudden, they are ate up with viruses and spyware from downloading from LimeWire. And, since they didn't get the antivirus and antispyware installed, that's been expired. Anyway, start bashing BestBuy, seems to be a close second place to bashing microsoft around here.
In other words, the people who paid believed that the format they don't want to win, Blu-ray, is worth $150 million more than their HD DVD format in true value, so to even the score they had to pay.
Spoken like a true BR fanboy. It always amazes me to no end how you people go complete bonkers about any positive news for HD. What do you think the BDA has been doing lately? Huh? You think Target just up and decided not to sell HD for their health? Hell no, they got paid you fool. If you think that the BDA is not shelling out millions upon millions to buy the format into success, you are a complete fool. Frankly, any studio or retail that decided to choose either format at this point in the game is frankly moronic. Fine PR is selling discs 2:1, well HD is selling stand alone players out the ass compared to BR. Why? Price of the players, I got my HD player for about $250, impulse buy because Heroes is HD only. Had Heroes not come out on HD and been BR only, I would not have bothered because the damned BR players are too expensive and the stand alone players all suck ass! The only decent BR player is the PS3, period. Both formats are terrific, and if there was a BR player under $400 that I knew would actually be capable of playing the movies coming out in the future (and didn't suck so bad), I would have both! As it is, the HD is the only one I can afford. Also, HD is the ONLY format that at the time of the players hitting the shelves, had full feature support on the players. The first and second generation BR players do not have support for all the features (yes fanboy I know what a firmware update is) because they are not even finalized yet. It won't be until after Oct. 31 that BR players are mandated to have PiP, HD has been doing that since day one. The video encode is THE SAME (well except for the first batches of BR which used MPEG2 because some arrogant company *ahem*SONY*ahem* did not have the authoring tools ready). BDA has been late to the gate in every step of the game here and is only selling more movies because of the PS3. And this is only because there are no killer games coming out and since the owners are bored, they decide to rent/buy a movie to feed their $600 monster. Well, that's my thought at least. One thing is clear to me, BR would be tanking if not for the BDA buying off retailers and studios; not having the studios owned by Sony; and the PS3 hype. Feature to feature, HD has been in the lead from the start, manufacturing costs for HD is very little more than DVD, you use the same equipment as the physical disc structure is the same between HD and DVD; BR requires a much different process and costs much more (gee, I wonder why I see BR discs that cost less than HD discs when they cost so much more to make, hmmm, BDA buy off? could be). Any superiority between the formats really amounts to nothing, they both sound and look great, 20GB, big deal, still plenty enough room for the movie and extras out the wazoo. As soon as there is a capable BR player that I can afford, I will be buying one, that won't be for a while due to the arrogance of the BDA not lowering the price, and that arrogance is quite enough for me to just not bother with BR until they get their act together. It just reminds me too much of the rootkit situation.
hmm, that's good to know about the noise level, thanks. I am curious, does the PS3 support Dolby TrueHD or whatever it's called? What about HDMI 1.3, BDj1.1 or what ever the new one is? (just answered my questions on the HDMI, yes 1.3, Dolby TrueHD, yes, still don't know about the BDj stuff) Sort of bums me out that I may have picked the looser in this battle, but oh well. I won't have a massive library of HD stuff, I will get the 5 free ones, find some used ones here and there, and of course the exclusives that I like such as Heroes and all. Here is what gets me, of all the catalog of titles, 90% of what I want and like are HD and a lot are HD only. Smallville, Star Trek, BSG, Heroes, John Wayne, 2001 and a few others. Then, there is the decision later this year of Blade Runner. I mean, I want that bad! It will be on both formats, but should I just get the HD or wait all together until I get a BR player? ARG! I just cannot afford a BR player right now, they are just too expensive! What really irritates me is the perceived arrogance of the BR camp at the prices of the players. The HD camp has realized that a lower cost player can and will entice people to take the plunge as I did. At the moment, I don't even know if I would have chosen BR over HD if the players had been the same price. Why? One word...Heroes.
I was under the impression that Blockbuster has not officially stated they won't carry HD-DVD, they said that most stores will carry Blu-ray only, some will have both, could be wrong. Where did you see that stores are canceling HD orders? Best Buy has a ton of both, had 300 today. Basically, it looks like Best Buy and etc are getting bribes to push Blu-ray to me, as I was asked no less than 3 times about getting Blu-ray instead of HD, and I used to work there. However, of the "normal" people I know, most have HD and not Blu-ray because they have a 360 and have added the HD drive. Very few people I know have a PS3, of those that do, they care less about Blu-ray movies. Most, if not all, are still buying DVD because they still do not have a capable TV. This is not research, just personal experience here. What of the rumor that Wal-mart had orders for thousands of HD players? Target said they will only sell Blu-ray players, nothing I saw about the content, this could be a counter to the Wal-mart rumor. Also, it seems that this exclusive thing is also not accurate, Sony bought an end cap to demo the thing, HD didn't. Nothing about not selling HD. One of the best things about HD over Blu-ray is the total lack of region coding. Meaning that I can buy T2 from France and play it. If HD dies, it dies, I am not willing to bury it yet. Also, capacity does not mean superiority. Either is sufficient, either looks great, either sounds great. Hell, if a Blu-ray player drops to $250, I am there! I will still be buying HD as my choice however due to the lack of regioning, perhaps I am a fool. Not the first or last time. What matters most to me is that I get to see great looking movies on my 50" Plasma. How I do it, is of little concern. There is honestly room for both formats.
Which for mat is liked best? Well, for me it's the one I can afford! Hell $2000 on my 50" Plasma and all I could afford was the Toshiba HD-A2, on sale for $240, plus 5 free movies by mail. The closest Blu-Ray is $400 for the older 20GB PS3 and I don't want some noisy player like that, the lowest standalone is about $500. With my HD, the quality is awesome (yes I know the HD-A2 only goes 1080i, but that the best my TV does also, works out that way), I love how the menus work, up-conversion is wonderful. My only complaint is how long it takes to boot up. But, my older Onkyo 6 disc changer takes almost that long. Very few glitches with it so far. Put in Apollo 13 and the sound was all distorted. Popped in Firefly and it was fine, put Apollo 13 back in and it was ok. Just after the firmware update, movie looked like it was playing in 4:3 mode, stopped it, checked settings, restarted, back to 16:9. If/when the Blu-ray players drop, I will get one, I don't mind buying another player for around $250 if the titles are there. So far, there are only a few on Blu-ray that I want. Most are HD, the pushing point for me was Heroes on HD which also means BSG on HD since they are the same parent network (crosses fingers). About the only titles I would see wanting Blu-ray for are *some* Disney titles, mostly the Pixar stuff. Perhaps by that time, Disney will go format neutral, HD will win, or Blu-ray will be affordable.
The CD is not necessary, it's just stupid IE and Outlook branding crap, hijacking your home page, installing BS toolbars, dumb shortcuts to crap and other annoying crap. As far as linux support, I use an IPCop firewall, and while I was able to get an IP, I had to manually enter the DNS. When I asked them what their DNS address was, the guy would not give it to me because it was "dynamic, it will change". I said, whatever, ok, I will just use Earthlink's DNS (as I was previously on Earthlink dialup) and never had another issue. But, that's just my experience.
After all, they did not BUY this from someone else. They came up with it on their own. We all know, Microsoft's best products were purchased from someone else. Excel for example.
My aunt and Mother were both working at a bank in Houston, TX that got the first ATM in the city (or so the story goes). One was inside the bank working on the internals of the ATM, and the other outside. As the wall was relatively thin, they could talk to each other and work on the problem. Well, after they got done, a customer arrived to use the new and fancy gadget. He began speaking to the ATM and telling it what amount of money he wanted. Always found that story to be funny.
gah, good point. I remember saying that about XP myself. I was happy with 2000 and didn't want XP. I didn't like the Fisher Price interface. I can't remember what or when the time was that I upgraded (but for certain it was after a serial was available so I didn't have to pay). I got used to the FP look and liked the functionality of the new start menu. Things were easier to find. Also, the hardware requirements needed from going to 2000 to XP were not as extreme as going from XP to Vista. Honestly to me, there were fewer incentives to move from 2000 to XP than there are to move from XP to Vista. The only incentive I can see with Vista is DX10. I firmly believe that when the first DX10 only games hit the shelfs and actually stay there, we will suddenly see DX10 for XP on our Windows Updates selection. You can't tell me they don't have it on XP and you can't tell me they are not preparing for this inevitability. As ignorant as M$ can be, they see dollar signs very well. To me, things in Vista are just to hard to find, hell even the simple act of shutting down, logging off, etc has been made 10x more complicated. The radical renaming and relocating of things has not been fun for me either. Even from 9x to XP things did not change this much. Who knows, maybe Vista will catch on, after SP1, but I just think that it's not what people want right now. What people want is a computer that will work better and do more with less. Looks really are not on the list for PC owners, that's for Apple owners. What we have been "given" is a bunch of shinny crap that is hard to use, has less performance, more annoyance, less usability, less compatibility, tons of unwanted "features" (DRM is what I mean), and seemingly nothing that was actually promised to us (WinFS for instance). How on earth M$ could see Vista as being a success is beyond me honestly.
Um, actually, the SR-71, for its time, was quite stealthy. The chines were constructed to reduce radar signature and it was coated with an early RAM material. About the only time you could see it well on radar was during a turn as the underside was poorly designed with regards to radar signature and would reflect a massive radar signature. Several of its accidentally stealthy characteristics are what brought on the interest in the creation of Have Blue, the predecessor to the F-117. They correctly deduced that these radar absorbing and scattering characteristics could be amplified with a correctly shaped object, thus was created the "Hopeless Diamond" which was a computer modeled object that when placed on a radar range, directly reflected almost no radar signature. In fact, during the test, they thought that the model had come off the stand and were prepared to go down the range to fix the issue, about this time, a small bird landed on the model creating a radar signature. This was their eureka moment. Regardless, radar lock was certainly possible to acquire on the SR-71, however, do defend itself, the pilot simply needed to add power for a few seconds and it would accelerate out of the missile's range very quickly.
You sound like where I work. We handle SAGE stuff and I was telling our QB/SAGE person about this and she was like "great!". This is a big deal, it's the first step. Later maybe a client, but that's not what is most important really, it's the server side. Most of our clients however use SAGE products if they consider the Enterprise QB, but this could really start to change that with a lower cost server to run it on. And I agree completely, lots and lots of medium companies would love to use Linux as a server and keep Windows for the workstations. Hell, they can't teach a luser to use a Linux desktop! But, Windows, for sure. And, they don't ever need to know how to setup Linux, that's what WE are for! And, yes, THANK YOU SAMBA!!!!! Very good and valid points you have made!
If the judge is this much of a moron, he will get the RAM chips, have them installed in a system, discover they are devoid of recoverable data, and then say the defendants are in contempt of court.
I agree, and for my place of employment, this could be a nice thing. We have many clients that can barely afford the license for QuickBooks period, much less a server OS to run the backend on. Thus, what happens is, it gets installed on a workstation, which is not the best of ideas. Now, we can just point them to a less expensive server with RedHat, or heck BSD if it will work, and save them some money if all they are needing is QuickBooks and a file/print server.
How would this affect you unless you go to purchase a firearm? Answer, it won't. Do yourself a favor, and start listening to the old sound bites of your hero Hillary and Al and listen to the hypocrisy. When at one point they are screaming that the administration is doing nothing about terrorism in light of hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction and then years later is screaming that the administration did something about terrorism in light of bad/faulty evidence of weapons of mass destruction, you have to start to wonder, which party is the one telling you what you want to hear no matter what they believe in order to get you against the other party. Then you have to start to wonder if that's the only thing that matters to them, standing up for something they really believe or just saying whatever will get them another vote. Nothing makes libs happy anyway, everything the other party does will have fault no matter if yesterday you supported it. The only thing that seems to matter to libs is who gets credit for what and if they can make the other party look bad.
The real thing here is, even the NRA realizes that the right to own a firearm does not mean that you should be able to if you are clearly mentally unstable. And, if that means that some of your privacy is in jeopardy when you apply for a firearm, so be it. Those of us that love this country and it's laws that allow us to own a firearm understand this. If you like Japan so much, by all means, go there. No one is keeping you here and forcing you to have your privacy violated (even when it's not as you don't want to own a firearm). Anyway, flame on.
Do wha? The last time I heard the White Lion version was right after I re-ripped my CD collection after a drive crash. I never hear White Lion's version, I always hear Golden Earing's version on the radio. But, what do I know.
For real! I mean, I loved White Lion back in the 80's, Vito Brata was awesome and their version of Radar Love was pretty good, but there is no comparison to the original by Golden Earing! Good grief!
As a hockey fan, in the south no doubt, one reason is because of the shitty quality, mostly because of these damned sling(shit)boxes. I can't tell you how many times I would be watching the game and the stupid sling(shit)box logo comes up because of network congestion. Thanks ESPN! It was great before the strike, way to go players! Greedy asshats would have gotten a better deal if they had taken what they were offered before they went on strike. I have hopes that things will improve, but this sure as hell does not fill me with confidence at all. A sling(shit)box is for you to play around with, NOT at all for professional quality broadcasts. Then again, this must not be what they are going for at Vs. and NBC.
So, the myth of drinking soda will make you short of breath seems to have some real credibility then. Boy, the lady at the cafeteria from school is gonna have a HUGE ego now!
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Um, hi, um, I drive a used 2001 Ford Taurus, it has over 100k miles on it, the mass air flow sensor is out, I just had to replace my alternator and battery and my heater does not work. Most everyone that I know (these are the "working class") drive old used cars and not shiny new SUVs. Take your moronic stereotype and shut the fuck up. Now, on the other hand, all of the "upper class", like my jerk-off cousin, drive shiny new gas guzzling cars that they don't need, but "can afford" and they just feel all special and if I don't like it, I am just "jealous" (right Alan Burns?). Problem is, to really fix that, we will need to be a socialist country, so, jump on board the Hillary Express and you too can be even with everyone else (well, except her and her buddies and her buddies buddies and so on and so on (like the Brek Girl commercials)). That is just part of capitalism and this culture here of "if you can't kiss ass better than someone else, you don't make as much money". I work hard and barely make a living, yes I have some extras but that's because I am living at home with mommy in some vain attempt to save enough to buy my own home to the tune of nearly half my paycheck each month. I can't afford to be legislated to fucking death by the worshipers of social health care and global warming. I just don't make enough money. It's honestly not "America" that has it's head up it's ass, it's CORPORATE AMERICA, which is honestly what runs this fucked up country right now, not the people. We have LONG since given up our power to the corporations. There is very little the little guy like I can do except educate myself and not vote for someone because they are female and the wife of an ex-president that "I think will do a good job". Flame on my brothers and sisters, flame on!
A good way to get started is an entry level Dobsonian mounted Newtonian reflector of about the 4' to 8" range depending on what's on sale and your level of light pollution. They sometimes will come with some starter lenses. If not that route, a good set of QUALITY binoculars. Check www.telescope.com, this is the home page for Orion who sells tons of astronomy stuff and has several getting started guides. Later, get good glass; i.e. lenses (glass is everything). This is true for the SLR area as well. The camera body is nothing, the glass is everything. Any old 35mm body will work, actually better than digital because of the overheating issues with CCDs. Thing is, $1000 would get you either a really good scope, OR a good mount and coming from having a really crappy mount, the mount is more important as you can change the scope body with a larger aperture very easily. Crappy mounts shake and are hard to control, imagine finally finding Saturn, then you go to focus and it moves the scope and you loose it, ugh. Happy viewing.
to fly a plane around the world non-stop without refueling was NOT Steve Fossett, it was Burt Rutan and Jeana Yeager in the Voyager that Dick Rutan designed and built. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
They don't try to force the customers to pay for this, they offer it as a service. Just like the service of installing antivirus software. Yes to us it's easy to do, but to j6p, doing this for them is making things easier. The reason you charge, is because it takes time, actually, this takes more time than updating the operating system, installing AV, removing the crapware and anything else. The main reason it's offered, is because 9 out of 10 of these customers will just ignore the dialog asking them to make the discs and then all of the sudden, they are ate up with viruses and spyware from downloading from LimeWire. And, since they didn't get the antivirus and antispyware installed, that's been expired. Anyway, start bashing BestBuy, seems to be a close second place to bashing microsoft around here.
In other words, the people who paid believed that the format they don't want to win, Blu-ray, is worth $150 million more than their HD DVD format in true value, so to even the score they had to pay.
Spoken like a true BR fanboy. It always amazes me to no end how you people go complete bonkers about any positive news for HD. What do you think the BDA has been doing lately? Huh? You think Target just up and decided not to sell HD for their health? Hell no, they got paid you fool. If you think that the BDA is not shelling out millions upon millions to buy the format into success, you are a complete fool. Frankly, any studio or retail that decided to choose either format at this point in the game is frankly moronic. Fine PR is selling discs 2:1, well HD is selling stand alone players out the ass compared to BR. Why? Price of the players, I got my HD player for about $250, impulse buy because Heroes is HD only. Had Heroes not come out on HD and been BR only, I would not have bothered because the damned BR players are too expensive and the stand alone players all suck ass! The only decent BR player is the PS3, period. Both formats are terrific, and if there was a BR player under $400 that I knew would actually be capable of playing the movies coming out in the future (and didn't suck so bad), I would have both! As it is, the HD is the only one I can afford. Also, HD is the ONLY format that at the time of the players hitting the shelves, had full feature support on the players. The first and second generation BR players do not have support for all the features (yes fanboy I know what a firmware update is) because they are not even finalized yet. It won't be until after Oct. 31 that BR players are mandated to have PiP, HD has been doing that since day one. The video encode is THE SAME (well except for the first batches of BR which used MPEG2 because some arrogant company *ahem*SONY*ahem* did not have the authoring tools ready). BDA has been late to the gate in every step of the game here and is only selling more movies because of the PS3. And this is only because there are no killer games coming out and since the owners are bored, they decide to rent/buy a movie to feed their $600 monster. Well, that's my thought at least. One thing is clear to me, BR would be tanking if not for the BDA buying off retailers and studios; not having the studios owned by Sony; and the PS3 hype. Feature to feature, HD has been in the lead from the start, manufacturing costs for HD is very little more than DVD, you use the same equipment as the physical disc structure is the same between HD and DVD; BR requires a much different process and costs much more (gee, I wonder why I see BR discs that cost less than HD discs when they cost so much more to make, hmmm, BDA buy off? could be). Any superiority between the formats really amounts to nothing, they both sound and look great, 20GB, big deal, still plenty enough room for the movie and extras out the wazoo. As soon as there is a capable BR player that I can afford, I will be buying one, that won't be for a while due to the arrogance of the BDA not lowering the price, and that arrogance is quite enough for me to just not bother with BR until they get their act together. It just reminds me too much of the rootkit situation.
A federal mandate that parents actually provide parenting for their children. This opposed to the government providing it for them. Radical, huh?
hmm, that's good to know about the noise level, thanks. I am curious, does the PS3 support Dolby TrueHD or whatever it's called? What about HDMI 1.3, BDj1.1 or what ever the new one is? (just answered my questions on the HDMI, yes 1.3, Dolby TrueHD, yes, still don't know about the BDj stuff) Sort of bums me out that I may have picked the looser in this battle, but oh well. I won't have a massive library of HD stuff, I will get the 5 free ones, find some used ones here and there, and of course the exclusives that I like such as Heroes and all. Here is what gets me, of all the catalog of titles, 90% of what I want and like are HD and a lot are HD only. Smallville, Star Trek, BSG, Heroes, John Wayne, 2001 and a few others. Then, there is the decision later this year of Blade Runner. I mean, I want that bad! It will be on both formats, but should I just get the HD or wait all together until I get a BR player? ARG! I just cannot afford a BR player right now, they are just too expensive! What really irritates me is the perceived arrogance of the BR camp at the prices of the players. The HD camp has realized that a lower cost player can and will entice people to take the plunge as I did. At the moment, I don't even know if I would have chosen BR over HD if the players had been the same price. Why? One word...Heroes.
I was under the impression that Blockbuster has not officially stated they won't carry HD-DVD, they said that most stores will carry Blu-ray only, some will have both, could be wrong. Where did you see that stores are canceling HD orders? Best Buy has a ton of both, had 300 today. Basically, it looks like Best Buy and etc are getting bribes to push Blu-ray to me, as I was asked no less than 3 times about getting Blu-ray instead of HD, and I used to work there. However, of the "normal" people I know, most have HD and not Blu-ray because they have a 360 and have added the HD drive. Very few people I know have a PS3, of those that do, they care less about Blu-ray movies. Most, if not all, are still buying DVD because they still do not have a capable TV. This is not research, just personal experience here. What of the rumor that Wal-mart had orders for thousands of HD players? Target said they will only sell Blu-ray players, nothing I saw about the content, this could be a counter to the Wal-mart rumor. Also, it seems that this exclusive thing is also not accurate, Sony bought an end cap to demo the thing, HD didn't. Nothing about not selling HD. One of the best things about HD over Blu-ray is the total lack of region coding. Meaning that I can buy T2 from France and play it. If HD dies, it dies, I am not willing to bury it yet. Also, capacity does not mean superiority. Either is sufficient, either looks great, either sounds great. Hell, if a Blu-ray player drops to $250, I am there! I will still be buying HD as my choice however due to the lack of regioning, perhaps I am a fool. Not the first or last time. What matters most to me is that I get to see great looking movies on my 50" Plasma. How I do it, is of little concern. There is honestly room for both formats.
Which for mat is liked best? Well, for me it's the one I can afford! Hell $2000 on my 50" Plasma and all I could afford was the Toshiba HD-A2, on sale for $240, plus 5 free movies by mail. The closest Blu-Ray is $400 for the older 20GB PS3 and I don't want some noisy player like that, the lowest standalone is about $500. With my HD, the quality is awesome (yes I know the HD-A2 only goes 1080i, but that the best my TV does also, works out that way), I love how the menus work, up-conversion is wonderful. My only complaint is how long it takes to boot up. But, my older Onkyo 6 disc changer takes almost that long. Very few glitches with it so far. Put in Apollo 13 and the sound was all distorted. Popped in Firefly and it was fine, put Apollo 13 back in and it was ok. Just after the firmware update, movie looked like it was playing in 4:3 mode, stopped it, checked settings, restarted, back to 16:9. If/when the Blu-ray players drop, I will get one, I don't mind buying another player for around $250 if the titles are there. So far, there are only a few on Blu-ray that I want. Most are HD, the pushing point for me was Heroes on HD which also means BSG on HD since they are the same parent network (crosses fingers). About the only titles I would see wanting Blu-ray for are *some* Disney titles, mostly the Pixar stuff. Perhaps by that time, Disney will go format neutral, HD will win, or Blu-ray will be affordable.
The CD is not necessary, it's just stupid IE and Outlook branding crap, hijacking your home page, installing BS toolbars, dumb shortcuts to crap and other annoying crap. As far as linux support, I use an IPCop firewall, and while I was able to get an IP, I had to manually enter the DNS. When I asked them what their DNS address was, the guy would not give it to me because it was "dynamic, it will change". I said, whatever, ok, I will just use Earthlink's DNS (as I was previously on Earthlink dialup) and never had another issue. But, that's just my experience.
After all, they did not BUY this from someone else. They came up with it on their own. We all know, Microsoft's best products were purchased from someone else. Excel for example.
My aunt and Mother were both working at a bank in Houston, TX that got the first ATM in the city (or so the story goes). One was inside the bank working on the internals of the ATM, and the other outside. As the wall was relatively thin, they could talk to each other and work on the problem. Well, after they got done, a customer arrived to use the new and fancy gadget. He began speaking to the ATM and telling it what amount of money he wanted. Always found that story to be funny.
gah, good point. I remember saying that about XP myself. I was happy with 2000 and didn't want XP. I didn't like the Fisher Price interface. I can't remember what or when the time was that I upgraded (but for certain it was after a serial was available so I didn't have to pay). I got used to the FP look and liked the functionality of the new start menu. Things were easier to find. Also, the hardware requirements needed from going to 2000 to XP were not as extreme as going from XP to Vista. Honestly to me, there were fewer incentives to move from 2000 to XP than there are to move from XP to Vista. The only incentive I can see with Vista is DX10. I firmly believe that when the first DX10 only games hit the shelfs and actually stay there, we will suddenly see DX10 for XP on our Windows Updates selection. You can't tell me they don't have it on XP and you can't tell me they are not preparing for this inevitability. As ignorant as M$ can be, they see dollar signs very well. To me, things in Vista are just to hard to find, hell even the simple act of shutting down, logging off, etc has been made 10x more complicated. The radical renaming and relocating of things has not been fun for me either. Even from 9x to XP things did not change this much. Who knows, maybe Vista will catch on, after SP1, but I just think that it's not what people want right now. What people want is a computer that will work better and do more with less. Looks really are not on the list for PC owners, that's for Apple owners. What we have been "given" is a bunch of shinny crap that is hard to use, has less performance, more annoyance, less usability, less compatibility, tons of unwanted "features" (DRM is what I mean), and seemingly nothing that was actually promised to us (WinFS for instance). How on earth M$ could see Vista as being a success is beyond me honestly.
Good points, however, it was never it's primary goal to be stealthy, most of it's stealth characteristics were accidental. Still, it lead the way.
Um, actually, the SR-71, for its time, was quite stealthy. The chines were constructed to reduce radar signature and it was coated with an early RAM material. About the only time you could see it well on radar was during a turn as the underside was poorly designed with regards to radar signature and would reflect a massive radar signature. Several of its accidentally stealthy characteristics are what brought on the interest in the creation of Have Blue, the predecessor to the F-117. They correctly deduced that these radar absorbing and scattering characteristics could be amplified with a correctly shaped object, thus was created the "Hopeless Diamond" which was a computer modeled object that when placed on a radar range, directly reflected almost no radar signature. In fact, during the test, they thought that the model had come off the stand and were prepared to go down the range to fix the issue, about this time, a small bird landed on the model creating a radar signature. This was their eureka moment. Regardless, radar lock was certainly possible to acquire on the SR-71, however, do defend itself, the pilot simply needed to add power for a few seconds and it would accelerate out of the missile's range very quickly.
MS has support for the end user? That's a new one to me.
You sound like where I work. We handle SAGE stuff and I was telling our QB/SAGE person about this and she was like "great!". This is a big deal, it's the first step. Later maybe a client, but that's not what is most important really, it's the server side. Most of our clients however use SAGE products if they consider the Enterprise QB, but this could really start to change that with a lower cost server to run it on. And I agree completely, lots and lots of medium companies would love to use Linux as a server and keep Windows for the workstations. Hell, they can't teach a luser to use a Linux desktop! But, Windows, for sure. And, they don't ever need to know how to setup Linux, that's what WE are for! And, yes, THANK YOU SAMBA!!!!! Very good and valid points you have made!
If the judge is this much of a moron, he will get the RAM chips, have them installed in a system, discover they are devoid of recoverable data, and then say the defendants are in contempt of court.
I agree, and for my place of employment, this could be a nice thing. We have many clients that can barely afford the license for QuickBooks period, much less a server OS to run the backend on. Thus, what happens is, it gets installed on a workstation, which is not the best of ideas. Now, we can just point them to a less expensive server with RedHat, or heck BSD if it will work, and save them some money if all they are needing is QuickBooks and a file/print server.
The real thing here is, even the NRA realizes that the right to own a firearm does not mean that you should be able to if you are clearly mentally unstable. And, if that means that some of your privacy is in jeopardy when you apply for a firearm, so be it. Those of us that love this country and it's laws that allow us to own a firearm understand this. If you like Japan so much, by all means, go there. No one is keeping you here and forcing you to have your privacy violated (even when it's not as you don't want to own a firearm). Anyway, flame on.
Do wha? The last time I heard the White Lion version was right after I re-ripped my CD collection after a drive crash. I never hear White Lion's version, I always hear Golden Earing's version on the radio. But, what do I know.
For real! I mean, I loved White Lion back in the 80's, Vito Brata was awesome and their version of Radar Love was pretty good, but there is no comparison to the original by Golden Earing! Good grief!
As a hockey fan, in the south no doubt, one reason is because of the shitty quality, mostly because of these damned sling(shit)boxes. I can't tell you how many times I would be watching the game and the stupid sling(shit)box logo comes up because of network congestion. Thanks ESPN! It was great before the strike, way to go players! Greedy asshats would have gotten a better deal if they had taken what they were offered before they went on strike. I have hopes that things will improve, but this sure as hell does not fill me with confidence at all. A sling(shit)box is for you to play around with, NOT at all for professional quality broadcasts. Then again, this must not be what they are going for at Vs. and NBC.
I heard that...see my sig.
So, the myth of drinking soda will make you short of breath seems to have some real credibility then. Boy, the lady at the cafeteria from school is gonna have a HUGE ego now!