It's because he fucked up another drive that actually had important data on it, and he wants to use the methodology to recover the data from that drive without paying thousands of dollars for a professional data recovery service. That would be my (admittedly cynical) guess.
Seagate makes one, called FreeAgent Go. The cord is split at the end, with one plug for data + power, the other is data only. Mine is 160GB, cost about $80. There are others as well (such as Western Digital's My Passport), you just need to look around.
And no, eSATA connectors don't supply power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA#External_SATA
Voting for what you believe would be a waste? Really?
Sorry, but no. Voting for something you don't believe in just because you feel like it's your duty, or because you don't want to vote for someone who's not going to win, or any other reason that people give for voting for something or someone they don't believe in is throwing your vote away. There won't be a viable third party until people like you start voting for people they do believe in, even if it's just a little bit.
That's true, of course, but I would think that people who do this type of thing would have excellent handwriting (and some of them do), just as I'd expect a graphic artist to be able to draw freehand. Then again, someone might be more comfortable with a tablet and Gimp than pen and paper; the same principle could be at work here. Ah, well, just another preconceived notion shot partially to hell.
Off topic, I know, but does anyone know why prices do not include tax in the USA?
This is because each state sets its own sales tax. For example, here in Wiisconsin it's 5 percent, but in Iillinois it's 8 percent or so, and some states don't have sales tax at all.
found out about the alleged scam after the woman he dated confessed she was employed by Match
Is it possible that she was employed by Match.com and using the service herself? I don't know what their policy is on that sort of thing, but you would think that with 250 employees, at least one of them would use the service...
Yet another sorry-ass "article" about the DS vs. the PSP. From the linked article:
examine why the PSP is dominating America, while the DS conquers Japan.
Then a bit into it, they give some real numbers:
Total DS software sales at the end of June were approximately 4.1 million units, with total PSP software sales coming in at about 2 million. Hardware sales paint a similar picture. 2.7 million DS units have been sold in Japan, and 1.56 million PSPs
But then they say that the situation is reversed in America, and once again give some numbers to back it up:
According to NPD data total DS software is currently at 3.4 million units, and total PSP software is at 3.2 million. Without SM64DS being bought along with nearly every launch DS, PSP software sales would already be leading, despite Nintendo's US head start. Hardware is equally close, with the DS at roughly 1.8 million units sold, and the PSP totaling 1.5 million.
Wait a second...What? Kind of looks like the PSP isn't dominating in America at all, by any stretch of the word. Why do so many video game journalists feel compelled to spew horseshit like this? "Without SM64DS..."? You've gotta be fucking joking. SM64DS is part of the system's launch lineup. Talking about what might have been is pointless, and serves to make the author of this tripe look like another propaganda-spewing media troll. And finally, at the end of the article, the author mentions his hopes that the PSP will outpace the DS within a month (from when it was written, back in August). That has obviously not happened. And for a while there, it was starting to look like Nintendo had some real competition in the handheld market (remember, folks, competition in a market is good for consumers, i.e., you and me).
You can tell that Bill didn't really shoot that dood that came onscreen at the 2 minute mark cos his ammo stays at 33. I suspect that Ballmer must've hit him from behind with a chair...
Looks like George Lucas is up to his old shenanigans...
My 2-year-old son has one of these (it's the same thing as a Leapster, but for younger kids). However, he doesn't really use it except to smash.:) Like someone else mentioned, go with crayons and other, more creative toys to help your kids with the learning. A 4-year-old just doesn't have the attention span for one of these things.
Religion is a panacea for those of small minds who are to lazy to learn how the world really works and feel comfortable with small and easy answers - even if they are false.
For some reason, this statement reminded me of a quote from Einstein: "Great spirits have always faced opposition from mediocre minds." I think it holds true for both religious and scientific fundamentalists (and you seem to be one of the latter). If someone were to post what I've quoted above, but replaced the word "religion" with the word "science," it would undoubtedly be modded into oblivion (this being Slashdot and what not). But the fact is that scientific fundamentalists do exist, and are simply the other side of the coin.
The point I'm trying to make is, don't clutch so tightly to what you've seen (it could be wrong, after all), and then berate others who do the same thing as "lazy" or having "small minds." It makes you seem like a hypocrite.
me and the wife like to role play every once in a while
Yeah, but on the tabletop? Where do you roll your D20?
Joking aside, this is probably one the most tripe, pointless "Ask Slashdot" questions I've seen in a long time. Why not ask "Why do geeks like anime?" or better yet, "Why do geeks like redheads?" (though that may just be me...). The similarities between gaming and coding are just too painfully obvious to justify asking this question.
Too bad that adjective can't be applied to the gushing, strangely anonymous review, or to Consolevania itself. The author mentions that the show is full of profanity, nudity and so on, and then says that if "G4 isn't securing domestic US rights as you read this, the network has officially screwed up." While the show is desperate and unfunny enough that it would be right at home on G4, Hitler jokes and graphic depictions of people fucking generally aren't shown on basic cable (at least in the US; I don't know what Scotland's obscenity-law situation is).
A lot of people have mentioned the problems of which GUI these companies would write applications for. What if someone were to create wrapper around both KDE and Gnome GUI libraries that applications could use, and would detect which GUI was currently being used. That way, applications that these companies make could work no matter which GUI a user prefers.
Keep in mind that I don't use linux and am only somewhat familiar with appliction programming (I'm a web developer).
Okay, keeping it in mind...:)
You don't need to be running GNOME, for example, to run GTK-based applications (GTK is the API that GNOME is built with); you only need to have the GTK libs installed on your system. So, realistically, Adobe (for example) could make PS a native GNOME application and include the GTK libs on the installation disc to make life a bit easier for those that use KDE and don't want to fsck around with looking for libraries that didn't get installed with the OS (thinking average person here, rather than average Slashdotter). Hope this helps.
I have had jobs in restaurants, factories, warehouses, IT, and even telemarketing, and almost all of my past employers engaged in the sort of disgusting behavior described in the article. It's never enough to just go to work, do your job, and go home. Some insecure prick above you will not stand for it and will do whatever he can to get rid of you, legal or otherwise.
One of the things not mentioned in the article (at least not that I can recall) but worth pointing out is that this childish nonsense actually increases in frequency with larger companies, where there is typically more room for advancement. The best way to avoid this shit altogether is, as you mentioned, to start your own company; however, that is not plausible for most people, due to financial reasons, not having business know-how, et cetera. Unions aren't necessarily the answer either, as your union rep may be in with the person out to fuck you over (this was actually the case when I worked for a large plumbing-products manufacturer in Wisconsin). That sort of situation is, in fact, worse than no union representation at all because you pay your union dues every month and end up getting railroaded anyway.
Back to your post now. I find it very telling that you chose the phrase "wrong attitude." You claim you are not a manager, but this is exactly the sort of empty phrase that managers use to cast non-asskissing employees in a negative light. "Attitude" is purely subjective; there is simply no way to quantify it. Therefore, any discussion of "a bad attitude" in regards to an employee's job performance can be interpreted as: "This person is good at what she was hired to do, but I don't want to say anything good about her because she doesn't kiss my ass." If it's true that you're not a manager, my guess is that you wish you were.
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Sorry for the long post, but I think you're dead wrong on this one.
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Is this the one you're talking about? http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cimages/cbreathedsketch.jpg It's a little different from what you described, though...
It's because he fucked up another drive that actually had important data on it, and he wants to use the methodology to recover the data from that drive without paying thousands of dollars for a professional data recovery service. That would be my (admittedly cynical) guess.
Seagate makes one, called FreeAgent Go. The cord is split at the end, with one plug for data + power, the other is data only. Mine is 160GB, cost about $80. There are others as well (such as Western Digital's My Passport), you just need to look around. And no, eSATA connectors don't supply power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA#External_SATA
Voting for what you believe would be a waste? Really?
Sorry, but no. Voting for something you don't believe in just because you feel like it's your duty, or because you don't want to vote for someone who's not going to win, or any other reason that people give for voting for something or someone they don't believe in is throwing your vote away. There won't be a viable third party until people like you start voting for people they do believe in, even if it's just a little bit.
That's true, of course, but I would think that people who do this type of thing would have excellent handwriting (and some of them do), just as I'd expect a graphic artist to be able to draw freehand. Then again, someone might be more comfortable with a tablet and Gimp than pen and paper; the same principle could be at work here. Ah, well, just another preconceived notion shot partially to hell.
that half of them have god-awful penmanship? A little bit, yes.
omfglololololo!!!!!1111onenone!!!!11kthxbai...eh? Oh, sorry. Thought this was myspace. :(
-Raseri
Off topic, I know, but does anyone know why prices do not include tax in the USA?
This is because each state sets its own sales tax. For example, here in Wiisconsin it's 5 percent, but in Iillinois it's 8 percent or so, and some states don't have sales tax at all.
-Raseri
I got: Site overloaded. Oh. Slashdot. That would explain things. Hello.
If they didn't know before, they do now. Talk about the school of hard knocks...:)
It's called "irony," sir. :)
Sony?
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"? WTF?
found out about the alleged scam after the woman he dated confessed she was employed by Match
Is it possible that she was employed by Match.com and using the service herself? I don't know what their policy is on that sort of thing, but you would think that with 250 employees, at least one of them would use the service...
Yet another sorry-ass "article" about the DS vs. the PSP. From the linked article:
examine why the PSP is dominating America, while the DS conquers Japan.
Then a bit into it, they give some real numbers:
Total DS software sales at the end of June were approximately 4.1 million units, with total PSP software sales coming in at about 2 million. Hardware sales paint a similar picture. 2.7 million DS units have been sold in Japan, and 1.56 million PSPs
But then they say that the situation is reversed in America, and once again give some numbers to back it up:
According to NPD data total DS software is currently at 3.4 million units, and total PSP software is at 3.2 million. Without SM64DS being bought along with nearly every launch DS, PSP software sales would already be leading, despite Nintendo's US head start. Hardware is equally close, with the DS at roughly 1.8 million units sold, and the PSP totaling 1.5 million.
Wait a second...What? Kind of looks like the PSP isn't dominating in America at all, by any stretch of the word. Why do so many video game journalists feel compelled to spew horseshit like this? "Without SM64DS..."? You've gotta be fucking joking. SM64DS is part of the system's launch lineup. Talking about what might have been is pointless, and serves to make the author of this tripe look like another propaganda-spewing media troll. And finally, at the end of the article, the author mentions his hopes that the PSP will outpace the DS within a month (from when it was written, back in August). That has obviously not happened. And for a while there, it was starting to look like Nintendo had some real competition in the handheld market (remember, folks, competition in a market is good for consumers, i.e., you and me).
You can tell that Bill didn't really shoot that dood that came onscreen at the 2 minute mark cos his ammo stays at 33. I suspect that Ballmer must've hit him from behind with a chair...
Looks like George Lucas is up to his old shenanigans...
My 2-year-old son has one of these (it's the same thing as a Leapster, but for younger kids). However, he doesn't really use it except to smash. :) Like someone else mentioned, go with crayons and other, more creative toys to help your kids with the learning. A 4-year-old just doesn't have the attention span for one of these things.
I guess Zonk loves Zombies. To each his own.
Religion is a panacea for those of small minds who are to lazy to learn how the world really works and feel comfortable with small and easy answers - even if they are false.
For some reason, this statement reminded me of a quote from Einstein: "Great spirits have always faced opposition from mediocre minds." I think it holds true for both religious and scientific fundamentalists (and you seem to be one of the latter). If someone were to post what I've quoted above, but replaced the word "religion" with the word "science," it would undoubtedly be modded into oblivion (this being Slashdot and what not). But the fact is that scientific fundamentalists do exist, and are simply the other side of the coin.
The point I'm trying to make is, don't clutch so tightly to what you've seen (it could be wrong, after all), and then berate others who do the same thing as "lazy" or having "small minds." It makes you seem like a hypocrite.
It was Stephen Wright that said that. Truly one of the greatest physicists ever...eh? Oh, never mind.
hot coding stud
Biggest. Oxymoron. Ever.
me and the wife like to role play every once in a while
Yeah, but on the tabletop? Where do you roll your D20?
Joking aside, this is probably one the most tripe, pointless "Ask Slashdot" questions I've seen in a long time. Why not ask "Why do geeks like anime?" or better yet, "Why do geeks like redheads?" (though that may just be me...). The similarities between gaming and coding are just too painfully obvious to justify asking this question.
Too bad that adjective can't be applied to the gushing, strangely anonymous review, or to Consolevania itself. The author mentions that the show is full of profanity, nudity and so on, and then says that if "G4 isn't securing domestic US rights as you read this, the network has officially screwed up." While the show is desperate and unfunny enough that it would be right at home on G4, Hitler jokes and graphic depictions of people fucking generally aren't shown on basic cable (at least in the US; I don't know what Scotland's obscenity-law situation is).
A lot of people have mentioned the problems of which GUI these companies would write applications for. What if someone were to create wrapper around both KDE and Gnome GUI libraries that applications could use, and would detect which GUI was currently being used. That way, applications that these companies make could work no matter which GUI a user prefers. Keep in mind that I don't use linux and am only somewhat familiar with appliction programming (I'm a web developer).
Okay, keeping it in mind...:)
You don't need to be running GNOME, for example, to run GTK-based applications (GTK is the API that GNOME is built with); you only need to have the GTK libs installed on your system. So, realistically, Adobe (for example) could make PS a native GNOME application and include the GTK libs on the installation disc to make life a bit easier for those that use KDE and don't want to fsck around with looking for libraries that didn't get installed with the OS (thinking average person here, rather than average Slashdotter). Hope this helps.
"Roll over and take it in the ass."
I have had jobs in restaurants, factories, warehouses, IT, and even telemarketing, and almost all of my past employers engaged in the sort of disgusting behavior described in the article. It's never enough to just go to work, do your job, and go home. Some insecure prick above you will not stand for it and will do whatever he can to get rid of you, legal or otherwise.
One of the things not mentioned in the article (at least not that I can recall) but worth pointing out is that this childish nonsense actually increases in frequency with larger companies, where there is typically more room for advancement. The best way to avoid this shit altogether is, as you mentioned, to start your own company; however, that is not plausible for most people, due to financial reasons, not having business know-how, et cetera. Unions aren't necessarily the answer either, as your union rep may be in with the person out to fuck you over (this was actually the case when I worked for a large plumbing-products manufacturer in Wisconsin). That sort of situation is, in fact, worse than no union representation at all because you pay your union dues every month and end up getting railroaded anyway.
Back to your post now. I find it very telling that you chose the phrase "wrong attitude." You claim you are not a manager, but this is exactly the sort of empty phrase that managers use to cast non-asskissing employees in a negative light. "Attitude" is purely subjective; there is simply no way to quantify it. Therefore, any discussion of "a bad attitude" in regards to an employee's job performance can be interpreted as: "This person is good at what she was hired to do, but I don't want to say anything good about her because she doesn't kiss my ass." If it's true that you're not a manager, my guess is that you wish you were.
Sorry for the long post, but I think you're dead wrong on this one.
Dear god, you'd think slashdot of all places you could get away from this crap.
You must be new here.