Eh, I know for a fact that no matter where I go in Massachusetts, standard cable or DSL is still abysmally slow. I'm not about to pay the price for "premium" service though, which is still actually slower than one can get in just Greenwich, Connecticut.
I've been doing this for years! I bought a minifridge for the very specific purpose of cannibalizing it for parts. Yeah, my case is 10lb heavier, but the internal temperature is 60 at any given time. It's indispensable nowadays with the exceedingly hot-running GPUs out there (I'm looking at you, GeForce 8800!) I think that a commercial product is a good idea, but I can see electric bills all over the country screaming in pain.
My grandfather, who was a Marine in WWII, told me all sorts of stories of how the Navy's ships back then were pretty rickety. Reason being, aside from cheap labor, was that the assembly crews would have races in building the ships. The quality went down with the speed, like anything hand-crafted, and I'm not surprised to hear the same thing about the Titanic. While the Titanic was made by completely unlike laborers, they were probably/most likely under the same kind of stress that one normally expects when facing rushed work.
Dear Microsoft,
Thank you for putting together a completely custom safety-net band! I fell of my real band's wagon and landed in your loving arms. Now I'm making millions with my hit band "The Superficial Octaves"!
-Dick Richards
PS: Give Billy a kiss on the cheek for me, eh?
EA seems a little too eager to become to the largest monopoly in gaming. The problem is, they push their games too fast toward their ship dates which are set too soon. Games like Battlefield 2142 and NFS Pro-Street could be much, MUCH more awesome and much less glitchy. The problem with the entire NFS collection is the lack of realism in any regard. It's less like a driving similator and more like an arcade game. I don't like that. As for Battlefield, there's a huge market for hacking in that quadrant of the gaming world. Exploits are easy, glitches are too easy, and hacks are too readily available. If they spent more time on their games, maybe EA wouldn't NEED to purchase up every single gaming company in existance because it would turn into the most-loved company, and easily too.
tl;dr: EA is an ever-growing monopoly and needs to be stopped.
It only figures that Sony would bar something like God of War 2, when they let something like WWE Smackdown get by with its beyond ridiculous load times. Sony's making some huge mistakes. DRM, PS3 idiocy, not handling their discontent fans correctly... They're the next big hated company.
I hope Opera doesn't try to steal this like they did a few years ago.
On the other hand, Opera is getting a little more slick when it comes to speed. I notice a Hell of a large difference when using Opera instead of Firefox, but Firefox doesn't cache things like Opera does.
On some other hand elsewhere, Gmail getting second is no surprize, though I bet they're going to sink like a Greek airliner when they lose cabin pressure over the new mandatory virus scan. Hopefully Google will think of something fast.
Does it take requests?
All I can imagine, like anyone else here (And call me Captain Obvious if you wish) is that it's "singing" because of it being so close to fracture. Stress causes noise in large items, like buildings, trees and obviously now icebergs.
Because I don't watch TV anymore, I hardly qualify for answering this. But the fact is, I hate ads just as much as the next person, on every dimension. Newspaper ads in Sunday papers bring the average paper (Say, the Boston Globe) from.56 pounds (On a regular day) to 3.3 pounds (Measured this Sunday, yesterday). Radio ads ruin the listening pleasure in that driving down the road and hearing a "This SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY" bloke talking about the furniture sale is really a buzzkill. As for TV commercials, they're not as bad as they could be, and it really depends on the channel. Nickelodeon has kid-inspired and targeted commercials, so there's no real irritation because they're all mildly funny. Most other channels like USA, TNT, Lifetime (Ugh) and other suches have commercials all too often, and literally take up half of the viewing time.
As for internet ads though, there's nothing as filthy. People are constantly coming up with new phishing ways, new popup exploits and other such bullshitteries that make me want to disconnect forever. There's only one site that I frequent that has popup ads, and it's literally unbearable. I once had 20 popups blocked, and 3 got through because they were flash-conducted. Fileplanet is not nearly as bad as that, but it's definitely on its way.
I don't use Adblock because I understand that sites need to be paid for, which sometimes means using banner-ads (Looking at a Yahoo! hotjobs banner-ad at the top of this page in particular). The thing is, popups are insanity and unnecessary. You don't have to have a popup or one of those Java/Flash scrolling ads (You know what I'm talking about...) just to get your point across. Advertisements like those on Boingboing.net are just fine, and are completely managable because they're not in-your-face. I've actually found some pretty interesting and excellent reads through their ad system, and I'm glad that they do it the way they do. It's successful.
The point of this reply is simply to state that advertisements in every way are filthy, but necessary. The only thing that should be changed is the approach. It would make more sense to catch the eyes of the users, instead of bullying them.
I think I'll stick with my happy X850. It will last me for a while, a "while" being the time until Half Life 3 comes out, or the X850 is on clearance at Best Buy. Whichever comes first.
"What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now running at a blistering 625MHz. Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"
Most people are worried about price, availability and not what counts with ATI cards nowadays: Power. I bought an X850 AGP and the power requirements are absolutely ridiculous. Surely, my Antec 550w can handle it, but it's completely unnecessary, as shown by nVidia. I don't like the idea of having to put aside an extra $10 a month to power my graphics behemoth, although I do love the performance.
Ok, what the fuck is this. I just looked through the Subway Potential Investor's brochure, and I found that yes, it's only $12k in the US. I know for a fact though that it used to be $150k, because I was talking to Greg Saunders, owner of a Dennisport Subway on Cape Cod. I went home and looked up the facts, too. The only reason I can think they'd lower the price is to attract more people...
It's not $12k, it's $150k. You should see though, what most people do in order to own one. They do absurd things, like sell their cars and take out a second mortgage.
"Ford introduces mile-limiter on cars to lower gas consumption. Depending on how much money you pay for the car, you might be able to travel 10 miles or 100 a day. Apparently, not compatible with older versions of their cars, because limitations on features for something you pay for does sound absurd. Potential Ford drivers urged to switch to GM cars by current Ford drivers".
Sony just can't seem to make the price-point without cutting quality.
Isn't that how it works though? Similar to Subway. They can expand so massively because their costs are so low, courtesy of shit product. Low portions, bad meat, cheap suppliers. This is in contrast to Quiznos, who buys more expensive product that tastes better, better service, larger portions by far, and their meat is sliced in-house. Their problem is though, expansion. It's harder because they spend more on quality. Seems as Sony should do it as well, yes?
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Eh, I know for a fact that no matter where I go in Massachusetts, standard cable or DSL is still abysmally slow. I'm not about to pay the price for "premium" service though, which is still actually slower than one can get in just Greenwich, Connecticut.
That's Carol Burnett's quote.
I've been doing this for years! I bought a minifridge for the very specific purpose of cannibalizing it for parts. Yeah, my case is 10lb heavier, but the internal temperature is 60 at any given time. It's indispensable nowadays with the exceedingly hot-running GPUs out there (I'm looking at you, GeForce 8800!) I think that a commercial product is a good idea, but I can see electric bills all over the country screaming in pain.
When I want to edit, do I have to cite?
You can't hear duct tape rip in the vacuum of space. That is a sad fact.
Because Leo got to draw Kate naked. That's the only reason anyone saw Titanic or pretended to care.
My grandfather, who was a Marine in WWII, told me all sorts of stories of how the Navy's ships back then were pretty rickety. Reason being, aside from cheap labor, was that the assembly crews would have races in building the ships. The quality went down with the speed, like anything hand-crafted, and I'm not surprised to hear the same thing about the Titanic. While the Titanic was made by completely unlike laborers, they were probably/most likely under the same kind of stress that one normally expects when facing rushed work.
Dear Microsoft, Thank you for putting together a completely custom safety-net band! I fell of my real band's wagon and landed in your loving arms. Now I'm making millions with my hit band "The Superficial Octaves"! -Dick Richards PS: Give Billy a kiss on the cheek for me, eh?
EA seems a little too eager to become to the largest monopoly in gaming. The problem is, they push their games too fast toward their ship dates which are set too soon. Games like Battlefield 2142 and NFS Pro-Street could be much, MUCH more awesome and much less glitchy. The problem with the entire NFS collection is the lack of realism in any regard. It's less like a driving similator and more like an arcade game. I don't like that. As for Battlefield, there's a huge market for hacking in that quadrant of the gaming world. Exploits are easy, glitches are too easy, and hacks are too readily available. If they spent more time on their games, maybe EA wouldn't NEED to purchase up every single gaming company in existance because it would turn into the most-loved company, and easily too. tl;dr: EA is an ever-growing monopoly and needs to be stopped.
How do I handle it? Use OpenOffice.
zomg i no, these are so kawaiii!11 ne???!
By then, Duke Nukem: Forever might be out.
Oh man, if only I had any moderation points. You'd get a funny. QFT!
It only figures that Sony would bar something like God of War 2, when they let something like WWE Smackdown get by with its beyond ridiculous load times. Sony's making some huge mistakes. DRM, PS3 idiocy, not handling their discontent fans correctly... They're the next big hated company.
Or are they already?
I hope Opera doesn't try to steal this like they did a few years ago.
On the other hand, Opera is getting a little more slick when it comes to speed. I notice a Hell of a large difference when using Opera instead of Firefox, but Firefox doesn't cache things like Opera does.
On some other hand elsewhere, Gmail getting second is no surprize, though I bet they're going to sink like a Greek airliner when they lose cabin pressure over the new mandatory virus scan. Hopefully Google will think of something fast.
Does it take requests? All I can imagine, like anyone else here (And call me Captain Obvious if you wish) is that it's "singing" because of it being so close to fracture. Stress causes noise in large items, like buildings, trees and obviously now icebergs.
Because I don't watch TV anymore, I hardly qualify for answering this. But the fact is, I hate ads just as much as the next person, on every dimension. Newspaper ads in Sunday papers bring the average paper (Say, the Boston Globe) from .56 pounds (On a regular day) to 3.3 pounds (Measured this Sunday, yesterday). Radio ads ruin the listening pleasure in that driving down the road and hearing a "This SUNDAY SUNDAY SOMEDAY" bloke talking about the furniture sale is really a buzzkill. As for TV commercials, they're not as bad as they could be, and it really depends on the channel. Nickelodeon has kid-inspired and targeted commercials, so there's no real irritation because they're all mildly funny. Most other channels like USA, TNT, Lifetime (Ugh) and other suches have commercials all too often, and literally take up half of the viewing time.
As for internet ads though, there's nothing as filthy. People are constantly coming up with new phishing ways, new popup exploits and other such bullshitteries that make me want to disconnect forever. There's only one site that I frequent that has popup ads, and it's literally unbearable. I once had 20 popups blocked, and 3 got through because they were flash-conducted. Fileplanet is not nearly as bad as that, but it's definitely on its way.
I don't use Adblock because I understand that sites need to be paid for, which sometimes means using banner-ads (Looking at a Yahoo! hotjobs banner-ad at the top of this page in particular). The thing is, popups are insanity and unnecessary. You don't have to have a popup or one of those Java/Flash scrolling ads (You know what I'm talking about...) just to get your point across. Advertisements like those on Boingboing.net are just fine, and are completely managable because they're not in-your-face. I've actually found some pretty interesting and excellent reads through their ad system, and I'm glad that they do it the way they do. It's successful.
The point of this reply is simply to state that advertisements in every way are filthy, but necessary. The only thing that should be changed is the approach. It would make more sense to catch the eyes of the users, instead of bullying them.
I think I'll stick with my happy X850. It will last me for a while, a "while" being the time until Half Life 3 comes out, or the X850 is on clearance at Best Buy. Whichever comes first.
"What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now running at a blistering 625MHz. Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"
Most people are worried about price, availability and not what counts with ATI cards nowadays: Power. I bought an X850 AGP and the power requirements are absolutely ridiculous. Surely, my Antec 550w can handle it, but it's completely unnecessary, as shown by nVidia. I don't like the idea of having to put aside an extra $10 a month to power my graphics behemoth, although I do love the performance.
Touché. But that's just the lease limitations, not an actual governer of sorts that prohibits travel over the limit.
I love your signature, by the way. Very original.
Ok, what the fuck is this. I just looked through the Subway Potential Investor's brochure, and I found that yes, it's only $12k in the US. I know for a fact though that it used to be $150k, because I was talking to Greg Saunders, owner of a Dennisport Subway on Cape Cod. I went home and looked up the facts, too. The only reason I can think they'd lower the price is to attract more people...
It's not $12k, it's $150k. You should see though, what most people do in order to own one. They do absurd things, like sell their cars and take out a second mortgage.
"Ford introduces mile-limiter on cars to lower gas consumption. Depending on how much money you pay for the car, you might be able to travel 10 miles or 100 a day. Apparently, not compatible with older versions of their cars, because limitations on features for something you pay for does sound absurd. Potential Ford drivers urged to switch to GM cars by current Ford drivers".
I don't know where I was going with this.
Sony just can't seem to make the price-point without cutting quality.
Isn't that how it works though? Similar to Subway. They can expand so massively because their costs are so low, courtesy of shit product. Low portions, bad meat, cheap suppliers. This is in contrast to Quiznos, who buys more expensive product that tastes better, better service, larger portions by far, and their meat is sliced in-house. Their problem is though, expansion. It's harder because they spend more on quality. Seems as Sony should do it as well, yes?
VCR, DVD player, PS2, PSP, PS3 (When it comes out), phones, stereos, car disc players, Walkmen, MP3 players. That's a lot of money to be had.