When you sign up for the service you probibly have you to say weather or not you are over 18.
I'm not sure how many young kids have an X-box, buy my guess is that most of the owners are older anyways. Most of the little kids I've seen at the stores play with the Gamecube.
I'm sure microsoft keeps track of the yongsters. If nothing else, than for targeted advertising.
> The only way this is going to work is the only > way that pay-for-play games on the Internet > have every worked: MUDs, MMORPGs, and the like.
I think that this might work if microsoft *PAYS* the best players on the network. I might pay $.50 to play Quake III online if there was a chance that I might get $2 for winning the deathmatch! or maybe, the give me frequent flyer miles or Subway(food) points.
"...The bank is now deploying a system called Citrix, which turns desktop computers into so-called "dumb" terminals - a move that will save the company money on software."
I am not sure if its possible to save money with citrix. The software costs too much and does too little. It was cool a few years ago, but the CALs were a killer. I hate CALs! I hate CALs! I hate CALs! Ok, I just had to get that off my chest.
Well a few years ago, microsoft came by to visit the citrix household. After dinner, microsoft asked citrix to bend over and well.... We all know what happens when microsoft asks you to bend over.
Im not sure.. In a meeting I would rather listen to 1 box and talk to that 1 box then try to figure out which speaker someone is talking out of.
With six microphones, I might not be near one of them enough to get my voice heard well enough.
It is like being in a meeting in a circle vs a movie theater. In a circle everyone can see everyone else without having to move around. A theater is great for one way communication but when communication is multidirectional, this format does not work well.
We have one of those funky (something like --> )speaker phones for meetingsin the meeting room. It costs lots of money as is rarley used. But, when it is used it works fine and it works on POTS.
IMO, vision is would be a more useful thing in most meetings. Something like a fisheye camera on top of a fisheye monitor would be good. If I find a url, I will reply to this post.
Jesus, it sounds like tech help in any poor IT dept..
Caller: Help my laptop at first run for 4 hours without a recharge.
Helpdesk: Turn it off, turn it back on.
Caller: Uhh...
Helpdesk: Oh, that didn't work, hmm. You must have a virus. Put the red cd in the drive and hit 'Y' whenever it stops doing anything until it looks normal again.
** I wish one of these would have a changer so that I could rip 6-10 discs at a time without having to sit there and switch out the single discs.
**Also I think that the device should be able to do a faster rip. if it can not compress as fast as it can read the disc, it should copy the RAW data to the HD first and then compress.
**One more request, if it could do a dual pass VBR compress.
I thought at one point replay was selling at a loss and trying to make up with the service.. You are right, in that they currently do not sell below cost. Maybe they changed this when they became SonicBlue. Or were they allways sonicblue? Thats the problem with OldTimers Disease..
I cannot find the numbers either way to prove where they make their money, but when I do I'll post them here as a reply. When these things first started commming out, the idea was to sell them at a loss to get them into the 102 million or so houses that had televisions and vcrs. Maybe the cost of production has gone down enough in the last several years to make a profit in the hardware...
"...TiVo is actually selling the hardware at a loss, licensing their software to Philips and Sony, because they want to collect info on viewing habits that they can then sell to networks and sponsors to see not only what people are watching..."
I think you are paying for the *hardware*. Tivo boxen are sold below cost. With the Replay boxs, you have a choice of paying upfront for the box or paying monthly.
My German is not that good, googles German is better, but not good enough. From what I can tell the XS4ALL contained documents on how to gain access to something on rails, perhaps a train, for the purpose of ??derailing?? it? Well.. did anyone else read these documents and figure out what XS4ALL was *really* trying to promote... From what I can tell also XS4ALL is also aligned with some euro-leftists. Euro-leftists like to smoke weed. People who smoke week have to buy it from someone. Someone supports terrorism. So this just isnt good. I'm going to write Dub'ya have these weed-smoking-train-derailing-uberites blown to hell.
Im not sure what you would break with a 15Khz Buzz at low volume. Although, If you had a 22Khz square wave at high volume you could blow the tweeters. Or maybe a.125Hz Square or sawtooth at high volume one might rip the cone of the subwoofer. My problem has allways been getting access to the equipment.
Who cares about what the ad business uses. This site is for the home-user who is 92% windows, 7% Linux and 1% something else. I do not want to view my commercials through a program that bitches at me to buy a pro version that I have no intention of purchasing. Furthermore, QuickTime is a proprietary codec and you know what us slashdotters think of proprietary codecs.
Is there a table with all the states listed crossed with the information stored on their respected drivers Liceses?
FROM THE MICHIGAN DMV: ------ On the back of the new driver license and state identification card is a magnetic stripe and bar code. Under Michigan law, the information on the magnetic stripe and bar code is restricted to only the:
Driver license or state ID number Holder's date of birth License expiration date ------ http://www.sos.state.mi.us/drlic/sos -365.html
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The only person who has the means to do this is Bill Gates. I'm sure that he would make it a capital offence if you pirated his magisties warez.
When you sign up for the service you probibly have you to say weather or not you are over 18.
I'm not sure how many young kids have an X-box, buy my guess is that most of the owners are older anyways. Most of the little kids I've seen at the stores play with the Gamecube.
I'm sure microsoft keeps track of the yongsters. If nothing else, than for targeted advertising.
> The only way this is going to work is the only
> way that pay-for-play games on the Internet
> have every worked: MUDs, MMORPGs, and the like.
I think that this might work if microsoft *PAYS* the best players on the network. I might pay $.50 to play Quake III online if there was a chance that I might get $2 for winning the deathmatch! or maybe, the give me frequent flyer miles or Subway(food) points.
Fujitsu Fortran for .dot is being provided by Lahey. Here is a url.
Here is the url.
Centralized administration? TightVNC, IntelliMirror. If they're running citrix, they probibly have licenses to the Win2000 boxen.
Power savings? They were using old PCs and turning them into termals.
I would not call the Windows 2000 kernel an OS.
"...The bank is now deploying a system called Citrix, which turns desktop computers into so-called "dumb" terminals - a move that will save the company money on software."
I am not sure if its possible to save money with citrix. The software costs too much and does too little. It was cool a few years ago, but the CALs were a killer. I hate CALs! I hate CALs! I hate CALs! Ok, I just had to get that off my chest.
Well a few years ago, microsoft came by to visit the citrix household. After dinner, microsoft asked citrix to bend over and well.... We all know what happens when microsoft asks you to bend over.
Well, with 64mb o' ram... my guess is that it would suck ass.
Im not sure.. In a meeting I would rather listen to 1 box and talk to that 1 box then try to figure out which speaker someone is talking out of.
With six microphones, I might not be near one of them enough to get my voice heard well enough.
It is like being in a meeting in a circle vs a movie theater. In a circle everyone can see everyone else without having to move around. A theater is great for one way communication but when communication is multidirectional, this format does not work well.
We have one of those funky (something like --> )speaker phones for meetingsin the meeting room. It costs lots of money as is rarley used. But, when it is used it works fine and it works on POTS.
IMO, vision is would be a more useful thing in most meetings. Something like a fisheye camera on top of a fisheye monitor would be good. If I find a url, I will reply to this post.
Jesus, it sounds like tech help in any poor IT dept..
Caller: Help my laptop at first run for 4 hours without a recharge.
Helpdesk: Turn it off, turn it back on.
Caller: Uhh...
Helpdesk: Oh, that didn't work, hmm. You must have a virus. Put the red cd in the drive and hit 'Y' whenever it stops doing anything until it looks normal again.
Well, on TechTV he said that he had trouble getting NT 3.1 , 3.5 and 3.51 behaving NICE with others.
Yes, and I would think that someone would get a worse eXPerience with 1 cable than with 8 cables..
My current TV sucks anyways.. i could not tell the difference if I used a gold cable from a garden hose.
** I wish one of these would have a changer so that I could rip 6-10 discs at a time without having to sit there and switch out the single discs.
**Also I think that the device should be able to do a faster rip. if it can not compress as fast as it can read the disc, it should copy the RAW data to the HD first and then compress.
**One more request, if it could do a dual pass VBR compress.
This might be a stupid question but... Why cant you just shoot at the mines with a gun? I know bullets go through, among other things, dirt.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/17/12 39225&mode=thread&tid=153
I would have to agree, The pictures are probably doctor'd.
I thought at one point replay was selling at a loss and trying to make up with the service.. You are right, in that they currently do not sell below cost. Maybe they changed this when they became SonicBlue. Or were they allways sonicblue? Thats the problem with OldTimers Disease..
8 C: www.epinions.com/elec-review-3200-5AB5823-3920DC04 -prod2+Tivo+%22at+a+loss%22&hl=en
I cannot find the numbers either way to prove where they make their money, but when I do I'll post them here as a reply. When these things first started commming out, the idea was to sell them at a loss to get them into the 102 million or so houses that had televisions and vcrs. Maybe the cost of production has gone down enough in the last several years to make a profit in the hardware...
"...TiVo is actually selling the hardware at a loss, licensing their software to Philips and Sony, because they want to collect info on viewing habits that they can then sell to networks and sponsors to see not only what people are watching..."
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:9bpSBrcrqD
I think you are paying for the *hardware*. Tivo boxen are sold below cost. With the Replay boxs, you have a choice of paying upfront for the box or paying monthly.
My German is not that good, googles German is better, but not good enough. From what I can tell the XS4ALL contained documents on how to gain access to something on rails, perhaps a train, for the purpose of ??derailing?? it? Well.. did anyone else read these documents and figure out what XS4ALL was *really* trying to promote... From what I can tell also XS4ALL is also aligned with some euro-leftists. Euro-leftists like to smoke weed. People who smoke week have to buy it from someone. Someone supports terrorism. So this just isnt good. I'm going to write Dub'ya have these weed-smoking-train-derailing-uberites blown to hell.
Im not sure what you would break with a 15Khz Buzz at low volume. Although, If you had a 22Khz square wave at high volume you could blow the tweeters. Or maybe a .125Hz Square or sawtooth at high volume one might rip the cone of the subwoofer. My problem has allways been getting access to the equipment.
Who cares about what the ad business uses. This site is for the home-user who is 92% windows, 7% Linux and 1% something else. I do not want to view my commercials through a program that bitches at me to buy a pro version that I have no intention of purchasing. Furthermore, QuickTime is a proprietary codec and you know what us slashdotters think of proprietary codecs.
Is there a table with all the states listed crossed with the information stored on their respected drivers Liceses?
s -365.html
FROM THE MICHIGAN DMV:
------
On the back of the new driver license and state identification card is a magnetic stripe and bar code. Under Michigan law, the information on the magnetic stripe and bar code is restricted to only the:
Driver license or state ID number
Holder's date of birth
License expiration date
------
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/drlic/so