as being from the PC side (too poor for macs:-D), i can confirm that there are plenty of neater external kits (that are better) and there are also many internal kits that can be used, so your case doesn't look any different (except that i have a clear case so yeah)
i would myself rather buy each part seperatly - i think it is cheaper that way - and besides, i can't see myself paying for a reservoir when all it is is a plastic box with holes.
it's not so much with the bad games, though. i mean, if a game is unplayable, reviewers see that. that slaps them in the face, even if it is batman (and of course i wasn't just referring to batman games)
i think there's a certain amount of bias towards familiar franchises. that's not to say that there are instances when unheard of games get great reviews, or that familiar titles get horrendous reviews. (probably spelled that wrong)
maybe i am wrong though. but it seems kind of strange that so many familiar titles are getting so much hype. like tomb raider legends, for example. i've about given up on that franchise - from tomb raider 2 on, they have all sucked. and yet gaming magazines still get so excited over it.
i'm probably just rambling now. i have no idea what my point is.
what happens is the reviewers get caught up in the fact that they've been anticipating the game forever and really want it and really review it based on the merits of the first game + the hype of the second one, instead of truly reviewing it as its own, original game.
in cases of movie adaptations/comic adaptations, etc, as long as the game plays OK the reviewers will give it a great score based on the fact that they like batman or whatever.
one day legislators will realize that just because the RIAA has an official sounding almost government-like acronym doesn't actually make them an important organization.
this doesn't really change the fact that BTX blows and that the only people who even need BTX are the ones running Xeon furnaces even though Opterons that cost the same perform up to twice as fast and produce less heat and use less electricity.
and for the number of ads that are at "thetechzone" i would think they would be able to afford better hosting so there wouldn't be any slashdot effect.
#1 after looking at guides and such for about an hour, I was ready to take the plunge in to BYO. #2 even if you can't know how to pick quality parts in an hour, does Dell really pick quality parts? yeah...not really. product reviews make it easy...you just browse through the list of products and if you were dumb you could just pick the one with the most 5 star reviews. #3 at the very least you could find someone on some forums somewhere that details their 1337 pwnage system and copy off him to find good parts.
forcing customers to use software preinstalled on their hard drive to burn their own backup discs is absolutely the worst policy ever. this is of course just one problem of this dell model, but so many companies are starting to do this, and they need to stop.
most people who don't have a clue what they are doing won't even think to perform the important step of making a backup disc, and will only think about restore discs after their computer fails. then they are completely out of luck.
i will never buy a PC from a manufacterer ever, except for apple. it's always a bad deal, anyone who takes the 1 hour of time to learn how to build their own computer will reap the benefits of overclocking, having a fresh, clean version of windows OEM edition for $80-$130, and having infinate customizability.
as for notebooks, well, i just have to buy the least Dell-like brand availible. buying off-brands is actually strangely enough the best way to go in this age. and usually you end up getting the best deal and similar quality, since all the major manufacterers buy from the exact same Chinese suppliers that the smaller brands do.
see what DRM is doing? it's beginning to delay technology!
without DRM we'd probably have the next gen DVD formats by now since a huge chunk of development time toshiba and sony are just trying to get their DRM/encryption as perfect as possible so that it takes 3 weeks to crack it instead of 2.
"You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that." (from article)
Huh? so apparantly "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is a better song on the MSN music store than it is on Apple's music store.
well i guess people do prefer not having crappy music shoved down our throats! i swear the music industry will throw its full force against ANYTHING that it deems to be hurting its own business, even its own customers (RIAA lawsuits) and now they are bashing the companies that have revitalized their industry
people don't buy ipods because a new hit record comes out, seriously what good albums are coming out right now? these idiots don't seem to realize that the ipod and music businesses are separate. people buy ipods and other MP3 players because they have a large collection of music, pictures, and videos that they'd like to make portable. expanding that collection is the only role of the recording industry, and without good album releases, people still get ipods to put their old music on.
reasons why blu-ray COULD fail #1 not backed by microsoft #2 people are already satisfied with the quality of the DVD. many people don't even realize that DVDs aren't HD (a recent/. article noted that about 50% of hdtv owners are on SDTV content, and about 30% THINK they are using HDTV content) #3 The PS3 doesn't guarantee the success of the Blu-Ray disc. The Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution are offering the stiffest competition yet, and those following the next-gen consoles are much more skeptical of the bulky, expensive, and not-so-impressive PS3. #4 HD-DVD is coming out first #5 horrible DRM may just kill the format for consumers. #6 HD-DVD comes out first for lower cost. #7 People may ignore the format war and just stick with DVDs (they are only 10 years old) or they may put a low value on a next-gen DVD format (because DVDs are already satisfactory) and pick whatever is cheapest (HD-DVD) #8 When buying a movie, people may not care at all which format it's on, and can't tell the difference which one has more data and will pick the cheaper format. Or, if they have Blu-Ray, they'll be like "why am I paying $30 for this movie when it's on HD-DVD for $20?) #9 Betamax #10 If HD-DVD burners are availible first for a lower cost, people will choose HD-DVD. I highly doubt Blu-Ray burners will even be availible in 2006 at all.
i don't know about you, but whenever i have enough time to sit down and watch a TV show or even a 6 minute snippet from a TV show, i will do so using an actual television.
any place where i'm on the go where i would need to use a cell phone to watch TV would be a place where I don't really need to be watching TV anyways.
product placement is getting bigger, but it's not because of tivos. i don't know many people with tivos, i'm guessing about 1% of the population has them.
the reason is because there are 80-200 channels that people can just flip through and never have to watch a commercial. if you just watch three channels at a time, you'll never see a commercial.
i guess that would be because for the majority of yahoo!'s lifespan Google powered its searches only recently started using their own proprietary search technology.
i don't think it's news that the north pole is getting warmer, but the actual magnetic pole moving?
well now that i read about it the poles moving seems pretty normal.
"They found that the north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but it sometimes moved in other directions, too."
yes we know we don't have any newspaper anymore, either.
all media can adapt by reducing costs and staying unique. take newspapers, new printing technology has made newspapers cheaper to produce and recently (not 2 months ago recent, i mean 20 years ago recent) color printing has increased the appeal of the newspaper.
come on people! you know that by suing microsoft for admitting mistakes, you are only going to encourage them to cover up future problems instead of addressing them!
so many songs (especially in math) have helped me remember things well (such as the song for the quadratic equation), but i can't see using the technique in excess to be beneficial.
songs are great for memorization of long equations and similar things that are too long to really remember in a short way, but have to be memorized nonetheless. singing whole lectures, that's probably just going to get really annoying.
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as being from the PC side (too poor for macs :-D), i can confirm that there are plenty of neater external kits (that are better) and there are also many internal kits that can be used, so your case doesn't look any different (except that i have a clear case so yeah)
i would myself rather buy each part seperatly - i think it is cheaper that way - and besides, i can't see myself paying for a reservoir when all it is is a plastic box with holes.
it's not so much with the bad games, though. i mean, if a game is unplayable, reviewers see that. that slaps them in the face, even if it is batman (and of course i wasn't just referring to batman games)
i think there's a certain amount of bias towards familiar franchises. that's not to say that there are instances when unheard of games get great reviews, or that familiar titles get horrendous reviews. (probably spelled that wrong)
maybe i am wrong though. but it seems kind of strange that so many familiar titles are getting so much hype. like tomb raider legends, for example. i've about given up on that franchise - from tomb raider 2 on, they have all sucked. and yet gaming magazines still get so excited over it.
i'm probably just rambling now. i have no idea what my point is.
what happens is the reviewers get caught up in the fact that they've been anticipating the game forever and really want it and really review it based on the merits of the first game + the hype of the second one, instead of truly reviewing it as its own, original game.
in cases of movie adaptations/comic adaptations, etc, as long as the game plays OK the reviewers will give it a great score based on the fact that they like batman or whatever.
one day legislators will realize that just because the RIAA has an official sounding almost government-like acronym doesn't actually make them an important organization.
i guess i'm a troll since everything i said was right.
this doesn't really change the fact that BTX blows and that the only people who even need BTX are the ones running Xeon furnaces even though Opterons that cost the same perform up to twice as fast and produce less heat and use less electricity.
and for the number of ads that are at "thetechzone" i would think they would be able to afford better hosting so there wouldn't be any slashdot effect.
stupid stupid stupid microsoft, not realizing that the technology in opera completely blows away internet explorer in pretty much every way.
although i find opera's quirkiness to get on my nerves sometimes.
here's what i mean by an hour of time.
#1 after looking at guides and such for about an hour, I was ready to take the plunge in to BYO.
#2 even if you can't know how to pick quality parts in an hour, does Dell really pick quality parts? yeah...not really. product reviews make it easy...you just browse through the list of products and if you were dumb you could just pick the one with the most 5 star reviews.
#3 at the very least you could find someone on some forums somewhere that details their 1337 pwnage system and copy off him to find good parts.
forcing customers to use software preinstalled on their hard drive to burn their own backup discs is absolutely the worst policy ever. this is of course just one problem of this dell model, but so many companies are starting to do this, and they need to stop.
most people who don't have a clue what they are doing won't even think to perform the important step of making a backup disc, and will only think about restore discs after their computer fails. then they are completely out of luck.
i will never buy a PC from a manufacterer ever, except for apple. it's always a bad deal, anyone who takes the 1 hour of time to learn how to build their own computer will reap the benefits of overclocking, having a fresh, clean version of windows OEM edition for $80-$130, and having infinate customizability.
as for notebooks, well, i just have to buy the least Dell-like brand availible. buying off-brands is actually strangely enough the best way to go in this age. and usually you end up getting the best deal and similar quality, since all the major manufacterers buy from the exact same Chinese suppliers that the smaller brands do.
i wish i was in australia so i could have an itunes without sony/bmg
seriously, why would i want to buy from them? i will never buy a sony/bmg record again (rootkit).
#1 microsoft already has a music store
#2 since when did MTV have anything to do with music?
see what DRM is doing? it's beginning to delay technology!
without DRM we'd probably have the next gen DVD formats by now since a huge chunk of development time toshiba and sony are just trying to get their DRM/encryption as perfect as possible so that it takes 3 weeks to crack it instead of 2.
sony formats that failed to gain mainstream acceptance:
1. betamax
2. DAT
3. minidisc
4. MicroMV
5. Atrac/Atrac3
6. Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (lost vs. dolby 5.1 and DTS)
7. HiFD (zip disc competitor)
sony formats that survive only in Sony equipment:
1. Digital8 tapes
2. Memory Stick
"You have this device consumers love, but they're being restricted from buying anything other than downloads from Apple. People are bored with that." (from article)
Huh? so apparantly "Hit Me Baby One More Time" is a better song on the MSN music store than it is on Apple's music store.
well i guess people do prefer not having crappy music shoved down our throats! i swear the music industry will throw its full force against ANYTHING that it deems to be hurting its own business, even its own customers (RIAA lawsuits) and now they are bashing the companies that have revitalized their industry
people don't buy ipods because a new hit record comes out, seriously what good albums are coming out right now? these idiots don't seem to realize that the ipod and music businesses are separate. people buy ipods and other MP3 players because they have a large collection of music, pictures, and videos that they'd like to make portable. expanding that collection is the only role of the recording industry, and without good album releases, people still get ipods to put their old music on.
reasons why blu-ray COULD fail /. article noted that about 50% of hdtv owners are on SDTV content, and about 30% THINK they are using HDTV content)
#1 not backed by microsoft
#2 people are already satisfied with the quality of the DVD. many people don't even realize that DVDs aren't HD (a recent
#3 The PS3 doesn't guarantee the success of the Blu-Ray disc. The Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution are offering the stiffest competition yet, and those following the next-gen consoles are much more skeptical of the bulky, expensive, and not-so-impressive PS3.
#4 HD-DVD is coming out first
#5 horrible DRM may just kill the format for consumers.
#6 HD-DVD comes out first for lower cost.
#7 People may ignore the format war and just stick with DVDs (they are only 10 years old) or they may put a low value on a next-gen DVD format (because DVDs are already satisfactory) and pick whatever is cheapest (HD-DVD)
#8 When buying a movie, people may not care at all which format it's on, and can't tell the difference which one has more data and will pick the cheaper format. Or, if they have Blu-Ray, they'll be like "why am I paying $30 for this movie when it's on HD-DVD for $20?)
#9 Betamax
#10 If HD-DVD burners are availible first for a lower cost, people will choose HD-DVD. I highly doubt Blu-Ray burners will even be availible in 2006 at all.
And most of the IT industry (except Microsoft) also supports Blu-ray Disc.
Isn't that kind of a large omission?
i don't know about you, but whenever i have enough time to sit down and watch a TV show or even a 6 minute snippet from a TV show, i will do so using an actual television.
any place where i'm on the go where i would need to use a cell phone to watch TV would be a place where I don't really need to be watching TV anyways.
and don't we all watch too much TV as it is?
product placement is getting bigger, but it's not because of tivos. i don't know many people with tivos, i'm guessing about 1% of the population has them.
the reason is because there are 80-200 channels that people can just flip through and never have to watch a commercial. if you just watch three channels at a time, you'll never see a commercial.
innovating ever since they first began?
i guess that would be because for the majority of yahoo!'s lifespan Google powered its searches only recently started using their own proprietary search technology.
i don't think it's news that the north pole is getting warmer, but the actual magnetic pole moving?
well now that i read about it the poles moving seems pretty normal.
"They found that the north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but it sometimes moved in other directions, too."
yes we know we don't have any newspaper anymore, either.
all media can adapt by reducing costs and staying unique. take newspapers, new printing technology has made newspapers cheaper to produce and recently (not 2 months ago recent, i mean 20 years ago recent) color printing has increased the appeal of the newspaper.
come on people! you know that by suing microsoft for admitting mistakes, you are only going to encourage them to cover up future problems instead of addressing them!
bellsouth doesn't have the luxury of having any junk.
they donated theirs to their customers.
so many songs (especially in math) have helped me remember things well (such as the song for the quadratic equation), but i can't see using the technique in excess to be beneficial.
songs are great for memorization of long equations and similar things that are too long to really remember in a short way, but have to be memorized nonetheless. singing whole lectures, that's probably just going to get really annoying.
and i hope this professor is a good singer.