I still flag them as spam. If I don't know the person or want their information, its spam. No Muss, no fuss. If I didn't personally give them my e-mail address, its spam.
True, but you need to get something like the Logitech MX1000. That mouse lasts forever on batteries and its recharable. Just put the mouse on its base station every few nights and you will never run out. I personally go about 3 weeks between charges.
"It's the primary reason retailers are moving to the console,"
Ok, lets see here. I can go buy a solderless modchip for my XBox and install it in a matter of about 20 minutes. I can go and rent a game or borrow one from a friend and shazam, its on my xbox. Hook it up via your network router or directly to your computer, copy off the files and burn a new DVD. Easy as that.
As for PC games, you can go to your favorite BitTorrent site and find a torrent file, hoping its free of virus' and actually works. Spend a day or two downloading the torrent because there are only 4 100% seeds and they are uploading at only 8k a second. Burn the ISO, find out its not even the game you were wanting to pirate. Go back to your torrent site, and find a new torrent. Same thing, happens...back to the torrent site. Ok, finally got the game I wanted, but oh crap, now I have like a billion virus'/malware/spyware attacking me from all directions.
PC games are not easier to pirate, console games are. People are going to consoles because of that reason.
PS...World of Warcraft is killing the gaming industry, not consoles!
I have to agree with that. A few years ago, I was all about getting the latest and greatest hardware in my system. Getting it overclocked to the point of melting the socket. Now, its no big deal. I realize my system is quite powerful for being a year old and I personally don't want to upgrade. Its expensive and I have a baby now. Besides, I need money to get my Nissan 350Z when I plan on having my mid-life crisis. I mean, women get menopause and expect us men to deal with it and give them what they want during their "hard time". Well, I want my mid-life crisis which means a new sports car for me.
Well, the search results shouldn't be that weird. I mean, you have to be a psycho killa these days to still be using AOL. Their tech support would make anyone go homicidal.
I wonder if the price of that laptop will come down since there won't be a cost of licensing any Windows products. Or will they keep it up and pocket the extra profit.
Several readers pointed to reasons why the most expensive places to live get to be so expensive, and why (for those who can afford to live there in the first place) locations like Silicon Valley are often worth their premiums.
Its a shame though that those silicon valley workers dont' stay in the bay area. Instead, they move into the Central California Valley, dramatically increase the price of housing and the cost of living and those of us who live and work in the Central California Valley have to deal with the outrageous prices of everything. Best yet, most of the commuters live in the bay area during the week and only come out to the central valley on weekends. I think those living and working in the central valley need to kick the commuters out and tell them to never come back!
I think an improvement to CDs would be something along the line of flash media. An entire album on an SD card or some kind of USB device that plugs into your stereo. The size would be convienent too, but also a little easy to lose.
As for:
"Most people don't have a stereo system in their car good enough to even care about the audio quality of DVD Audio "
"the DVD already has a low quality rip of the music, but who wants that."
DVD Audio is nice..real nice. My wife owns a few concerts on DVD and the audio is just outstanding. But put that same DVD into a car and it won't sound as good. Most factory speakers aren't high enough quality to enjoy the audio you would get from a DVD Audio disk. It would sound like CD quality if anything. So why upgrade for the use in a car. As for the low quality rip of the music already on the DVD, the article mentioned that there would already be digital files on the DVD since it is "protected" from being ripped at full quality. I would bet its FM quality if not less and the difference between a 160kbps MP3 and a 64kbps MP3 is quite noticable.
This will fail. Its inevitable. The difference between a cassette tape and a CD was enormous. This isn't. Most people don't have a stereo system in their car good enough to even care about the audio quality of DVD Audio or even the surround sound capabilities. Nor would people go out and pay for a new stereo for their car. I looked into it once and DVD Player stereos are expensive, many exceeding $400 easily. The ability to use an MP3 player is also key. True, the DVD already has a low quality rip of the music, but who wants that. If they bought a new 60gig ipod so they can have high quality sound, they won't settle for low quality.
If this were to succeed and CDs were replaced with DVDs, online purchase of music for download would skyrocket because at least those songs can be put on their MP3 player.
Ok, so Cider loads the Windows program, presumabely a game, into Memory (ie RAM), how much RAM do you actually need then? I mean Windows doens't load the entire game into RAM, just the content you are using at the time. It would be nice to see this though. I like PowerBooks more than Windows laptops.
You know they did go a little over board with the DNA sampling, but how much you wanna bet those three kids will never commit a crime in the future. They go the crap scared outta them and learned their lesson. I say good. Perhaps if in America the cops were to scare a few of these young holligans they may think twice of commiting a crime when they are older. Today, parents think their kids can do no wrong. Their little Billy or Jane are perfect angels, at least they are when their parents are around. The kids see their parents get mad and sue the police department because of what they did and what lesson do the kids learn; they learn that its ok to break the law because your mommy and daddy will protect them.
These cops did go a bit over the line, but not as much as is described in the article.
"The survey, commissioned by U.S. cable television's Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women,
First, this survey was taken by women for women. I would be inclined to say that perhaps that the Oxygen Network could have went out and found a specific type of woman to survey to help their results.
found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily.
Hmm, a women's lib network saying that the gender gap is virtually closed. Wonder what would happen if Spike TV were to interview just men and ask the same question. Of course all the pro woman's lib women would say its virtually gone. If they didn't, it would be like saying they failed, and we all know how women hate being wrong.
Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting."
Lets see, Ipod - Check, Cellphone - Check, TiVo - Check, Palm Pilot - Check, Compaq Computer - Check, Digital camera - Check. As for doing their own computer trouble-shooting, I would bet they mean they dial the phone to Compaq's computer support themselves instead of making their husband/boyfriend do it for them.
My router is an AT&T brand as is my wifi card. That works great when the drivers work under windows. However, under Ubuntu, I had to use the generic Atheros drivers. It worked, but was unable to communicate correctly with my router with WEP enabled. If you have ever used a network with a mix of manufacturer hardware, you may find that some brands don't work with eachother for certain models. Netgear and Linksys are two good examples. My router probably uses a different algorithm for its WEP key security while the generic drivers for my Atheros chipset wifi card wasn't recognizing that algorithm. I have seen this issue several times even under Windows environments. Fortunatly, I haven't seen WPA affected by this same issue.
I think Chuck Norris should be the next president. Lemme switch this jumper and viola...all hail Chuck Norris. I hear that under Chuck's beard isn't really a chin, its a third fist. That may be useful for the war in Iraq.
I would have to say yes. Being open source, any manfacturer could use it on their phone. And considering that phones aren't really OS dependant...why wouldn't they go to linux. I don't buy my phone based on what software is on it, I want a phone that is loud, easy to use and has long battery life.
Worked right out of the box for me. I have the Atheros chipset and it worked great. However, WPA is not native to Ubuntu and apparently the algorithm for WEP my router uses isn't compatible with Ubuntu either. So I decided to addon the WPA support. Not a big issue even for me, a somewhat Linux n00b. However, as soon as you add something such as video drivers and it removes the wifi drivers, it was a pain to get them back. Had to find a long cable to reach my router and took me a while to find a working repository to manually install madwifi. But, I got it working.
Why can't there be both Black Holes and MECOs? I mean, space is big...really really big. We may have had physicists do some uber complex calculations to figure this out, but its only a calculation. Real life often trumps calculations and proves them wrong.
How would this affect the tiered internet propositions from the leading telecom companies? Yes, I am asking a serious question that I would like an answer to please.
Thats exactly what I am thinking. You know, I think we "evolved" because of cockroaches. I mean girls freak out when they see them and require a shoe to kill them. We "evolved" to having large feet because everyone knows the bigger the shoe, the better. Men grew bigger too because when they discovered spiders they practically went into seizure and the man needed a big shoe to kill the spiders. Plus you all know the old saying about a man with big shoes...
Last time I checked, there need to be someone to protect these personal liberties. If you feel you have the right to all these personal liberties, why do you live in America where they are protected for you? Personally I could care less if the NSA wants to spy on everyone. Good luck with that. I have nothing to hide. They can peer into my last bit of personal information and all they will find is I had a minor car accident three years ago. Big whoop. Its people that have something to hide that are worried the most. The NSA is here to protect Americans on American soil. How do they do that...by conducting investigations that are secretive because if they weren't secretive, the people that are being sought after will know they are being sought after. There are far worse things that some massive amounts of computers recording and analyzing phone calls. Let them. If they wanna hear my boring conversations, I feel more sorry for them then the person I am talking to.
Everyone thinks that freedom should come without a price. Guess what, freedom isn't free.
I would assume that since she has dusted around parts of a computer that there is one in her house. Perhaps she has grand children or her husband or her own adult children are downloading and sharing music online. Though if her story that she has never used a computer is true, I feel bad that she is getting persued by the RIAA. Maybe people should get a little artistic and learn to play an instrument so they could play music with friend and listen as they played and we would never have to buy music again. =P
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No, it will happen because they will pay the RIAA and to get the revenue for this payment, they will have a popup come up ever 3.27 seconds.
Well, if they do survive getting slashdotted, I bet they will think they have become the most popular website ever.
I still flag them as spam. If I don't know the person or want their information, its spam. No Muss, no fuss. If I didn't personally give them my e-mail address, its spam.
True, but you need to get something like the Logitech MX1000. That mouse lasts forever on batteries and its recharable. Just put the mouse on its base station every few nights and you will never run out. I personally go about 3 weeks between charges.
Ok, lets see here. I can go buy a solderless modchip for my XBox and install it in a matter of about 20 minutes. I can go and rent a game or borrow one from a friend and shazam, its on my xbox. Hook it up via your network router or directly to your computer, copy off the files and burn a new DVD. Easy as that.
As for PC games, you can go to your favorite BitTorrent site and find a torrent file, hoping its free of virus' and actually works. Spend a day or two downloading the torrent because there are only 4 100% seeds and they are uploading at only 8k a second. Burn the ISO, find out its not even the game you were wanting to pirate. Go back to your torrent site, and find a new torrent. Same thing, happens...back to the torrent site. Ok, finally got the game I wanted, but oh crap, now I have like a billion virus'/malware/spyware attacking me from all directions.
PC games are not easier to pirate, console games are. People are going to consoles because of that reason.
PS...World of Warcraft is killing the gaming industry, not consoles!
I have to agree with that. A few years ago, I was all about getting the latest and greatest hardware in my system. Getting it overclocked to the point of melting the socket. Now, its no big deal. I realize my system is quite powerful for being a year old and I personally don't want to upgrade. Its expensive and I have a baby now. Besides, I need money to get my Nissan 350Z when I plan on having my mid-life crisis. I mean, women get menopause and expect us men to deal with it and give them what they want during their "hard time". Well, I want my mid-life crisis which means a new sports car for me.
Well, the search results shouldn't be that weird. I mean, you have to be a psycho killa these days to still be using AOL. Their tech support would make anyone go homicidal.
I wonder if the price of that laptop will come down since there won't be a cost of licensing any Windows products. Or will they keep it up and pocket the extra profit.
Its a shame though that those silicon valley workers dont' stay in the bay area. Instead, they move into the Central California Valley, dramatically increase the price of housing and the cost of living and those of us who live and work in the Central California Valley have to deal with the outrageous prices of everything. Best yet, most of the commuters live in the bay area during the week and only come out to the central valley on weekends. I think those living and working in the central valley need to kick the commuters out and tell them to never come back!
As for:
"Most people don't have a stereo system in their car good enough to even care about the audio quality of DVD Audio " "the DVD already has a low quality rip of the music, but who wants that."
DVD Audio is nice..real nice. My wife owns a few concerts on DVD and the audio is just outstanding. But put that same DVD into a car and it won't sound as good. Most factory speakers aren't high enough quality to enjoy the audio you would get from a DVD Audio disk. It would sound like CD quality if anything. So why upgrade for the use in a car. As for the low quality rip of the music already on the DVD, the article mentioned that there would already be digital files on the DVD since it is "protected" from being ripped at full quality. I would bet its FM quality if not less and the difference between a 160kbps MP3 and a 64kbps MP3 is quite noticable.
If this were to succeed and CDs were replaced with DVDs, online purchase of music for download would skyrocket because at least those songs can be put on their MP3 player.
Ok, so Cider loads the Windows program, presumabely a game, into Memory (ie RAM), how much RAM do you actually need then? I mean Windows doens't load the entire game into RAM, just the content you are using at the time. It would be nice to see this though. I like PowerBooks more than Windows laptops.
These cops did go a bit over the line, but not as much as is described in the article.
First, this survey was taken by women for women. I would be inclined to say that perhaps that the Oxygen Network could have went out and found a specific type of woman to survey to help their results.
found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily.
Hmm, a women's lib network saying that the gender gap is virtually closed. Wonder what would happen if Spike TV were to interview just men and ask the same question. Of course all the pro woman's lib women would say its virtually gone. If they didn't, it would be like saying they failed, and we all know how women hate being wrong.
Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting."
Lets see, Ipod - Check, Cellphone - Check, TiVo - Check, Palm Pilot - Check, Compaq Computer - Check, Digital camera - Check. As for doing their own computer trouble-shooting, I would bet they mean they dial the phone to Compaq's computer support themselves instead of making their husband/boyfriend do it for them.
My router is an AT&T brand as is my wifi card. That works great when the drivers work under windows. However, under Ubuntu, I had to use the generic Atheros drivers. It worked, but was unable to communicate correctly with my router with WEP enabled. If you have ever used a network with a mix of manufacturer hardware, you may find that some brands don't work with eachother for certain models. Netgear and Linksys are two good examples. My router probably uses a different algorithm for its WEP key security while the generic drivers for my Atheros chipset wifi card wasn't recognizing that algorithm. I have seen this issue several times even under Windows environments. Fortunatly, I haven't seen WPA affected by this same issue.
I think Chuck Norris should be the next president. Lemme switch this jumper and viola...all hail Chuck Norris. I hear that under Chuck's beard isn't really a chin, its a third fist. That may be useful for the war in Iraq.
I would have to say yes. Being open source, any manfacturer could use it on their phone. And considering that phones aren't really OS dependant...why wouldn't they go to linux. I don't buy my phone based on what software is on it, I want a phone that is loud, easy to use and has long battery life.
Worked right out of the box for me. I have the Atheros chipset and it worked great. However, WPA is not native to Ubuntu and apparently the algorithm for WEP my router uses isn't compatible with Ubuntu either. So I decided to addon the WPA support. Not a big issue even for me, a somewhat Linux n00b. However, as soon as you add something such as video drivers and it removes the wifi drivers, it was a pain to get them back. Had to find a long cable to reach my router and took me a while to find a working repository to manually install madwifi. But, I got it working.
Why can't there be both Black Holes and MECOs? I mean, space is big...really really big. We may have had physicists do some uber complex calculations to figure this out, but its only a calculation. Real life often trumps calculations and proves them wrong.
How would this affect the tiered internet propositions from the leading telecom companies? Yes, I am asking a serious question that I would like an answer to please.
So the use of a laptop superceeds malnutrition, lack of medical care, etc.
Thats exactly what I am thinking. You know, I think we "evolved" because of cockroaches. I mean girls freak out when they see them and require a shoe to kill them. We "evolved" to having large feet because everyone knows the bigger the shoe, the better. Men grew bigger too because when they discovered spiders they practically went into seizure and the man needed a big shoe to kill the spiders. Plus you all know the old saying about a man with big shoes...
Everyone thinks that freedom should come without a price. Guess what, freedom isn't free.
I would assume that since she has dusted around parts of a computer that there is one in her house. Perhaps she has grand children or her husband or her own adult children are downloading and sharing music online. Though if her story that she has never used a computer is true, I feel bad that she is getting persued by the RIAA. Maybe people should get a little artistic and learn to play an instrument so they could play music with friend and listen as they played and we would never have to buy music again. =P
Why do they think its so difficult. Go to google.com and search for Warez.