It's amazing what a difference a single article can make. Examples: "Your car is shit." vs "Your car is the shit." or "You are shit." vs "You are a shit." vs "You are the shit."
That's why I mentally rot13 everything and type it into rot13.com. Hit the cypher button, copy, paste and nobody will ever capture what I've written (except for the people who run rot13.com).
What you need is an audio distribution amplifier (DA). They do exactly what the name suggests. This looks like it might do the trick, and it uses Cat-5 cable for the (analog) transmission, so you probably already have all the cable you'd need. Not exactly cheap, but they're certainly cheaper than pro-level DAs. Of course, you may want to go the squeezebox/digital route like many others are suggesting.
That's not what was on digg over the weekend. What was posted linked directly to alexa.com. I've tried searching for it and I can't find it. Which brings up another problem I have with digg -- there have been a few times where articles were removed entirely from either the front page or the diggall queue. I realize it happens here from time to time, and it's just as obnoxious...
Don't get me wrong. I do visit digg a few times a day and I've definitely found some fairly esoteric stuff there that I wouldn't have found otherwise. However, I get the feeling it's gonna be like another fark to me -- a site that I visit a fair bit initially, but that I stop going to altogether after a few months...
Over the weekend digg had a "story" submitted showing that digg's pageviews had surpassed slashdots. The "story" was a link to Alexa's site comparing graphs of the two. Keep in mind that Alexa measures this information via people who have the Alexa toolbar for IE (which many consider to be spyware) installed on their machines. I think this says far more about the technical awareness of the visitors of the two sites than anything.
Offtopic my ass! Whoever modded this has obviously never seen the comment section of digg.com (hint: this is what about half the comments consist of over there).
I've been checking out digg for the past few weeks. The only real advantage I see to it over slashdot is that you can see all the submitted articles and vote them up to the front page. The downside of that is that there's a whole lotta crap to filter through. And there's nobody to blame for the dupes. And the comment system sucks. And the dupes. Oh, and many of the posters seem to be 15 (at least those tend to get modded down on/.).
Gotta agree with this. I work in a very small office and we recently upgraded our machines for the first time in 5 years (really nice healthcare deal from Dell). When I was specing the new machines, one of my cow-orkers who really likes shiny/new things really wanted us to upgrade to Office 2003 (I could never get an exact reason why we should other than "Well, it's newer. Don't we need it?"). That idea was shelved only when I showed the boss that adding Office 2003 nearly doubled the cost of the machines.
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I'll finally have access to the extended and color version of ASCII Star Wars via telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl.
It's amazing what a difference a single article can make. Examples:
"Your car is shit." vs "Your car is the shit." or
"You are shit." vs "You are a shit." vs "You are the shit."
That's why I mentally rot13 everything and type it into rot13.com. Hit the cypher button, copy, paste and nobody will ever capture what I've written (except for the people who run rot13.com).
That brings up something I've always wondered about. What happens to people who bought Clappers when a commercial for the Clapper comes on?
Don't trust the little endians. They're all communists!
I thought they were all Catholics. Or were they Protestants?
I know someone who took this exact route. Hook the signal up to a low power FM transmitter. Suddenly, any FM radio in the house can tune in.
No way, man. Forget the light switch. Get a bunch of Clappers!
Yeah, that's a lot, but suppose I feel a sudden urge to drive accross country?
Do you get these urges often?
What you need is an audio distribution amplifier (DA). They do exactly what the name suggests. This looks like it might do the trick, and it uses Cat-5 cable for the (analog) transmission, so you probably already have all the cable you'd need. Not exactly cheap, but they're certainly cheaper than pro-level DAs. Of course, you may want to go the squeezebox/digital route like many others are suggesting.
That's not what was on digg over the weekend. What was posted linked directly to alexa.com. I've tried searching for it and I can't find it. Which brings up another problem I have with digg -- there have been a few times where articles were removed entirely from either the front page or the diggall queue. I realize it happens here from time to time, and it's just as obnoxious...
*sniff* :'(
I figure just posting a gripe about it here should be enough. After all, the FBI is already monitoring everything I do, right? Right?!?
<adjusts hat>
Exactly. The story title should be "Apple iTunes to End Flat Fee Pricing?" Question, not a declaration.
*ding*ding*ding*ding*
We have a winner!
Seriously, nothing gets by you, does it?
Slashdot could have a "stories that didn't make the cut" section, and I'd be very interested.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This would be a nice feature to offer to subscribers.
Don't get me wrong. I do visit digg a few times a day and I've definitely found some fairly esoteric stuff there that I wouldn't have found otherwise. However, I get the feeling it's gonna be like another fark to me -- a site that I visit a fair bit initially, but that I stop going to altogether after a few months...
Over the weekend digg had a "story" submitted showing that digg's pageviews had surpassed slashdots. The "story" was a link to Alexa's site comparing graphs of the two. Keep in mind that Alexa measures this information via people who have the Alexa toolbar for IE (which many consider to be spyware) installed on their machines. I think this says far more about the technical awareness of the visitors of the two sites than anything.
Offtopic my ass! Whoever modded this has obviously never seen the comment section of digg.com (hint: this is what about half the comments consist of over there).
I've been checking out digg for the past few weeks. The only real advantage I see to it over slashdot is that you can see all the submitted articles and vote them up to the front page. The downside of that is that there's a whole lotta crap to filter through. And there's nobody to blame for the dupes. And the comment system sucks. And the dupes. Oh, and many of the posters seem to be 15 (at least those tend to get modded down on /.).
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Gotta agree with this. I work in a very small office and we recently upgraded our machines for the first time in 5 years (really nice healthcare deal from Dell). When I was specing the new machines, one of my cow-orkers who really likes shiny/new things really wanted us to upgrade to Office 2003 (I could never get an exact reason why we should other than "Well, it's newer. Don't we need it?"). That idea was shelved only when I showed the boss that adding Office 2003 nearly doubled the cost of the machines.
It's not 1995?!? Shit, why am I still working on these Y2K bugfixes???
"Oh, and one more thing...That whole thing about switching to Intel was just a joke..."
Ahhh, right. Good point... : p