that M$ or one of IBM's rival chip companies has something to do with this? M$ could be pissed that IBM is really supporting the open-source movement with Linux and OOo, or maybe Intel is pissed that even with the soon coming of their new line of procs that IBM's Cell and Niagra procs will blow the Yonah out of the water?
Feel free to think I'm reading between the lines, maybe I am, but if it is actually a situation such as one of the above that I described, feel free to add anything else you can think of...
yes, but it is still much more when compared to other mp3 players of the same class for the iPod name, and from what I've heard, most people that buy iPods get the larger ones - yes, the larger ones are in a class of there own, but who the hell needs THAT much storage space? I can understand a gig or so for songs, but 10 to 50 gigs for songs? I realize that it also acts as a portable hard drive (thats basically what it is) which can be used for other purposes, but still...
People that buy an iPod obviously have a decent pocket size (better than mine:() as the player alone costs a few hundred dollars (with the exception of the Shuffle at I think $100 or so) versus the $50 of a regular 512meg player. If they have the money to buy the iPod, I would assume they have the money to afford the convenience of the iTunes Music Store - and from the looks of the article, they do...
since flash memory has only a limited number of drive writes, there isnt a chance in hell it will replace conventional hard drives - rival conventional drives in archival purposes, maybe - but with only a limited number of writes, what do you do when it goes bad because you wrote to it to store the database for your forum?
Ya, he promised that for MSN users, not the rest..
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if you are still unfortunate enough to be stuck with Yahoo, the ungodly AOL, or a half dozen other e-mail providers, including MSN that is supposed to get less spam now due to whatever M$ did - find somebody you know that has a GMail account (for those of you who dont know, GMail = Google Mail) and bug the hell out of that person until they send you an invitation email to let you register for a free Gmail account. I've had virtually NO spam using Gmail - I used Yahoo mail before, and yes, it has improved, but I still most of my messages were spam - now with gmail, the only thing that makes it through are automatic responses from/. and site registration responses.
Just talks bout cases looking like a stereo...
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which personally, is a HUGE downgrade in asthetics of a computer case. I know they want to make it look like it belongs with a tv and entertainment center, but the pic they showed of a case looked like an early 90's pos stereo. I admit, some of the NEWER stereos out there look pretty damn cool, but this is basically turning a PC into a DVR/Tivo and making it look like I said, an early 90's pos stereo...
BTW: go ahead and bitch about my post all you want, I stand by it, the least they could have done is make it at least half the size of the pic they showed, and make it actually look modern, sleek, and sexy as hell...
The article said you still had to have the external ac-dc inverter - who wants to guess what the biggest part of a psu would be? they just took the inverter out of a psu and made it external, with the only part of the psu remaining internal is the voltage divider circuit to step it down from 120 to 12 volts and keep the wattage.
and smart - its saying that all the other idiots in a company that havent got a clue in hell as to what makes their computer work, or that, for the f'ing love of God, dont disable the damn anti-spyware and anti-virus, dont download anonymous e-mail attachments, ect (I'm sure theres WORLDS more). This show seems to be saying that for all the work IT does for a company, nobody gives a damn about em - to the rest of the company, they are just the geeks in the basement with no lives that occaisonally come up to help them with making something bold in M$ Word.
Damn... you beat me to it lol, was just thinking the same thing.
So does this mean a guy named Solid Snake is gonna have to go to Zanzibar Land and destroy a secret walking tank that coincidentally happens to be code named under "Metal Gear", and kill a guy named "Big Boss" that happens to be his "father" by way of being a clone??? In this case, all these years of playing video games will finally come in handy - gamers will be the only ones who know what to do lol...
hmmm... stop by thesobclan.com and maybe arrange a Battlefield Vietnam, or BF2 TWL match, COD2 game, we got a guild in the wars also (not officially supported by the clan, but one of the clan officers started it) or whatever else my clan plays that I cant think of...
BTW: our motto is supposed to be a little speech made by General Patton - "The point of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his"
true, most every parent you see out there that does not play games themselves and realized the intellectual building, socialisation, ect - bitches and complains that kids do nothing but play games and dont socialise, or improve their reasoning and risk judgement, ability to think quick and on their feet, or notice things in the real world -
online gaming lets you talk (at least chat) with other people, especially true when you are in a regular clan, in most rpgs and especially mmorpgs, you learn risk management by whether or not you should take the short way after walking for an hour and end up dead, or keep going the long way and get where you're going easier, you learn to think quick by realizing the enemy's stategy and how to counter it - whoever figures it out quicker is more likely to win, last of all, especially to people who play action shooters like Battlefield and Counter Strike, you get quicker reflexes and notice more little things by watching for the enemy's flashbang that just rolled through the door, letting you know to either look away, or get ready to toss one back or just spray n' pray...
they better, getting/.ed may take down the server, but it will also direct a few thousand people to your clan - who cares if the server is down for a week if it means you gain a few hundred to a thousand people
even if Dell sucks, it means they finally smartened up and realized that theres a whole plethora of gamers out there who use AMD chips exclusively. until now, it seems like Dell has focused on selling to schools and businesses, which are HUGE market areas, but gaming is easilly bigger, since there are so many gamers and the top of the line parts demanded are insanely more expensive, they make more per computer. Dells current line of what they claim to be gaming machines were crap and they realized people wouldnt buy them unless they actually used good parts.
Everybody already knows they've already admitted that the base exists, its just they deny that its used to store aliens - which is something any self-respecting person would do - lest the rest of the world think they are crazy. The whole lakebed where the base is at is just a damn airfield for prototype planes - not a storage place for dead aliens or a tunnel to hell.
And BTW: there ARE other bases in the area, named with similar "Area #", with a random number.
Personally, HD-DVD can go shove it - I'm goin with BD.
To the point, both new formats hold MUCH more data than current DVDs, allowing for longer movies on one disc. And BTW: that "its only higher rez" bs you were saying? higher rez takes more space, therefore the requirement for a bigger disc. It also means that if you play XBox, PS2, and PC-DVD or CD games, companies wont have to choose between making a game with insane photorealistic graphics and a decently long story line (20 to 40 hours MINIMUM) or keeping the number of discs down to 2 or 3.
The window lets you see the hard drive, which if it is running Windows, it shows images subliminally encoded into the written data, and when the platters spin, it shows you "Microsoft will rule you, now and forever - BTW: go do something we could possibly sue you for so we can milk you for all you're worth"
So would it make a difference if you used a hundred or so and either put em in a line facing perpendicular to the country to be attacked - like in magnetism, you put a couple magnets behind each other, and the lines of force get stonger - the nukes would be detonated in the order of the one closest to the coast first, followed by the one behind it, which would reinforce the distubance the first detonation created.
Like the guy that said there isnt much of a BT userbase, except on Macs - supply and demand. If they arent selling em, they cant make money, so they figure they jack the price up to make more per unit, when in reality, the smarter thing to do would be to lower (oh my friggin God!!! the thought of a company lowering their prices - pure InsANiTy) so that people wouldnt have to spend 70 bucks to get a damn mouse, and therefore be willing to buy their BT mouse.
the reason I was looking for a BT mouse is so that I wouldnt have to plug in a damn USB wireless receiver for a mouse every time I got tired of my touchpad. so if you dont have BT built in, you would have to get a USB receiver, which would negate the whole point of getting a BT mouse (at least the reason I was gonna get a BT mouse). at this point, it would be cheaper and easier to just get a $20 or $30 targus or MS wireless mouse with the USB reciever...
since it was originally on Fox, and picked up by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, those would be the most likely two networks to air the new episodes.
take a submarine or mini-sub, load it with the attacking/owning country's most powerful nuclear bomb in their arsenal, send it to the bottom of the ocean about 500 to a 1000 miles off the coast of the enemy nation you are attacking, then detonate the bomb, the displacement from the bomb should create one helluva tsunami... (it is (I figure) semi-plausible for this to have been the cause for the tsunami of December 2004 that obliterated a good most of the Phillipines)
Re:Just like "Pentium" was supposd to be 586 only.
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sorry about that, I dont follow up on chips THAT much, I had simply remembered the numbering conventions with the 486 and previous processors, that the original Pentium was the 586, and the P2s were 686, and so (I suppose rather stupidly) assumed that the P3 was an entirely different chip than the P2. sorry bout that...
Re:Just like "Pentium" was supposd to be 586 only.
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Sorry if you misunderstood my post, I wasn't trying to disrespect Intel Pentium's (though I have become an AMD fan recently), the Pentium is a reliable series of processor (unlike the Celeron I despise so much...).
What I was trying to say was this: why did Intel not continue with the number naming convention (though I admit they would have run out of names without getting cliche past the point of no return). Intel could have named the 686 the "Hexium", the 786 the "Septium" (is it just me or does that sound too much like septic tank?), and the 886 the "Octium". Personally, Hexium and Octium sound a HELL OF A LOT COOLER than Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 (Pentium 4 doesn't sound as bad, but maybe thats just because the name has been around for 10 years and is practically a household name among computer nuts).
As I understand cost effectivelly, the Raptor is about $187 million (per jet) (BTW: I got the info by searching Google with "f 22 raptor cost" and the.mil site only, so the return I pulled this quote off of was the dod.mil site = http://www.dod.mil/news/Jul1999/n07301999_9907302. html)
BTW: the info for the Russian jets I would have gotten directly from the sukhoi.ru site, but my Firefox Google translater extension doesn't support Russian/Cyrillic.
Compared even to the experimental MiG 1.42/1.44 "MFI" which is supposedly $70 million per unit, and that is the more expensive experimental MFI. A direct quote from http://www.aeronautics.ru/nws001/janes008.htm which cites their source as Janes Defense - "With a projected unit cost of $70 million, the MFI (mnogo-funktsonalnyy frontovoy-istrebityel) is now described as a 'flying laboratory', as it is unlikely to be ordered in any quantity. "It is not a commercial programme", says Korzhuyev, "it will be the basis for a new fighter that will be smaller and cheaper, but not worse, than the MFI"."
And that's just the MiG MFI, not including Sukhoi's experimental Su-47 "Berkut" which is supposed to lead to the slightly dumbed down "PAK (something or other I think)" (they are leaving out the forward swept wings, which as I understand Russia discovered just as America did that "marginal manuervablility gained by the foreward swept wings was outweighed by the cost of the automatic computer stability controls"). The experimental Berkut is based on the Su-37, which in-turn is based on the Su-27 Flanker series.
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that M$ or one of IBM's rival chip companies has something to do with this? M$ could be pissed that IBM is really supporting the open-source movement with Linux and OOo, or maybe Intel is pissed that even with the soon coming of their new line of procs that IBM's Cell and Niagra procs will blow the Yonah out of the water?
Feel free to think I'm reading between the lines, maybe I am, but if it is actually a situation such as one of the above that I described, feel free to add anything else you can think of...
yes, but it is still much more when compared to other mp3 players of the same class for the iPod name, and from what I've heard, most people that buy iPods get the larger ones - yes, the larger ones are in a class of there own, but who the hell needs THAT much storage space? I can understand a gig or so for songs, but 10 to 50 gigs for songs? I realize that it also acts as a portable hard drive (thats basically what it is) which can be used for other purposes, but still...
People that buy an iPod obviously have a decent pocket size (better than mine:() as the player alone costs a few hundred dollars (with the exception of the Shuffle at I think $100 or so) versus the $50 of a regular 512meg player. If they have the money to buy the iPod, I would assume they have the money to afford the convenience of the iTunes Music Store - and from the looks of the article, they do...
that the people of the office disable it, making the jobs of IT harder.
since flash memory has only a limited number of drive writes, there isnt a chance in hell it will replace conventional hard drives - rival conventional drives in archival purposes, maybe - but with only a limited number of writes, what do you do when it goes bad because you wrote to it to store the database for your forum?
if you are still unfortunate enough to be stuck with Yahoo, the ungodly AOL, or a half dozen other e-mail providers, including MSN that is supposed to get less spam now due to whatever M$ did - find somebody you know that has a GMail account (for those of you who dont know, GMail = Google Mail) and bug the hell out of that person until they send you an invitation email to let you register for a free Gmail account. I've had virtually NO spam using Gmail - I used Yahoo mail before, and yes, it has improved, but I still most of my messages were spam - now with gmail, the only thing that makes it through are automatic responses from /. and site registration responses.
which personally, is a HUGE downgrade in asthetics of a computer case. I know they want to make it look like it belongs with a tv and entertainment center, but the pic they showed of a case looked like an early 90's pos stereo. I admit, some of the NEWER stereos out there look pretty damn cool, but this is basically turning a PC into a DVR/Tivo and making it look like I said, an early 90's pos stereo...
BTW: go ahead and bitch about my post all you want, I stand by it, the least they could have done is make it at least half the size of the pic they showed, and make it actually look modern, sleek, and sexy as hell...
The article said you still had to have the external ac-dc inverter - who wants to guess what the biggest part of a psu would be? they just took the inverter out of a psu and made it external, with the only part of the psu remaining internal is the voltage divider circuit to step it down from 120 to 12 volts and keep the wattage.
and smart - its saying that all the other idiots in a company that havent got a clue in hell as to what makes their computer work, or that, for the f'ing love of God, dont disable the damn anti-spyware and anti-virus, dont download anonymous e-mail attachments, ect (I'm sure theres WORLDS more). This show seems to be saying that for all the work IT does for a company, nobody gives a damn about em - to the rest of the company, they are just the geeks in the basement with no lives that occaisonally come up to help them with making something bold in M$ Word.
Damn... you beat me to it lol, was just thinking the same thing.
So does this mean a guy named Solid Snake is gonna have to go to Zanzibar Land and destroy a secret walking tank that coincidentally happens to be code named under "Metal Gear", and kill a guy named "Big Boss" that happens to be his "father" by way of being a clone??? In this case, all these years of playing video games will finally come in handy - gamers will be the only ones who know what to do lol...
hmmm... stop by thesobclan.com and maybe arrange a Battlefield Vietnam, or BF2 TWL match, COD2 game, we got a guild in the wars also (not officially supported by the clan, but one of the clan officers started it) or whatever else my clan plays that I cant think of...
BTW: our motto is supposed to be a little speech made by General Patton - "The point of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other poor bastard die for his"
true, most every parent you see out there that does not play games themselves and realized the intellectual building, socialisation, ect - bitches and complains that kids do nothing but play games and dont socialise, or improve their reasoning and risk judgement, ability to think quick and on their feet, or notice things in the real world -
online gaming lets you talk (at least chat) with other people, especially true when you are in a regular clan, in most rpgs and especially mmorpgs, you learn risk management by whether or not you should take the short way after walking for an hour and end up dead, or keep going the long way and get where you're going easier, you learn to think quick by realizing the enemy's stategy and how to counter it - whoever figures it out quicker is more likely to win, last of all, especially to people who play action shooters like Battlefield and Counter Strike, you get quicker reflexes and notice more little things by watching for the enemy's flashbang that just rolled through the door, letting you know to either look away, or get ready to toss one back or just spray n' pray...
End of possibly pointless ranting...
they better, getting /.ed may take down the server, but it will also direct a few thousand people to your clan - who cares if the server is down for a week if it means you gain a few hundred to a thousand people
even if Dell sucks, it means they finally smartened up and realized that theres a whole plethora of gamers out there who use AMD chips exclusively. until now, it seems like Dell has focused on selling to schools and businesses, which are HUGE market areas, but gaming is easilly bigger, since there are so many gamers and the top of the line parts demanded are insanely more expensive, they make more per computer. Dells current line of what they claim to be gaming machines were crap and they realized people wouldnt buy them unless they actually used good parts.
Everybody already knows they've already admitted that the base exists, its just they deny that its used to store aliens - which is something any self-respecting person would do - lest the rest of the world think they are crazy. The whole lakebed where the base is at is just a damn airfield for prototype planes - not a storage place for dead aliens or a tunnel to hell.
And BTW: there ARE other bases in the area, named with similar "Area #", with a random number.
Personally, HD-DVD can go shove it - I'm goin with BD.
To the point, both new formats hold MUCH more data than current DVDs, allowing for longer movies on one disc. And BTW: that "its only higher rez" bs you were saying? higher rez takes more space, therefore the requirement for a bigger disc. It also means that if you play XBox, PS2, and PC-DVD or CD games, companies wont have to choose between making a game with insane photorealistic graphics and a decently long story line (20 to 40 hours MINIMUM) or keeping the number of discs down to 2 or 3.
The window lets you see the hard drive, which if it is running Windows, it shows images subliminally encoded into the written data, and when the platters spin, it shows you "Microsoft will rule you, now and forever - BTW: go do something we could possibly sue you for so we can milk you for all you're worth"
So would it make a difference if you used a hundred or so and either put em in a line facing perpendicular to the country to be attacked - like in magnetism, you put a couple magnets behind each other, and the lines of force get stonger - the nukes would be detonated in the order of the one closest to the coast first, followed by the one behind it, which would reinforce the distubance the first detonation created.
Like the guy that said there isnt much of a BT userbase, except on Macs - supply and demand. If they arent selling em, they cant make money, so they figure they jack the price up to make more per unit, when in reality, the smarter thing to do would be to lower (oh my friggin God!!! the thought of a company lowering their prices - pure InsANiTy) so that people wouldnt have to spend 70 bucks to get a damn mouse, and therefore be willing to buy their BT mouse.
the reason I was looking for a BT mouse is so that I wouldnt have to plug in a damn USB wireless receiver for a mouse every time I got tired of my touchpad. so if you dont have BT built in, you would have to get a USB receiver, which would negate the whole point of getting a BT mouse (at least the reason I was gonna get a BT mouse). at this point, it would be cheaper and easier to just get a $20 or $30 targus or MS wireless mouse with the USB reciever...
since it was originally on Fox, and picked up by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, those would be the most likely two networks to air the new episodes.
take a submarine or mini-sub, load it with the attacking/owning country's most powerful nuclear bomb in their arsenal, send it to the bottom of the ocean about 500 to a 1000 miles off the coast of the enemy nation you are attacking, then detonate the bomb, the displacement from the bomb should create one helluva tsunami... (it is (I figure) semi-plausible for this to have been the cause for the tsunami of December 2004 that obliterated a good most of the Phillipines)
sorry about that, I dont follow up on chips THAT much, I had simply remembered the numbering conventions with the 486 and previous processors, that the original Pentium was the 586, and the P2s were 686, and so (I suppose rather stupidly) assumed that the P3 was an entirely different chip than the P2. sorry bout that...
(crap I was almost finished with this reply when I incidentally closed the tab)
Sorry if you misunderstood my post, I wasn't trying to disrespect Intel Pentium's (though I have become an AMD fan recently), the Pentium is a reliable series of processor (unlike the Celeron I despise so much...).
What I was trying to say was this: why did Intel not continue with the number naming convention (though I admit they would have run out of names without getting cliche past the point of no return). Intel could have named the 686 the "Hexium", the 786 the "Septium" (is it just me or does that sound too much like septic tank?), and the 886 the "Octium". Personally, Hexium and Octium sound a HELL OF A LOT COOLER than Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 (Pentium 4 doesn't sound as bad, but maybe thats just because the name has been around for 10 years and is practically a household name among computer nuts).
As I understand cost effectivelly, the Raptor is about $187 million (per jet) (BTW: I got the info by searching Google with "f 22 raptor cost" and the .mil site only, so the return I pulled this quote off of was the dod.mil site = http://www.dod.mil/news/Jul1999/n07301999_9907302. html)
BTW: the info for the Russian jets I would have gotten directly from the sukhoi.ru site, but my Firefox Google translater extension doesn't support Russian/Cyrillic.
Compared even to the experimental MiG 1.42/1.44 "MFI" which is supposedly $70 million per unit, and that is the more expensive experimental MFI. A direct quote from http://www.aeronautics.ru/nws001/janes008.htm which cites their source as Janes Defense - "With a projected unit cost of $70 million, the MFI (mnogo-funktsonalnyy frontovoy-istrebityel) is now described as a 'flying laboratory', as it is unlikely to be ordered in any quantity. "It is not a commercial programme", says Korzhuyev, "it will be the basis for a new fighter that will be smaller and cheaper, but not worse, than the MFI"."
And that's just the MiG MFI, not including Sukhoi's experimental Su-47 "Berkut" which is supposed to lead to the slightly dumbed down "PAK (something or other I think)" (they are leaving out the forward swept wings, which as I understand Russia discovered just as America did that "marginal manuervablility gained by the foreward swept wings was outweighed by the cost of the automatic computer stability controls"). The experimental Berkut is based on the Su-37, which in-turn is based on the Su-27 Flanker series.