You can also get banned by refreshing the front page obsessively too. The RSS file probably gets hit more because it's automated by many newsfeed readers. I think what SHOULD be done is a line in each feed that sets the refresh rate for that channel automagically for you and specifies if the user can change it. This would solve it as you could not set it. Like it or not, Slashdot has finte bandwidth too. It's up to them to decided policy and not us. If you don't like it, you can download slashcode and try to do the same.
Dancers huh? I thought they ere stampers. DDR is not really a dance game. You just have to hit the button in a pattern with your feet. Granted, it would help if your a good dancer, but you could be a lousy dancer and still figure your way around DDR.
I am and adult and have no desire to play a game that consists of stealing a car then driving over the owner in a puff of tire smoke. GTA 3 is just violence for violence sake. At least in Quake/Doom and some other 3d shooters, you are the good guy shooting demons and criminals. Both are violent. Evil violence is just wrong. It's like someone trying to compare Passion of the Christ to the movie where some guy sadistically kills 500 people just to do it. It just doesn't work.
That said, there must be some people willing to play it...otherwise, why would they make it if people didn't buy the first one. We are (well, the majority of Slashdot) in the USA and if someone wants to play a sadistic video game, then they have every right to.
Kids don't kill people because they play video games. They kill people wen they have 7 shotguns under their bed and the parent does not inspect the room every once in a while. PARENTS everyone. You are supposed to raise your kids, not Gamecube, Playstation, the internet, the tv.....
Hate to treply to myself but the how stuff works article posted by someone else says the metal stripe type (EM) of tages can be reactivated. My Mistake.
The antitheft things I see and have torn apart look like two strips of metal. When the magnetic force in the anti-theft pad incounters them, I bet it just pulls both strips together. So, those ones are probably are just capacitors using air as a dielectric. They are only good once hence why Walmart and others have their DVD's with them inside the casing (can't pull them off).
Really. If they had offered a no frills DVD with just the remastered copy of the movie, we'd have bought it....then when the Super De Duper DVD set came out, we'd buy it too. The way I look at it, multiple sets will come out because Lucas realized he screwed up and should have brought the DVD out years ago.
Got a question for you.....how many stories does slashdot post every 10 minutes?? Every 60? Every Day? Slashdot only posts a story like 8-10 times per day. Refreshing your feed every 10 minutes....even every 30 minutes is just too much. This is why they have the autoban set up this way. Also, when you hit this feed, you use part of the bandwidth they need for the regular web page. Again, thats why the autoban is setup. You have no idea what Slashdots net admins see. Even less then you did 3 years ago as GIS is pretty much all done and they used to say things like that in the show especially if alot of folks asked. I bet one month the RSS file was in the top percentage of files accessed and that had to be cut down. I know, it's not a large file, but if you grabe it 20 bazillion times a day, it ADDS UP! In closing, if you grab the feed more then once per two hours, that is way too much. Set it to refresh 4-5 times perday and you will be fair to Slashdot and NOT eat their bandwidth.
I fix this...I go camping. Only tech thigns I take on a trip are a cellphone, my PDA and my handheld ham radio (which doubles as a AM/FM/TV(Audio only) reciever and a GPS. If I want to completely unplug, we'll go for a walk though the forest locking all of the tech in the trunk.
I agree. Should not take much to engineer a cron job or somethign else to start record from the audio in at a specific time. And we're also talkign about talk radio...the loss in quality would not be noticed. You can encrypte the heck out of it too. Nice since it's been almost what...three years since a GIS?:)
True. I want a G5 anything...desktop or powerbook....BUT....the common thread now a days on Mac rumor websites are.....
WHINE WHINE!!! APPLE WHEN IS THE G5 coming out....
My next machine will be a G5 wink wink. They should be out in a month or so....
Pant pant pant DAMMIT WHERE's my G5!
This kind of posts gets a LITTLE old when reading 500 of them!:D
All I am saying is calm the heck down....what do you want Apple releasing junk just because your salivating over it? Apple produces great hardware....they will release no G5 Powerbook before it's time!:)
I don't think they will have a G5 Powerbook anytime soon. Maybe next year or the end of this year, but not this spring. The G5 is as much of a change as the move to PowerPC was way back when. It's different. When IBM was developing the G5, they did not have the same concern that Intel and AMD did....that concern was make it so it works with both 32 and 63 bit OS's and to make it so it did not cost ASUS and others a bunch of bucks to make a MB. IBM did not have to do this. Granted, much of the commmand set is the same, but there are obviously things physical wise (MORE then power consumption) that need to be implemented on a much smaller scale before the G5 can move to a Powerbook. Also, my G4 1GHz 12 inch power book runs rings around my big monster P4 @.53 GHz machien I also have. The 1 GHz G4 handles video just fine. I don't have alot of games because thats not what I bought a Powerbook for. If I wanted games, I'd have bought a PS2, XBox or GameCube. I bought my Powerbookas a SMALL, fast work platform taht can also edit videos. It EXCELS at this! I think what we will see soon is G5 iMac's. I see even professionals (a pastor at church works in a graphics arts shop and uses a 17 inch iMac) using iMacs because the look cool. ANd for the leet Mac users, LAY OFF OF HOPING FOR THE G5 and just go by a new Powerbook!
Except on the PowerBook. The arrow keys are right where they need to be on my PB 12inch. Everyone has their own way of doign things. Ones who said Mac power usere sover one hand on the keybaord are correct. My usual browsing stance is my left hand near the apple key and my right hand bopping between the trackpad and the arow keys. Eventually, I willl get a BT mouse and a Apple BT keyboard, but I need a place to set this up that I can leave them set up. Very rarely woudl I take either the mouse and KB with me.
I have one with a Superdrive and absofreakinlutly love it. Friendly UI is there when I want to work. When I want to play, X11 is there as well as xterm and Terminal.app. Buy it. Apple MAY speed bump thigns, but a G5 isn't in the cards....yet.
Not true. The main reason that dirve thru ATMS have braille on them is not he ADA. It's because Diebold does not know where they are going. So they put braille on all of them. Also, some machines like my banks machine have a headphone jack on the front. The sight disabled person can just stick a regular walkman headset into the hole and press the button next to it. Text to speech reads to them what is on the screen. Never tried it, but of course, I am not blind either.
Wow. Grand total of 47 deaths as a result of the war on terrorism. Got any idea how many sorties they ran? Just saying wow 47 people died because of helicopters being shot by small arms, crashing, failing.....MEANS SQUAT unless you compare it to how many missions they ran and then returned from.
No argument thet helicopters in a crossfire are not a good thing. An attack helicopter sent in against a tank and other mechanized infantry is going to get shot to pieces with out a GREAT pilot. The Army is 100 percent correct to kill the Comanche as an attack helicopter. THe project SHOULD be resurrected in a new role. The helicopters the army and navy use are getting older as we speek and a new aircraft is needed. Comanche's research should live on in the troop transport and recon duties.
The Longbow in that list of 47 fatalities was only involded in about 5 of those. The units I see more of in that list are the older chinooks, super cobras and blackhawks. The apache longbow must be doign the job if the Comanche was cut.
The A-10 sure as heck is not totally dead either. There may not be any A-10's being made now, but the current airframes are supposed to be in use until 2028. 12,000 hours airtime on each airframe before retirement. That does not sound like they are dead to me, Sure, there may be some in the ANG, but the ANG is a reserve. The A-10's in the ANG can be called to active duty whenever it's deemed necessary. The A-10 ins an anomaly for teh Air Force. Now that things are changing, maybe the Air Force and Navy may either give up the Key West accords or listen to the Army commanders when they request A-10 support.
Ok your going to base a business decision (which is what this decision by Isreal really is) on results from ONE attack. One Sortie? Not of YEARS of reliable operation. YEARS where they never really used the weapon in honest to god combat? Ok....whatever.
Again...read the article. The article says the Apache was succesfull in both Afghanistan and Iraq. A Apache getting shot down is NOT a performance item. It's a casuality of war. Did you read about Apache's just all of a sudden failing and crashing? Getting shot down by primative weaponry is not a matter of performance. It IS a matter of survivability. I had read somewhere (not about the Comanche) that the Navies F/A-18 can take a SAM hit in the wing, get back to base and be repaired and on the flight line on the next sortie. Something like this would probably not be possible with a helicopter as to take out a copter, all it takes is a well placed hit in the tail rotor or main rotor and your done.
I wish more new users knew to reject the formatter, but most don't and then they wonder where their e-mail is at. Responding that users should know better is almost as bad as the formatter telling them that reformatting will fix everything.
I am sorry, but this is just wrong. I have a DX4900 and it uses AA's just fine. Sure, they WILL not last all day, but they will get you through when your battery pack is gone. They also can use KCRV3 batteries which are NOT proprietary and commonly available at most department stores. You can also use rechargable lithium batteries and regular NiMH batteries as well. I DID buy a travel kit (which came with a bag that I needed at the time as well as voltage convertors) and I use the battery that came with it. If you look, it's just made out of standard AA NiMH batteries. Nothing really proprietary about it other then the stupid clip they are held in. What I DID notice about this clip....it does seem to press a switch when it goes in. Not sure what that does exactly but I bet it changes the camera's circuit to work better with the Kodak battery. In any case, regular AA's do work. The AA's that work even better are the newer Lithium batteries like these e2 Lithiums. These are designed to last longer in digital cameras. Sure, they are not rechargable, but when you rechargable pack is out, they work.
If Kodak was really out to make money on their NiMH Pack for Easyshare cameras, then, how come I can't find them?? I have not been able to find this battery pack anywhere.
Don't for get the biggest, baddest PowerPC based machine of all...the Regatta. IBM makes this as well s a host of Power PC's from big iron like Regatta to workstation class machines. Linux is supportted on all of them, but your NOT going to run Linux on a Regatta. PowerPC is a STRONG platform. In some respects, stronger then Intel. You got all kind of PowerPC based machines running all kind of OS's on it. It's in machines from game consoles to big iron UNIX machines. PowerPC can be called the Linux of processors in some respects.
I will tell you why I do not run Linux on my Mac and shoose to use OS X. I can go to Compusa and the Apple store and buy software that is simply not going to appear in open source. Route 66 mapping software with GPS support is available. iMovie and iDVD also are great apps along with iTunes and GarageBand. I can run REAL MS Office apps and have no fear of iffy office document support. As good as Abiword and Gnumeric are, I need REAL office.
One other feature thats hardly mentioned much anymore is the fact that ANY application that prints can print to a pdf file thanks to Quartz Extreme. I don't need acrobat for anything except more advanced PDFs.
To MICROSOFT, it's disasterous. To the users? I doubt it. First, having the source does not preclude a tone of attacks. If this was the case, Linux would be under attack daily. Second, it'd be a miracle if anyone could make head or tales of their spaghetti.
You need to check out Pocket PC again. This may have been true regarding Palm Sized PCs, but Pocket PC has a excellent ui with one exception....the minimize instead of close when you tap on the x.
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You can also get banned by refreshing the front page obsessively too. The RSS file probably gets hit more because it's automated by many newsfeed readers. I think what SHOULD be done is a line in each feed that sets the refresh rate for that channel automagically for you and specifies if the user can change it. This would solve it as you could not set it. Like it or not, Slashdot has finte bandwidth too. It's up to them to decided policy and not us. If you don't like it, you can download slashcode and try to do the same.
Dancers huh? I thought they ere stampers. DDR is not really a dance game. You just have to hit the button in a pattern with your feet. Granted, it would help if your a good dancer, but you could be a lousy dancer and still figure your way around DDR.
I am and adult and have no desire to play a game that consists of stealing a car then driving over the owner in a puff of tire smoke. GTA 3 is just violence for violence sake. At least in Quake/Doom and some other 3d shooters, you are the good guy shooting demons and criminals. Both are violent. Evil violence is just wrong. It's like someone trying to compare Passion of the Christ to the movie where some guy sadistically kills 500 people just to do it. It just doesn't work.
That said, there must be some people willing to play it...otherwise, why would they make it if people didn't buy the first one. We are (well, the majority of Slashdot) in the USA and if someone wants to play a sadistic video game, then they have every right to.
Kids don't kill people because they play video games. They kill people wen they have 7 shotguns under their bed and the parent does not inspect the room every once in a while. PARENTS everyone. You are supposed to raise your kids, not Gamecube, Playstation, the internet, the tv.....
Hate to treply to myself but the how stuff works article posted by someone else says the metal stripe type (EM) of tages can be reactivated. My Mistake.
The antitheft things I see and have torn apart look like two strips of metal. When the magnetic force in the anti-theft pad incounters them, I bet it just pulls both strips together. So, those ones are probably are just capacitors using air as a dielectric. They are only good once hence why Walmart and others have their DVD's with them inside the casing (can't pull them off).
Yeah....I am waiting to see if this is on George Nooory next week so I cal laugh at how clueless he is.
Really. If they had offered a no frills DVD with just the remastered copy of the movie, we'd have bought it....then when the Super De Duper DVD set came out, we'd buy it too. The way I look at it, multiple sets will come out because Lucas realized he screwed up and should have brought the DVD out years ago.
Got a question for you.....how many stories does slashdot post every 10 minutes?? Every 60? Every Day? Slashdot only posts a story like 8-10 times per day. Refreshing your feed every 10 minutes....even every 30 minutes is just too much. This is why they have the autoban set up this way. Also, when you hit this feed, you use part of the bandwidth they need for the regular web page. Again, thats why the autoban is setup. You have no idea what Slashdots net admins see. Even less then you did 3 years ago as GIS is pretty much all done and they used to say things like that in the show especially if alot of folks asked. I bet one month the RSS file was in the top percentage of files accessed and that had to be cut down. I know, it's not a large file, but if you grabe it 20 bazillion times a day, it ADDS UP! In closing, if you grab the feed more then once per two hours, that is way too much. Set it to refresh 4-5 times perday and you will be fair to Slashdot and NOT eat their bandwidth.
I fix this...I go camping. Only tech thigns I take on a trip are a cellphone, my PDA and my handheld ham radio (which doubles as a AM/FM/TV(Audio only) reciever and a GPS. If I want to completely unplug, we'll go for a walk though the forest locking all of
the tech in the trunk.
I agree. Should not take much to engineer a cron job or somethign else to start record from the audio in at a specific time. And we're also talkign about talk radio...the loss in quality would not be noticed. You can encrypte the heck out of it too. Nice since it's been almost what...three years since a GIS? :)
True. I want a G5 anything...desktop or powerbook....BUT....the common thread now a days on Mac rumor websites are.....
:D
:)
WHINE WHINE!!! APPLE WHEN IS THE G5 coming out....
My next machine will be a G5 wink wink. They should be out in a month or so....
Pant pant pant DAMMIT WHERE's my G5!
This kind of posts gets a LITTLE old when reading 500 of them!
All I am saying is calm the heck down....what do you want Apple releasing junk just because your salivating over it? Apple produces great hardware....they will release no G5 Powerbook before it's time!
I don't think they will have a G5 Powerbook anytime soon. Maybe next year or the end of this year, but not this spring. The G5 is as much of a change as the move to PowerPC was way back when. It's different. When IBM was developing the G5, they did not have the same concern that Intel and AMD did....that concern was make it so it works with both 32 and 63 bit OS's and to make it so it did not cost ASUS and others a bunch of bucks to make a MB. IBM did not have to do this. Granted, much of the commmand set is the same, but there are obviously things physical wise (MORE then power consumption) that need to be implemented on a much smaller scale before the G5 can move to a Powerbook. Also, my G4 1GHz 12 inch power book runs rings around my big monster P4 @.53 GHz machien I also have. The 1 GHz G4 handles video just fine. I don't have alot of games because thats not what I bought a Powerbook for. If I wanted games, I'd have bought a PS2, XBox or GameCube. I bought my Powerbookas a SMALL, fast work platform taht can also edit videos. It EXCELS at this! I think what we will see soon is G5 iMac's. I see even professionals (a pastor at church works in a graphics arts shop and uses a 17 inch iMac) using iMacs because the look cool. ANd for the leet Mac users, LAY OFF OF HOPING FOR THE G5 and just go by a new Powerbook!
Except on the PowerBook. The arrow keys are right where they need to be on my PB 12inch. Everyone has their own way of doign things. Ones who said Mac power usere sover one hand on the keybaord are correct. My usual browsing stance is my left hand near the apple key and my right hand bopping between the trackpad and the arow keys. Eventually, I willl get a BT mouse and a Apple BT keyboard, but I need a place to set this up that I can leave them set up. Very rarely woudl I take either the mouse and KB with me.
I have one with a Superdrive and absofreakinlutly love it. Friendly UI is there when I want to work. When I want to play, X11 is there as well as xterm and Terminal.app. Buy it. Apple MAY speed bump thigns, but a G5 isn't in the cards....yet.
Not true. The main reason that dirve thru ATMS have braille on them is not he ADA. It's because Diebold does not know where they are going. So they put braille on all of them. Also, some machines like my banks machine have a headphone jack on the front. The sight disabled person can just stick a regular walkman headset into the hole and press the button next to it. Text to speech reads to them what is on the screen. Never tried it, but of course, I am not blind either.
Wow. Grand total of 47 deaths as a result of the war on terrorism. Got any idea how many sorties they ran? Just saying wow 47 people died because of helicopters being shot by small arms, crashing, failing.....MEANS SQUAT unless you compare it to how many missions they ran and then returned from.
No argument thet helicopters in a crossfire are not a good thing. An attack helicopter sent in against a tank and other mechanized infantry is going to get shot to pieces with out a GREAT pilot. The Army is 100 percent correct to kill the Comanche as an attack helicopter. THe project SHOULD be resurrected in a new role. The helicopters the army and navy use are getting older as we speek and a new aircraft is needed. Comanche's research should live on in the troop transport and recon duties.
The Longbow in that list of 47 fatalities was only involded in about 5 of those. The units I see more of in that list are the older chinooks, super cobras and blackhawks. The apache longbow must be doign the job if the Comanche was cut.
The A-10 sure as heck is not totally dead either. There may not be any A-10's being made now, but the current airframes are supposed to be in use until 2028. 12,000 hours airtime on each airframe before retirement. That does not sound like they are dead to me, Sure, there may be some in the ANG, but the ANG is a reserve. The A-10's in the ANG can be called to active duty whenever it's deemed necessary. The A-10 ins an anomaly for teh Air Force. Now that things are changing, maybe the Air Force and Navy may either give up the Key West accords or listen to the Army commanders when they request A-10 support.
Ok your going to base a business decision (which is what this decision by Isreal really is) on results from ONE attack. One Sortie? Not of YEARS of reliable operation. YEARS where they never really used the weapon in honest to god combat? Ok....whatever.
Again...read the article. The article says the Apache was succesfull in both Afghanistan and Iraq. A Apache getting shot down is NOT a performance item. It's a casuality of war. Did you read about Apache's just all of a sudden failing and crashing? Getting shot down by primative weaponry is not a matter of performance. It IS a matter of survivability. I had read somewhere (not about the Comanche) that the Navies F/A-18 can take a SAM hit in the wing, get back to base and be repaired and on the flight line on the next sortie. Something like this would probably not be possible with a helicopter as to take out a copter, all it takes is a well placed hit in the tail rotor or main rotor and your done.
Did you read the article? The Apache worked well in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. RTFA....
Maybe your thinking about 10 years ago during Desert Storm.
Gosh...I hope you don't work in tech support.
I wish more new users knew to reject the formatter, but most don't and then they wonder where their e-mail is at. Responding that users should know better is almost as bad as the formatter telling them that reformatting will fix everything.
I am sorry, but this is just wrong. I have a DX4900 and it uses AA's just fine. Sure, they WILL not last all day, but they will get you through when your battery pack is gone. They also can use KCRV3 batteries which are NOT proprietary and commonly available at most department stores. You can also use rechargable lithium batteries and regular NiMH batteries as well. I DID buy a travel kit (which came with a bag that I needed at the time as well as voltage convertors) and I use the battery that came with it. If you look, it's just made out of standard AA NiMH batteries. Nothing really proprietary about it other then the stupid clip they are held in. What I DID notice about this clip....it does seem to press a switch when it goes in. Not sure what that does exactly but I bet it changes the camera's circuit to work better with the Kodak battery. In any case, regular AA's do work. The AA's that work even better are the newer Lithium batteries like these e2 Lithiums. These are designed to last longer in digital cameras. Sure, they are not rechargable, but when you rechargable pack is out, they work.
If Kodak was really out to make money on their NiMH Pack for Easyshare cameras, then, how come I can't find them?? I have not been able to find this battery pack anywhere.
True enough. But still....thats a great feature. Creating a pdf could not be easier. You use whatever app you want.
Don't for get the biggest, baddest PowerPC based machine of all...the Regatta. IBM makes this as well s a host of Power PC's from big iron like Regatta to workstation class machines. Linux is supportted on all of them, but your NOT going to run Linux on a Regatta. PowerPC is a STRONG platform. In some respects, stronger then Intel. You got all kind of PowerPC based machines running all kind of OS's on it. It's in machines from game consoles to big iron UNIX machines. PowerPC can be called the Linux of processors in some respects.
I will tell you why I do not run Linux on my Mac and shoose to use OS X. I can go to Compusa and the Apple store and buy software that is simply not going to appear in open source. Route 66 mapping software with GPS support is available. iMovie and iDVD also are great apps along with iTunes and GarageBand. I can run REAL MS Office apps and have no fear of iffy office document support. As good as Abiword and Gnumeric are, I need REAL office.
One other feature thats hardly mentioned much anymore is the fact that ANY application that prints can print to a pdf file thanks to Quartz Extreme. I don't need acrobat for anything except more advanced PDFs.
To MICROSOFT, it's disasterous. To the users? I doubt it. First, having the source does not preclude a tone of attacks. If this was the case, Linux would be under attack daily. Second, it'd be a miracle if anyone could make head or tales of their spaghetti.
You need to check out Pocket PC again. This may have been true regarding Palm Sized PCs, but Pocket PC has a excellent ui with one exception....the minimize instead of close when you tap on the x.