Panasonic is just a name that is put on various products manufactured by Matsushita. Panasonic is not the same as Matsushita; because Matsushita research and develop, as well as manufacture products that are released under other names (such as Technics). It is the mother company of various brands. Most likely, the OLED TV will be branded Panasonic, but it is being developed and manufactured [partly] by Matsushita, not Panasonic. Toshiba on the other hand, is not just the name of the researcher/developer/manufacturer, but also the name of the finished products that they release.
I guess the idea would be to truncate the file on either end (depending on where the meta data is stored) to have the raw MP3 data. Hashing just that would mean that people such as myself who not only rename but re-tag all my MP3s (because I hate seeing things like "santana - baila mi hermana " . . . Capitalise!) would still be able to share our MP3s the same way we got it from someone else, and that next person can tag it however they please.
Always wants to make sure you want to run or do something
Has a clock with a second hand that looks like it has recoil by going to far forward and bouncing back (Wow! A realistic clock!)
The clock sits in this nice big space on your desktop where you can put other wanky gadgets that don't really do much
When copying files, you get a nice animation. It slows down the copying, in fact Vista is very slow at copying files, but you get to see a nice animation with translucent squares and other contemporary looking things
I can waste a USB stick by using it as a cache area.
Speech recognition! I'm actually using it right Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.
The dumb thing is, even after it has prepared to delete, it starts deleting and if it comes across a file that it can't delete because of either permissions or write access, the whole delete operation stops on that file, instead of saying "cannot delete this file, continuing", you get "Error, file in use / access denied. I will not try to delete any more files." So it's obviously not checking for permissions . ..
It typically takes me 2-3 minutes to spread the thermal compound and mount the heatsink on a chip. In a production line, it needs to take 5-20 seconds.
2 or 3 minutes? I work for Toshiba, and I fix laptops every day. It only takes me 5 seconds to apply thermal grease, if that. It is also compulsory for us to perform hardware stress testing if we change the motherboard, RAM, CPU or graphics card (if present). The report tells us how quickly the core heats up, to what temperature, how fast it cools once the CPU steps down to its slowest speed etc. Provided those figures are satisfactory, I don't have to reapply thermal grease.
Please don't think I'm calling you incompetent or anything, taking your time on this sort of thing is ideal, you don't want to over- or under-do it. I'm just used to re-greasing CPUs every day.
The way I was taught was (provided you're squeezing it out of a syringe or something) to make a Hershey (as in Hershey's Kiss). Put a Hershey of grease in the very centre of the core, and the flat surface of the heatsink will spread it across the entire core. It takes a while before you realise what is a good sized Hershey. Just about all of the time when I run the stress test on a good sized Hershey the report will return "optimal performance". I've been told by other laptop technicians that this technique is crap, but even after a year, the same grease will still return "optimal performance".
The problem there is price. If you can only afford cheap wireless adapters (and hence probably can't afford a legit copy of Windows either) then your only choice is a shit card. Or, sometimes it says it will work in Linux (like my Netgear WG511). Quite a few places said the WG511 was supported by the Prism drivers so I bought it thinking it'll work a charm. When I finally got it and shoved it in my laptop, the prism drivers didn't work. I pull it out and took another look at the model number and it says "WG511" and then in smaller text "v2". Completely different chipset, hell, completely different manufacturer, and from a completely different part of the world, but the same god damned model number. Now I've got half-arsed wireless with ndiswrapper. Working, but really, really . . . really annoying.
Did anyone see the movie The Net? I think Sandra Bullock tries to find the owner of the IP 24.75.345.200 . . . when I saw it I OMGWTFROFLMAOBBQ!!!11one but nobody else knew why. It was actually rather embarrassing.
Texting in NZ is very cheap. It's free to receive and with most providers, $10 kiwi ($7 US) will allow you to send 500 SMS messages. Texting in NZ is far more popular than calling among the lower and middle class, especially in the teenage group, and because of this, both (yes, we have only two) service providers base a lot of their pre-pay and on-account plans around sending texts.
Even though SMS messages are so popular, the only advertising I ever receive is from my service provider advertising either cheaper rates or offering special deals. Obviously I can't speak for everybody, but if there was a well known spam issue with texts then I wouldn't be saying there isn't.
The two service providers we have are Telecom (former government-owned, largest company by value in NZ) and Vodafone. Neither are very reputable for being cheap; and I've never heard any complaints about people receiving spam. Text bullying is the biggest issue here in terms of SMS.
Well said. Hundreds of TV channels to choose from, and when something they don't like comes on they decide to watch it rather than change the channel. Had it been a movie they didn't like, they would have changed. TV program? Changed. News presenter? Changed. Unfunny American sitcoms? Changed. Probably any other commercials? Changed. This one particular commercial? Nup, let's watch it! Let's watch it enough times so that we get disgusted enough to write a complaint.
I don't get it. Heaps of things disgust me on TV (like Fear Factor . . . I can't stand watching people eat cockroach pizzas [and how does that mean reality TV? How many people in reality eat cockroach pizzas]), what do I do? Watch something else. Do something else. Turn it back when the show is finished. Not a big deal.
If the ad pisses you (pl.) off that much just don't buy a fucking Hyundai.
In NZ and maybe Australia (not sure about other regions), at the beginning of more recently released DVDs there is an advert at the beginning saying "you wouldn't steal a handbag . . . you wouldn't steal a TV . . . you wouldn't steal a car . . . downloading movies is stealing . . . stealing is against the law . . . STOP PIRACY" and goes on to list two toll-free numbers.
What a load of fucking bullshit. You can't replicate a handbag, a TV or a car. The analogy was made up by some fucking idiot that knows nothing about computers. You can't tell me that my replicating a DVD has immediately affected DVD sales. Want to stop piracy? Stop being so fucking greedy and lower the fucking prices. You can buy a fucking DVD player for not much more than a movie. And stop fucking forcing me to watch this same damn ad over and over. What about the old grannies that don't pirate movies, they have to watch the same fucking shit.
For the very reason that they make that ad unskippable, and for how dumb it is, I have decided to pirate that particular movie and give copies to my friends. There I said it.
I have lots of reasons to connect to Chinese IPs, where else will I download my non-dubbed "must avenge my mother's death" kung fu flicks from? I could buy them, but then I'd have to leave this chair.
b) Microsoft intentionally submarined Apple's software, specifically iPod/iTunes, because they want they Vista upgraders to consider dumping their iPod in favor of a Zune.
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No no, you're not following. When we pirate the games using inkjet printable media, we want to reduce costs to maximise profits.
So what if the US is safer, that certainly doesn't make it safe.
Panasonic is just a name that is put on various products manufactured by Matsushita. Panasonic is not the same as Matsushita; because Matsushita research and develop, as well as manufacture products that are released under other names (such as Technics). It is the mother company of various brands. Most likely, the OLED TV will be branded Panasonic, but it is being developed and manufactured [partly] by Matsushita, not Panasonic. Toshiba on the other hand, is not just the name of the researcher/developer/manufacturer, but also the name of the finished products that they release.
I guess the idea would be to truncate the file on either end (depending on where the meta data is stored) to have the raw MP3 data. Hashing just that would mean that people such as myself who not only rename but re-tag all my MP3s (because I hate seeing things like "santana - baila mi hermana " . . . Capitalise!) would still be able to share our MP3s the same way we got it from someone else, and that next person can tag it however they please.
That kind of made it look like I was copying pr0n . . .
Too true. I quite often do cp xxx && sync for large files, especially when I transfer to a USB drive.
The dumb thing is, even after it has prepared to delete, it starts deleting and if it comes across a file that it can't delete because of either permissions or write access, the whole delete operation stops on that file, instead of saying "cannot delete this file, continuing", you get "Error, file in use / access denied. I will not try to delete any more files." So it's obviously not checking for permissions . . .
2 or 3 minutes? I work for Toshiba, and I fix laptops every day. It only takes me 5 seconds to apply thermal grease, if that. It is also compulsory for us to perform hardware stress testing if we change the motherboard, RAM, CPU or graphics card (if present). The report tells us how quickly the core heats up, to what temperature, how fast it cools once the CPU steps down to its slowest speed etc. Provided those figures are satisfactory, I don't have to reapply thermal grease.
Please don't think I'm calling you incompetent or anything, taking your time on this sort of thing is ideal, you don't want to over- or under-do it. I'm just used to re-greasing CPUs every day.
The way I was taught was (provided you're squeezing it out of a syringe or something) to make a Hershey (as in Hershey's Kiss). Put a Hershey of grease in the very centre of the core, and the flat surface of the heatsink will spread it across the entire core. It takes a while before you realise what is a good sized Hershey. Just about all of the time when I run the stress test on a good sized Hershey the report will return "optimal performance". I've been told by other laptop technicians that this technique is crap, but even after a year, the same grease will still return "optimal performance".
Then why does everyone say Macs are better for video/graphics? Every graphics designer I know uses a Mac.
Two, I guess ;)
Woah! Careful, you don't want to overdo it.
The problem there is price. If you can only afford cheap wireless adapters (and hence probably can't afford a legit copy of Windows either) then your only choice is a shit card. Or, sometimes it says it will work in Linux (like my Netgear WG511). Quite a few places said the WG511 was supported by the Prism drivers so I bought it thinking it'll work a charm. When I finally got it and shoved it in my laptop, the prism drivers didn't work. I pull it out and took another look at the model number and it says "WG511" and then in smaller text "v2". Completely different chipset, hell, completely different manufacturer, and from a completely different part of the world, but the same god damned model number. Now I've got half-arsed wireless with ndiswrapper. Working, but really, really . . . really annoying.
Did anyone see the movie The Net? I think Sandra Bullock tries to find the owner of the IP 24.75.345.200 . . . when I saw it I OMGWTFROFLMAOBBQ!!!11one but nobody else knew why. It was actually rather embarrassing.
Texting in NZ is very cheap. It's free to receive and with most providers, $10 kiwi ($7 US) will allow you to send 500 SMS messages. Texting in NZ is far more popular than calling among the lower and middle class, especially in the teenage group, and because of this, both (yes, we have only two) service providers base a lot of their pre-pay and on-account plans around sending texts.
Even though SMS messages are so popular, the only advertising I ever receive is from my service provider advertising either cheaper rates or offering special deals. Obviously I can't speak for everybody, but if there was a well known spam issue with texts then I wouldn't be saying there isn't.
The two service providers we have are Telecom (former government-owned, largest company by value in NZ) and Vodafone. Neither are very reputable for being cheap; and I've never heard any complaints about people receiving spam. Text bullying is the biggest issue here in terms of SMS.
Well said. Hundreds of TV channels to choose from, and when something they don't like comes on they decide to watch it rather than change the channel. Had it been a movie they didn't like, they would have changed. TV program? Changed. News presenter? Changed. Unfunny American sitcoms? Changed. Probably any other commercials? Changed. This one particular commercial? Nup, let's watch it! Let's watch it enough times so that we get disgusted enough to write a complaint.
I don't get it. Heaps of things disgust me on TV (like Fear Factor . . . I can't stand watching people eat cockroach pizzas [and how does that mean reality TV? How many people in reality eat cockroach pizzas]), what do I do? Watch something else. Do something else. Turn it back when the show is finished. Not a big deal.
If the ad pisses you (pl.) off that much just don't buy a fucking Hyundai.
She shaved her head in V for Vendetta. When she was on Letterman her hair hadn't grown back much and she still looked like a boy.
In NZ and maybe Australia (not sure about other regions), at the beginning of more recently released DVDs there is an advert at the beginning saying "you wouldn't steal a handbag . . . you wouldn't steal a TV . . . you wouldn't steal a car . . . downloading movies is stealing . . . stealing is against the law . . . STOP PIRACY" and goes on to list two toll-free numbers.
What a load of fucking bullshit. You can't replicate a handbag, a TV or a car. The analogy was made up by some fucking idiot that knows nothing about computers. You can't tell me that my replicating a DVD has immediately affected DVD sales. Want to stop piracy? Stop being so fucking greedy and lower the fucking prices. You can buy a fucking DVD player for not much more than a movie. And stop fucking forcing me to watch this same damn ad over and over. What about the old grannies that don't pirate movies, they have to watch the same fucking shit.
For the very reason that they make that ad unskippable, and for how dumb it is, I have decided to pirate that particular movie and give copies to my friends. There I said it.
What, you'd rather suck on the frozen shit fork?
I would say "you must be new here" but something about your post makes you sound unsurprised. You sound more annoyed.
I have lots of reasons to connect to Chinese IPs, where else will I download my non-dubbed "must avenge my mother's death" kung fu flicks from? I could buy them, but then I'd have to leave this chair.
The difference is that people who murder people and get caught go to jail. The people who spamvertise aren't even chased in the first place.