I'm seconding Daktech as a solid supplier, these guys have an absolutely ludicrous warranty. My department has a lot of their systems in service and they've done very well.
They're not bullshitting when they say a 7 year warranty. I've called them up about some dead CDROM drives in some 5-year-old celerons and they've sent over/dropped off replacements (I'm local). If they don't have the original part they send over something similar or slightly better.
They don't usually need to do this however, as they use good parts. I've taken some apart to find decent Antec cases/PSUs, Intel motherboards, non-proprietary form factors and parts.
The only problem is that they don't always have the bleeding edge stuff to spec your machines, but Dell will take you to town on that sort of spec anyways, so they're really not much better.
Also quite off topic, but there are a good number of us over here in the Fargo.
As for NDSU, it can be good times, lots of interesting people around and groups to hang out with. Classes can be fun too if you're actually interested in programming and projects.
Protip: join the ACM chapter. They can be an odd bunch at times (and the office has a scary couch) but it's a great group/place for studying, hanging out, projects, advice, and pulling all-nighters during dead week.
That's only accurate under the assumption that a single drive can max out a 3 Gbps line. I'd like to see a reasonably-priced consumer grade HD that can pull THAT off.
It doesn't really matter anyways as the ultimate bottleneck here will be the network at 1Gbps. Five drives evenly using a 3 Gbps channel would still be allowed 62.5 MB/s each, and that's still pretty good for network transfer.
One of the major things I use the Wii browser for is Youtube, it works pretty well. Also wiiarcade.com has a handful of games that will work well with the Wii remote. I haven't tried other streaming sites, but I imagine that they would work as well (provided they use flash and not WMP). One warning, it seems that the browser only supports up to Flash 7.
"circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access"
If it's circumvented, doesn't that mean that it no longer effectively controls access?
And with a loose enough definition of technology, would a man with a large axe standing in front of your movies count as using technology (the axe) to control access?
I just finished DQ8, and I'm not going to spoil anything, but here's one hint... NEVER assume the end is coming anytime soon... I saw the "end" about 3 or 4 times, just to have the game throw another dungeon at me each time:P
But 73 hours later, I say that finishing the game was worth it.
I'd dare to say every square inch of the store is under surveillance.
I'd say about 100 square feet of the store is under surveillance...
You see 20 registers and 20 black bubbles...
2 of those have cameras...
1 might be recorded...
there's probably someone watching them only on a very high volume weekend.
I worked in a wal-mart for a number of years, the bubbles are to scare people, like the "security tag detectors" on the doors...
I was a wal-mart employee...
they don't record very much at all...
you see the little black bubbles on the ceilings in a store?
about 80% of those are empty, and the ones they do record aren't reviewed unless something's seriously wrong...
wal-mart keeps prices low by not video taping every credit card transaction and by pretending they have security...
if they happen to lose a small amount because of crappy security, oh well... it's a drop in the bucket compared with store profits (the store I worked at took in a little over a million dollars day during the week after thanksgiving)...
From the article, this sounds like Gates is interested in buying Nintendo, not Microsoft.
I thought he already owned Microsoft. Why would he need to buy it again?:P
If you really want German news articles, there's always news.google.de...
After a quick glance, I saw many German news sources represented there.
On a different note, MSN's newsbot picked up a fun headline: "Tiger shoots 66, loses ground in Buick"...
Does anyone else get the image of a large feline on a rampage followed by a car chase (involving a Buick)?
My computer (windows xp) has 1.5gb of RAM, so it has a swap file of over 2gb... My roommate has 2gb of RAM, and a 3gb swap file, also using windows xp... If he's already got 2gb of RAM, what the hell does he need 3gb of swap space for!?
windows needs to create swap file sizes inversely proportional to the amount of RAM....
So does that mean that the crappy portable console after this can cost $800?
Because I saved $300 from not buying an NGage, and $500 from not buying this...
I guess my next car can cost $4,000,000, because, after all, I did save billions of dollars from all of the cars I didn't buy!
please note that your parent comment was modded "funny"... please accept this as a hint that it's just a damned joke!
Its funny how you libs will try taking a potshot at that whatever the topic.
it's funny how you'll take a potshot at the "libs" by using a "random fact" to support your cause... So if you can do it, I can do it too!
RANDOM TRUE FACT THAT CAN NEVER BE DENIED:4,942% of humans think that the PATRIOT ACT is a kitten! In fact, they feel it isn't cute enough! Also, 43,000% of non-liberals EAT KITTENS and deliver their souls to THE DARK LORD!!
that's actually more valid than your "random fact", because I used bold...
silly liberal basher, stats (and poll results without sources) are for kids!
yes, I know feeding trolls is bad, but I felt like ranting today:)
What about a flood combined with a large object passing nearby in space? The moon can affect the tides, so what about 40 days and nights of constant rain combined with a huge gravitational pull?
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I'm seconding Daktech as a solid supplier, these guys have an absolutely ludicrous warranty. My department has a lot of their systems in service and they've done very well.
They're not bullshitting when they say a 7 year warranty. I've called them up about some dead CDROM drives in some 5-year-old celerons and they've sent over/dropped off replacements (I'm local). If they don't have the original part they send over something similar or slightly better.
They don't usually need to do this however, as they use good parts. I've taken some apart to find decent Antec cases/PSUs, Intel motherboards, non-proprietary form factors and parts.
The only problem is that they don't always have the bleeding edge stuff to spec your machines, but Dell will take you to town on that sort of spec anyways, so they're really not much better.
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Oh god, I hope that was a typo of 'Goat Worship'.
Also quite off topic, but there are a good number of us over here in the Fargo.
As for NDSU, it can be good times, lots of interesting people around and groups to hang out with. Classes can be fun too if you're actually interested in programming and projects.
Protip: join the ACM chapter. They can be an odd bunch at times (and the office has a scary couch) but it's a great group/place for studying, hanging out, projects, advice, and pulling all-nighters during dead week.
That's only accurate under the assumption that a single drive can max out a 3 Gbps line. I'd like to see a reasonably-priced consumer grade HD that can pull THAT off. It doesn't really matter anyways as the ultimate bottleneck here will be the network at 1Gbps. Five drives evenly using a 3 Gbps channel would still be allowed 62.5 MB/s each, and that's still pretty good for network transfer.
I thought that said "Cancer-Fighting Bears" and got my hopes up...
If this honestly was modded 'insightful' I'm going to start considering a move to Canada... :P
One of the major things I use the Wii browser for is Youtube, it works pretty well. Also wiiarcade.com has a handful of games that will work well with the Wii remote. I haven't tried other streaming sites, but I imagine that they would work as well (provided they use flash and not WMP). One warning, it seems that the browser only supports up to Flash 7.
Joke about fishmonkeyrat all you want, but don't even think about joking about manbearpig. He's a totally serial threat to humanity...
Hey there! I happen to live in North Dakota and it's... uhh... yeah... you have a good point there...
"circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access"
If it's circumvented, doesn't that mean that it no longer effectively controls access?
And with a loose enough definition of technology, would a man with a large axe standing in front of your movies count as using technology (the axe) to control access?
I just finished DQ8, and I'm not going to spoil anything, but here's one hint... NEVER assume the end is coming anytime soon... I saw the "end" about 3 or 4 times, just to have the game throw another dungeon at me each time :P
But 73 hours later, I say that finishing the game was worth it.
I'd dare to say every square inch of the store is under surveillance.
I'd say about 100 square feet of the store is under surveillance...
You see 20 registers and 20 black bubbles...
2 of those have cameras...
1 might be recorded...
there's probably someone watching them only on a very high volume weekend.
I worked in a wal-mart for a number of years, the bubbles are to scare people, like the "security tag detectors" on the doors...
I was a wal-mart employee... they don't record very much at all... you see the little black bubbles on the ceilings in a store? about 80% of those are empty, and the ones they do record aren't reviewed unless something's seriously wrong... wal-mart keeps prices low by not video taping every credit card transaction and by pretending they have security... if they happen to lose a small amount because of crappy security, oh well... it's a drop in the bucket compared with store profits (the store I worked at took in a little over a million dollars day during the week after thanksgiving) ...
From the article, this sounds like Gates is interested in buying Nintendo, not Microsoft. I thought he already owned Microsoft. Why would he need to buy it again? :P
It looks like today's your lucky day! Google won! Here's your five dollars
If you really want German news articles, there's always news.google.de...
After a quick glance, I saw many German news sources represented there.
On a different note, MSN's newsbot picked up a fun headline:
"Tiger shoots 66, loses ground in Buick"...
Does anyone else get the image of a large feline on a rampage followed by a car chase (involving a Buick)?
Of course it's got a /. slant. If /. weren't slanted, the site'd be called |. [Pipedot]
but will it travel through time?
:)]
[errrr, wait, that's not right response...]
but will it run linux?
[there we go
My computer (windows xp) has 1.5gb of RAM, so it has a swap file of over 2gb...
My roommate has 2gb of RAM, and a 3gb swap file, also using windows xp...
If he's already got 2gb of RAM, what the hell does he need 3gb of swap space for!?
windows needs to create swap file sizes inversely proportional to the amount of RAM....
So does that mean that the crappy portable console after this can cost $800?
Because I saved $300 from not buying an NGage, and $500 from not buying this...
I guess my next car can cost $4,000,000, because, after all, I did save billions of dollars from all of the cars I didn't buy!
couldn't you just name your l337 w4r3z stuff like "SupercoolNewProgram.stuff" or something like that...
Of course, I don't know if google can see around that, but most other things can't...
please note that your parent comment was modded "funny"... please accept this as a hint that it's just a damned joke!
:)
Its funny how you libs will try taking a potshot at that whatever the topic.
it's funny how you'll take a potshot at the "libs" by using a "random fact" to support your cause... So if you can do it, I can do it too! RANDOM TRUE FACT THAT CAN NEVER BE DENIED:4,942% of humans think that the PATRIOT ACT is a kitten! In fact, they feel it isn't cute enough! Also, 43,000% of non-liberals EAT KITTENS and deliver their souls to THE DARK LORD!!
that's actually more valid than your "random fact", because I used bold...
silly liberal basher, stats (and poll results without sources) are for kids!
yes, I know feeding trolls is bad, but I felt like ranting today
here's a game that has been around for quite a while.
Does anyone have some tape? My mouse could use an "upgrade" for this game...
What about a flood combined with a large object passing nearby in space? The moon can affect the tides, so what about 40 days and nights of constant rain combined with a huge gravitational pull?