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JOY!!!! Just ordered three of these. Anyone want to buy an X-Mystique? :D

Man, glad I don't get the fries. 30g = 1oz or thereabouts, which is probably about 1/5 of what a large order of fries (chips, for the Mexicans) weighs.

Computer-based Audio players mostly bug the crap out of me because they seem bloated. They almost all have lousy UIs. And things that were made to play audio are seldom any good for playing video (Winamp, media player, VLC, whatever) anyway. Video applications need a 10' interface and some kind...

Handy, do they let you think they'd let you sneak out with maybe just a little Clariion? I only need one or two...

I kind of fake a distributed file system by using specific shares for specific tasks, and exporting all the shares to a central point. I'd rather have a real SAN, real volume management and FS-aware metadata, but those things are not really available for consumers.

My ex's partner sets up surveillance systems as a side business. If you can wait until the weekend I can probably get some pretty decent advice for you.

How about the fact that Songbird doesn't have any DRM features which might somehow get turned on in your media player? How about the fact that it doesn't force you to use one-or-another music store (itunes = ITMS, Realplayer = Rhapsody, WMP = yahoo, walmart, napster et al.)? I use WinAmp 3 and...

"Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions." It has a similar look and feel to iTunes - not a good start, IMO, but in practice it's...

There's googleFS, but it's not free. :(

I don't mind riding the South Shore if I have to go to the narrow area of Chicago that's pretty much defined by Michigan Avenue. The ticket, from where I live, is about $8 one way. The trip from the Randolph street stop to the closest stop to my apartment probably averages 90 minutes, which is...

I went to school, ya know. I went to grammar school and once we were taking a test and I was copying this other kid's paper, and I guess the teacher heard my Xerox machine. She said, "Emo, am I stupid or were you cheating?," and I said, "Ah, yes and no." She sends me to the principal's office...

Hey, wait! US money doesn't have hockey players on it! I've been robbed!

I'm not wearing any pants!

Just about anything that's been prepared for you will be heavily salted. Period. When I look at the things I can prepare quickly - cans of soup, sandwiches made with cheese and deli meat, frozen dinners - I see lots and lots and lots of sodium no matter what. Frozen dinners have the additional...

Well I'll just go ahead and add that to the list of eerie similarities, then.

I'd have to drive for 20 minutes to even see any. Which pretty much explains the problem with it.

Meh. I bought Half-Life 2. I feel I'm entitled to a working (working, by my defintion, meaning that I can play a single player game without EVER needing permission from an internet server) copy. I've downloaded several "cracked" versions but so far I haven't found one that works. In my opinion...

I'm guessing that at least mubs will enjoy this.

And, while I'm thinking of reasons why people in the USA might be stupid desite the best efforts of teachers and other learned folk, I present to you this wonderful case of some kind of Bush Fundamentalist appointee trying to make NASA dumber.

Rather than once again refute everything Bozo posted, I thought I'd just link to this. Note that the article refers to British college graduates, who are emphatically not in the US.

If only I could find a non-ass-suck version of Halflife2 that actually works...

The chinese place down the street from me is cheaper than cooking. $2.95 - $3.95 for a pint (.5L) of something with meat and fresh veggies? Ready in five minutes? I have no idea how many calories are in pint of, say, Mongolian Beef or Chicken with Black Bean sauce, but the portion sizes, if I...

That's what you get for trying to use nvidia.

By what? Only thing a move from a 9800 to an X850 did, IMO, was let me play at a higher screen resolution

A whole web site of pointless statistics, perfect for arguing your point on the internet! Posted here 'cause it looks useful to this thread. :)

There have been Ultrabases for Tseries in the past. :(

Open in Media Player Classic or Real Alternative or Real Player?

Batteries on T-series are hot swappable, if you have an Ultrabay battery in addition to the standard one. Heck, you can go one further and slap on an Ultrabase, in the 12 hours or so total battery life you get, you can charge both your other batteries without shutting down. My first reading of...

Steve Reich writes minimalist music. He works mostly with percussion and tape loops of "found" sounds. I've been listening to this stuff all day. It's hypnotic - just slowly shifting beats from a chorus of different drums. It's worth a listen IMO.

Paugie, someone pays me to write that stuff anyway. But you're certainly welcome. :)

I'm perfectly willing to make that statement, Coug. You do write better than many native English speakers. So does JoJo.

Music majors still have to take Math classes, too. Someone going to a university - for whatever reason - is going to be made an educated person. Someone going to vocational school is going to be taught just enough to do a job. An engineer who sat through a few University-level history or lit...

Wiki is something to think about, particularly for documents beyond a certain length. PDF worked pretty well too. The PDF version of the Word source file is about 60% smaller than .DOC, and layout obviously isn't an issue. PDFs can be indexed and searched by search engines - probably a good...

T-series Thinkpads have 4:3 screens, swappable batteries and two USB ports. :D

SF was unreachable to me for about two hours. Was that our server move?

http://s-laker.org/RepairSpyware.php I've been working on this stupid thing for about six hours now. It looks terrible. It's all one way. It's a huge file. Nothing will take away all the stains that MSWord left. Some of the images are screwed up, which I'm pretty sure is a table definition...

I maintain some fairly new laptops for a client that have Geforce something-or-others in them. Every once in a while someone brings me a Dell-something-or-other that's broken somehow, and about 1/4 of my classroom machines have whatever-the-hell5200s in them, due to the tragic error of letting a...

As in all things Laptop, there is the creep of "proprietary". Most laptops with ATI chips - and I've run into enough mobile nvidia chips that are the same way - only work correctly with manufacturer-supplied drivers. ATI has a very short list of notebook brands that work correctly with its...

Writer still does a crappy job with textboxes. :(

I've linked it here several times before. Ahem.

I've thought about it, and I think wiki is even one of those things I can one-click install out of Dreamhost's control panel - but in theory, the design I have should be just about perfect for my needs. I'm really not trying to build a community or a dynamic document with any of these things...

The larger issue, Sol, is that I don't want to muck around with Images in the first place. They're useful and probably necessary, but seeing as I find making HTML documents slightly less exciting than a second viewing of the pre-recorded version of "Watching Paint Dry", I'd rather not deal with...

Wait. You guys live in places with taxpayer funded preschool? We certainly don't have that here! Man, I'm all for controlled breeding. China isn't harsh enough, if you ask me. There should be an exam that makes you eligible for a weekly lottery, or something. Mercutio rules! Abortions for...

Did you hear President Bush had an asshole transplant? The Asshole rejected him.

I find it ironic when Tannin mentions "crapola ATI" when he's talking about a pure 2D display. Just so we're all clear: Matrox 2D > ATI 2D >>> nVidia 2D = S3 2D nvidia 2D quality is ass. And Tannin knows it.

Actually, I know your pain, mubs. The AGP slot on my work computer died some months ago (remember how I said that I have an AGP card that kills AGP slots? Now you know how I figured that out). I don't particularly feel like RMAing the motherboard to Albatron when I really don't NEED a...

Macs do WYSIWYG right. PCs don't. DisplayPDF is a beautiful thing. Mac security issues are dramatically less obnoxious. Heck, most Mac users don't have Virus scanners. There's a narrow range of geometry calculations (altivec) that Macs can do better than PCs, but anyone who is sane will be doing...

That's completely opposite to the philosophy of the developers. There are premade "Thumb Drive Friendly" versions of Firefox which can include extensions at the whim of the user. The one on my thumb drive has everything *I* need. You could do it too, if you wanted.

Two things: 1. mubs has stated his interest in the mutlimedia-cleanup and co-processing of ATI's avivo tools, which are only present in X1x00-series hardware. 2. Just reaching, but maybe mubs will be one of those funny people who will run Vista. Vista needs a pretty powerful graphics card, and...

I make stuff for my classes in Word, yes (requirement of the job). Extracting all the text from word is easy enough, but Word's save-as-HTML does awful things with images (and we all know about the stupidity of Microsoft's generated HTML), and re-creating screenshots and the like is annoying to...