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| 2001/10/16 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:22747 Activity:high |
10/15 Anyone know if there is some place (possibly on campus, or for
students) where I can rent or borrow a projector? (One of those
ones that you can plug into a laptop, TV or VCR.) I wanted to
watch movies huge on my wall.
\_ go to the good guys and return the purchase after you're done.
\_ and then people wonder why prices are so high.
\_ /. has links to how to build a 100" projection screen from your
TV for very cheap. |
| 2001/10/16 [Uncategorized] UID:22748 Activity:very high |
10/15 What ever happened to the three servicemen that raped a 12-year-old
in Okinawa?
\_ they were hired by yer mom
Iron Monkey reviewp
\_ I'm sure you can find it on video. It isn't a new movie.
\_ Save yourself from the tower of pain known as the metreon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/offering-page/ref=sdp_used_d/104-3752098-7396736?index=fixed-price&field-offering-type=used
In case there is a draft, are fat lazy out of shape sys admins exempt
from it? -sysadm
\_ cannon fodder!
|_ KP Duty for you!
\_ Use them as bunker buster bombs.
\_ http://www.google.com/search?q=okinawa+us+servicemen+rape+12
\_ Only 7 years in jail for a systematic rape? What a good deal we
got!
\_ "we got"? *I* didn't rape anyone.
\_ Well, many people take it as a political case between US
and Japan.
\_ Many people jump off bridges too. I take it as a
criminal case where some sickos need some serious
jail time and meds for life.
\_ Agreed. And I think 7 years is too light. |
| 2001/10/16 [Reference/Celebration] UID:22749 Activity:low 50%like:22626 |
10/16 Happy Birthday, dans! Are you running for president again? |
| 2001/10/16 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:22750 Activity:very high |
10/15 Grad students, please list the following tests in the order of
difficulty: GRE subject, prelim, comp
\_ Depends on the subject. In most science fields,
the GRE subject is easy to moderately challenging.
Graduate exams usually get harder as time passes.
Consider the Berkeley math dept, of which I was both
a grad and undergrad. Most students did 90% or better
on GRE subject, but 1/3 to 1/2 tended to fail the
first year exam. (see the Berkeley Math prelim book)
The humanities seem different: many graduate exams
seem to be a joke because faculty are lazy. So the
GRE subject exams seem harder because they ask factual
questions rather than vague interprative questions.
Ie, you can be wrong on the GRE but not in English grad
school. -fab
\_ For UCB/EE, the subject exam was irrelevant. The department
exams were harder. --PeterM
\_ what does that mean? That the subject is too easy?
\_ of all the grad students on CSUA, fab is the ONLY one who posts
to motd? Whatever happened to the other nice & helpful grad
students who wall and post on motd?
\_ Too busy stirring warm water into those noodles?
\_ too busy doing real work to pay attention to the motd. props
to dpet, nweaver, ali, etc. |
| 2001/10/16 [Politics] UID:22751 Activity:very high |
10/16 Any jobless newgrad thinking of joining the army to avoid going
homeless and hungry?
\_ Does joining the military require US citizenship?
\_ No, in fact it is a good way to get citizenship.
\_ More details please.
\_ how about the fbi?
\_ Law degree required, isn't it?
\_ Don't be an idiot.
\_ Moron. I was partly right:
http://www.fbi.gov/employment/agent2.htm
Next time buy clue before opening your stupid mouth.
\_ That URL says that you need a BA. You are an idiot,
and even worse, one that does not know when to give up.
\_ trollP
\_ how about the NSA?
\_ Clue and bad attitude requi-- nevermind. They can train you
for clue.
\_ I thought NSA == clueless people who think they're badass
\_ Wow. We've got you disinformed real good. -NSA dude
\_ It is my impression that the NSA hires top math people.
\_ yeah, and all that expensive high tech toy gave us any
useful intelligence against 9/11?
\_ Plus the anthrax attacks?
\_ no such agency
\_ How about the CIA? |
| 2001/10/16 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:22752 Activity:low |
10/16 Soda's ssh host key appears to have changed in the past month or
so. Is there a way to check the current fingerprint? -phr
\_ Sure it's not just that newer versions of ssh also tie the host
key to the resolved IP address, which just changed? |
| 2001/10/16 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic] UID:22753 Activity:high |
10/16 There's an old saying: A conservative is a liberal who's
been mugged. Well, a hawk is a liberal who's been targeted
for death by al Qaeda.
\_ Well no. A liberal that's been targeted for death by a terrorist
group is just a dead liberal.
\_ A liberal is a conservative who has lost $1M in the bubble.
\_ Yeah investing in the market between 96 and 2001 was
strictly limited by political affiliation.
\_ Yeah, like breaking everyone's political affiliation
into one of two groups is any less stupid. |
| 2001/10/16 [Recreation/Humor] UID:22754 Activity:nil |
10/16 Ginger or Marianne?
\_ Mary Ann?
Corky Romano or Zoolander?
Coke or Pepsi?
\- yermom or yersister?
\_ Both on the beach next to the Lagoon.
\_ Ginger baby, she was _hot_
\_ pics please?
\_ Are you fucking serious? Didn't they let you out of the
trunk?
\_ Forgive my ignorance. I really have no idea.
\_ You see, there was this comedy in the '70s and
'80s about a deserted island. We nerds make
reference to the two nubile characters on the
island and compare their desirability.
\_ It was a comedy? Dude... was I *way* off base. |
| 2001/10/16 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:22755 Activity:very high |
10/16 In NT, how do I find out which process is currently using a certain
DLL? (Using the command line or in a debugger or whatever.) Thanks.
\_ I've got a really cool proggie that shows all dependencies and
files used by any Windows program, but I would have to root
around for it. Mail me if interested. -John
\_ http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
\_ Cool! Thanks. |
| 2001/10/16-18 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:22756 Activity:high |
10/16 Best deal on a cell phone? I want a free phone and no charges for
incoming calls. Don't care about nationwide, roaming, etc.
\_ all cell plans charge you based on the minute. Incoming/outgoing
it doesn't matter.
\_ In the US this is true. It is different overseas.
\_ thank you mr pedantic. Go away.
\_ actually I think you can get free incoming calls with some
plan(s). I heard an ad for this on the radio. Dunno if it's
worth it.
\_ everyone agrees: Cingular sucks. so what's a good alternative in
terms of coverage? who's happy with their cell phone plan and
wants to tell us about it?
\_ Verizon works pretty well, but is pricey. -ausman
\_ AT&T is good. Plans are reasonable now. Verizon is pricey
but offer as good a coverage as AT&T. The voice quality is
better.
\_ I don't know about coverage area, but Verizon seems to provide
stronger signal in covered areas. I didn't know that until my
wife switched from Verizon to AT&T. She used to get good
connection with her Verizon phone in basements of buildings in
SF as well as in BART trains, but now she can't do that with her
AT&T phone. --- yuen
\_ What's wrong with Sprint? No one ever seems to mention them.
\_ Cheap but below average quality/coverage.
\_ Cheap but below average quality/coverage. Good customer
service. I work on some of their equipment, so blame me
if you get a disconnected call or no service.
\_ Quality of Sprint varies widely by location. I have
friends and relatives in various east-coast states who
have Sprint and don't have any problems. In the Bay Area,
Sprint sucks-- hard. Everyone I know with a Sprint phone
bitches constantly. -dans
\_ Sprint PCS has a multi-vendor approach for building
its network. That may be part of the reason for the
variation in quality and coverage.
\_ You want free incoming calls? Bwahhahahahahahahahahaha. Welcome
to the United States, land of the grossly inferior competing cell
phone standards. -dans
\_ I don't see how whether there are competing cell phone
standards is related to whether incoming calls are charged.
\_ The fact that incoming calls are universally charged in the
US is directly related to the fact that all the US cell
phone standards are grossly inferior to GSM (the cell phone
standard that the rest of the civilized world uses). This
is because virtually all of the US standards in use today
were developed in the early 80's and simply can't handle the
capacity that GSM can. The fact that we're still using
circa 1980 cell phone technologies is directly related to
the U.S. government's refusal to interfere with the
so-called "free market" that exists in the cellular space by
(gasp in horror) forcing the telcos to standardize! The
market isn't really free since every carrier needs to build
out it's own infrastructure, and this is prohibitively
expensive. So we have the situation that exists today: five
or six telcos carve up the profits, and all the customers
get inferior service from circa 1980 capacity networks. How
1337. -dans
\_ US cell phone networks and technology are not inferior
to GSM at all, just built up along a different technical
and business model. But paying for incoming calls is
pretty suck. -John
\_ You're paying for airtime - incoming outcoming is
irrelevent. What would suck is paying extra to call
someone because they have a cellular phone.
\_ Nah. China uses GSM almost exclusively (China Unicom
is just starting to build a CDMA network) but incoming
calls are still being charged. Also, how is CDMA
inferior to GSM? By all accounts CDMA is superior to
GSM technology-wise, which is the reason why all 3G
\_ I can understand why people hate being charged for
incoming calls, but I personally find it ok. Whether
incoming or outgoing, the call is going to occupy
bandwidth, so there is a cost to the service provider.
Also, from user's perspective, being reachable anywhere
is a mostly positively thing, and hence an added value.
If incoming calls are not charged, it likely would just
mean that they would charge more for outgoing calls.
This would be unfair for people who make a lot of
outgoing calls and receive few incoming calls. Charges
should be attributed to where cost is incurred and
where value is added.
standards are CDMA-based. GSM is only more prevalent
in the 2G space for the same reason windows is the
most common OS around. |
| 2001/10/16-17 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:22757 Activity:high |
10/16 Comments on the quality of Cingular's coverage in the south and
east bay?
\_ starting in around March (around the time of the PacBell buyout)
service started really sucking... now it seems to be getting
better.
\_ beyond "it sucks hardcore"?
\_ that is being too kind. Expect to never have your phone ring.
Expect to never be able to get your messages. Expect to have
to try to call someone for an hour before you get through.
Complain and get... wait for it... FREE MINUTES! OH WOW.
\_ Too bad Cingular is the only one that works with Noika 8290.
\_ Are you one of those individuals who complain about every
wireless service, or does it really suck that bad?
\_ Ever since PacBell got bought by SBC and switched their name
to Cingular, it has been that bad. I, too, experience all
of the above mentioned problems. Cingular sucks ASS.
I've managed to get rebates by calling them up and complaining
about their service. I recommend all Cingular users to do the
same.
\_ I had Cel One for 5 years before changing to Cingular.
The only reason i switched was because CelOne had
terrible calling plans, service was reasonable.
Thought I could save money with Cingular since I was
making a lot of long distance phone calls.
Now I can't get signal either at home or at work, which
basically takes care of 99% of my normal use and I'm left
wondering why I have a celphone at all anymore.
\_ No, really cingular is crap. Everyone I know who has it
I have to call 4-5 times even to have a chance to get through
and I've watched them try to make calls. It is just pathetic.
Call. nope system busy. Call. nope system busy. Repeat
20 times.
\_ everyone agrees: Cingular sucks. so what's a good alternative in
terms of coverage? who's happy with their cell phone plan and
wants to tell us about it? |
| 2001/10/16-17 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:22758 Activity:high |
10/16 Is there a way to make movie's/animations available on the web, yet
make them un-copiable? I think real networks has a technology that
does it, but they charge, iirc. Any free one's?
\_ There's a ripper program available so, no, Real hasn't done it
either. So what you really want is the Holy Grail of copyright
protection: viewable content but no copying. Let us know when
you've come up with it; I've got some VC friends who want to talk
to you.
\_ All porn wants to be free.
\_ anything digital is copiable. once you learn to live with that, you
and your userbase will be happier. yes, you can make your own
proprietary streaming video format with your own proprietary client
that disallows saving to disk, but somebody could always reverse-
engineer it and make their own client. why do you really care?
do you really want totalitarian control over your content? I'd
personally prefer knowing that someone downloaded my movie and
thought it was good enough to keep and watch again. and plus, if
they want to watch it again, they don't eat up my bandwidth.
unless, of course, you want people to pay you each time they watch
your movie, but that's another can of worms...
\_ microsoft does not agree with you
\_ what's your point? Microsoft thinks their anti-piracy attempts
in Windows XP will help them too. Microsoft thinks that
there's a 1:1 correspondence between piracy and lost sales.
Microsoft fails to recognize that piracy helped it become a
monopoly. what do I care what Microsoft thinks?
\_ because, you, my fellow nerd, do not live in a vaccuum.
\_ he said "What do *I* care", hence the decision is
centric to him, my fellow logician.
\_ You should learn how to spell, my politically sensitive
friend.
\_ you sure? And no, it doesn't matter in this case what
MS thinks.
\_ Basic truth: If you can view it on the screen, you can record it.
\_ Really? When I do a screendump (Alt-PrtScn) in Media Player, all
I get in the clipboard are the UI, and the movie area is blank.
\_ when poster said "you" he did not mean you.
\_ It's an overlay. Just disable hardware acceleration and it'll
do all the drawing in software, and then you can capture it.
\_ Thanks! I'll try that. |
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