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Everything Else / Biggest Camera Whore.
« on: June 22, 2005, 08:45:00 pm »
My vote goes to Sean.
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Computers & Video Games / New KVM Switch.
« on: June 22, 2005, 02:57:17 pm »
I just got a brand new 4-port Zonet KVM Switch. It's working great so far. I'm loving it. Can't wait to put more computers on it. This is what it looks like.
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Birthdays and Events! / Happy Birthday Andrew (13).
« on: June 18, 2005, 10:56:43 pm »
Happy birthday d00d, have fun being a teenager now.
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Computers & Video Games / Video Capturing
« on: June 13, 2005, 12:46:49 pm »
Who's into video capturing? I am and I capture alot of episodes of shows and commerials. Here's a video I made of my computer that I captured. If it doesn't play then install this.
Click Here
Click Here
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Computers & Video Games / Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge is now stable.
« on: June 13, 2005, 09:52:52 am »
I installed it last night and everything is working great on it.
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Everything Else / Post Your Voice
« on: June 10, 2005, 04:06:32 pm »
Post a sound file of you speaking in it. Anyways here's me.
http://pranksnfiles.com/crow/hellousb.mp3
http://pranksnfiles.com/crow/hellousb.mp3
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Computers & Video Games / Ulead DVD Movie Factory
« on: June 08, 2005, 08:19:05 pm »
Anyone used this before? I got it a few days ago and love it for making DVDs with menus. Here's a screenshot of a DVD with a menu I made for my cousins, aunts, and uncles.
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Computers & Video Games / Apple Moves to Intel.
« on: June 06, 2005, 11:35:33 am »Quote
NEW YORK - Mark your calendars. Today is the day that Apple Computer killed the Mac as we've known it.
Today, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) confirmed reports that it will shift away from using chips from IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Freescale Semiconductor (nyse: FSL - news - people ) With the confirmation of the change, Apple is embarking on a transition that could well hurt its computer sales between now and 2007, frustrate software developers and ultimately drive loyal customers away from the platform. The news came in a speech by Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs at a software developers' conference in San Francisco.
Switching to Intel may not even save Apple money. "IBM has been losing money in its semiconductor business," says Shaw Wu, analyst at American Technology Research in San Francisco. "IBM has given Apple very good price points. I don't think Apple can get a better price from Intel than its getting from IBM. The prices at IBM have been competitive with Intel's prices, because they have had to be."
Indeed, since Apple accounts for less than 3% of annual PC sales, it will have a hard time competing for Intel's attention from the likes of Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ).
"Every time Apple tries to make a transition like this, many people simply decide it's not worth the effort to try and keep up," says Nathan Brookwood, analyst with Insight64, Saratoga, Calif. "The companies behind the PC platform have paid a lot of attention to stability and backward compatibility than Apple has."
More immediately, by announcing a transition that is going to take place during 2006 and into 2007, Apple can't help but hurt its computer sales during the transition period. In its two most-recent quarters, Apple's computer sales have accounted for about 46%
Since Mac users are habitual upgraders, many of its traditional customers will put off purchases until the new Intel-based systems are on the market. This wariness has happened during previous transitions on the Mac platform, when Apple was shifting away from its established Mac OS 9 platform toward the newer Mac OS X. During that period, customers shied away from buying new systems in part because many important software applications weren't available for OS X, in part because the new operating system software wasn't fully baked.
"There is a risk of a buying freeze among established customers and new potential customers," Wu says.
Then, there's the questions of the developers of the software that has made the Mac the computer-of-choice for so many devoted users--especially designers, videographers and everyone for whom style is as important as substance. Still, many are reserving judgment.
"It can be a big deal," says Adam Fingerman, director of Mac software development at Roxio, a unit of Sonic Solutions (nasdaq: SNIC - news - people ), whose products include the Toast line of CD and DVD burning software. "I'd like to believe that Apple has thought all of this out and will make the transition as easy for developers as possible. Apple has already pushed developers through a series of transitions."
Apple certainly has the cash to withstand the hit to its sales over the course of a year. It had about $3 billion in cash and cash equivalents, plus another $2.5 billion in short-term investments at the end of the quarter ended March 26. Plus, there's also the iPod business.
But the iPod is turning out to be more of a seasonal cash cow. The music player accounted for nearly 35% of sales in the first quarter of 2005, which included the holiday season. While iPod sales were higher by volume in the second quarter, they accounted for a smaller percentage of the overall sales. Apple sold 5.3 million iPods in the quarter for more than $1 billion or 31% of revenue.
It's also not clear how healthy Apple's iPod sales are in the current quarter. Reports last week suggested Apple's sales channel was full of unsold iPod units, which would indicate sales aren't really growing at the rate anticipated. Still, new models of the iPod Shuffle and the main hard-drive based iPods were unveiled during the Jobs keynote today.
Source: Googlenews.
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Computers & Video Games / Longhorn Quest.
« on: June 05, 2005, 07:49:04 pm »
I'm gonna do a report on Longhorn for fun. I am gonna format my computer with just nothing but longhorn for a week to proof how buggy it is and to see how unstable it can be.
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Computers & Video Games / I got a DVD Burner.
« on: June 03, 2005, 01:46:55 pm »
I just got a Lite-On 16x DVD+-R/+-RW Double Layer Drive. It's so cool. It took me 2 minutes to hook it and get it running great.
http://img13.echo.cx/img13/9040/dvdrw2zi.jpg
http://img13.echo.cx/img13/9040/dvdrw2zi.jpg
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Computers & Video Games / Post Your Computer.
« on: May 31, 2005, 07:24:09 pm »
Post a picture of the inside of your computer. Here's mine.
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Computers & Video Games / I reformated XP.
« on: May 28, 2005, 08:01:41 am »
I was getting the blue screen of death alot and couldn't stand it so I just re-installed XP.
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Computers & Video Games / I'm getting a DVD Burner.
« on: May 28, 2005, 07:53:34 am »
I'm gonna put my dad's stuff on DVDs and all the tv shows I do when I get this. I'll also be able to burn Linux stuff that's on DVDs like FC3 DVD and MDK DVD.