My Insights

I just recently bought the IRiver H10 5GB mp3 player in lounge gray color. The biggest reason for choosing this was its compatibility with yahoo music.

Yahoo music is a subscription service that lets you have unlimited music for $5/month compared to napster or rhapsody at $15/month. Sound quality is really good but I feel the 5GB is sort of limited. It might sound a lot but when you go trigger happy in the sea of unlimited music, it’s hard to keep it under control.

This is really hilarious. I clicked on a True.com ad and got taken straight to the signup page with the following disclaimer:

I just got my new PS2 (PlayStation 2) yesterday. I was surprised to see how small it was. I took some pictures of it compared to the XBox and my brother’s hand to show you how small it was. I’ll let the pictures talk -

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) with its top open (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) on top of my XBox (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) on top of my XBox with its top open (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) compared to my brother’s hand (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) compared to my brother’s hand and the XBox (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) compared to the original Microsoft XBox Type-S Controller (Click image for original).

The new PS2’s (PlayStation 2) height compared to the height of my XBox. Notice how small it is. This one is definitely worth looking at the original for. Zoom it all up (Click image for original).

The new PS2 (PlayStation 2) and my XBox side by side (Click image for original).

I snagged a great deal on this Sony Subwoofer

It retails at 199.99 and I got it for a little over 60 dollars. It has a 12 inch driver with power handling capacity of 120 Watts (maybe 150 … not sure). I bought it with the intention of putting it in the trunk of my car but the I later decided to put it in my Brother’s car’s trunk. It’ll sound better there AND we don’t have to do a lot of rewiring.

In my car, I’d have to run a cable from the battery to the power inverter in the trunk. That would entail lifting up the inner panels and carpeting. I’m not sure if I wanna do that myself. Anyways, check out more specs on the subwoofer here.

One thing for sure is that a 3.0GHz processor with a Gigabyte of RAM and 200GB of hard disk space is not outside our grabs. But still, there is something missing. The computers, they … er they are not exactly mind numbing fast. Don’t get me wrong. They are faster than my 266MHz 128Mb RAM 6GB HD. They’re much faster than that … but are they fast fast?

I guess the ability to crunch numbers faster than a human was achieved by the most primitive of calculators. But that fact is given the premise that the computer already has its input in machine form. I guess what I am saying is that the computer may be able to think fast but can it relate its thinking to us fast enough?

You push on a button and a computer fan turns on and you see some garbage on the screen comparable to your garbage every morning you wake up. But do I really want to see a computer go through its early morning chores? Answer is no. I mean if a computer is so fast, then why can’t it turn on so fast? Why is the fastest computer forced to display, “loading your personal settings …”? Isn’t the point of having a fast machine to surpass your own thinking powers?

Then why is it that it seems that sometimes YOU are waiting for the computer to work and not vice-versa? All those times when the stupid machine is on standby and you move your mouse and wait about 5 seconds for the CRT (Monitor) to turn on. Then you type in your password and it takes forever for it to let you start working on something constructive. Everytime you click on Internet Explorer, you wait for it to LOAD!

Everytime you visit a website, you wait for it to LOAD. I mean what more than a 3MBPS download does hotmail.com need for me to read my messages without waiting for it to take a crap? I guess everything just seems fast but I think the most important thing that needs to be fast is still slow. And that is the freakin’ I/O (Input/Output) interface in use by computers.

Will I see the day when I think something and the darn machine will have processed it for me to think ahead without taking a coffee break? Will I see the day when there will be no waiting for the computer to LOAD or WORK? Will I see the day when this darn machine that I am typing on will understand my frustrations? Will I?

I have an old refrigerator. The lever for the ice dispenser is broken. Sears AMAZINGLY has all the parts from the screw to the rubber stops to the front panels ALONG WITH an assembly diagram. I guess that’s about the only thing keeping them in business - Parts.

P.S: I have a Kitchenaid Superba KSRS25QAWH10 which leads to no hits on Google by the way.

I’m looking for a good and cheap TV Tuner card. Anybody have suggestions? I looked at the AITech WaveWatcher TV-PCI card (OEM version)

The only problem … this version is not suppoted under Windows XP.

So let me know if you guys have any suggestions or anything. By the way, I bought the Logitech Z-640 speaker system after reconsidering the proposition a million times. I had a $50 gift certificate from 2 years ago that I never used and it was about to expire. So I exchanged it for an Amazon.com gift certificate and got the following system for $46.94 and free shipping.

Thanks to Vishal, I am satisfied with my purchase. I am fulfilling a lifelong dream of having a TV in the bedroom. Ami, dare you say anything … just anything and you won’t hear the end of it ever! In any case, I am planning to hook up my PS2 to my computer which would be awesome! What do y’all think?