They did sue a UK supermarket (now owned by an american supermarket, no names mentioned) over a range of boxer shorts known as "Microsofts".
Sadly I'm not kidding.
Surely a decent 64-bit cpu would kick along an x86 emulator at an acceptable rate in the same way we can emulate anything you want on the SNES or N64 fine.
All you need to solve is the quite abysmal video rates of things like virtualPc.
Basically you need a WinUAE for PCs.
And the reason Intel are holding back is contained in the first line here. Their 64-bit chip is crap.
As a semi-future-proofing-power-user. I built a PC in 1998. I put in 256MB RAM to try to keep it running as long as possible. That's price-equivilent to 2GB at todays prices.
It's really not going to be long before the geeks feel they need to do so.
We do however have no non-digital channels now. The only 5 you could get on analogue are all avaliable on cable, satellite or the rather snazzy Freeview which is a BBC led digital service that just chucks digital over the air to your standard aerial.
The Government want to turn off analogue in 2010 and despite the fact there's already no reason to not switch they don't think they'll make it.
It's even worse. He posted the intervening story too.
I.e - when we first got on, he didn't even read the FIRST FUCKING STORY.
Even if he didn't look at the front page till he blindly approved the gameboy one, he'd still have had to check that posted properly and not read the headline below it, which you'd think would be virtually impossible.
So the only possible conclusion is that not only does he not check the front page himself EVER he doesn't even ever check if a story got submitted right.
I built my first PC for uni in late 98. It was a K6-2-300 which wasn't top then. Dell were selling 600mhz machines by then, however they were still fitting 32MB RAM to some of them.
I spent 1/5th of the cost of the PC on 256MB RAM. It wiped the floor with any of the 600mhz machines at uni.
That 256 lives on in my now 512MB Athlon 1.4ghz, the only part of the machine other than the case and the TV card that's still there. (Most of said machine has been reused in another PC though)
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Ditto my work laptop. It's a celeron 400 and did have 64MB and Windows 95. My very first job (without telling management) was to quickly buy the upgrade to 192MB (most it'll take) with £20 of my own cash and put XP on it.
In terms of going home at a sensible time it's more than paid for itself.
You'd never ever be able to evaluate as high a percentage of moves in Go as you do for Chess so you have to go at it heuristically even more so than with chess.
And that's where it gets tricky.
Plus Go is more of an obscure game. These things have to be funded and Chess is well known and PR friendly.
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There's no point complainig about the respective costs of the systems when I can complain about UK prices.
PS2
US - $149
UK - $270
XBox
US - $149
UK - $206
Gamecube
US - $99
UK - $206
This is now officially beyond a joke.
75% of the people that I know who are "die hard" Buffy fans are Macintosh users. Mangle that statistic as you please.
75% of Macintosh users dress up as buffy on the weekends.
mmm....mangled.
there's a few pay phones over there.
But there's no bloody change machine is there. I think that's obstructing inspections.
We should bomb..... if we can find where we put them.
They did sue a UK supermarket (now owned by an american supermarket, no names mentioned) over a range of boxer shorts known as "Microsofts". Sadly I'm not kidding.
Find sufficiently stupid people and you can convince them it's 2^32 times as good :)
Quite apart form anything else, I'd love to be able to work on video, and even large sound file captures entirely in RAM.
There's a handful that get points in the series
In Nascar, everyone gets points if they finish
* In advance apology
In Soviet Nascar, points get you.
(pushrod V8's, what is this the 1950's?)
Literally in the case of NASCAR. The Ford unit they use now carries a 1955 engine block.
True, but the brits built the first proper oval at brooklands. Indianapolis came about after the future owner visited brooklands.
Surely a decent 64-bit cpu would kick along an x86 emulator at an acceptable rate in the same way we can emulate anything you want on the SNES or N64 fine.
All you need to solve is the quite abysmal video rates of things like virtualPc.
Basically you need a WinUAE for PCs.
And the reason Intel are holding back is contained in the first line here. Their 64-bit chip is crap.
I did some maths.
As a semi-future-proofing-power-user. I built a PC in 1998. I put in 256MB RAM to try to keep it running as long as possible. That's price-equivilent to 2GB at todays prices.
It's really not going to be long before the geeks feel they need to do so.
You wore a helmet. No-one saw your face :P
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Yeah I agree though, historically the segway is probably closer to the Sinclair C5.
People don't like wobbling down the sidewalk looking bloody stupid after all.
They might as well give away a big red hat that says "Tool"
I can't think they make much money from selling them these days
because it's so much cheaper just to brute force given the likely success rate.
Seriously, just read /. if you want to know the important stuff of the day. :)
Twice usually.
Worked for me, bullies strange as it seems usually fight fair.
:D
Geeks don't.
HDTV is expensive.
Digital TV should be sub $100 over the price of the TV for the set top box.
Indeed. We have no HDTV *at all*.
We do however have no non-digital channels now. The only 5 you could get on analogue are all avaliable on cable, satellite or the rather snazzy Freeview which is a BBC led digital service that just chucks digital over the air to your standard aerial.
The Government want to turn off analogue in 2010 and despite the fact there's already no reason to not switch they don't think they'll make it.
2006 for the US isn't going to happen.
My local library sold off it's old Disney VHSs
:)
I bought the lot and made good money on ebay with them.
It's even worse. He posted the intervening story too.
I.e - when we first got on, he didn't even read the FIRST FUCKING STORY.
Even if he didn't look at the front page till he blindly approved the gameboy one, he'd still have had to check that posted properly and not read the headline below it, which you'd think would be virtually impossible.
So the only possible conclusion is that not only does he not check the front page himself EVER he doesn't even ever check if a story got submitted right.
Indeed.
I built my first PC for uni in late 98. It was a K6-2-300 which wasn't top then. Dell were selling 600mhz machines by then, however they were still fitting 32MB RAM to some of them.
I spent 1/5th of the cost of the PC on 256MB RAM. It wiped the floor with any of the 600mhz machines at uni.
That 256 lives on in my now 512MB Athlon 1.4ghz, the only part of the machine other than the case and the TV card that's still there. (Most of said machine has been reused in another PC though)
--
Ditto my work laptop. It's a celeron 400 and did have 64MB and Windows 95. My very first job (without telling management) was to quickly buy the upgrade to 192MB (most it'll take) with £20 of my own cash and put XP on it.
In terms of going home at a sensible time it's more than paid for itself.
My god that wife of his is distracting him
Simply because Go is more complex.
You'd never ever be able to evaluate as high a percentage of moves in Go as you do for Chess so you have to go at it heuristically even more so than with chess.
And that's where it gets tricky.
Plus Go is more of an obscure game. These things have to be funded and Chess is well known and PR friendly.
My calculator can find nth roots faster and with greater precision than I can...should I be fascinated by that as well?
Probably. I certainly am. It's a bit of sand doing maths ferchrissake.
Maybe it's the geek in me but I'm fascinating when computers do pretty much everything.
Especially if they're running ME.
I can still buy the newest althon CPU and MB along with RAM, put linux, win2k, bsd, whatever on it, without worring about palladum.
Nope, buy a palladiam motherboard it won't let you load a non-Palladiam OS.