Yeah, but it didn't have the Chemical Brothers or Leftfield on the soundtrack. The PSX was huge with the dance generation. This was a large part of it's "coolness".
I'm not positive, but I'm fairly sure that it did in fact include remixes of tracks by those artists. I'm about four days away from setting up my N64 again so I can't whack the cart in and test, but my recollection is that the music for the N64 version was barely cut down at all.
In the early days, yes, the PSX was popular because of the quality and scope of the available games. But by the time the Dreamcast came out, it was all about cheap pirated games. I frequent swapmeets (car boot sales / fleamarkets / etc) and around 90% of the PSX and PS2 games are pirated.
The N64 had a Wipeout game. A very technically impressive version given the limitations of the cart.
I agree that the Playstation's popularity is largely due to easily available pirate games, since I've specifically heard people discussing the issue and deciding to pickup a PSX because they can buy heaps of cheap games in Bali.
Yeah, I should have loaded the page before I linked to it. Had a nice article in a magazine, thought they'd be a bit more mature.
As a person that chooses which computers to buy for a company, yeah, these are a hard sell. But elements of them aren't. If their water cooling system is quieter than normal fans, that's a plus. I'm already ordering noise reduction power supplies in our whiteboxes. If they allow you to overclock a CPU and get more value out of it, that's a plus. I've already considered overclocking our older PCs allow them to continue being a useful part of the company.
Are Apple water cooling and overclocking? I seem to remember they're doing at least water (or liquid) cooling in some of the new models... Even the well established PC name-brands ignore technology trends like this at considerable risk.
The two companies announced a plan to form a complex joint venture that would make Lenovo the third-largest PC maker in the world, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard
Holy crap, are these really the big three? No wonder name-brand desktop PCs aren't worth bothering about anymore. Looks like the future of PCs belongs to companies like Real Machines.
Lexmark laser printers aren't any better. Their control chips to prevent use of "remanufactured" cartridges, then using the DMCA to intimidate any companies still trying to offer refills is, IMHO, despicible. A9 for "lexmark DMCA". Our local recycled toner cartridge supplier recommends pretty much anything over a Lexmark.
What is wrong with employers? I've been, ahem, shitcanned twice just before xmas. Both times I already had approved leave only days away. At least two of my close friends have had similar experiences, one on contract coming back from leave just before xmas being told that he'd been replaced. 'Tis the season to be an arsehole?
"NO!!!! If you turn it up to eleven, you'll overheat the motors, and IT MIGHT EXPLODE!!"
Aren't we perhaps being a little over-dramatic? Surely, "No, at a setting of eleven you risk catastrophic failure." is equally as urgent, without resorting to a single exclaimation point. Over-users of CAPS and exclaimation points just need a better vocabulary.
I was just thinking about slashdot, for example. Would slashdot survive a subscription-only model?
I have several layers of adblocking and am able to view/. ad-free without a subscription, yet I am a subscriber. I believe that/. could survive without ads. As far as I know, The Well has been subscription-only and ad free since the beginning of the Internet.
It's not my responsibility to prop up someone's dodgy business model just because you don't want to pay for something you value.
There are some industries where copyright and secrecy isn't an option. Any financial product in Australia has to be fully documented and publicly available, yet companies continue to come up with new financial products, because if you come up with a good one you benefit simply from doing it first. Since ultimately, Intellectual Property laws are a construct designed to encourage development, and their necessity in relation to processes (rather than physical products) is seriously questionable, I don't see any need for software to be especially secret. Not that I'm demanding that Google be forced to write a manual on how to copy them.
Advise use black paper with the ends taped together when you do this the inkt will soon run out. I only hope they have no electronic storage.
No, not the main fax number, the main reception number. And this isn't a one-man job, so it's not about a loop of black paper. It's about every call picked up by main reception being something other than a paying customer.
I think it's more like tens of thousands of people sending the occasional fax to the main reception number of a company that never respects your "no junk mail" sticker on your mailbox.
I know that it's sometimes considered PC to use "she" instead of "he", since it can be grammatically awkward to use "they", but I think statisically you're quite justified using "he" in this case.
Users who never learn -- find out how to diplomatically suggest training.
Jobs that never go away -- Automate or simplify so that the job can be handed to someone else.
There's more than this, but these two groups account for most of my stress, such as it is. If there's a key individual that you simply can't get on with, try ignoring them. This rarely works, but give it a go. If they insist on making your life difficult (stress without reason, confrontation without cause, etc), you shouldn't have to put up with that crap, lodge a formal complaint.
How is Windows 2000 to Windows XP an upgrade? Office 2000 to XP, sure, but what does Windows XP do that 2000 can't? Heck, we have one Windows 2000 desktop PC at work and I have (slightly) less problems with it than the XP PCs. 2000 to 2003 I understand, but why would anyone waste time going sideways from Win2000 to XP?
Unfortunately, we already rely heavily on petrolium-based produces such as fertilisers and pesticides to produce the crops needed at the moment. Unless this changes, methanol is actually worse than using something distilled directly from oil.
Musicmatch behaves exactly how I expect. Play, Next, Library, Rip, Sync. I only use it to manage the files on my iPod. I don't know what iTunes thinks its for.
I don't know about the parent, but I still use Musicmatch that was shipped with my (windows) iPod. I tried iTunes one time and it was awful. It did so much I didn't want and made the simple act of having a library of files that are periodically synced with the iPod very painful. That's when I found that installing it broke Musicmatch's iPod interface and I had to re-install it all. Certainly nothing there making me want to move to the Mac.
Official word is that you need a creditcard or a pre-paid gamecard to activate your account. Here in Australia, no one has found a source of gamecards, so unless you can find a friend or family member willing to "lend" you their creditcard number, you can't play no matter whether your long-standing pre-order arrived or not.
I recently returned to Windows from Linux. I don't have the time it takes to workout how to get Linux to do what I want -- if what I want is even available. And if I want to move to a Mac I have to buy a whole new PC.
Anyway, if you know what you're doing Windows is hardly "suffering". Office on the other hand...
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Is there any mention of DVD-Audio and 5.1 Surround?
In the early days, yes, the PSX was popular because of the quality and scope of the available games. But by the time the Dreamcast came out, it was all about cheap pirated games. I frequent swapmeets (car boot sales / fleamarkets / etc) and around 90% of the PSX and PS2 games are pirated.
I agree that the Playstation's popularity is largely due to easily available pirate games, since I've specifically heard people discussing the issue and deciding to pickup a PSX because they can buy heaps of cheap games in Bali.
As a person that chooses which computers to buy for a company, yeah, these are a hard sell. But elements of them aren't. If their water cooling system is quieter than normal fans, that's a plus. I'm already ordering noise reduction power supplies in our whiteboxes. If they allow you to overclock a CPU and get more value out of it, that's a plus. I've already considered overclocking our older PCs allow them to continue being a useful part of the company.
Are Apple water cooling and overclocking? I seem to remember they're doing at least water (or liquid) cooling in some of the new models... Even the well established PC name-brands ignore technology trends like this at considerable risk.
Lexmark laser printers aren't any better. Their control chips to prevent use of "remanufactured" cartridges, then using the DMCA to intimidate any companies still trying to offer refills is, IMHO, despicible. A9 for "lexmark DMCA". Our local recycled toner cartridge supplier recommends pretty much anything over a Lexmark.
What is wrong with employers? I've been, ahem, shitcanned twice just before xmas. Both times I already had approved leave only days away. At least two of my close friends have had similar experiences, one on contract coming back from leave just before xmas being told that he'd been replaced. 'Tis the season to be an arsehole?
It's not my responsibility to prop up someone's dodgy business model just because you don't want to pay for something you value.
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This seems highly suspect. /.ers don't have GFs.
There are some industries where copyright and secrecy isn't an option. Any financial product in Australia has to be fully documented and publicly available, yet companies continue to come up with new financial products, because if you come up with a good one you benefit simply from doing it first. Since ultimately, Intellectual Property laws are a construct designed to encourage development, and their necessity in relation to processes (rather than physical products) is seriously questionable, I don't see any need for software to be especially secret. Not that I'm demanding that Google be forced to write a manual on how to copy them.
Try again when female serial killers break the "20% of American serial killers" mark.
Sounds like fun.
I know that it's sometimes considered PC to use "she" instead of "he", since it can be grammatically awkward to use "they", but I think statisically you're quite justified using "he" in this case.
"MANure -- I think we'll let them keep that one."
- Users who never learn -- find out how to diplomatically suggest training.
- Jobs that never go away -- Automate or simplify so that the job can be handed to someone else.
There's more than this, but these two groups account for most of my stress, such as it is. If there's a key individual that you simply can't get on with, try ignoring them. This rarely works, but give it a go. If they insist on making your life difficult (stress without reason, confrontation without cause, etc), you shouldn't have to put up with that crap, lodge a formal complaint.How is Windows 2000 to Windows XP an upgrade? Office 2000 to XP, sure, but what does Windows XP do that 2000 can't? Heck, we have one Windows 2000 desktop PC at work and I have (slightly) less problems with it than the XP PCs. 2000 to 2003 I understand, but why would anyone waste time going sideways from Win2000 to XP?
Unfortunately, we already rely heavily on petrolium-based produces such as fertilisers and pesticides to produce the crops needed at the moment. Unless this changes, methanol is actually worse than using something distilled directly from oil.
Musicmatch behaves exactly how I expect. Play, Next, Library, Rip, Sync. I only use it to manage the files on my iPod. I don't know what iTunes thinks its for.
I don't know about the parent, but I still use Musicmatch that was shipped with my (windows) iPod. I tried iTunes one time and it was awful. It did so much I didn't want and made the simple act of having a library of files that are periodically synced with the iPod very painful. That's when I found that installing it broke Musicmatch's iPod interface and I had to re-install it all. Certainly nothing there making me want to move to the Mac.
Official word is that you need a creditcard or a pre-paid gamecard to activate your account. Here in Australia, no one has found a source of gamecards, so unless you can find a friend or family member willing to "lend" you their creditcard number, you can't play no matter whether your long-standing pre-order arrived or not.
I bought XP Pro recently and it comes with SP2 rolled in.
Anyway, if you know what you're doing Windows is hardly "suffering". Office on the other hand...
Meanwhile, I was not only running Firefox and an ad-filter (Proxomitron) but also SP2 and a freshly installed and updated anti-virus package. *gloat*