They cost less than $10. Not likely with the cost of making cartridges. Some people in the article seem to think that they will end up costing $20! Absurd, for games like Ice Climber.
This is why the e-reader is so good. Because the games are simply printed on card, the manufactoring costs are almost zero per copy.
I just picked up a working Apple IIc with a working monitor, but for PC use I use a Sony 500PS that was a couple of years old, but still "new" when I bought it in 2000. As you say, still rocks.
I'm with Optus dialup. Their Webmail lets me download or stream any attachment, or just delete the whole message. Easy to cull out, even with a quick sample first, any big attachement.
However, I'm not on the distro list of anyone that thinks that mailing around viral marketing advertising videos is a Good Thing(TM), so the problem hasn't really come up.
You are not everybody, therefore the fact that you've not heard of these acts does not mean: That nobody has heard of them, that they aren't better than most of the "popular" artists, or that it is some sort of problem. Of the music I "own" most people have never heard of half of the artists, a ratio sustained even if you just look at recent releases.
I'd be better able to show my rebuttal if the page would load. I think the only actual problem is that their servers can't cope with a good Slashdotting.
Sony is heavily promting development of software that uses the VUs through their Linux development community. I bought the kit a while back, but I don't really have the right skill set to play with them. I'd love to see if, say, a Distributed.Net client could be optimised for them.
Try this fairly small IDE-2-Firewire adapter. If bus power isn't enough to drive your preferred hard disk, you could solder up a 12V plug. Many modern motherboards have two Firewire ports as standard, many PCI Firewire cards have four with one internal. It wouldn't take much to hookup a TB inside a PC with this. Power consumption and heat might become a bit of an issue though.
Personally, My motherboard's got two IDE channels, two SATA ports, two Firewire ports and six USB2.0 ports, plus I've got two Firewire ports on my Audigy. I've got two drives in there already (totalling a massive 120Gig;), but I shouldn't have any problems slowly upgrading to a TB if I wanted. Drives are quite affordable too. My system volume certainly needs an upgrade.
I know the half-dozen craptacular tracks I uploaded to MP3.com back in the day. At the very least, the BPM is WAY too high for use as elevator music. Wouldn't want to the be person who has to review all the music to determine if it's appropriate or not.
Apparently when you scan ANYTHING, your CPU goes to 100% load while the program attempts to determine if the picture is a bill. I'm not sure how long it takes on a typical PC, but on something a bit old it might mean you get up and make a coffee every time you scan ANYTHING.
Restriction of free trade. Sony is free to have the parts made in cheap countries. So why are constumers not allowed to buy in cheap countries?
Ah, the very essence of the globalisation debate. Companies fight for "free trade" so they can abuse workers in countries with no human rights, but if you suggest that perhaps you'd like to take advantage of the retail prices that exist in one of these countries and it's "an illegal parallel import". Welcome to capitalism, who would you like to sell your soul to today?
Ugh, tell me about it. I wish Eudora had an "only render the text portion of this message" option. The best I can manage is to use the internal render (rather than security-challenged IE) and to turn off the fetching of images.
The Spamcop service that I used to subscribe to but am now phasing out due to Ironport used to have, ages back, an option to strip out all HTML portions of an email. I loved that option and really missed it (and the attachment stripper) when it was removed.
Multipart email has some nice potential for such things as encryption and even compression, but no it gets used to make the headings 72-point, hot pink and in a font I don't have on my system.
Anyone know how to make MailScanner rip out the HTML portion of a multiformat email such that the end result looks like it was always just plaintext? Failing that, anyway to set Outlook's default to plaintext from a login script?
Lame writeup aside, I have installed Open Office, Mozilla and The Gimp on all the college's computers (I'm the IT Officer, just so you don't think I've done this without permission). I'm not saying I got rid of Windows or Office, I just worked out that there was no reason not to include a few alternatives.
Try this: turn on the "size" column in you favourite email client. I use Eudora (Tools-options-Mailbox). Note that a normal plaintext email is 3k. Now look at the size of a spam. You're paying for that, or someone is. Soon the spam arms race is going to require everyone to have broadband just to check their email.
If you look, you'll see that was phrased as a question. It had a question mark at the end and everything. Your information is handy, but you can lose the attitude.
That there is anything called a "copyright holder" is due to the good graces of society, not because of some inalienable right. As such, copyrights are limited, and quite rightly so -- why should society subsidise something if they get no benefit from it?
You think that's bad, I bought an Olivetti Envision P75 with Win95 factory installed, but all the drivers were Win3.x drivers. I couldn't even get Plus' font antialiasing to work until I dug up an obscure driver from Trident's website. I don't think they ever wrote a Win95 driver for the MPEG decoder board or the IR-remote/LED display (the "Console") on the front of the unit.
I needed a new phone, I like (retro) video games and I'd found a C64 emulator that worked on it. It's a damn good phone too. In fact this post was made from it!
I think what everyone's forgetting is that people will buy more than one gaming platform. Ignoring all my retro stuff, I have a PS2 and a GC. I have a GBA and an N-Gage. Once I've bought one platform there's nothing stopping me from buying another. Indeed, I may specifically reqquire a mobile phone AND a PDA (I don't, but that's not the point) -- If I'm an avid gamer with few requirements beyond basic functionality and I want just a portable gaming device I'll buy a GBA, if I want a mobile phone I'll buy an N-Gage, if I want a PDA I'll buy a Zodiac even if I already have one of the other devices. Why doesn't this ever appear to be factored into any of the discussions?
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I just picked up a working Apple IIc with a working monitor, but for PC use I use a Sony 500PS that was a couple of years old, but still "new" when I bought it in 2000. As you say, still rocks.
However, I'm not on the distro list of anyone that thinks that mailing around viral marketing advertising videos is a Good Thing(TM), so the problem hasn't really come up.
I'd be better able to show my rebuttal if the page would load. I think the only actual problem is that their servers can't cope with a good Slashdotting.
Sony is heavily promting development of software that uses the VUs through their Linux development community. I bought the kit a while back, but I don't really have the right skill set to play with them. I'd love to see if, say, a Distributed.Net client could be optimised for them.
Personally, My motherboard's got two IDE channels, two SATA ports, two Firewire ports and six USB2.0 ports, plus I've got two Firewire ports on my Audigy. I've got two drives in there already (totalling a massive 120Gig ;), but I shouldn't have any problems slowly upgrading to a TB if I wanted. Drives are quite affordable too. My system volume certainly needs an upgrade.
I know the half-dozen craptacular tracks I uploaded to MP3.com back in the day. At the very least, the BPM is WAY too high for use as elevator music. Wouldn't want to the be person who has to review all the music to determine if it's appropriate or not.
Oh, you beat me to it. This is my old site from when I was actively collecting Access Swatches.
Apparently when you scan ANYTHING, your CPU goes to 100% load while the program attempts to determine if the picture is a bill. I'm not sure how long it takes on a typical PC, but on something a bit old it might mean you get up and make a coffee every time you scan ANYTHING.
So, lets review. 3 articles about Penny Arcade's Child's Play, 251 about Violent Video Games. Hey, and that 3 will go up to 4 when this article on Slashdot gets spidered by news.google.
I use 5.1 and the Styled Text section only affects/disables outgoing HTML mail, not incoming.
The Spamcop service that I used to subscribe to but am now phasing out due to Ironport used to have, ages back, an option to strip out all HTML portions of an email. I loved that option and really missed it (and the attachment stripper) when it was removed.
Multipart email has some nice potential for such things as encryption and even compression, but no it gets used to make the headings 72-point, hot pink and in a font I don't have on my system.
Anyone know how to make MailScanner rip out the HTML portion of a multiformat email such that the end result looks like it was always just plaintext? Failing that, anyway to set Outlook's default to plaintext from a login script?
Lame writeup aside, I have installed Open Office, Mozilla and The Gimp on all the college's computers (I'm the IT Officer, just so you don't think I've done this without permission). I'm not saying I got rid of Windows or Office, I just worked out that there was no reason not to include a few alternatives.
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Still looking for an email replacement...
Was this Mars clock for the PalmOS anywhere in that explosion of links called a story?
If you look, you'll see that was phrased as a question. It had a question mark at the end and everything. Your information is handy, but you can lose the attitude.
Doesn't Microsoft already own a huge chunk of Apple? How is this any worse?
That there is anything called a "copyright holder" is due to the good graces of society, not because of some inalienable right. As such, copyrights are limited, and quite rightly so -- why should society subsidise something if they get no benefit from it?
I don't know anyone that uses the WMA format...
You think that's bad, I bought an Olivetti Envision P75 with Win95 factory installed, but all the drivers were Win3.x drivers. I couldn't even get Plus' font antialiasing to work until I dug up an obscure driver from Trident's website. I don't think they ever wrote a Win95 driver for the MPEG decoder board or the IR-remote/LED display (the "Console") on the front of the unit.
I needed a new phone, I like (retro) video games and I'd found a C64 emulator that worked on it. It's a damn good phone too. In fact this post was made from it!
You can now apparantly pre-order an April Fools gag.
I think what everyone's forgetting is that people will buy more than one gaming platform. Ignoring all my retro stuff, I have a PS2 and a GC. I have a GBA and an N-Gage. Once I've bought one platform there's nothing stopping me from buying another. Indeed, I may specifically reqquire a mobile phone AND a PDA (I don't, but that's not the point) -- If I'm an avid gamer with few requirements beyond basic functionality and I want just a portable gaming device I'll buy a GBA, if I want a mobile phone I'll buy an N-Gage, if I want a PDA I'll buy a Zodiac even if I already have one of the other devices. Why doesn't this ever appear to be factored into any of the discussions?