Thank you for making public my private thoughts without me having to go to the trouble of all the typing.
Real do, however, offer a particularly useful service. They help define the line between what's acceptable to install on a work PC and what's not. Now, most of you will disagree with this, but it's based not only on privacy and annoyance but also system stability and the latest versions of Real are fairly stable: RealOne is the worst acceptable thing to install on a work PC. Don't install anything worse than RealOne. After having RealOne installed for a few weeks, most users know exactly what I mean. It's like the service Acer provides when determining what PC to get.
True, but Netscape lost a lot of marketshare by continuing to charge for their browser up until 4.something when Microsoft was giving theirs away for free all along.
Uh, isn't that the point? Microsoft used its market dominance in one area to undercut a competitor in another area.
No, the two of you just look at the same screen. It's not like Atari 2600 multiplayer games are for LANs or anything, both players are on the one screen at all times. It's even more of a non-problem if you use a GB Player.
That multiplayer thing isn't a fault either I might add, it's just the way they went and I don't see the problem. I've been monitoring the product on a number of forums and I've seen no mention of "bugs", only that some titles may be up to 20% slower than they should be, and that only seems to affect gameplay in one title, H.E.R.O. -- which is reported to be too damn easy, but we'll see.
This game is pricy at $29.95 MSRP (USD). The Playstation 2 Anthology is only $19.95. Also, the advertising on the box claims that some games like Pitfall 2 and others have never appeared in an anthology before. Many games haven't, but Pitfall 2 is most definitely on the PS2 disc
I think that the Activision Anthology for the PS2 and the Activision Anthology for the GBA are considered to be different flavours of the same release and therefore both contain the claim that Pitfall 2, amongst other titles, has never been released before. If a Gamecube version of "Activision Anthology" is released (has it been?) it will probably make the same claim.
The scoring system here is very comprehensive. I rarely see any of the old troll and offtopic crap. I even filtered-out "funny", since it usually isn't.
I had to read the/. write-up about three times to workout what it was going on about. Couldn't have just said "RIAA ativities over the last year or so may have finally brought encryption and privacy concerns to the attention of the masses. Interesting article here"? I think that's what it's trying to say.
Nintendo's favourite company, Lik-Sang, has modified versions of the Q with multi-region support. Unfortunately it's just too big, heavy and expensive for me to risk importing.
I've just got Contiki running on my C64, ethernet enabled and all. Haven't really been able to set it up for anything fancy yet (as in, not enough room for a bunch of C64 drives or even a comfortable place to use it), but I'm sure I'll get something fancy running on it eventually.
As it stands, region codes are what allow the staggered release dates to work -- sure, the American version is out, but that doesn't do Joe British Consumer any good because the *AVERAGE* DVD consumer doesn't have a region-free DVD player (the average Slashdot poster is apparently another story).
Hands up if you've regionfree-afied the DVD player of a person that doesn't post the Slashdot. *raises hand* Hands up if you actually know anyone who has a DVD player but doesn't have a region free DVD player. *keeps hand down* It might be different in the US, since you seem to be ground zero for mainstream releases, but every other country has routed round the problem. Heck, region coding is illegal in New Zealnd.
I still think my point stands for most people who will sink lots of money into overclocking.
I don't. I doubt that typical overclockers would, for example, buy a $100 CPU then add $200 worth of cooling equipment for a system that performed worse than a $300 CPU (or a $200 CPU with $100 worth of cooling equipment). I also fail to see why you're so concerned about how someone chooses to invest in their PC. I've never considered overclocking a PC, but then I've never needed the extra performance above and beyond what I can afford running at factory speeds. If I suddenly felt the need for more power than I could easily afford, I'd certainly consider any overclocking technique I was capable of attempting. It's just an option.
I'll bet that cooling rig is worth a bunch of Opterons
Well, he got them for free because they were "dead" and didn't appear to have much problem getting them running again (as in not a lot of parts), so I think you're mistaken.
But you seem to be missing the point that you can't buy a P4 that goes faster than 3.2GHz, yet this rig was reaching speeds of 4.4GHz. Admittedly he was starting with a 3GHz CPU, but the price jump for the extra 200MHz would have been a lot more than this cooling rig cost him -- and it could be used with a faster CPU anyway.
America's reliance on foriegn resources is a major factor in the long running saga of the its involvement in the Middle East. In this case it's oil. Do you want your friends and family dying in a war over Asian rice next?
Extreme overclocking often takes the fastest available processor and then overclocks it as much as possible. The goal is not the most bang for your buck, but purely the most bang.
winamp 5 can run every plugin, skin and visualization from winamp 2
Maybe we'll start to see input and output plugins being developed again. I'd love to see a plug-in to play C64 tunes on my Catweasel's real SID chip. Acid64 is cool, but I want something with playlist support...
Here in Australia most farms are owned by the banks, since farmers have been getting screwed out of their land for decades now.
Most food in my local store comes from Australia, with specific products labeled as imported or containing some imported ingredients depending on the season. The fresher and less processed it is the more likely it is to be Australian.
We prop up our ailing farming businesses because we'd rather not rely on other countries for our food supply. As an American, which countries are you willing to rely on for food? Out of that list, how many are actively supporting their farming industry and not just turning into one big city?
Jeez people, encrypt it AND sign it. I'm just talking about having a copy in my email inbox so that if the company changes something on their own database I don't have to have printed or saved a web page (that I may not have even visited yet) to be sure that it's changed -- I've got an email.
I'm sorry I confused you all by simultaneously expressing a desire for privacy.
I think all those things should be subsidised for rural communities. Kids growing up in the country shouldn't see the city as their only hope for the future.
How about the connection between me having a copy of an email on my PC and "inability to change stuff without a trail" -- the problem with most of the paperless billing/accounting systems is that they're all based on you going and viewing a(n encrypted) web page (which is generated dynamically and out of your control), while I believe they should be about receiving an encrypted email.
Games are a particular taste, and quite expensive. Better to hedge bets with a couple of DVDs.
An interesting statistic would be the percentage of xmas video game sales that aren't presents. All the stuff I buy I'd buy all year round, it's just that so much of it is released "for xmas" and therefore it looks like I spend more specifically because it is xmas.
Any company offering encrypted emails as a paperless billing solution? That way I have a copy of everything and they can't change stuff without a trail. I've got a PGP public key around somewhere...;)
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I watched the Japanese one first. The US version is so dull by comparison I didn't even finish it.
Real do, however, offer a particularly useful service. They help define the line between what's acceptable to install on a work PC and what's not. Now, most of you will disagree with this, but it's based not only on privacy and annoyance but also system stability and the latest versions of Real are fairly stable: RealOne is the worst acceptable thing to install on a work PC. Don't install anything worse than RealOne. After having RealOne installed for a few weeks, most users know exactly what I mean. It's like the service Acer provides when determining what PC to get.
My Mozilla love affair has more to do with my "having to patch and upgrade IE all the damn time"-affair.
No, the two of you just look at the same screen. It's not like Atari 2600 multiplayer games are for LANs or anything, both players are on the one screen at all times. It's even more of a non-problem if you use a GB Player.
That multiplayer thing isn't a fault either I might add, it's just the way they went and I don't see the problem. I've been monitoring the product on a number of forums and I've seen no mention of "bugs", only that some titles may be up to 20% slower than they should be, and that only seems to affect gameplay in one title, H.E.R.O. -- which is reported to be too damn easy, but we'll see.
The scoring system here is very comprehensive. I rarely see any of the old troll and offtopic crap. I even filtered-out "funny", since it usually isn't.
I had to read the /. write-up about three times to workout what it was going on about. Couldn't have just said "RIAA ativities over the last year or so may have finally brought encryption and privacy concerns to the attention of the masses. Interesting article here"? I think that's what it's trying to say.
Why do people pay a subscription fee to be annoyed by other people? Take a step outside people, the grief is just the same and it's free.
Nintendo's favourite company, Lik-Sang, has modified versions of the Q with multi-region support. Unfortunately it's just too big, heavy and expensive for me to risk importing.
I've just got Contiki running on my C64, ethernet enabled and all. Haven't really been able to set it up for anything fancy yet (as in, not enough room for a bunch of C64 drives or even a comfortable place to use it), but I'm sure I'll get something fancy running on it eventually.
But you seem to be missing the point that you can't buy a P4 that goes faster than 3.2GHz, yet this rig was reaching speeds of 4.4GHz. Admittedly he was starting with a 3GHz CPU, but the price jump for the extra 200MHz would have been a lot more than this cooling rig cost him -- and it could be used with a faster CPU anyway.
America's reliance on foriegn resources is a major factor in the long running saga of the its involvement in the Middle East. In this case it's oil. Do you want your friends and family dying in a war over Asian rice next?
Extreme overclocking often takes the fastest available processor and then overclocks it as much as possible. The goal is not the most bang for your buck, but purely the most bang.
Most food in my local store comes from Australia, with specific products labeled as imported or containing some imported ingredients depending on the season. The fresher and less processed it is the more likely it is to be Australian.
We prop up our ailing farming businesses because we'd rather not rely on other countries for our food supply. As an American, which countries are you willing to rely on for food? Out of that list, how many are actively supporting their farming industry and not just turning into one big city?
I'm sorry I confused you all by simultaneously expressing a desire for privacy.
I think all those things should be subsidised for rural communities. Kids growing up in the country shouldn't see the city as their only hope for the future.
How about the connection between me having a copy of an email on my PC and "inability to change stuff without a trail" -- the problem with most of the paperless billing/accounting systems is that they're all based on you going and viewing a(n encrypted) web page (which is generated dynamically and out of your control), while I believe they should be about receiving an encrypted email.
An interesting statistic would be the percentage of xmas video game sales that aren't presents. All the stuff I buy I'd buy all year round, it's just that so much of it is released "for xmas" and therefore it looks like I spend more specifically because it is xmas.
No, I mean encrypted. As in, they're private information and I don't want anyone along the way to be able to read them. Signed would be handy too.
Any company offering encrypted emails as a paperless billing solution? That way I have a copy of everything and they can't change stuff without a trail. I've got a PGP public key around somewhere... ;)