Why don't you just build some cool-running, fanless PCs? Some of the Mini-ITX range run without fans and they're pleny powerful enough for audio work. Just get a quiet hard drive and you're set.
An "Internet" tax can't be justified because all parts of the transaction are already taxed in some way, surely. Tax comes out of: Your internet connection, your PC when you bought it, probably a wholesale tax when the store got the product, rates, income tax comes out of everything, including rental of the property, a million taxes on the truck doing the actual shipping (licence, fuel, initial purchase, etc). How do you justify a tax on "Internet purchases" unlike anything already applied to mail-order?
Much as Nokia have just released info about some funky-looking products for next year, their foray into portable gaming is probably over before it's really begun. The "N-Gage" (*shudder*) was touting wireless multiplay as a big feature. Now it's no big thing. I have a GBAsp on my desk beside me, I'm not going to buy a whole new phone for a feature the GBA can gain with a small add-on.
One one hand, projects like this might increase the popularity of the Xbox. On the other hand, if developers start working to multiple system specs it's basically a PC again. Mind you, Nintendo had their RAM upgrade for the N64. Of course, few developers took advantage of it because of the limited market.
That's it, I officially don't know what to think. The only thing I know is that I'm still not going to buy one purely because I've paid enough Microsoft tax for one lifetime.
I'm rather happy about the inclusion of new "homebrew" Atari 2600 games on the Activision Anthology for the GBA (Pre-order now available), Skeleton+ for example, which I'm mentioning here for the second time in as many days, will be amongst the games available in this new retro collection.
Maybe we're finally starting to see a rationalisation in the development of gaming products. An understanding that you can't just create entertainment product in isolation from your audience. Another example could be Bioware's encrouagement of NWN modules. Given that computer games operate in "Internet Time" it makes sense that they're the first entertainment industry to adapt.
Many of the games submitted for the competition are available for download or, better yet, for sale. Most of the Atari 2600 titles can be bought as a real cartridge at the AtariAge Store. Of the submitted entries I own a hold-in-your-hand copy of Skeleton+ and Qb.
The question doesn't make sense. Is the poster asking about weblog software developed on company time, or weblog entries made from home? If I fix a friend's computer, the company I happen to work for don't suddenly own it, nor can they send said friend a bill -- that's just silly. My weblog used to live on my own personal bit of webspace given to me as part of my private dial-up account, in no way funded by any company I've ever worked for. I might have been concerned about some cow-orkers reading it, but not the company owning it. Would they own any letters I post to a newspaper? No, again, silly.
I'm not advocating it be used as-is, but artistically it's a much more interesting start than a simple board. It could have been a Godzilla-themed case with a little fighting scene visible through a window. Or something.
Jeez, if you're going to build a funky storage project that uses a firewire hub, why wouldn't you build it around Hubzilla?
Personally, I'm putting together PCs at home so fast that I've already got over 100Gig just in boot volumes, with a total of about 200Gig of storage across all the PCs in one room. I've also still got two or three free IDE ports, one free SATA port and about eight free firewire ports. Maybe I'll need a funky storage solution somwhere around 2012.
Someone give this person some Karma. My personal site lives on.com.au (as does my company). My subdomain redirect is a.org. I'm about to post something to our corporate group BBS that will recommend that we stay away from getting a.com at least until Verisign's latest stunt is resolved.
If I'd received letters from someone claiming to own the DDC I'd think they were a crackpot and wouldn't even bother to reply too. Someone should have contacted the hotel manager and actually explained the situation.
I just don't get it. To me, DKC is hideous and clumsy, especially compared to something like, say, Super Metroid. I think that the sales spike is due more to name recognition than and talent that might be demonstrated in the game.
"When you deny the profound effect of Donkey Kong Country's fully rendered sprites in 1994, making the system a bulwark against the 32-bit revolution, there is no educating you"
First up, replace "fully" with "pre" and you'll get a head start on where I'm going. DKC is of no technical merit, nor does it contain any original gameplay. It's a platformer notable only for the fact that rather than being hand-drawn, the sprites, background and sprite animations were rendered on a Silicon Graphics machine. The fact that anyone credits it with extending the lifespan of the SNES is beyond me, especially when some seriously innovative development in the form of the SuperFX in-cart chip actually allowed the SNES to render workable 3D.
Any corporate designer could probably tell you the collection, volume and photo number of that stock image, possibly without even looking at the index. I only did the job for a month and a half, but I recognise the predictable style and over-the-top posing.
With the C64 20 mghz accellerator, SuperCPU (by CMD - now offered by Commodore Key,) the speed matches a modern PC - albeit a slower one.
Do you know if the SuperCPU is compatible with Contiki and the RRnet cart? I've already requested one of these new bundles from the Australian distributor, but I would like a bit more oomph to my C64 web surfing than the original CPU is likely to provide.
1% of 1.5 million is 15,000. Sales of US$450,000, which probably only results in profit of US$45,000, won't even pay for the training of your first tier telephone support to cope with problems on the Linux platform.
I'm seeing it. It'll start confusing the hell out of my staff any moment now. I've already got a request into our Linux guru to install the BIND patch when it comes out.
What I found particularly interesting was the comment about tape price per MB v's HDD ppMB. Our company tape drive failed on Friday and I've reworked the process such that backups now use the excess capacity of my Laptop's hard drive plus my iPod for off-site storage.
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Why don't you just build some cool-running, fanless PCs? Some of the Mini-ITX range run without fans and they're pleny powerful enough for audio work. Just get a quiet hard drive and you're set.
An "Internet" tax can't be justified because all parts of the transaction are already taxed in some way, surely. Tax comes out of: Your internet connection, your PC when you bought it, probably a wholesale tax when the store got the product, rates, income tax comes out of everything, including rental of the property, a million taxes on the truck doing the actual shipping (licence, fuel, initial purchase, etc). How do you justify a tax on "Internet purchases" unlike anything already applied to mail-order?
Much as Nokia have just released info about some funky-looking products for next year, their foray into portable gaming is probably over before it's really begun. The "N-Gage" (*shudder*) was touting wireless multiplay as a big feature. Now it's no big thing. I have a GBAsp on my desk beside me, I'm not going to buy a whole new phone for a feature the GBA can gain with a small add-on.
That's it, I officially don't know what to think. The only thing I know is that I'm still not going to buy one purely because I've paid enough Microsoft tax for one lifetime.
Site go boom! He dead.
Yeah, except that no matter how noisy a bulb is, if it doesn't output in the IR end of the spectrum it doesn't block IT remotes.
Maybe we're finally starting to see a rationalisation in the development of gaming products. An understanding that you can't just create entertainment product in isolation from your audience. Another example could be Bioware's encrouagement of NWN modules. Given that computer games operate in "Internet Time" it makes sense that they're the first entertainment industry to adapt.
Many of the games submitted for the competition are available for download or, better yet, for sale. Most of the Atari 2600 titles can be bought as a real cartridge at the AtariAge Store. Of the submitted entries I own a hold-in-your-hand copy of Skeleton+ and Qb.
The question doesn't make sense. Is the poster asking about weblog software developed on company time, or weblog entries made from home? If I fix a friend's computer, the company I happen to work for don't suddenly own it, nor can they send said friend a bill -- that's just silly. My weblog used to live on my own personal bit of webspace given to me as part of my private dial-up account, in no way funded by any company I've ever worked for. I might have been concerned about some cow-orkers reading it, but not the company owning it. Would they own any letters I post to a newspaper? No, again, silly.
I'm not advocating it be used as-is, but artistically it's a much more interesting start than a simple board. It could have been a Godzilla-themed case with a little fighting scene visible through a window. Or something.
Personally, I'm putting together PCs at home so fast that I've already got over 100Gig just in boot volumes, with a total of about 200Gig of storage across all the PCs in one room. I've also still got two or three free IDE ports, one free SATA port and about eight free firewire ports. Maybe I'll need a funky storage solution somwhere around 2012.
SUV solution.
They block cheap IR remotes. Took me a few days after I bought a FS light before I realised why my PSX remotes were acting as if broken.
(This bit added to avoid lameness filters. Move along, nothing to see here.)
Someone give this person some Karma. My personal site lives on .com.au (as does my company). My subdomain redirect is a .org. I'm about to post something to our corporate group BBS that will recommend that we stay away from getting a .com at least until Verisign's latest stunt is resolved.
If I'd received letters from someone claiming to own the DDC I'd think they were a crackpot and wouldn't even bother to reply too. Someone should have contacted the hotel manager and actually explained the situation.
I just don't get it. To me, DKC is hideous and clumsy, especially compared to something like, say, Super Metroid. I think that the sales spike is due more to name recognition than and talent that might be demonstrated in the game.
Any corporate designer could probably tell you the collection, volume and photo number of that stock image, possibly without even looking at the index. I only did the job for a month and a half, but I recognise the predictable style and over-the-top posing.
1% of 1.5 million is 15,000. Sales of US$450,000, which probably only results in profit of US$45,000, won't even pay for the training of your first tier telephone support to cope with problems on the Linux platform.
I'm seeing it. It'll start confusing the hell out of my staff any moment now. I've already got a request into our Linux guru to install the BIND patch when it comes out.
What I found particularly interesting was the comment about tape price per MB v's HDD ppMB. Our company tape drive failed on Friday and I've reworked the process such that backups now use the excess capacity of my Laptop's hard drive plus my iPod for off-site storage.