This coming Sunday myself and up to 7 friends will be playing Diablo II all day. I wouldn't comment, except that I appear to be the target audience. Not only do I get to play for as long as I like, while consuming food and drink I like, I get to play a classic game that's unlikely to ever find its way into one of these theatre dealies and one that's colaberative, not combative.
Places like this theatre are just going to fill up with the same sort of arseholes that ruin Internet Cafes.
One more thing: RAM is a commodity, the price of which can fluctuate widely depending on market conditions. In the summer of 1993, a plant that manufactured plastic resin for encapsulating RAM chips (one of only a few in the world) was put out of com-mission by a fire. Within days, the price of RAM shot up from a low of (C)$45.00 per MB before the 'crisis' to more than (C)$100.00 per MB. The price soon subsided to around (C)$75.00 per MB and, over the past year, finally came back down to around (C)$50.00 per MB again. Now, some industry observers are warning of a new RAM shortage 'crisis' this fall and winter as users rush to add more system memory to run their Windows 95 upgrades. However, as of press time for this issue, RAM remained stable at about (C)$50.00 per MB in the Ottawa-and-area market.
It's also mined here in Western Australia and while it could be argued that there are cartels and slave labour here (depending on your opinion of the current goverment and trade unions), there are far fewer guns and warlords.
Every mail server on the planet simply has refuse to relay messages from any untrusted hosts/PCs (ie: dialup clients) at a rate faster than one email per 5 seconds. At that rate a million emails will take 57.87 days to relay. No human fires out emails at a sustained rate faster than one every five seconds, so this will only catch automated bulk mailers.
We're going to have to create an emulator for the emulator.
This isn't a problem. I've compiled a NES game plus emulator into a Gameboy binary which I then turned into a Palm database for use with the Liberty Gameboy emulator for the PalmOS which I ran on a Windows Palm emulator. Nesting (well written) emulators is pretty trival.
The fewer third-party products that use the word "windows" in their name the less people will realise what operating system they're actually running. Heck, half the people I've ever met that use computers at work don't understand the difference between Office and Windows as it is.
Me: What operating system are your using? Them: Office 98 -or- Them: Windows 97.
If you look at this comment as coming from someone who might not have a Windows partition/licence, then it's simply an honest expression of a disappointment in a technical restriction they can't overcome either costlessly or legally.
I'm a member of the Perth zoo club and I was looking for a batch of gifts for friends. I was reminded of their adoption thing by the parent post and was just about to search for their website.
On my old Win98SE PC I switched to an alternate shell (Litestep) which greatly reduced the frequency of crashes. When I also moved to Mozilla, the frequency of crashed approximately halved again. Now I get a crash of consequence on a Win9x PC only once every 15 or so sessions. Twice in three days used to be my point where I decided that they were too frequent. Once a fortnight isn't bad, and at least a few days of that is owed to Mozilla. And that's a pre-1.0 release.
HTML code is a request to render, not a demand. My browser can decide to do whatever it wants with the bit stream your website sends it. There is no implied contract.
Most of the pap that passes for content and/or innovation these days I wouldn't want to use. It's just a shame that these new laws can be used to club real innovators and artists over the head with baseless law suits.
I just bought and built a non-linear video editing machine for less than $900.00
I recently put together a games PC for less than A$700 (~US$375). Admittedly I already had a keyboard, mouse, hard drive and monitor. I played UT2k3 on the weekend and it worked fine on the 1.1GHz Duron w/ GeForce 3 Ti 200 (128MB) setup.
My TRGpro, with accessories such as the PalmPix, the folding keyboard and a CF modem, hasn't had batteries in it for at least a month, possibly two. Before that it was kept on life support for about a year with only occasional use.
I'll possibly be developing a wireless PDA attendance system for work soon, but I think while the latest generation of PDAs are much "better" than the Newton, its just meant it's taken longer for people to decide that they don't really have a need.
Since we've also recently been told that going to the loo when the ads are on is theft, this latest mob can go screw themselves. If a site doesn't let me view it through Proximitron (will test when I'm on my own PC) then there are plenty of other things I can be doing with my time.
I wonder how long it will take before one of the developers builds a fast load boot block that provides better (or some?) compression and then allows the games to fit on fewer cards.
Or perhaps "widescreen" cards will be printed that are 50% longer so there's not as much swiping...
My mother and I swapped our "fly-buys" cards but that just meant that I got the "Buy a New Car" (snail-mail) spam because she bought petrol. I don't have a licence.
Putting fake data in these databases is pointless, because no one ever notices except you.
Mothra is the obvious choice, now that someone has mentioned it. Thing is, Mozilla is already under attack by the owners of Godzilla -- I can't imagine that Mothra would be any safer than Phoenix.
This is why I don't give PayPal my banking details no matter how much they try to bluff them out of me. Just credit card -- that way if they let any of this crap through I can block the credit card payment.
They actually tried to tell me that I couldn't accept a payment without bank details a couple of days ago. When I pressed the only button that didn't cancel the payment I was *then* given the option to accept without adding bank details.
PayPal is like the stock market -- don't put anything in that you can't afford to lose.
I'd just like to say that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's "Netbank" has supported Mozilla for as long as I've been using Mozilla (since about 0.98). I was quite suprised the first time I tried it and it worked.
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Places like this theatre are just going to fill up with the same sort of arseholes that ruin Internet Cafes.
Last paragraph RAM section: (Can't find a better link quickly, sorry.)
It's also mined here in Western Australia and while it could be argued that there are cartels and slave labour here (depending on your opinion of the current goverment and trade unions), there are far fewer guns and warlords.
Every mail server on the planet simply has refuse to relay messages from any untrusted hosts/PCs (ie: dialup clients) at a rate faster than one email per 5 seconds. At that rate a million emails will take 57.87 days to relay. No human fires out emails at a sustained rate faster than one every five seconds, so this will only catch automated bulk mailers.
Just wait 'till I trademark a white pixel, then you're all in trouble.
Me: What operating system are your using?
Them: Office 98 -or- Them: Windows 97.
If you look at this comment as coming from someone who might not have a Windows partition/licence, then it's simply an honest expression of a disappointment in a technical restriction they can't overcome either costlessly or legally.
I'm a member of the Perth zoo club and I was looking for a batch of gifts for friends. I was reminded of their adoption thing by the parent post and was just about to search for their website.
On my old Win98SE PC I switched to an alternate shell (Litestep) which greatly reduced the frequency of crashes. When I also moved to Mozilla, the frequency of crashed approximately halved again. Now I get a crash of consequence on a Win9x PC only once every 15 or so sessions. Twice in three days used to be my point where I decided that they were too frequent. Once a fortnight isn't bad, and at least a few days of that is owed to Mozilla. And that's a pre-1.0 release.
HTML code is a request to render, not a demand. My browser can decide to do whatever it wants with the bit stream your website sends it. There is no implied contract.
Most of the pap that passes for content and/or innovation these days I wouldn't want to use. It's just a shame that these new laws can be used to club real innovators and artists over the head with baseless law suits.
I'll possibly be developing a wireless PDA attendance system for work soon, but I think while the latest generation of PDAs are much "better" than the Newton, its just meant it's taken longer for people to decide that they don't really have a need.
Post the question again in six months...
Since we've also recently been told that going to the loo when the ads are on is theft, this latest mob can go screw themselves. If a site doesn't let me view it through Proximitron (will test when I'm on my own PC) then there are plenty of other things I can be doing with my time.
Or perhaps "widescreen" cards will be printed that are 50% longer so there's not as much swiping...
Plenty of room for innovation.
Putting fake data in these databases is pointless, because no one ever notices except you.
If you want NES games then you have to buy the $20 e-reader adapter for the $44 attachment for the $150 console. But then the games are only $5.
BTW: I have two.
How about a Tick reference: Arthur
My personal favourite if it has to have wings is Seraphim.
Or you could just spell Phoenix differently: Fenix. Nah, sounds like an operating system.
Or how about Bennu, the Ancient Egyptian phoenix.
They actually tried to tell me that I couldn't accept a payment without bank details a couple of days ago. When I pressed the only button that didn't cancel the payment I was *then* given the option to accept without adding bank details.
PayPal is like the stock market -- don't put anything in that you can't afford to lose.
I'd just like to say that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's "Netbank" has supported Mozilla for as long as I've been using Mozilla (since about 0.98). I was quite suprised the first time I tried it and it worked.
Even better, try to pull the sort of stuff Microsoft loves in the car industry and Congress comes down on you.