You're right on, In fact I was at an Ikea in Canada once, when I tried to pay for my merch with a CC that had "See ID" written on the back, an Ikea employee told me they couldn't let me pay until I actually signed the back of the card with my name, which I then did.
I'm sorry, but I wouldn't have paid money for Doom with updated graphics. I certainly won't pay for CS with updated graphics.
I bought half-life. With it, I got a dedicated community full of modders, bringing forth DoD, CS, and the like of fun, playable expansions in addition to the single (and multi) gameplay of just Half-Life. What is it, exactly, that I'd get by paying for CS Source that isn't already available in terms of gameplay? Nothing. CS currently looks pretty damn decent, what with the 'modern' textures and such, and runs quite well. An engine change does nothing for gameplay.
Uh you're not paying for CS:Source. CS:Source will be a mod for HL2, which will be an entirely new single-player game. You're getting the exact thing you got with HL but newer. Deal with it, and pay for it if you want, but don't bitch about it being a waste as it's not.
Now if I'm wrong and CS:Source is going to be a standalone game sold at full price, flame on but I do not believe that is the case.
Pardon my hostility, but this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Games, and specifically iD software, have always pushed the limits of the technology available to the public. Personally I think it's a great thing that they can come out with a game that is so advanced it can't even run at optimal settings on an existing consumer machine (when launched, at least). Telling people to only code to what's available would stop the evolution of graphics, coding, everything related to computers.
Sometimes I feel like such a nerd. I used to fall asleep to Off The Hook as a teenager. It would take me a few hours to download the shows on my 26.4k connection, too.
Well the auther stated:...without major headaches in setting it all up
The words "for anyone who likes to tinker" pretty much excludes Debian to this auther. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Debian is a fine distro (I've even installed it on a few machines in the past), it's just not what this person is looking for.
now I haven't heard of this, but I must look into it as I'm getting a second broken XBOX I planned on putting into a normal tower case, which would accomodate some extra hadware.
wrong, flash your bios and you'll have plenty of room on your G: drive (whats left over after F: reaches max capacity. I've uhhh, seen plenty XBOXes with 160GB drives in them.
I had completely forgotten about HyperCard.
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While I used it all the time in middle school, I had managed to completely forget that this application ever existed. All of a sudden I wish I could look at all the games and stuff I used to make with this. I think after learning basic this was the next 'programming' language/tool I ever used.
When I was a CS student @ WWU a few years ago, we were writing some simple tcp/ip client/server applications in our unix lab. All of the machines home drives were nfs mounted from a central server, and there were no user quotas.
My server would log an error if a client was unable to connect, and one of my classmates had decided to 'mess' with my server by hammering it, I guess he hammered for quite some time as my log file eventually filled up the NFS share and all of the machines using it (consisting of many people doing their assignments!) decided to halt.
I consider it more of his big mistake than mine, it was a pretty early class and it definately wasn't production code, but it still caused some damage.
The reason companies hire work elsewhere is because of price -- it's cheap! Just stay in America, work an lower-skilled (but still relatively high-paying) IT job. When I was going to uni I worked IT in a hospital near Seattle, and at the time (1999) they paid about 35-38K USD / year for full-time IT staff. I declined and luckily found a job, and have held on to it.
The things I see in your list that MythTV doesn't do is recording shows based on your viewing habits which is one of the things I find repulsive about TiVo
As the above poster mentioned, it's easily disabled, but I really gotta say I love this feature, once properly trained. I know that at any time, I can put some seinfeld or simpsons rerun on because I've tought my tivo to go ahead and record these or similar shows whenever it can.
m0n0wall runs on Soekris as well as a PC with just a floppy and cdrom (no loud HDD needed). I've been running this at the office for a few months now and I love it. (FreeBSD based).
For a piece of software used for 'development', yes it is cheap.
Have you purchased a nice software modeling tool lately? My small company was looking at Together by TogetherSoft, until we realized that it comes at 4-6k (USD) PER SEAT. 299 is cheap, when the software in question is not a toy, but a business tool. (heck, even visual studio costs more than that).
I know what you mean, same thing happened to me with Max Payne, that is exactly why I'm buying things at CostCo now. If a game or system does not 100% satisfy me with replay value, I'm taking it back, and they will be happy to give me a ps2, gamecube, or 200lb's of rib-eye.
I'm dying to give Halo a try, but after my short relationship with the PS2, I need to wait for CostCo to carry the Xbox, as they will take it back 6 months later when I'm bored with it.
I've been trying for the last 2 days to get it or Beta5 working on FreeBSD 4.1.1, has anyone successfully gotten it working? I get errors compiling the kdeutils and DCOP.
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You're right on, In fact I was at an Ikea in Canada once, when I tried to pay for my merch with a CC that had "See ID" written on the back, an Ikea employee told me they couldn't let me pay until I actually signed the back of the card with my name, which I then did.
well with the tiny size of the motherboard on these things, the theory is you can fit two of them in a 1U chassis.
I'm with you, not a clue what that person was talking about.
I'm sorry, but I wouldn't have paid money for Doom with updated graphics. I certainly won't pay for CS with updated graphics.
I bought half-life. With it, I got a dedicated community full of modders, bringing forth DoD, CS, and the like of fun, playable expansions in addition to the single (and multi) gameplay of just Half-Life. What is it, exactly, that I'd get by paying for CS Source that isn't already available in terms of gameplay? Nothing. CS currently looks pretty damn decent, what with the 'modern' textures and such, and runs quite well. An engine change does nothing for gameplay.
Uh you're not paying for CS:Source. CS:Source will be a mod for HL2, which will be an entirely new single-player game. You're getting the exact thing you got with HL but newer. Deal with it, and pay for it if you want, but don't bitch about it being a waste as it's not.
Now if I'm wrong and CS:Source is going to be a standalone game sold at full price, flame on but I do not believe that is the case.
Pardon my hostility, but this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Games, and specifically iD software, have always pushed the limits of the technology available to the public. Personally I think it's a great thing that they can come out with a game that is so advanced it can't even run at optimal settings on an existing consumer machine (when launched, at least). Telling people to only code to what's available would stop the evolution of graphics, coding, everything related to computers.
Sometimes I feel like such a nerd. I used to fall asleep to Off The Hook as a teenager. It would take me a few hours to download the shows on my 26.4k connection, too.
could you explain further? I have found gentoo to be very easy to work with and extremely powerful/customizable.
Well the auther stated: ...without major headaches in setting it all up
The words "for anyone who likes to tinker" pretty much excludes Debian to this auther. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Debian is a fine distro (I've even installed it on a few machines in the past), it's just not what this person is looking for.
now I haven't heard of this, but I must look into it as I'm getting a second broken XBOX I planned on putting into a normal tower case, which would accomodate some extra hadware.
wrong, flash your bios and you'll have plenty of room on your G: drive (whats left over after F: reaches max capacity. I've uhhh, seen plenty XBOXes with 160GB drives in them.
uhhh... what kind of women do you date?
While I used it all the time in middle school, I had managed to completely forget that this application ever existed. All of a sudden I wish I could look at all the games and stuff I used to make with this. I think after learning basic this was the next 'programming' language/tool I ever used.
Control-Z, type 'bg'
Law abiding citizens don't care if they're being monitored.
Wow, can you keep a straight face when you say that?
When I was a CS student @ WWU a few years ago, we were writing some simple tcp/ip client/server applications in our unix lab. All of the machines home drives were nfs mounted from a central server, and there were no user quotas.
My server would log an error if a client was unable to connect, and one of my classmates had decided to 'mess' with my server by hammering it, I guess he hammered for quite some time as my log file eventually filled up the NFS share and all of the machines using it (consisting of many people doing their assignments!) decided to halt.
I consider it more of his big mistake than mine, it was a pretty early class and it definately wasn't production code, but it still caused some damage.
The reason companies hire work elsewhere is because of price -- it's cheap! Just stay in America, work an lower-skilled (but still relatively high-paying) IT job. When I was going to uni I worked IT in a hospital near Seattle, and at the time (1999) they paid about 35-38K USD / year for full-time IT staff. I declined and luckily found a job, and have held on to it.
The things I see in your list that MythTV doesn't do is recording shows based on your viewing habits which is one of the things I find repulsive about TiVo
As the above poster mentioned, it's easily disabled, but I really gotta say I love this feature, once properly trained. I know that at any time, I can put some seinfeld or simpsons rerun on because I've tought my tivo to go ahead and record these or similar shows whenever it can.
m0n0wall runs on Soekris as well as a PC with just a floppy and cdrom (no loud HDD needed). I've been running this at the office for a few months now and I love it. (FreeBSD based).
Jesus I'm sick of people bitching about shit like this. go buy an old $800 imac or something.
btw, works great, i'm really glad they have done this, this was a feature i was really missing from iTools.
Damn you're a whiny bitch, it's not informative cause he doesn't bury the damn link in HTML tags?
The info is there who cares if you have to cut and paste.
-Toli
I'd love to see the pics of this but it's been /.'d, anyone mirror the images?
For a piece of software used for 'development', yes it is cheap. Have you purchased a nice software modeling tool lately? My small company was looking at Together by TogetherSoft, until we realized that it comes at 4-6k (USD) PER SEAT. 299 is cheap, when the software in question is not a toy, but a business tool. (heck, even visual studio costs more than that).
I know what you mean, same thing happened to me with Max Payne, that is exactly why I'm buying things at CostCo now. If a game or system does not 100% satisfy me with replay value, I'm taking it back, and they will be happy to give me a ps2, gamecube, or 200lb's of rib-eye.
-Toli
I'm dying to give Halo a try, but after my short relationship with the PS2, I need to wait for CostCo to carry the Xbox, as they will take it back 6 months later when I'm bored with it.
-Toli
I've been trying for the last 2 days to get it or Beta5 working on FreeBSD 4.1.1, has anyone successfully gotten it working? I get errors compiling the kdeutils and DCOP.