Several major companies, including Disney, still use Amigas regularly to create effects.
No they don't. See, I can match you one for one with worthless anecdotes, let's try it again:
Almost every TV station in the world uses Amigas.
Nope, wrong-o. Lemme try something new: this time I get to make up the "phacts".
The last TV station to use an Amiga switched over to an Avid 4 years ago.
Hey, I see why you do that, it was SOOOO easy!
Now for some good 'ol derision of your "phun phacts":
NASA has been known to use Amigas and claim that Amigas are (still) the most versatile machines around.
Yeah, they use them for doorstops and as reaction mass for extra-atmospheric maneuvering. I think that Mars probe that smashed into the surface was powered by an Amiga reaction mass engine. Apparently they don't even function well in that capacity...
Nope, never, not even close. This has very little in common with Amiga of the past. The original Amiga ruled because it had an operating system that was suppported with several specialized IC's that would augment the OS. These new devices have no such hardware. I'm not 100% sure that the hardware is neccessary anymore (one was a graphics processor, one was a sound processor, &c) but that makes me wonder just how relevant Amiga OS is any more.
Makes me believe that they are just playing the nostalgia and pseudo-nostalgia card as a marketing ploy.
Besides, translation software is coming along well enough that soon we will not have to worry about it too much.
How is this translation software supposed to work if there is no standard for interchange? Magic? How are we supposed to translate these characters that have no symbol for the computers to process?
There are well over 140,000 language characters on this earth, and there are many yet to have been entered into a computer.
What makes you think that we can't encode all these characters? Are we going to run out of numbers? A 32-bit number can hold 4 billion different values, and if that isn't enough, we can use a 64-bit number. We certainly aren't going to run out of numbers.
[magnanimous with Battle Hymn of the Republic swelling in the background] Linux is a Cancer of Liberty, and a Plague of Innovation. It is a blight on the harvest of the proprietary dicatatorship that has held the World under it's soiled foot with dirty tricks and corporate power plays. Steve Ballmer will be the first guy against the wall when the revoloution comes...(well maybe not that last part ^_^)[/magnanimous]
Did they fix the Barbarian Skill bug? That's why I quit playing in the first place. It's a real pisser when you work a character up and then his skills don't work.
PocketPC (aka WindowsCE) JUST hit 1 million units and they expect this obscure device that's just black and white with no email app to sell that many units in a year!? Not in this lifetime...
The price of the Wince devices has always been a major bone in my craw. I've owned two of them over the years, and to tell you the truth, neither of them have been worth the premium you have to pay for the "priviledge".
At a price point below $200, I think they're going to sell well but I agree, they do seem awfully optimistic. I think they will hit 1,000,000 a lot faster than wince did, though.
I have friends who worked for Mandrake up til the middle part of last month. They told me all about this when they got laid off. Apparently Mandrake is getting rid of their entire North American staff, including their support staff.
There is talk of Mandrake hiring a lot of their support staff back on a contract basis, to provide tech support here in the NA.
How the same group of geeks who gush at every totally impractical wiz-bang device that comes out, consistantly dismisses WinCE devices as a whole because of their BATTERY LIFE
Battery life is very important, as you'll soon find out, neophyte. You'll be pining for a Palm when you realize what we in the know have already figured out: we didn't use the mp3 player or the internet browser, or the 32 megs, or the MAME, or the Nintendo Emulator. We didn't even take real advantage of the 320x240 screen.
When you get to the level, where you leave the Wince POS in the desk because that's a more practical use for it than carrying it around, then you will understand that battery life is THE killer app, and Palm will be waiting for your $200 with open arms.
We should develop a non-commercial program using Gracenote's technology that compares the entries in both DB's then submits anything that FreeDB is lacking.
Gracenote does claim to allow non-commercial access to it's DB's for personal use...
Maybe they all use a lot of meth. That would make for a hell of a series. A bunch of Gen-Xer's locked in a room with a buncha' 8-balls of Teamster-grade crank. I'd watch that.
The big problem I had with the show was twofold: Jimmy Bond and Eve. They were so poorly written and so miserably acted that it was painful. In later episodes Jimmy became almost a good thing, because the character became less plain stupid and more idiot savant.
Eve is an all around loss. They really didn't need a guardian angel to come in and save the day every single episode. She's just too competent to believe. Plus, the woman who plays that character is a terrible actress.
All in all I think the "bit" characters dragged the show down. I think it's too bad that Chris Carter didn't feel that the Lone Gunmen could carry the show by themselves and had to come up with these two sorry anchors.
I wasn't aware that Tourette's syndrome can affect typing as well as speech.
This is the comment that didn't make any sense at all that got me to suspectin' that someone's either been smokin' the whacky-tobaccy, or commented on the wrong thread.
That sound like a no-thought comment to me.
It's a legitimate option. I understand why you don't agree, but what the hell does that have to do with Tourette's Syndrome?
I guess I am confused.
This leads me to believe that you are in fact a raving pothead. Look, I don't want to take any more of your time because it's almost 4:20, dude, and I know how important that is to you people, so you'd better get out to your VW minibus and roast a bowl in your 6 ft. bong, dude.
Did you even think about this comment before posting or are you just trying to start a flamewar?
WTF are you talking 'bout, fool? Nothing in the message you commented on about starting a flame war!?!? He was just saying that they should make all games cheaterific so that the cheaters would have no advantage.
[flame] This is what happens when you allow karma to go up for meta-moderating. You get a bunch of knuckleheads posting with a +1 bonus who don't even know how to post correctly.[/flame]
Funny... my parents, knowing that suspension from school is the root of all the troubles in this world, just made sure I didn't do something to get myself suspended.
I concur. Too many people on this board just pipe right up and say it was the schools fault. The relationship he had with his parents goes far and beyond any single punishment that principal could dish out. If he killed himself out of fear of a jail sentence, well, that says a lot more about his relations with his folks than it does about the school. There was some seriously screwed up values in that kid's head. He didn't learn that from school, that's for sure.
The people that raise you have more influence on your values than all of the other people you'll ever meet in your life as you're growing up.
2) because she was already planning my submission of the hours video taping as hours of community service when we were still in that guy's office. She's pretty crafty.
Bullshit. This is totally an adolescent fantasy.
But when something broke, someone had to be the fall guy. Guess who got that honor...
If you didn't know what you were doing, as you've admitted, how do you be so sure that you weren't the ones who caused the problems in the first place? This is just another teenage oppression fantasy. You poor child. You've had such hard life. Here's my pity.
Normally I wouldn't waste my time on people like yourself, but this post hit a nerve.
It hit a nerve because you and I both know that I was dead on correct. If I were wrong, you could ignore it. It stings because you know I called your bluff, and now you're back-peddling, making up more BS about your mom coming to your defense, and how she planned all along to bill the school for your unjust punishment. Take a step back and listen to your story from our point of view. It sounds like total bullshit, like something a little kid would make up when he was caught in a lie.
They knew my friend and I had been using them heavily, so we were blamed for their failure.
This whole story sounds like someone is trying to be exonerated in the court of public opinion, good thinking, you stupid little criminal.
If in fact you had exposed the evil principals charade, by uncovering the secret logs (what a crock!) why did your parents stand by and let you take the 120 hours of community service? Your parents seemed sufficiently outraged. Bullshit!
You know what you ought to do? Send a letter to 2600 magazine detailing just why it is that we should feel sorry for you, or better yet, send it to Phrack magazine. I'm sure there'll be a shoulder you can cry on there, girly-boy.
We took shit for years from teachers
Cry me a fucking river. If you weren't stupid, and hadn't got caught, you wouldn't have had to take shit from nobody. But I guess that's to be expected from a Mac luser.
Hmm. I installed it and everyone at my office was able to connect with no trouble at all. Could this be the dread pebcak error raising it's ugly head once again? It seems to work its way into every aspect of computing these days. I wish the Kernel group would do something about it.
No need to imagine, my friends. Heard a piece on NPR about RLX technologies. Beowulf clusters are the next phase. They want to sell them to accounting firms and stock market analysts.
I'll dig around NPR and see if I can't find the story.
It's virtually impossible to make an ISP work these days because of the overabundance of cheap access. There's no way a start-up ISP can compete with $20/all-you-can-eat. It's just not feasible to compete with that level of economies of scale.
Starting a Mom-and-Pop ISP is going to be nearly impossible if any of the nationwide ISPs have a Point of presence anywhere near your chosen market. Once you've established your market, you can be sure that the Big leaguers are going to notice you and soon offer service in your area, so you've got to drop those prices down below $20 a month ASAP.
In my humble opinion, it's not worth your time to start your own. There are opportunities to franchise with a larger ISP (I think), which might be a more realistic option.
our benefit will be the applications that are ported from osx over to linux/bsd.
{sarcasm} Yes, we'll finally get what's coming to us when all of those non-Aqua applications that Apple's writing are ported over to the free oses... {/sarcasm}
I suppose programs will be written by OSX developers that are given back to the community, but I don't see Apple contributing much to the cause. I suppose it'd be wise to port XFree86, GTK+, GNOME, KDE, and QT first, to make it easier for developers to develop with cross-platform portability in mind.
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Hey, if you're gonna troll, as least do it right.
I'd say he was trolling perfectly, considering that 2 nitwits bothered to flame him about getting the model numbers "wrong".
I bow to your Uber-ness, Wakko Warner.
But he's right, those Amiga 200's probably would make fine paperweights...
Several major companies, including Disney, still use Amigas regularly to create effects.
No they don't. See, I can match you one for one with worthless anecdotes, let's try it again:
Almost every TV station in the world uses Amigas.
Nope, wrong-o. Lemme try something new: this time I get to make up the "phacts".
The last TV station to use an Amiga switched over to an Avid 4 years ago.
Hey, I see why you do that, it was SOOOO easy!
Now for some good 'ol derision of your "phun phacts":
NASA has been known to use Amigas and claim that Amigas are (still) the most versatile machines around.
Yeah, they use them for doorstops and as reaction mass for extra-atmospheric maneuvering. I think that Mars probe that smashed into the surface was powered by an Amiga reaction mass engine. Apparently they don't even function well in that capacity...
;P
Did the original Amiga GUI have curves like that?
Nope, never, not even close. This has very little in common with Amiga of the past. The original Amiga ruled because it had an operating system that was suppported with several specialized IC's that would augment the OS. These new devices have no such hardware. I'm not 100% sure that the hardware is neccessary anymore (one was a graphics processor, one was a sound processor, &c) but that makes me wonder just how relevant Amiga OS is any more.
Makes me believe that they are just playing the nostalgia and pseudo-nostalgia card as a marketing ploy.
Besides, translation software is coming along well enough that soon we will not have to worry about it too much.
How is this translation software supposed to work if there is no standard for interchange? Magic? How are we supposed to translate these characters that have no symbol for the computers to process?
There are well over 140,000 language characters on this earth, and there are many yet to have been entered into a computer.
What makes you think that we can't encode all these characters? Are we going to run out of numbers? A 32-bit number can hold 4 billion different values, and if that isn't enough, we can use a 64-bit number. We certainly aren't going to run out of numbers.
[magnanimous with Battle Hymn of the Republic swelling in the background] Linux is a Cancer of Liberty, and a Plague of Innovation. It is a blight on the harvest of the proprietary dicatatorship that has held the World under it's soiled foot with dirty tricks and corporate power plays. Steve Ballmer will be the first guy against the wall when the revoloution comes...(well maybe not that last part ^_^)[/magnanimous]
Did they fix the Barbarian Skill bug? That's why I quit playing in the first place. It's a real pisser when you work a character up and then his skills don't work.
PocketPC (aka WindowsCE) JUST hit 1 million units and they expect this obscure device that's just black and white with no email app to sell that many units in a year!? Not in this lifetime...
The price of the Wince devices has always been a major bone in my craw. I've owned two of them over the years, and to tell you the truth, neither of them have been worth the premium you have to pay for the "priviledge".
At a price point below $200, I think they're going to sell well but I agree, they do seem awfully optimistic. I think they will hit 1,000,000 a lot faster than wince did, though.
intelegently.
Who are you to say, either way?
I have friends who worked for Mandrake up til the middle part of last month. They told me all about this when they got laid off. Apparently Mandrake is getting rid of their entire North American staff, including their support staff.
There is talk of Mandrake hiring a lot of their support staff back on a contract basis, to provide tech support here in the NA.
Hmmm, thirty days of community service for painting something on the sidewalk.
And it wasn't even paint, it was water-soluble chalk.
How the same group of geeks who gush at every totally impractical wiz-bang device that comes out, consistantly dismisses WinCE devices as a whole because of their BATTERY LIFE
Battery life is very important, as you'll soon find out, neophyte. You'll be pining for a Palm when you realize what we in the know have already figured out: we didn't use the mp3 player or the internet browser, or the 32 megs, or the MAME, or the Nintendo Emulator. We didn't even take real advantage of the 320x240 screen.
When you get to the level, where you leave the Wince POS in the desk because that's a more practical use for it than carrying it around, then you will understand that battery life is THE killer app, and Palm will be waiting for your $200 with open arms.
We should develop a non-commercial program using Gracenote's technology that compares the entries in both DB's then submits anything that FreeDB is lacking.
Gracenote does claim to allow non-commercial access to it's DB's for personal use...
Maybe they all use a lot of meth. That would make for a hell of a series. A bunch of Gen-Xer's locked in a room with a buncha' 8-balls of Teamster-grade crank. I'd watch that.
Pop quiz: who's the better actor: whatsherface, or William Shatner?
Tough one. I'm going to complicate matters by voting for the guy who played Frankie 'Dishpan' Santana in the last season of the A-Team.
The big problem I had with the show was twofold: Jimmy Bond and Eve. They were so poorly written and so miserably acted that it was painful. In later episodes Jimmy became almost a good thing, because the character became less plain stupid and more idiot savant.
Eve is an all around loss. They really didn't need a guardian angel to come in and save the day every single episode. She's just too competent to believe. Plus, the woman who plays that character is a terrible actress.
All in all I think the "bit" characters dragged the show down. I think it's too bad that Chris Carter didn't feel that the Lone Gunmen could carry the show by themselves and had to come up with these two sorry anchors.
I wasn't aware that Tourette's syndrome can affect typing as well as speech.
This is the comment that didn't make any sense at all that got me to suspectin' that someone's either been smokin' the whacky-tobaccy, or commented on the wrong thread.
That sound like a no-thought comment to me.
It's a legitimate option. I understand why you don't agree, but what the hell does that have to do with Tourette's Syndrome?
I guess I am confused.
This leads me to believe that you are in fact a raving pothead. Look, I don't want to take any more of your time because it's almost 4:20, dude, and I know how important that is to you people, so you'd better get out to your VW minibus and roast a bowl in your 6 ft. bong, dude.
Did you even think about this comment before posting or are you just trying to start a flamewar?
WTF are you talking 'bout, fool? Nothing in the message you commented on about starting a flame war!?!? He was just saying that they should make all games cheaterific so that the cheaters would have no advantage.
[flame] This is what happens when you allow karma to go up for meta-moderating. You get a bunch of knuckleheads posting with a +1 bonus who don't even know how to post correctly.[/flame]
Funny... my parents, knowing that suspension from school is the root of all the troubles in this world, just made sure I didn't do something to get myself suspended.
I concur. Too many people on this board just pipe right up and say it was the schools fault. The relationship he had with his parents goes far and beyond any single punishment that principal could dish out. If he killed himself out of fear of a jail sentence, well, that says a lot more about his relations with his folks than it does about the school. There was some seriously screwed up values in that kid's head. He didn't learn that from school, that's for sure.
The people that raise you have more influence on your values than all of the other people you'll ever meet in your life as you're growing up.
2) because she was already planning my submission of the hours video taping as hours of community service when we were still in that guy's office. She's pretty crafty.
Bullshit. This is totally an adolescent fantasy.
But when something broke, someone had to be the fall guy. Guess who got that honor...
If you didn't know what you were doing, as you've admitted, how do you be so sure that you weren't the ones who caused the problems in the first place? This is just another teenage oppression fantasy. You poor child. You've had such hard life. Here's my pity.
Normally I wouldn't waste my time on people like yourself, but this post hit a nerve.
It hit a nerve because you and I both know that I was dead on correct. If I were wrong, you could ignore it. It stings because you know I called your bluff, and now you're back-peddling, making up more BS about your mom coming to your defense, and how she planned all along to bill the school for your unjust punishment. Take a step back and listen to your story from our point of view. It sounds like total bullshit, like something a little kid would make up when he was caught in a lie.
They knew my friend and I had been using them heavily, so we were blamed for their failure.
This whole story sounds like someone is trying to be exonerated in the court of public opinion, good thinking, you stupid little criminal.
If in fact you had exposed the evil principals charade, by uncovering the secret logs (what a crock!) why did your parents stand by and let you take the 120 hours of community service? Your parents seemed sufficiently outraged. Bullshit!
You know what you ought to do? Send a letter to 2600 magazine detailing just why it is that we should feel sorry for you, or better yet, send it to Phrack magazine. I'm sure there'll be a shoulder you can cry on there, girly-boy.
We took shit for years from teachers
Cry me a fucking river. If you weren't stupid, and hadn't got caught, you wouldn't have had to take shit from nobody. But I guess that's to be expected from a Mac luser.
Two of the three web sites listed in the article are dead. So where was this wonderfully huge market that was tauted?
Methinks a little more market research and a little less empty speculation might be in order.
Hmm. I installed it and everyone at my office was able to connect with no trouble at all. Could this be the dread pebcak error raising it's ugly head once again? It seems to work its way into every aspect of computing these days. I wish the Kernel group would do something about it.
No need to imagine, my friends. Heard a piece on NPR about RLX technologies. Beowulf clusters are the next phase. They want to sell them to accounting firms and stock market analysts.
I'll dig around NPR and see if I can't find the story.
Step 1:
Start 8 years ago.
It's virtually impossible to make an ISP work these days because of the overabundance of cheap access. There's no way a start-up ISP can compete with $20/all-you-can-eat. It's just not feasible to compete with that level of economies of scale.
Starting a Mom-and-Pop ISP is going to be nearly impossible if any of the nationwide ISPs have a Point of presence anywhere near your chosen market. Once you've established your market, you can be sure that the Big leaguers are going to notice you and soon offer service in your area, so you've got to drop those prices down below $20 a month ASAP.
In my humble opinion, it's not worth your time to start your own. There are opportunities to franchise with a larger ISP (I think), which might be a more realistic option.
our benefit will be the applications that are ported from osx over to linux/bsd.
{sarcasm} Yes, we'll finally get what's coming to us when all of those non-Aqua applications that Apple's writing are ported over to the free oses... {/sarcasm}
I suppose programs will be written by OSX developers that are given back to the community, but I don't see Apple contributing much to the cause. I suppose it'd be wise to port XFree86, GTK+, GNOME, KDE, and QT first, to make it easier for developers to develop with cross-platform portability in mind.