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I would buy a console if it had the games I play. But it hasn't:( It'll come though. I'll get one someday I guess. Although lately I've had few hardware issue with games. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was the only one with problems (sudden drop of framerate after about 10 minutes, apparently display driver related)
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The consoles have some major built in DRM though. But nobody seems to care much.
I treat my Windows partition as a games console, there's nothing else there so I don't really care either way. For proper Windows users it might be a problem I guess...
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Just like any console program distributor...
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I'm interested - do you guys complaining about the DRM (and I don't like it either) have an issue with buying the console versions?
For those (the many) of us who only run Windows for games, does that count as a console version ? And does it matter that I don't have an issue with it (I got the download version) ?
I figured I would it use it to check my email and only look at emails that I knew were text only. But then my mom sent me one with three pictures attached to it, cost me $60 just to look at one email.
Alternatively, there's this Internet thing that's pretty convenient for email (although not necessarily so for voice) with all them tubes and stuff... not to mention quite a bit cheaper. For example in Paris every single park has a free WiFi hotspot. So do a lot of bars and cafés. I presume there are similar arrangements in many places.
Third, RACIST? What the hell? Can you PLEASE explain that, because I REALLY don't get that one. Honestly, I haven't a clue where you got that and really want to know.
I think it's because of the *white* Mac that was in his show.
What a lot of people suspect and what some anonymous sources acknowledge is that edvige is not something new, it is an old illegal and hidden practice that they are trying to make more transparent and legal. [...] I'm going to the big protest in October but at least, I must admit that admitting the existence of this file was a very positive step.
It does indeed seem that this is nothing more than the opening to a larger audience (of police forces) of the existing DCRI (a mix of the two former intelligence agencies) database. This includes some rather detailed stuff on anyone who has had any kind of political / syndicate activity, etc. It's probably better if it's in the open but safeguards on its use would be very welcome as well.
There are lots of MIPS Linux distros (Main Page), but that doesn't invalidate the GP post. The only apps you get are the ones in the distros. No one compiles for MIPS, since the market is miniscule.
Install Gentoo, problem solved !
Want OpenOffice for MIPS ? Just, uh... Wait, let me get back to you on that one.
So all it needs now is a folding screen and an external drive ?:)
I have a machine that displays in 1024x480 (panoramic before it was trendy) and it did require working a bit differently. The virtual desktop are essential. No idea how you can use it in Windows.
They still are, the TH55 is only now showing its age, purely down to an outdated web browser. It's still the king of the Palm OS devices.
Are you saying the current Palm gizmos don't have an outdated web browser ?:)
I wish I could do something useful on the Web with my T|X (theoretically a nice device apart from that). But then Palm is pretty much dead nowadays. I still have my former Pilot / Palm devices though (with only the original Pilot 5000/Pro with a dead digitizer). Strange how that company was left to rot...
And the Insight policy is among the shortest at 1900 words... Since all of these basically say the same thing, I believe it's their compression scheme that screws up the readability.
The mini sub may only do 2 knots underwater but does dive to 300m with a 6 hour capacity which makes it an actual submarine. In my eyes it's much more exciting than something that just goes around on the surface.
The dolphin thing, while possibly technically interesting, remains a leisure surface craft. It's also probably quite a bit cheaper.
Much closer to a jet ski than to a sub... Another expensive and useless toy. Those guys supposedly make proper mini subs (or real ones, although apparently nobody has taken them up on it).
"a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope"
- ok, but HST is an optical telescope, not "radio dish".
It's all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum. The fact that you can only see a very narrow bit of it doesn't change the fact that the rest can be used to look at things with the right tools. The only difference is wavelength. If you had the right "eyes" it would all be the same to you.
So what you're saying is that it is irresponsible to enjoy life and that we should all live as misers on the chance that we might live to 70 and hope that by that time we aren't senile/disabled/blind/whatever and able to enjoy the money you saved by not living?
If you live to be 70, you most likely haven't worked enough and have robbed the shareholders of valuable income. How dare you, you serf ! Hopefully some of yor organs will still be good enough for harvesting./phb
The police officer, being an upstanding member of Russian society and absolutely horrified at what had happened er.... dumped his body on the side of the road?!
Not any side of the road, in front of a hospital apparently. It's not very clear what he was trying to achieve though ("oops, maybe if they find him soon enough they can do a head transplant"). Maybe all the funeral houses had closed for the night.
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I would buy a console if it had the games I play. But it hasn't :(
It'll come though. I'll get one someday I guess.
Although lately I've had few hardware issue with games. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was the only one with problems (sudden drop of framerate after about 10 minutes, apparently display driver related)
The consoles have some major built in DRM though. But nobody seems to care much.
I treat my Windows partition as a games console, there's nothing else there so I don't really care either way. For proper Windows users it might be a problem I guess...
Just like any console program distributor...
I'm interested - do you guys complaining about the DRM (and I don't like it either) have an issue with buying the console versions?
For those (the many) of us who only run Windows for games, does that count as a console version ? And does it matter that I don't have an issue with it (I got the download version) ?
I figured I would it use it to check my email and only look at emails that I knew were text only. But then my mom sent me one with three pictures attached to it, cost me $60 just to look at one email.
Alternatively, there's this Internet thing that's pretty convenient for email (although not necessarily so for voice) with all them tubes and stuff... not to mention quite a bit cheaper. For example in Paris every single park has a free WiFi hotspot. So do a lot of bars and cafés. I presume there are similar arrangements in many places.
But ! Somebody has to think of the shareholders !
Third, RACIST? What the hell? Can you PLEASE explain that, because I REALLY don't get that one. Honestly, I haven't a clue where you got that and really want to know.
I think it's because of the *white* Mac that was in his show.
What a lot of people suspect and what some anonymous sources acknowledge is that edvige is not something new, it is an old illegal and hidden practice that they are trying to make more transparent and legal. [...] I'm going to the big protest in October but at least, I must admit that admitting the existence of this file was a very positive step.
It does indeed seem that this is nothing more than the opening to a larger audience (of police forces) of the existing DCRI (a mix of the two former intelligence agencies) database. This includes some rather detailed stuff on anyone who has had any kind of political / syndicate activity, etc.
It's probably better if it's in the open but safeguards on its use would be very welcome as well.
Thinking without a head is pretty difficult, I'd say.
Would it make that much difference to a politician ?
Not all software is Free or even available as source code. For example, what major retail video game has a Free engine?[1]
Solitaire ?
What other kinds of games are you going to run on a $95 laptop ? Crysis ?
There are lots of MIPS Linux distros (Main Page), but that doesn't invalidate the GP post. The only apps you get are the ones in the distros. No one compiles for MIPS, since the market is miniscule.
Install Gentoo, problem solved !
Want OpenOffice for MIPS ? Just, uh... Wait, let me get back to you on that one.
So all it needs now is a folding screen and an external drive ? :)
I have a machine that displays in 1024x480 (panoramic before it was trendy) and it did require working a bit differently. The virtual desktop are essential. No idea how you can use it in Windows.
They still are, the TH55 is only now showing its age, purely down to an outdated web browser. It's still the king of the Palm OS devices.
Are you saying the current Palm gizmos don't have an outdated web browser ? :)
I wish I could do something useful on the Web with my T|X (theoretically a nice device apart from that). But then Palm is pretty much dead nowadays. I still have my former Pilot / Palm devices though (with only the original Pilot 5000/Pro with a dead digitizer). Strange how that company was left to rot...
In my experience in IT and repairs in general, 90% of the issues are user induced; they just don't tell you what they did.
"I didn't do anything" must be the most heard sentence by mothers of 6 year olds and by IT staff people.
And the Insight policy is among the shortest at 1900 words...
Since all of these basically say the same thing, I believe it's their compression scheme that screws up the readability.
The mini sub may only do 2 knots underwater but does dive to 300m with a 6 hour capacity which makes it an actual submarine. In my eyes it's much more exciting than something that just goes around on the surface.
The dolphin thing, while possibly technically interesting, remains a leisure surface craft. It's also probably quite a bit cheaper.
How exciting...
Much closer to a jet ski than to a sub... Another expensive and useless toy.
Those guys supposedly make proper mini subs (or real ones, although apparently nobody has taken them up on it).
"a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of seeing details more than 1,000 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope"
- ok, but HST is an optical telescope, not "radio dish".
It's all part of the same electromagnetic spectrum. The fact that you can only see a very narrow bit of it doesn't change the fact that the rest can be used to look at things with the right tools. The only difference is wavelength. If you had the right "eyes" it would all be the same to you.
Admittedly, this is a small test to find an average, but what do I need to do to see the difference TFS[ummary] speaks of?
Presumably you need to run more Microsoft ads.
Isn't readable media more the problem, since you can copy to another media? Writable media just means you can destroy it.
That's the purpose of the new WORN (Write Once, Read ? No.) standard. An elegant solution to the problem.
If you have zero ability to determine whether or not a charity is authentic or not, you should definitely NOT be giving any money to charities.
Does a charity only serving one person make it less authentic ?
Maybe that person is in need ? Or else he/she wouldn't go through the bother of setting up that elaborate thing.
So what you're saying is that it is irresponsible to enjoy life and that we should all live as misers on the chance that we might live to 70 and hope that by that time we aren't senile/disabled/blind/whatever and able to enjoy the money you saved by not living?
If you live to be 70, you most likely haven't worked enough and have robbed the shareholders of valuable income. How dare you, you serf ! /phb
Hopefully some of yor organs will still be good enough for harvesting.
... so there's a fair chance it could be pretty good.
Not to mention there is no crime for pissing in a bucket.
Sorry but pissing in a bucket is not considered free speech. Only pissing in a violin is.
The police officer, being an upstanding member of Russian society and absolutely horrified at what had happened er.... dumped his body on the side of the road?!
Not any side of the road, in front of a hospital apparently. It's not very clear what he was trying to achieve though ("oops, maybe if they find him soon enough they can do a head transplant"). Maybe all the funeral houses had closed for the night.