After 20 years of development in the videogame era, we shouldn't be forced to put up with videogame crashes in videogame consoles... this hardware isn't doing half the work of today's operating systems.
It seems like the most stable console was probably halfway in the era between hand-coding assembly in small cartridges, && today's CD releases made with bloated compilers. If Xbox is as heat-generating and stable as my 8-bit Nintendo, I don't want to run any games on it; I'll just buy the PC version of the games so they crash where they're supposed to: Windows:)
Pardon my ranty mood, I despise seeing NON-desktops crash because we can't troubleshoot them and they don't get fixed.
If the government invented the internet, the government was going to claim a piece of its ownership sooner or later. Leaving terrorism prevention, aside, I want you to think about this:
It's too bad they'll waste a lot of resources sniffing everything, but being a secretive organization, the FBI won't release interesting research data that should be useful to dozens of universities, traffic investigations and route-balancing divisions of ISPs.
This kinda stuff started by the FBI will help the Internet in the long run, when they will hopefully stop being big brother and leave the sniffing to a government-funded company.
Aaaah. Will Microsoft try to protect DRM scheme as hard as Apple layers have tried to keep Aqua and other themes off the web?
Their eBay "auction hunters" is the only thing that shows their jealousy over windows products so far. At least that I can remember
Their plan is to keep track of you thru passports
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when your account gets too large to be active or maintainable. If you have noticed, they cancel your hotmail account (and PASSPORT) if it hasn't been used for 3 months. I had a close call returning from summer vacation to find my account almost deleted.
I know this is a plan to have me try to get a new passport when my old one "dies" / becomes non-current for MS info-hungry databases. Consider MS's plan to make every XP user get a passport. It makes sense they'd want everyone to update their personal info and therefore make passports easily expirable like the XP non-registration issue.
Now that I think about it, what happens when you have never had a passport, get one to make XP shut up, and then you never use it? Will XP notice and start reminding you again? Will it threaten us to shut down the OS if you don't keep it current by proving you have the latest?
I'm going to try running through the W98 CD hoping to find this utility just for kicks. If my computer had a few more Gigabytes I would create a virtual-pc hard drive for each major version of my favorite x86 OS.
I am too new to drive partitions to attempt to screw with my windows box, and virtual-pc has proven safe and simple.
I don't understand why it is that there was an early Winamp lookalike that never made it past version 1, and was made by an individual and not the Winamp people.
On the early days of MP3 sharing on our mac network, all we had was winamp mp3 compatibility problems, inability to use pluggins and no skins. That started changing but I still need to use Virtual PC if I want to get any SPC pluggin-- emulation of esoteric formats for the mac is only starting, and it is coming from individuals, again. The problem is the lack of free programming resources and general information, like there is for Windows all over the web.
I hope this Alpha winamp does it right for you guys, because the MacOS was forgotten --rare thing when it came to Office, browsers (cough, IE, cough) and other things.
I have seen *very* old macs running very new code (netscape 4.7, sharing programs, music players) and ask myself, how do they do that!?
I am now more aware than ever about upgrades because windows98(first ed) was a minor upgrade to windows95 second ed... but something impredictable happened: even the DOS core was affected and my games started freezing in a resolution-change event --in every W98 system and flavor I tried.
For some reason when an Apple OS stops supporting things, you can either install OS 7 and rename the old system folder, do a little trick called blessing the system, and off you go... or... if you experience processor compatibility problems, there are many Mac-within-a-mac emulators from emulation.net so you can run things from 15 years ago that you can no longer find in the supported market but you *paid* for before you upgraded or switched Macs.
I am frustated trying to get the same compatibility on any version of Windows with old DOS programs and games. I once had this secondhand laptop in '96 with a *sealed* copy of Excel 3 or so, and my impatience to install it under windows3.x proved frustrating since Excel "needed" windows 2.1. Plus my old fighter jet game pack broke with windows98 and the wonderful Falcon planes are no longer working in DOS mode / windows98. Falcon ran well in win95/DOS.
If anyone knows of a good DOS 3 emulation site for Windows computers, kinda like emulation.net, reply!! I'd love to have the full compatibility that I PAID for when Windows9X said it PLAYS better.
Many of us happy seti users are in it for the competition value, as the seti survey says. And it seems that if I have a crappy computer crunching units, a new revision will make my SETI stats really take a slump --again.
I noticed the huge increase from 2.X to 3.X and because it took my units from 14 hours to 20. Since the program started warning me, I gave in and upgraded. But people who hung on to the old seti till the server absolutely refused to send more units, got a statistical advantage over a couple hundred of my units.
Well, I have given up on the competition views when it comes to installing the older versions and now I donate my processing time for *all* the algorithms SETI is intended. But I'd rather have a constant version and not be policed into changing with the times. It reminds me of MS Messenger, a program I don't use but bothers me every week to log in and download potentially harmful code --and turning it off is very nearly impossible... and yes, I lost the free computer-to-phone dialer in the forced upgrade.
Good luck to you too, but I still will find ET with my l33t HP box. GWA HA HA HA.
I meant, of course, the Voodoo2 card is "better than anything I've seen that's built into cheap OEM setups." Since my installed Voodoo2 needs to be flashed to a PC state, I have to settle with running games at the smallest resolution.
I have a Voodoo2 card that I got online for my mac, very cheap ($40). The amazing thing is that it is considered a dinosaur chipset by today's gamers. Yet it is way better than ANYTHING that can come bundled in a motherboard. Ok, I have an Intel 810 chip with 4MB, but I need something that can actually remind me 400Mhz is fast by some standards
My problem is that I need a rom dump to flash the card back to a PC configuration since I don't have a mac anymore. Any help?
PS: Old computer parts and no-name brands can give you a cheap and "extense" system, but I don't recommend it unless you run windows.
This may seem like a troll, but we certainly say a LOT here. People speak of decryption of copyrighted material, bash very large and powerful companies that will send even Slashdot some notices about what not to post here.
So in a few years in a more prohibitive online world, today's geeks may be in deep trouble for what information they exposed here. Ever think the slashdot servers could be confiscated for federal investigation on our private posts? I never thought of that, but it's scary... and legal. And I'm sure the info we share here is more dangerous than our much-hyped danger of ISP or corporate email "peers."
I sure hope they won't track/lock-up every person who posted the DeCSS source code... I'd be the only one remaining alive here:)
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Vassar is RPI's inverse ratio somewhat. The problem is there are so many homosexuals that CS guys don't get too lucky because every single girl thinks "there are no guys here, or they are gay." I really hated hearing girls complain within *my* earshot.:)
I know two Vassar girls with S/O's from RPI and remember hearing the overwhelming experience it was for a SCI-FI con with RPI guys seeing so many "free" Vassar girls.
I got over the ratio effect (almost, except for that feeling of "what if I...") A few girls can be a$$holes when it comes to receiving help some under pressure. But many offered me snacks, and I already knew most of them.
Maybe we should post a journal on this girl topic. Slashdot hasn't been too entertaining till now.
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Ha --funny and interesting Tshirt idea.
I imagined wearing it for a second.
You got a 0 for this advice!!? Someone should mod it up, man...
LAN games? Any non-console games scare most girls
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None of them even like the idea of using a keyboard as a gaming tool. Guess I'll have to buy a stupid joypad and then I WON'T be the one playing the games... They like it simple.
The only one time a couple girls cared to look for me in the CS lab, I had stepped out for a break or something like that. That was totally sad.
Just "The guy who can fix my computer" -Seriously!
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Nope man. Doesn't work. You forever get assigned to the realm of "the guy who can fix my computer".
I know that the news roll around, and girls seem to find out about you faster than prospective male friends. It gets to a point where they give you X program and say "here, fix it" and you go "Hmmm, let me have a look... I've never seen this software before" and they go like "well, < girl smile> you're better prepared to fix it than I am! </smile>." Sad. I spent a lot of overtime at my helpdesk job, maybe an inertial thing to do in a college that's mostly females.
Sometimes it seems you get to be nothing more than the "safe" guy for the girls that you're around. They tell you anything when you're as much of a worry as a gay person could be to them:`(. You won't believe how much you can chill with girls without getting the slightest hint of interest, other than one seemingly deep look once in a lifetime. Geez, maybe I just imagined that look?
As just the "guy who can fix my computer" I even knew a certain Epson 740i mac driver that kept me going back to this girl's room. Torture to be just there when you're too introverted to make that first move:)
It does make for some good friendships if you tag along with them to the mall, movies, college events... Well, I'm very quiet and sometimes I'm almost not even there. How about you guys?
~Fractaltiger
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I don't consider win95 obsolete yet. Sure it was MS's first major transition I know into a mac-like GUI and a truly usable environent. No one is whining about the WinNuke exploit today, and therefore I know that only a random CS k1ddi3 or a drunk hacker would try to reboot my windows95 machine on a blue moon.
But my point is that windows95 is my only x86 source for my RISC-based computer, and Virtual PC even gave me the USB-enabled version with IE4 --that was 3 years ago in late '98. I feel more comfortable knowing that if windows / IE goes down for whatever reason, it is only an emulator window needing to get restarted, or that I can go back to the barebones situation without ever actually damaging my real OS or Hard drive.
As long as I have a real Wintel machine to get back to when I'm not on campus, having windows95 as my absolute only choice is the best I can do. I wish I could download software that MS considers "obsolete" for free. I would be writing my own EXEcutable BASIC graphics and games [HEY! no one complains that the TI-8x community still does the same], but MS has stopped shipping anything newer than QBASIC on the stinking brand-new OSen.
And now DOS is obsolete too! The more reasons why my x86 emulation will come in handy when I can no longer run my old DOS games. Call me old-fashioned, but I know linux is being used on really old boxes and people keep whatever they like. Unlike what happens to my programs EVERY time I upgrade forcedly.
Yeah, you're right. To my father, it's not really Windows. He said "let's buy a computer" when we came to the states. He didn't even know to call it anything else, like "system box" or "turing machine."
This will be off-topic but it is about what brands-names do to what starts out as generic services or products...
I suspect the middle age, computer illiterate population, see call it "just a computer." You don't know what feel it will have when you first buy it. Heck, people used to only get a black DOS screen and be happy with it and 4 colors in their programs --they were professionals or engineers, though. But nowadays, you don't really want "just the computer," many buy it because the *internet* works on "computers." My dad learned computers from the outside (the Internet) inwards, into the system and it's UI. But I learned it from DOS outwards. The thing is, parents ask for software that [runs], and by that, you know they want windows or mac operating systems because they are exposed knowledge about those programs through the predomination of those particular programs out there. The same for kids who want to "play computer games:" they don't know much about a computer, but you know they want windows (I hate having to fix game lock-ups because it shows how unintuitive the game concept is to a system made for serious tasks [playstations may lock up and you just tell them to reset 'em... not in windows since you still may have the system running and 20 ways to attempt to restart or quit back to the "system" the kids barely understand])
To wrap it up, though: When a kid wants a toy, it will likely be a "Barbie" or a "Pokemon." Nowadays, they are too controlled by monopolies and don't even know it. Same happens to us with software choices that don't work on all turing machines even when all code theoretically runs on all turing machines once it has run in one, thanks to emulation.
So AOL is simply "AOL." MSN is really "MS-Internet Division" and wants to take over the internet in your machine since they own free publicity that the trademark "Microsoft" gives their internet software division. Oh, wait, I thought MS was divided into smaller companies. Why not just abolish all internet software but MSN since they *must* control/guard their system experience;)
Not like I need XP when I know that it's just a makeover update.
If I wanted to upgrade my TV, I'd go and buy a new one like anyone else --at my discretion. Problem is: TVs signals, unlike your favorite OS programs, are backwards compatible and will be until WELL after HDTV kicks in.
Now that I think it, it's a hell of a good job TVs have been engineered to do. I haven't seen any old Black & White TV set blow to pieces because I put on a channel with SAP... closed captions / smart chip or... *gasp*... COLOR broadcasts. Little of that was envisioned when that TV was "licensed" to the customer.
I have thought of this. For years I desired the compatibility of IE on the Mac, but thought it could never happen. I tried IE 4 when it came out on the mac, and without all the Windows Explorer integration or the useless desktop streaming add-ins that were the hype of '98, the browser was not what I expected. Since it's not that stable, many mac users and I prefer Netscape 4.
Things have changed in the past 2 years and IE5 came out for the mac, with a better interface, but I'm not convinced of its superiority over IE4 (besides stability, that is) I found iCab, a currently freeware beta that lets you have a cookies list, and my most cherished feature of all: the javascript config. Too bad my mac is on campus and I don't have iCab here -- iCab's config lets me turn off not just javascript, but SEPARATELY turn off pop-ups, window resizing, annoying status bar text, and other useless javascript. The only thing I really need jscript is to log onto my webmail, pick choices out of dropdown menus or click on buttons that people put on pages, wasting bandwith when they could have used a link.
The feared right-click traps have never been an issue for older mac os browsers, but it seems that you're right about the content providers and browser implementation. Heck, I can even drag and drop pictures straight onto my desktop, and I want that feature on my PC now! I hate having to use the API save menu when we all know the image is already somewhere in cache waiting to be DRAGGED or copied to a more permanent place.
Well, If these features have been implemented in Opera and it's not much of a hassle, please reply! You never know how much a moderator can give you for letting them see the light you see:)
I forgot to tell you: if you develop HTML, this 3MB browser has an error detection feature called the smiley face. It frowns on pretty much any page you can see, because the W3C standards aren't respected, but it shows you a page with the first 100 errors in your little HTML page. Pretty cool help for my custom HTML homepage.
Then the halting problem can be solved too if you just use quantum computing to "pick" a solution out of the box. The problem is when you compare the solution to the initial problem and realize it doesnt work in *our* alternative universe. Why? in alternate universes you might have both solutions be the case, but not in ours.
I smell new theoretical problems brewing for quantum computing already
He he. Do we really need the larger brain load?
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"which one do I shoot first!!?"
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hack it and make it a stable Linux web server.
... this hardware isn't doing half the work of today's operating systems.
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After 20 years of development in the videogame era, we shouldn't be forced to put up with videogame crashes in videogame consoles
It seems like the most stable console was probably halfway in the era between hand-coding assembly in small cartridges, && today's CD releases made with bloated compilers. If Xbox is as heat-generating and stable as my 8-bit Nintendo, I don't want to run any games on it; I'll just buy the PC version of the games so they crash where they're supposed to: Windows
Pardon my ranty mood, I despise seeing NON-desktops crash because we can't troubleshoot them and they don't get fixed.
If the government invented the internet, the government was going to claim a piece of its ownership sooner or later. Leaving terrorism prevention, aside, I want you to think about this:
It's too bad they'll waste a lot of resources sniffing everything, but being a secretive organization, the FBI won't release interesting research data that should be useful to dozens of universities, traffic investigations and route-balancing divisions of ISPs.
This kinda stuff started by the FBI will help the Internet in the long run, when they will hopefully stop being big brother and leave the sniffing to a government-funded company.
Aaaah. Will Microsoft try to protect DRM scheme as hard as Apple layers have tried to keep Aqua and other themes off the web?
Their eBay "auction hunters" is the only thing that shows their jealousy over windows products so far. At least that I can remember
when your account gets too large to be active or maintainable. If you have noticed, they cancel your hotmail account (and PASSPORT) if it hasn't been used for 3 months. I had a close call returning from summer vacation to find my account almost deleted.
I know this is a plan to have me try to get a new passport when my old one "dies" / becomes non-current for MS info-hungry databases. Consider MS's plan to make every XP user get a passport. It makes sense they'd want everyone to update their personal info and therefore make passports easily expirable like the XP non-registration issue.
Now that I think about it, what happens when you have never had a passport, get one to make XP shut up, and then you never use it? Will XP notice and start reminding you again? Will it threaten us to shut down the OS if you don't keep it current by proving you have the latest?
I'm going to try running through the W98 CD hoping to find this utility just for kicks. If my computer had a few more Gigabytes I would create a virtual-pc hard drive for each major version of my favorite x86 OS.
I am too new to drive partitions to attempt to screw with my windows box, and virtual-pc has proven safe and simple.
I don't understand why it is that there was an early Winamp lookalike that never made it past version 1, and was made by an individual and not the Winamp people.
On the early days of MP3 sharing on our mac network, all we had was winamp mp3 compatibility problems, inability to use pluggins and no skins. That started changing but I still need to use Virtual PC if I want to get any SPC pluggin-- emulation of esoteric formats for the mac is only starting, and it is coming from individuals, again. The problem is the lack of free programming resources and general information, like there is for Windows all over the web.
I hope this Alpha winamp does it right for you guys, because the MacOS was forgotten --rare thing when it came to Office, browsers (cough, IE, cough) and other things.
How much would I pay for true, sentient VR in a space-time defying room where several StarTrek fantasies and dangerous simulations came true?
Lots... lots.
Very true.
I have seen *very* old macs running very new code (netscape 4.7, sharing programs, music players) and ask myself, how do they do that!?
I am now more aware than ever about upgrades because windows98(first ed) was a minor upgrade to windows95 second ed... but something impredictable happened: even the DOS core was affected and my games started freezing in a resolution-change event --in every W98 system and flavor I tried.
For some reason when an Apple OS stops supporting things, you can either install OS 7 and rename the old system folder, do a little trick called blessing the system, and off you go... or... if you experience processor compatibility problems, there are many Mac-within-a-mac emulators from emulation.net so you can run things from 15 years ago that you can no longer find in the supported market but you *paid* for before you upgraded or switched Macs.
I am frustated trying to get the same compatibility on any version of Windows with old DOS programs and games. I once had this secondhand laptop in '96 with a *sealed* copy of Excel 3 or so, and my impatience to install it under windows3.x proved frustrating since Excel "needed" windows 2.1. Plus my old fighter jet game pack broke with windows98 and the wonderful Falcon planes are no longer working in DOS mode / windows98. Falcon ran well in win95/DOS.
If anyone knows of a good DOS 3 emulation site for Windows computers, kinda like emulation.net, reply!! I'd love to have the full compatibility that I PAID for when Windows9X said it PLAYS better.
Many of us happy seti users are in it for the competition value, as the seti survey says. And it seems that if I have a crappy computer crunching units, a new revision will make my SETI stats really take a slump --again.
I noticed the huge increase from 2.X to 3.X and because it took my units from 14 hours to 20. Since the program started warning me, I gave in and upgraded. But people who hung on to the old seti till the server absolutely refused to send more units, got a statistical advantage over a couple hundred of my units.
Well, I have given up on the competition views when it comes to installing the older versions and now I donate my processing time for *all* the algorithms SETI is intended. But I'd rather have a constant version and not be policed into changing with the times. It reminds me of MS Messenger, a program I don't use but bothers me every week to log in and download potentially harmful code --and turning it off is very nearly impossible... and yes, I lost the free computer-to-phone dialer in the forced upgrade.
Good luck to you too, but I still will find ET with my l33t HP box. GWA HA HA HA.
I meant, of course, the Voodoo2 card is "better than anything I've seen that's built into cheap OEM setups." Since my installed Voodoo2 needs to be flashed to a PC state, I have to settle with running games at the smallest resolution.
I'm a luddite.
I have a Voodoo2 card that I got online for my mac, very cheap ($40). The amazing thing is that it is considered a dinosaur chipset by today's gamers. Yet it is way better than ANYTHING that can come bundled in a motherboard. Ok, I have an Intel 810 chip with 4MB, but I need something that can actually remind me 400Mhz is fast by some standards
My problem is that I need a rom dump to flash the card back to a PC configuration since I don't have a mac anymore. Any help?
PS: Old computer parts and no-name brands can give you a cheap and "extense" system, but I don't recommend it unless you run windows.
This may seem like a troll, but we certainly say a LOT here. People speak of decryption of copyrighted material, bash very large and powerful companies that will send even Slashdot some notices about what not to post here.
... and legal. And I'm sure the info we share here is more dangerous than our much-hyped danger of ISP or corporate email "peers."
... I'd be the only one remaining alive here :)
So in a few years in a more prohibitive online world, today's geeks may be in deep trouble for what information they exposed here. Ever think the slashdot servers could be confiscated for federal investigation on our private posts? I never thought of that, but it's scary
I sure hope they won't track/lock-up every person who posted the DeCSS source code
Vassar is RPI's inverse ratio somewhat. The problem is there are so many homosexuals that CS guys don't get too lucky because every single girl thinks "there are no guys here, or they are gay." I really hated hearing girls complain within *my* earshot. :)
I know two Vassar girls with S/O's from RPI and remember hearing the overwhelming experience it was for a SCI-FI con with RPI guys seeing so many "free" Vassar girls.
I got over the ratio effect (almost, except for that feeling of "what if I...") A few girls can be a$$holes when it comes to receiving help some under pressure. But many offered me snacks, and I already knew most of them.
Maybe we should post a journal on this girl topic. Slashdot hasn't been too entertaining till now.
Ha --funny and interesting Tshirt idea.
I imagined wearing it for a second.
You got a 0 for this advice!!? Someone should mod it up, man...
None of them even like the idea of using a keyboard as a gaming tool. Guess I'll have to buy a stupid joypad and then I WON'T be the one playing the games... They like it simple.
The only one time a couple girls cared to look for me in the CS lab, I had stepped out for a break or something like that. That was totally sad.
I know that the news roll around, and girls seem to find out about you faster than prospective male friends. It gets to a point where they give you X program and say "here, fix it" and you go "Hmmm, let me have a look... I've never seen this software before" and they go like "well, < girl smile> you're better prepared to fix it than I am! < /smile>." Sad. I spent a lot of overtime at my helpdesk job, maybe an inertial thing to do in a college that's mostly females.
:`(. You won't believe how much you can chill with girls without getting the slightest hint of interest, other than one seemingly deep look once in a lifetime. Geez, maybe I just imagined that look?
Sometimes it seems you get to be nothing more than the "safe" guy for the girls that you're around. They tell you anything when you're as much of a worry as a gay person could be to them
As just the "guy who can fix my computer" I even knew a certain Epson 740i mac driver that kept me going back to this girl's room. Torture to be just there when you're too introverted to make that first move :)
It does make for some good friendships if you tag along with them to the mall, movies, college events... Well, I'm very quiet and sometimes I'm almost not even there. How about you guys? ~Fractaltiger
I don't consider win95 obsolete yet. Sure it was MS's first major transition I know into a mac-like GUI and a truly usable environent. No one is whining about the WinNuke exploit today, and therefore I know that only a random CS k1ddi3 or a drunk hacker would try to reboot my windows95 machine on a blue moon.
But my point is that windows95 is my only x86 source for my RISC-based computer, and Virtual PC even gave me the USB-enabled version with IE4 --that was 3 years ago in late '98. I feel more comfortable knowing that if windows / IE goes down for whatever reason, it is only an emulator window needing to get restarted, or that I can go back to the barebones situation without ever actually damaging my real OS or Hard drive.
As long as I have a real Wintel machine to get back to when I'm not on campus, having windows95 as my absolute only choice is the best I can do. I wish I could download software that MS considers "obsolete" for free. I would be writing my own EXEcutable BASIC graphics and games [HEY! no one complains that the TI-8x community still does the same], but MS has stopped shipping anything newer than QBASIC on the stinking brand-new OSen.
And now DOS is obsolete too! The more reasons why my x86 emulation will come in handy when I can no longer run my old DOS games. Call me old-fashioned, but I know linux is being used on really old boxes and people keep whatever they like. Unlike what happens to my programs EVERY time I upgrade forcedly.
If only God open sourced the brain...
Yeah, you're right. To my father, it's not really Windows. He said "let's buy a computer" when we came to the states. He didn't even know to call it anything else, like "system box" or "turing machine."
;)
This will be off-topic but it is about what brands-names do to what starts out as generic services or products...
I suspect the middle age, computer illiterate population, see call it "just a computer." You don't know what feel it will have when you first buy it. Heck, people used to only get a black DOS screen and be happy with it and 4 colors in their programs --they were professionals or engineers, though. But nowadays, you don't really want "just the computer," many buy it because the *internet* works on "computers." My dad learned computers from the outside (the Internet) inwards, into the system and it's UI. But I learned it from DOS outwards. The thing is, parents ask for software that [runs], and by that, you know they want windows or mac operating systems because they are exposed knowledge about those programs through the predomination of those particular programs out there. The same for kids who want to "play computer games:" they don't know much about a computer, but you know they want windows (I hate having to fix game lock-ups because it shows how unintuitive the game concept is to a system made for serious tasks [playstations may lock up and you just tell them to reset 'em... not in windows since you still may have the system running and 20 ways to attempt to restart or quit back to the "system" the kids barely understand])
To wrap it up, though: When a kid wants a toy, it will likely be a "Barbie" or a "Pokemon." Nowadays, they are too controlled by monopolies and don't even know it. Same happens to us with software choices that don't work on all turing machines even when all code theoretically runs on all turing machines once it has run in one, thanks to emulation.
So AOL is simply "AOL." MSN is really "MS-Internet Division" and wants to take over the internet in your machine since they own free publicity that the trademark "Microsoft" gives their internet software division. Oh, wait, I thought MS was divided into smaller companies. Why not just abolish all internet software but MSN since they *must* control/guard their system experience
Not like I need XP when I know that it's just a makeover update.
If I wanted to upgrade my TV, I'd go and buy a new one like anyone else --at my discretion. Problem is: TVs signals, unlike your favorite OS programs, are backwards compatible and will be until WELL after HDTV kicks in.
Now that I think it, it's a hell of a good job TVs have been engineered to do. I haven't seen any old Black & White TV set blow to pieces because I put on a channel with SAP... closed captions / smart chip or... *gasp*... COLOR broadcasts. Little of that was envisioned when that TV was "licensed" to the customer.
Since H2O is so hard to create, I wonder about the odds of Beer molecules being created inside stars.
In 3 billion years, our galaxy will start undergoing some modifications ... there may be no "sun" in 5 billion years :)
I have thought of this. For years I desired the compatibility of IE on the Mac, but thought it could never happen. I tried IE 4 when it came out on the mac, and without all the Windows Explorer integration or the useless desktop streaming add-ins that were the hype of '98, the browser was not what I expected. Since it's not that stable, many mac users and I prefer Netscape 4.
:)
Things have changed in the past 2 years and IE5 came out for the mac, with a better interface, but I'm not convinced of its superiority over IE4 (besides stability, that is) I found iCab, a currently freeware beta that lets you have a cookies list, and my most cherished feature of all: the javascript config. Too bad my mac is on campus and I don't have iCab here -- iCab's config lets me turn off not just javascript, but SEPARATELY turn off pop-ups, window resizing, annoying status bar text, and other useless javascript. The only thing I really need jscript is to log onto my webmail, pick choices out of dropdown menus or click on buttons that people put on pages, wasting bandwith when they could have used a link.
The feared right-click traps have never been an issue for older mac os browsers, but it seems that you're right about the content providers and browser implementation. Heck, I can even drag and drop pictures straight onto my desktop, and I want that feature on my PC now! I hate having to use the API save menu when we all know the image is already somewhere in cache waiting to be DRAGGED or copied to a more permanent place.
Well, If these features have been implemented in Opera and it's not much of a hassle, please reply! You never know how much a moderator can give you for letting them see the light you see
I forgot to tell you: if you develop HTML, this 3MB browser has an error detection feature called the smiley face. It frowns on pretty much any page you can see, because the W3C standards aren't respected, but it shows you a page with the first 100 errors in your little HTML page. Pretty cool help for my custom HTML homepage.
Then the halting problem can be solved too if you just use quantum computing to "pick" a solution out of the box. The problem is when you compare the solution to the initial problem and realize it doesnt work in *our* alternative universe. Why? in alternate universes you might have both solutions be the case, but not in ours.
I smell new theoretical problems brewing for quantum computing already
So what makes them think my brain will track a single rocket-tooting bot at my back when there are 10 skilled LAN players in front of me? It'll add to the pressure of
"which one do I shoot first!!?"
and
"should I turn around or use up more health points to finish up this frag I'm workin' on?"
He he. Turn down the number of bots before you play this, at least