All of them? I find that hard to believe. Let's take a look.
Going down NewEgg's list:
Dell U2410 - in production. Note this uses CCFL backlighting, despite being an in-production display.
Asus PA246Q - appears to be in production as far as I can tell. Also CCFL.
Dell U2412 - in production. LED backlight.
Asus PA248Q - probably in production, though Asus doesn't say. Lots of stores have it in stock, though.
HP ZR2440W - Lots of stores have it in stock, and it apparently only came out in March 2012, so probably still in production. LED backlight.
Samsung S24A450BW-1 - appears to be in production. Good supply all over, looks like it came out in late 2011. LED backlit.
Okay, that's just starting at the top of the list. None of these appear to be old stock, and I know for a fact the Dells are in production. (Both models. The 2410 is an older model but has a lot more inputs than the 2412, which is why they make both.)
So like I said, you can still get a 1920 x 1200 display. You just have to pay more for it.
The PS1 lost its parallel and serial ports over the assorted console revisions, and the small version of the PS2 can't support a hard drive. And didn't initial-relase PS2s have FireWire?
Their prices seem a bit high, though. Once you start speccing those machines with something other than a Celeron, and adding Bluetooth and reasonably-sized hard drives, you're up in Apple territory.
Their no-monitor desktop comes out to within $50 of an iMac, but with slower CPU and video and no monitor, and their all-in-one is $700 *more* than an iMac with a slower CPU and *much* slower video.
Don't most Linux distributions support Apple hardware these days? (I'm actually asking - I've never tried.)
I think Pocket Quicken's version has reset to 1 several times, each time PQ changed developers, it seems.
Mine is, obviously, very old. However, it still works well, which is the reason I use it. (I don't use desktop Quicken, really; I just synch to it to back up my PQ data.)
And desktop Quicken never seems to support a given Pocket Quicken very long. (The Pocket Quicken I have was sold for longer than a desktop Quicken that synchs with it. Gah.)
I suspect their problem is that they have 16 bit Windows code to run. 64 bit Windows can't run 16 bit code.
16 bit Windows code will work in 32 bit Windows (any version) or a 32 bit Windows running in a virtual machine on a 64 bit OS.
(Myself, I keep an old Win98 laptop around to run Quicken 6 on. Why? It's the only thing that can sync with the version of Pocket Quicken I have decades of checkbook data in. And it's 16 bit Windows 3.1 code.)
Nintendo has traditionally sold consoles at a profit. The N64 was at a loss, but to the best of my knowledge all their other consoles were profitable from day one.
They may have taken a loss on the 3DS when they drastically pricedropped it shortly after release. (Though that seems to have really jumpstarted sales, in Japan at least, so it was probably worth it.)
It's usually a fairly slim profit at launch, but it's there.
It's not a feature of the Amiga hardware. AmigaOS can do it on Amiga Zorro-slot video cards, on Voodoo3 PCI cards, and even (in AmigaOS 4) on AMD Radeon HD 7000-series PCI Expess cards.
They can't do the trick where mutiple horizontal resolutions are visible at the same time, but they can indeed have individual, distinct resolution screens.
The window manager will not be handling text and icons IN THE GAME.
Back when I used to play World of Warcraft, I had a monitor and video card capable of running the game well at 2048 x 1536 on a 21" screen, but the game interface was too small to see. Text was perfectly sharp, it was just tiny. (The interface size slider wouldn't make it bigger, just smaller.)
So I had to reduce the resolution from what I normally used, in order to play the game.
That's crazy talk! We can't do that! It's impossi-
... wait, isn't that how the Amiga worked? Workbench stayed at its resolution, games opened their own screen at whatever they wanted, and both the desktop and game screen took up video RAM?
(Assuming it wasn't a boot-from-floppy game, that is.)
If you're in the WISP biz, can you tell me how to search for a WISP? Every time I try to find one, I get links to services that shut down ten years ago, or are Sprint / Verizon, or 'Get Comcast and a free wireless router!'
I'm in the Knoxville, TN area, and I keep vaguely hearing about WISPs around here but can never FIND one.
Is there some bit of industry jargon that would appear on a WISP's page that I can plug into Google to find one, or something?
Please haul your sarcasm out of your butt and actually read the link there
The one you told me to.
The very first thing that link tells you to do is start Steam in online mode.
How the flaming hell am I supposed to do that if Steam won't start?
(Never mind that indeed, all my games are up to date and Steam does indeed save my login credentials so in theory, offline mode should work. But it's not.)
If Steam can see an internet connection but can't get to the Steam servers, it won't go into offline mode. It'll try and fail to connect, and roll over and die.
If there's no connection to the internet -at all- it'll -usually-, but not always, ask me if I want offline mode.
What the damned thing needs is a command line 'start in offline mode' switch. Or a shortcut for it. Or something.
Just now I wanted to play some Darksiders II, so I launch Steam.
After sitting at 'Connecting to Steam account' for a while, I get another window that says 'Could not connect to Steam network. This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with the Steam network.'
I went and took a look. This reincarnated Webvan is pretty sad. Most items I looked for are marked 'out of stock' and while they list some perishable items, they don't appear to have ANY of them stocked.
Most of the products can probably be found direct on amazon.com instead.
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All of them? I find that hard to believe. Let's take a look.
Going down NewEgg's list:
Dell U2410 - in production. Note this uses CCFL backlighting, despite being an in-production display.
Asus PA246Q - appears to be in production as far as I can tell. Also CCFL.
Dell U2412 - in production. LED backlight.
Asus PA248Q - probably in production, though Asus doesn't say. Lots of stores have it in stock, though.
HP ZR2440W - Lots of stores have it in stock, and it apparently only came out in March 2012, so probably still in production. LED backlight.
Samsung S24A450BW-1 - appears to be in production. Good supply all over, looks like it came out in late 2011. LED backlit.
Okay, that's just starting at the top of the list. None of these appear to be old stock, and I know for a fact the Dells are in production. (Both models. The 2410 is an older model but has a lot more inputs than the 2412, which is why they make both.)
So like I said, you can still get a 1920 x 1200 display. You just have to pay more for it.
Er what? The GameCube wasn't as powerful as the Xbox, but it was more powerful than the Playstation 2.
I have a few games on both the Cube and the PS2, and in each case the Cube version looks better and runs smoother.
It's simply not true that 'no one makes them any more'.
Dell makes a few very nice 1920 x 1200 monitors. NewEgg lists more than 20 models.
They're not as common as 1080p screens, and they're not as cheap, but 'they still make them'.
And while 2560 x 1600 screens are still over a grand, you can get a 2560 x 1440 pretty cheap. $399 at Microcenter.
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The PS1 lost its parallel and serial ports over the assorted console revisions, and the small version of the PS2 can't support a hard drive. And didn't initial-relase PS2s have FireWire?
Their prices seem a bit high, though. Once you start speccing those machines with something other than a Celeron, and adding Bluetooth and reasonably-sized hard drives, you're up in Apple territory.
Their no-monitor desktop comes out to within $50 of an iMac, but with slower CPU and video and no monitor, and their all-in-one is $700 *more* than an iMac with a slower CPU and *much* slower video.
Don't most Linux distributions support Apple hardware these days? (I'm actually asking - I've never tried.)
Baldur's Gate had multiplayer.
You really can't recall the last time you saw someone eat Wonder bread? Beefsteak Rye? GoodHealth? Holsum? Bread du Jour? Tocsom?
While news stories are focusing on Twinkies, Hostess had a massive slice (har, har) of the US bread market.
I think Pocket Quicken's version has reset to 1 several times, each time PQ changed developers, it seems.
Mine is, obviously, very old. However, it still works well, which is the reason I use it. (I don't use desktop Quicken, really; I just synch to it to back up my PQ data.)
And desktop Quicken never seems to support a given Pocket Quicken very long. (The Pocket Quicken I have was sold for longer than a desktop Quicken that synchs with it. Gah.)
I suspect their problem is that they have 16 bit Windows code to run. 64 bit Windows can't run 16 bit code.
16 bit Windows code will work in 32 bit Windows (any version) or a 32 bit Windows running in a virtual machine on a 64 bit OS.
(Myself, I keep an old Win98 laptop around to run Quicken 6 on. Why? It's the only thing that can sync with the version of Pocket Quicken I have decades of checkbook data in. And it's 16 bit Windows 3.1 code.)
Nintendo has traditionally sold consoles at a profit. The N64 was at a loss, but to the best of my knowledge all their other consoles were profitable from day one.
They may have taken a loss on the 3DS when they drastically pricedropped it shortly after release. (Though that seems to have really jumpstarted sales, in Japan at least, so it was probably worth it.)
It's usually a fairly slim profit at launch, but it's there.
It's not a feature of the Amiga hardware. AmigaOS can do it on Amiga Zorro-slot video cards, on Voodoo3 PCI cards, and even (in AmigaOS 4) on AMD Radeon HD 7000-series PCI Expess cards.
They can't do the trick where mutiple horizontal resolutions are visible at the same time, but they can indeed have individual, distinct resolution screens.
The window manager will not be handling text and icons IN THE GAME.
Back when I used to play World of Warcraft, I had a monitor and video card capable of running the game well at 2048 x 1536 on a 21" screen, but the game interface was too small to see. Text was perfectly sharp, it was just tiny. (The interface size slider wouldn't make it bigger, just smaller.)
So I had to reduce the resolution from what I normally used, in order to play the game.
That's crazy talk! We can't do that! It's impossi-
(Assuming it wasn't a boot-from-floppy game, that is.)
Actually, while I always play games full screen, quite a few of my friends complain when a game doesn't have a windowed mode.
Seems silly to me, but people DO run games that way.
x.org is not a replacement for X11. x.org is X11.
It's an implementation of an X11 server.
x.org split off from XFree86 over licensing arguments, if I recall properly.
For the Transformer Pad Infinity, it depends on the model. WiFi-only Transformers use the Tegra3, and the 3G Infinity uses a Snapdragon.
You lift off a little. You open the gap. You speed up again. Then someone pulls into that gap. Now you have less gap than you started with.
You lift up a little. Before you even have a reasonable gap and start speeding up again, someone else has pulled into it.
It's impossible to maintain a safe following distance on highways in a lot of areas because of the habits of other drivers.
Actually, your options are REALLY limited with a G5 tower.
Since they stopped making them six years ago.
If you're in the WISP biz, can you tell me how to search for a WISP? Every time I try to find one, I get links to services that shut down ten years ago, or are Sprint / Verizon, or 'Get Comcast and a free wireless router!'
I'm in the Knoxville, TN area, and I keep vaguely hearing about WISPs around here but can never FIND one.
Is there some bit of industry jargon that would appear on a WISP's page that I can plug into Google to find one, or something?
Please haul your sarcasm out of your butt and actually read the link there
The one you told me to.
The very first thing that link tells you to do is start Steam in online mode.
How the flaming hell am I supposed to do that if Steam won't start?
(Never mind that indeed, all my games are up to date and Steam does indeed save my login credentials so in theory, offline mode should work. But it's not.)
Yeah, well, that's the theory.
If Steam can see an internet connection but can't get to the Steam servers, it won't go into offline mode. It'll try and fail to connect, and roll over and die.
If there's no connection to the internet -at all- it'll -usually-, but not always, ask me if I want offline mode.
What the damned thing needs is a command line 'start in offline mode' switch. Or a shortcut for it. Or something.
Bullcrap.
Just now I wanted to play some Darksiders II, so I launch Steam.
After sitting at 'Connecting to Steam account' for a while, I get another window that says 'Could not connect to Steam network. This could be due to a problem with your internet connection, or with the Steam network.'
It does not go into offline mode.
It won't let me play my game.
THANKS, STEAM.
If a project is removed before it's completed, then there's no refund to issue; no money was sent.
After the project's funded, delisting it from Kickstarter would be kind of pointless.
I went and took a look. This reincarnated Webvan is pretty sad. Most items I looked for are marked 'out of stock' and while they list some perishable items, they don't appear to have ANY of them stocked.
Most of the products can probably be found direct on amazon.com instead.