I bought a copy of Super Street Fighter II from a clearance pile at Electronics Boutique and it came with a 6 button controller. A "PC Fighter 6", it's an old school 6 button controller. It's very similar to the later 6 button controllers for the Sega Genesis. Same size, shape and feel. It work very well for fighting games.
Not bad for a "Free" controller that came with a $5 purchase.
Fuck any of you who think Apple needs to cut Microsoft in on the iPod cash-cow. Microsoft doesn't deserve the money, the marketshare, and the propreitary Windows Media format is certainly not special enough to mandate being included on the iPod.
Back to the EVIL MICROSOFT bashing. Do you think that Apple would have done anything differrnt than Microsoft did if the tables has been reversed?
They're both big companies who do whatever they must to get ahead.
Yeah, they didn't use cheaper parts to make the computers a little cheaper.
I sold a Power120, that still works, to my cousin over two years ago. I guess that there was nothing wrong with those cheaper parts.
And they actually put money into R&D, to improve the OS and the hardware the cloners sold.
For which they were paid their licensing fees.
And they wasted their money to advertise outside the mac press, unlike the cloners.
Bad business decision that had nothing to do with the cloners.
And last but not least, they started cloning.
So, in your view, Apple lost business because they allowed potential customers to have a choice. In retrospect, my decision to not but new Apple hardware since 1997 looks better every day.
Eolas could/would file for a Cease And Desist order about developing and/or distributing the source code in each state/country it could get such an order issued.
True enough, they could, but where's the benefit? They'll pay lawers for actions that they won't get any return from.
Warp Records, an independent label for electronic music (featuring artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Boards of Canada)...
Who the fuck are these people? I download songs from Kazaa that are unreleased/underground songs from artists that I know and like. Artists who's CDs I have bought. Artists that who's concerts I'd consider attending. Artists who get played on the radio/MTV/MMUSA at least once per month. Who is going to download these people's stuff? Isn't a pre-requisite that you know that an artist exists before you search for his/her material?
To quote from the FAQ: 'We are at present the only store to offer very high quality MP3 files,' and 'Bleep music has no DRM or copy protection built in. We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals'."
Because both of the people outside of Canada who have heard of these bands will be able to buy their stuff faster than they can find each other and share it.
I will assume that these are all talended musicians with a loyal local fan base, and good music but this smells like a way to get free publicity for Warp Records' acts.
Sure. I also eat vegitables fertalized by human waste (not that I can tell), which grosses out most people, even though it has been a valuable technique for years in Asia.
It's also done in Mexico, as evidenced by the recent hepatitis outbreak that was linked to Chi Chi's.
It just isn't smart to put human feces and urine on plants that you plan to eat. Sure, if you know 100% of the organic material is comeing from healthy people you have nothing to fear, but if one human pathogen is a part of the fertilizer then it can be passed on to the unsuspecting consumer.
Fertilizer. Once it is harmless, neutralize the base, and compost it. In a few months spread it on a field and improve the soil.
Are YOU going to want to eat something grown in Mad Cow fertilizer? I sure as hell won't.
I'm not willing to bank on no rogue prions having survived the processing.
Note, what and how to neutralize a base needs to be carefull understood. The technology is easy enough (just pour in some acid), but doing it safely (for workers), and safely (so the byproducts don't render the soil unable to grow plants) is something that needs to be planed for in advance.
If you neutralize a base with acid, you get salt. You can't fertilize anything with salt.
this has been known for at least the past 100 years. On a regular basis I take advantage of this when I chemically process my hair.
Sodium hyrdroxide, calcium hydroxide and lithium hydroxide are all very powerful bases. My question then becomes, what of all of the cow sludge that is left after you dissolve them in a big vat of lye or sodium hypochlorate?
In all seriousness. How much spam can you possibly be getting?
I keep hearing horror stories about people getting 100+ spam emails per day. This leaves me with the question, HOW IS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS GETTING INTO THEIR HANDS!?!?
I don't sign up for every "free" offer that I come across. I don't have business cards made up with my email address. I have two email addresses, I might receive 10 spams per week between them.
WTF are all of you doing to get on so many spammers' lists?
hat town is not just toxic, it's excruciatingly painful just to drive through on the interstate with your windows up and the vents sealed. The idea that anyone can live within 20 miles of that place really shocks me.
When I was in college I dated a girl that lived near a commercial chicken farm. There was a 5 mile stretch of highway that I can only begin to describe. Imagine standing inside of a 10 food wide chicken anus and having it fart. It smelled so awful, that if an alternate route was available, it would make sense to drive 30 miles out of the way to avoid it.
I'm not a vegan or anything, in fact I really like beef, chicken and pork. But I would NEVER want to live anywhere near a commercial chicken farm.
The clone manufacturers had a sweetheart deal that let them eat away Apple sales while in no way pushing the platform to greater market share.
Apple didn't have sales that they didn't make. It's that simple. If people bought Motorola or Power Computing clones instead of Apples the reason is because Apple was doing something wrong.
They are not entitled to a single sale. At the time that clones were available I worked at a Mac oriented store. We sold Apple's and we sold Clones. Most people still bought Apples, but people who wanted to get a better deal often bought clones. People who wanted higher performance than was currently available on the Apple also bought clones. When the PowerTower Pros were introduced, they were faster than Apple's top of the line and less expensive.
Apple made money off of every clone sold, so please don't give me that bullshit about Apple losing money that they didn't have to earn.
Call the guy slime for keeping the company alive if you like. I don't see it though.
Jobs is slime for many reasons, fucking over the cloners and clone owners is just a part of it.
LK
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Nice attempt at spin control.
If, and that's a big IF Apple is the reason for no WMA support on HP's iPod-like device. That's a really shitty thing to do.
You're answering the wrong question. Sure Apple has the right to set whatever terms they like in their licensing, but the more important question is "Is it right" for them to restrict people like this?
This isn't a Bad Thing. This is a company acting in what it feels are its best interests.
And please tell me, what the fuck was it when Microsoft was threatening to pull OEMs licensing for including Netscape on their machines?
A company, any company, acting in its best interests can do some very slimy things. And IF Apple is the force behind this, I'd say that it's very slimy indeed.
All of these format wars are just going to result in MP3 continuing to be the De Facto standard for digital audio players.
Especially since the return of Steve Jobs, Apple has been a really slimy company with some really cool technology. Ask the people from Umax, Power Computing, Daystar, or Supermac who worked on the Clones how they feel about Apple "acting in its best interests."
Ok, at the smallest level would that work. What I mean is this. 1 Second is 1/86400 of 1 day, or 131557600 of 1 year (leap years factored in).
If Mars's rotation isn't compatible down to the second with Earth's rotation, how could a Linux or Palm OS machine which deals with time in seconds or in set fractions of a second (tics) how can you be sure that it will accurately keep time on Mars?
I guess it's a little late to point out that you could have bought cheap PCI cards with SCSI, serial and ADB ports and kept using your old periperals...;-)
If I was going to spend 2 grand on a new computer, there is no fucking way I was going to spend one cent to make it use my existing peripherals.
I'm the consumer, it's not my job to go after them, it's their job to come after me. Apple didn't do this, they lost me as a customer. At the time I was working in a computer store. I was the 2nd or 3rd best Mac technician in my city.
But if you like fiddling with hardware and playing games, it sounds like the PC is the right platform for you. Personally, I'd rather have great hardware and fiddle with software, and use a PS2 for games.;-)
My PCs do 70% of what my Macs did. They also do 10 times more that my Macs could not. I have retired from the world of console gamine. The original PS was my last console.
Is there some reason why we can't turn lemons into lemonade and eat the Zebra mussels?
I've been wondering about this since I first heard about the problem with them. Are they toxic to humans? Is there not enough meat inside to make them worth the effort? Do they taste different than other mussels?
This reminds me of a stor that I heard recently. A woman (I'm not a sexist, she is the one who told the story) was grocerie shopping and bought a can of green beans. When she got home she noticed that the size of the can was now 9 Oz, the older cans used to be 12 Oz so she calls the company to complaint about getting less product for the same price. The "customer service" rep proceeds to tell her that she will not get more. The old cans were marked "Two 6 Oz servings", the new cans were marked "Three 3 Oz servings" so she was now getting an extra serving.
guess there was some cultural shift to using your left hand, but I missed it
You didn't play fighing games at the beginning of the previous decade or the end of the decade before that one. It is my understanding that this is when the change occurred. I can't think of a single game before Street Fighter that was designed with a "Joystick for the left hand/Buttons for the right hand" setup.
LK
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No, he doesn't know his stuff, and is obviously brining religious beliefs into science.
Maybe you have some kind of mind reading plug in for your browser. I saw nothing of the sort in his words.
But any cell in your body has this information, so one could grow an entire human from just about any cell.
Which cell in my body could you implant into a womb and grow an entire human?
So claiming that a fertilized egg is a human being is nonsense.
Zygote, embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, toddler, child, adult, these are all terms which describe a human being at different stages of development.
Unless you have something new to add, I'm done with you. Troll.
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I bought a copy of Super Street Fighter II from a clearance pile at Electronics Boutique and it came with a 6 button controller. A "PC Fighter 6", it's an old school 6 button controller. It's very similar to the later 6 button controllers for the Sega Genesis. Same size, shape and feel. It work very well for fighting games.
Not bad for a "Free" controller that came with a $5 purchase.
LK
Fuck any of you who think Apple needs to cut Microsoft in on the iPod cash-cow. Microsoft doesn't deserve the money, the marketshare, and the propreitary Windows Media format is certainly not special enough to mandate being included on the iPod.
Back to the EVIL MICROSOFT bashing. Do you think that Apple would have done anything differrnt than Microsoft did if the tables has been reversed?
They're both big companies who do whatever they must to get ahead.
Yeah, they didn't use cheaper parts to make the computers a little cheaper.
I sold a Power120, that still works, to my cousin over two years ago. I guess that there was nothing wrong with those cheaper parts.
And they actually put money into R&D, to improve the OS and the hardware the cloners sold.
For which they were paid their licensing fees.
And they wasted their money to advertise outside the mac press, unlike the cloners.
Bad business decision that had nothing to do with the cloners.
And last but not least, they started cloning.
So, in your view, Apple lost business because they allowed potential customers to have a choice. In retrospect, my decision to not but new Apple hardware since 1997 looks better every day.
LK
Three days after I download and install 1.5, 1.6 is released!
Aaaaarrrrrrggggh!
LK
Eolas could/would file for a Cease And Desist order about developing and/or distributing the source code in each state/country it could get such an order issued.
True enough, they could, but where's the benefit? They'll pay lawers for actions that they won't get any return from.
LK
IANAL, but where are the deep pockets with Mozilla? Going after Netscape would lead to AOL Time-Warner, but Mozilla?
LK
Warp Records, an independent label for electronic music (featuring artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Boards of Canada)...
Who the fuck are these people? I download songs from Kazaa that are unreleased/underground songs from artists that I know and like. Artists who's CDs I have bought. Artists that who's concerts I'd consider attending. Artists who get played on the radio/MTV/MMUSA at least once per month. Who is going to download these people's stuff? Isn't a pre-requisite that you know that an artist exists before you search for his/her material?
To quote from the FAQ: 'We are at present the only store to offer very high quality MP3 files,' and 'Bleep music has no DRM or copy protection built in. We believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals'."
Because both of the people outside of Canada who have heard of these bands will be able to buy their stuff faster than they can find each other and share it.
I will assume that these are all talended musicians with a loyal local fan base, and good music but this smells like a way to get free publicity for Warp Records' acts.
LK
Were there any pics of your grandmother wearing any naughty lingerie?
LK
Sure. I also eat vegitables fertalized by human waste (not that I can tell), which grosses out most people, even though it has been a valuable technique for years in Asia.
It's also done in Mexico, as evidenced by the recent hepatitis outbreak that was linked to Chi Chi's.
It just isn't smart to put human feces and urine on plants that you plan to eat. Sure, if you know 100% of the organic material is comeing from healthy people you have nothing to fear, but if one human pathogen is a part of the fertilizer then it can be passed on to the unsuspecting consumer.
LK
Fertilizer. Once it is harmless, neutralize the base, and compost it. In a few months spread it on a field and improve the soil.
Are YOU going to want to eat something grown in Mad Cow fertilizer? I sure as hell won't.
I'm not willing to bank on no rogue prions having survived the processing.
Note, what and how to neutralize a base needs to be carefull understood. The technology is easy enough (just pour in some acid), but doing it safely (for workers), and safely (so the byproducts don't render the soil unable to grow plants) is something that needs to be planed for in advance.
If you neutralize a base with acid, you get salt. You can't fertilize anything with salt.
this has been known for at least the past 100 years. On a regular basis I take advantage of this when I chemically process my hair.
Sodium hyrdroxide, calcium hydroxide and lithium hydroxide are all very powerful bases. My question then becomes, what of all of the cow sludge that is left after you dissolve them in a big vat of lye or sodium hypochlorate?
What is there to do? I haven't any idea.
LK
Or dump toxins into the water table by dousing the cows with Drano...
If you'd read the fucking article, you'd see that their device is like a big pressure cooker. How is that going to contaminate groundwater?
LK
In all seriousness. How much spam can you possibly be getting?
I keep hearing horror stories about people getting 100+ spam emails per day. This leaves me with the question, HOW IS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS GETTING INTO THEIR HANDS!?!?
I don't sign up for every "free" offer that I come across. I don't have business cards made up with my email address. I have two email addresses, I might receive 10 spams per week between them.
WTF are all of you doing to get on so many spammers' lists?
LK
hat town is not just toxic, it's excruciatingly painful just to drive through on the interstate with your windows up and the vents sealed. The idea that anyone can live within 20 miles of that place really shocks me.
When I was in college I dated a girl that lived near a commercial chicken farm. There was a 5 mile stretch of highway that I can only begin to describe. Imagine standing inside of a 10 food wide chicken anus and having it fart. It smelled so awful, that if an alternate route was available, it would make sense to drive 30 miles out of the way to avoid it.
I'm not a vegan or anything, in fact I really like beef, chicken and pork. But I would NEVER want to live anywhere near a commercial chicken farm.
LK
Where the fuck do you buy music? I haven't bought a CD that included lyrics in a decade.
LK
The clone manufacturers had a sweetheart deal that let them eat away Apple sales while in no way pushing the platform to greater market share.
Apple didn't have sales that they didn't make. It's that simple. If people bought Motorola or Power Computing clones instead of Apples the reason is because Apple was doing something wrong.
They are not entitled to a single sale. At the time that clones were available I worked at a Mac oriented store. We sold Apple's and we sold Clones. Most people still bought Apples, but people who wanted to get a better deal often bought clones. People who wanted higher performance than was currently available on the Apple also bought clones. When the PowerTower Pros were introduced, they were faster than Apple's top of the line and less expensive.
Apple made money off of every clone sold, so please don't give me that bullshit about Apple losing money that they didn't have to earn.
Call the guy slime for keeping the company alive if you like. I don't see it though.
Jobs is slime for many reasons, fucking over the cloners and clone owners is just a part of it.
LK
Nice attempt at spin control.
If, and that's a big IF Apple is the reason for no WMA support on HP's iPod-like device. That's a really shitty thing to do.
You're answering the wrong question. Sure Apple has the right to set whatever terms they like in their licensing, but the more important question is "Is it right" for them to restrict people like this?
This isn't a Bad Thing. This is a company acting in what it feels are its best interests.
And please tell me, what the fuck was it when Microsoft was threatening to pull OEMs licensing for including Netscape on their machines?
A company, any company, acting in its best interests can do some very slimy things. And IF Apple is the force behind this, I'd say that it's very slimy indeed.
All of these format wars are just going to result in MP3 continuing to be the De Facto standard for digital audio players.
Especially since the return of Steve Jobs, Apple has been a really slimy company with some really cool technology. Ask the people from Umax, Power Computing, Daystar, or Supermac who worked on the Clones how they feel about Apple "acting in its best interests."
LK
And all of this time I thought that this guy got parts in Godfather II and III because of his acting abilities.
I guess it turns out that he got these roles because of "real life" experiences in the underworld.
LK
Ok, at the smallest level would that work. What I mean is this. 1 Second is 1/86400 of 1 day, or 131557600 of 1 year (leap years factored in).
If Mars's rotation isn't compatible down to the second with Earth's rotation, how could a Linux or Palm OS machine which deals with time in seconds or in set fractions of a second (tics) how can you be sure that it will accurately keep time on Mars?
Maybe this is why they chose mechanical watches.
LK
I guess it's a little late to point out that you could have bought cheap PCI cards with SCSI, serial and ADB ports and kept using your old periperals... ;-)
;-)
If I was going to spend 2 grand on a new computer, there is no fucking way I was going to spend one cent to make it use my existing peripherals.
I'm the consumer, it's not my job to go after them, it's their job to come after me. Apple didn't do this, they lost me as a customer. At the time I was working in a computer store. I was the 2nd or 3rd best Mac technician in my city.
But if you like fiddling with hardware and playing games, it sounds like the PC is the right platform for you. Personally, I'd rather have great hardware and fiddle with software, and use a PS2 for games.
My PCs do 70% of what my Macs did. They also do 10 times more that my Macs could not. I have retired from the world of console gamine. The original PS was my last console.
LK
Is there some reason why we can't turn lemons into lemonade and eat the Zebra mussels?
I've been wondering about this since I first heard about the problem with them. Are they toxic to humans? Is there not enough meat inside to make them worth the effort? Do they taste different than other mussels?
In short, why ain't we eating them?
LK
This reminds me of a stor that I heard recently. A woman (I'm not a sexist, she is the one who told the story) was grocerie shopping and bought a can of green beans. When she got home she noticed that the size of the can was now 9 Oz, the older cans used to be 12 Oz so she calls the company to complaint about getting less product for the same price. The "customer service" rep proceeds to tell her that she will not get more. The old cans were marked "Two 6 Oz servings", the new cans were marked "Three 3 Oz servings" so she was now getting an extra serving.
Sounds like HP is pulling the same kind of trick.
LK
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Isreal: "We have NO idea how Mr. Gates and Mr Balmer ended up dead. Next question."
And any speculation about Israel's involvement would lead to immediate accustions of antisemitism.
guess there was some cultural shift to using your left hand, but I missed it
You didn't play fighing games at the beginning of the previous decade or the end of the decade before that one. It is my understanding that this is when the change occurred. I can't think of a single game before Street Fighter that was designed with a "Joystick for the left hand/Buttons for the right hand" setup.
LK
No, he doesn't know his stuff, and is obviously brining religious beliefs into science.
Maybe you have some kind of mind reading plug in for your browser. I saw nothing of the sort in his words.
But any cell in your body has this information, so one could grow an entire human from just about any cell.
Which cell in my body could you implant into a womb and grow an entire human?
So claiming that a fertilized egg is a human being is nonsense.
Zygote, embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, toddler, child, adult, these are all terms which describe a human being at different stages of development.
Unless you have something new to add, I'm done with you. Troll.
LK