quote: If you feel it is in the best interest of your school to accept the donated PCs, make sure that the hardware donation includes the original operating system software. Keeping the operating system with the PC is not just a great benefit - it is a legal requirement.
Of course, in Microsoft's point-of-view, the only operating system for the PC is Windows, and cleaning the hard drive means you need to pirate a copy of Windows to bring it back to life.
BTW, Google has automatic spelling correction now. Rejected slashdot submission, go figure;)
Uhm. Dude.... they STILL use elaborate artist conceptions. All these 3d games that feature the lead characters on the cover? Even those use re-worked models that are far more extravagant than the in-game versions. Then there's the inclusion of scenes and characters that are often cut from the final versions of the game, or completely off-the-wall art ("Sonic Adventure", anyone?).... A whole lot of bargain PSX titles that are just now being released by groups like AgeTec skip the art department altogether and head straight for stock photography. A pool game? Get a stock photo of a pool table. A BMX racing game? Stock photo of a biker jumping a hump.
But others (like me) see it as the best hope for a world in which gaps between the tech and non-tech worlds are widening, and the have-nots are increasingly enraged at the haves.
We'll be in the trouble if the have-nots decide to fight amongst each other and, in some cases, the rest of the world because of some sort of perverted religious motivation rather than just pure greed... oh.
10 million die annually due to lack of basic health care. According to my calculations, that's roughly 1 out of every 700 people. Heck, I'd say that's a remarkable acheivement on behalf of the worldwide charities and modern medicine.
Some of these conditions pre-dated globalization, but the new economy has hardly improved matters. And it seems to be generating hatred of the United States, where contemporary notions of globalism were born and shaped. Well, the United States as we know it started hardly a few centuries ago from scratch with a handful of political ideas to empower the people and encourage trade and economic growth. Other nations who have followed this example tends to prosper. The "winners versus losers" view is mostly a sad argument. The fact that the USA started capitalist and is still capitalist attests to the fact that it works and it benefits EVERYBODY. If I had to choose between a world where both Bill Gates and me were forced to live dirt poor, or a world where Bill Gates was mega-rich and I was pretty dang well off, I know which world I would choose.
My handwriting is horrible and slow. Combined the fact that I've been forced to write with my left hand on spiral notebooks on many occasions when I was younger, I've never enjoyed writing with a pen.... Though I'd rather create art with a Wacom Pen/Tablet than a mouse, I don't believe I will ever prefer writing with a pen over a keyboard again. I have memories of sweat forming between my fingers after several hours of use, and getting more severe hand cramps than I ever got by typing... maybe it's because southpaws have to push the pen (digital pens don't usually like this, the tip tends to pop and slide thanks to friction on most surfaces) instead of dragging it. Meanwhile, keyboards are born to be "ambidexterous"....
Of course, that's just my opinion.
If the article didn't suggest that these things could replace the common keyboard as well as the mouse, I'd probably just leave the article alone.:)
It's worth noting that the myth that keyboard layouts were designed to slow down typing (which they weren't, they were designed to prevent jamming without forcing typists to slow down) will not do the marketing departments for these devices any good if they present it like this article just did.
Failure to do so can result in fines from $5,000 to $30,000 + jailtime.
For what it's worth, I think all ISPs should be regulated just like any other type of public utility. I see no problem with this. If certain ISPs don't like it, there's a void that needs to be filled in the pshycic friend market.
Yes, I know, they could be giving out a list of sites like bushsucks.com and stuff like that, but I doubt it. Call me naive:)
Ultimately, in this case, this state government is attacking an earwig by drilling through the elephant's neck. I don't think this is an effective solution, but I don't think it's going to cause much damage on the ISP side either.
However, this article is a troll. It's soooo hardocre, even the Gap Troll envious.
The way I see it, makes perfect sense....
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The majority of websites that google catalogues are websites created by individuals, sites that tend to endorse the same types of social relationships that people hold in the offline world... albiet with even more emphasis on purveyors of porn and bizarre photographs.
That said, is it any wonder that bombing websites are out there and screwing up the search engines? They are just like the telemarketers of the real world. An insignificant handful of individuals when quantity concerened, tainting the reputation of a beautiful system of communication.
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One of the sales guys at the local WalMart had Wolfenstien 3d (shareware) on one of the demo computers in the early 90'... I was about 13 years old by then.
Yes, guns have the potential to be lethal, but so do knives, ropes, glass, chains, hammers, crowbars, tiretool, shoelaces, spoons.... feet... fists.... teeth...
That said, I don't see how we can't trust any normal citizen (not minors, criminals, illegals, etc.) not to make the decision to purchase firearms. So, ultimately, I don't really understand why that first statement of yours is notable.
I also trust law enforcement to a decent degree.... enough to know that they'll gladly give tickets to drivers who do not know how to handle their vehicles. If it's a problem where you live, maybe you need to influence your local representatives to do something about it, or move to a town known for it's "speed traps". Works for me.
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That's not my active email address anymore.
richardh@rahga.com is now mainly a junk mail address that I screen about every week to see if anything decent is in there. Most people who know me don't use it now, so with 500 or some od emails a week there, maybe 1 out of 2000 emails are personally addressed and sent to me by a real-life person:)
Britian would make itself more useless to world..
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This is just plain stupid.
Producers of goods and services would have an even harder time trying to survive in Britian when they have to pay even more to transport goods on routes they've already paid for once, on roads and other forms of transport that are still congested. This discourages free trade, even slowing trade with other nations, and if they are serious about trying to run a prosperous economy, they should strike this idea down quickly.
Let's face it, they've got enough trouble competing with the rest of the world, what with being stuck out on an island (for all intents and purposes) by themselves.
The irrational among us expect too much advancement in commercial medicine too soon. For example, demanding bargain-basement prices on perscription drugs through law will either kill the suppliers of the drug or prevent research into advancing drug science.... If such laws went into effect in earlier times, most of us wouldn't be here thanks to diseases such as small pox, the flu, and so on. Cancer would be completely untreatable....
Maybe most people expect to much from the commercial medicine community. Maybe I expect to much rational thought from most people.
"As a professional internet website commentator, it is worth noting that the social dynamic of the hydroponic chamber is reacting in a stagnantly non ever changing way. Why would such a quadnary exist. All of this hatred and anger may have united millions of analogous people across various socio-economic divides to become one.
(*** Imagine 4 more pages of this cruft ***)
In conclusion, it is obvious to me that everybody on this website hates one man. Who could this man be? Maybe we will never know, or maybe I just refuse to listen. It's a sign of the times.
No offense to you guys who claim that "Immersion spends tons of time and money" on developing the science for the patents, but the patents simply don't go past the point of "concept".... There's a patent there, #5,844,392 , that is NOTHING MORE than a blatant rip-off of the VR database browser from 1994's movie Disclosure (which is itself based on the Michael Crichton book, but I doubt these guys read it.... they were probably too busy inventing the concept of a network of computers conneccted to each other and spanning the world).
I'm looking forward to the day when entertainment media is no longer shackled by ridiculous anti-copyright-infringement measures and the consumer can do whatever he wants to with such content as long as it stays within the law. When laws are broken, it's time for various branches of law enforcement to arrest and prosecute. Sooner we get there, the less I have to worry about losing my ability to legitimately share MY data with others.
It amazes me how verisign can take $45 million dollars and spend it to buy another TLD, but they can't be bothered to answer support requests from their own customers without a 2 week waiting period.
This may just be a troll, but...
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"Reading Katz On Slashdot" is an activity meant to pull people further into the net and out of more social activities and family interataction, which makes this article darned ironic.
However, "Reading Katz On Slashdot", if anything, is yet another reason for me to realize that I've got better things to waste my time on that reading drivel from an unaccomplished writer who know little about the "community" he writes for. In fact, right now I think I'll help my two year old perfect her drawing skills.
...honestly though, my only real beef against the entire inbred megacorporation is their cable division. I don't believe that "utilities" which are granted government monopolies should have any ties to outside industries from inside that utility. If you hold government-granted control over a certain crop of power lines, you shouldn't be able to push for a patented power outlet that directly links you to other products you produce.
Remember when Time-Warner cable said "Disney took your ABC away?" in New York... Those problems will only get worse as AOL Time Warner push more of their own content down "their" pipelines.
There's still plenty of gamers like me who still like playing classic NES games even today... I'm one of those fascinated at the Americanization of many of the games first released on the Famicom. For instance, in Japan, Contra had (in comparison to the US version) double the size of both of its ROMs and a non-Nintendo memory mapper that allowed the game to include extra cut scenese and special effect like trees rustling in the wind on the background of level one.....
A while back, I discovered the joy of making Game Genie codes when decided to make my four-score famicom compatible (e-mail me for info)... I lost (and still need to replace (if you are from Japan and can help me out, email me!)) my copy of Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu, and needed something to test my converted adapter on. Knowing that the Famicom version of Super Dodge Ball had 4 player mode, but that it was removed from the NES version because of incompatibility, I simply spent some time to make a game genie code that would allow a four player beanball game on the NES.... "GEUOLZZA"
Click here for a screenshot of it.
That's "AEXGXYGE", or "AAKGNTGE" if on the same cart as NES World Cup....
I've even made a code that unlocks 3 player games in Stinger.
Any, I find this stuff loads of fun. All of it will be up on my site some day, when I get a little more time and a digital camera to show off the construction of my modified four score.....
So, to all those trolls whining about cheating and gamesharks being no fun, nyaaaaah to you. There's no way I'd ever play as Wolverine on THPS3 if I didn't make my PSX memory card reader;)
-rah
(ahgaray atyay ahgaray otday omcay)
It's a screenshot of the XBox Development Kit....
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You can see it running MAME here, btw....
http://www.otakunozoku.com/xbox/index.html
A&E started running a mystery series based on books by Rex Stout called "Nero Wolfe". No, it's not sci-fi, but it stars an 'genius that's just a little excentric', dated a few decades back when more people had class and men wore hats.
You've got to love a guy who takes "Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, Third Edition", rips out each page of it one at a time, and tosses them into the fireplace because the book threatens the integrity of the english language.
Anyways, A&E is currently shifting around the show right now and it doesn't have a solid time slot (they overplayed the first batch of episodes), but it's been playing and probably will continue it's run on Saturday nights. But of course, there's also the original books in a library near you.
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If you feel it is in the best interest of your school to accept the donated PCs, make sure that the hardware donation includes the original operating system software. Keeping the operating system with the PC is not just a great benefit - it is a legal requirement.
Of course, in Microsoft's point-of-view, the only operating system for the PC is Windows, and cleaning the hard drive means you need to pirate a copy of Windows to bring it back to life.
BTW, Google has automatic spelling correction now. Rejected slashdot submission, go figure
Bah, karma smarma, I just felt like ripping on today's product :P ....
Uhm. Dude.... they STILL use elaborate artist conceptions. All these 3d games that feature the lead characters on the cover? Even those use re-worked models that are far more extravagant than the in-game versions. Then there's the inclusion of scenes and characters that are often cut from the final versions of the game, or completely off-the-wall art ("Sonic Adventure", anyone?).... A whole lot of bargain PSX titles that are just now being released by groups like AgeTec skip the art department altogether and head straight for stock photography. A pool game? Get a stock photo of a pool table. A BMX racing game? Stock photo of a biker jumping a hump.
On rahga.com, I use a custom perl script with a html-based form that is programmed only to send messages to me. Here it is.
On stuff like my FAQs, I use igPay Latin Encoded Email: ahgaray atyay ahgaray otday omcay
But others (like me) see it as the best hope for a world in which gaps between the tech and non-tech worlds are widening, and the have-nots are increasingly enraged at the haves.
We'll be in the trouble if the have-nots decide to fight amongst each other and, in some cases, the rest of the world because of some sort of perverted religious motivation rather than just pure greed... oh.
10 million die annually due to lack of basic health care.
According to my calculations, that's roughly 1 out of every 700 people. Heck, I'd say that's a remarkable acheivement on behalf of the worldwide charities and modern medicine.
Some of these conditions pre-dated globalization, but the new economy has hardly improved matters. And it seems to be generating hatred of the United States, where contemporary notions of globalism were born and shaped.
Well, the United States as we know it started hardly a few centuries ago from scratch with a handful of political ideas to empower the people and encourage trade and economic growth. Other nations who have followed this example tends to prosper. The "winners versus losers" view is mostly a sad argument. The fact that the USA started capitalist and is still capitalist attests to the fact that it works and it benefits EVERYBODY. If I had to choose between a world where both Bill Gates and me were forced to live dirt poor, or a world where Bill Gates was mega-rich and I was pretty dang well off, I know which world I would choose.
I'm just going to plug my favoirte which seems to have been off the air for far longer than that stupid Star Trek ripoff ;) .....
Nero Wolfe
Sunday, April 14th.
A&E
I'll be there.
My handwriting is horrible and slow. Combined the fact that I've been forced to write with my left hand on spiral notebooks on many occasions when I was younger, I've never enjoyed writing with a pen.... Though I'd rather create art with a Wacom Pen/Tablet than a mouse, I don't believe I will ever prefer writing with a pen over a keyboard again. I have memories of sweat forming between my fingers after several hours of use, and getting more severe hand cramps than I ever got by typing... maybe it's because southpaws have to push the pen (digital pens don't usually like this, the tip tends to pop and slide thanks to friction on most surfaces) instead of dragging it. Meanwhile, keyboards are born to be "ambidexterous"....
:)
Of course, that's just my opinion.
If the article didn't suggest that these things could replace the common keyboard as well as the mouse, I'd probably just leave the article alone.
It's worth noting that the myth that keyboard layouts were designed to slow down typing (which they weren't, they were designed to prevent jamming without forcing typists to slow down) will not do the marketing departments for these devices any good if they present it like this article just did.
Failure to do so can result in fines from $5,000 to $30,000 + jailtime.
:)
For what it's worth, I think all ISPs should be regulated just like any other type of public utility. I see no problem with this. If certain ISPs don't like it, there's a void that needs to be filled in the pshycic friend market.
Yes, I know, they could be giving out a list of sites like bushsucks.com and stuff like that, but I doubt it. Call me naive
Ultimately, in this case, this state government is attacking an earwig by drilling through the elephant's neck. I don't think this is an effective solution, but I don't think it's going to cause much damage on the ISP side either.
However, this article is a troll. It's soooo hardocre, even the Gap Troll envious.
The majority of websites that google catalogues are websites created by individuals, sites that tend to endorse the same types of social relationships that people hold in the offline world... albiet with even more emphasis on purveyors of porn and bizarre photographs.
That said, is it any wonder that bombing websites are out there and screwing up the search engines? They are just like the telemarketers of the real world. An insignificant handful of individuals when quantity concerened, tainting the reputation of a beautiful system of communication.
One of the sales guys at the local WalMart had Wolfenstien 3d (shareware) on one of the demo computers in the early 90'... I was about 13 years old by then.
We copied it onto a floppy.
I was talking about the "3 ton truck driving soccer mom" argument.
Yes, guns have the potential to be lethal, but so do knives, ropes, glass, chains, hammers, crowbars, tiretool, shoelaces, spoons.... feet... fists.... teeth...
That said, I don't see how we can't trust any normal citizen (not minors, criminals, illegals, etc.) not to make the decision to purchase firearms. So, ultimately, I don't really understand why that first statement of yours is notable.
I also trust law enforcement to a decent degree.... enough to know that they'll gladly give tickets to drivers who do not know how to handle their vehicles. If it's a problem where you live, maybe you need to influence your local representatives to do something about it, or move to a town known for it's "speed traps". Works for me.
That's not my active email address anymore.
:)
richardh@rahga.com is now mainly a junk mail address that I screen about every week to see if anything decent is in there. Most people who know me don't use it now, so with 500 or some od emails a week there, maybe 1 out of 2000 emails are personally addressed and sent to me by a real-life person
This is just plain stupid.
Producers of goods and services would have an even harder time trying to survive in Britian when they have to pay even more to transport goods on routes they've already paid for once, on roads and other forms of transport that are still congested. This discourages free trade, even slowing trade with other nations, and if they are serious about trying to run a prosperous economy, they should strike this idea down quickly.
Let's face it, they've got enough trouble competing with the rest of the world, what with being stuck out on an island (for all intents and purposes) by themselves.
The irrational among us expect too much advancement in commercial medicine too soon. For example, demanding bargain-basement prices on perscription drugs through law will either kill the suppliers of the drug or prevent research into advancing drug science.... If such laws went into effect in earlier times, most of us wouldn't be here thanks to diseases such as small pox, the flu, and so on. Cancer would be completely untreatable....
Maybe most people expect to much from the commercial medicine community. Maybe I expect to much rational thought from most people.
"As a professional internet website commentator, it is worth noting that the social dynamic of the hydroponic chamber is reacting in a stagnantly non ever changing way. Why would such a quadnary exist. All of this hatred and anger may have united millions of analogous people across various socio-economic divides to become one.
(*** Imagine 4 more pages of this cruft ***)
In conclusion, it is obvious to me that everybody on this website hates one man. Who could this man be? Maybe we will never know, or maybe I just refuse to listen. It's a sign of the times.
-JonBatz "
No offense to you guys who claim that "Immersion spends tons of time and money" on developing the science for the patents, but the patents simply don't go past the point of "concept".... There's a patent there, #5,844,392 , that is NOTHING MORE than a blatant rip-off of the VR database browser from 1994's movie Disclosure (which is itself based on the Michael Crichton book, but I doubt these guys read it.... they were probably too busy inventing the concept of a network of computers conneccted to each other and spanning the world).
I'm looking forward to the day when entertainment media is no longer shackled by ridiculous anti-copyright-infringement measures and the consumer can do whatever he wants to with such content as long as it stays within the law. When laws are broken, it's time for various branches of law enforcement to arrest and prosecute. Sooner we get there, the less I have to worry about losing my ability to legitimately share MY data with others.
It amazes me how verisign can take $45 million dollars and spend it to buy another TLD, but they can't be bothered to answer support requests from their own customers without a 2 week waiting period.
"Reading Katz On Slashdot" is an activity meant to pull people further into the net and out of more social activities and family interataction, which makes this article darned ironic.
However, "Reading Katz On Slashdot", if anything, is yet another reason for me to realize that I've got better things to waste my time on that reading drivel from an unaccomplished writer who know little about the "community" he writes for. In fact, right now I think I'll help my two year old perfect her drawing skills.
...honestly though, my only real beef against the entire inbred megacorporation is their cable division. I don't believe that "utilities" which are granted government monopolies should have any ties to outside industries from inside that utility. If you hold government-granted control over a certain crop of power lines, you shouldn't be able to push for a patented power outlet that directly links you to other products you produce.
Remember when Time-Warner cable said "Disney took your ABC away?" in New York... Those problems will only get worse as AOL Time Warner push more of their own content down "their" pipelines.
There's still plenty of gamers like me who still like playing classic NES games even today... I'm one of those fascinated at the Americanization of many of the games first released on the Famicom. For instance, in Japan, Contra had (in comparison to the US version) double the size of both of its ROMs and a non-Nintendo memory mapper that allowed the game to include extra cut scenese and special effect like trees rustling in the wind on the background of level one.....
;)
A while back, I discovered the joy of making Game Genie codes when decided to make my four-score famicom compatible (e-mail me for info)... I lost (and still need to replace (if you are from Japan and can help me out, email me!)) my copy of Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu, and needed something to test my converted adapter on. Knowing that the Famicom version of Super Dodge Ball had 4 player mode, but that it was removed from the NES version because of incompatibility, I simply spent some time to make a game genie code that would allow a four player beanball game on the NES.... "GEUOLZZA"
Click here for a screenshot of it.
I kept going too....
How about coed Super Spike V'Ball? (it uses unfinished/prototype characters that were not completely removed before production.)
That's "AEXGXYGE", or "AAKGNTGE" if on the same cart as NES World Cup....
I've even made a code that unlocks 3 player games in Stinger.
Any, I find this stuff loads of fun. All of it will be up on my site some day, when I get a little more time and a digital camera to show off the construction of my modified four score.....
So, to all those trolls whining about cheating and gamesharks being no fun, nyaaaaah to you. There's no way I'd ever play as Wolverine on THPS3 if I didn't make my PSX memory card reader
-rah
(ahgaray atyay ahgaray otday omcay)
You can see it running MAME here, btw....
http://www.otakunozoku.com/xbox/index.html
A&E started running a mystery series based on books by Rex Stout called "Nero Wolfe". No, it's not sci-fi, but it stars an 'genius that's just a little excentric', dated a few decades back when more people had class and men wore hats.
You've got to love a guy who takes "Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, Third Edition", rips out each page of it one at a time, and tosses them into the fireplace because the book threatens the integrity of the english language.
Anyways, A&E is currently shifting around the show right now and it doesn't have a solid time slot (they overplayed the first batch of episodes), but it's been playing and probably will continue it's run on Saturday nights. But of course, there's also the original books in a library near you.