Some stores actually open the new one when you return a defective copy (under the excuse of 'making sure it's all there so you don't have to return it again) to prevent this.
Whenever I used AIM, I always kept it minimized. I barely looked at the ads, which were usually for AOL 7.0, which I am NOT going to buy thank you very much.
Do you not understand the meaning of the word 'scale' when applied to computers?
Basically, it takes significantly more bandwith/cpu/whatever in a peer-to-peer network as the number of users go up. It is not as simple as "10 times as many users cause 10 times as much bandwith". They cause far more than that.
Just because you are still able to pirate songs whenever you feel like it isn't proof that the system is scaling well. Surely your post is just a case of ignorance.
From a user friendly perspective, it is pretty bad. It REQUIRES you to have knowledge of partitioning, networking, etc. Not that I don't think those are good things to know, but if you want to appease to the non-lunix user you have to be understandable.
That being said, the setup has been improving over the years. I hope it gets even better.
This is similair, but different. In this case, the light is apparently stopped, not just slowed.
Though if they could slow it to a near-stopped rate, slow glass would become an interesting item.
For those not familair, in the story, companies/individuals would set up slow glass to 'record' landscapes and stuff, and sell em to people. The 'thickness' of the slow glass determined how long it would last, a slow glass that took light 5 years to pass through would show a landscape that it was pointed at 5 years ago up, in realtime - little bunnies hopping around, whatever the glass actually saw. They would become worthless after those 5 years because it would start showing the apartment it was placed in.
I don't recall many people having a Ps1 when they first came out... $300 for a console system was a LOT back in the days and only the rich college kids had em. Or a Saturn.
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Okay, my bad. Must have been mis-informed about the network adapter. Silly donut.
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Umm - I believe one of the features of the x-box is that it comes with a built-in network adapter.
Of course, I don't follow console wars that much since the demise of the Dreamcast.
X-box looks nice, somewhat large unit compared to gamecube;s small profile, but the graphics are nice, detailed and crisp (on the football game they had at bestbuy at least)
The controller is a little un-wieldly, if I were to get an X-box (my little bro wants it for christmas) I would definately buy different brand controllers.
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Eh, remember the commercials for diablo2? All they showed were the cutscenes.
By the way, I saw a commercial for halo, it looked like they were showing in-game sequences, not cutscenes.
I don't mean force them to give up their culture, Japan still has a different culture to America. Just get them into the Western mind set, ie Capitalism.
I don't think we are in the position to force any country to go any certain path. I think the proper thing to do, once the Taliban is taken care of, is help Afghanistan rebuild and let the citizens decide what to do - they want to have a democratically elected government? Okay, if they want our help we help them do it, otherwise we get out of their way, other than continuing to provide food/welfare support. If they want to bring their Ex-King back and set up a monarchy, that's fine too, if that is what they want.
But we shouldn't try to force capitalism down their throats. If they want to move towards capitalism, by all means we should help them, but we should provide support in [nearly] any case.
That other countries can read/hear english and watch the news???
While I think it's interesting to be able to follow the progress of the war, it does seem a bit dubious from a military intelligence standpoint... heck, the enemy could probably figure out more about the US/UK/UN force's current activities by popping up the American news channels.
As for the sonic boom over Chicago, I didn't hear it (may have been underground in the subway at the time) - and this whole situation REEKs of the same over-eager reporting rumors as news that made me stop watching nearly all the local news channels after the WTC tragedy... I didn't watch/listen, but my family told me that the stations were reporting fights in the cockpit, having to subdue someone who was trying to force his way in, F16's were going to shoot the plane down, etc etc etc etc. Given that nothing serious happened, my mom was laughing that night when they interviewed some of the "Brave Courageous" passengers who subdued the handicapped person and administered him Valium and Benedryl. BENEDRYL!!! Soothes those cuts and pains!
News Anchors & Crews, please show some restraint! Verify stories! I have no respect for American News channels, some of this stuff I would expect from Fox news, but CBS, ABC and MSNBC were reporting almost the same things. I now only watch the BBC news. Less of a Pro-American-only stance, but better quality and offers better world views on actions taken by the Americans.
My guess is that sony is getting ready to fight XBOX. The main appeal of xbox is that you don't need to buy a $50,000-$100,000 devkit to program for it - you just need to find a liscensed game seller.
The cost of the devkit has been the main hurdle for people learning how to program consoles on their own. I wanted to learn dreamcast programming, but the devkit was more than my yearly salary. I wasn't interested in performing hacks and messy work around so i could program the DC to kinda work with linux/assembly.
With this linux kit, it includes support for the low level api. and the psx2 is notoriously different/difficult to work with, so letting interested people mess around with development in their spare time is a GOOD IDEA in my opinion. I would definately buy the kit if it becomes available for non-japanese consoles.
I wouldn't buy this for linux, i would buy it for the chance to program on the psx2.
What, you expect them to give away a hard drive and ethernet adapter, manuals, mouse and keyboard for free? And they can charge however damn much they please for linux, they just have to make the source available - which if you even bothered to read the post, it says:
The kit will include a complete Linux/X11 environment with all sources, technical hardware manuals for the EE, GS and vectorunits plus a low-level API and Mesa drivers for graphics.
I believe that a lot of school districts have specific laws/rules prohibiting freelance efforts / improvements on the school grounds. Even if the deans want said efforts on their behalf, they may not be able to allow it (without bending some rules).
Um QuakeIII runs fine on my Mac, as does Team Arena and Star Trek Elite Force.
I didn't see him say Quake3, he said quake 1. And it was QUITE a while before quake 1 was supported on mac, apparently long enough to drive him away from mac.
Um, I can run pretty much every program I can think of with 512 MB of RAM in my slots. It's fun.
You do know what proper multitasking is, right? it means that several applications will execute simultaneously (or close enough to appear so). just because you can have a lot of apps running because you have 512 mb of ram, doesn't mean it is multitasking very well.
The only thing i dislike about mac users is their apparent inability to see the downsides of their choice of OS.
You are kidding, right? I think the original Dune movies are the most horrid book adaptions I have seen. I managed to watch the entire thing without falling aslee for the first time, and I was afraid.
Deadly afraid.
Voiceovers: I personally don't have a problem.
'Weirding Way': WTF? What was wrong with the Atreidis training their own elite army that could possibly conflict with the saudukar? They left out the entire 'survival of the fittest' theme that was the driving force behind the saudukar and fremen, instead they are just people who fight.
Kwissatz Haderach: They went and made him into the 'universal superbeing' and don't even go anywhere into exploring what he actually can do, presceint abilities, the ability to explore the male side of inherited memories. Instead he is now a guy who can make it rain.
The whole terraforming theme was abandoned.
When paul took the water of life... god that was an aweful sequence. I don't recall anything about him being out in the desert and being surrounded by dormant sandworms...
You seem to start to apologize then go right back to kicking yourself in the ass.
I like TMBG, lots of people do. You don't. Lots of people don't. Why can't you accept the simple fact that you don't like their music, instead of saying it is crappy. Disliking != crap.
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I'm hearing impaired, does that mean I intentionally damaged my hearing?
I vote for 'restricted' or 'limited use'
Some stores actually open the new one when you return a defective copy (under the excuse of 'making sure it's all there so you don't have to return it again) to prevent this.
We had this conversation in the other slashdot article about stopping light...
It is NOT funny! Progress is a serious and worthy goal!
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Go back to playing your puny Everquest and Ultima Online, I will be laughing at your camps and bread making while I make PROGRESS!
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Whenever I used AIM, I always kept it minimized. I barely looked at the ads, which were usually for AOL 7.0, which I am NOT going to buy thank you very much.
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Okay, I admit it, that was bad.
Not only would it get posted, it would get reposted 6 months from now as a ground breaking story.
Do you not understand the meaning of the word 'scale' when applied to computers?
Basically, it takes significantly more bandwith/cpu/whatever in a peer-to-peer network as the number of users go up. It is not as simple as "10 times as many users cause 10 times as much bandwith". They cause far more than that.
Just because you are still able to pirate songs whenever you feel like it isn't proof that the system is scaling well. Surely your post is just a case of ignorance.
From a user friendly perspective, it is pretty bad. It REQUIRES you to have knowledge of partitioning, networking, etc. Not that I don't think those are good things to know, but if you want to appease to the non-lunix user you have to be understandable.
That being said, the setup has been improving over the years. I hope it gets even better.
c is the constant of the (maximum?) speed of light in a vacuum, not the actual speed of light.
don't worry, your universe isn't going to explode.
not yet.
I've read that story as well, touching.
This is similair, but different. In this case, the light is apparently stopped, not just slowed.
Though if they could slow it to a near-stopped rate, slow glass would become an interesting item.
For those not familair, in the story, companies/individuals would set up slow glass to 'record' landscapes and stuff, and sell em to people. The 'thickness' of the slow glass determined how long it would last, a slow glass that took light 5 years to pass through would show a landscape that it was pointed at 5 years ago up, in realtime - little bunnies hopping around, whatever the glass actually saw. They would become worthless after those 5 years because it would start showing the apartment it was placed in.
I don't recall many people having a Ps1 when they first came out... $300 for a console system was a LOT back in the days and only the rich college kids had em. Or a Saturn.
Okay, my bad. Must have been mis-informed about the network adapter. Silly donut.
Umm - I believe one of the features of the x-box is that it comes with a built-in network adapter.
Of course, I don't follow console wars that much since the demise of the Dreamcast.
X-box looks nice, somewhat large unit compared to gamecube;s small profile, but the graphics are nice, detailed and crisp (on the football game they had at bestbuy at least)
The controller is a little un-wieldly, if I were to get an X-box (my little bro wants it for christmas) I would definately buy different brand controllers.
Eh, remember the commercials for diablo2? All they showed were the cutscenes.
By the way, I saw a commercial for halo, it looked like they were showing in-game sequences, not cutscenes.
I don't think we are in the position to force any country to go any certain path. I think the proper thing to do, once the Taliban is taken care of, is help Afghanistan rebuild and let the citizens decide what to do - they want to have a democratically elected government? Okay, if they want our help we help them do it, otherwise we get out of their way, other than continuing to provide food/welfare support. If they want to bring their Ex-King back and set up a monarchy, that's fine too, if that is what they want.
But we shouldn't try to force capitalism down their throats. If they want to move towards capitalism, by all means we should help them, but we should provide support in [nearly] any case.
I dunno, might have something to do with disposing all that pesky nucleur waste. And there was also this thing called Three Mile Island...
That other countries can read/hear english and watch the news???
While I think it's interesting to be able to follow the progress of the war, it does seem a bit dubious from a military intelligence standpoint... heck, the enemy could probably figure out more about the US/UK/UN force's current activities by popping up the American news channels.
As for the sonic boom over Chicago, I didn't hear it (may have been underground in the subway at the time) - and this whole situation REEKs of the same over-eager reporting rumors as news that made me stop watching nearly all the local news channels after the WTC tragedy... I didn't watch/listen, but my family told me that the stations were reporting fights in the cockpit, having to subdue someone who was trying to force his way in, F16's were going to shoot the plane down, etc etc etc etc. Given that nothing serious happened, my mom was laughing that night when they interviewed some of the "Brave Courageous" passengers who subdued the handicapped person and administered him Valium and Benedryl. BENEDRYL!!! Soothes those cuts and pains!
News Anchors & Crews, please show some restraint! Verify stories! I have no respect for American News channels, some of this stuff I would expect from Fox news, but CBS, ABC and MSNBC were reporting almost the same things. I now only watch the BBC news. Less of a Pro-American-only stance, but better quality and offers better world views on actions taken by the Americans.
My guess is that sony is getting ready to fight XBOX. The main appeal of xbox is that you don't need to buy a $50,000-$100,000 devkit to program for it - you just need to find a liscensed game seller.
The cost of the devkit has been the main hurdle for people learning how to program consoles on their own. I wanted to learn dreamcast programming, but the devkit was more than my yearly salary. I wasn't interested in performing hacks and messy work around so i could program the DC to kinda work with linux/assembly.
With this linux kit, it includes support for the low level api. and the psx2 is notoriously different/difficult to work with, so letting interested people mess around with development in their spare time is a GOOD IDEA in my opinion. I would definately buy the kit if it becomes available for non-japanese consoles.
I wouldn't buy this for linux, i would buy it for the chance to program on the psx2.
The kit will include a complete Linux/X11 environment with all sources, technical hardware manuals for the EE, GS and vectorunits plus a low-level API and Mesa drivers for graphics.
Don't quote me on this.
I believe that a lot of school districts have specific laws/rules prohibiting freelance efforts / improvements on the school grounds. Even if the deans want said efforts on their behalf, they may not be able to allow it (without bending some rules).
I didn't see him say Quake3, he said quake 1. And it was QUITE a while before quake 1 was supported on mac, apparently long enough to drive him away from mac.
Um, I can run pretty much every program I can think of with 512 MB of RAM in my slots. It's fun.
You do know what proper multitasking is, right? it means that several applications will execute simultaneously (or close enough to appear so). just because you can have a lot of apps running because you have 512 mb of ram, doesn't mean it is multitasking very well.
The only thing i dislike about mac users is their apparent inability to see the downsides of their choice of OS.
You are kidding, right? I think the original Dune movies are the most horrid book adaptions I have seen. I managed to watch the entire thing without falling aslee for the first time, and I was afraid.
Deadly afraid.
Voiceovers: I personally don't have a problem.
'Weirding Way': WTF? What was wrong with the Atreidis training their own elite army that could possibly conflict with the saudukar? They left out the entire 'survival of the fittest' theme that was the driving force behind the saudukar and fremen, instead they are just people who fight.
Kwissatz Haderach: They went and made him into the 'universal superbeing' and don't even go anywhere into exploring what he actually can do, presceint abilities, the ability to explore the male side of inherited memories. Instead he is now a guy who can make it rain.
The whole terraforming theme was abandoned.
When paul took the water of life... god that was an aweful sequence. I don't recall anything about him being out in the desert and being surrounded by dormant sandworms...
And those are just my major beefs with it...
You seem to start to apologize then go right back to kicking yourself in the ass.
I like TMBG, lots of people do. You don't. Lots of people don't. Why can't you accept the simple fact that you don't like their music, instead of saying it is crappy. Disliking != crap.
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