You left out my favorite, Ultima III! I've completed that game from beginning to end at least 15 times, on various platforms such as C64, Atari ST and PC. The Atari version was the best, if I recall correctly. The PC version was terrible.
I'm going to create my own series of books, called "Learn xxxxx in 27.3 seconds", where xxxxx is some really difficult, technical subject. Of course each book will have to be at least 500 pages!
Well after reading the recent stories on Cisco adding back doors to allow law enforment agencies to snoop on network traffic, it really seems that the US government doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without their being able to snoop. It really makes me wonder if snooping functionality is already in Windows? I'm sure the government has already asked for it. How else could you explain the anti-trust lawsuite going away so easily? If Windows already has government snooping capabilities built in, then it's in the governments best interest to keep Microsoft dominent on the desktop.... Or have I seen one too many episodes of the X Files?
while just as many women have an "extra" green detection ability.
Yeah, my wife wants to paint a room in our house "sage". It looks like green to me, though. Anyway, I think most guys are like Windows 3.1, they see in 16 colours.
A marketing friend of mine had another point to add.. rebates give the seller a two tier customer base: Rich customers will pay the higher price and not bother with the rebate. Poorer customers will buy the product and use the rebate, but you still get the sale. It's a way of extracting the most possible money out of a mixed customer base.
True. You can also buy PCI USB cards, which I had to do on my dual CPU machine (two Intel P2-450 Xeon CPU's, it used to be a server but is still fast enough to be a workstation even though the machine is probably 5 or more years old). But the point is that it's a pain in the ass for legitamte users to deal with all the crapy copy protection schemes. When you get used to free software, it's really painful to go back to the Windows world.
And programs that require a USB or parallel port dongle to function... kinda leaves you screwed if you have a slightly older PC with no USB support (Cubase comes to mind).
Slightly off-topic, but did anyone notice the font they used on that site? It sure is unusual to see a fixed width font on a web page, and a rather ugly one at that (I'm using Mozilla under Win2K, so maybe your screen looks different). Anyway, I didn't realize till just now how good the fonts have become over the last few years. The fonts on that site were fairly standard not too long ago. Anyway, I'm burned out from work today so sorry for the off-topic post.... back to work....
Anyone notice on this screenshot that there is an icon labeled "My Linux System" and it looks just like the "My Computer" icon in Windows? I guess any distro is free to configure their desktops how they like, but is this really the direction we want to see Linux heading? Not to mention that the wallpaper looks like the default Win XP one.
One big problem with Linux is video playback. Windows Media Player is much better than any of the Linux players I've seen (except for the DRM crap in Windows). Windows also has better codec support (but they pay licenses for that?). Anyway, watching videos on linux is tedious at best, and often impossible. If anyone can recomend a good player for Linux I'd be happy to hear about it, the ones that come bundled with distros usually aren't that great.
Obviosly we are not a public e-comm site. Our customers (pharmacies and hospitals) in the past have been ordering via Telxon devices, PC to PC, or phone, so the web has been a welcome addition. We do visit each customer before they can access out site, though.
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You left out my favorite, Ultima III! I've completed that game from beginning to end at least 15 times, on various platforms such as C64, Atari ST and PC. The Atari version was the best, if I recall correctly. The PC version was terrible.
The perfume in my wife's fashion magazines is also annoying, but at least it only takes a few minutes to skim through it to find the babes! ;-)
I'm going to create my own series of books, called "Learn xxxxx in 27.3 seconds", where xxxxx is some really difficult, technical subject. Of course each book will have to be at least 500 pages!
GPL: My program is finished! You can take my baby and do whatever you want with it!
MS EULA: You use our program and your first born baby belongs to us.
Oh yeah, did you hear his new song, Pre-Teanage Wasteland?
I believe that virus is called "Kazaa".
As long as you don't have any from that goatsex site...
Well after reading the recent stories on Cisco adding back doors to allow law enforment agencies to snoop on network traffic, it really seems that the US government doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without their being able to snoop. It really makes me wonder if snooping functionality is already in Windows? I'm sure the government has already asked for it. How else could you explain the anti-trust lawsuite going away so easily? If Windows already has government snooping capabilities built in, then it's in the governments best interest to keep Microsoft dominent on the desktop. ... Or have I seen one too many episodes of the X Files?
Haha, good point!! :-)
And one can walk past a computer shop...
Yeah, my wife wants to paint a room in our house "sage". It looks like green to me, though. Anyway, I think most guys are like Windows 3.1, they see in 16 colours.
Very cool, please post a link, I'd like to check it out.
A marketing friend of mine had another point to add .. rebates give the seller a two tier customer base: Rich customers will pay the higher price and not bother with the rebate. Poorer customers will buy the product and use the rebate, but you still get the sale. It's a way of extracting the most possible money out of a mixed customer base.
True. You can also buy PCI USB cards, which I had to do on my dual CPU machine (two Intel P2-450 Xeon CPU's, it used to be a server but is still fast enough to be a workstation even though the machine is probably 5 or more years old). But the point is that it's a pain in the ass for legitamte users to deal with all the crapy copy protection schemes. When you get used to free software, it's really painful to go back to the Windows world.
They should have used XP, haven't they heard the commercials? It costs less!!
And programs that require a USB or parallel port dongle to function ... kinda leaves you screwed if you have a slightly older PC with no USB support (Cubase comes to mind).
Alanis Morissette is Canadian... Or were you being ironic on purpose?
Slightly off-topic, but did anyone notice the font they used on that site? It sure is unusual to see a fixed width font on a web page, and a rather ugly one at that (I'm using Mozilla under Win2K, so maybe your screen looks different). Anyway, I didn't realize till just now how good the fonts have become over the last few years. The fonts on that site were fairly standard not too long ago. Anyway, I'm burned out from work today so sorry for the off-topic post. ... back to work....
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Cool, I'll check it out, thanks!
And people complain about Redhat's Blue Curve.
One big problem with Linux is video playback. Windows Media Player is much better than any of the Linux players I've seen (except for the DRM crap in Windows). Windows also has better codec support (but they pay licenses for that?). Anyway, watching videos on linux is tedious at best, and often impossible. If anyone can recomend a good player for Linux I'd be happy to hear about it, the ones that come bundled with distros usually aren't that great.
Have you ever used Windows 95?
Where do I send my band's demo?
Obviosly we are not a public e-comm site. Our customers (pharmacies and hospitals) in the past have been ordering via Telxon devices, PC to PC, or phone, so the web has been a welcome addition. We do visit each customer before they can access out site, though.