That was my impression. My how times have changed.
Streambox VCR showed some real promise for a while there, before Real decided it should not exist as a product. This was back when their primary revenue was from content creators - now that it's not, their priorities seem to have shifted.
Sony: Vista doesn't support TurboMemory. Microsoft: It does too. See? It uses the flash memory for...things. Vroom. Sony: You call that support? It doesn't do what it's supposed to. Microsoft: Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's integrated and magical. Sony: Yeah, it'll half-work, as long as you micromanage what files are cached. Microsoft: See? Integration. Sony: Um...no. Not quite.
With new computers and top-end hardware running Vista at a crawl, I can't help but think that the 'Vista Ready!' sticker on many new machines just means it would make a really bitchin' XP box!
I would like to state that I forsee very few Mac users with that sentiment about the time OS X Leopard comes pre-installed on Macs in October.
Bravo Dell, bravo. Now if you could make just one more leap and offer Linux, we'd be all set.
You should definitely get Super Paper Mario. The story can get in the way a little (as the IGN review notes) but it plays great and has a very fun mechanic. And it's only one player!
Is it actually a first-gen? The one with the buttons arranged in the four cardinal directions, and a wheel that actually spins? More than 90% of the time when I hear someone mention having a "first-gen" iPod they actually have the third-gen.
The 1G models were built like tanks. Okay, smaller...more like bricks. Practically unstoppable in my experience.
It's never been that Windows would not fail - just in a less spectacular fashion. My brother built a machine that would install and run Win98 "fine" (what passed for fine with that OS, at least.) Installing any NT-derivative (Win2K, XP) would result in a BSOD either during the install or shortly after, however. He limped along running 98se for a while, but it became more and more apparent that his computer was less stable than it should have been. Games would crash out. Installations would fail. Eventually, we ran Memtest86 on it, and found that one of the two memory modules was bad. After replacing it, everything worked much better - his computer became stable, and had no trouble installing and running WinXP.
This is very similar to what happened with the Mac OS 9 - to - Mac OS X transition. The new software utilized the installed RAM more, and thus failed more often or more repeatably with memory that was already causing problems, whether people noticed it or not.
NT-derived Windows as well as Mac OS X depends more on accuracy when it comes to the contents of RAM. All that memory protection, pervasive caching, etc. ensures that when something fails, it's not just some mysterious app failure - the computer actually crashes;) It's up to your judgement as to whether this is a good thing or not. Personally I like it as it makes the presence of a problem more obvious.
Any and all LEDs are dimmable. If somebody manages to design support circuits that don't work when dimmed, then that's a different matter. Or are you mixing up LEDs and CFLs in this discussion?
Worked fine for me using "UnZip 5.51 of 22 May 2004, by Info-ZIP." I did get an error about extra data at the "beginning or within zipfile" while decompressing, but it still got me my test file back.
For bonus points, he should have pushed to be billed in CANADIAN cents. After all, he was in Canada. That takes his data bill down to ~0.63 USD at current rates.
I think an easy way to explain that is the change in magnitude of possibility. A woman will release (I'm guessing here, once a month for about 40 years) ~500 eggs in her lifetime. Very few women have 500 children. For the sperm angle, they generally number in the millions per...encounter. After fertilization, you're going from a one-in-a-million chance to more like one-in-two. That's a pretty big normal, natural distinction. Thus, it seems a good place to draw the line.
1) For most people, (at least in the US) the charge is per-message - 10 cents whether it's 100 characters or 2.
2) If you can convince me that the teenagers sending 50 messages a day are concerned about the cost, then I'll give you that point. The reason that falls down is that most of the "text speak" originated in lazy AIM conversations and the titles of songs by Prince.
If you have the brain power to "compress" text in such a way, then you should have the brain power to use T9, eZi, or another associated fast-word-entry method. It takes just as many keypresses for me to write "for" as it would take you to enter "4". The time savings are negligible for you, while the readability for me is greatly increased. In addition, most people are sending short messages. As SMS messages are limited to 100-150 characters or so; you can generally fit one or two complete sentences in before hitting the limit.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds perfectly reasonable. What about the ones without Slashdot accounts, though?
To be fair, the Helix server has been out for over 4 1/2 years now. They've been working on changing their ways for some time.
That was my impression. My how times have changed.
Streambox VCR showed some real promise for a while there, before Real decided it should not exist as a product. This was back when their primary revenue was from content creators - now that it's not, their priorities seem to have shifted.
I was trying to figure out how to end that; you totally win.
=)
Sony: Vista doesn't support TurboMemory.
Microsoft: It does too. See? It uses the flash memory for...things. Vroom.
Sony: You call that support? It doesn't do what it's supposed to.
Microsoft: Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's integrated and magical.
Sony: Yeah, it'll half-work, as long as you micromanage what files are cached.
Microsoft: See? Integration.
Sony: Um...no. Not quite.
...and both feature breasts prominently.
You should definitely get Super Paper Mario. The story can get in the way a little (as the IGN review notes) but it plays great and has a very fun mechanic. And it's only one player!
Is it actually a first-gen? The one with the buttons arranged in the four cardinal directions, and a wheel that actually spins? More than 90% of the time when I hear someone mention having a "first-gen" iPod they actually have the third-gen.
The 1G models were built like tanks. Okay, smaller...more like bricks. Practically unstoppable in my experience.
It's never been that Windows would not fail - just in a less spectacular fashion. My brother built a machine that would install and run Win98 "fine" (what passed for fine with that OS, at least.) Installing any NT-derivative (Win2K, XP) would result in a BSOD either during the install or shortly after, however. He limped along running 98se for a while, but it became more and more apparent that his computer was less stable than it should have been. Games would crash out. Installations would fail. Eventually, we ran Memtest86 on it, and found that one of the two memory modules was bad. After replacing it, everything worked much better - his computer became stable, and had no trouble installing and running WinXP.
;) It's up to your judgement as to whether this is a good thing or not. Personally I like it as it makes the presence of a problem more obvious.
This is very similar to what happened with the Mac OS 9 - to - Mac OS X transition. The new software utilized the installed RAM more, and thus failed more often or more repeatably with memory that was already causing problems, whether people noticed it or not.
NT-derived Windows as well as Mac OS X depends more on accuracy when it comes to the contents of RAM. All that memory protection, pervasive caching, etc. ensures that when something fails, it's not just some mysterious app failure - the computer actually crashes
Does he not sleep? Ever? Not to be a parent or anything...but you might want to do something about that. It just gets worse. ;)
Not specifically "African" hair but curly hair in general. If it's curly, the cross-section is more oval than circular.
At the very least use Apple Lossless. It's like FLAC, but Apple-supported. It supports tags, artwork, and takes half the space.
And no, you're not losing anything. That's why "Lossless" is part of the name.
What hardware are you talking about, and to which company are you attributing blame?
Any and all LEDs are dimmable. If somebody manages to design support circuits that don't work when dimmed, then that's a different matter. Or are you mixing up LEDs and CFLs in this discussion?
To think we've gone from mercury memory to the RoHS banning anything remotely fun in electronics...progress is pretty amazing. ;)
Yes, if you must know, I thought your comment deserved another with an equally absurd thesis.
"This year, organizers expect the Penny Arcade Expo to be positively engorged with attendees."
Is that better? =P
Worked fine for me using "UnZip 5.51 of 22 May 2004, by Info-ZIP." I did get an error about extra data at the "beginning or within zipfile" while decompressing, but it still got me my test file back.
Here's the linkified version of your post. =)
For bonus points, he should have pushed to be billed in CANADIAN cents. After all, he was in Canada. That takes his data bill down to ~0.63 USD at current rates.
That's great if you're female or a gymnist.
::ahem:: rub off on me.
I can identify with your parent post, and I'm not a woman nor a gymnast. So what does being female have to do with it?
[Bad joke proceeds below]
Magical vagina-induced flexibility powers? Perhaps I just spend enough time near a vagina for it to
I think an easy way to explain that is the change in magnitude of possibility. A woman will release (I'm guessing here, once a month for about 40 years) ~500 eggs in her lifetime. Very few women have 500 children. For the sperm angle, they generally number in the millions per...encounter. After fertilization, you're going from a one-in-a-million chance to more like one-in-two. That's a pretty big normal, natural distinction. Thus, it seems a good place to draw the line.
1) For most people, (at least in the US) the charge is per-message - 10 cents whether it's 100 characters or 2.
2) If you can convince me that the teenagers sending 50 messages a day are concerned about the cost, then I'll give you that point. The reason that falls down is that most of the "text speak" originated in lazy AIM conversations and the titles of songs by Prince.
If you have the brain power to "compress" text in such a way, then you should have the brain power to use T9, eZi, or another associated fast-word-entry method. It takes just as many keypresses for me to write "for" as it would take you to enter "4". The time savings are negligible for you, while the readability for me is greatly increased. In addition, most people are sending short messages. As SMS messages are limited to 100-150 characters or so; you can generally fit one or two complete sentences in before hitting the limit.