Well yah, but likely so did 2K or even (depending) NT4.
98/can/ be made to be rather stable, but it requires a ton of tweaking and messing around with things.
I am sure that if everything was customized to hell though (read only HD partition for instance. . . . ^_^ No registry bloat then, heh) that it/could/ be made stable enough for this application, but, err, why?
With NT4, NT5, and NT5.1 out there, why bother with the old 9x tree?
Using a computer hack to commit a crime you would otherwise might need a few tons of dynamite for (i.e causing a dam to malfunction rather than blowing it up) may very well be a situation that current law doesn't address clearly. The guy sitting in front of a computer typing away certainly doesn't *seem* as violent or as dangerous as the guy with the truck full of TNT. The *reality* is he may have just as great a chance, he may be just as serious and just as dangerous to the rest of us.
Hmm, my opinion on the matter is that if the person is a Computer Nerd who holds themselves to the standard white hat hacker ethic, then I have nothing against them blowing up the HQ of some logging company who takes pleasure in devastating the rainforest, or the home of certain 'pre-paid' republican senators.
As long as innocents are not killed, why the hell not? I mean the barrier to entry is FAR higher then a truck full of TNT (which damned nearly any idiot can pull off) but actually managing to KILL somebody by computer hacking would require a damn fair bit of computer savvy, damn good planning;
and well hell, if your any good at it you won't get caught anyways so fuck it. LOL
That is the thing people, do not be afraid of the people who they DO catch, be afraid of the people whom they NEVER catch, and be even more afraid of the ones that they do not even/know/ about. Those are the ones that you really have to be afraid of.
I always compare Tetris games to how many features of the GameBoy tetris that they implement, very few games EVER stack up.
Tetris Advanced SUCKS for instance, iiickies!!! HORRIBLY slow and squishy piece movement, and a few other features are missing as well. Quite a disappointment really.
The original GB Tetris has a TON of features that almost everybody over looks, from being able to slide pieces into place to being able to rotate pieces into place (both fairly nifty. ^_^ )
The cheaper clones also use a HORRIBLE method of doing speed increases that makes playing after level 9 or so almost impossible.:( No fun when I can get to the human limits of a game on my first try, hehe.
On the original GameBoy's Tetris after level 21 or so you HAVE TO keep it below 4 or 5 lines and you MUST place each piece correctly, no time to any sort of mistakes, and even then if the wrong piece comes along (a bit to tall. . ..) you are screwed. Ouch.:-o Oh well, still fun though, yaah!
It is a testament to Nintendo's high quality of manufacturing that my original cartridge (well not really original got it mixed up in a trade sometime around 1993, but still same age!) has lasted, err, uh, sheesh, 11 years now with almost constant play! LOL! Amazing.
I play tetris when ever my PC boots or I am installing something that takes awhile. (booting off of the Win2K cd for instance. . . . yeesh! I swear that thing loads every darned SCSI and RAID driver. . ..)
I occasionaly end up getting so caught up in the game that I just leave my computer be and play Tetris, heh.
The irony has indeed occured to me that I am being entraced by a machine with less proccessing power in it then what my PCs speakers do. . . . (digital proccessor, manipulates sound as it goes through and all).
I had a GBC sitting next to me (with the original GB tetris of course, w00t! My original GameBoy though has dying pixels and such, heh, plastic protective cover over screen came off and the like) that I would keep on to play when ever I had to reboot my PC.
Ditto for HL, when ever a new map would be loading in DM, I would just play tetris! yaaah!
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Xanth often feels as if it's written for ten year olds with dirty minds
Ahh, AMEN! Now THAT would explain it. As the only ten year old in my class (err, ok one of the few) who would go around constructing lists of the most painful ways to torture somebody;
aah yes, it all makes sense now.:-D
(err, then again, my school district had sex ed in the 4th grade, so, yah, err, I think we all pretty much had dirty minds back then, hmmm. . . . )
. I would like to thank Mr. Anthony for all of his books, and for turning me onto Science Fiction and Fantasy books
I started out with C.S. Lewis, was Anthony a step up or down from there? I started reading him at ~age 14, still do, though not as often (err, I kind of caught up on every book he had published and now own darn nearly every one up through 1997 or so.:-D After that it has naturally slowed down a tad bit).
His books are of a large variety of tastes, Bio of a Space Tyrant is definitely NOT your average science fiction romp (and who ever in an above post a ways up said Sci-Fi has undeveloped characters needs to go get their head examined, or change authors)
What I like most about Piers Anthony is that he is the perfect blend of new wave science fiction and the Hard Science fiction, I am normally a fan of the latter and poo-pa the former, but Piers Anthony proves that both can live together in harmony.:-D
But the Chinese nukes are pointed at *me*, while the U.S. nukes are pointed *away*, so I prefer to see the U.S. hang on to its global empire for a few more decades, please.
This pretty much sums up all the knowledge mankind has accumulated about political theory.
PleaseMrGovernmentMan Keep My Ass Safe
Isn't everything else kinda secondary to being, err, vaporized / incinerated / turned into radioactive sludge / blown away to your component atoms / irradiated / dying of radiation exposure / and so forth?
I bet you still think that the people in China are "uneducated",
Educated in what? Proper speak? Proper ways? Sure they are taught reading and writing, and hell maybe even the sciences, how many of them are taught unbiased political theory? Even in public schools teachers are free to ridicule the system (hell it is damn nearly encouraged, helps keep us plebs from getting to upset and all ya know.._. )
How many of them are encouraged to think on their own, to progress up through life, to, hell, do be different?
Oh wait, I forgot, the Chinese government still has this nasty habit of SHOOTING those people.
Well at least we know Apple won't be having any Think Different campaigns over there anytime soon.:-D (or maybe they do, heck, darned if I know, LOL!)
So, let's see if I got this right. You install a lot of stuff, the box goes bad. And you can install a lot of stuff a lot faster in windows than in an *nix box.
Therefore, the primary attraction in Windows is that you can muck it up one HELL of a lot faster.
Efficiency, in other words.
Yep, I'm with you:-)
Well, thing is, I would like a setup (out of the box, I know I could just keep sequential images of my HD on a RAID array someplace on an older machine or such, but, err, that is NOT exactly eloquent. Kick ass yes, eloquent, no) where I can install all the crap I want and not have to worry about some bloated huge central depository of crap getting too big, or of the alternative, everything becoming so cross referenced and dependent that uninstalling anything becomes like a giant Jenga game.
Either pathway sucks.
DOS rocked, copied apps, ran apps, deleted apps. None of this installing or dependency bullshit.:-D (yah so darn nearly everything else about it may have sucked, but at least you could turn the computer on and know you'd get to something and be able to run something! If one app went down it didn't take nothing else with it.))
With a pretty loaded and underpowered (p2-300 256MB ram running usually mozilla, IE6, some office products, management tools, java based trouble ticket system (I hate Peregrine) etc) I have had an uptime of 146 days before we moved buildings and am on day 47 since then. I don't know what kind of shitty drivers you are running but the only bsod's I have seen under 2k were all driver related.
See, there is your problem;
the misc software crud part of my registery?
Over 50 thousand entries. (!!!!)
158 fonts installed (ouch); 3 language packs; 3 versions of Photoshop, 2 versions of Java (err, well 3 but only 2 that the system will admit to, uninstaller failed miserably), and if I even try and install Java into Moz bad things happen.
Well heck now if I even run moz.exe bad things happen, heh.
DirectX is like one layer BELOW the drivers, if the DirectX layer is shot ANY driver will fuck up on you. That is what is happening to me.
My WinNT directory is still a 'mere' 1.43 Gigs though, heh.
(not/that/ bad, I have had it up to 3 gigs before just with old ass DLLs and other crap lying around.:( )
I appear to be gathering ~50-60 cookies a day just browsing the internet (ouch),
and none of this is counting that NT5 apparently works/great/ in stable always on enviroments but appears to suck horribly when it gets in a situation where it is booted on and off all the time.:( (with power bills what they are, no way in heck am I leaving things on 24/7!!!)
I have seen NT5 literaly kill itself just by being rebooted, boot, shutdown, boot, shutdown, eventualy it just refuses to boot and you have to go into safe mode and start correcting crap.
Oh yah, Microsoft also decided to install the French version of the Matrox G400 Dual Head drivers some time back, hehe, I installed a more, err, appropriate verison of them, but even in Safemode I cannot remove the old version.
I also have a bunch of things called WAN Miniport drivers which I have like NO idea what they are, there are four of them installed on the system (just kinda showed up one day. . . . better then 9x where things would just disappear one day I guess though) and when I tried to remove them (any mode) it said "cannot remove this device is neccisary to start up your computer."
Disabled them though, yaah. Didn't have too much of an impact on stability one way or the other though.:(
Well yah, but while going around killing all of (well, apparently not/quite/ enough of, few of the bastards apparently still exist) the ex-commies left and right, I doubt the democratic governemtn would have minded if we had done some restructuring in China as well.
The old commie governemnt in the USSR sure would've minded though. ^_^
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No, the system is built entirely to steal from the middle.
:-P
So, I don't like them either.
Anybody who goes skiing every winter and then complains that they cannot afford a graphing calculator to pass their math classes with. . . .
feh
At least Microsoft doesn't have an air force to bomb you.
No, but they are working on amobile infantry
You could hold 500 bazillion 1:1 scale maps of Texas on a single disk.
/true/ 1:1 map of a human hair on a mere Terrabyte disc, Texas is way out of the question.
1:1 what?
You couldn't store a
Plus, I bet Windows had the available drivers ;)
/can/ be made to be rather stable, but it requires a ton of tweaking and messing around with things.
/could/ be made stable enough for this application, but, err, why?
Well yah, but likely so did 2K or even (depending) NT4.
98
I am sure that if everything was customized to hell though (read only HD partition for instance. . . . ^_^ No registry bloat then, heh) that it
With NT4, NT5, and NT5.1 out there, why bother with the old 9x tree?
but being able to watch the back seat? I think this is going too far...
.com idea!!! (bit late but....)
/that/ video feed. . . .)
Ooh ooh ooh!!!
Give these cars out to high schoolers, setup a remote transmitter for the video feed from the back seat.
(if you can't figure out what to do with
and I just made a joke about this on /. a few weeks ago. . .
*sighs*
When oh when will people stop listening to me?
Sure as hell didn't see a story about that on Slashdot.
:-D
You'll see a story about it when the first working PS2 emulator that can play it is released.
who the heck moderated this down? The USSR DID have a bad icky habit of killing people who "did not meet expectations"
Pringles is experiancing a sudden upsurge in orders.
- Using a computer hack to commit a crime you would otherwise might need a few tons of dynamite for (i.e causing a dam to malfunction rather than blowing it up) may very well be a situation that current law doesn't address clearly. The guy sitting in front of a computer typing away certainly doesn't *seem* as violent or as dangerous as the guy with the truck full of TNT. The *reality* is he may have just as great a chance, he may be just as serious and just as dangerous to the rest of us.
Hmm, my opinion on the matter is that if the person is a Computer Nerd who holds themselves to the standard white hat hacker ethic, then I have nothing against them blowing up the HQ of some logging company who takes pleasure in devastating the rainforest, or the home of certain 'pre-paid' republican senators.As long as innocents are not killed, why the hell not? I mean the barrier to entry is FAR higher then a truck full of TNT (which damned nearly any idiot can pull off) but actually managing to KILL somebody by computer hacking would require a damn fair bit of computer savvy, damn good planning;
and well hell, if your any good at it you won't get caught anyways so fuck it. LOL
That is the thing people, do not be afraid of the people who they DO catch, be afraid of the people whom they NEVER catch, and be even more afraid of the ones that they do not even
Hmm, Tetris DX sounds significantly easier. . . .
:( No fun when I can get to the human limits of a game on my first try, hehe.
.) you are screwed. Ouch. :-o Oh well, still fun though, yaah!
I always compare Tetris games to how many features of the GameBoy tetris that they implement, very few games EVER stack up.
Tetris Advanced SUCKS for instance, iiickies!!! HORRIBLY slow and squishy piece movement, and a few other features are missing as well. Quite a disappointment really.
The original GB Tetris has a TON of features that almost everybody over looks, from being able to slide pieces into place to being able to rotate pieces into place (both fairly nifty. ^_^ )
The cheaper clones also use a HORRIBLE method of doing speed increases that makes playing after level 9 or so almost impossible.
On the original GameBoy's Tetris after level 21 or so you HAVE TO keep it below 4 or 5 lines and you MUST place each piece correctly, no time to any sort of mistakes, and even then if the wrong piece comes along (a bit to tall. . .
It is a testament to Nintendo's high quality of manufacturing that my original cartridge (well not really original got it mixed up in a trade sometime around 1993, but still same age!) has lasted, err, uh, sheesh, 11 years now with almost constant play! LOL! Amazing.
I play tetris when ever my PC boots or I am installing something that takes awhile. (booting off of the Win2K cd for instance. . . . yeesh! I swear that thing loads every darned SCSI and RAID driver. . . .)
I occasionaly end up getting so caught up in the game that I just leave my computer be and play Tetris, heh.
The irony has indeed occured to me that I am being entraced by a machine with less proccessing power in it then what my PCs speakers do. . . . (digital proccessor, manipulates sound as it goes through and all).
Oh well, LOL! Still fun though, hehe.
Making being stuck on win9x bearable.
I had a GBC sitting next to me (with the original GB tetris of course, w00t! My original GameBoy though has dying pixels and such, heh, plastic protective cover over screen came off and the like) that I would keep on to play when ever I had to reboot my PC.
Ditto for HL, when ever a new map would be loading in DM, I would just play tetris! yaaah!
Ok, Gameboy Tetris (original, I still have my original pak, yah!); max level?
I have gotten to around 22-23, I think I hit 25 one time. Anybody get up to 30?
Whities still afraid of the superior man I see; stronger, faster, smarter;
hell, I can see why you are afriad.
Wimps.
Uhh, HEELP!!!
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I read ACs at +1, anybody modded troll goes down -5 with my setup.
Ouch.
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I love those posts, HQ, at least where last time I checked, may have gone down hill, often times modded up though, good writting skills.
Xanth often feels as if it's written for ten year olds with dirty minds
:-D
Ahh, AMEN! Now THAT would explain it. As the only ten year old in my class (err, ok one of the few) who would go around constructing lists of the most painful ways to torture somebody;
aah yes, it all makes sense now.
(err, then again, my school district had sex ed in the 4th grade, so, yah, err, I think we all pretty much had dirty minds back then, hmmm. . . . )
. I would like to thank Mr. Anthony for all of his books, and for turning me onto Science Fiction and Fantasy books
:-D After that it has naturally slowed down a tad bit).
:-D
I started out with C.S. Lewis, was Anthony a step up or down from there? I started reading him at ~age 14, still do, though not as often (err, I kind of caught up on every book he had published and now own darn nearly every one up through 1997 or so.
His books are of a large variety of tastes, Bio of a Space Tyrant is definitely NOT your average science fiction romp (and who ever in an above post a ways up said Sci-Fi has undeveloped characters needs to go get their head examined, or change authors)
What I like most about Piers Anthony is that he is the perfect blend of new wave science fiction and the Hard Science fiction, I am normally a fan of the latter and poo-pa the former, but Piers Anthony proves that both can live together in harmony.
But the Chinese nukes are pointed at *me*, while
the U.S. nukes are pointed *away*, so I prefer
to see the U.S. hang on to its global empire
for a few more decades, please.
This pretty much sums up all the knowledge mankind has accumulated about political theory.
PleaseMrGovernmentMan Keep My Ass Safe
Isn't everything else kinda secondary to being, err, vaporized / incinerated / turned into radioactive sludge / blown away to your component atoms / irradiated / dying of radiation exposure / and so forth?
I bet you still think that the people in China are "uneducated",
._. )
:-D (or maybe they do, heck, darned if I know, LOL!)
Educated in what? Proper speak? Proper ways? Sure they are taught reading and writing, and hell maybe even the sciences, how many of them are taught unbiased political theory? Even in public schools teachers are free to ridicule the system (hell it is damn nearly encouraged, helps keep us plebs from getting to upset and all ya know.
How many of them are encouraged to think on their own, to progress up through life, to, hell, do be different?
Oh wait, I forgot, the Chinese government still has this nasty habit of SHOOTING those people.
Well at least we know Apple won't be having any Think Different campaigns over there anytime soon.
#5 Both Soviet Russia and Communist China have been hugely succesful if you measure success along the lines of literacy or economic growth.
Of course just shooting all the ones who can't read really helps boost the literacy rating up.
So, let's see if I got this right. You install a lot of stuff, the box goes bad. And you can install a lot of stuff a lot faster in windows than in an *nix box.
:-)
:-D (yah so darn nearly everything else about it may have sucked, but at least you could turn the computer on and know you'd get to something and be able to run something! If one app went down it didn't take nothing else with it.))
Therefore, the primary attraction in Windows is that you can muck it up one HELL of a lot faster.
Efficiency, in other words.
Yep, I'm with you
Well, thing is, I would like a setup (out of the box, I know I could just keep sequential images of my HD on a RAID array someplace on an older machine or such, but, err, that is NOT exactly eloquent. Kick ass yes, eloquent, no) where I can install all the crap I want and not have to worry about some bloated huge central depository of crap getting too big, or of the alternative, everything becoming so cross referenced and dependent that uninstalling anything becomes like a giant Jenga game.
Either pathway sucks.
DOS rocked, copied apps, ran apps, deleted apps. None of this installing or dependency bullshit.
With a pretty loaded and underpowered (p2-300 256MB ram running usually mozilla, IE6, some office products, management tools, java based trouble ticket system (I hate Peregrine) etc) I have had an uptime of 146 days before we moved buildings and am on day 47 since then. I don't know what kind of shitty drivers you are running but the only bsod's I have seen under 2k were all driver related.
/that/ bad, I have had it up to 3 gigs before just with old ass DLLs and other crap lying around. :( )
/great/ in stable always on enviroments but appears to suck horribly when it gets in a situation where it is booted on and off all the time. :( (with power bills what they are, no way in heck am I leaving things on 24/7!!!)
:(
See, there is your problem;
the misc software crud part of my registery?
Over 50 thousand entries. (!!!!)
158 fonts installed (ouch); 3 language packs; 3 versions of Photoshop, 2 versions of Java (err, well 3 but only 2 that the system will admit to, uninstaller failed miserably), and if I even try and install Java into Moz bad things happen.
Well heck now if I even run moz.exe bad things happen, heh.
DirectX is like one layer BELOW the drivers, if the DirectX layer is shot ANY driver will fuck up on you. That is what is happening to me.
My WinNT directory is still a 'mere' 1.43 Gigs though, heh.
(not
I appear to be gathering ~50-60 cookies a day just browsing the internet (ouch),
and none of this is counting that NT5 apparently works
I have seen NT5 literaly kill itself just by being rebooted, boot, shutdown, boot, shutdown, eventualy it just refuses to boot and you have to go into safe mode and start correcting crap.
Oh yah, Microsoft also decided to install the French version of the Matrox G400 Dual Head drivers some time back, hehe, I installed a more, err, appropriate verison of them, but even in Safemode I cannot remove the old version.
I also have a bunch of things called WAN Miniport drivers which I have like NO idea what they are, there are four of them installed on the system (just kinda showed up one day. . . . better then 9x where things would just disappear one day I guess though) and when I tried to remove them (any mode) it said "cannot remove this device is neccisary to start up your computer."
Disabled them though, yaah. Didn't have too much of an impact on stability one way or the other though.
The nuke threat from Russia was never gone.
/quite/ enough of, few of the bastards apparently still exist) the ex-commies left and right, I doubt the democratic governemtn would have minded if we had done some restructuring in China as well.
Well yah, but while going around killing all of (well, apparently not
The old commie governemnt in the USSR sure would've minded though. ^_^