Damned thing I am serious about my hands not getting numb anymore.:) I actualy jack up my Vcore to increase the chips heat output. (well and get that extra 100 or so mhz outa it. Winter, natures free CPU cooler efficency booster..:) )
(That is the upgrade price you quoted, the full version is more. Bleh).
Poor people don't buy Office. (I am actualy playing around with the Windows vesrion of Staroffice now trying to find a good setup that makes it more "Word like". Hopefuly I can suggest at least/some/ software that people will be able to afford or get legaly for free.)
Poor people may buy Norton. (I've yet to figure THIS one out. Alot of decent halfway free antivirus products out there on the market.)
Now a MONITOR on the other hand. . . . ouchies. Even a halfway cruddy one is still expensive.:(
Hell DVD-ROM drives are $20 each, heh. Modems are $10, and who on/. doesn't have a pile and/or box (or both, heh) of PCI NICs sitting in a corner or under a bed someplace?
(or in a closet or attic or wherever your store your spare NICs at)
HD data corruption didn't help issues any. . . . ^_^
Some dudes for VIA basicaly had to write a patch that put a stopper on the bug, though it wasn't exactly a 'fix'.
Some issues have also been reported on Intel chipsets, which helps to show that it is not just a VIA chipset problem (though that is where it mostly manifests itself. )
The Windows community has known about this 'issue' for some time now (at least a year and a half) and those people 'in the know' have been running none creative cards for sometime now.
Who did you think was buying up all of the GTXPs?:)
I always have liked their commericals and taking stances like this are One Damn Good Way(tm) to gain some strong new customers and gain a heavy dosage of customer loyalty.
I like my Free White Noise Generator thats what.:)
Besides
***********I LIKE BEIGE DAMNIT. PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LIKE BEIGE SUCK************
K? Good. Beige Rocks. Period. It goes with anything.
My hands also used to get numb typing in the winter, now with my AMD(tm) Approved Space Heater(Patent Pending) I don't have to worry about my hands getting frost bite, heh. Nor seeing my own breath, brrr! (I live in the pacific northwest too, I feel -really- sorry for any nerds who live in an actual COLD climate and are not on a modern machine!)
The thing that I hate about Macs so much is that they are WORSE then Dos. Even that rudimentry CLI kicks the classic MacOS's interface.
Want to run a program? Type in its name. Under 8 letters. As a bonus you learn to TYPE as well. Something that alot of people do not learn under GUIs.
Want to run a program under MacOS? Move the mouse to the little apple symbol (if it is there), hunt through a list of dozens of programs, find program, click it.
Typing is faster then moving mouse + click + search for program name + move mouse + click.
Of course on a computer with only two or three programs (hah) the speed difference between systems in starting up a program is going to be about nil, but on any other system. . . .
Then there is always the fact that with a CLI you never have to SEARCH for what you want to do.
Know what the program you want is called? Type it in. Hell often times just typing it what it does (photo, word, tetris, edit, etc) is more then enough to start the program.
This is of course assuming that the user is smart enough (or paid the neighborhood's nerdy kid $5 to do so) to create a BATch file. (DOS's dumbed down script format. Easy as hell to use.)
If the user does not like the default name of something, simply rename the Batch file. Too hard to remember that WP means WordPerfect? Or that WS means WordStar? Just make it Word.bat, or Star.bat, or whatever it is that you want to.
Heck you have to manualy add files to the Apple menu as well unless the program adds itself. And DOS programs always had the choice (though considered by some to be impolite to do) to add themselves to the PATH statement.
Since AMD stopped production of the K6 line of CPUs quite some time ago, finding older CPUs can be a bit hard. And even so they are still about equal in cost to the Duron line of proccessors.
A local middle school recently got a bunch of K6-(2/3) 555mhz systems for $269 each, the best that can be done with Durons is ~$450 each.
The main advantage to the older K6 line though is the wide variety of cheap integrated Super Socket 7 motherboards that were made.
Computer prices could drop another $100-$150 if some more companies made some cheap OEM-ish integrated motherboards for the K7 line of CPUs. (the few ones that are out there are not in large supply for third party buyers and they are not/nearly/ cheap enough to be a better deal then a seperate video card. Integrated sound is doing good on the platform though.)
Prices would drop even further if a cheezy 1 IDE channel Make Stuff Work style Motherboard was made. You know, 2 RAM slots, 2 or 3 PCI slots, integrated AGP, etc. Heh. Yah it would suck for many causes, but damnit, I have had quite a few requests for such systems! (I do custom build jobs, most of what people want now days are e-mail terminals with a wordproccessor)
"My PC takes a couple of minutes to start up, even when I haven't changed hardware between restarts and it already knows all it needs to know from the last boot. "
May I suggest using a Hibernate or Shutdown to HD mode? Or even Standbye?
Laptops have been able to do this for many years and PCs for 2-3 years minimum.
Actualy I am even worse off because I have a Via chipset, heh. AMD CPU. 1ghz for ~$500 rocks though, defintly NOT a mac thang. That was a year ago too. Hehe.
>>Anybody who likes form over substance has yet >>to get out of that 4 year old 'oooh, pretty >>shiny thing!!!' phase.
>That's pretty one sided. Any chance you're not >seeing the whole perspective on this?
Uh huh. EVERYTHING I read about OSX is about how 'pretty' it is. Thats it. Period.
>Have you even used Mac OS X for any extended >period of time?
I would but you see the MacLab person is unable to get OSX running on any of his craptacular Imac, which I might add his spending of all computers funds on has pissed ALOT of people off because we could have had 4x as many PCs instead. Doh.
>>Do you know what Quartz is?
You mean besides a craptacularly feature loaden way of throwing stuff onto a screen that just so happens to use Adobe's PDF format, which is Slow Slow and Slower, not to mention STUPID.
Honestly.
An OS's graphical display capibilities should be limited to that which is neccisary to SHOW MY DAMN LIST OF APPLICATIONS AND LET ME SWITCH AMONGST THEM.
As such rectangles and squares work just fine Thank You SO Very Much. Text on them of course.
You hit a button an application runs. THATS IT.
Period.
I do not WANT my OS to do alot of fancy assed shit. It should run.
Heck even Windows 2000 can do with its main shell (explorer.exe) shut down and still manage to run ALL applications just fine. It is because Explorer.exe provides a desktop background, icons on said background, and a start menu.
Thats it.
period.
Unfortunatly MS went with XP that is alot like OSX except that it is more likly to have virii written for it. Oh joy.
Why do people INSIST on having a fancy ass OS when they are only going to spend their time inbetween applications in it? Honestly, you see the underlying OS when now, when switching between applications! Tada. Thats it.
Oh yah, and when deleting / renaming files.::yawns:: Oh joy.
OSs should take up a few MEGS, mabye 100megs tops. Drivers and such are fine, ok, yada yada yada, but seriously, who ever invented the idea of a 'skinable' computer should be shot dead.
(hey, here is an idea, fill up your RAM and HD space with a fancy ass theme that you will see for ALL OF ABOUT 10 SECONDS A DAY. 20 if your computer takes awhile to load things up. Bleh)
Sorry, but I perfer being able to go to a store buy a piece of HW and know that it'll work in my computer.
If I need something I buy it and it works.
Firewire? Haven't seen a single firewire product, seen some firewire/ports/ on mac computers at schools, but never seen an actual firewire DEVICE except for over in the mac area in CompUSA. And one or two devices online.
That and I still say that oSX is a serious move in the wrong direction. Something that is to be used for clicking on an application to run said application should NOT count as being a serious (or even a moderate) drain on your systems resources.
Usable is nice, but, uh, heh. Shouting out "We care more about style then function!!!!" is kinda inane.
Of course apple makes computers for people with a sense of 'style' and who care about how their computer 'looks'.
Well:
A: Fuck said people. Anybody who likes form over substance has yet to get out of that 4 year old 'oooh, pretty shiny thing!!!' phase.
Sure I like pretty shiny things too, but I keep my pretty shiny things seperate from my Do Shit Fast things and I have enough guts to admit it.
B: STOP trying to claim that your OS is superior just cuz it looks pretty.
You can chop a turd into little round pieces and paint it pretty colors, but it don't make it an edible meal. Just a prettily painted piece of shit.
Hang it on your wall and call it modern art, but don't claim is has superior nutritional value just because it looks pretty.
And don't claim that OSX is a superior OS just because it does all the same stuff as any other half assed GUI, but just with pretty transparencies and fancy colored boxs.
What, does ANYBODY _REALLY_ think this is going to help?
Really now.
It would _NOT_ have prevented 9-11 at all. Hell the FBI was able to figure out who the terrorists were with very little trouble. The fact is that a terrorist group is NOT going to send somebody who has 10 warrents out for them and is on the FBIs ten most wanted list out to hijack a plane! They are going to send some young dumb ***NEW*** recruit out to blow shit up.
Nothing new, just that it is actualy going to be enforced now across the network.
Hopefuly Comcat won't do too much else though, bleh.
My e-mail address had better not change/again/. As it is I am afriad to use my current ISP one for anything offical.
Shoot I thought that one of the 'advantages' of going with a big company was that you could be relatively sure that your e-mail address wouldn't be changing.
Ah, oh well.::sighs::
Better then when @Home first started out in my area, hehe, 300bps uploads to the mail server. ^_^ The webspace accounts were also horrible, heh.
I haven't seen a Real Video stream in ages. Sure I used to get some Anime in them, but shoot thats been 6 or 7 months at least and even then they were considered 'lame' and somewhat old fashion.
Somebody besides Microsoft _REALLY_ needs to develope a good streaming MPEG4 video codec implementation and start licencing it off for cheap.
Kind of hard to change your working conditions when the very basis of the work involved repetative operations. From keyboarding to nursing, RSI and CTS can happen over a large range of proffesions.
I have a 1ghz computer with shitloads of DDR ram and huge ass HDs with a small video archive on them. (Ok ok, large video archive.:) )
Guess what game I play when waiting for it all to boot up?
Yup
Tetris.
I have gotten to level 23 so far.:) heh. Someplace around there if you let the tetri stack up higher then 4 or so lines you are basicaly screwed though, hehe. SPEEEED!!!!
I also still have my ORIGINAL B/W GameBoy, damnit those things ROCK! Remember the pic in Nintendo Power during Desert Storm? The one where the GB had had a grenade go off on top of it and it still worked, albiet with a very dim screen? Hehe, those things were TOUGH!:)
You can buy Bards Tale for a crud load of plateforms though, I believe that the SNES or NES even has it, heh.
I have Bards Tale 1 and a solution manual that is written In Charecter (woh! Freaky, hehe) for Bards Tale 3. I also have the Bards Tale Construction Set.:)
I also know of some places where you can get the game online, since you already own a copy I do not think that it'd be too moraly pressing for you to download an Amiga image of the game and play it with an emulator. E-mail me for information (I am hesitent to post a link to a site with psuedo-legal software on a public forum like/.:) )
Mabye they have a whole host of irregular numbers stored on some sort of massive file array all figured out to a crud load of bits in binary.
A cluster of super computers then offsets the data against a the irregular number that allows for the least amount of offset. All that would have to be translated is the offset, which would seem like a prime canidate for scientific notation.:)
"Uh, yah, that video file there is 121^(^3434^173) offset into e . . .:)"
Of course having the destination computer DECOMPRESS this data would be another matter entirly, hehe. But with home computers getting faster and faster, and preferably only easy to calculate irregular numbers being used, it likely wouldn't be/too/ bad. Heh. Mabye a few hours only for decompression time? I'm sure that the modem users would love it at least.:)
It is just the penultimate trade-off between the end size of the compressed file and the time/power it takes to compress/decompress it.
I have my OWN full tower case Thank You So Very Much.
She does Photoshop + Illustrator.
Which accounts for the Scanner, Printer, Dual Monitor setup (G400s not exactly a gaming/performance card bub, damn nice QUALITY though.:) ) and Tablet.
Not to mention that she didn't want to have to WAIT for ever for her computer to do something, thus the fast CPU and lots of RAM. The entire idea is to make using the computer a seamless experance. It works. Period. It doesn't bitch whine or groan, it turn son, it works.
Damned if _MY_ computer works. Shit no, that'd be too easy.:)
Hell she is the one who keeps on calling me up asking if "oh can I get such and such" for her computer. She wants stuff that makes her computer BETTER. Now she wants a 5.1 surround sound system. Beats me as to WHY, she doesn't ever listen to music on her computer, but hell she wants it and sooner or latter odds are I'm going to be plugging in a 5.1 soundcard of some type or another.
She also has a TV-IN card so she can watch TV on her computer and do other nifty stuff.
(well hell the TV-IN card was only $20. ^_^ Computer swap meets rock for that sort of stuff.)
I'm running a DDR setup with all the glitz and glammer that comes along with it (heh, yah right,/mabye/ when I first got it. ^_^ ) but hell, if something involving graphical effects needs to get done. . . . .
I would hardly call a $300 graphics tablet and a Really Damn Fucking Expensive When New scanner (wasn't that old when gotten off of e-bay) "old tech".
She is a home user though. She _IS_ in the macs target radious. A/casual/ artsy person.
She's just a casual artsy person who perfers to use a nice big ol' graphics tablet and being able to scan in damn nearly anything she wants and got sick and tired of having tool bars clutter up her screen in Photoshop. (actualy it was Painter6 that made her decide on the dualhead setup, Painter6 practicaly FILLS the screen with nothing but buttons and icons and toolbars and menuboxs, bleh.)
Does it have a orintation censor so if I krazy glue it to the ceiling the display will flip verticly?
That'd rock.:) One use for that flexi-monitor thingy! Hehe. Use it in bed.:) Have a monitor hanging down and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. w00t. This thing could be halfway cool after all, LOL!
"like the old iMac because, as a piece of furniture, it gives any room a modern, happy-go-lucky feel that makes me smile. "
My Full Tower Made Outa Steel Damn Nearly Fucking Bullet Proof Can Support Over 200LBs case makes ME smile.
Its beige.
I like beige.
Beige and grey.
Anything else should get you SHOT. Dead. And then beaten.
With a cat.
And then burned.
Without the cat.
(nothing against cats, I love cats, wouldn't want to ever harm a cat even if the cat did own an imac, but damnit, people with colored computers. . . . Unless they made the case themselves of course, then _THAT_ is cool.:) )
My dearest 45 year old mother, defintly a home user, has gotten a new video card, SCSI card, and 2 new HDs.
Firewire adds an extra $100 to the price of a HD. When paying $160 for a HD to begin with, excuse me if adding $100 to that seems a bit silly.
She wanted higher refresh rates and dual moniter support. A new video card + an old monitor lying around was cheaper then a new monitor with a higher refresh rate.
(of course if your an apple customer with an integrated monitor you just gotta buy an entire new computer. . . . oh joy. . ..)
The SCSI card was for the SCSI scanner. Nice scanner, cheap on Ebay, couldn't afford it any other way. (and besides, HQ USB scanners hadn't quite taken off at that point in time yet.)
She is a home user. She also had to get a full tower case to shove all of her 'home user' stuff in. ^_^
I was stupid enough to buy a Sony made Digicam (damn nice Digicam though). I am stuck with those horribly expensive Sony Digital Memory Sticks!! AARG!!
Heh.
No way you'd fit a HD in those things footprint though. Man are they SMALL! After getting used to them I was shocked at how HUGE regular memory card seem to be.
Still doesn't help much with the fact that the d*mn things are expensive as hell though.
Then again the CIGARET ADAPTOR for the BATTERY for my digicam costs *$90* (!!!)
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Damned thing I am serious about my hands not getting numb anymore. :) I actualy jack up my Vcore to increase the chips heat output. (well and get that extra 100 or so mhz outa it. Winter, natures free CPU cooler efficency booster.. :) )
Ok true true it has. . . uh. . . . issues. Heh.
:)
If you have The Right Drivers(tm) and The Right Configuration(patent pending) then standby CAN work.
(uh, me spelt it wrong at first? ^_^ )
Dualhead doesn't like it though.
Poor people don't buy Windows.
/some/ software that people will be able to afford or get legaly for free.)
:(
(That is the upgrade price you quoted, the full version is more. Bleh).
Poor people don't buy Office. (I am actualy playing around with the Windows vesrion of Staroffice now trying to find a good setup that makes it more "Word like". Hopefuly I can suggest at least
Poor people may buy Norton. (I've yet to figure THIS one out. Alot of decent halfway free antivirus products out there on the market.)
Now a MONITOR on the other hand. . . . ouchies. Even a halfway cruddy one is still expensive.
At ~$20 each. . . .
/. doesn't have a pile and/or box (or both, heh) of PCI NICs sitting in a corner or under a bed someplace?
Hell DVD-ROM drives are $20 each, heh. Modems are $10, and who on
(or in a closet or attic or wherever your store your spare NICs at)
HD data corruption didn't help issues any. . . . ^_^
:)
Some dudes for VIA basicaly had to write a patch that put a stopper on the bug, though it wasn't exactly a 'fix'.
Some issues have also been reported on Intel chipsets, which helps to show that it is not just a VIA chipset problem (though that is where it mostly manifests itself. )
The Windows community has known about this 'issue' for some time now (at least a year and a half) and those people 'in the know' have been running none creative cards for sometime now.
Who did you think was buying up all of the GTXPs?
Hell I can't put TOGETHER a machine for that price! Kickass.
I always have liked their commericals and taking stances like this are One Damn Good Way(tm) to gain some strong new customers and gain a heavy dosage of customer loyalty.
I like my Free White Noise Generator thats what. :)
Besides
***********I LIKE BEIGE DAMNIT. PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LIKE BEIGE SUCK************
K? Good. Beige Rocks. Period. It goes with anything.
My hands also used to get numb typing in the winter, now with my AMD(tm) Approved Space Heater(Patent Pending) I don't have to worry about my hands getting frost bite, heh. Nor seeing my own breath, brrr! (I live in the pacific northwest too, I feel -really- sorry for any nerds who live in an actual COLD climate and are not on a modern machine!)
The thing that I hate about Macs so much is that they are WORSE then Dos. Even that rudimentry CLI kicks the classic MacOS's interface.
Want to run a program? Type in its name. Under 8 letters. As a bonus you learn to TYPE as well. Something that alot of people do not learn under GUIs.
Want to run a program under MacOS? Move the mouse to the little apple symbol (if it is there), hunt through a list of dozens of programs, find program, click it.
Typing is faster then moving mouse + click + search for program name + move mouse + click.
Of course on a computer with only two or three programs (hah) the speed difference between systems in starting up a program is going to be about nil, but on any other system. . . .
Then there is always the fact that with a CLI you never have to SEARCH for what you want to do.
Know what the program you want is called? Type it in. Hell often times just typing it what it does (photo, word, tetris, edit, etc) is more then enough to start the program.
This is of course assuming that the user is smart enough (or paid the neighborhood's nerdy kid $5 to do so) to create a BATch file. (DOS's dumbed down script format. Easy as hell to use.)
If the user does not like the default name of something, simply rename the Batch file. Too hard to remember that WP means WordPerfect? Or that WS means WordStar? Just make it Word.bat, or Star.bat, or whatever it is that you want to.
Heck you have to manualy add files to the Apple menu as well unless the program adds itself. And DOS programs always had the choice (though considered by some to be impolite to do) to add themselves to the PATH statement.
Since AMD stopped production of the K6 line of CPUs quite some time ago, finding older CPUs can be a bit hard. And even so they are still about equal in cost to the Duron line of proccessors.
/nearly/ cheap enough to be a better deal then a seperate video card. Integrated sound is doing good on the platform though.)
A local middle school recently got a bunch of K6-(2/3) 555mhz systems for $269 each, the best that can be done with Durons is ~$450 each.
The main advantage to the older K6 line though is the wide variety of cheap integrated Super Socket 7 motherboards that were made.
Computer prices could drop another $100-$150 if some more companies made some cheap OEM-ish integrated motherboards for the K7 line of CPUs. (the few ones that are out there are not in large supply for third party buyers and they are not
Prices would drop even further if a cheezy 1 IDE channel Make Stuff Work style Motherboard was made. You know, 2 RAM slots, 2 or 3 PCI slots, integrated AGP, etc. Heh. Yah it would suck for many causes, but damnit, I have had quite a few requests for such systems! (I do custom build jobs, most of what people want now days are e-mail terminals with a wordproccessor)
"My PC takes a couple of minutes to start up, even when I haven't changed hardware between restarts and it already knows all it needs to know from the last boot. "
May I suggest using a Hibernate or Shutdown to HD mode? Or even Standbye?
Laptops have been able to do this for many years and PCs for 2-3 years minimum.
"So you buy wintel hardware to do that? :) "
:)
::yawns:: Oh joy.
Well at least I have somewhat of a chance.
Actualy I am even worse off because I have a Via chipset, heh. AMD CPU. 1ghz for ~$500 rocks though, defintly NOT a mac thang. That was a year ago too. Hehe.
>>Anybody who likes form over substance has yet >>to get out of that 4 year old 'oooh, pretty >>shiny thing!!!' phase.
>That's pretty one sided. Any chance you're not >seeing the whole perspective on this?
Uh huh. EVERYTHING I read about OSX is about how 'pretty' it is. Thats it. Period.
>Have you even used Mac OS X for any extended >period of time?
I would but you see the MacLab person is unable to get OSX running on any of his craptacular Imac, which I might add his spending of all computers funds on has pissed ALOT of people off because we could have had 4x as many PCs instead. Doh.
>>Do you know what Quartz is?
You mean besides a craptacularly feature loaden way of throwing stuff onto a screen that just so happens to use Adobe's PDF format, which is Slow Slow and Slower, not to mention STUPID.
Honestly.
An OS's graphical display capibilities should be limited to that which is neccisary to SHOW MY DAMN LIST OF APPLICATIONS AND LET ME SWITCH AMONGST THEM.
As such rectangles and squares work just fine Thank You SO Very Much. Text on them of course.
You hit a button an application runs. THATS IT.
Period.
I do not WANT my OS to do alot of fancy assed shit. It should run.
Heck even Windows 2000 can do with its main shell (explorer.exe) shut down and still manage to run ALL applications just fine. It is because Explorer.exe provides a desktop background, icons on said background, and a start menu.
Thats it.
period.
Unfortunatly MS went with XP that is alot like OSX except that it is more likly to have virii written for it. Oh joy.
Why do people INSIST on having a fancy ass OS when they are only going to spend their time inbetween applications in it? Honestly, you see the underlying OS when now, when switching between applications! Tada. Thats it.
Oh yah, and when deleting / renaming files.
OSs should take up a few MEGS, mabye 100megs tops. Drivers and such are fine, ok, yada yada yada, but seriously, who ever invented the idea of a 'skinable' computer should be shot dead.
(hey, here is an idea, fill up your RAM and HD space with a fancy ass theme that you will see for ALL OF ABOUT 10 SECONDS A DAY. 20 if your computer takes awhile to load things up. Bleh)
Sorry, but I perfer being able to go to a store buy a piece of HW and know that it'll work in my computer.
/ports/ on mac computers at schools, but never seen an actual firewire DEVICE except for over in the mac area in CompUSA. And one or two devices online.
If I need something I buy it and it works.
Firewire? Haven't seen a single firewire product, seen some firewire
That and I still say that oSX is a serious move in the wrong direction. Something that is to be used for clicking on an application to run said application should NOT count as being a serious (or even a moderate) drain on your systems resources.
Usable is nice, but, uh, heh. Shouting out "We care more about style then function!!!!" is kinda inane.
Of course apple makes computers for people with a sense of 'style' and who care about how their computer 'looks'.
Well:
A: Fuck said people. Anybody who likes form over substance has yet to get out of that 4 year old 'oooh, pretty shiny thing!!!' phase.
Sure I like pretty shiny things too, but I keep my pretty shiny things seperate from my Do Shit Fast things and I have enough guts to admit it.
B: STOP trying to claim that your OS is superior just cuz it looks pretty.
You can chop a turd into little round pieces and paint it pretty colors, but it don't make it an edible meal. Just a prettily painted piece of shit.
Hang it on your wall and call it modern art, but don't claim is has superior nutritional value just because it looks pretty.
And don't claim that OSX is a superior OS just because it does all the same stuff as any other half assed GUI, but just with pretty transparencies and fancy colored boxs.
What, does ANYBODY _REALLY_ think this is going to help?
Really now.
It would _NOT_ have prevented 9-11 at all. Hell the FBI was able to figure out who the terrorists were with very little trouble. The fact is that a terrorist group is NOT going to send somebody who has 10 warrents out for them and is on the FBIs ten most wanted list out to hijack a plane! They are going to send some young dumb ***NEW*** recruit out to blow shit up.
Been that way for /at least/ the last three years.
/again/. As it is I am afriad to use my current ISP one for anything offical.
::sighs::
Nothing new, just that it is actualy going to be enforced now across the network.
Hopefuly Comcat won't do too much else though, bleh.
My e-mail address had better not change
Shoot I thought that one of the 'advantages' of going with a big company was that you could be relatively sure that your e-mail address wouldn't be changing.
Ah, oh well.
Better then when @Home first started out in my area, hehe, 300bps uploads to the mail server. ^_^ The webspace accounts were also horrible, heh.
I haven't seen a Real Video stream in ages. Sure I used to get some Anime in them, but shoot thats been 6 or 7 months at least and even then they were considered 'lame' and somewhat old fashion.
Somebody besides Microsoft _REALLY_ needs to develope a good streaming MPEG4 video codec implementation and start licencing it off for cheap.
Kind of hard to change your working conditions when the very basis of the work involved repetative operations. From keyboarding to nursing, RSI and CTS can happen over a large range of proffesions.
I have a 1ghz computer with shitloads of DDR ram and huge ass HDs with a small video archive on them. (Ok ok, large video archive. :) )
:) heh. Someplace around there if you let the tetri stack up higher then 4 or so lines you are basicaly screwed though, hehe. SPEEEED!!!!
:)
Guess what game I play when waiting for it all to boot up?
Yup
Tetris.
I have gotten to level 23 so far.
I also still have my ORIGINAL B/W GameBoy, damnit those things ROCK! Remember the pic in Nintendo Power during Desert Storm? The one where the GB had had a grenade go off on top of it and it still worked, albiet with a very dim screen? Hehe, those things were TOUGH!
That _IS_ bizzare, LOL!
:)
/. :) )
You can buy Bards Tale for a crud load of plateforms though, I believe that the SNES or NES even has it, heh.
I have Bards Tale 1 and a solution manual that is written In Charecter (woh! Freaky, hehe) for Bards Tale 3. I also have the Bards Tale Construction Set.
I also know of some places where you can get the game online, since you already own a copy I do not think that it'd be too moraly pressing for you to download an Amiga image of the game and play it with an emulator. E-mail me for information (I am hesitent to post a link to a site with psuedo-legal software on a public forum like
Mabye they have a whole host of irregular numbers stored on some sort of massive file array all figured out to a crud load of bits in binary.
:)
:)"
/too/ bad. Heh. Mabye a few hours only for decompression time? I'm sure that the modem users would love it at least. :)
A cluster of super computers then offsets the data against a the irregular number that allows for the least amount of offset. All that would have to be translated is the offset, which would seem like a prime canidate for scientific notation.
"Uh, yah, that video file there is 121^(^3434^173) offset into e . . .
Of course having the destination computer DECOMPRESS this data would be another matter entirly, hehe. But with home computers getting faster and faster, and preferably only easy to calculate irregular numbers being used, it likely wouldn't be
It is just the penultimate trade-off between the end size of the compressed file and the time/power it takes to compress/decompress it.
Uh, no
:) ) and Tablet.
:)
/mabye/ when I first got it. ^_^ ) but hell, if something involving graphical effects needs to get done. . . . .
/casual/ artsy person.
I have my OWN full tower case Thank You So Very Much.
She does Photoshop + Illustrator.
Which accounts for the Scanner, Printer, Dual Monitor setup (G400s not exactly a gaming/performance card bub, damn nice QUALITY though.
Not to mention that she didn't want to have to WAIT for ever for her computer to do something, thus the fast CPU and lots of RAM. The entire idea is to make using the computer a seamless experance. It works. Period. It doesn't bitch whine or groan, it turn son, it works.
Damned if _MY_ computer works. Shit no, that'd be too easy.
Hell she is the one who keeps on calling me up asking if "oh can I get such and such" for her computer. She wants stuff that makes her computer BETTER. Now she wants a 5.1 surround sound system. Beats me as to WHY, she doesn't ever listen to music on her computer, but hell she wants it and sooner or latter odds are I'm going to be plugging in a 5.1 soundcard of some type or another.
She also has a TV-IN card so she can watch TV on her computer and do other nifty stuff.
(well hell the TV-IN card was only $20. ^_^ Computer swap meets rock for that sort of stuff.)
I'm running a DDR setup with all the glitz and glammer that comes along with it (heh, yah right,
I would hardly call a $300 graphics tablet and a Really Damn Fucking Expensive When New scanner (wasn't that old when gotten off of e-bay) "old tech".
She is a home user though. She _IS_ in the macs target radious. A
She's just a casual artsy person who perfers to use a nice big ol' graphics tablet and being able to scan in damn nearly anything she wants and got sick and tired of having tool bars clutter up her screen in Photoshop. (actualy it was Painter6 that made her decide on the dualhead setup, Painter6 practicaly FILLS the screen with nothing but buttons and icons and toolbars and menuboxs, bleh.)
Does it have a orintation censor so if I krazy glue it to the ceiling the display will flip verticly?
:) One use for that flexi-monitor thingy! Hehe. Use it in bed. :) Have a monitor hanging down and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. w00t. This thing could be halfway cool after all, LOL!
That'd rock.
Oh wait, its a mac, N/M.
"like the old iMac because, as a piece of furniture, it gives any room a modern, happy-go-lucky feel that makes me smile. "
:) )
My Full Tower Made Outa Steel Damn Nearly Fucking Bullet Proof Can Support Over 200LBs case makes ME smile.
Its beige.
I like beige.
Beige and grey.
Anything else should get you SHOT. Dead. And then beaten.
With a cat.
And then burned.
Without the cat.
(nothing against cats, I love cats, wouldn't want to ever harm a cat even if the cat did own an imac, but damnit, people with colored computers. . . . Unless they made the case themselves of course, then _THAT_ is cool.
My dearest 45 year old mother, defintly a home user, has gotten a new video card, SCSI card, and 2 new HDs.
.)
Firewire adds an extra $100 to the price of a HD. When paying $160 for a HD to begin with, excuse me if adding $100 to that seems a bit silly.
She wanted higher refresh rates and dual moniter support. A new video card + an old monitor lying around was cheaper then a new monitor with a higher refresh rate.
(of course if your an apple customer with an integrated monitor you just gotta buy an entire new computer. . . . oh joy. . .
The SCSI card was for the SCSI scanner. Nice scanner, cheap on Ebay, couldn't afford it any other way. (and besides, HQ USB scanners hadn't quite taken off at that point in time yet.)
She is a home user. She also had to get a full tower case to shove all of her 'home user' stuff in. ^_^
I was stupid enough to buy a Sony made Digicam (damn nice Digicam though). I am stuck with those horribly expensive Sony Digital Memory Sticks!! AARG!!
Heh.
No way you'd fit a HD in those things footprint though. Man are they SMALL! After getting used to them I was shocked at how HUGE regular memory card seem to be.
Still doesn't help much with the fact that the d*mn things are expensive as hell though.
Then again the CIGARET ADAPTOR for the BATTERY for my digicam costs *$90* (!!!)
A new battery only costs $60, heh.