>>>I doubt anyone is using a modem in K56flex or VFast mode.
V.Fast == proprietary19.2 kbit/s so you're probably right. Nobody is using that standard. K56flex is what my Windows98 laptop uses. AOL handled it just fine last time I tried, although it was a lot slower (45k) than standard V.90 (53k).
>>>the 'shininess' wins with today's kids and they do NOT ever vote with their wallets. they buy sony blue ray, they encourage the DRM with their purchases
>>>Sony invented LaserDisc >>>Philips invented CD. >>>Interesting reads are wikipedia
Might want to try your own advice: "LaserDisc was developed by Philips & MCA." And: "Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976." Once Philips and Sony realized they were headed down the same path, they decided to cooperate rather than compete. (Versus Sony's previous decision to compete against JVC's VHS directly.)
BTW laserdisc and compact disc are not really the same thing. Laserdisc is an analog format like records, while CD is wholly digital.
Nope. Sony's design was rejected. So were most other 3 or 3.5 inch variants. The final Floppy was based on a conglomeration of multiple companies, similar to how the DVD was created.
Somebody else wrote: >>>What monopoly?
NES had over 90% share of the market. SNES was closer to a 50-50 share with Sega Genesis/megadrive.
Anybody who pays more than $20 for a new game is spending too much. All it requires is a year's worth of patience to wait for the pricedrop. If the game is a hit, it will become a $20 Greatest Hit, and if it's a flop it will be lowered to $20 or less to move it off the shelves.
Or we could just run Linux.
- I don't like linux, but then I don't like an OS that is controlled by Sony or Microsoft either. Whatever happened to respecting the citizens' property & leaving your goddamn megacorp hands off it? (Yanks wire from wall.)
>>>I think I'll hold off judgement for a bit longer on this one.
Has Sony done anything worthwhile? - invented CD. - invented Playstation and broke the NES/SNES monopoly. the end
I was planning to get a PS3 once the price dropped, but now I think I'll just continue playing my PS2 and 1 games. The Nintendo Wii is looking pretty attractive (although I hate playing Sonic with that damn controller that doesn't register my inputs). Or maybe an Xbox 360.
Any PS3 games that will not play on the 360? Or maybe just quit consoles and try computer gaming again. Haven't touched a computer game since the 32-bit Amiga era.
>>>their usage share is so low they can't influence much on their own. >>>
And yet everyone keeps copying Opera: - the "paste and go" function in the title bar - the speeddial function that displays 6-12 icons for websites - the online "cloud" storage of bookmarks so they can be accessed from anywhere - spellcheck - instant display of half-loaded pages - Turbo for slow dialup lines - and of course the biggest one: Tabbed browsing.
Plus other features I've forgotten, but originated with Opera originally and others copied. It appears this browser has had a LOT of influence.
>>>what happens if it is found out that eating this stuff gives you some kind of nano-enhanced synthetic cancer or something?
"Prions" is the word you're looking for. Random bits of protein that get into your brain and slowly destroy it (aka mad cow disease). I can easily imagine that being a side effect of cloned lab meat.
I played "Oregon Trail" in 1983-84 as part of my class, and it was not based on a computer. It was all read-out of a book like an old D&D game.
I thought the game "cheated" at the end, because the entire class made-out very well until the end, with no deaths, but then we reached the Sierra Mountains going into california. We were all exterminated.
What a letdown. A year of progress, just to die. I concluded the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books (and later Zork, Mindshadow, M.U.L.E.) were more fun than Oregon Trail. They had better "balance" and didn't kill-off everyone at the end.
>>>if you are not getting 5-10% of the vote, then your name on the ballot does nothing but stroke your ego anyways. I mean seriously, you are not going to win anything with less then that amount of vote. >>>
Jesse Ventura won. His party had less than 5% the previous election, but he still gained enough momentum to win the governorship. That would not have been possible if his party had been barred from being on the ballot.
Problem solved. The marijuana/cocaine/etc ban makes it illegal to imbibe these substances. So let's just do the same with alcohol, and all our problems will disappear. No more drunks == no more drunk driving.
Maybe we can give the Chinese the French ISP phone number: +33 1 72 89 01 50 (login: toto, password: toto).
- Or a free account on NetZero (limit ten hours per month).
You need to eliminate the 5-minute backup at the toll booth, and thereby save yourself ~2000 hours over a lifetime. You don't need the human face, just as you don't need an operator asking, "Number please?" on the telephone.
And if you turn-around and sell the Used book to somebody else for ~$3.00, then you've really only paid 68 cents. That's why I prefer the real thing - it has resell value when I'm done with it.
How can one be a Biology teacher without having a major in at least one of the sciences? Sad. Schools ought to demote these persons to HomeEc or English, and hire some actual degreed science majors to do the teaching.
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The article is about outliers, such as record players. Most formats disappear and become unusable unless you want to buy a used, worn-out unit:
Grammophones (the round cylinder things)
RCA CED (videorecords)
Betamax
Umatic
8 tracks
Compact cassettes
Digital compact cassettes
78s
Floppy drives for 8-bit Apples, Ataris, Commodores, TIs
>>>I doubt anyone is using a modem in K56flex or VFast mode.
V.Fast == proprietary19.2 kbit/s so you're probably right. Nobody is using that standard. K56flex is what my Windows98 laptop uses. AOL handled it just fine last time I tried, although it was a lot slower (45k) than standard V.90 (53k).
>>>the 'shininess' wins with today's kids and they do NOT ever vote with their wallets. they buy sony blue ray, they encourage the DRM with their purchases
Pay?
Purchase?
Not familiar with those concepts, but I know this one: "FREE: The Future of a Radical Price" http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V5CUHI
>>>you can find alternatives.
Yep. Emulators.
This link works with Mozilla seamonkey. Nice - http://juliamap.googlelabs.com/
Mozilla seamonkey is broke and won't play it. It's supposed to be HTML5 capable?
One of the first things I ran on my shiny-new Commodore Amiga in 1985.
BLOCKED. "The Websense category "Tasteless" is filtered."
Oh well. Guess I gotta wait til I go home.
>>>Sony invented LaserDisc
>>>Philips invented CD.
>>>Interesting reads are wikipedia
Might want to try your own advice: "LaserDisc was developed by Philips & MCA." And: "Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976." Once Philips and Sony realized they were headed down the same path, they decided to cooperate rather than compete. (Versus Sony's previous decision to compete against JVC's VHS directly.)
BTW laserdisc and compact disc are not really the same thing. Laserdisc is an analog format like records, while CD is wholly digital.
Really? Online games only last a year??? Then why would I want to invest in such a thing?
Nope. Sony's design was rejected. So were most other 3 or 3.5 inch variants. The final Floppy was based on a conglomeration of multiple companies, similar to how the DVD was created.
Somebody else wrote:
>>>What monopoly?
NES had over 90% share of the market. SNES was closer to a 50-50 share with Sega Genesis/megadrive.
>>>-You have to pay $60 per new game
Anybody who pays more than $20 for a new game is spending too much. All it requires is a year's worth of patience to wait for the pricedrop. If the game is a hit, it will become a $20 Greatest Hit, and if it's a flop it will be lowered to $20 or less to move it off the shelves.
Or we could just run Linux.
- I don't like linux, but then I don't like an OS that is controlled by Sony or Microsoft either. Whatever happened to respecting the citizens' property & leaving your goddamn megacorp hands off it? (Yanks wire from wall.)
>>>I think I'll hold off judgement for a bit longer on this one.
Has Sony done anything worthwhile?
- invented CD.
- invented Playstation and broke the NES/SNES monopoly.
the end
I was planning to get a PS3 once the price dropped, but now I think I'll just continue playing my PS2 and 1 games. The Nintendo Wii is looking pretty attractive (although I hate playing Sonic with that damn controller that doesn't register my inputs). Or maybe an Xbox 360.
Any PS3 games that will not play on the 360? Or maybe just quit consoles and try computer gaming again. Haven't touched a computer game since the 32-bit Amiga era.
>>>their usage share is so low they can't influence much on their own.
>>>
And yet everyone keeps copying Opera:
- the "paste and go" function in the title bar
- the speeddial function that displays 6-12 icons for websites
- the online "cloud" storage of bookmarks so they can be accessed from anywhere
- spellcheck
- instant display of half-loaded pages
- Turbo for slow dialup lines
- and of course the biggest one: Tabbed browsing.
Plus other features I've forgotten, but originated with Opera originally and others copied. It appears this browser has had a LOT of influence.
Hey!
Linux fans - Can I use Ubuntu Live CD to virus-check my Windows XP machine? It goes to desktop and then freezes almost immediately.
>>>In fact, sales will probably skyrocket.
Why not? Fish raised in giant pools sell like mad. People don't care as long as it tastes good.
>>>what happens if it is found out that eating this stuff gives you some kind of nano-enhanced synthetic cancer or something?
"Prions" is the word you're looking for. Random bits of protein that get into your brain and slowly destroy it (aka mad cow disease). I can easily imagine that being a side effect of cloned lab meat.
I played "Oregon Trail" in 1983-84 as part of my class, and it was not based on a computer. It was all read-out of a book like an old D&D game.
I thought the game "cheated" at the end, because the entire class made-out very well until the end, with no deaths, but then we reached the Sierra Mountains going into california. We were all exterminated.
What a letdown. A year of progress, just to die. I concluded the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books (and later Zork, Mindshadow, M.U.L.E.) were more fun than Oregon Trail. They had better "balance" and didn't kill-off everyone at the end.
>>>if you are not getting 5-10% of the vote, then your name on the ballot does nothing but stroke your ego anyways. I mean seriously, you are not going to win anything with less then that amount of vote.
>>>
Jesse Ventura won. His party had less than 5% the previous election, but he still gained enough momentum to win the governorship. That would not have been possible if his party had been barred from being on the ballot.
Problem solved. The marijuana/cocaine/etc ban makes it illegal to imbibe these substances. So let's just do the same with alcohol, and all our problems will disappear. No more drunks == no more drunk driving.
Note:
I'm being sarcastic.
Maybe we can give the Chinese the French ISP phone number: +33 1 72 89 01 50 (login: toto, password: toto).
- Or a free account on NetZero (limit ten hours per month).
No you don't.
You need to eliminate the 5-minute backup at the toll booth, and thereby save yourself ~2000 hours over a lifetime. You don't need the human face, just as you don't need an operator asking, "Number please?" on the telephone.
>>>Kindle: 8.09, Paperback: 8.49, Used: 3.68
And if you turn-around and sell the Used book to somebody else for ~$3.00, then you've really only paid 68 cents. That's why I prefer the real thing - it has resell value when I'm done with it.
The US needs an EU-type agency to monitor our corporations and make sure they don't abuse the citizens, or monopoly power.
How can one be a Biology teacher without having a major in at least one of the sciences? Sad. Schools ought to demote these persons to HomeEc or English, and hire some actual degreed science majors to do the teaching.
Maybe they can't do that because of Union rules.