I eventually installed Opera 9.x but that was too old (failed to let me access my bank account) and crashed a lot, so I put the Mac G4 to pasture. It also didn't properly play youtube videos, showing them at 75% speed.
Precisely. I'm typing this on an old 2002 PC compatible. I'm sure the hard drive motors will eventually fail but for now it works just fine.
I wish I could say the same for my 2002 G4 Mac. Due to Apple's process of refusing to support anything older than 10.5, I was left in the cold. I eventually sold it on ebay for ~$30 because it wouldn't run anything newer than IE5 or Safari 2, both of which failed to render the web properly.
>>>If I could get the hours lost back I'd be young again
I'm happy to say I wasted very little time on online games. I tried the various MUDs and of course Tradewars, but they held little appeal for me. Like today's online games they seemed to have no point, and instead I stuck with classic Atari and Commodore simulations/arcade-style games. Like Red Storm Rising & Stealth Fighter which helped me land my first job.
Also I'm happy to say I was never stuck at 300 baud (0.3 kb/s). Imagine reading slashdot if the messages scrolled on the screen at the same speed you read them! Zzzz. Well you don't have to imagine. Here's a demo (turn down the volume) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHwT6o6Jvw#t=2m
Based upon the various posts I've reached this conclusion:
- If this was France in the the 1940s I'd be issuing bomb threats and DDOSes against the Nazi buildings to "fight back" against tyranny.
- Meanwhile the rest of ye would be saying "It's illegal to issue bomb threats" like good little serfs, and saying while I & my colleagues should be arrested.
The 1977 Atari could talk, although it took programmers a few years to learn how to do it. First there was Pitfall 2 with music and then speech came soon after.
The 1982 C64 could talk out of the box (the SID chip could imitate a CD-style PCM recording).
Try playing PacMan on your PS2 or Gamecube using the analog stick, and after missing a few turns or running directly into ghosts, then you'll understand. It's fucked up. You need a digital stick.
Good idea but will never happen. It will get shot down as "taking away the people's right to vote". And besides even when States had the Senate, they still passed unconstitutional laws (like the Sedition Acts for criticizing the war or president), so it's not the solution.
>>>Why should states have declare a federal law unconstitutional to get it repealed?
Because the States have higher authority than the federal government. In fact they could abolish the US completely if they so wished, just like they did in 1789, and create a new union government. Or go independent. You see this is the hierarchy of power in our union:
THE PEOPLE (from which all authority comes and to which all common property belongs)
| Your State Constitution
| State Legislature/Parliament
| Union Constitution
| union government (at the bottom - as servant and nothing more)
The software could still be stuck on the Amiga where all this software originated. (Babylon 5 and seaQuest both had to use Amigas for their work - although they did eventually migrate to PCs.)
The switching from onsite servers to MS web-based servers is fine.
"You can't use open source software" is not. What kind of idiot would sign that deal? It means they can't use even something as simple as Firefox or Chrome as an alternative. Or OpenOffice. Or Inkscape. And employees installing these will face punishment from managers.
Where have ye been sleeping the last decade? The Honda Insight, Toyota Prius, and 2002 released Honda Civic are all hybrids and all meet your demands for unlimited distance, same cost as a regular car, and highway speeds. But heaven forbid you let facts get in the way.
It will. You forgot that prior to their One Baby policy they had a "make as many babies as possible" policy. So that naturally created a growth over the last three decades as the 60s/70s baby boomers grew-up and had children. BUT over the next three decades we should see a decrease as the Chinese Boom Generation dies off, and all that's left is the 1 baby per 2 people population. It's inevitable. .
>>>A two-child policy would be a little more tolerable, and would still result in a shrinking population
Yeah but too slow (reaching US 75 million sometime around 2150). Even with the one-baby policy we'll probably see near $1000/barrel oil before the population shrank below 100 million. .
>>>You'd have a hard enough time selling even that much to your general electorate, though.
I know. That's why I expect the decrease in US population will come through a very painful process of starvation.
Oh wait. That's because the tropical storm killed my DSL, and I'm stuck on dialup.:-| Anyway... I bet it looks fantastic in HD - as good as Final Fantasy Spirits Within. The software they used is called "Blender"? What other open source software exists for development? Like, is there a OSS clone of PaintShop or JPEGedit?
I consider using foreign idea WISE. We drain the Mideast and Russia dry of oil, then we tap our own resources (US and Canada) and become filthy rich because we'll be the only ones left with a supply.
And relocating people is great, if it's for a good reason. i.e. Not because you want to demolish a neighborhood so you can build a mall, simply because you (the politician) believe you'll get more tax money out of the mall.
Maybe the 50 Member States should call a constitutional convention before that happens, and add a few amendments such as "Corporations do not have the same rights as the People." ALSO: "When one-half of the Legislatures of the Member States declare a Law unconstitutional, it shall be null and void from the moment of its enactment."
AND: "The task of examining Laws and determining constitutionality shall reside in a Constitutional Court, independent of the United States, whose 7 justices shall serve for 20 years, and be chusen by the Governors of the States by simple majority ballot. They shall have power to overturn or affirm cases previously examined by the Supreme Court." AND: "Strike the clause 'and general Welfare'."
* *The typical SCOTUS judge serves 29 years. I consider that too long, so I made it two-thirds that length.
>>>Man it sucks you can't get add-ons like that anymore.
PS3 does better than that. It plays all the PS1 and PS2 plus PS3 games. And no expensive addons - it's just builtin, or as a software download. Coleco's Atari addon wasn't really that great anyway, since it cost almost as much as the full Atari console.
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Thx
Maybe I'll pull the G5 out of storage and give iCab a try this week. "Like a G5... rock it Like a G5"
I had 10.2
800 MHz
No never head of iCab.
I eventually installed Opera 9.x but that was too old (failed to let me access my bank account) and crashed a lot, so I put the Mac G4 to pasture. It also didn't properly play youtube videos, showing them at 75% speed.
>>>There are few reasons to upgrade hardware
Precisely. I'm typing this on an old 2002 PC compatible. I'm sure the hard drive motors will eventually fail but for now it works just fine.
I wish I could say the same for my 2002 G4 Mac. Due to Apple's process of refusing to support anything older than 10.5, I was left in the cold. I eventually sold it on ebay for ~$30 because it wouldn't run anything newer than IE5 or Safari 2, both of which failed to render the web properly.
Oh look... here comes the -1 mod patrol.
>>>If I could get the hours lost back I'd be young again
I'm happy to say I wasted very little time on online games. I tried the various MUDs and of course Tradewars, but they held little appeal for me. Like today's online games they seemed to have no point, and instead I stuck with classic Atari and Commodore simulations/arcade-style games. Like Red Storm Rising & Stealth Fighter which helped me land my first job.
Also I'm happy to say I was never stuck at 300 baud (0.3 kb/s). Imagine reading slashdot if the messages scrolled on the screen at the same speed you read them! Zzzz. Well you don't have to imagine. Here's a demo (turn down the volume) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHwT6o6Jvw#t=2m
Based upon the various posts I've reached this conclusion:
- If this was France in the the 1940s I'd be issuing bomb threats and DDOSes against the Nazi buildings to "fight back" against tyranny.
- Meanwhile the rest of ye would be saying "It's illegal to issue bomb threats" like good little serfs, and saying while I & my colleagues should be arrested.
>>>But does it run Linux?
Who cares? A couple geeks maybe but not 99.9% of the other PS3 owners.
>>>video game system, right?
The 1977 Atari could talk, although it took programmers a few years to learn how to do it. First there was Pitfall 2 with music and then speech came soon after.
The 1982 C64 could talk out of the box (the SID chip could imitate a CD-style PCM recording).
>>>What difference would analog make?
Try playing PacMan on your PS2 or Gamecube using the analog stick, and after missing a few turns or running directly into ghosts, then you'll understand. It's fucked up. You need a digital stick.
Good idea but will never happen. It will get shot down as "taking away the people's right to vote". And besides even when States had the Senate, they still passed unconstitutional laws (like the Sedition Acts for criticizing the war or president), so it's not the solution.
>>>Why should states have declare a federal law unconstitutional to get it repealed?
Because the States have higher authority than the federal government. In fact they could abolish the US completely if they so wished, just like they did in 1789, and create a new union government. Or go independent. You see this is the hierarchy of power in our union:
THE PEOPLE (from which all authority comes and to which all common property belongs)
|
Your State Constitution
|
State Legislature/Parliament
|
Union Constitution
|
union government (at the bottom - as servant and nothing more)
Could be worse:
The software could still be stuck on the Amiga where all this software originated. (Babylon 5 and seaQuest both had to use Amigas for their work - although they did eventually migrate to PCs.)
The switching from onsite servers to MS web-based servers is fine.
"You can't use open source software" is not. What kind of idiot would sign that deal? It means they can't use even something as simple as Firefox or Chrome as an alternative. Or OpenOffice. Or Inkscape. And employees installing these will face punishment from managers.
I can't even connect to AOL dialup using Linux
&& >= 60 km/h.
Where have ye been sleeping the last decade? The Honda Insight, Toyota Prius, and 2002 released Honda Civic are all hybrids and all meet your demands for unlimited distance, same cost as a regular car, and highway speeds. But heaven forbid you let facts get in the way.
The thieves are the ones selling software to steal your credit card numbers, passwords, et cetera
Thanks.
I see GIMP, Mypaint, Alchemy, Inkscape, Python, Subversion - did I miss any? Which one of these can handle GIF (jif) and JPEGs?
Dang. : MPAA sues "open source" : http://www.google.com/search?q=mpaa+sues+open+source
"Open sores? Of course nobody wants open sores." -youtube vid
Funny?
Reality:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mpaa+sues+"open+source"
>>>It hasn't exactly worked so far-
It will. You forgot that prior to their One Baby policy they had a "make as many babies as possible" policy. So that naturally created a growth over the last three decades as the 60s/70s baby boomers grew-up and had children. BUT over the next three decades we should see a decrease as the Chinese Boom Generation dies off, and all that's left is the 1 baby per 2 people population. It's inevitable.
.
>>>A two-child policy would be a little more tolerable, and would still result in a shrinking population
Yeah but too slow (reaching US 75 million sometime around 2150). Even with the one-baby policy we'll probably see near $1000/barrel oil before the population shrank below 100 million.
.
>>>You'd have a hard enough time selling even that much to your general electorate, though.
I know. That's why I expect the decrease in US population will come through a very painful process of starvation.
Yeah it is good. But why's it all pixelated?
Oh wait. That's because the tropical storm killed my DSL, and I'm stuck on dialup. :-| Anyway... I bet it looks fantastic in HD - as good as Final Fantasy Spirits Within. The software they used is called "Blender"? What other open source software exists for development? Like, is there a OSS clone of PaintShop or JPEGedit?
>>>they play differently
Hardly. Google slashdot's recent articles about Google's various pushes for new anti-citizen or anti-net neutrality laws.
I consider using foreign idea WISE. We drain the Mideast and Russia dry of oil, then we tap our own resources (US and Canada) and become filthy rich because we'll be the only ones left with a supply.
And relocating people is great, if it's for a good reason. i.e. Not because you want to demolish a neighborhood so you can build a mall, simply because you (the politician) believe you'll get more tax money out of the mall.
>>>T-minus 14 years.
Maybe the 50 Member States should call a constitutional convention before that happens, and add a few amendments such as "Corporations do not have the same rights as the People." ALSO: "When one-half of the Legislatures of the Member States declare a Law unconstitutional, it shall be null and void from the moment of its enactment."
AND: "The task of examining Laws and determining constitutionality shall reside in a Constitutional Court, independent of the United States, whose 7 justices shall serve for 20 years, and be chusen by the Governors of the States by simple majority ballot. They shall have power to overturn or affirm cases previously examined by the Supreme Court." AND: "Strike the clause 'and general Welfare'."
*
*The typical SCOTUS judge serves 29 years. I consider that too long, so I made it two-thirds that length.
>>>Man it sucks you can't get add-ons like that anymore.
PS3 does better than that. It plays all the PS1 and PS2 plus PS3 games. And no expensive addons - it's just builtin, or as a software download. Coleco's Atari addon wasn't really that great anyway, since it cost almost as much as the full Atari console.