My record is about 52 hours; During the last five hours myself and a few friends of mine went to go see Hannibal at the movies. Given the state I was in, I probably should have fallen asleep...but I ended up wide awake throughout the picture and the ending, screwed up as it was...caused me to burst out laughing hysterically. I didn't stop laughing until 15 minutes after the film was over and we were all at IHOP for a bite to eat.
Yep. Lack of sleep will do very interesting things to you. However since then I've discovered certain supplements that will keep you functioning normally (a 300mg Caffiene+25mg ephradine supplement usually does a great job at keeping you awake and functioning without paranoia).
I was referring to free and easy to use Graphing Calculator programs, not necessarily huge expensive (not to mention combersome and bloated) packages such as Mathmatica & Matlab.
I'm not looking for an emulation of another hardware platform....just a simple Graphing Calculator app for me to use, without having to dig up ROM images or anything of the like.
Macs have come with an amazing 3D graphing calculator for years...and for the first time, Windows users have something similar in the WinXP Powertoys' Graphing Calculator.
No...I don't. But M$ always marks up things much higher than they should be. I would cross check the prices between the PC & Mac versions just to be sure. I highly doubt there's much of a cross-platform price difference.e
Office for PCs costs the same amount--sometimes upwards of $500-600 (depending on the version you go for). Office v.X and Office XP are almost identical in price...so he wasn't referring to Office when he spoke of price benefits.
I think he was actually referring to support and upkeep costs....which for him would seem to be cheaper.
When I was back in High School, I would never have bought a TI-92 (the plus hadn't come out yet) because due to its QWERTY keyboard layout it was banned on all tests--most notably the SAT.
A couple years later when I went to college, the TI-89 came out with all the functionality of a TI-92 PLUS in a TI-86 packaging---perfect I told myself. That would have made the ultimate calculator for High School or College.
Now they go back to the TI-92 type layout. This is probably good for professionals, and it is no doubt a good machine, but I would never use it when its already larger than my Sony 505 laptop. (Granted, no good Graphic Calculator software exists for PCs besides the XP powertoy which won't run on this laptop).
I wish they had kept the TI-xx naming string too, because those models already have an established market--and with this new name, that might be lost.
Anyone bet how long it'll be until we see the TI-90 with components from this new one but in a TI-90 formfactor?
Ok....I can understand things going for a lot of money if they're authentic. But people bidding a couple thousand dollars to get a really nicely painted AMT/Ertl model that you can buy in any Kay-Bee Toy Store is quite funny.
I mean there is a certain thing to be said for them to be painted & detailed by actual ILM modelmakers, but the least they could have done was actually have them be authentic ILM models and not the historically-badly-made-and-badly-manufactered AMT kits. I have a few of the Star Trek kits that AMT makes and they are so badly done that there are actually entire websites devoted to giving instructions and selling parts so that the pieces will actually fit together properly!
LOL. People make way too big a deal about this stuff. Slashdot is about conversation....and I'd say many more people around here pick up much stupider details than I would ever consider. So lay off dude.
I haven't lost any sleep, other than what I normally lose due to a bad work schedule. I really could care less about how your car actually looks. If it was a two-door, then I would say cool...that's all. Chill.
You are correct. I do actually use USguard now...but I rarely use the calc anymore. Back in the day I did use Zshell, but got Usguard from a friend about three years ago and have used it in some limited form ever since.
You should pay attention to whom you call an idiot.
I did read the whole site, dumbass. The site claims that VMware was used only for GPS equipment for Win98, yet the desktop shows Windoze clearly being used for other purposes as well...including Winamp/MP3 playing.
WIth all that work on WIndows, it makes you wonder why he even installed windows.
As for the Jetta Coupe ordeal, the PICTURES clearly show a sedan, but the features with the "beauty" shots clearly shows a Coupe....with him trying to show how nice a car he has, you'd figure he'd actually show HIS car! (Notice he never takes any pictures of the exterior of his own car--lowered suspension my ass.)
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I forgot to mention that its not just the widgets...but the Winamp/Nullsoft for Windows icons too.
And WHO in their right minds uses fake woodgrain on a Jetta? That makes the entire car look sooo cheezy!
In addition the the screenshots that look a whole lot like Windows to me....I noticed that on the features page it shows a car which isn't even available in the US (yet the car has Florida Plates)---the Jetta 2 Door!
The TI-82,83,85, and 86 are the ones MOST people use. These calculators are still sold and in great numbers I might add. They all use Z80 processors and, for the most part, run great.
I used to laugh that I had two Z80s in my room (one in my Sega Genesis(with a 68k in my Sega CD), and one in my calculator) which were performing completely different types of operations. At least until I got my hands on Zshell and the like for my TI-85 and started playing tetris on it all the time.
I don't understand for the life of me why this guy kept bitching about not being able to compile things...seems like this guy had more trouble than I've ever heard of to get to these things.
And then there was Apache...why oh why did he feel the need to recompile Apache, when OSX comes with a Native Version of the damned thing that is far easier to use and confiugre than our standard *nix Apache.
This may seem like a flame--and it probably is, but why the reluctance to post this news bit?
"was among the onslaught of readers who submitted"
I know I submitted it nine hours ago, and it was almost immediately rejected. I figured someone else had already submitted it and that it would be up on the Frontpage almost immediately. Yet, hours go by, and still no news.
If anything would qualify as "news for nerds"--I figure this would. Why the delay?
I think that its WAY too early to be saying anything about Code Red yet. I dunno why the Washington Post, et. al. were making a so-called 8:00pm deadline...considering it wasn't supposed to start until the 1st anyway--not the 31st.
If we remember from last time, the spread didn't start to go insane until 1-2:00pm...which would make the net slow down right...about........now.
And, as for being a jerk in the past, IBM was the absolute worst for many years. They were the microsoft of the 60's-80's. I think they are now one of the absolute coolest companies. Competition does wonderful things to work ethics
Kinda makes you wonder if Microsoft will be "one of the absolute coolest companies" in twenty years. Heh.
A photo of the Panasonic Media unit can be found here.
Gamespot also has an article about the Gamecube here...but the part where it mentions the Panasonic media unit I've shamelessly ripped:
Another company that Nintendo has worked closely with during the development of the GameCube hardware is Matsushita. Matsushita will design and produce a proprietary DVD drive for the GameCube, one that will use 8cm optical discs (which will hold 1.5GB of data--twice the capacity of CD-ROMs). This will give the GameCube the ability to stream FMV cinema sequences without the inhibitive cost of using large cartridges. While the discs and disc drive used for the GameCube are a derivative of the DVD format, the GameCube will not have the ability to play DVD movies. Nintendo announced at E3 1999 that Matsushita (Panasonic) would eventually release a DVD player with the GameCube hardware included, and the unit was finally shown at E3 2001. While Panasonic will release the unit in the US for a rumored $299, Nintendo is positioning the GameCube as a video game console and not an all-encompassing entertainment device. Therefore, it was no surprise when Nintendo announced that the GameCube will be sold for $199 when it's launched on November 5. No definitive pricing has been announced for the GameCube-DVD player hybrid from Panasonic, but Matsushita has hinted that it could sell for under $300 and will likely be sold in both Japan and North America.
a) It's proprietary to Nintendo and Matsushita (probably based on DVD technology), and can hold about 1.5 Gigs.
b) Sometime next spring, a version will be released which can play DVDs.
That's exactly my point. One of the things that always pissed folks off about Nintendo was that they HAD to use proprietary formats. They didn't create the N64 as a CD platform for exatly that reason. They also ditched their SNES CD platform once again for that reason.
And yes, you are right--Panasonic (who deleloped the tech, which is based on DVD techonology), will be selling an all-in-one media system that will have GameCube hardware and DVD playback. It looks like a shinier vesion of the Cube with more buttons.
I don't see how purple is related to Pokemon, BTW. Could you please clarify?
Not necessarily the purple, although I'm sure that has some resemblence as well--but the Silver and Gold ones are DIRECTLY related to Pokemon, as they market the Gameboys the same way (get these NEW collectors Gameboys in Pokemon Gold & Silver!--spare me). I have no problem with a couple colors to have them as colors, but when the reason they exist is because of PokeCRAP then I'd say no thanks. I actually think the system in a brushed metal silver would look very nice--but not if it has some Character scrawled all over it as well.
Wow that thing is ugly. Now--it may be small, but that may work against it. Using 3.5" CDs will definitely work against it. When the XBox and Playststion 2 are using DVDs for storage, Nintendo is using CDs with 1/10th of the size?? Are they insane?
Even if they were 3.5" DVDs (which I've never heard of), they would still only be able to hold less than 1/2 of what an Xbox or PS2 can on a single disc. So much for nice large textures on the games....
Not to mention the fact that the thing is gonna be in *cough* Pokemon colors. No thanks. Once it and the Xbox come out--I think I'm gonna buy that PS2 Gran Turismo 3 bundle for $150:-)
John Romero & Tom Hall started ION Storm in Dallas for the single reason of making those two games. They each had a vision of one game they wanted to make, and now that Anachronox is finally finished, it's done.
If they were looking to make ION Dallas last longer, then perhaps they shouldn't have sold out to Eidos.
They way I see it, it's all perfectly logical. Too bad they have to ditch the really nice office though...apparently the Dallas offices were pretty high-class, perhaps a bit too much so. Oh well.
Am I the only person who saw that and thought "PS/2? Why would someone make a new hard drive for a machine that has been out of production for over ten years??"
I don't want no steenking hard drive for a IBM PS/2....
(Taco, take the hint, its PS2, not PS/2, but even then you should probably just stick to Playstation 2...its only a few more letters!)
If they want some new one-liners perhaps they should send a spy over to Bruce Campbell's house. He's actually pretty cool in person and will spit out one liners like you wouldn't believe.
After all, it wouldn't be like they've never used his material before....
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My record is about 52 hours; During the last five hours myself and a few friends of mine went to go see Hannibal at the movies. Given the state I was in, I probably should have fallen asleep...but I ended up wide awake throughout the picture and the ending, screwed up as it was...caused me to burst out laughing hysterically. I didn't stop laughing until 15 minutes after the film was over and we were all at IHOP for a bite to eat.
Yep. Lack of sleep will do very interesting things to you. However since then I've discovered certain supplements that will keep you functioning normally (a 300mg Caffiene+25mg ephradine supplement usually does a great job at keeping you awake and functioning without paranoia).
I was referring to free and easy to use Graphing Calculator programs, not necessarily huge expensive (not to mention combersome and bloated) packages such as Mathmatica & Matlab.
I'm not looking for an emulation of another hardware platform....just a simple Graphing Calculator app for me to use, without having to dig up ROM images or anything of the like.
Macs have come with an amazing 3D graphing calculator for years...and for the first time, Windows users have something similar in the WinXP Powertoys' Graphing Calculator.
No...I don't. But M$ always marks up things much higher than they should be. I would cross check the prices between the PC & Mac versions just to be sure. I highly doubt there's much of a cross-platform price difference.e
Office for PCs costs the same amount--sometimes upwards of $500-600 (depending on the version you go for). Office v.X and Office XP are almost identical in price...so he wasn't referring to Office when he spoke of price benefits.
I think he was actually referring to support and upkeep costs....which for him would seem to be cheaper.
When I was back in High School, I would never have bought a TI-92 (the plus hadn't come out yet) because due to its QWERTY keyboard layout it was banned on all tests--most notably the SAT.
A couple years later when I went to college, the TI-89 came out with all the functionality of a TI-92 PLUS in a TI-86 packaging---perfect I told myself. That would have made the ultimate calculator for High School or College.
Now they go back to the TI-92 type layout. This is probably good for professionals, and it is no doubt a good machine, but I would never use it when its already larger than my Sony 505 laptop. (Granted, no good Graphic Calculator software exists for PCs besides the XP powertoy which won't run on this laptop).
I wish they had kept the TI-xx naming string too, because those models already have an established market--and with this new name, that might be lost.
Anyone bet how long it'll be until we see the TI-90 with components from this new one but in a TI-90 formfactor?
Ok....I can understand things going for a lot of money if they're authentic. But people bidding a couple thousand dollars to get a really nicely painted AMT/Ertl model that you can buy in any Kay-Bee Toy Store is quite funny.
I mean there is a certain thing to be said for them to be painted & detailed by actual ILM modelmakers, but the least they could have done was actually have them be authentic ILM models and not the historically-badly-made-and-badly-manufactered AMT kits. I have a few of the Star Trek kits that AMT makes and they are so badly done that there are actually entire websites devoted to giving instructions and selling parts so that the pieces will actually fit together properly!
Sheesh.
LOL. People make way too big a deal about this stuff. Slashdot is about conversation....and I'd say many more people around here pick up much stupider details than I would ever consider. So lay off dude.
I haven't lost any sleep, other than what I normally lose due to a bad work schedule. I really could care less about how your car actually looks. If it was a two-door, then I would say cool...that's all. Chill.
You are correct. I do actually use USguard now...but I rarely use the calc anymore. Back in the day I did use Zshell, but got Usguard from a friend about three years ago and have used it in some limited form ever since.
Thanks.
You should pay attention to whom you call an idiot.
I did read the whole site, dumbass. The site claims that VMware was used only for GPS equipment for Win98, yet the desktop shows Windoze clearly being used for other purposes as well...including Winamp/MP3 playing.
WIth all that work on WIndows, it makes you wonder why he even installed windows.
As for the Jetta Coupe ordeal, the PICTURES clearly show a sedan, but the features with the "beauty" shots clearly shows a Coupe....with him trying to show how nice a car he has, you'd figure he'd actually show HIS car! (Notice he never takes any pictures of the exterior of his own car--lowered suspension my ass.)
I forgot to mention that its not just the widgets...but the Winamp/Nullsoft for Windows icons too.
And WHO in their right minds uses fake woodgrain on a Jetta? That makes the entire car look sooo cheezy!
In addition the the screenshots that look a whole lot like Windows to me....I noticed that on the features page it shows a car which isn't even available in the US (yet the car has Florida Plates)---the Jetta 2 Door!
Something about this site seems awfully fishy.
The TI-82,83,85, and 86 are the ones MOST people use. These calculators are still sold and in great numbers I might add. They all use Z80 processors and, for the most part, run great.
I used to laugh that I had two Z80s in my room (one in my Sega Genesis(with a 68k in my Sega CD), and one in my calculator) which were performing completely different types of operations. At least until I got my hands on Zshell and the like for my TI-85 and started playing tetris on it all the time.
Is there a reason you aren't using Creative's regular drivers for Windows XP?
http://www.creative.com/support/winxp/
Audigy Specific Drivers for XP are here.
Why you couldn't find these yourself is beyond me.
If the drivers still don't work after using these, I think there might be a problem with your installation or some other hardware....
But the question is....what program did YOU use to write that editor of yours??
I don't understand for the life of me why this guy kept bitching about not being able to compile things...seems like this guy had more trouble than I've ever heard of to get to these things.
And then there was Apache...why oh why did he feel the need to recompile Apache, when OSX comes with a Native Version of the damned thing that is far easier to use and confiugre than our standard *nix Apache.
*Sigh*
This may seem like a flame--and it probably is, but why the reluctance to post this news bit?
"was among the onslaught of readers who submitted"
I know I submitted it nine hours ago, and it was almost immediately rejected. I figured someone else had already submitted it and that it would be up on the Frontpage almost immediately. Yet, hours go by, and still no news.
If anything would qualify as "news for nerds"--I figure this would. Why the delay?
I think that its WAY too early to be saying anything about Code Red yet. I dunno why the Washington Post, et. al. were making a so-called 8:00pm deadline...considering it wasn't supposed to start until the 1st anyway--not the 31st.
If we remember from last time, the spread didn't start to go insane until 1-2:00pm...which would make the net slow down right...about........now.
And, as for being a jerk in the past, IBM was the absolute worst for many years. They were the microsoft of the 60's-80's. I think they are now one of the absolute coolest companies. Competition does wonderful things to work ethics
Kinda makes you wonder if Microsoft will be "one of the absolute coolest companies" in twenty years. Heh.
-Julius X
Gamespot also has an article about the Gamecube here...but the part where it mentions the Panasonic media unit I've shamelessly ripped:
So there you have it.
-Julius X
a) It's proprietary to Nintendo and Matsushita (probably based on DVD technology), and can hold about 1.5 Gigs.
b) Sometime next spring, a version will be released which can play DVDs.
That's exactly my point. One of the things that always pissed folks off about Nintendo was that they HAD to use proprietary formats. They didn't create the N64 as a CD platform for exatly that reason. They also ditched their SNES CD platform once again for that reason.
And yes, you are right--Panasonic (who deleloped the tech, which is based on DVD techonology), will be selling an all-in-one media system that will have GameCube hardware and DVD playback. It looks like a shinier vesion of the Cube with more buttons.
I don't see how purple is related to Pokemon, BTW. Could you please clarify?
Not necessarily the purple, although I'm sure that has some resemblence as well--but the Silver and Gold ones are DIRECTLY related to Pokemon, as they market the Gameboys the same way (get these NEW collectors Gameboys in Pokemon Gold & Silver!--spare me). I have no problem with a couple colors to have them as colors, but when the reason they exist is because of PokeCRAP then I'd say no thanks. I actually think the system in a brushed metal silver would look very nice--but not if it has some Character scrawled all over it as well.
-Julius X
Wow that thing is ugly. Now--it may be small, but that may work against it. Using 3.5" CDs will definitely work against it. When the XBox and Playststion 2 are using DVDs for storage, Nintendo is using CDs with 1/10th of the size?? Are they insane?
:-)
Even if they were 3.5" DVDs (which I've never heard of), they would still only be able to hold less than 1/2 of what an Xbox or PS2 can on a single disc. So much for nice large textures on the games....
Not to mention the fact that the thing is gonna be in *cough* Pokemon colors. No thanks. Once it and the Xbox come out--I think I'm gonna buy that PS2 Gran Turismo 3 bundle for $150
-Julius X
John Romero & Tom Hall started ION Storm in Dallas for the single reason of making those two games. They each had a vision of one game they wanted to make, and now that Anachronox is finally finished, it's done.
If they were looking to make ION Dallas last longer, then perhaps they shouldn't have sold out to Eidos.
They way I see it, it's all perfectly logical. Too bad they have to ditch the really nice office though...apparently the Dallas offices were pretty high-class, perhaps a bit too much so. Oh well.
-Julius X
Am I the only person who saw that and thought "PS/2? Why would someone make a new hard drive for a machine that has been out of production for over ten years??"
I don't want no steenking hard drive for a IBM PS/2....
(Taco, take the hint, its PS2, not PS/2, but even then you should probably just stick to Playstation 2...its only a few more letters!)
-Julius X
...when the shower actually was.
Astronomers expect it to reach its peak Wednesday around 3 a.m. EDT
Which was 24 hours ago people......the article is dated two days ago. Someone's asleep at the wheel.
-Julius X
If they want some new one-liners perhaps they should send a spy over to Bruce Campbell's house. He's actually pretty cool in person and will spit out one liners like you wouldn't believe.
After all, it wouldn't be like they've never used his material before....
-Julius X