I read a comparison chart of the caffeine in drinks. Coffee and tea were at the top, Jolt had about a third the caffeine of coffee, and Coke had half the caffeine of Jolt. So which one is this new guarana drink comparing itself to?
I didn't catch it until Parker and Stone said it out loud on Jay Leno. Nobody I told it to had caught it before, so I thought I'd share. Oh well. (shrug)
I recall in the backs of one of the Star Wars comics, they said something about the lightsaber's blade actually being an arc. It's a laser that shoots out of the handle, curves back on itself like a hairpin, and goes back into the handle. Yeesh. I think we'll be able to send Jodi Foster around the galaxy in a chair before we're able to make lightsabers.
I remember an old Far Side comic where these two parents were watching their son play Nintendo and they were daydreaming that he'd get a job one day "Saving the Princess" and "Defeating Boswer" for $50K to $90K a year. It was just a throwaway joke, but now that doesn't seem so far fetched now.
I knee-jerk reaction was to say "Just get Office98 for the Mac!" but I recalled several problems I've had with moving files between MacOffice98 to WinOffice97. Tables get lost or scrambled, imported charts and graphs become unintelligible too often to be reliable. This is especially bad when I send files back and forth from Japan.
HL was the first game to scare me with how sneaky the computer could get. After playing it over and over you kinda see how the AI works and patterns begin to form, but for video games it's the best I've encountered so far.
Steve Jobs got an assignment from Atari to design the circuitry for the sequel to Pong, which would be called Breakout. After a while, Jobs decided he was in over his head, so he asked his friend Woz to help him finish. Jobs told Woz that if they could design it with less than 50 chips, they'd get $700, and if they could design it with less than 40 chips, they'd get $1000. After four days of work, they got it down to 42 and decided sleep was more important than the 300 extra bucks they would've gotten. Jobs turned in Breakout, and wrote Woz a check for his half of the $700.
It wasn't until 1984 that someone showed Woz a chapter in Zap! (a book about Atari) where Steve Jobs got credited for making Breakout. Woz explained to the guy that he and Jobs worked on it together and they got paid $700. The guy says no, it says right here in the book that it was for $5000.
AFAIK, the commitment was that for 5 years, Microsoft would publish Office for Mac on parity with Office for Windows. Since the commitment was made in 1997, it follows that it'll expire in 2002. And yeah, I also wonder what'll happen after that...
Steve Wozniak set up a plan to give stock options to early employees out of his own account, under a program that they called the WozPlan. I forgot the details and the numbers (it's in the Mac Bathroom Reader) but he said he did it because he felt the early employees weren't getting their fair share of stock options. Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula told Woz he was wasting his fortune, but several people wrote letters to Woz thanking him for helping them to put their kids through college or start businesses because of the WozPlan.
Just a dumb piece of trivia, but: this is actually the second time Pirates of Silicon Valley is playing! It already aired a couple weeks ago, and several people have confirmed seeing it on a lot of the Mac news sites. There was a lot of speculation about why it happened, because a National Geographic special was supposed to air during the time slot.
I'm on one of the blue PowerMacs. The box on the QuickCam Pro said it'd work with USB macs and PC's, so I thought I'd plunk down the dough for it (My brother had an older serial QuickCam which worked great).
It sucked big nuts. The video would show up way too bright even after I tried to adjust it manually. Also, the camera itself would get REALLY warm before the video signal would die. I tried testing it on a PC to see if it was a driver problem. On Windows, it worked a little better, but would still crap out after a couple minutes.
What I'm wondering now is... was it just an isolated defect of this one QuickCam, or is it a design flaw that affects all USB QuickCams? I'm gonna experiment some more after I get my USB hub from Outpost.com, and then decide whether to get my money back or exchange it for a new one...
What exactly are they filtering out? The article doesn't seem to be clear on what kind of material is being censored. If they just wanna keep 14 year olds away from porn at the library, I think that's understandable, isn't it?
The iMacs are on a different speed scale, with a 66mhz bus and SO-DIMMs instead of SDRAM. Benchmarks I've seen of the 333mhz iMac showed that it was still slightly slower than the 300mzh Powermac.
Damn, maybe that explains why my USB QuickCam was on the blitz! My mouse and keyboard were running fine, but the QuickCam would overheat and get crappy-ass video! My brother had an old serial-port QuickCam from the old days and it had better performance than the QuickCam Pro I just bought... Ok, I will try it with a powered hub.
You know how there's a certain amount of bandwidth on USB ports? If your computer has 2 ports, are they bandwidth-independent of each other, or does heavy traffic on one affect the other?
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I read a comparison chart of the caffeine in drinks. Coffee and tea were at the top, Jolt had about a third the caffeine of coffee, and Coke had half the caffeine of Jolt. So which one is this new guarana drink comparing itself to?
I didn't catch it until Parker and Stone said it out loud on Jay Leno. Nobody I told it to had caught it before, so I thought I'd share. Oh well. (shrug)
"Bigger, Longer and Uncut" is in reference to a penis.
"Please remember that how you say something is often more important than what you say." -Rob Malda
I hope you interpret "how you say something" as having a diplomatic tone and open mind instead of having good grammar and spelling.
You should lighten up. Your attitude's a little more annoying than Hemos' grammar.
I recall in the backs of one of the Star Wars comics, they said something about the lightsaber's blade actually being an arc. It's a laser that shoots out of the handle, curves back on itself like a hairpin, and goes back into the handle. Yeesh. I think we'll be able to send Jodi Foster around the galaxy in a chair before we're able to make lightsabers.
I remember an old Far Side comic where these two parents were watching their son play Nintendo and they were daydreaming that he'd get a job one day "Saving the Princess" and "Defeating Boswer" for $50K to $90K a year. It was just a throwaway joke, but now that doesn't seem so far fetched now.
I knee-jerk reaction was to say "Just get Office98 for the Mac!" but I recalled several problems I've had with moving files between MacOffice98 to WinOffice97. Tables get lost or scrambled, imported charts and graphs become unintelligible too often to be reliable. This is especially bad when I send files back and forth from Japan.
Did S3 already buy them and jettison the Rio, or is it that the buyout hasn't happened yet and Diamond is dropping the Rio to look more profitable?
HL was the first game to scare me with how sneaky the computer could get. After playing it over and over you kinda see how the AI works and patterns begin to form, but for video games it's the best I've encountered so far.
The quicktime lawsuit was settled beforehand for an undisclosed sum. People estimate it at $400 million, but that's just speculation.
Steve Jobs got an assignment from Atari to design the circuitry for the sequel to Pong, which would be called Breakout. After a while, Jobs decided he was in over his head, so he asked his friend Woz to help him finish. Jobs told Woz that if they could design it with less than 50 chips, they'd get $700, and if they could design it with less than 40 chips, they'd get $1000. After four days of work, they got it down to 42 and decided sleep was more important than the 300 extra bucks they would've gotten. Jobs turned in Breakout, and wrote Woz a check for his half of the $700.
It wasn't until 1984 that someone showed Woz a chapter in Zap! (a book about Atari) where Steve Jobs got credited for making Breakout. Woz explained to the guy that he and Jobs worked on it together and they got paid $700. The guy says no, it says right here in the book that it was for $5000.
AFAIK, the commitment was that for 5 years, Microsoft would publish Office for Mac on parity with Office for Windows. Since the commitment was made in 1997, it follows that it'll expire in 2002. And yeah, I also wonder what'll happen after that...
Haw haw, you're joking, right? You're not serious about loving Microsoft, are you?
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I have an ATA card that has 2 cable plugs on it. Does this count as one controller or two?
Steve Wozniak set up a plan to give stock options to early employees out of his own account, under a program that they called the WozPlan. I forgot the details and the numbers (it's in the Mac Bathroom Reader) but he said he did it because he felt the early employees weren't getting their fair share of stock options. Steve Jobs and Mike Markkula told Woz he was wasting his fortune, but several people wrote letters to Woz thanking him for helping them to put their kids through college or start businesses because of the WozPlan.
Just a dumb piece of trivia, but: this is actually the second time Pirates of Silicon Valley is playing! It already aired a couple weeks ago, and several people have confirmed seeing it on a lot of the Mac news sites. There was a lot of speculation about why it happened, because a National Geographic special was supposed to air during the time slot.
All the reviews I've seen so far said it had big gaping holes, but that's it's still definitely worth seeing.
I'm on one of the blue PowerMacs. The box on the QuickCam Pro said it'd work with USB macs and PC's, so I thought I'd plunk down the dough for it (My brother had an older serial QuickCam which worked great).
It sucked big nuts. The video would show up way too bright even after I tried to adjust it manually. Also, the camera itself would get REALLY warm before the video signal would die. I tried testing it on a PC to see if it was a driver problem. On Windows, it worked a little better, but would still crap out after a couple minutes.
What I'm wondering now is... was it just an isolated defect of this one QuickCam, or is it a design flaw that affects all USB QuickCams? I'm gonna experiment some more after I get my USB hub from Outpost.com, and then decide whether to get my money back or exchange it for a new one...
What exactly are they filtering out? The article doesn't seem to be clear on what kind of material is being censored. If they just wanna keep 14 year olds away from porn at the library, I think that's understandable, isn't it?
The iMacs are on a different speed scale, with a 66mhz bus and SO-DIMMs instead of SDRAM. Benchmarks I've seen of the 333mhz iMac showed that it was still slightly slower than the 300mzh Powermac.
Damn, maybe that explains why my USB QuickCam was on the blitz! My mouse and keyboard were running fine, but the QuickCam would overheat and get crappy-ass video! My brother had an old serial-port QuickCam from the old days and it had better performance than the QuickCam Pro I just bought... Ok, I will try it with a powered hub.
Just out of curiosity: How often do you have to replace your batteries?
You know how there's a certain amount of bandwidth on USB ports? If your computer has 2 ports, are they bandwidth-independent of each other, or does heavy traffic on one affect the other?