How long will it be until parents are able to order tall boys or big breasted girls? Dad's will order football playing sons and moms will get beauty queen daughters.
I'd take the Sony ES home theatre over the 750iL any day of the week. Just imagine watching Aliens Special Edition on a huge screen, sound blasting from all directions... damn... now I know why I dont have a girlfriend.
People are once again realizing that there is more than one OS option. Linux and Mac dented the Win32 armor and now others like BeOS and Amiga can take advantage.
It's also apparent that specialized OS's are better than General Purpose OS's on some things. Linux is better as a server than Win32, BeOS is better at multimedia than BSD, etc etc. The time is finally right for the Amiga to be able to ge noticed and taken seriously.
I'm watching LeMans on Speedvision in one window and I have the GM feed in another window. I finally feel like the PC is fufilling some of those 'multimedia' promises I bought into years ago. Enhanced TV, stats, etc etc. This is a hell of a lot better than watching some jerky video of a movie trailer or watching a halfhour long flash intro. D
The DC is a huge hit in the US and Europe. SEGA has learned from it's mistakes and is set to be a real challenge to the PS2 when it hits the states. If E3 was any indication, then the DC might even outshine the PS2 this fall. D
3DO failed for the same reason CDi failed. They refused to admit it was a game machine. 3D0 tried to trick people into thinking that they could watch movies, order pizza, watch cabletv, run the house, cook dinner , etc etc with the box. The fact that it had some great video games was swept under the rug. Also, the $799 price tag was WAY to high. D
It's called 'Doing what you do well'. id makes great FPS games. Stephen King writes horror. Ferrari builds fast cars. id makes First Person Shooters. I dont see a problem here. D
So many eCommerce sites are losing money on an hourly basis that it's only a matter of time before they go under. CDNow, Boo.com, etc. BTW, has Amazon.com started turning a profit yet?
[plus, any eCommerce site that has a ton of Java and Flash deserves to go under. It's like walking into a grocery store with blaring music, disco lights and only 3 aisles of products. It's cool for a second, then it's get real annoying, real quick)
I think giving Scully a few episodes to herself will be great. Face it, we already know everything about Mulder (Auto erotic aphixiation..) but we know nearly nothing about Scully. This will give the writers a chance to flesh out the character without having to shoehorn Mulder's wacky comments into the episodes.
It really irks me when someone is tauted is a 'luminary' and we're supposed to bow down and accept that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. So, I'll be one of the first to 'Put Up'.
www.paylesswebhosting.com : Simple business design. Uses CSS and Layers, easy to navigate and uses a small graphics to load fast. Admittedly the layers cause problems sometimes, but overall, its a small, fast loading, stable site.
www.rothrockworldorder.com : A deceptively large fansite. Lots of information in easy to understand catergories. Not graphically intensive but not crowded with text or filled with empty space. For having over 70megs of info, its very easy to find you way around. The design stays consistent without getting stale or confusing.
www.jackin4beats.com : Very simple and straightforward music list. News along the side balances out the Site listing. The color contrast is strong but it goes along with the 'flavor' of the page.
There you go. 3 sites, each written with different tools, that serve their purpose a lot more than the 'web guru's' masterpiece.
I know this is sounds unproductive, but can someone explain to me what's so great about that site? To me it's unappealing, unimaginative, unstandardized, unnavagatitable... Oh I understand, it must be an artistic statement. It shows all the things you AREN'T supposed to do on a website. D
It aint free, but www.paylesswebhosting.com is $8.25 a month and has cgi-bin access,access to your log files among a few other perks. You can add as many email accounts as you need with webbased administration. And best of all, it's Linux/Apache based.
The Dreamcast can read GD-Roms but it can also read regular CDs. (In fact a few early DC games were actually CDs and not GDs). And since PSX disks are still normal CD's the Dreamcast will have no problem reading them at all. D
It's a sad commentary on the state of the US educational system when the most destructive piece of software in years comes from a family in a near-third world country and not an American highschool/college student.
I blame lax standards and poor foundations in the US educational system for this embarrassment. I can only hope that the next highly destructive computer virus is born and bred in the good ole US of A.
You can do just about anything with PHP and Perl. PHP is so easy to learn/use/implement it's tempting to use it for everything but there are times when Perl just screams to be used. I can see Rebol being useful in a few years once it's gained a few more features.
I truly think that the vast majority of Databases only need Mysql. The extra abilities of Oracle literally come at a great cost. Just take a good long look at what you need and what you are willing to pay. I think more often than not, mySQL would be the choice for the majority of databases. Tranactions,rollbacks, etc are nice features but most people dont need them. SELECT,INSERT and UPDATE....
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How long will it be until parents are able to order tall boys or big breasted girls? Dad's will order football playing sons and moms will get beauty queen daughters.
This is a bad thing.
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(My girlfriend is Minnie Driver)
I'd take the Sony ES home theatre over the 750iL any day of the week. Just imagine watching Aliens Special Edition on a huge screen, sound blasting from all directions... damn... now I know why I dont have a girlfriend.
But a Dual P3 933... it's just not fair!
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People are once again realizing that there is more than one OS option. Linux and Mac dented the Win32 armor and now others like BeOS and Amiga can take advantage.
It's also apparent that specialized OS's are better than General Purpose OS's on some things. Linux is better as a server than Win32, BeOS is better at multimedia than BSD, etc etc. The time is finally right for the Amiga to be able to ge noticed and taken seriously.
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Wow, Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!!
I'm watching LeMans on Speedvision in one window and I have the GM feed in another window.
I finally feel like the PC is fufilling some of those 'multimedia' promises I bought into years ago. Enhanced TV, stats, etc etc.
This is a hell of a lot better than watching some jerky video of a movie trailer or watching a halfhour long flash intro.
D
Sega showed a DVD add-on for the DC during E3.
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The DC is a huge hit in the US and Europe. SEGA has learned from it's mistakes and is set to be a real challenge to the PS2 when it hits the states. If E3 was any indication, then the DC might even outshine the PS2 this fall.
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3DO failed for the same reason CDi failed. They refused to admit it was a game machine. 3D0 tried to trick people into thinking that they could watch movies, order pizza, watch cabletv, run the house, cook dinner , etc etc with the box. The fact that it had some great video games was swept under the rug. Also, the $799 price tag was WAY to high.
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It's called 'Doing what you do well'. id makes great FPS games.
Stephen King writes horror.
Ferrari builds fast cars.
id makes First Person Shooters.
I dont see a problem here.
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[plus, any eCommerce site that has a ton of Java and Flash deserves to go under. It's like walking into a grocery store with blaring music, disco lights and only 3 aisles of products. It's cool for a second, then it's get real annoying, real quick)
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It really irks me when someone is tauted is a 'luminary' and we're supposed to bow down and accept that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. So, I'll be one of the first to 'Put Up'.
www.paylesswebhosting.com : Simple business design. Uses CSS and Layers, easy to navigate and uses a small graphics to load fast. Admittedly the layers cause problems sometimes, but overall, its a small, fast loading, stable site.
www.rothrockworldorder.com : A deceptively large fansite. Lots of information in easy to understand catergories. Not graphically intensive but not crowded with text or filled with empty space. For having over 70megs of info, its very easy to find you way around. The design stays consistent without getting stale or confusing.
www.jackin4beats.com : Very simple and straightforward music list. News along the side balances out the Site listing. The color contrast is strong but it goes along with the 'flavor' of the page.
There you go. 3 sites, each written with different tools, that serve their purpose a lot more than the 'web guru's' masterpiece.
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I know this is sounds unproductive, but can someone explain to me what's so great about that site? To me it's unappealing, unimaginative, unstandardized, unnavagatitable... Oh I understand, it must be an artistic statement. It shows all the things you AREN'T supposed to do on a website. D
This is basically the same thing, except instead of a pretty girl, it's other countries the US is trying to impress.
USA: Hey Europe, check it out, I can build an atomic bomb! Wanna go to the malt shop?
USSR: Big deal. I can put a man in space! So Europe, how 'bout we catch a movie later on Friday.
USA: Ignore that loser, Europe. That's nothing. I bet I can blow up the moon! By the way, did you have any plans for prom?
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I think the US lauch will be a bit different. Nintendo thought they had a stranglehold on the market in the US..and look what happened to the N64.
As far as backward compatibility with the PSX..the Dreamcast beat them to the punch. The DC will be able to play PSX games in a few weeks.
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The Dreamcast can read GD-Roms but it can also read regular CDs. (In fact a few early DC games were actually CDs and not GDs). And since PSX disks are still normal CD's the Dreamcast will have no problem reading them at all. D
I blame lax standards and poor foundations in the US educational system for this embarrassment. I can only hope that the next highly destructive computer virus is born and bred in the good ole US of A.
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At least it's open source.
Menstruation Arena:Extreme Bloodflow.
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