Most of the time I encountered driver problems, the NT 4.0 drivers could be made to work, they just wouldn't install properly automatically. But you're right, there were some problems with drivers to start out with.
XP is an improvement over 98, but not over 2000. Your typical user with a typical machine will crash 98 every couple hours, at least, XP maybe once or twice a day, 2000 can run for days, at least. With heavy use.
I think ME (never had ME last more than a half-hour without SOMETHING bad happening...but I only used it on 2 different machines) was New Coke....something absolutely horrible to make the replacement go over better.
Regardless, there's not a lot of brand-dilution to be had here. The people in the west who would seek it out are probably the sort who already have at BEST a love-hate relationship with M$, or are slashdot users.
What about stateless persons? If you're not a citizen of any country, and are not subordinate to a state which is party to the treaty, does that make you subject to it? (Assuming you had the resources to assert any such claim meaningfully, which would be unlikely)
The reason I will NEVER play a MMORPG is that I expect to find BOTH of the following: The sort of people who would LARP if they ever bothered to step outside longer than it takes to pay the pizza guy; and the same sort of assholes who clog half-life servers who can't deride anything without calling it gay, and who usually have a name derived from Dragonball Z
In fact, the single greatest marker of a complete moron/waste of skin online is a name like SSJGOKU2002 or whatnot.
The biggest reason I still think TFC is better than counterstrike is that more of these shitheads play Counterstrike.
Anyhow, screw the game...the game could be 20 times as boring (see 90% of old BBS Door games) and still be fun if the other players were actually worth the semen it took to make them.
If there's a leak every so often, so what? Christ, there are diesel spills big enough to make the news at least a couple of times a year across Alaska...even if one of these things BLEW UP it would still be a more environmentally friendly option than what's in use today.
This is not only because they were created by the same man, but also both were drawn from the same source material. "Shuna no Tabi," ("Shuna's Journey") a graphic novel created by Miyazaki several years before he started Nausicaa. It is almost like they made two different movies from the same book. Well, not almost like, that is what they did.
It's quite cheap, pretty short, but pretty hard to follow if you can't read japanese, though, I think. Still, if you're interested enough, you can see the similarities just looking at the (full-color, watercolor...with miyazaki's fingerprints visible in some panels:P) pictures, it's probably worthwhile.
I got labelled as a satanist (because if I'm not a christian then I MUST be for satan) and treated as a social outcast (well, more of one), and actively harassed, because I wouldn't say the pledge.
Lucky for them I'd cooled off to the point of not giving a shit if they kept their grubby paws off me.
AND I pissed off one of my teachers, because her husband fought in Vietnam. Yay!
"put out so much good stuff throughout their careers which by my count ended after garage days, that now any sort of crap they come out with will make them good money"
Sounds like Gateway or Compaq/HP (and some are saying Dell, as well, these days). Build a reputation and then ride it, putting out utter crap...
I prefer the way Honda has exploited their reputation...keep the quality up, but charge more for it.
They're also really nice for drawing, especially if you like a really sketchy look. Beware, though, the tips break more easily than most pens. (REALLY annoying if you end up fucking up a drawing you just spent 10 or 20 hours on...not so bad in this age of cheap scanners, but 10 a decade or so ago...sometimes I just wanted to cry.)
But I like the 10 for a dollar Bics best for drawing. They allow shading more varied even than pencils.
With Goldwave (or at least, the old version I played with) you could open ANY file as a sound file. There were interesting possibilities with uncompressed graphics formats. Pop open a BMP, and so long as you avoid selecting the beginning of the file, you can apply sound filters and effects to your image file, getting effects you won't see in photoshop. Mostly worthless, but some quite cool.
People like it because was the first one that most current Final Fantasy fans played. Or barring that, the EARLIEST one.
Whether (or how much, at least...even I won't say it was BAD, just disappointing) people like newer Final Fantasy games, or FF7 in particular tends to depend pretty heavily upon whether they had ever played a Final Fantasy game before 7.
I tried this myself for a little while a few years ago. I'm sure with more practice it could be improved, but the best resolution I could get was about 6 feet. I could tell there was an object if it was about 6 feet across (good for walls, cars, stands of trees) and to within about 6 feet (if it was just a few multiples of that away). This in a few hours. I used a bottle cap to make my clicks. I suspect that tongue clicks would be less consistent (but on the other hand, would be more flexible)
I'd really like to see some independent confirmation of that Team Bat guy's claims, though. I've got doubts as to whether the guy could say, tell a curb was coming up while riding a bike, or avoid a signpost. Larger objects are easy to avoid. Riding a bike in starlight, you can hear mailboxes along the road better than you can see them. But some things, I'm skeptical.
Still, even if they can only detect larger objects, like buildings or fences, it would have to be a tremendous help in navigation for a blind person.
This is way better than say, someone hacking together something from some unfinished manuscript from after he started getting all demented.
You know, the only good thing about the death of Isaac Asimov is that he died young enough to spare us the senile ramblings of Heinlein in his waning years, or Clarke, now and presumably until Sri Lanka runs out of pretty young boys.
But for the overproduced pop-crap, where the real work is done by the people you never see, and may never even hear of, record companies DESERVE a bigger share.
To play devil's advocate for a moment...maybe THAT'S why they seem so keen on pushing just a few big artists? The air of legitimacy.
I know MY school didn't pull that crap. The problems *I* saw were that they tended towards the books with the most bells and whistles instead of the ones that were most useful (the Simmons calculus textbook, for example...1 1/2 times the size and price of Thomas and Finney, and about half as readable, but it had all those cool "history of mathematics" type sidebars), some professors would have students buy a dozen books and only ever assign half of them, and some teachers selected textbooks written by their friends.
I recall in a marketing class I took, there was a video, propaganda from the textbook industry, talking why textbooks cost so much, and about how expensive it is to produce a good textbook and how much graphics cost and this and that and whatever. Funny thing was was, when they were talking about graphics and photos, they showed images from a Popular Science magazine. When you're talking about a textbook which is for a freshman level class and sells tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of copies, those arguments are bullshit. It makes perfect sense for some graduate level mechanical engineering text to cost 150 bucks, if it only sells a couple of thousand copies.
Textbooks aren't a free market. Students don't have a choice, and teachers aren't always making rational decisions, at least with regard to the quality of the textbook and the students' best interest.
Yeah, but imagine the smell those burning dust bunnies will make.
Your home computer will now double as a universal home incinerator. Don't worry about dumping those old PCB-laden electronics, your CPU will take care of it.
Those old Motorola phones (with the trapezoidal batteries on back) are still fairly popular in Alaska due to the fact that they have decent talk time in the cold. Most phones with smaller batteries cool off too fast, and thus can give you as little as 10 minutes of air time in cold weather.
I had this AWESOME little CDMA phone when I was in Japan...a list of features that would be found only in the $300+ range in the US today (and it was the CHEAPEST PHONE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME....THREE YEARS AGO), a battery I'd charge AT MOST once a week...but if I tried using it outside at anything below about 10F, it'd die in 15 minutes.
Unless there's some subtlety to the sticking of things together with hot metal, I'd bet it WOULD be easy to do it poorly. (It's easy to solder poorly) At any rate, while doing it well takes skill, it wouldn't be hard to get the general idea of how it works. THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE BLENDER FAILS.
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Most of the time I encountered driver problems, the NT 4.0 drivers could be made to work, they just wouldn't install properly automatically. But you're right, there were some problems with drivers to start out with.
XP is an improvement over 98, but not over 2000. Your typical user with a typical machine will crash 98 every couple hours, at least, XP maybe once or twice a day, 2000 can run for days, at least. With heavy use.
I think ME (never had ME last more than a half-hour without SOMETHING bad happening...but I only used it on 2 different machines) was New Coke....something absolutely horrible to make the replacement go over better.
Regardless, there's not a lot of brand-dilution to be had here. The people in the west who would seek it out are probably the sort who already have at BEST a love-hate relationship with M$, or are slashdot users.
What about stateless persons? If you're not a citizen of any country, and are not subordinate to a state which is party to the treaty, does that make you subject to it? (Assuming you had the resources to assert any such claim meaningfully, which would be unlikely)
The reason I will NEVER play a MMORPG is that I expect to find BOTH of the following: The sort of people who would LARP if they ever bothered to step outside longer than it takes to pay the pizza guy; and the same sort of assholes who clog half-life servers who can't deride anything without calling it gay, and who usually have a name derived from Dragonball Z
In fact, the single greatest marker of a complete moron/waste of skin online is a name like SSJGOKU2002 or whatnot.
The biggest reason I still think TFC is better than counterstrike is that more of these shitheads play Counterstrike.
Anyhow, screw the game...the game could be 20 times as boring (see 90% of old BBS Door games) and still be fun if the other players were actually worth the semen it took to make them.
Goodness me! It's Marylin Monroe!
I once played Street Fighter 2 on the SNES against myself, hands vs. feet. My feet actually did pretty well.
If there's a leak every so often, so what? Christ, there are diesel spills big enough to make the news at least a couple of times a year across Alaska...even if one of these things BLEW UP it would still be a more environmentally friendly option than what's in use today.
These plants would be a Good Thing.
This is not only because they were created by the same man, but also both were drawn from the same source material. "Shuna no Tabi," ("Shuna's Journey") a graphic novel created by Miyazaki several years before he started Nausicaa. It is almost like they made two different movies from the same book. Well, not almost like, that is what they did.
:P) pictures, it's probably worthwhile.
It's quite cheap, pretty short, but pretty hard to follow if you can't read japanese, though, I think. Still, if you're interested enough, you can see the similarities just looking at the (full-color, watercolor...with miyazaki's fingerprints visible in some panels
I got labelled as a satanist (because if I'm not a christian then I MUST be for satan) and treated as a social outcast (well, more of one), and actively harassed, because I wouldn't say the pledge.
Lucky for them I'd cooled off to the point of not giving a shit if they kept their grubby paws off me.
AND I pissed off one of my teachers, because her husband fought in Vietnam. Yay!
"put out so much good stuff throughout their careers which by my count ended after garage days, that now any sort of crap they come out with will make them good money"
Sounds like Gateway or Compaq/HP (and some are saying Dell, as well, these days). Build a reputation and then ride it, putting out utter crap...
I prefer the way Honda has exploited their reputation...keep the quality up, but charge more for it.
They're also really nice for drawing, especially if you like a really sketchy look. Beware, though, the tips break more easily than most pens. (REALLY annoying if you end up fucking up a drawing you just spent 10 or 20 hours on...not so bad in this age of cheap scanners, but 10 a decade or so ago...sometimes I just wanted to cry.)
But I like the 10 for a dollar Bics best for drawing. They allow shading more varied even than pencils.
With Goldwave (or at least, the old version I played with) you could open ANY file as a sound file. There were interesting possibilities with uncompressed graphics formats. Pop open a BMP, and so long as you avoid selecting the beginning of the file, you can apply sound filters and effects to your image file, getting effects you won't see in photoshop. Mostly worthless, but some quite cool.
Without the state to punish one for doing so, you need only identify the spammers, and kill them. Problem solved!
It stands for "Fux0r." As in "Intel is gonna get fux0red."
People like it because was the first one that most current Final Fantasy fans played. Or barring that, the EARLIEST one.
Whether (or how much, at least...even I won't say it was BAD, just disappointing) people like newer Final Fantasy games, or FF7 in particular tends to depend pretty heavily upon whether they had ever played a Final Fantasy game before 7.
I tried this myself for a little while a few years ago. I'm sure with more practice it could be improved, but the best resolution I could get was about 6 feet. I could tell there was an object if it was about 6 feet across (good for walls, cars, stands of trees) and to within about 6 feet (if it was just a few multiples of that away). This in a few hours. I used a bottle cap to make my clicks. I suspect that tongue clicks would be less consistent (but on the other hand, would be more flexible)
I'd really like to see some independent confirmation of that Team Bat guy's claims, though. I've got doubts as to whether the guy could say, tell a curb was coming up while riding a bike, or avoid a signpost. Larger objects are easy to avoid. Riding a bike in starlight, you can hear mailboxes along the road better than you can see them. But some things, I'm skeptical.
Still, even if they can only detect larger objects, like buildings or fences, it would have to be a tremendous help in navigation for a blind person.
This is way better than say, someone hacking together something from some unfinished manuscript from after he started getting all demented.
You know, the only good thing about the death of Isaac Asimov is that he died young enough to spare us the senile ramblings of Heinlein in his waning years, or Clarke, now and presumably until Sri Lanka runs out of pretty young boys.
But for the overproduced pop-crap, where the real work is done by the people you never see, and may never even hear of, record companies DESERVE a bigger share.
To play devil's advocate for a moment...maybe THAT'S why they seem so keen on pushing just a few big artists? The air of legitimacy.
I know MY school didn't pull that crap. The problems *I* saw were that they tended towards the books with the most bells and whistles instead of the ones that were most useful (the Simmons calculus textbook, for example...1 1/2 times the size and price of Thomas and Finney, and about half as readable, but it had all those cool "history of mathematics" type sidebars), some professors would have students buy a dozen books and only ever assign half of them, and some teachers selected textbooks written by their friends.
I recall in a marketing class I took, there was a video, propaganda from the textbook industry, talking why textbooks cost so much, and about how expensive it is to produce a good textbook and how much graphics cost and this and that and whatever. Funny thing was was, when they were talking about graphics and photos, they showed images from a Popular Science magazine. When you're talking about a textbook which is for a freshman level class and sells tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of copies, those arguments are bullshit. It makes perfect sense for some graduate level mechanical engineering text to cost 150 bucks, if it only sells a couple of thousand copies.
Textbooks aren't a free market. Students don't have a choice, and teachers aren't always making rational decisions, at least with regard to the quality of the textbook and the students' best interest.
"Microsoft Worms Crash MD Trains into Ohio Nuke Plant"
Wow, that's so insightful...I guess you must have read the article, huh?
Your home computer will now double as a universal home incinerator. Don't worry about dumping those old PCB-laden electronics, your CPU will take care of it.
Once you get used to how it differs (and you can do that by clicking randomly a few times) it ceases to be.
Those old Motorola phones (with the trapezoidal batteries on back) are still fairly popular in Alaska due to the fact that they have decent talk time in the cold. Most phones with smaller batteries cool off too fast, and thus can give you as little as 10 minutes of air time in cold weather.
I had this AWESOME little CDMA phone when I was in Japan...a list of features that would be found only in the $300+ range in the US today (and it was the CHEAPEST PHONE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME....THREE YEARS AGO), a battery I'd charge AT MOST once a week...but if I tried using it outside at anything below about 10F, it'd die in 15 minutes.
Sometimes you lose something when you upgrade.
Unless there's some subtlety to the sticking of things together with hot metal, I'd bet it WOULD be easy to do it poorly. (It's easy to solder poorly) At any rate, while doing it well takes skill, it wouldn't be hard to get the general idea of how it works. THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE BLENDER FAILS.