Depends on how they are "spending" it. Are they giving away licenses to Windows? If so, what is the cost to them - $0.
Lets see them really donate $750mil by going to CompuUSA or something, buying $750mil copies of WinXP and shipping it over there.
Hell...I can give you $4BILLION worth of RedHat...buy one cd for $69 amount and print up a certificate saying you can copy/install it 5.7million times.
It's like the case a bit ago where they were gonna help everyone out by giving them their software which'll cost them minimal cd costs.
Yeah...plot was a bad choice of words. Hadn't had my caffine yet:)
I guess you could substitute originality, differing goals, levels, moods, etc. YEAH - plot should have been left out.
While some of the old games were the same thing with different sprites or just faster, at least in Donkey Kong you had 4 different screens. All the games I see it seems that you are two fighters standing on a floor and the only thing that changes from match to match is difficulty and the backdrop.
Even better is to learn to build this stuff on a system like HPUX or Solaris or AIX.
A lot of open source stuff makes the assumption that you are on Linux or a fully gnuized system.
It's fun doing the little bits here and there to get it all running on something that doesn't have all the needed stuff out of the box, or that doesn't compile smoothly because of bad assumptions.
I dunno...I think it's the fact that almost all arcade games seem to be clones that are killing it. Like the 2600 days, in the 80s, games had limited graphics, so you had to have decent "plots" and gameplay.
Now, it's all who can remember 50 joystick/button combos to dismember the opponent. So what...big deal...seen it once, seen it all. How about some originality.
1) I was glad that they had one of my old pages on there. I lost it due to a crash (my brain crashed and I wiped it out). I was able to pull it back off their site and get it right back running.
2) Are we not the same collective group that gets mad at NBC for not wanting us to use our Tivo's? I realize that there are a crapload of people on/., but sometimes the irony is just too much.
I love Day of Defeat. I'm married and have kids so usually get to play it at night after they're all in bed, so I seldom get to crank things up.
Even if I did, my ears are so messed up from '80s metal concerts, I probably wouldn't know the difference between 16bit vs 24bit.
But the audigy gave me two things that I wanted/needed. The first is the 4+ speakers. So now when I get killed again and again, I know which way it came from:)
The other is the onboard 1394. I stupidly bought a proprietary IntroDV board, which the company wanted to charge me to get the 2000 version of the drivers. Plus it took up it's own slot and could only connect to dv cams. Now I have an OHCI standards based port on the same PCI slot as another card that can hook up to anything.
My neighboor (who is 26 or so) bought the Harry Potter DVD because it came with some medallion or something like that. This then forced her to buy a DVD player so she could watch it.
So...if Circuit City just includes some toy from a serial box or whatever, they could make a killing in DVD and player sells:)
Yeah...tech-savy poeple may build their own, but unless you live in a cave, chances are you know non-tech-savy people.
And once they find out that you are, they will most likely ask for advice when buying a new computer.
So in a way, it's in wal-marts best interest to make sure that even the tech-savy people will recommend the Microtel's instead of "Dude...get a dell."
Then again last time someone asked my opinion, they didn't listen and got yanked. Best Buy salesman actually sold them virus software when they had the same software at home already on their now-very-dead computer.
Yeah...had one of those for a few weeks. While the region/macrovision stuff was cool, when it couldn't play DVD's worth a shit, I took it back. It had lip sync issues, branching issues, and heaven knows what else.
I've heard they've fixed that in the newer releases, but the menu oddly disappeared.
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I've got about 300 video tapes at home. Most stuff taped off TV. Stuff like MTV when they showed videos (yeah...I'm old), some shows from the 80s, Dr Who again and again.
Why does it need to be something that is currently on?
I think it'd be cool to fire up NapTV, search for "greatest american hero with the ghost" episode and let it rip.
Of course, if it is like Napster, it'd probably be the wrong show misnamed and only half of that.
I was looking at another job. It wasn't the money, it was the bosses boss that was a pain. I was given a counter-offer. I still took the other job. 3 months later I was back at the first job with an even higher salary. That was 4 years ago...I've not been on any chopping blocks or anything.
Only thing in my advantage is that everyone knew what a pain the head boss was, so they could see my PoV
Add bluetooth to the phone. Add bluetooth to a PDA. Then you can have the PDA link up with the phone, using it as a modem, without having to use a wire to interconnect.
There's your killer app. PDA in hand doing whatever (watching streaming porn) while the phone is in your pocket (at least I'm assuming that's your phone!)
I was under the impression that they just hammer out how WAP works. The problem is while my standard WAP page may work on any WAP phone, if I'm outside of Verizons digital network, perhaps roaming on someone elses, I'm out of luck - I can't use that service until I'm back in there network.
Same thing with SMS messages - if I'm not in their network , I don't get them.
Being a state school, we don't wanna do this because of censorship reasons - so we are gonna rate limit all of the P2P traffic down to about 28.8 speeds.
I really could care less, but when our limited bandwidth is being chewed up by this and legit work/study can't get done, then it is a problem.
If the cable companies wanna pretend this is for piracy reasons, then get a few Packeteer boxes and only hit the P2P stuff. But like the article said it's a scapegoat to make more $$$
Of course, that'd mean ratelimiting port 119 traffic if they wanna be thourough:(
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Depends on how they are "spending" it. Are they giving away licenses to Windows? If so, what is the cost to them - $0.
Lets see them really donate $750mil by going to CompuUSA or something, buying $750mil copies of WinXP and shipping it over there.
Hell...I can give you $4BILLION worth of RedHat...buy one cd for $69 amount and print up a certificate saying you can copy/install it 5.7million times.
It's like the case a bit ago where they were gonna help everyone out by giving them their software which'll cost them minimal cd costs.
uh...how can you /. a site with the wrong URL? :)
It's http://videolab.uoregon.edu/
Hmmm....am I the only one that has never read Enders Game and instead took this as a reference to an episode of SeaQuest?
not according to Janes http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/jawa/ jawa001013_1_n.shtml
:)
Either way, I'm not gonna argue with one
I'm sure the military is flying their Apache's along 10 feet off the ground looking at the back of street signs trying to find someplace to land.
With a 30mm cannon, and a combo of hellfires and 70mm rockets, I think the answer is "wherever it damn pleases".
Even worse - the joke is on you. You look again and see that they have your wireless access point listed there as having a T3 connection for anyone :)
I don't know to laugh or be afraid of this one:
http://www.tackamarks.freeservers.com/ - how street signs tell the military what resources are where.
Seems easier than trying to make out SSID's that are half washed away.
Choose the "reconfigure" option and go!
Yeah...plot was a bad choice of words. Hadn't had my caffine yet :)
I guess you could substitute originality, differing goals, levels, moods, etc. YEAH - plot should have been left out.
While some of the old games were the same thing with different sprites or just faster, at least in Donkey Kong you had 4 different screens. All the games I see it seems that you are two fighters standing on a floor and the only thing that changes from match to match is difficulty and the backdrop.
Even better is to learn to build this stuff on a system like HPUX or Solaris or AIX.
:)
A lot of open source stuff makes the assumption that you are on Linux or a fully gnuized system.
It's fun doing the little bits here and there to get it all running on something that doesn't have all the needed stuff out of the box, or that doesn't compile smoothly because of bad assumptions.
Builds character and grey hair
I dunno...I think it's the fact that almost all arcade games seem to be clones that are killing it. Like the 2600 days, in the 80s, games had limited graphics, so you had to have decent "plots" and gameplay.
Now, it's all who can remember 50 joystick/button combos to dismember the opponent. So what...big deal...seen it once, seen it all. How about some originality.
Or even worse - MS no longer shipping a version with their stuff in it (yeah right), but could you imagine...
I've got Dell Windows (Opera and RealPlayer)
Oh...I've got Gateway Windows (Netscape and Quicktime)
I've got Compaq/HP Windows (Opera and Quicktime)
I still don't see where a technical solution is needed, just a contractual solution.
1) I was glad that they had one of my old pages on there. I lost it due to a crash (my brain crashed and I wiped it out). I was able to pull it back off their site and get it right back running.
/., but sometimes the irony is just too much.
2) Are we not the same collective group that gets mad at NBC for not wanting us to use our Tivo's? I realize that there are a crapload of people on
I love Day of Defeat. I'm married and have kids so usually get to play it at night after they're all in bed, so I seldom get to crank things up.
:)
Even if I did, my ears are so messed up from '80s metal concerts, I probably wouldn't know the difference between 16bit vs 24bit.
But the audigy gave me two things that I wanted/needed. The first is the 4+ speakers. So now when I get killed again and again, I know which way it came from
The other is the onboard 1394. I stupidly bought a proprietary IntroDV board, which the company wanted to charge me to get the 2000 version of the drivers. Plus it took up it's own slot and could only connect to dv cams. Now I have an OHCI standards based port on the same PCI slot as another card that can hook up to anything.
Oh yeah...and it was dirt cheap too for all that.
My neighboor (who is 26 or so) bought the Harry Potter DVD because it came with some medallion or something like that. This then forced her to buy a DVD player so she could watch it.
:)
So...if Circuit City just includes some toy from a serial box or whatever, they could make a killing in DVD and player sells
You mean one of these?
Wildcard T400p at $1495 - handle up to 4 T1's.
damn sniping campers.
Yeah...tech-savy poeple may build their own, but unless you live in a cave, chances are you know non-tech-savy people.
And once they find out that you are, they will most likely ask for advice when buying a new computer.
So in a way, it's in wal-marts best interest to make sure that even the tech-savy people will recommend the Microtel's instead of "Dude...get a dell."
Then again last time someone asked my opinion, they didn't listen and got yanked. Best Buy salesman actually sold them virus software when they had the same software at home already on their now-very-dead computer.
You'll never find a half-full pallet in a Wal-Mart
Yeah...but on some items, I find them out of stock more often than best buy - which says a lot.
Yeah...had one of those for a few weeks. While the region/macrovision stuff was cool, when it couldn't play DVD's worth a shit, I took it back. It had lip sync issues, branching issues, and heaven knows what else.
I've heard they've fixed that in the newer releases, but the menu oddly disappeared.
I've got about 300 video tapes at home. Most stuff taped off TV. Stuff like MTV when they showed videos (yeah...I'm old), some shows from the 80s, Dr Who again and again.
Why does it need to be something that is currently on?
I think it'd be cool to fire up NapTV, search for "greatest american hero with the ghost" episode and let it rip.
Of course, if it is like Napster, it'd probably be the wrong show misnamed and only half of that.
I was looking at another job. It wasn't the money, it was the bosses boss that was a pain. I was given a counter-offer. I still took the other job. 3 months later I was back at the first job with an even higher salary. That was 4 years ago...I've not been on any chopping blocks or anything.
Only thing in my advantage is that everyone knew what a pain the head boss was, so they could see my PoV
Add bluetooth to the phone. Add bluetooth to a PDA. Then you can have the PDA link up with the phone, using it as a modem, without having to use a wire to interconnect.
There's your killer app. PDA in hand doing whatever (watching streaming porn) while the phone is in your pocket (at least I'm assuming that's your phone!)
I was under the impression that they just hammer out how WAP works. The problem is while my standard WAP page may work on any WAP phone, if I'm outside of Verizons digital network, perhaps roaming on someone elses, I'm out of luck - I can't use that service until I'm back in there network.
Same thing with SMS messages - if I'm not in their network , I don't get them.
Being a state school, we don't wanna do this because of censorship reasons - so we are gonna rate limit all of the P2P traffic down to about 28.8 speeds.
:(
I really could care less, but when our limited bandwidth is being chewed up by this and legit work/study can't get done, then it is a problem.
If the cable companies wanna pretend this is for piracy reasons, then get a few Packeteer boxes and only hit the P2P stuff. But like the article said it's a scapegoat to make more $$$
Of course, that'd mean ratelimiting port 119 traffic if they wanna be thourough