I don't know about anyone else, but in reading the reviews for Diablo II the series definitely lost its spark. Antiquated graphics, an inept client/server system and more of the same "hack and slash" gameplay caused most reviewers to say "Huh? This is what we were waiting for?"
I say go play Baldur's Gate II for a real RPG experience. The Sims, Unreal Tournament and No One Lives Forever are some other great Windows games.
I doubt it. As long as it remains a "museum" and not a corporate "experience" it should stay close to its roots.
Although, that's not to say MITS had very moral roots to begin with (see Levy's "Hackers").
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That's a misconception, that RedHat in other distros are just taken the code out there and slapping it on a CD. They are introducing new tools (like RPM and various installers) which requires their people to get paid -- no other way around it.
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In a recent Slashdot interview, Doug Miller of Microsoft basically said that the Open Source business model doesn't work. Proprietary code with no source available is the only way for companies to make money on existing open standards.
What is your reaction to this comment, and do you think the current Open Source business model works? Does it need to be changed?
Well you can always turn Anime off through the user options. But I can't understand sometimes why a perfectly URL'ed and documented submission won't be accepted, and then this FUD crap makes the front page.
Posted this shit under 3 different names yesterday (including anonymous). How do you think they decide which one to actually post? (I didn't exactly have the negative Microsoft remarks in mine.)
Once again, every OS from Windows 98 on supports multiple installed network cards. I have the exact same configuration on my laptop (NE2K card in one slot, Dell TrueMobile Wavelan in the other).
In Windows 98 and higher you can install two network cards and have them run concurrently (I currently have that for my central Windows 2000 machine which doles IP addresses out to the rest of my home network). Try putting both cards in and just manuevering the cable around when you want to play games.
Still no reason to completely take out both cards and replace them entirely.
Speaking as someone who tried 3 DSL providers (Speakeasy, Bell Atlantic, and Covad directly) and 1 cable provider, I can honestly say that DSL isn't even in the same league as cable from a consumer performance standpoint.
True, you cannot get strong upstreams, but if you're running a site you shouldn't even be bothering with DSL or Cable, you should just go for the T1 directly. That's an established technology that can handle many, many streams of data in a fat pipe. DSL and cable are relatively nacient. For anything but the most asinine web sites, most serious web hosters will use established technology.
And from a consumer-support standpoint, cable has been everything I've wanted it to be. It was cheap to install, the service hasn't gone down once, and I'm consistently getting 2.5 Mbps to 3.0 Mbps transfers (perfect for splitting across my home network, which I did). DSL gave me nothing but frustration.
I don't know about anybody else, but did anyone else say "whew" when you read this? I was always worried that if, by some miracle, cryogenics was ever perfected and we could live forever, we would be stilted by a crunching universe (not a terribly fun way to die). At least now we have some extra time.
While most of the questions were answered pretty succinctly (I liked the straight-forwardness in saying "We sell software. This is what we do. That's why it's proprietary."), the unfortunate dodge of the Windows XP "fingerprint" ID upsets me.
I hack my machines regularly. Video cards and occasionally motherboards move on a 6-month to 1-year basis. I also reformat my partition every 3 months for Windows, every 6 months for Linux. Does this mean I'll have to be constantly calling in to get new keys? That's just ridiculous.
For those of us who have followed the rules, who haven't made a million copies of our W2K CDs and passed them around the campfire, this is like a shot in the face. I severly hope this is corrected.
(And as a suggestion, change the ID to the computer's MAC address. These things change a lot less frequently [How often does a hardware hacker completely change his ethernet card? Not often.])
And let me know where I can buy that $500 Duron/Celeron with that nice big 17" monitor.
CompUSA. Get a package deal with a Duron/Celeron 500, 15" monitor and printer, and swap out the monitor for a 17" one. You'd still be well under the $800 barrier (can probably through a DVD-ROM in there too).
I've been playing with it the past few days and I'm pretty impressed. If you're all going to debate the kernel underneath, don't bother. That's not what Mac users care about anyway. The GUI is everything.
It's a resource hog (don't bother running it below the 128 MB required) but it is perhaps the pretiest OS around. The Dock is fairly robust actually. You can put just about anything in it, and the OS includes options to resize it and hide it completely.
Being able to call up a terminal which is actually part of a Mac system absolutely rocks. Although, has anyone been able to replace the default shell with bash?
By the way, a few Mac users new to Unix have loved this little quirk of the shell (which is typical of the shell they are using in the Unix world): try typing Bill Gates at the prompt.
Well, I'm not a big fan of Bluetooth either, until it becomes more of a standard and less of a "good thing on paper" (remember Firewire, aka ILink, aka God knows what other marketing term they came up with?)
I have a 802.11b residential transmitter in my home and it works wonders. Fast speeds (11 Mbps), works with virtually every OS including Mac and Linux, and 128-bit encryption strength. The technology's not foolproof, but for what I do it works.
Then again, though, the whole draw to Bluetooth was using it in areas where close range contact was not only possible but essential. Like in front of a vending machine. I don't want the Pepsi machine down on the other side of the mall knowing that I'm buying from a Coke machine here. It's bad enough that I have to give up my privacy for one company (one of the cost "benefits" of Bluetooth) but two?
802.11b also has other problems. Most 802.11b client antenae are huge (the one on my Dell laptop bulges a good inch out the side, presumably to cut down on radio interference). Bluetooth, from my knowledge, can actually be imbedded pretty well in a phone. That might become a factor, considering the issues involved with 802.11b antenae ranges.
Who knows. Redmond, don't be a dick and support both anyway.
hehe A better practical joke would be to say that the color puce is the only color she looks "thin" in. You can get all kinds of great results by telling a girlfriend she looks thin in something.
"Yeah, that thong looks great, hon. You look so thin and awesome. Yeah, definitely wear it to dinner tonight. I know it's 20 degrees outside, but you'll look great..."
Works well if the girlfriend is really thin and bluffs on the fat thing (by the way, the above dinner comment actually worked).
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...like an X-Box.
I say go play Baldur's Gate II for a real RPG experience. The Sims, Unreal Tournament and No One Lives Forever are some other great Windows games.
Actually, they should just give up and start playing Baldur's Gate.
I doubt it. As long as it remains a "museum" and not a corporate "experience" it should stay close to its roots.
Although, that's not to say MITS had very moral roots to begin with (see Levy's "Hackers").
That's a misconception, that RedHat in other distros are just taken the code out there and slapping it on a CD. They are introducing new tools (like RPM and various installers) which requires their people to get paid -- no other way around it.
What is your reaction to this comment, and do you think the current Open Source business model works? Does it need to be changed?
Well you can always turn Anime off through the user options. But I can't understand sometimes why a perfectly URL'ed and documented submission won't be accepted, and then this FUD crap makes the front page.
Posted this shit under 3 different names yesterday (including anonymous). How do you think they decide which one to actually post? (I didn't exactly have the negative Microsoft remarks in mine.)
Once again, every OS from Windows 98 on supports multiple installed network cards. I have the exact same configuration on my laptop (NE2K card in one slot, Dell TrueMobile Wavelan in the other).
Still no reason to completely take out both cards and replace them entirely.
(By the way, if you're running a server anyhow you should probably be using FreeBSD/Linux).
True, you cannot get strong upstreams, but if you're running a site you shouldn't even be bothering with DSL or Cable, you should just go for the T1 directly. That's an established technology that can handle many, many streams of data in a fat pipe. DSL and cable are relatively nacient. For anything but the most asinine web sites, most serious web hosters will use established technology.
And from a consumer-support standpoint, cable has been everything I've wanted it to be. It was cheap to install, the service hasn't gone down once, and I'm consistently getting 2.5 Mbps to 3.0 Mbps transfers (perfect for splitting across my home network, which I did). DSL gave me nothing but frustration.
I don't know about anybody else, but did anyone else say "whew" when you read this? I was always worried that if, by some miracle, cryogenics was ever perfected and we could live forever, we would be stilted by a crunching universe (not a terribly fun way to die). At least now we have some extra time.
I hack my machines regularly. Video cards and occasionally motherboards move on a 6-month to 1-year basis. I also reformat my partition every 3 months for Windows, every 6 months for Linux. Does this mean I'll have to be constantly calling in to get new keys? That's just ridiculous.
For those of us who have followed the rules, who haven't made a million copies of our W2K CDs and passed them around the campfire, this is like a shot in the face. I severly hope this is corrected.
(And as a suggestion, change the ID to the computer's MAC address. These things change a lot less frequently [How often does a hardware hacker completely change his ethernet card? Not often.])
Yeah.. I had netzero install surfari on my computer without asking. It just installed and stayed there.
CompUSA. Get a package deal with a Duron/Celeron 500, 15" monitor and printer, and swap out the monitor for a 17" one. You'd still be well under the $800 barrier (can probably through a DVD-ROM in there too).
It's a resource hog (don't bother running it below the 128 MB required) but it is perhaps the pretiest OS around. The Dock is fairly robust actually. You can put just about anything in it, and the OS includes options to resize it and hide it completely.
Being able to call up a terminal which is actually part of a Mac system absolutely rocks. Although, has anyone been able to replace the default shell with bash?
By the way, a few Mac users new to Unix have loved this little quirk of the shell (which is typical of the shell they are using in the Unix world): try typing Bill Gates at the prompt.
It was the episode where Homer becomes the new trash commissioner for the town, and Marge gets upset over his methods of getting rid of the garbage.
Marge: "This place is becoming a trashhole!"
Homer: "Marge, ix-nay on the asshole-tray!"
Fox censors be damned.
You can think it up, but I'm sure Linus has thought of it before. :)
I have a 802.11b residential transmitter in my home and it works wonders. Fast speeds (11 Mbps), works with virtually every OS including Mac and Linux, and 128-bit encryption strength. The technology's not foolproof, but for what I do it works.
Then again, though, the whole draw to Bluetooth was using it in areas where close range contact was not only possible but essential. Like in front of a vending machine. I don't want the Pepsi machine down on the other side of the mall knowing that I'm buying from a Coke machine here. It's bad enough that I have to give up my privacy for one company (one of the cost "benefits" of Bluetooth) but two?
802.11b also has other problems. Most 802.11b client antenae are huge (the one on my Dell laptop bulges a good inch out the side, presumably to cut down on radio interference). Bluetooth, from my knowledge, can actually be imbedded pretty well in a phone. That might become a factor, considering the issues involved with 802.11b antenae ranges.
Who knows. Redmond, don't be a dick and support both anyway.
Uh, I was talking about Jobs?
You try getting a bio/med student to go out in something unconservative.
Ahem, Windows 2000 Professional (desktop) and Apache is kinda fun. :)
If you think that's bad, you should try starting OS 9.1 Classic from within OS X. Be prepared to go get a cup of coffee.
"Yeah, that thong looks great, hon. You look so thin and awesome. Yeah, definitely wear it to dinner tonight. I know it's 20 degrees outside, but you'll look great..."
Works well if the girlfriend is really thin and bluffs on the fat thing (by the way, the above dinner comment actually worked).