I am not sure you are right about that. All of the computer stores I have visited in Berlin have two versions of Doom 3 for sale openly on the shelves. The "german green-blood-no-guts" version and another with a sticker on it saying something to the effect of "Original USA version, not for sale to those under 16 years old". It should be noted that the age for drinking and smoking is also 16 here.
Sadly this is already happening with my setup. I use a T-Mobile MDA III phone (aka Blue Angel) which has built in 802.11b and runs Windows Mobile. I use the PPC version of Skype to make calls, mostly because of it's excellent routing around firewalls and end-to-end encryption.
The good: Make free calls to PCs, cheap calls to POTS from airports and bars in far-away places. War-walking the city streets for free long distance is fun!
The bad: Windows Mobile crashes...ALOT. When using Skype the CPU demand of the heavy encryption drains the battery fast. On top of the increased battery use of the wifi this drains quickly leaving around an hour of talking off a full charge. Also if your connection to the AP is interrupted the TCP/IP stack crashes and you have to do a soft reset.
I have a theory that T-Mobiles WiFi drivers are so poor just to persuade people NOT to do exactly what I am doing with it. Free phone calls.
Hm. My bad. I read "using the same laser that burns your data, right inside your CD/DVD drive." on the page that it was linked to and assumed that they were talking about the one ALREADY in my CD/DVD drive. If you click on the FAQ it does say you need a special drive, which in my opinion makes this product even more worthless.
I am guessing that "Using your CD-R drive as a printer" is not covered in your drives repair policy. I would be careful with this, could be difficult to explain if the thing dies after using these labels.
I have seen a "proof of concept" video online where some people burned a GC game and then popped it in and played it. They had removed the plastic case from the GC and just stuck the full sized CD on top of the reader.
I can think of several reasons why this is not a good fix. Among them dust on the lens, and that the drive was not meant to spin full sized disks. If I remember one of the reasons Nintendo went with the small disks was that they could be accessed faster.
I have a Shuttle XPC SN85G4V2 with an Athlon64 processor and a nice fast SATA drive. The designers dropped the floppy drive for memory card readers, which so far has worked just fine for me.
Its small (comes with a handy carrying bag!), very quiet and powerful. Runs 64-bit Suse 9.1 perfectly and I can switch over and play Doom3 in high res.
The only complaint I have is that the internal (USB) wifi card is not working under linux. A good PCI adapter remedied that but took up the only PCI slot.
According to Doom3portal.comLinux Doom 3 server will be released soon after the first patch (that has just gone beta). We are looking at a few weeks or a month hopefully.
This is not the game just the dedicated server though. Some of the graphic effects (heat ripples etc.) require a DX9 video card so this is unlikely to work at all under Linux.
The on-tape version of this story was one of my favorite tapes for a long time. It featured truly excellent acting and sound effects and was better than any movie I can imagine. The horror in the voices of the travellers having returned and discovered what they had done still sends a cold shiver down my back.
I found a copy at my local library, definatly something to look up before it gets picked up by the movie fan masses.
As a huge fan of bad movies I have seen Manos about 15 times. It is the worst made movie in every way. Nothing went right. It is like a train wreck, so horrible you CANT look away. It was financed, written, directed and starred a fertiliser salesman. 'Nuff said.
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I have seen the new screens and the Sharp 3D laptop last year. The new ones seem to improve the 3D effect by having the parallax lenses arranged in a "Chessboard" configuration over each pixel instead of just vertical lines. The 3D effect is undeniably striking but still kind of fuzzy. It is a little like viewing the image through a screen door. The "sweet spot" seems a bit better but is still small.
On another note when are we going to stop hearing about these 3D screens like they are new? This is the 3rd front page story I have seen on it.
And on top of that several of the hosts on TSS are actively promoting Linux and OSS to "the masses" every day.
I think its great when they are warning people about the latest MS bug, and note that the open source alternative is uneffected... then they cut to a microsoft commercial! Have to get some damage control in during the breaks I guess.
I have been keeping an old compaq laptop alive with Knoppix 3.4 for a while. Of course its saving grace is a CD drive to boot it from...
I would say get a cheap USB CD drive but:
a. USB 1.0 at 1.1mbps will not be fun to run an OS from.
b. I don't think the chances are too great of such an old device's BIOS of being capable of supporting booting from USB.
c. No storage space other than floppy. Unless you run the CD and a USB key on a USB hub, which sounds just nasty performance wise.
Time to pick up a cheap notebook or palmtop. An old HP jornada off ebay can be formatted to run linux off a 256mb CF card. Maybe that would be something to replace it with on the cheap?
I am also in a place where the release date is quite a while away. I believe it was 8.28 or something, way too long to wait. I got the POT version, then read about how crappy it was and decided to wait for something a BIT better to come out. After moore giving the go ahead and the studio not caring people will jump all over it.
Do NOT download this CAM! If you look here you will see that people who have seen both versions have reported that there is at least 20 minutes missing from the middle of the movie! This is a critical part too.
Sorry Vcdquality.
If this will let you make VoIP calls from any wifi network it would be really useful (read cheap), especially in metro areas like Berlin. On the way from home to work (a 20 minute drive) there are just over 100 wifi access points. About a dozen are cafes and T-com public APs but most are personal APs built into the DSL modems/routers that are given away for free with the internet service. Half of them wide open and on default settings. Someone *could* park their car just about anywhere and make free calls etc, if they were into that kind of thing...
Xvid and Divx movies play just fine out of the box. With so many open source projects working on these codecs it would be unusual if it did not incude some.
I said "video files" not "video disks". Then again, DVDs do not play under windows without a 3rd party program either...
9.1 has to be the biggest threat to windows yet. I dropped the DVD in and everything *everything* I needed was there and ready to use. Even things like my Wifi network worked without any configuration and it played every video/music file I tried to open. On the install it updated all the installed modules from a local FTP server with nothing more than a mouseclick. These are the things that if they don't work out of the box can throw off people who are not willing to search google for 45 minutes to find out how it set up.
This is the first distro I have seen that I would consider the real "Windows Killer". The release of an ISO will put it into the hands of a LOT more people.
The only concern I have is that some of the more useful features may have been yanked due to space limitations. I believe the DVD is over 2GB, versus a 600MB ISO...
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I am not sure you are right about that. All of the computer stores I have visited in Berlin have two versions of Doom 3 for sale openly on the shelves. The "german green-blood-no-guts" version and another with a sticker on it saying something to the effect of "Original USA version, not for sale to those under 16 years old". It should be noted that the age for drinking and smoking is also 16 here.
Sadly this is already happening with my setup. I use a T-Mobile MDA III phone (aka Blue Angel) which has built in 802.11b and runs Windows Mobile. I use the PPC version of Skype to make calls, mostly because of it's excellent routing around firewalls and end-to-end encryption.
The good: Make free calls to PCs, cheap calls to POTS from airports and bars in far-away places. War-walking the city streets for free long distance is fun!
The bad: Windows Mobile crashes...ALOT. When using Skype the CPU demand of the heavy encryption drains the battery fast. On top of the increased battery use of the wifi this drains quickly leaving around an hour of talking off a full charge. Also if your connection to the AP is interrupted the TCP/IP stack crashes and you have to do a soft reset.
I have a theory that T-Mobiles WiFi drivers are so poor just to persuade people NOT to do exactly what I am doing with it. Free phone calls.
Hm. My bad. I read "using the same laser that burns your data, right inside your CD/DVD drive." on the page that it was linked to and assumed that they were talking about the one ALREADY in my CD/DVD drive. If you click on the FAQ it does say you need a special drive, which in my opinion makes this product even more worthless.
I am guessing that "Using your CD-R drive as a printer" is not covered in your drives repair policy. I would be careful with this, could be difficult to explain if the thing dies after using these labels.
I have seen a "proof of concept" video online where some people burned a GC game and then popped it in and played it. They had removed the plastic case from the GC and just stuck the full sized CD on top of the reader.
I can think of several reasons why this is not a good fix. Among them dust on the lens, and that the drive was not meant to spin full sized disks. If I remember one of the reasons Nintendo went with the small disks was that they could be accessed faster.
I hope they are not hosting their web site on it, it's down after only 4 comments. Not exactly a good indicator...
I have a Shuttle XPC SN85G4V2 with an Athlon64 processor and a nice fast SATA drive. The designers dropped the floppy drive for memory card readers, which so far has worked just fine for me. Its small (comes with a handy carrying bag!), very quiet and powerful. Runs 64-bit Suse 9.1 perfectly and I can switch over and play Doom3 in high res.
The only complaint I have is that the internal (USB) wifi card is not working under linux. A good PCI adapter remedied that but took up the only PCI slot.
Because certain effects will not show up if you run it on a non DX9 compatible card. These effects have nothing to do with OpenGL.
According to Doom3portal.comLinux Doom 3 server will be released soon after the first patch (that has just gone beta). We are looking at a few weeks or a month hopefully.
This is not the game just the dedicated server though. Some of the graphic effects (heat ripples etc.) require a DX9 video card so this is unlikely to work at all under Linux.
The series was called Bradbury 13 and the tape in question was reissued in 1997 under ISBN #0886466687.
The ones to look for are "A Sound of Thunder", "The Wind" and "The Screaming Woman". I must have listened to those damn tapes 50 times...
The on-tape version of this story was one of my favorite tapes for a long time. It featured truly excellent acting and sound effects and was better than any movie I can imagine. The horror in the voices of the travellers having returned and discovered what they had done still sends a cold shiver down my back.
I found a copy at my local library, definatly something to look up before it gets picked up by the movie fan masses.
As a huge fan of bad movies I have seen Manos about 15 times. It is the worst made movie in every way. Nothing went right. It is like a train wreck, so horrible you CANT look away. It was financed, written, directed and starred a fertiliser salesman. 'Nuff said.
I have seen the new screens and the Sharp 3D laptop last year. The new ones seem to improve the 3D effect by having the parallax lenses arranged in a "Chessboard" configuration over each pixel instead of just vertical lines. The 3D effect is undeniably striking but still kind of fuzzy. It is a little like viewing the image through a screen door. The "sweet spot" seems a bit better but is still small.
On another note when are we going to stop hearing about these 3D screens like they are new? This is the 3rd front page story I have seen on it.
I had a little japanese Nintendo games that followed the EXACT same design back in the mid 1980s.
I remember one had the Mario Bros shuffling boxes around, another had the Disney characters putting out fires.
It was a flip top just like this with the screens and controls in about the same positions.
So technically for Nintendo this is a retro design.
And on top of that several of the hosts on TSS are actively promoting Linux and OSS to "the masses" every day.
I think its great when they are warning people about the latest MS bug, and note that the open source alternative is uneffected... then they cut to a microsoft commercial! Have to get some damage control in during the breaks I guess.
One I have used for years. I am sure Mr. Irvin Tsnot at Real Networks is wondering why he gets so much junk Email...
I have been keeping an old compaq laptop alive with Knoppix 3.4 for a while. Of course its saving grace is a CD drive to boot it from... I would say get a cheap USB CD drive but: a. USB 1.0 at 1.1mbps will not be fun to run an OS from. b. I don't think the chances are too great of such an old device's BIOS of being capable of supporting booting from USB. c. No storage space other than floppy. Unless you run the CD and a USB key on a USB hub, which sounds just nasty performance wise. Time to pick up a cheap notebook or palmtop. An old HP jornada off ebay can be formatted to run linux off a 256mb CF card. Maybe that would be something to replace it with on the cheap?
I am also in a place where the release date is quite a while away. I believe it was 8.28 or something, way too long to wait. I got the POT version, then read about how crappy it was and decided to wait for something a BIT better to come out. After moore giving the go ahead and the studio not caring people will jump all over it.
Do NOT download this CAM! If you look here you will see that people who have seen both versions have reported that there is at least 20 minutes missing from the middle of the movie! This is a critical part too. Sorry Vcdquality.
Hmmm seven comments and the search is already very very slow (16 seconds load time here). Is it possible that we can bring down MSN with slashdot?
Hint incase it goes down: Its a google clone.
If this will let you make VoIP calls from any wifi network it would be really useful (read cheap), especially in metro areas like Berlin. On the way from home to work (a 20 minute drive) there are just over 100 wifi access points. About a dozen are cafes and T-com public APs but most are personal APs built into the DSL modems/routers that are given away for free with the internet service. Half of them wide open and on default settings. Someone *could* park their car just about anywhere and make free calls etc, if they were into that kind of thing...
Well there were two posts when I saw this thread and I could not help myself. It happens to the best of us. :p
Great now I can BSOD my brain!
Xvid and Divx movies play just fine out of the box. With so many open source projects working on these codecs it would be unusual if it did not incude some.
I said "video files" not "video disks". Then again, DVDs do not play under windows without a 3rd party program either...
9.1 has to be the biggest threat to windows yet. I dropped the DVD in and everything *everything* I needed was there and ready to use. Even things like my Wifi network worked without any configuration and it played every video/music file I tried to open. On the install it updated all the installed modules from a local FTP server with nothing more than a mouseclick. These are the things that if they don't work out of the box can throw off people who are not willing to search google for 45 minutes to find out how it set up.
This is the first distro I have seen that I would consider the real "Windows Killer". The release of an ISO will put it into the hands of a LOT more people.
The only concern I have is that some of the more useful features may have been yanked due to space limitations. I believe the DVD is over 2GB, versus a 600MB ISO...