What would have been great is if Arnold played the actual human being that the original T800 model was based on. No robotic parts inside, just 100% human guts.
There are games that are quite good that are quite difficult to find even copies of. Some of these are due to the fact there is a small release, and a great game goes unnoticed, whether it's from a small no-name publisher and it's not hyped by the media, or what. It happens.
I know this very well; some of my favorite games are ones that never seemed to be very popular. That's why I said "chances are better than fair" -- that wasn't sarcasm, I really do think that there are a decent number of good games that never got a chance in the market due to bad positioning, bad timing, or fickle audiences who only eat what they've gotten used to being spoon fed.
As for bit rot, there's good backup schemes and hardware emulation. There's some specialty hardware you can't duplicate easily, but most games don't require it. Even if your backups fail, the bits very likely still exist somewhere on the internet where you can download them for free, if illegally.
Games are software. Software is bits. Bits are infinitely copyable.
Why is any game rare? If it is rare, it must mean few people are copying it. If few people are copying it, it must mean it's not popular. If it's not popular, chances are better than fair that it sucks.
I could give a ratfuck about the original packaging.
Actually, the search engine is probably extremely complex. It's the interface and the web site that's simple. If it wasn't this way, it wouldn't be great.
$30 is a nice dinner somewhere with my girlfriend. $30 is the next step up for a lot of pieces of hardware, too.
Why pay for something if you're not going to use it?
But most importantly*, it's $30 that isn't going to Redmond.
* (Yes, it's more important to me to cut MSFT off from my wallet than it is to have a nice evening out with my GF. I thought it sounded strange at first, too.)
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And dare I say, Mel 2002 isn't worth 1/50 of a Mad Max.
That's a good point, although I would assume that some of the redundant stuff is for version tracking and "Undo" layers.
I forgot to mention the prospect of being vulnerable to macro viruses isn't all that attractive, either.
And, doesn't MS implement some kind of hidden identification that attaches itself to files, so that if a copy of software you have registered in your name gets used to commit any sort of crime, from fraud to threats to virus propagation to free expression of political ideas that are unacceptable to the current regime, they can easily identify the source?
How can you enslave everyone in your corporate empire if you don't demand the fish back?
Ideally, you should also be charging interest on the fish, at a rate such that, even if he does somehow manage to learn how to fish, he'll be stuck for the rest of his life paying off that first fish you gave him.
That comes to $1300 of revenue per PC. If you're going to spend that much, why not just buy the PCs yourself? That way, when all the calculating is over with, you still have a useful computer system.
I know that some companies may not want the overhead associated with paying for support techs, etc. so it might actually make sense for them. But for a good number of corporate customers, it will still make sense to buy their own hardware.
I'm only in favor of MS Office if they open up the file formats so that.doc is fully interchangable with other office productivity suites. The level of interoperability we currently have is OK a lot of the time, but it could be better, and I won't be totally happy until the original application used to create the file is completely transparent to someone viewing the file.
Why would you want to compress the answer? The most efficient compression would be just to provide the algorithm and re-compute the number. Of course, that would have a large cost in terms of processor time, but in terms of storage it'd be by far the most efficient method of storing such a large amount of information.
Although, I did think it was ironic earlier when they weren't appealing, because FatWallet didn't have enough money to go up against WalMart. But I'm very glad to see they've grown a pair.
I thought I, Robot was a collection of loosely connected short stories. How are they going to make a movie like that? Not that they couldn't just do all the stories in sequence, but that's not your typical hollywood formula genre movie.
You have to reverse the polarity. THEN it will run cool. Reversing the polarity can solve many of life's problems, particularly those created by technology.
For instance, I was late for a job interview once, and I reversed the polarity on my digital wristwatch. After moving backward through time for a bit, I had plenty of time to get to the appointment on time.
Actually, Windows 2000 Pro doesn't do this either. It's incredibly annoying the way the OS handles this error condition, too.
First you log in, the Windows tells you there is no swap file and tells you how to create a swap file. Then immediately upon clearing the error message, you get logged out, so you can't set up a swap file.
I discovered this when trying to use ghost to migrate my filesystem from a 23GB Maxtor drive to a 60 GB WD, and not running sysprep beforehand. I guess ghost didn't copy over the swap file when it copied everything else.
It's SO annoying that Windows can't just create a swap file on its own to recover from it being deleted. It can re-create the #@)*$# Outlook Express files every time I delete them, and it shouldn't even need virtual memory in order to run, but yet it can't recover from having the swapfile deleted.
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What would have been great is if Arnold played the actual human being that the original T800 model was based on. No robotic parts inside, just 100% human guts.
Who bangs his shoe, now, honestly!
I know this very well; some of my favorite games are ones that never seemed to be very popular. That's why I said "chances are better than fair" -- that wasn't sarcasm, I really do think that there are a decent number of good games that never got a chance in the market due to bad positioning, bad timing, or fickle audiences who only eat what they've gotten used to being spoon fed.
As for bit rot, there's good backup schemes and hardware emulation. There's some specialty hardware you can't duplicate easily, but most games don't require it. Even if your backups fail, the bits very likely still exist somewhere on the internet where you can download them for free, if illegally.
I beat E.T. plenty of times. It's not impossible.
Games are software.
Software is bits.
Bits are infinitely copyable.
Why is any game rare? If it is rare, it must mean few people are copying it. If few people are copying it, it must mean it's not popular. If it's not popular, chances are better than fair that it sucks.
I could give a ratfuck about the original packaging.
Slashdot readers don't even read the articles they cite... What's this world coming to?
Actually, the search engine is probably extremely complex. It's the interface and the web site that's simple. If it wasn't this way, it wouldn't be great.
You had a 1993 vintage VCR take a dump on you "recently" and you call that crap? What's it take to please you?
I think I just split the adage! It can only be a matter of time before modern science has developed... the adage bomb!
$30 is a nice dinner somewhere with my girlfriend. $30 is the next step up for a lot of pieces of hardware, too.
Why pay for something if you're not going to use it?
But most importantly*, it's $30 that isn't going to Redmond.
* (Yes, it's more important to me to cut MSFT off from my wallet than it is to have a nice evening out with my GF. I thought it sounded strange at first, too.)
And dare I say, Mel 2002 isn't worth 1/50 of a Mad Max.
That's a good point, although I would assume that some of the redundant stuff is for version tracking and "Undo" layers.
I forgot to mention the prospect of being vulnerable to macro viruses isn't all that attractive, either.
And, doesn't MS implement some kind of hidden identification that attaches itself to files, so that if a copy of software you have registered in your name gets used to commit any sort of crime, from fraud to threats to virus propagation to free expression of political ideas that are unacceptable to the current regime, they can easily identify the source?
How can you enslave everyone in your corporate empire if you don't demand the fish back?
Ideally, you should also be charging interest on the fish, at a rate such that, even if he does somehow manage to learn how to fish, he'll be stuck for the rest of his life paying off that first fish you gave him.
That comes to $1300 of revenue per PC. If you're going to spend that much, why not just buy the PCs yourself? That way, when all the calculating is over with, you still have a useful computer system.
I know that some companies may not want the overhead associated with paying for support techs, etc. so it might actually make sense for them. But for a good number of corporate customers, it will still make sense to buy their own hardware.
I'm only in favor of MS Office if they open up the file formats so that .doc is fully interchangable with other office productivity suites. The level of interoperability we currently have is OK a lot of the time, but it could be better, and I won't be totally happy until the original application used to create the file is completely transparent to someone viewing the file.
I mean, duh. How does owning a TiVo enable me to do P2P filesharing?
Why would you want to compress the answer? The most efficient compression would be just to provide the algorithm and re-compute the number. Of course, that would have a large cost in terms of processor time, but in terms of storage it'd be by far the most efficient method of storing such a large amount of information.
Although, I did think it was ironic earlier when they weren't appealing, because FatWallet didn't have enough money to go up against WalMart. But I'm very glad to see they've grown a pair.
I thought I, Robot was a collection of loosely connected short stories. How are they going to make a movie like that? Not that they couldn't just do all the stories in sequence, but that's not your typical hollywood formula genre movie.
You have to reverse the polarity. THEN it will run cool. Reversing the polarity can solve many of life's problems, particularly those created by technology.
For instance, I was late for a job interview once, and I reversed the polarity on my digital wristwatch. After moving backward through time for a bit, I had plenty of time to get to the appointment on time.
Reversing the polarity... it really works!
I fragged your wife... she wasn't even that good, really.
Actually, Windows 2000 Pro doesn't do this either. It's incredibly annoying the way the OS handles this error condition, too.
First you log in, the Windows tells you there is no swap file and tells you how to create a swap file. Then immediately upon clearing the error message, you get logged out, so you can't set up a swap file.
I discovered this when trying to use ghost to migrate my filesystem from a 23GB Maxtor drive to a 60 GB WD, and not running sysprep beforehand. I guess ghost didn't copy over the swap file when it copied everything else.
It's SO annoying that Windows can't just create a swap file on its own to recover from it being deleted. It can re-create the #@)*$# Outlook Express files every time I delete them, and it shouldn't even need virtual memory in order to run, but yet it can't recover from having the swapfile deleted.
A well-done Longhorn might taste good with mesquite sauce.
And guess which one is made by US Robotics?
It's a crazy, crazy world...
"Windows for brains" sounds like a good insult to hurl at a robot.