I suppose you use that 4GHz CPU to cook toast, too?
(A less sarcastic question would be: "So, you never print anything and only use VoIP, eh?")
Personally, I really wouldn't want my PC's functionality and usability drop (e.g., tons of RAM, disk and CPU being eaten up) while I'm trying to do something productive.
If my computer's going to crawl to a halt while recording The Simpsons for me, I might as well just get off the computer and watch it RIGHT THEN anyway!
How was the Amiga "not a success?" Sure, it's not around and popular today, like PCs, but then again, neither are Apple IIs, Commodore 64s, Atari 8-bits, Atari STs, etc. It's called progress.
With TiVo, we're talking about a VERY simple concept. To the end user, all it does is record and play back (and all that other good stuff). It's not something you have to go out and buy software for, and hope that the latest and greatest Laser printer will work for it.
Comparing TiVo to (un)successful computer platforms is like apples to oranges.
Also, I didn't really understand this part: Joe Six-Pack, however, was stumped. VCRs and video-game machines had just recently made a splash in the mass market.
Umm... "Recently" as in "8 years before?" (The Amiga 1000 came out in 1985. The Atari VCS (aka 2600) came out in 1977.)
This, too: he Amiga, which featured such revolutionary perks as a full-color screen (a big plus in the age of green-and-black Apple IIc monitors) and stereo sound.
Let's see - we what else had full-color screens? Atari 400/800 (1979), Commodore 64 (1982), and hey! Apple II! (You just needed the right monitor, I believe.)
Apple II's came out in 1977 and was still in production through 1993.
I can nitpick further, but I actually have something productive to do... somewhere... (checking pockets) No, not there...
It's an article from Slate (a Microsoft publication) saying TiVo's dead. (Microsoft had DVR plans for XBox, last I heard.)
Whatever... I'll still buy a TiVo once I can afford it. And sit it down next to that Amiga500 I've always wanted to get.:^)
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Ah, sorry about that. I was wondering where in thin are you had pulled the comparison.:^)
I guess due to the way I have my view of the articles (threading, certain mod's only), the post you're talking about wasn't even visible to me (or was way-the-hell elsewhere in the collection of replies).
NOT even CLOSE to a Ripoff! (was:The Idiot box!@)
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Uh... First off, even if there was ANY comparison between the two shows, Insomniac would be the 'rip off,' since it came on the air TEN YEARS LATER!:^)
Insomniac is a bald stand-up comedian wandering around towns interviewing drunk people on the street at 4am.
Idiot Box was a bunch of bizarre sketch comedy bits (i.e., it was filmed like any other sketch comedy show - it wasn't out in public interacting with random people).
Some of the Idiot Box sketches I remember included:
* Evil Dead parody with Sinead O'Connor * Eddie The Flying Gimp * Sacrifice Your Daughter To Guar (and all you get is this lousy t-shirt)
The show was only on about 2 seasons. I really wish I had taped them (not as though I wouldn't have lost the tapes:^) )
They aired right before (I think) Liquid Television. Some of the cooler animations from that one included:
* Mighty-Oh's (what's wrong kid, 'fraid of a little... BUG?) * Jack Mac and Rad Boy GO! * Beavis and Butt-Head * Aeon Flux (of course - back when it was cool and there was no dialog, and she died every episode) * Milton (turned into the movie 'Office Space')
Doing a quick Google, I discovered this guy (Drew Neumann) who did sound effects for a lot of the above (both IB and LTV).
Idiot box ruled! I thought my friend David and I were the only two who had ever SEEN that show.:^)
(I believe it started just before, or at the same time, as Liquid Television, which of course brought us some of Mike Judge's work like Beavis and Butt-Head, and the shorts that became the classic movie 'Office Space')
Actually, that controller is pretty damned useful in games like Iron Soldier and Battlesphere.
In Iron Soldier, the various numeric buttons mapped to the various weapon mount-points on your IS. When I first got Iron Soldier 3 for the PlayStation, I found it very frustrating to have to hit L1 and R1 to try to cycle to the appropriate weapon.
In BattleSphere, the leftmost numeric buttons map to some speeds (kind of like how [0] through [9] did in Star Raiders on the Atari 8-bit). The middle buttons were weapon-related. The right buttons were targetting.
The nice thing was, the left-most firebutton ([C]) was thrust and rotation, the middle one ([B]) was fire-weapon, and the right-most ([A]) was auto-targetting.
You really do just get used to the controller. (It was the same with the PlayStation when I first got it and tried to figure out how the hell to play Twisted Metal).
The Jaguar controller's size doesn't make it too uncomfortable. Maybe if you had petite hands, or something..:)
Hehe... I always enjoyed how the major evil character in Adventure, the wizard who stole the Holy G... err.. Golden Chalice, wasn't ACTUALLY even in the game!!!
BTW, I may sound like I'm knocking the game when I talk about the graphics, but honestly, Atari 2600 Adventure is among my top favorite games of all time.
Yeah, I was wondering. I thought maybe something NEW came out. I sync'd, once. I just never got into syncing. I don't use PIMs on my desktop, for some reason. I didn't when I used my Palm, and I don't now with my Zaurus. I guess it's good that it's getting some fanfare, or... err.. something. *shrug*
Pick an electronic store, visit their website, look at their prices. (In other words, it's not like the Zaurus uses any "special" memory cards - just CF and SD (and MMC))
Something like if you held RESET as you turned it on, you could shoot 2 or 3 shots at a time (instead of one). Check AtariAge... they have hints and 'did you know?' info for tons of games (along with all of the other typical info & images).
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I'd guess the brightness was turned down in the settings. Hehehehehe...
Mr. Rosen is speaking at tomorrow night's (Tuesday, November 5th) LUGOD meeting! If you're in or near the Bay Area, come on over!
True. (So true, in fact, I don't see why you bothered posting ;^) )
However, the comparison in the article was with the Amiga computer, not Commodore the company.
Ah, but at that point, I may as well just save some money and buy the TiVo! ;)
At least I can use it on my big TV downstairs.
My number one reason is my fiancee. :^)
But HER number one reason is price.
I predict the end of Slate before the end of Tivo.
;^)
BOOO-YAAAH!
I suppose you use that 4GHz CPU to cook toast, too?
(A less sarcastic question would be: "So, you never print anything and only use VoIP, eh?")
Personally, I really wouldn't want my PC's functionality and usability drop (e.g., tons of RAM, disk and CPU being eaten up) while I'm trying to do something productive.
If my computer's going to crawl to a halt while recording The Simpsons for me, I might as well just get off the computer and watch it RIGHT THEN anyway!
Sorry GameBoy, but the Atari Lynx, Sega GameGear, Sega Nomad and TurboGrafix16 are throwing you into the ash heap of history.
Oh wait!
How was the Amiga "not a success?" Sure, it's not around and popular today, like PCs, but then again, neither are Apple IIs, Commodore 64s, Atari 8-bits, Atari STs, etc. It's called progress.
With TiVo, we're talking about a VERY simple concept. To the end user, all it does is record and play back (and all that other good stuff). It's not something you have to go out and buy software for, and hope that the latest and greatest Laser printer will work for it.
Comparing TiVo to (un)successful computer platforms is like apples to oranges.
Also, I didn't really understand this part:
Joe Six-Pack, however, was stumped. VCRs and video-game machines had just recently made a splash in the mass market.
Umm... "Recently" as in "8 years before?" (The Amiga 1000 came out in 1985. The Atari VCS (aka 2600) came out in 1977.)
This, too:
he Amiga, which featured such revolutionary perks as a full-color screen (a big plus in the age of green-and-black Apple IIc monitors) and stereo sound.
Let's see - we what else had full-color screens? Atari 400/800 (1979), Commodore 64 (1982), and hey! Apple II! (You just needed the right monitor, I believe.)
Apple II's came out in 1977 and was still in production through 1993.
I can nitpick further, but I actually have something productive to do... somewhere... (checking pockets) No, not there...
It's an article from Slate (a Microsoft publication) saying TiVo's dead. (Microsoft had DVR plans for XBox, last I heard.)
:^)
Whatever... I'll still buy a TiVo once I can afford it. And sit it down next to that Amiga500 I've always wanted to get.
Ah, sorry about that. I was wondering where in thin are you had pulled the comparison. :^)
I guess due to the way I have my view of the articles (threading, certain mod's only), the post you're talking about wasn't even visible to me (or was way-the-hell elsewhere in the collection of replies).
Uh... First off, even if there was ANY comparison between the two shows, Insomniac would be the 'rip off,' since it came on the air TEN YEARS LATER! :^)
:^) )
Insomniac is a bald stand-up comedian wandering around towns interviewing drunk people on the street at 4am.
Idiot Box was a bunch of bizarre sketch comedy bits (i.e., it was filmed like any other sketch comedy show - it wasn't out in public interacting with random people).
Some of the Idiot Box sketches I remember included:
* Evil Dead parody with Sinead O'Connor
* Eddie The Flying Gimp
* Sacrifice Your Daughter To Guar (and all you get is this lousy t-shirt)
The show was only on about 2 seasons. I really wish I had taped them (not as though I wouldn't have lost the tapes
They aired right before (I think) Liquid Television. Some of the cooler animations from that one included:
* Mighty-Oh's (what's wrong kid, 'fraid of a little... BUG?)
* Jack Mac and Rad Boy GO!
* Beavis and Butt-Head
* Aeon Flux (of course - back when it was cool and there was no dialog, and she died every episode)
* Milton (turned into the movie 'Office Space')
Doing a quick Google, I discovered this guy (Drew Neumann) who did sound effects for a lot of the above (both IB and LTV).
Idiot box ruled! I thought my friend David and I were the only two who had ever SEEN that show. :^)
(I believe it started just before, or at the same time, as Liquid Television, which of course brought us some of Mike Judge's work like Beavis and Butt-Head, and the shorts that became the classic movie 'Office Space')
Don's coming to the Linux Users' Group of Davis, out here near Sacramento, on February 4th.
Actually, that controller is pretty damned useful in games like Iron Soldier and Battlesphere.
:)
In Iron Soldier, the various numeric buttons mapped to the various weapon mount-points on your IS. When I first got Iron Soldier 3 for the PlayStation, I found it very frustrating to have to hit L1 and R1 to try to cycle to the appropriate weapon.
In BattleSphere, the leftmost numeric buttons map to some speeds (kind of like how [0] through [9] did in Star Raiders on the Atari 8-bit). The middle buttons were weapon-related. The right buttons were targetting.
The nice thing was, the left-most firebutton ([C]) was thrust and rotation, the middle one ([B]) was fire-weapon, and the right-most ([A]) was auto-targetting.
You really do just get used to the controller. (It was the same with the PlayStation when I first got it and tried to figure out how the hell to play Twisted Metal).
The Jaguar controller's size doesn't make it too uncomfortable. Maybe if you had petite hands, or something..
A little less, lately, but it's because I'm busy writing them in my spare time, since I work full-time.
:^/
I do get the occassional evening of Wipeout Fusion or Twisted Metal Black out of my PS2, though. Whee!
I don't have kids, yet, though.
Hehe... I always enjoyed how the major evil character in Adventure, the wizard who stole the Holy G... err.. Golden Chalice, wasn't ACTUALLY even in the game!!!
> I'm happy to see some focus on an honest-to-goodness education project!
There's at least 2 other Education oriented distributions already.
To clarify - good to see some focus in Debian
Thanks for the links, though (BTW, I learned about DebianEDU from Seul)
(That should be "<-" 'sword')
BTW, I may sound like I'm knocking the game when I talk about the graphics, but honestly, Atari 2600 Adventure is among my top favorite games of all time.
I can't wait til he replaces the Quake gun with the "-" 'sword' from the game.
Froot rules. I'd love to see perl-SDL ported to the Zaurus, though (we have Perl, we have SDL)... ...then we might be able to play Frozen Bubble!!!
Now, for all the geeks here, here's a nice Zaurus software repository
:^P
"For all the geeks?" Dude, the Zaurus Software Index is for EVERYONE who owns a Zaurus!
Yeah, I was wondering. I thought maybe something NEW came out. I sync'd, once. I just never got into syncing. I don't use PIMs on my desktop, for some reason. I didn't when I used my Palm, and I don't now with my Zaurus. I guess it's good that it's getting some fanfare, or... err.. something.
*shrug*
Pick an electronic store, visit their website, look at their prices. (In other words, it's not like the Zaurus uses any "special" memory cards - just CF and SD (and MMC))
Something like if you held RESET as you turned it on, you could shoot 2 or 3 shots at a time (instead of one). Check AtariAge... they have hints and 'did you know?' info for tons of games (along with all of the other typical info & images).