The story of the Last Straighter computer game (which was renamed Star Raiders II, but is NOT the lost Star Raiders II referred to in this post) is told in this interview with its programmer: http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com...
$50 to $80 million divided by the total audience... let's see,,, that's only a million dollars per viewer.
I like Enterprise as much as the next guy, but seriously - why not make the world a better place by donating to the EFF or Oxfam or a local food bank or a library or a religious organization or the FSF or an animal shelter or a veterans association or a childrens' hospital or something else real. It's only a TV show.
Blatant self-promotion: If you like MusicMobs, you may also like TunesTracker. Tell it your favorite artists, and it will send you an e-mail alert whenever the iTunes Music Store has new songs by that artist.
And yeah, I'll be using the iTMS affiliate program for TunesTracker.
I cannot overstate this: get computer insurance. It's cheap and will more than pay for itself if you have a hardware loss. I use Safeware.com, paying about $120 a year for $11,000 of hardware insurance - this covers loss by fire, theft, water, accidental damage, pretty much everything except earthquake and theft from an unattended vehicle. (I could have opted for a more expensive policy to cover those possibilities, too.) Just last week I dropped my digital camera, killing it. That model (Canon Powershot S30) is no longer available, so the insurance company is paying for a new model (Powershot S50) that costs more than what I originally paid for my digital camera two years ago.
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"Dear Penthouse. My name is Teddy Ruxpin! I never thought it would happen to me, but there I was, with Chatty Cathy and Baby Alive..."
I'm reviewing a bunch of VOIP services for a computer magazine. I've tested five so far, and as far as sound quality goes AT&T CallVantage has been noticeably better than the others. No noticeable latency, which is more than I can say for some of the other services. I suspect it's because voice traffic spends relatively little time on the Internet before getting punted to AT&T's long distance network. However AT&T's service was a bit more difficult to configure -- I needed to use their router instead of my own firewall/router, which I found perturbing.
QuickTime 6.5 delivers a number of new features and important updates, including: - Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the new 3GPP2 format. - Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the popular AMC format. - Improved text track support. - Enhanced DV playback options. - Enhanced support for iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Pro.
If you're old enough to argue about these computers, you're old enough to remember David Ahl's books BASIC Computer Games and More BASIC Computer Games. Both are available on the Web, as of today.
Rio Karma Capacity: 20GB Features: USB 2.0, docking station with RCA line out and Ethernet port Formats: Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WMA Manufacturer: Digital Networks (www.rioaudio.com) MSRP: $349.99
There may be others (I missed the Neuros, apparently) but those were all I found.
This seems like a good excuse to mention my new Web site: Kevin Savetz' Guide To Buying a Ridiculously Cheap PC delivers specs, reviews, and news about computers that cost less than $300. Nine manufacturers are listed there so far, although I haven't added the Lindows Webstations specs yet.
This was a hardware review, not a review of Lindows. The Post has already reviewed Lindows 3.0, so the editor asked me to steer away from a lingering discussion about it.
None of the machines included a monitor - you misread. The Tiger Direct machine was the only one to include a modem and floppy drive. The other two, by the way, included floppy drive cables, which I thought was a nice touch. Two of the machines (all except Tiger) included a cheap pair of speakers, another welcome addition for $199.
Although I wrote the article, I didn't write the headline (my editor did. ) I was a bit dissapointed when I saw it in print. The machines are actually pretty good solutions for home usage. The current version of Lindows, however, isn't, lacking good USB support, etc.
(Yes I read TFA. I wrote TFA.) No, they're *perfectly* suitable for word processing and Web browsing. With a bit more memory and a bigger hard drive, these machines would all run circles around the PIII-700, my office machine that I used to write the article. I think any of these machines, with some extra RAM and hard drive that I know Slashdot readers have lying around, would be great Linux boxen.
This law is generally a Good Thing but the problem is it will force the most virulent telemarketers undeground. They'll still call, but will make it extraordinarily difficult to find out who they are. They'll call from other countries. They'll rely more on prerecorded announcements. They'll create non-profit front organizations to do their calling for them. They'll learn from the spammers.
NetNews Tracker is a cool little tool for searching Google Groups for topics you're perennially interested in. Whenever there are new articles that match your phrase, it e-mails you a link to the article.
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The story of the Last Straighter computer game (which was renamed Star Raiders II, but is NOT the lost Star Raiders II referred to in this post) is told in this interview with its programmer: http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com...
welcome our new extinct avian overlords.
$50 to $80 million divided by the total audience ... let's see ,,, that's only a million dollars per viewer.
I like Enterprise as much as the next guy, but seriously - why not make the world a better place by donating to the EFF or Oxfam or a local food bank or a library or a religious organization or the FSF or an animal shelter or a veterans association or a childrens' hospital or something else real. It's only a TV show.
if it hit the earth, that would be more easily visible.
Blatant self-promotion: If you like MusicMobs, you may also like TunesTracker. Tell it your favorite artists, and it will send you an e-mail alert whenever the iTunes Music Store has new songs by that artist.
And yeah, I'll be using the iTMS affiliate program for TunesTracker.
I cannot overstate this: get computer insurance. It's cheap and will more than pay for itself if you have a hardware loss. I use Safeware.com, paying about $120 a year for $11,000 of hardware insurance - this covers loss by fire, theft, water, accidental damage, pretty much everything except earthquake and theft from an unattended vehicle. (I could have opted for a more expensive policy to cover those possibilities, too.) Just last week I dropped my digital camera, killing it. That model (Canon Powershot S30) is no longer available, so the insurance company is paying for a new model (Powershot S50) that costs more than what I originally paid for my digital camera two years ago.
"Dear Penthouse. My name is Teddy Ruxpin! I never thought it would happen to me, but there I was, with Chatty Cathy and Baby Alive..."
I'm reviewing a bunch of VOIP services for a computer magazine. I've tested five so far, and as far as sound quality goes AT&T CallVantage has been noticeably better than the others. No noticeable latency, which is more than I can say for some of the other services. I suspect it's because voice traffic spends relatively little time on the Internet before getting punted to AT&T's long distance network. However AT&T's service was a bit more difficult to configure -- I needed to use their router instead of my own firewall/router, which I found perturbing.
Here's An interesting article by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, inventors of BASIC
Every Atari DOS disk had a hidden sector, keeping 128 whole bytes of storage out of your grasp.
For other perspectives, see Creative Computing magazine: Apple Mac review and Compute magazine: Apple's Macintosh Unveiled
QuickTime 6.5 delivers a number of new features and important updates, including:
- Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the new 3GPP2 format.
- Creation and playback of mobile multimedia in the popular AMC format.
- Improved text track support.
- Enhanced DV playback options.
- Enhanced support for iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Pro.
You've probably notced by now, but Big Computer Games is here. I didn't mention it because, like to said, no one has heard of it either.
If you're old enough to argue about these computers, you're old enough to remember David Ahl's books BASIC Computer Games and More BASIC Computer Games. Both are available on the Web, as of today.
I just wrote a big roundup of portable music players for a computer-magazine-that-you've-heard-of. Of the 55 players I researched, three support Ogg.
iGP-100
Capacity: 1.5GB
Features: USB 2.0, FM tuner
Formats: Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WMA, ASF
Manufacturer: iRiver (www.iriveramerica.com)
MSRP: $249.99
iHP-120
Capacity: 20GB
Features: USB 2.0, FM tuner, built-in microphone
Formats: Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV
Manufacturer: iRiver (www.iriveramerica.com)
MSRP: $399.99
Rio Karma
Capacity: 20GB
Features: USB 2.0, docking station with RCA line out and Ethernet port
Formats: Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WMA
Manufacturer: Digital Networks (www.rioaudio.com)
MSRP: $349.99
There may be others (I missed the Neuros, apparently) but those were all I found.
I've had my Prius for 16 months and 30,000 miles. I get, on average, 46.7 miles per gallon. Love that car.
This seems like a good excuse to mention my new Web site: Kevin Savetz' Guide To Buying a Ridiculously Cheap PC delivers specs, reviews, and news about computers that cost less than $300. Nine manufacturers are listed there so far, although I haven't added the Lindows Webstations specs yet.
This was a hardware review, not a review of Lindows. The Post has already reviewed Lindows 3.0, so the editor asked me to steer away from a lingering discussion about it.
The drive was both small AND slow.
None of the machines included a monitor - you misread. The Tiger Direct machine was the only one to include a modem and floppy drive. The other two, by the way, included floppy drive cables, which I thought was a nice touch. Two of the machines (all except Tiger) included a cheap pair of speakers, another welcome addition for $199.
Although I wrote the article, I didn't write the headline (my editor did. ) I was a bit dissapointed when I saw it in print. The machines are actually pretty good solutions for home usage. The current version of Lindows, however, isn't, lacking good USB support, etc.
(Yes I read TFA. I wrote TFA.) No, they're *perfectly* suitable for word processing and Web browsing. With a bit more memory and a bigger hard drive, these machines would all run circles around the PIII-700, my office machine that I used to write the article. I think any of these machines, with some extra RAM and hard drive that I know Slashdot readers have lying around, would be great Linux boxen.
This law is generally a Good Thing but the problem is it will force the most virulent telemarketers undeground. They'll still call, but will make it extraordinarily difficult to find out who they are. They'll call from other countries. They'll rely more on prerecorded announcements. They'll create non-profit front organizations to do their calling for them. They'll learn from the spammers.
NetNews Tracker is a cool little tool for searching Google Groups for topics you're perennially interested in. Whenever there are new articles that match your phrase, it e-mails you a link to the article.
A 1985 interview with Dan from Antic magazine
A 1985 review of M.U.L.E. from Creative Computing
About the Mac OS X 10.2.3 Update mentions some enhancements to iTunes (and lots of other stuff) but doesn't specifically mention Ogg.