Sorry, but I was around watching TV when Betamax was fighting VHS. Betamax was clearly superior to VHS on a Trinitron TV. Apart from anything else, it had twice the frames of VHS, so motion was crisper.
Sure, on a crappy triangular grid TV VHS was adequate. But I'll take my own direct experience over what some journalist claims.
I switched to Firefox too, because Safari's pop-up blocking isn't good enough.
The problem is, I regularly use several sites which require pop-ups for their actual functionality. It was too much of a pain remembering when to switch pop-ups on and when to turn them off again, and if I slipped up I'd get blasted with crap. Now in Firefox, I just configure the approved sites as exceptions and no more fuss.
Michael Moore worked as editor and columnist at Mother Jones magazine, edited The Michigan Voice for ten years, and worked as a radio journalist for NPR. I think that qualifies him as a journalist.
Maybe you should put your journalistic skills to work checking who you ridicule as "not a real journalist", to see if maybe they have a background far more distinguished than yours.
And if you look at the top selling video games, PvP combat games are (a) the minority in terms of sales, and (b) a market that's glutted with competition.
It makes perfect sense for Sony to go for the non-PvP MMOG market. It's wide open.
The question for me is whether they'll do a Mac and/or Linux version, and offer a demo...
Best car racing game ever. You get bonus points for driving as dangerously as possible, and the crash mode has you try to flip and smash your vehicle at an accident blackspot so as to cause the maximum possible carnage.
I have over 800 CDs. Three had the "silver instead of aluminium leading to oxidation" problem, Philips replaced them. None of the others have had any problems at all.
In particular, I have many CDs from 1985 which still play perfectly. So if your CDs are failing in under a year, you're doing something severely wrong.
Yeah, I was an early adopter. When I saw a CD player demonstrated on TV, I traveled to London to the one store in the UK that had one, and listened to it. Then I went home and saved cash non-stop until I could buy one. I got a Philips CD104.
Those early CD players were pretty bad, but the great thing is that when the D/A conversion got better and I replaced the 104 with a 104B, my existing music collection suddenly sounded better. Then when I replaced the 104B with a Denon around 1991, everything got dramatically better again.
Contrast that with tapes and vinyl gradually wearing out (or not-so-gradually wearing out if you play them on cheap equipment).
Fact is, CD audio is "good enough". That is, it's sufficiently good that the limiting factor is my audio equipment. MP3 is also "good enough" in the same sense. Stick an Xin headphone amplifier and a pair of Sennheisers on an iPod and use LAME --alt-preset standard and it sounds incredible, as good as listening to CDs on my Harman Kardon at home without a headphone amp.
While such a device would be uberly cool, it is too cumbersome for the average user. What exactly are you planning to use this device for? How often are you going to carry it? *How* are you going to carry it?
I had a Newton MessagePad 2100.
I read books on it. I wrote letters on it. I took notes in meetings with it. I kept project plans and to-do lists on it. I sketched user interface ideas on it.
I carried it in my shoulder bag every day.
A modern device would have a web browser, and I'd use it to read the newspaper too. (I subscribe to The Guardian electronically.)
Hell, if someone came up with a device like the Newton, but with USB and a web browser and manufacturer support, with connectivity to Mac and Linux, I'd buy it.
Yes, I've seen a web site that uses a system like that. It works incredibly well. You never see anything off-topic, trollish, ill-informed, ignorant or downright moronic posted...
This is fine if you're willing to buy an Xbox and support Microsoft directly that way.
Nice rationalization. Let's get one thing straight: even if you only run Windows in order to play games, and even if you use a pirate copy of Windows, you're still directly supporting Microsoft.
Why? Because you're helping to keep the Windows share of the games market artificially high, which ensures that game development happens for Windows first and other platforms rarely (Mac) or never (Linux). This, in turn, means that anyone who wants to play computer games goes out and buys a PC with Windows, and any developer who wants to sell games buys Microsoft development tools.
Buy a PS2, a Gamecube, a Mac or a Linux (only) system, and play your games on those. Until then, you're a Microsoft whore, whether you're playing on a PC or an Xbox.
Don't use IE if you're browsing porn sites, you fuckwit. Have you not been reading Slashdot? Are you unaware of the existence of Mozilla and its popup-blocking? Or the endless stream of IE security holes that allow malware to be installed on your computer? Sheesh.
Slashdot Mirror
Same here, and then Fedora crapped all over itself and I had to reinstall.
Who needs a couple of hundred lines of anything, let alone PHP?
Just download blosxom. 100 lines of code. Works with any ISP, even if you don't have CGI.
VHS averages the two fields, Betamax doesn't.
Sorry, but I was around watching TV when Betamax was fighting VHS. Betamax was clearly superior to VHS on a Trinitron TV. Apart from anything else, it had twice the frames of VHS, so motion was crisper.
Sure, on a crappy triangular grid TV VHS was adequate. But I'll take my own direct experience over what some journalist claims.
No, it's part of Slashdot's shitty web design. It's so embarrassing that they've apparently taken to forbidding the w3c validator from checking it.
If Slashdot had a modern XHTML + CSS layout, everything would resize correctly as you increased and decreased the font size.
In fact, a bunch of web designers even created a standards-compliant version of the Slashdot UI, but the editors are either too lazy to implement it or don't care about how ugly the site looks.
I switched to Firefox too, because Safari's pop-up blocking isn't good enough.
The problem is, I regularly use several sites which require pop-ups for their actual functionality. It was too much of a pain remembering when to switch pop-ups on and when to turn them off again, and if I slipped up I'd get blasted with crap. Now in Firefox, I just configure the approved sites as exceptions and no more fuss.
Michael Moore worked as editor and columnist at Mother Jones magazine, edited The Michigan Voice for ten years, and worked as a radio journalist for NPR. I think that qualifies him as a journalist.
Maybe you should put your journalistic skills to work checking who you ridicule as "not a real journalist", to see if maybe they have a background far more distinguished than yours.
Yeah, but PvP = no subscription for me.
And if you look at the top selling video games, PvP combat games are (a) the minority in terms of sales, and (b) a market that's glutted with competition.
It makes perfect sense for Sony to go for the non-PvP MMOG market. It's wide open.
The question for me is whether they'll do a Mac and/or Linux version, and offer a demo...
Best car racing game ever. You get bonus points for driving as dangerously as possible, and the crash mode has you try to flip and smash your vehicle at an accident blackspot so as to cause the maximum possible carnage.
I know, +1 Funny, but Akklaim have a page about how "Burnout 2 saved my life".
I have over 800 CDs. Three had the "silver instead of aluminium leading to oxidation" problem, Philips replaced them. None of the others have had any problems at all.
In particular, I have many CDs from 1985 which still play perfectly. So if your CDs are failing in under a year, you're doing something severely wrong.
Yeah, I was an early adopter. When I saw a CD player demonstrated on TV, I traveled to London to the one store in the UK that had one, and listened to it. Then I went home and saved cash non-stop until I could buy one. I got a Philips CD104.
Those early CD players were pretty bad, but the great thing is that when the D/A conversion got better and I replaced the 104 with a 104B, my existing music collection suddenly sounded better. Then when I replaced the 104B with a Denon around 1991, everything got dramatically better again.
Contrast that with tapes and vinyl gradually wearing out (or not-so-gradually wearing out if you play them on cheap equipment).
Fact is, CD audio is "good enough". That is, it's sufficiently good that the limiting factor is my audio equipment. MP3 is also "good enough" in the same sense. Stick an Xin headphone amplifier and a pair of Sennheisers on an iPod and use LAME --alt-preset standard and it sounds incredible, as good as listening to CDs on my Harman Kardon at home without a headphone amp.
Can you sync over WiFi?
Yes, if they released the clamshell Zaurus in the US, I'd definitely consider one of those.
I had a Newton MessagePad 2100.
I read books on it. I wrote letters on it. I took notes in meetings with it. I kept project plans and to-do lists on it. I sketched user interface ideas on it.
I carried it in my shoulder bag every day.
A modern device would have a web browser, and I'd use it to read the newspaper too. (I subscribe to The Guardian electronically.)
Hell, if someone came up with a device like the Newton, but with USB and a web browser and manufacturer support, with connectivity to Mac and Linux, I'd buy it.
Yes, exactly like that, except I will not buy Windows, hence no U101 for me.
I know they're spam by looking at the list of subject lines and senders that the system records.
Since April, around 200 spams got through the RBLs and were caught by SpamAssassin. So RBLs are catching the vast majority of spams sent to me.
I've got a G4 I'll swap for a G5, runs OS 9 beautifully.
I've also got an OS 9 capable iBook I'll gladly swap for a new PowerBook.
Let me know if you're serious and not just blowing hot air.
I have thunderbird in /usr/local/thunderbird, /usr/local/firefox, set as my system browser.
Firefox in
Clicking a link in thunderbird does nothing.
Seems to me this is a fairly basic piece of functionality to get working, so what's the secret?
The first time I saw an open "anyone can edit" wiki, I thought "Jeez, that'll last about six months".
Yes, I've seen a web site that uses a system like that. It works incredibly well. You never see anything off-topic, trollish, ill-informed, ignorant or downright moronic posted...
"Aaahgh! My eyes! They have booby-trapped their Sun somehow!"
Nice rationalization. Let's get one thing straight: even if you only run Windows in order to play games, and even if you use a pirate copy of Windows, you're still directly supporting Microsoft.
Why? Because you're helping to keep the Windows share of the games market artificially high, which ensures that game development happens for Windows first and other platforms rarely (Mac) or never (Linux). This, in turn, means that anyone who wants to play computer games goes out and buys a PC with Windows, and any developer who wants to sell games buys Microsoft development tools.
Buy a PS2, a Gamecube, a Mac or a Linux (only) system, and play your games on those. Until then, you're a Microsoft whore, whether you're playing on a PC or an Xbox.
Don't use IE if you're browsing porn sites, you fuckwit. Have you not been reading Slashdot? Are you unaware of the existence of Mozilla and its popup-blocking? Or the endless stream of IE security holes that allow malware to be installed on your computer? Sheesh.
We're all gonna be pumping out a lot more today...
The dock isn't bitmap, it's PDF. You can find the resources in the /System and /Library. Even the 'poof' is a PDF file.