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  1. iCab... on Helping the Apple Web Community w/o an Apple Computer? · · Score: 1

    For iCab, you can use the 68k version under an emulator like Basilisk II.

  2. Re:Suspicious on Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was working on some cockpit graphics for X-Plane.

  3. Re:Had to say it... on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Two words: Tempest 2000

    And it did have the best version of Doom, as far as consoles go.

  4. Re:What they really need are screen protectors on Do Later LCDs Need Screen Savers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What we NEED is a clear, thin plastic screen to go over the LCD to prevent things like dumbass girlfriends getting their fingerprints all over my nice 15 inch laptop screen.

    I don't know about the rest of you, but my girlfriend is free to touch anything of mine...

  5. Re:Might sir suggest on What Kind Of Computer To Bring To College? · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that you'll be out on your ear quickly if you're clicking on laptop keys in my classroom. I and most of my colleagues only make exceptions in cases where physical disability prevents you from using a pen and a notebook.

    I have a disability; I write horribly slow tih terrible penmanship.

  6. Good for benchmarks... on Unreal Tournament 2K3 Gets Software Renderer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd really like to see an Athlon XP 3200+ go up against a Pentium 4 3.06GHz in software rendering. Usually, when a new proc comes out, everyone benchmarks it combined with a top-of-the-line video card. I've never seen the point of that. Why not use a software renderer to see how truly fast the CPU is?

  7. Re:Screenshots... on Half-Life 2 NDA Lifted - Online Previews Available · · Score: 1

    That depends on where you live. :-)

  8. Screenshots... on Half-Life 2 NDA Lifted - Online Previews Available · · Score: 1

    The screenshots look amazing. That last one looks almost REAL. I can't wait to see what Valve has in store for E3...

  9. Re:Space men are brave creatures on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1

    Space men have only died in shuttle disasters, such as in 1986 and also a few months ago.

    I beg to differ. Many people, both Russian and American, have died in the quest for space exploration. Apollo 1 was one such disaster. All three Apollo 1 astronauts died due to a cabin fire. And there have been almost countless Russian incidents in which cosmonauts have died, most of which occured during the race for the moon in the late 1960s.

  10. Re:Contrast and compare on Deee-lite Singer Sues Sega Over Space Channel 5 · · Score: 1

    I'm still sort of learning as I go along, doing the website at work, and don't want to mess it up and feel more foolish if I do it wrong

    That's what the preview button is for. :-)

  11. Reminds me of Inspector 34... on The Science of The Moist Towelette · · Score: 1

    A moisty-nap always comes in handy when you're eating BBQ chicken.

  12. See, this is what I don't get... on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 1

    Why aren't more binary releases compiled for i686 or at least i586? For command-line applications, I can understand compiling for i386. Many of us have a 386/486 PC running as a router or for some other use. But you would think that with the horsepower required by KDE, binary releases would be i586 or i686 by default.

  13. Re:Neat, but why bother? on Linux On Unmodded Xbox, Improved · · Score: 1

    DCPlaya is a fantastic MP3/Ogg/MOD player for the Dreamcast. There's no streaming support yet, but the player is open source and the author is working on a plugin API, so we could see it very soon. I use DCPlaya all the time now and I think it's the best DC MP3 player out of them all, including the commercial ones.

  14. Re:Why won't they update the system... on Gameboy Advance SP Released Today in North America · · Score: 1

    What kills me is that the "new" SP finally has a lighted screen and still the game quality doesn't pass on what TurboGrafix was doing in 1991.

    Have you played Metroid Fusion? Or Advance Wars? Or Golden Sun?

  15. Re:New game machine? on Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Making for a console is a whole different ballgame of course, since they're essentially completely proprietary embedded systems (yes, I'm counting the PC-like Xbox here).

    This isn't entirely true. The Sega Dreamcast has a great homebrew community around it, mainly because the DC doesn't require a modchip to run non-Sega code. All it take is a binary burned to CD-R. Of course, the homebrew games aren't quite up to the standards of professional efforts, but the open-source KOS toolkit is getting better everyday.

    As for the Xbox, all you really need is a $75 modchip, since it's just x86. And the Linux kit for the PS2 has opened doors for homebrew development on that platform.

    The only system you're really SOL on is the GameCube. But I'm sure someone will find a way around its protection, too.

  16. Re:Nazis... on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that we shouldn't use a technology just because the Nazis used it first, I simply asked if this was the sort of thing that they tried (not genetic engineering, attempting to speed up evolution). So, please forgive me for my ignorance. Science was never my strongest subject in school.

  17. Nazis... on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't this the sort of thing that the Nazis were working on back during World War II?

  18. Hey Cliff... on Digital 4 Track Recorders? · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot something.

  19. It would be a nice box... on Review of PCV-W10 Desktop by Sony · · Score: 1

    If it weren't so overpriced and crippled. You really have to question who would buy such a thing. For the same price, you can get a really nice notebook computer with a faster processor and a faster GPU.

  20. Re:Sega 32X on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    When Sega released the 32X, the Saturn was less than a year away. Most developers and gamers just waited for the Saturn.

  21. Re:TRS80 Model 100 on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they use a bootloader similar to the one used for OldWorld Macs on PPC Linux distros?

    I don't have a Jornada 820, so I can't verify that it runs, but it does show up in their machine database (along with the Jornada 720), so surely someone has it running.

  22. Re:TRS80 Model 100 on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, since the Jornada 820 uses a StrongARM SA-1100 processor, it should be capable of running ARMLinux.

  23. Re:Jeez on PC in a.... Sphere? · · Score: 1

    The ultimate mod would be a PC inside a square watermelon.

  24. Re:But I thought that on Why The Dinosaurs Won't Die · · Score: 1

    Well, there's this island about 100 miles off the coast of Costa Rica...

  25. Might be good for digital photography... on Bluetooth Enabled External Harddrive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there were Bluetooth-enabled digital cameras, this would be the perfect solution for storing high-resolution, uncompressed images.