This is my upgrade strategy: My PowerBook G4 667Mhz (read my user bio for full specs) is already over a year old, but it's still holding its own. Sure, I want a new 17 inch PB, but at > $3K a pop, I can't afford to buy a new PowerBook yearly, especially since I wouldn't want to eBay this one. So what I've decided is I'm going to wait until the PPC 970 PowerBooks come out, and then the speed advantage will be huge enough (not to mention the new version of OS X) that it'll be a somewhat-justifiable purchase.
Of course, that's all theoretical unless I get a job.;-)
Nah, they keep changing the code to prevent advancements... Did you think all the duplicate stories on slashdot was just a coincidence? Deja vu, my friend.
Human vision (assuming both eyes work:-) is a (surprise!) eye-shaped oval field. I personally can see slightly over 180 degrees side-to-side, if I pan with my eyes.
Innocently wondering, do ethnicalities with differently-shaped eye-openings see more/less? (I'm just a plain white dude. What did you expect?)
I once borrowed from the library a DVD that clamed to be widescreen, but you know what it really was?
The IDIOTS encoded a letterboxed version of the movie as 4:3 video. So instead of the whole picture stretching across my 15" PowerBook's screen, the stupid thing was stuck at 4:3 sizing with stupid little black bars wasting resolution.
Oops, sorry. Got a little carried away there. Seriously though, this is exactly what every computer in the movies or on TV has been doing for years, from the Lost in Space movie to Dark Angel on TV.
Anyway, my opinion on this is that it should be an option. Most of the time, I have my volume muted, so sound effects would be a waste of my CPU cycles. However, once I move to my own house and have butt-kickin' speakers hooked up to my computer all day long, I just might want to have some sound effects, as long as they don't mess with any music I might be playing.
You are on the main page, generated for you by a beowulf cluster of soviet russians.
There is a troll's keyboard here. > GET KEYBOARD You are now carrying the troll's keyboard.
Suddenly, a vicious troll appears and begins throwing flamebait at you! > THROW KEYBOARD AT TROLL You hit the troll! The troll vanishes in a puff of smoke!
There is a troll's keyboard here. > GET KEYBOARD You are now carrying the troll's keyboard. > NORTH You are in a maze of duplicate stories, all alike. > HELP Mark rooms with the EVIL bit to tell if you've been there before. > SCORE With a karma of 28, you are a witty wanderer. Only 60 more points to become a wizard!
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This is my upgrade strategy: My PowerBook G4 667Mhz (read my user bio for full specs) is already over a year old, but it's still holding its own. Sure, I want a new 17 inch PB, but at > $3K a pop, I can't afford to buy a new PowerBook yearly, especially since I wouldn't want to eBay this one. So what I've decided is I'm going to wait until the PPC 970 PowerBooks come out, and then the speed advantage will be huge enough (not to mention the new version of OS X) that it'll be a somewhat-justifiable purchase.
;-)
Of course, that's all theoretical unless I get a job.
Nah, they keep changing the code to prevent advancements... Did you think all the duplicate stories on slashdot was just a coincidence? Deja vu, my friend.
I suppose you've already tried "finger trinity"?
Nonsense, everybody knows the Matrix is coded in Malbolge, that's why nobody understands it.
Ummm... there IS a spoon. See?
Hey, where's my spoon? Dang!
...who doesn't give a rat's ass about rat brains?
- ATW - Anti-Troll Wording (+1, No Easy Jokes in Posting)
:-)
I'm referencing stories about "glowing balls" or "making the GPL easier to swallow", things like that.
Nah, I want a chair that comes with sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads!
EdoofusBSD is dead!
You missed a step:
2026 - Google introduces helper bot known as "Agent Smith." Hackers who mess with the Matri, I mean Google, suddenly disappear.
Human vision (assuming both eyes work :-) is a (surprise!) eye-shaped oval field. I personally can see slightly over 180 degrees side-to-side, if I pan with my eyes.
Innocently wondering, do ethnicalities with differently-shaped eye-openings see more/less? (I'm just a plain white dude. What did you expect?)
I once borrowed from the library a DVD that clamed to be widescreen, but you know what it really was?
The IDIOTS encoded a letterboxed version of the movie as 4:3 video. So instead of the whole picture stretching across my 15" PowerBook's screen, the stupid thing was stuck at 4:3 sizing with stupid little black bars wasting resolution.
Hey, I'M a snob, a bigot, whatever, you insensetive clod!!!!
Only on slashdot would this be moderated "Informative".
For those of us not that old, what the heck is a "zootsuit"?
I don't care, I'm not happy until America's Funniest Home Videos is in widescreen HD!!!
Why are you looking at me like that?
OH!!! Duh. Uh, nevermind.
Duke Nukem Forever!
Heh... I got jumpy from Chex Quest... of course that was a while back. Anybody remember that game? Came in a box of chex cereal.
But then I started using DOSDOOM with it and jumping on boxes and sniping off the flem-thingies with the respawn option on. That was fun for a while.
And now all I ever play is 4x4 Evo 2. *sigh*
In other words, windows should be like computers on TV and in the movies.
(bleep bleep bleep ding! click click click whirrrrrrrrrr bzzjjuooowwwmmmmmm "NOOOOOO!!!!!" BOOOMMMM!!!!! GRR!!!!!!!!)
Oops, sorry. Got a little carried away there. Seriously though, this is exactly what every computer in the movies or on TV has been doing for years, from the Lost in Space movie to Dark Angel on TV.
Anyway, my opinion on this is that it should be an option. Most of the time, I have my volume muted, so sound effects would be a waste of my CPU cycles. However, once I move to my own house and have butt-kickin' speakers hooked up to my computer all day long, I just might want to have some sound effects, as long as they don't mess with any music I might be playing.
You just figured this out?
You're new here, aren't you?
That's probably what the payload was.
Slashdot should be a text adventure game.
You are on the main page, generated for you by a beowulf cluster of soviet russians.
There is a troll's keyboard here.
> GET KEYBOARD
You are now carrying the troll's keyboard.
Suddenly, a vicious troll appears and begins throwing flamebait at you!
> THROW KEYBOARD AT TROLL
You hit the troll!
The troll vanishes in a puff of smoke!
There is a troll's keyboard here.
> GET KEYBOARD
You are now carrying the troll's keyboard.
> NORTH
You are in a maze of duplicate stories, all alike.
> HELP
Mark rooms with the EVIL bit to tell if you've been there before.
> SCORE
With a karma of 28, you are a witty wanderer. Only 60 more points to become a wizard!
They wouldn't have to BUY it if Al Gore invented it and he's on the board...
Gee... how do you know all this?
I have patented posting comments to this article, and nobody's going to pay $40 a pop to karma whore.
BTW, you'll be hearing from my lawyers.
According to the book, you'd need more than 128MB to store the whole Hitchhiker's Guide, and don't gimme nothing' about gzip or bzip2.
Or did you just mean the book about the guide?