In all fairness, give me about 30 seconds with the more stable, well written code in the universe, and i'll introduce a bug or two.
Give me a little more time, and i'll add in a few that you won't instantly detect until its too late.;)
You people can't see past your MP3 collection...
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Yes, an MP3Pro format might not do much for all the songs you downloaded from Napster, but it can enable people to encode sound at better quality on portable devices, and reduce bandwith/improve quality on streaming music.
I'm getting very tired of people self-rightously saying "Maybe if you SPENT TIME with your kids, you'd know about them!!!"
Well,
1) Kids don't like to talk to parents. You ask "What happened today at school?" and they say "Nothin."
But even assuming you have a fantastic relationship with your child:
2) What are you going to to, hover behind them 24/7? They need privacy, and you need to do other things in life.
No matter how open a relationship you have with your child, you're never going to initiate the conversation explaining how some people like to have sex with animals or shove needles in their testicles. Thats just not something a child is ready to comprehend, and its not something they should have to face.
I didn't see a long thank you list included with my Tivo either.
More specificly, if I build a computer and install Redhat Linux on it, i'm not responsible for including a long list with it "thanking" every person who wrote every line of code in linux. Thats not my job, thats Redhat's. In this case, its Transmetas, and I bet you can get the information off their web site. I can even bundle a non-free program on my machine, as AOL did, without violating any licenses.
The author of this article hates AOL more than Jon Katz hates his high school.
Battery life is very important, as you'll soon find out, neophyte.
I owned a Pilot Professional. Then I bought a Philips Nino when they came out. It was such slow, unusable crap that I traded it for a Palm III. That broke, so I bought an Ipaq and fell in love.
Anyway, you can't make arguements from both sides about battery life.
Either its an MP3 playing, MAME emulating monster, and it only lasts 6 hours of continuous use before needing a recharge, or you use it in the same way you use a palm pilot, and it lasts significantly longer.
If you're only using it for my contacts, phone list, etc, thats great, except someone might be willing to spend another $50 on the slim chance that you might one day want to use some of those other features.
(this is comparing the high end palms to the IPAQ, in the 200-250 range, Palms stand alone)
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I had a friend who bought two Philips Velos. Nifty little box for its day.
You're absolutely correct. The older versions of WinCE were horrible.
Go check out an ipaq or jornada at a store sometime, and then say that you'd legitimately trade it for a palm device.
How the same group of geeks who gush at every totally impractical wiz-bang device that comes out, consistantly dismisses WinCE devices as a whole because of their BATTERY LIFE.
I bought an IPAQ 3650 yesterday for $50, yes FIFTY dollars more than Handspring is selling their color palm device for.
In return, I get a 320x240 screen instead of a 160x160, it can play MP3s. It can run MAME and Nintendo emulators. It can record my voice at a touch of a button. I can actually read books off of it without getting eye sore. It has 32 megs of memory as opposed to 8, (and yes, while WinCE programs are larger, that still means I have significantly more space to store data on).
It even comes with QStart, which gives a palm-like user interface, if you're really THAT terrified of using a menu system on a handheld.
Its not surprising to me at all that Palm is in trouble. No matter how you feel about Microsoft and WinCE devices; where the hell is all that money going? If I can spend $500 and get the amazing hardware i'm holding in my hand, I will never, ever spend $450 for the handware I get with a color palm device.
Think about it. The best sites with the most traffic have the highest bandwidth costs. Since they cost the most to maintain, they're the first to close.
Then, you bookmark the not-as-great site, but so do the other 100,000 people. Soon, THEIR bandwidth costs are too high, and they have to close.
Then you go to the somewhat-crappy-site, and the closings go on...
Eventually, the only gaming sites will be on Ziff Davis-type sites, which will rate and evaluate all games on a scale of 85%-100%.
OMM is the only site on the web I would donate to.
I had only been working there 8 months. They paid me 6 months of salary, AND didn't make me pay back my relocation costs for moving across the country.
It was a pretty sweet deal. I left the meeting extremely happy.
Intel has done things like this before. The money is just a way to stop lawsuits. Remember, a lot of these people might have quit their old jobs in preparation to work at Intel.
They're unemployed, and need to find a new job now because of Intel's decision. If I wasn't compensated, i'd most likely sue for my lost wages during that time.
This project started off as a joke with my high school network administration class. They are learning how to install and manage Linux terminal servers using the K12LTSP distribution.
We wrote linked list toy programs in Pascal on a crappy Macintosh. Lucky bastard.
To install my video drivers, (nvidia under debian), I had to download two files, untar them, and run a "make install".
Then, after it didn't work, I had to fix a symbolic link where the installation still had the OpenGL.so still pointing to the XFree4.0 default.
So, while Linux installations have gotten to the point where more and more people can install them without lots of unix knowledge, there are whole new challenges to face the first time you need to run an OpenGL app until Linux.
As we all know, multiplayer games like these do have patches that come out that occasionally change gameplay.
Patch 1.452 changes: - Effectiveness of Big Gun 21 increased by 25% - Players can no longer do something odd the developers didn't intend - etc,etc
So, even if the current game is stable, will I have to worry about getting kicked out of network games every few months for a week or two while Loki catches up?
Not to mention I saw Tribes for $29.99 at Circuit City yesterday, though I suppose an extra $20 won't break my bank if it means I won't have to reboot.
I wish I had the money right now to go out and buy an Intel product to counteract your zealous boycott. I did so last summer in a similar case when I bought a set-top DVD player in protest of the deCSS shrillness on here.
Yeah, I mean, I bet you don't even have any movies for it. Its just your symbol of independant thought that you keep on a pedistal in your living room.
"Jeez, you ever gonna set that thing up?"
"No, that's dedicated anti-slashdot-opinions A/V hardware."
"Whats a slashdot?"
Whats worse, a set standard, or random people making choices on what to fine/outlaw?
You're all crying censorship because you can't say "fuck" on the radio, but having a rule that says you can't say "fuck" is a hell of a lot better than a rule that says "You can't say anything that offends this government organization."
Isn't that a little harsh, considering Slashdot was the place constantly posting articles claiming that a Linux-based open developer system was the greatest thing ever for console gaming? It doesn't speak well for the community.
Bob writes: Hey the Indrema is looking very good.. Indeed it is. Clearly, Linux is the future of gaming consoles. The world cheers to be offered more choices.
Billy writes: Hey, Indrema isn't looking too good right now.. Yeah, it was always just a bunch of damned vaporware anyway.
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Give me a little more time, and i'll add in a few that you won't instantly detect until its too late. ;)
Yes, an MP3Pro format might not do much for all the songs you downloaded from Napster, but it can enable people to encode sound at better quality on portable devices, and reduce bandwith/improve quality on streaming music.
Well,
1) Kids don't like to talk to parents. You ask "What happened today at school?" and they say "Nothin."
But even assuming you have a fantastic relationship with your child:
2) What are you going to to, hover behind them 24/7? They need privacy, and you need to do other things in life.
No matter how open a relationship you have with your child, you're never going to initiate the conversation explaining how some people like to have sex with animals or shove needles in their testicles. Thats just not something a child is ready to comprehend, and its not something they should have to face.
More specificly, if I build a computer and install Redhat Linux on it, i'm not responsible for including a long list with it "thanking" every person who wrote every line of code in linux. Thats not my job, thats Redhat's. In this case, its Transmetas, and I bet you can get the information off their web site. I can even bundle a non-free program on my machine, as AOL did, without violating any licenses.
The author of this article hates AOL more than Jon Katz hates his high school.
I owned a Pilot Professional. Then I bought a Philips Nino when they came out. It was such slow, unusable crap that I traded it for a Palm III. That broke, so I bought an Ipaq and fell in love.
Anyway, you can't make arguements from both sides about battery life.
Either its an MP3 playing, MAME emulating monster, and it only lasts 6 hours of continuous use before needing a recharge, or you use it in the same way you use a palm pilot, and it lasts significantly longer.
If you're only using it for my contacts, phone list, etc, thats great, except someone might be willing to spend another $50 on the slim chance that you might one day want to use some of those other features.
(this is comparing the high end palms to the IPAQ, in the 200-250 range, Palms stand alone)
I had a friend who bought two Philips Velos. Nifty little box for its day. You're absolutely correct. The older versions of WinCE were horrible. Go check out an ipaq or jornada at a store sometime, and then say that you'd legitimately trade it for a palm device.
I bought an IPAQ 3650 yesterday for $50, yes FIFTY dollars more than Handspring is selling their color palm device for.
In return, I get a 320x240 screen instead of a 160x160, it can play MP3s. It can run MAME and Nintendo emulators. It can record my voice at a touch of a button. I can actually read books off of it without getting eye sore. It has 32 megs of memory as opposed to 8, (and yes, while WinCE programs are larger, that still means I have significantly more space to store data on).
It even comes with QStart, which gives a palm-like user interface, if you're really THAT terrified of using a menu system on a handheld.
Its not surprising to me at all that Palm is in trouble. No matter how you feel about Microsoft and WinCE devices; where the hell is all that money going? If I can spend $500 and get the amazing hardware i'm holding in my hand, I will never, ever spend $450 for the handware I get with a color palm device.
Think about it. The best sites with the most traffic have the highest bandwidth costs. Since they cost the most to maintain, they're the first to close.
Then, you bookmark the not-as-great site, but so do the other 100,000 people. Soon, THEIR bandwidth costs are too high, and they have to close.
Then you go to the somewhat-crappy-site, and the closings go on...
Eventually, the only gaming sites will be on Ziff Davis-type sites, which will rate and evaluate all games on a scale of 85%-100%.
OMM is the only site on the web I would donate to.
It was a pretty sweet deal. I left the meeting extremely happy.
Intel has done things like this before. The money is just a way to stop lawsuits. Remember, a lot of these people might have quit their old jobs in preparation to work at Intel.
They're unemployed, and need to find a new job now because of Intel's decision. If I wasn't compensated, i'd most likely sue for my lost wages during that time.
We wrote linked list toy programs in Pascal on a crappy Macintosh. Lucky bastard.
Now come back here and say with a straight face that Microsoft will follow any standard.
To install my video drivers, (nvidia under debian), I had to download two files, untar them, and run a "make install".
Then, after it didn't work, I had to fix a symbolic link where the installation still had the OpenGL .so still pointing to the XFree4.0 default.
So, while Linux installations have gotten to the point where more and more people can install them without lots of unix knowledge, there are whole new challenges to face the first time you need to run an OpenGL app until Linux.
Patch 1.452 changes:
- Effectiveness of Big Gun 21 increased by 25%
- Players can no longer do something odd the developers didn't intend
- etc,etc
So, even if the current game is stable, will I have to worry about getting kicked out of network games every few months for a week or two while Loki catches up?
Not to mention I saw Tribes for $29.99 at Circuit City yesterday, though I suppose an extra $20 won't break my bank if it means I won't have to reboot.
Yeah, I mean, I bet you don't even have any movies for it. Its just your symbol of independant thought that you keep on a pedistal in your living room.
"Jeez, you ever gonna set that thing up?"
"No, that's dedicated anti-slashdot-opinions A/V hardware."
"Whats a slashdot?"
I think the point of this entire thing is that violating "Intel Proceedures" should get you fired and blacklisted, not procecuted as an example.
You're all crying censorship because you can't say "fuck" on the radio, but having a rule that says you can't say "fuck" is a hell of a lot better than a rule that says "You can't say anything that offends this government organization."
I also don't understand why police aren't allowed to beat criminals. I mean, I don't break the law, its not like they're going to beat me.
I also don't get this whole "warrant" thing. Why would you want to search someone's house, unless they committed some sort of crime?
Clearly, we have a lot to learn from the Aussies.
C'mon! If the whole community bands together we co---
Oh wait, sorry. I thought that was today's theme on Slashdot.
spygun69
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zgone2002
(These are listed under "Commercially developed" games, not freeware, etc.)
Bob writes: Hey the Indrema is looking very good.. Indeed it is. Clearly, Linux is the future of gaming consoles. The world cheers to be offered more choices.
Billy writes: Hey, Indrema isn't looking too good right now.. Yeah, it was always just a bunch of damned vaporware anyway.
Nothing personal against the original posted, but Tivo is _not_ open software. You won't be doi16 auch hacking of the actual software.
But this is just annoying.
Cash can too, as long as you can provide the remains.
I honestly have nothing to add to that, except that seems entirely possible, and utterly heartless.
I think this is a great idea. If games have ratings, and parents can control that, then I don't have to worry about my games being censored.
If i'm missing something, let me know.