I understand you don't want to spoil your kids, so it's the desktop that should do the traveling. Like in the old days, when we had to drag our desktops uphill to school and back home through the blistering cold. Which is nothing compared to my father, who dragged around a PDP-11...
<grumpyoldman> Oh yeah? Well, at least he didn't have to drag ENIAC to school and back. The only good thing about it was that our parents couldn't afford to buy us winter coats, and the filaments of the tubes were the only thing that kept us from getting frostbite! </grumpyoldman>
That's true, but enough people specifically want the SNES cartridge to raise its value significantly. If it weren't for the nostalgia of that one specific game, it would be worth half as much.
Old games and systems can be worth a lot of money after a long time. I have in my possesion a copy of Chrono Trigger for SNES that I managed to find in a pawn shop for $5. I've seen the game for ten times that on Ebay. I wonder how much a pong machine or other really old hardware would fetch.
That's not because it's old, that's because people so many people specifically want Chrono Trigger. If it wasn't so famous, it would be a lot cheaper, because it's really not all that rare, especially without box or instructions. Nobody wants to play any of the hundreds of pong machines sold by random companies, though the original Atari home version does have some collectibility simply because it's the first one.
It's supply and demand. Chrono Trigger has high demand. Pong systems have very low demand, mostly from a few hundred serious Pong system collectors.
Linux is open source, Mac is not and never will be.
The people who care about this are about 1% of the market, if that much. The fact is that OS X is open enough source. The foundations are open source. The graphics library (Quartz) and UI library (Aqua) are not. The apps are generally not. If being 100% open was so important, Linux would have taken over years ago.
If you care so much about having something like the OS X graphics and UI that is open source, then get involved with the OpenStep project.
...or at least they used to. Way back around '86 or '87 or so I had my 128K Mac upgraded to a Levco MonsterMac. That was two whole megabytes of memory back when most people only had 128K or 512K. I had a startup disk that booted to a ramdisk and switched the system over. The ramdisk driver was smart enough to know that one was already in memory, so the contents would basically stay around until power was cut off (or a wild memory-trashing crash, which rarely if ever happened). I kept using it until System 7 came out, at which time it was no longer simple to switch to a system file on another disk.
Four gigs ain't bad, especially since that's almost the size of a single-sided DVD. The SATA connector means it will even work on a Mac with no special drivers. Installing a system and setting it as a boot drive could be very interesting.
It would be nice if they had a version that could take SDRAM, but it's hard to find junk SDRAM that's larger than 256K, so four slots would only be 1GB.
NBC not only kept going with the signal, the guy basically apologized for the signal being lost when it had clearly gone to complete snow. And to rub it in even more, I was watching their digital channel, too. From a plain old antenna. I refuse to pay $40+ a month for TV.
I suppose the launch being close enough to the end of an hour encouraged the networks to just keep going.
I noticed the other day that there's a big "2" over the Space Shuttle countdown clock in the KSC press area.
And for those noticing that sometimes they don't see the copyright watermarking, some of their stuff (I think mostly the stuff that goes down to 4 resolution) is NASA satellite images. Those generally don't get the copyright watermark.
Exactly. I'm tired of all the people who have no trouble taking hours of their time building their own white-box PC whining about the cost of Macs when they refuse to look at the price of any Mac that isn't listed on the store.apple.com web site. I've got six Macs in regular use, and still feel no need to get a G5. (I'll probably get one when the dual-core version comes out.)
A six-year-old Blue & White G3 will run the latest version of OS X quite well if you give it sufficient RAM (generally considered 512M for any model, and the B&W takes up to one gig). You can even upgrade the CPU to over 1GHz at not much of a performance hit over a current generation G4 laptop, due to the FSB limitations of the G4. The video card (66MHz 32-bit PCI, equivalent to 1X AGP, which is still pretty decent) is more of a speed limitation than any other part of the system.
In fact, I'm wondering if part of the reason for the switch to Intel wasn't to somehow try to make an excuse to drop support for these things before they cut into the market for new Macs when they're ten years old and still work just fine. At this point they've still got at least one more year of life even if Apple drops support for the B&W in 10.5.
When the servers come up in the morning the instance server takes about 10
min longer than everything else for some dumb ass reason;
So player 1 hands player 2 a stack of gold; Player one goes into instance
and about a min later of trying to load gets rubberbanned back to the
entrace
and has the gold back on him as well as player 2; you keep doing that over
and over; You can do it for about 10 minutes!
I know the guy meant "rubberbanded", but it's still a great word.
rubberbannedv. To be repeatedly banned from and attempt to return to a server or IRC channel.
Why not put up a Yagi-Uda in the living room to realy bring in those VHF stations?
Because the main problem with ATSC reception is in the UHF band. VHF-high (7-13) works great. (VHF low may have interference problems, though.) In fact, the main problem with ATSC (if you don't count that many stations are still not running at full power) is multipath, aka "ghosting". Only now are decent tuners starting to be made which can handle multipath well. So ironically, it could be easier to receive an ATSC station 40 miles away than 10 miles away.
Apparently it has got 3 billion hits in the last year - my arse it has. From the completely unusable interface to the "click on your screensaver" spyware adverts, to the nonesensical layout, I am seriously lost for what to say. Can anyone explain
Cause the last thing they want is to launch, and then run out of gas while in orbit!
That's pretty close... actually they don't want to run out of gas before reaching orbit. I was watching NASA TV and they mentioned that the purpose of the sensors is that the main engines don't take very well to suddenly running out of fuel when they're going at full throttle. This would allow them to know when fuel was low so that they could throttle back.
Anyhow, the good news is that they had just gotten their suits on, and weren't going to be sitting up there for three to six hours before not launching. The weather was looking bad, so they might not have launched even without the sensor problem.
This could be somewhat offset by the way PPC does subroutine calls. Because it uses a link register instead of stacking the return address, a "leaf" subroutine (which calls no others) wouldn't need the stack frame overhead. It would be just like adding two unconditional jump instructions, though it would still use up another line or two of cache.
The heck with download speeds, I want more upstream speed. I'm in an SBC area very close to a Remote Terminal, but in an older neighborhood with no alleys and lots of wooden fences which is unlikely to get fiber. Right now I get 512K up out of a possible (with regular ADSL technology) 640K. If they use VDSL, that can go as high as 2.3M up. I think I'll be happy if I can get 1.5M (esentially a full T1) up.
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Oh yeah? Well, at least he didn't have to drag ENIAC to school and back. The only good thing about it was that our parents couldn't afford to buy us winter coats, and the filaments of the tubes were the only thing that kept us from getting frostbite!
</grumpyoldman>
That's true, but enough people specifically want the SNES cartridge to raise its value significantly. If it weren't for the nostalgia of that one specific game, it would be worth half as much.
So I guess this game will be rated "W" for Wang?
That's not because it's old, that's because people so many people specifically want Chrono Trigger. If it wasn't so famous, it would be a lot cheaper, because it's really not all that rare, especially without box or instructions. Nobody wants to play any of the hundreds of pong machines sold by random companies, though the original Atari home version does have some collectibility simply because it's the first one.
It's supply and demand. Chrono Trigger has high demand. Pong systems have very low demand, mostly from a few hundred serious Pong system collectors.
Things will get real fun when more laptops have a battery life of 7-8 hours, rather than 2-3 hours.
I forsee a patent lawsuit from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation forthwith.
The people who care about this are about 1% of the market, if that much. The fact is that OS X is open enough source. The foundations are open source. The graphics library (Quartz) and UI library (Aqua) are not. The apps are generally not. If being 100% open was so important, Linux would have taken over years ago.
If you care so much about having something like the OS X graphics and UI that is open source, then get involved with the OpenStep project.
Four gigs ain't bad, especially since that's almost the size of a single-sided DVD. The SATA connector means it will even work on a Mac with no special drivers. Installing a system and setting it as a boot drive could be very interesting.
It would be nice if they had a version that could take SDRAM, but it's hard to find junk SDRAM that's larger than 256K, so four slots would only be 1GB.
Still, it's not $100, even empty. Bad submitter.
NBC not only kept going with the signal, the guy basically apologized for the signal being lost when it had clearly gone to complete snow. And to rub it in even more, I was watching their digital channel, too. From a plain old antenna. I refuse to pay $40+ a month for TV.
I suppose the launch being close enough to the end of an hour encouraged the networks to just keep going.
And for those noticing that sometimes they don't see the copyright watermarking, some of their stuff (I think mostly the stuff that goes down to 4 resolution) is NASA satellite images. Those generally don't get the copyright watermark.
When you sleep in the same room with servers running all the time, it's when the noise stops that wakes you up.
A six-year-old Blue & White G3 will run the latest version of OS X quite well if you give it sufficient RAM (generally considered 512M for any model, and the B&W takes up to one gig). You can even upgrade the CPU to over 1GHz at not much of a performance hit over a current generation G4 laptop, due to the FSB limitations of the G4. The video card (66MHz 32-bit PCI, equivalent to 1X AGP, which is still pretty decent) is more of a speed limitation than any other part of the system.
In fact, I'm wondering if part of the reason for the switch to Intel wasn't to somehow try to make an excuse to drop support for these things before they cut into the market for new Macs when they're ten years old and still work just fine. At this point they've still got at least one more year of life even if Apple drops support for the B&W in 10.5.
Exactly. That's a hardware issue, not an operating system (OS X) issue. It's not OS X's fault that Apple ships computers with single-button mice.
Maybe Apple can get Intel to rebrand it as the "Pentium 6". Or they'll just call the Intel processor a "G6".
Who gets multimillion dollar contract buy-outs when they fail to perform? ...and CEOs.
Athletes and coaches
I know the guy meant "rubberbanded", but it's still a great word.
rubberbanned v. To be repeatedly banned from and attempt to return to a server or IRC channel.
Wow, that was the worst case of blogorrhea I've ever seen.
Memory test.
Because the main problem with ATSC reception is in the UHF band. VHF-high (7-13) works great. (VHF low may have interference problems, though.) In fact, the main problem with ATSC (if you don't count that many stations are still not running at full power) is multipath, aka "ghosting". Only now are decent tuners starting to be made which can handle multipath well. So ironically, it could be easier to receive an ATSC station 40 miles away than 10 miles away.
The real geeks had Google Maps open, following the road to the launch pad while the Airstream camper rolled along.
I think this explains most of it:
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That's pretty close... actually they don't want to run out of gas before reaching orbit. I was watching NASA TV and they mentioned that the purpose of the sensors is that the main engines don't take very well to suddenly running out of fuel when they're going at full throttle. This would allow them to know when fuel was low so that they could throttle back.
Anyhow, the good news is that they had just gotten their suits on, and weren't going to be sitting up there for three to six hours before not launching. The weather was looking bad, so they might not have launched even without the sensor problem.
This could be somewhat offset by the way PPC does subroutine calls. Because it uses a link register instead of stacking the return address, a "leaf" subroutine (which calls no others) wouldn't need the stack frame overhead. It would be just like adding two unconditional jump instructions, though it would still use up another line or two of cache.
The heck with download speeds, I want more upstream speed. I'm in an SBC area very close to a Remote Terminal, but in an older neighborhood with no alleys and lots of wooden fences which is unlikely to get fiber. Right now I get 512K up out of a possible (with regular ADSL technology) 640K. If they use VDSL, that can go as high as 2.3M up. I think I'll be happy if I can get 1.5M (esentially a full T1) up.