damn right. One of my favorite games is to go around buying up game systems and stuff after they're phased out. I have a Virtual Boy and an Atari Jaguar, both of which I got this way.
Now, if Nintendo would just drop the price on Game Boys and games.. Cripes.. if I could get a decent number of games (say 30) and a system for $200, I'd most likely plunk down the cash.
blah. The Playstation 2 is gonna kick the snot out of the Dreamcast, both technically and in the marketplace. Can you say "backwards-compatible"? Can you say "PCMCIA slots"? Sega's always a day early, but still a dollar short.
Whatever dude. Scenario: You walk into your room full of ultrabadass colleagues, who are all sitting there with their Dell Inspirons and their cell phones a go-go. You whip out your iBook (or, better still, your Sony My First Laptop) and proceed to do things with it they can't begin to comprehend (because you're not using MacOS, you're running your favorite free non-nix). That, my friend, defines hardcore.
So maybe I'm the only guy on the planet who thought Jar-Jar was damn cool. He didn't lack any depth that any of the other characters in the series have ever had, and he was more entertaining than most.
I think everything Lucas said in that interview was valid... Twentysomething Star Wars fans wanted a serious flick, and got a kid's movie. Wah. He said from the beginning that it wasn't made for you, it was made for kids. Get over it.
Depends on your music. Simple stuff like techno and normally "noisy" stuff like alternapoprock tends to sound about the same. But if you listen to something clean and complex (jazz, stuff with a lot of horns or strings, clear vocals) you can definitely hear the difference.
I've kicked the bitrate up to 256 and gotten pretty good results, but 256 kinda sucks as far as space goes.
The people I'm buying my CPUs from test them first, and guarantee a given clock speed at a given voltage.
I've ordered two Celeron 300A PPGAs, each guaranteed to clock to 464MHz at 2.0V, and the Abit BP6 that (I discover a week later) everyone's raving about.
Get over it. All software isn't free, it's never gonna work out that way.
Somebody writes a good mpeg player and asks $10 if you want to use the better interface, pay the man. Christ. You act like he's asking for an annual tithe or something.
Underground+"computer security" equals pretty much crackers for me. Unless you are a cracker, "computer security" is rather boring (yes useful, necessary, but boring), and I can't imagine why people would meet for several days on this subject.
Says you. I work for the ISS X-Force, and I'm not bored.
The reasons for the phenomenal bloat in many software packages (particularly MS's) my include user requests for features, but that's a minimal part of it.
In order to sell a product that's competing against another, you have two options. You can advertise that it simply does its job better, that it costs less, or that it does MORE. "More" is generally the easiest to sell. "It works better" is kinda nebulous, and doesn't hold up against a product that has "100 additional features."
Users don't ask for these additional "features"... software developers come up with them in order to better compete. This is especially true in the case of Microsoft, which is often primarily competing against itself. Need to convince users of MS Squeegee87 to upgrade to Squeegee2010 EX Plus Beta Turbo Edition Gold? You pump up the feature list. Saying "we stripped it down so it'll run faster than Squeegee87" or "Yeah, so we made it $30 cheaper" doesn't so much work when they already have a version that "does more".
It's not the coders, mind you... I'm sure the coders would love to strip Office down to a clone of Notepad and a calculator. And this brilliant professional would have you believe that the coders do the design... generally not true.
This article is a perfect example of the arrogant attitude that seems to pervade Microsoft and its ilk. "Why don't you just get a bigger machine like everyone else, you idiot?" seems to be their mantra. My reply: I will. And since it's running a real operating system and decent apps, it'll actually run FASTER than the 233MHz box I'm running now. I don't upgrade to maintain poor performance...I upgrade to better it.
Oh, and I suggest that perhaps the website development and their software development are not really all that intimately tied. (This is not to say that their clients are secure...I don't know. I'm just saying take a logic class.)
I need a new hub. A hub is a box of holes, so I'm not too particular about what I buy. If it's competitive in price, why not get a stylin' 80s-type translucent blue one? I'm all over it.
Crap, it'd be nice if France got over itself. The empire is long dead, guys. The British seem to have gotten over the loss of their empire. The Italians are doing okay. So the current Western empire is American... I do hope we'll have the good grace to let it go when our empire dies. Else we'll end up doing the same ludicrous things the French do.
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Windows systems are all single user, and have adequate security for single user systems.
The hell they do.
I also considered a port, using the JagCD... but it would be a colossal waste of time, wouldn't it? :)
damn right. One of my favorite games is to go around buying up game systems and stuff after they're phased out. I have a Virtual Boy and an Atari Jaguar, both of which I got this way.
Now, if Nintendo would just drop the price on Game Boys and games.. Cripes.. if I could get a decent number of games (say 30) and a system for $200, I'd most likely plunk down the cash.
blah. The Playstation 2 is gonna kick the snot out of the Dreamcast, both technically and in the marketplace. Can you say "backwards-compatible"? Can you say "PCMCIA slots"? Sega's always a day early, but still a dollar short.
Whatever dude. Scenario: You walk into your room full of ultrabadass colleagues, who are all sitting there with their Dell Inspirons and their cell phones a go-go. You whip out your iBook (or, better still, your Sony My First Laptop) and proceed to do things with it they can't begin to comprehend (because you're not using MacOS, you're running your favorite free non-nix). That, my friend, defines hardcore.
umm... I'm sorry, but if you live in an industrialized nation and don't know what a jack is, you are phenomenally ignorant.
Cripes. You could've just posted an URL...
That's 1.
So far, I see no great contradiction to his (admittedly made-up) statistic.
So maybe I'm the only guy on the planet who thought Jar-Jar was damn cool. He didn't lack any depth that any of the other characters in the series have ever had, and he was more entertaining than most.
I think everything Lucas said in that interview was valid... Twentysomething Star Wars fans wanted a serious flick, and got a kid's movie. Wah. He said from the beginning that it wasn't made for you, it was made for kids. Get over it.
Depends on your music. Simple stuff like techno
and normally "noisy" stuff like alternapoprock
tends to sound about the same. But if you listen
to something clean and complex (jazz, stuff with
a lot of horns or strings, clear vocals) you can
definitely hear the difference.
I've kicked the bitrate up to 256 and gotten
pretty good results, but 256 kinda sucks as far
as space goes.
You really don't even have the most basic understanding of the word "server", do you?
I've heard positive reports from people who have, and my dual-370 stuff is on the way.
The people I'm buying my CPUs from test them first, and guarantee a given clock speed at a given voltage.
I've ordered two Celeron 300A PPGAs, each guaranteed to clock to 464MHz at 2.0V, and the Abit BP6 that (I discover a week later) everyone's raving about.
Woohoo!
Get over it. All software isn't free, it's never gonna work out that way.
Somebody writes a good mpeg player and asks $10 if you want to use the better interface, pay the man. Christ. You act like he's asking for an annual tithe or something.
I've found that it's well worth the $10 or whatever it cost me.
Underground+"computer security" equals pretty much crackers for me. Unless you are a cracker, "computer security" is rather boring (yes useful, necessary, but boring), and I can't imagine why people would meet for several days on this subject.
Says you. I work for the ISS X-Force, and I'm not bored.
(..so I can't count and/or type. You know what I'm sayin'. ;)
The reasons for the phenomenal bloat in many software packages (particularly MS's) my include user requests for features, but that's a minimal part of it.
In order to sell a product that's competing against another, you have two options. You can advertise that it simply does its job better, that it costs less, or that it does MORE. "More" is generally the easiest to sell. "It works better" is kinda nebulous, and doesn't hold up against a product that has "100 additional features."
Users don't ask for these additional "features"... software developers come up with them in order to better compete. This is especially true in the case of Microsoft, which is often primarily competing against itself. Need to convince users of MS Squeegee87 to upgrade to Squeegee2010 EX Plus Beta Turbo Edition Gold? You pump up the feature list. Saying "we stripped it down so it'll run faster than Squeegee87" or "Yeah, so we made it $30 cheaper" doesn't so much work when they already have a version that "does more".
It's not the coders, mind you... I'm sure the coders would love to strip Office down to a clone of Notepad and a calculator. And this brilliant professional would have you believe that the coders do the design... generally not true.
This article is a perfect example of the arrogant attitude that seems to pervade Microsoft and its ilk. "Why don't you just get a bigger machine like everyone else, you idiot?" seems to be their mantra. My reply: I will. And since it's running a real operating system and decent apps, it'll actually run FASTER than the 233MHz box I'm running now. I don't upgrade to maintain poor performance...I upgrade to better it.
Like aliases? Or shell scripts?
Sorry, but that was damned funny.
Oh, and I suggest that perhaps the website development and their software development are not really all that intimately tied. (This is not to say that their clients are secure...I don't know. I'm just saying take a logic class.)
I need a new hub. A hub is a box of holes, so I'm not too particular about what I buy. If it's competitive in price, why not get a stylin' 80s-type translucent blue one? I'm all over it.
...talk about your short-term memory. Think a wee bit earlier.
Crap, it'd be nice if France got over itself. The empire is long dead, guys. The British seem to have gotten over the loss of their empire. The Italians are doing okay. So the current Western empire is American... I do hope we'll have the good grace to let it go when our empire dies. Else we'll end up doing the same ludicrous things the French do.
You *do* run Red Hat, don't you?
No. But how arrogant of you...