I've got 512 down 128 up into my house, for about $US 40/month and unlimited (wihtin reason) download.
There's an option for 1.5 down 512 up but it's a business plan, and has a 500mb limit (read: 2hrs downloading). I'd happily pay the extra for the 1.5, but not with a download limit, that's just not cricket at all. Listening telstra?
No doubt though it's Compaq's fault because Microsoft have never produced a shit OS have they?
Hahahaha! Yeah, you're right, Bill says "hey, that crashed 3 times in 5 minutes on a new compaq, we'll release that one"
Take it back and get it fixed, there's something wrong with it. Or keep it, have a faulty computer and blame microsoft. Nobody's going to care, least of all mr Gates, and the only thing that will change is you'll be rebooting more often.
--Gfunk
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I know it's bait, but I have to jump.
You're wrong, and you don't know what you're talking about. Sure, maybe sony will have the best "real" rpgs... Sqauresoft sells games in Japan, and to geeks...
Want to make money? you release a new zelda. Tens of millions of people will buy the nintendo simply because there will be a new zelda. Also, 007 may have had a fun but short-lived single player game, but years later, we still put down smash brothers (an underrated and vrey reccommended party game) and turok for a bit of ol' bondage, the only thing i'd rather be deathmatching is doom, but that's too much hassle.
And you may be too old for pokemon, but that's ok. Little johnny six pack (of fruitboxes) isn't, and mummy and daddy are more tha happy to buy it for him for his 8th birthday.
No, sony won't be toppled by nintendo, the company itself is too big. They'd never just pull out like sega, they'd lose too much face. But don't discount the little plumber, the boy in the green hat, the girl in the armour, or the electric mouse. Or they'll bite you in the ass when you're not looking.
Disclaimer: I will buy a sony 2 cause i need something now, and i need a dvd player, and I need a sony 1 to play alpha 3. I will buy a gamecube because it will have zelda.
Actually you can't even see 24bit colour from an emittive source such as a monitor or a tv. Reflective surfaces such as paper you can see about 50 milliion colours, but then of course we forget about the small percentage of the female population who are essentially anti-colourblind, and have 4 colour receptors in their eyes as opposed to our 3 (or two in most colour blindness).
Of course, when they say 128bit colour, they mean intenrally, and trust me it's a good thing, 3 or 4 4channel (rgba) polygons on top of each other can introduce a fair amount of clipping in a 36 bit colour space before it gets trimmed down to 24bpp for output.
And don't jump up about you're in 32bit colour mode, you're in 24bit colour mode, with an extra byte per pixel to speed up access.
Saturday, 10 Mar 2001 at 1:47pm; Category: Overseas News; High priority;
Story No. 4645. By Claire Swires
TOKYO, JAPAN March 10 AFP - Japanese authorities hve banned all animal movements in and out of the country after several sofa beds were found nibbled in Tokyo today.
Experts believe this may be an outbreak of the dreaded Futon Mouse Disease.
Sure, 50% of slashdot will run out and get one, but in a year and a half there's gonna be the XBox, the Gamecube, and the PS2. That's it.... There's no way in hell this thing can survive. It can get games, since it's a pc with a tvout, but who's going to buy it, when they've got a pc and a ps2? Don't get me wrong, it's a nice idea, and there's no way the XBox would make it without the juggernaut behind it.
This isn't a troll, but basically, I really think Indrema should give up.
....This a month after i get a tattoo with Ken and the japanese for "Shoryuken" on my shoulder...
now my kids won't have a clue what I'm on about:-(
Arcades are a great place to be to kill an hour or so when you've got nothing to do and a few spare dollars, if they fade from view I'll be upset, and if there's no street fighter machines i'll be going less and less often.... This is a rather sad day for those of us who enjoy the odd hadouken... it's just not the same at home.
... I expect more of the editors than this. No don't ask me why. Two things I need to pick a bone with:
1. The hydrogen had nothing to do with the hindenburg disaster. The fire was caused by the rocket-fuel they used on the canvas for paint, or sealant, or somesuch.
2. The danger with hydrogen powered cars also has nothing to to with the flammable nature of hydrogen, it's simply the fact that it's stored under very pressure....
Anyway, enuff from me. Just had to get that off my chest.
And if i'm typing away while reading something, i accidently hit POWER and continue typing, and my sentance has an 'o' and a space in it (as most sentences do) which depressed the OK button and my computer turns off......
Sure a fresh copy of w2k probably installed in an "approved" box that does not mean anything. How will your system run a year from now when some program or another overwrote some DLL that something else needs?
Applications cannot replace dlls in win2k. Each application that tries fails, and windows just pretends it worked for the application, which has it's own copies of all libs installed.
Also, the original Game Boy had an add-on that would do color like this.
Nope, you're dreaming. You may be thinkking of the super-gameboy, a device you plug into your super nintendo that allows you to play gameboy games, and allowed gameby games to come with 16(iirc) colours, but only when played on the super-gameboy.
Damn! I got this one this morning (from some less than savvy person at an ex employer), unenctrypted it and whatnot... Missed out on 4 points! Mine's even indented and with (mostly)decent variable names!;-)
Seriously tho, this one's not too dangerous. Remove the registry entry (just to be clean), reboot, and then delete the files, and it's gone.
It could have been a lot worse, which I stressed to the individual responsible for me getting it.
"Browsers started going to hell in a handbasket when they forgot why HTML was around in the first place - to make a platform-independent system for sharing information. Thus, a web page in Netscape *should* look different than a web page in IE, *however* the content should be the same. "
Coming from somebody who's complaining about the fact that webpages don't look the same on all browsers, because they don't adhere to the standards.
News flash. Content is not the most important part of a website. There goes the karma. But hear me out. Content is one of two things that are equally important, and if either are lax your website is useless. The other is user experience. You may have the most content-rich site in the world, but it doesn't matter if it looks like shit. And you can have the nicest looking site in the world, and it won't matter if it's got a fucked up interface or you have no content. Just look at some of the more abstract graphic artists' homepages out there.... They look great, but when you can't tell where to click or what clicking there's gonna do, you head straight for that little x in the corner.
When will you people learn, that the look and feel of a site Is just as important as it's content?
Frankly, I love explorer, and they do a lot more complying (is that a word?) to standards than netscape, and a whole truckload more than they have to.... W3C can jump up and down, but as it stands, IE is the standard, and it ain't gonna change for a while, because users are happy and that's what counts the most.
"an increasing number of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss. Doctors blame this problem on their over relience on PDAs and computers... 'Young people today are becoming stupid.'"
Maybe, or maybe we should try and use something other than memory to determine how "stupid" you are? From a very early age in school, I quickly realised that the people who everybody thought were "smart" were more often than not no way more intelligent than me, they just had better memories.
Ever hate the guy who did no work, smoked pot, and still passed every class with aces? Did you think it was he was super-intelligent? Ever stop to think that maybe he was just blessed with a better memory than you?
Every class that I sucked at, I sucked at because I have a pretty shitty memory (except PE, but that's cause I waz a lazy little prick). I feel sorry for those out there with little or no memory, especially the intelligent ones.
Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap. After the *fiasco* that wwas the 32x and then the saturn, they'd never do this. And yes, I know, you can still use your saturn if you want to play capcom versus everygameandcomiccharacter XXIII, but I digress...
Aaaaanyway, after the abysmal failure of the last two consoles, sega needs to keep the dreamcast alive, loss or no, because if they dropped it, who would ever pick up their next offering? I'm pretty sure the arcade/games business can support it for a few years, to regain some mindshare.
Answer this - How many people out there don't want a dreamcast solely because of the filthy taste the saturn left in your mouth?
Every comment here seems to say the same bloody thing:
"I commit no crime, so why should they have my DNA?"
How about a whole bunch of people say you murder somebody, raped some girl, whatever, and it's enough evidence to arrest you. You didn't do it. There's skin under the victim's fingernails, and they can't find it on the database. You're on the database. You don't have to be arrested for murder or rape, which would fuck your life up royally, wether it was laughed out of court, or you just scraped past as innocent...
I was reading through, thinking "What a dammned great idea", thinking "This is suprisignly rational from RMS", untill I read the restrictions on linking outside of documents.
Before I complain about the theory of it, here's the problem:
Scenario 1: You can not link to pages that contain links to pages that aren't under the appropriate license.
Result: You cannot link to anything, because nearly every site will eventually link out.
Scenario 2: You can link to pages that aren't under the same restrictive license, as long as it's "free enough". This effectively makes the rule useless, and IMHO is the way to go (ie lose the rule).
But why at all? Why does RMS feel it's his place to effectively censor the viewer from further non GNU-sanctioned learning? And yes, it's possible to find things without links, but it's a lot harder.
Why oh why do you have to do shit like this RMS? Your zealotry gets in the way of your ideals, and their acceptance, which is a shame, because they are truly great aspirations.
We have these all over Australia, they're called Apple Stores... I just assumed you guys would have them too... Shops full of candy-apple colours and funky translucent things... Every time I waslk past that store I swear to myself "My next pc will be an apple" but each time I do buy a new pc, general price/power wins out over looks and photoshop, and I get the PC...
of course I'd sell my left testicle for a 750mhz cube with the cinema display... Seriously... Anybody want a testicle?
I don't get this. Why on earth do you have the right to view something that has cost people time and money to produce, for free? These people don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, they do it for a living. All you have to do to pay for it is look at advertising. Don't want to buy something? Don't. You've done your part by watching the ads in the simpsons, or reading about bawls at the top of this page (well it's usually bawls, gimme a break).
You do not have the right to free information. If i work hard at something that costs me money, I at least expect to make that money back, and if you take it from me without giving me anything in return, I will be pissed.
And so would you be if I did it to you, and rightfully so.
And don't tell me that stealing information is different to stealing a car, it's not. Say you steal a song on napster. The song now has less value for it's rightful owner. "But I wouldn't have paid for it anyway" you cry? Crap. You're willing not only to break the law, but you're willing to pay for it, you're willing to pay bandwidth, you clearly are willing to give some thigns up in order to hear that song, so it had value to the person who's trying to sell it in the record store, and you've robbed them of the value of the cd as sure as you strolled in and held a gun to the pimply faced bloke behind the counter.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got 512 down 128 up into my house, for about $US 40/month and unlimited (wihtin reason) download.
There's an option for 1.5 down 512 up but it's a business plan, and has a 500mb limit (read: 2hrs downloading). I'd happily pay the extra for the 1.5, but not with a download limit, that's just not cricket at all. Listening telstra?
--Gfunk
No doubt though it's Compaq's fault because Microsoft have never produced a shit OS have they?
Hahahaha! Yeah, you're right, Bill says "hey, that crashed 3 times in 5 minutes on a new compaq, we'll release that one"
Take it back and get it fixed, there's something wrong with it. Or keep it, have a faulty computer and blame microsoft. Nobody's going to care, least of all mr Gates, and the only thing that will change is you'll be rebooting more often.
--Gfunk
I know it's bait, but I have to jump.
You're wrong, and you don't know what you're talking about. Sure, maybe sony will have the best "real" rpgs... Sqauresoft sells games in Japan, and to geeks...
Want to make money? you release a new zelda. Tens of millions of people will buy the nintendo simply because there will be a new zelda. Also, 007 may have had a fun but short-lived single player game, but years later, we still put down smash brothers (an underrated and vrey reccommended party game) and turok for a bit of ol' bondage, the only thing i'd rather be deathmatching is doom, but that's too much hassle.
And you may be too old for pokemon, but that's ok. Little johnny six pack (of fruitboxes) isn't, and mummy and daddy are more tha happy to buy it for him for his 8th birthday.
No, sony won't be toppled by nintendo, the company itself is too big. They'd never just pull out like sega, they'd lose too much face. But don't discount the little plumber, the boy in the green hat, the girl in the armour, or the electric mouse. Or they'll bite you in the ass when you're not looking.
Disclaimer: I will buy a sony 2 cause i need something now, and i need a dvd player, and I need a sony 1 to play alpha 3. I will buy a gamecube because it will have zelda.
--Gfunk
Actually you can't even see 24bit colour from an emittive source such as a monitor or a tv. Reflective surfaces such as paper you can see about 50 milliion colours, but then of course we forget about the small percentage of the female population who are essentially anti-colourblind, and have 4 colour receptors in their eyes as opposed to our 3 (or two in most colour blindness).
Of course, when they say 128bit colour, they mean intenrally, and trust me it's a good thing, 3 or 4 4channel (rgba) polygons on top of each other can introduce a fair amount of clipping in a 36 bit colour space before it gets trimmed down to 24bpp for output.
And don't jump up about you're in 32bit colour mode, you're in 24bit colour mode, with an extra byte per pixel to speed up access.
--Gfunk
Saturday, 10 Mar 2001 at 1:47pm; Category: Overseas News; High priority;
Story No. 4645. By Claire Swires
TOKYO, JAPAN March 10 AFP - Japanese authorities hve banned all animal movements in and out of the country after several sofa beds were found nibbled in Tokyo today.
Experts believe this may be an outbreak of the dreaded Futon Mouse Disease.
--Gfunk
Sure, 50% of slashdot will run out and get one, but in a year and a half there's gonna be the XBox, the Gamecube, and the PS2. That's it.... There's no way in hell this thing can survive. It can get games, since it's a pc with a tvout, but who's going to buy it, when they've got a pc and a ps2? Don't get me wrong, it's a nice idea, and there's no way the XBox would make it without the juggernaut behind it.
This isn't a troll, but basically, I really think Indrema should give up.
--Gfunk
...The greatest and the worst moment in gaming history...
Finally a (slightly) new doom, that I can carry around and play for 10 hours at a time....
.... THAT YOU CANNOT PLAY IN THE DARK!!!
Oh cruel fate, why do you mock me so?
without the eerie glow coming from your little screen that we got in the 486' heyday, it just won't be the same....
But of course it will be better than zelda for bus-journey replay.
--Gfunk
....This a month after i get a tattoo with Ken and the japanese for "Shoryuken" on my shoulder...
:-(
now my kids won't have a clue what I'm on about
Arcades are a great place to be to kill an hour or so when you've got nothing to do and a few spare dollars, if they fade from view I'll be upset, and if there's no street fighter machines i'll be going less and less often.... This is a rather sad day for those of us who enjoy the odd hadouken... it's just not the same at home.
--Gfunk
"All your bots are belong to us"
:)
<Ahem/> I believe it should read "All your bot are belong to us"
Just stirring
--Gfunk
... I expect more of the editors than this. No don't ask me why. Two things I need to pick a bone with:
1. The hydrogen had nothing to do with the hindenburg disaster. The fire was caused by the rocket-fuel they used on the canvas for paint, or sealant, or somesuch.
2. The danger with hydrogen powered cars also has nothing to to with the flammable nature of hydrogen, it's simply the fact that it's stored under very pressure....
Anyway, enuff from me. Just had to get that off my chest.
--Gfunk
I predict that we will soon start patenting philosophies or religions.
One word... Scientology <shudder>
--Gfunk
And if i'm typing away while reading something, i accidently hit POWER and continue typing, and my sentance has an 'o' and a space in it (as most sentences do) which depressed the OK button and my computer turns off......
Yeah that sounds cool, let's do that!
--Gfunk
Sure a fresh copy of w2k probably installed in an "approved" box that does not mean anything. How will your system run a year from now when some program or another overwrote some DLL that something else needs?
Applications cannot replace dlls in win2k. Each application that tries fails, and windows just pretends it worked for the application, which has it's own copies of all libs installed.
--Gfunk
Except books tend to be a little harder to use than a mobile phone game in a dark cinema, wouldn't you agree?
--Gfunk
Also, the original Game Boy had an add-on that would do color like this.
Nope, you're dreaming. You may be thinkking of the super-gameboy, a device you plug into your super nintendo that allows you to play gameboy games, and allowed gameby games to come with 16(iirc) colours, but only when played on the super-gameboy.
Gfunk
--Gfunk
Occam's Razor demands
:)
It's official, this thread is now dead.
You are all nazis.
Sorry, just dancing on its' grave. This was a stupid thread to begin with
--Gfunk
Damn! I got this one this morning (from some less than savvy person at an ex employer), unenctrypted it and whatnot... Missed out on 4 points! Mine's even indented and with (mostly)decent variable names! ;-)
Seriously tho, this one's not too dangerous. Remove the registry entry (just to be clean), reboot, and then delete the files, and it's gone.
It could have been a lot worse, which I stressed to the individual responsible for me getting it.
--Gfunk
I love comments like these:
"Browsers started going to hell in a handbasket when they forgot why HTML was around in the first place - to make a platform-independent system for sharing information. Thus, a web page in Netscape *should* look different than a web page in IE, *however* the content should be the same. "
Coming from somebody who's complaining about the fact that webpages don't look the same on all browsers, because they don't adhere to the standards.
News flash. Content is not the most important part of a website. There goes the karma. But hear me out. Content is one of two things that are equally important, and if either are lax your website is useless. The other is user experience. You may have the most content-rich site in the world, but it doesn't matter if it looks like shit. And you can have the nicest looking site in the world, and it won't matter if it's got a fucked up interface or you have no content. Just look at some of the more abstract graphic artists' homepages out there.... They look great, but when you can't tell where to click or what clicking there's gonna do, you head straight for that little x in the corner.
When will you people learn, that the look and feel of a site Is just as important as it's content?
Frankly, I love explorer, and they do a lot more complying (is that a word?) to standards than netscape, and a whole truckload more than they have to.... W3C can jump up and down, but as it stands, IE is the standard, and it ain't gonna change for a while, because users are happy and that's what counts the most.
</rant>
--Gfunk
"an increasing number of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss. Doctors blame this problem on their over relience on PDAs and computers ... 'Young people today are becoming stupid.'"
Maybe, or maybe we should try and use something other than memory to determine how "stupid" you are? From a very early age in school, I quickly realised that the people who everybody thought were "smart" were more often than not no way more intelligent than me, they just had better memories. Ever hate the guy who did no work, smoked pot, and still passed every class with aces? Did you think it was he was super-intelligent? Ever stop to think that maybe he was just blessed with a better memory than you?
Every class that I sucked at, I sucked at because I have a pretty shitty memory (except PE, but that's cause I waz a lazy little prick). I feel sorry for those out there with little or no memory, especially the intelligent ones.
--Gfunk
Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap. After the *fiasco* that wwas the 32x and then the saturn, they'd never do this. And yes, I know, you can still use your saturn if you want to play capcom versus everygameandcomiccharacter XXIII, but I digress...
Aaaaanyway, after the abysmal failure of the last two consoles, sega needs to keep the dreamcast alive, loss or no, because if they dropped it, who would ever pick up their next offering? I'm pretty sure the arcade/games business can support it for a few years, to regain some mindshare.
Answer this - How many people out there don't want a dreamcast solely because of the filthy taste the saturn left in your mouth?
--Gfunk
Damn, beat me to it, that's exactly what I was going to say. Somebody mod that up!
--Gfunk
Every comment here seems to say the same bloody thing:
"I commit no crime, so why should they have my DNA?"
How about a whole bunch of people say you murder somebody, raped some girl, whatever, and it's enough evidence to arrest you. You didn't do it. There's skin under the victim's fingernails, and they can't find it on the database. You're on the database. You don't have to be arrested for murder or rape, which would fuck your life up royally, wether it was laughed out of court, or you just scraped past as innocent...
There's two sides of every story.
--Gfunk
I was reading through, thinking "What a dammned great idea", thinking "This is suprisignly rational from RMS", untill I read the restrictions on linking outside of documents.
Before I complain about the theory of it, here's the problem:
Scenario 1: You can not link to pages that contain links to pages that aren't under the appropriate license.
Result: You cannot link to anything, because nearly every site will eventually link out.
Scenario 2: You can link to pages that aren't under the same restrictive license, as long as it's "free enough". This effectively makes the rule useless, and IMHO is the way to go (ie lose the rule).
But why at all? Why does RMS feel it's his place to effectively censor the viewer from further non GNU-sanctioned learning? And yes, it's possible to find things without links, but it's a lot harder.
Why oh why do you have to do shit like this RMS? Your zealotry gets in the way of your ideals, and their acceptance, which is a shame, because they are truly great aspirations.
--Gfunk
We have these all over Australia, they're called Apple Stores... I just assumed you guys would have them too... Shops full of candy-apple colours and funky translucent things... Every time I waslk past that store I swear to myself "My next pc will be an apple" but each time I do buy a new pc, general price/power wins out over looks and photoshop, and I get the PC...
of course I'd sell my left testicle for a 750mhz cube with the cinema display... Seriously... Anybody want a testicle?
--Gfunk
I don't get this. Why on earth do you have the right to view something that has cost people time and money to produce, for free? These people don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, they do it for a living. All you have to do to pay for it is look at advertising. Don't want to buy something? Don't. You've done your part by watching the ads in the simpsons, or reading about bawls at the top of this page (well it's usually bawls, gimme a break).
You do not have the right to free information. If i work hard at something that costs me money, I at least expect to make that money back, and if you take it from me without giving me anything in return, I will be pissed.
And so would you be if I did it to you, and rightfully so.
And don't tell me that stealing information is different to stealing a car, it's not. Say you steal a song on napster. The song now has less value for it's rightful owner. "But I wouldn't have paid for it anyway" you cry? Crap. You're willing not only to break the law, but you're willing to pay for it, you're willing to pay bandwidth, you clearly are willing to give some thigns up in order to hear that song, so it had value to the person who's trying to sell it in the record store, and you've robbed them of the value of the cd as sure as you strolled in and held a gun to the pimply faced bloke behind the counter.
</rant>
--Gfunk