Filled with nice specs, but I was hoping the guy might have also compared the features with what is actually a reality with games today..., but I don't think he even could havbe, based on the info at the bottom:
Technical Editor Brian Dipert, for all his time spent researching and writing about 3-D graphics and other multimedia topics, doesn't play anything more complex than Solitaire on his desktop and notebook computers and his Casio E-125 Pocket PC
That's exactly the reason I can't get him on Linux as well. He's an audio engineer guy, uses TripleDat (Creamware) which is, in his opinion, the greatest audio editting tool out there, and he used to be a SAW rep. RCMP goes to him for audio editting and crap, but I digress. We also both use Macromedia products on a/daily/ basis. Sure Gimp can do the drawing, and the ble to the bla, but Macromedia makes it easy and clean.:) Until real developing tools (not including code-apps) are made open source, Linux will still remain "that other OS".
That's a problem, yeah, but one of the biggest friggin' things is different file architectures or something. I have no idea how it works, to be honest, but some stuff just won't work on an English system if it was burnt/ripped on a Russian system. I know this, cause I've tried it on my system (english), and a friend's system (Russian). It has something to do with the Syrillic(sp?) text, or so I've been told.
Yeah, it's great. Although, China isn't really Microsoft-monopoly free, many people choose to ignore copyrights and such. It's actually the same really all over Asia. My brother just came back and decided it'd be nice to get me crapload of stuff for like $5. It was probably well over $5000 worth of stuff, and I ended up using Textpad off of his 3 discs, which is semi-freeware anyway.:)
My mistake, I interpreted AA as 18A, defined under the Canadian Home Video Rating System. In Ontario and the Maritimes, AA==14A. If you really care, look at: http://www.gtm.ca/cdn_ratings_comparison.html
and you can find a comparison of American and Canadian ratings, as well as explanations of both. The thing with Canada, is that our ratings are province wide, not national.
Rating: AA - Meaning: Adult Accompaniment
AA is essentially 'R', meaning restricted to those under 18. The rating that's anyone over 14 is 14A, which is the in-between of PG-13 and AA.
Ok, the Moon is obviously owned by no one. So is it first comes first serves? Could one company come along, buy up all the land and own the moon...? It could become the greatest advertising space of all time.
I wonder how far professional crypto freaks will go? I mean it's cool, it's forcing banks to keep up with security, but I wonder how long it'll be (if ever) before we hit a point where it's just too damned expensive to crack security?
Jesus H. You'd think that Apple, a (mostly) respectable, honest company would release some kind of 'free only for users of the service' program to restore the partitions. Making users pay for Apple's mistakes is seriously wrong.
Scandisk under windows is lame. It can apparently fix problems better, but windows is always frigging doing something to the hard disk whenever it's on. As a power user, you literally have to shut down/every/ program except explorer.exe (et al.), disable screen savers, etc. for it to work.
It's a wonder more schools don't choose linux - I mean, how many guides have you seen giving instructions on how to crack your school's LINUX network.:)
Sounds great on paper, and it'll probably work quite well in smaller applications, but can this tech really be transferred to personal transportation?
I would imagine the delicate nature of the devices would make it hard and very expensive to enlarge. Hydrogen and solar power would probably be more practical for personal transportation, but underwater (especially deep sea) you don't have much solar energy and you probably wouldn't need all the power hydrogen can shovel at you.
Hehe. I'm a new user to Opera, actually, and recently tried to use Hotmail. I'm a little cookie paranoid, but I'm lax enough so I don't have to authorize everything...but getting into Hotmail was such a pain! They whined about my browser 'not supporting Hotmail' and all that crap...strange how every other secure sight works fine in Opera.
I can't speak about previous versions, but in 5.12 there's an Option in the prefs to set what Opera ids itself as. For some reason it defaults to IE5, but you can change it back to Opera.
I just recently installed WinMX and it tried to install Gator with it. I simply pressed the decline button and all seems well, but for other banner progs - a simple firewall will block any programs wanting to access the net.
Yup..and for what purpose? You can achieve pretty well the same power with a nice, inexpensive socket A (prices as low as $110 Canuck dollaws) and a Duron or preferably T-bird.
From a builder's standpoint, you'd ask 'Why do they even bother making chips.' But the problem is the public knows about Intel. That's the company that has the neat sticker on my computer, and has those strange blue men in their commercials. The public likes Intel, and probably haven't even heard of the viable competitors.
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Amen, brother. That is one of the most truthful, kickass right to the bone posts I've read in a while.
;)
Keep it up.
Filled with nice specs, but I was hoping the guy might have also compared the features with what is actually a reality with games today..., but I don't think he even could havbe, based on the info at the bottom:
Technical Editor Brian Dipert, for all his time spent researching and writing about 3-D graphics and other multimedia topics, doesn't play anything more complex than Solitaire on his desktop and notebook computers and his Casio E-125 Pocket PC
Difference being, I don't wake up in cold sweats after having just had nightmares about Clippy....god damn him and his malleable body.
Replace 'can't get him' with 'can't get my Dad'. I've been awake for 21 hours, and I actually tried to edit my text last time...guess it didn't work.
That's exactly the reason I can't get him on Linux as well. He's an audio engineer guy, uses TripleDat (Creamware) which is, in his opinion, the greatest audio editting tool out there, and he used to be a SAW rep. RCMP goes to him for audio editting and crap, but I digress. We also both use Macromedia products on a /daily/ basis. Sure Gimp can do the drawing, and the ble to the bla, but Macromedia makes it easy and clean. :) Until real developing tools (not including code-apps) are made open source, Linux will still remain "that other OS".
That's a problem, yeah, but one of the biggest friggin' things is different file architectures or something. I have no idea how it works, to be honest, but some stuff just won't work on an English system if it was burnt/ripped on a Russian system. I know this, cause I've tried it on my system (english), and a friend's system (Russian). It has something to do with the Syrillic(sp?) text, or so I've been told.
Yeah, it's great. Although, China isn't really Microsoft-monopoly free, many people choose to ignore copyrights and such. It's actually the same really all over Asia. My brother just came back and decided it'd be nice to get me crapload of stuff for like $5. It was probably well over $5000 worth of stuff, and I ended up using Textpad off of his 3 discs, which is semi-freeware anyway. :)
My mistake, I interpreted AA as 18A, defined under the Canadian Home Video Rating System. In Ontario and the Maritimes, AA==14A. If you really care, look at: http://www.gtm.ca/cdn_ratings_comparison.html and you can find a comparison of American and Canadian ratings, as well as explanations of both. The thing with Canada, is that our ratings are province wide, not national.
Rating: AA - Meaning: Adult Accompaniment
AA is essentially 'R', meaning restricted to those under 18. The rating that's anyone over 14 is 14A, which is the in-between of PG-13 and AA.
Ok, the Moon is obviously owned by no one. So is it first comes first serves? Could one company come along, buy up all the land and own the moon...? It could become the greatest advertising space of all time.
I wonder how far professional crypto freaks will go? I mean it's cool, it's forcing banks to keep up with security, but I wonder how long it'll be (if ever) before we hit a point where it's just too damned expensive to crack security?
Yeah, they just unclassified the so-called failures...what about the models that work correctly? *peers outside* The cats are watching, the cats....
In my hastiness, I chose to read the story here and not click on the link...blah blah blah, Apple's back on my Christmas list.
Jesus H. You'd think that Apple, a (mostly) respectable, honest company would release some kind of 'free only for users of the service' program to restore the partitions. Making users pay for Apple's mistakes is seriously wrong.
Not everything of his is Horror, just all his majorly recognized works are of the Horror genre.
One of the most memorable FANTASY books I have ever read is King's "Through The Eyes of the Dragon".
And I agree, his works will be read by many for years to come.
And Stephen King, holy God will King stand the test of time...
For starters:
- Seuss (the good doctor).
- Orwell
- Terry Brooks
- R. A. Salvatore
Scandisk under windows is lame. It can apparently fix problems better, but windows is always frigging doing something to the hard disk whenever it's on. As a power user, you literally have to shut down /every/ program except explorer.exe (et al.), disable screen savers, etc. for it to work.
Dude. Canada's got net too. :P You know, Rogers and that PPPoE thing...
It's a wonder more schools don't choose linux - I mean, how many guides have you seen giving instructions on how to crack your school's LINUX network. :)
Sounds great on paper, and it'll probably work quite well in smaller applications, but can this tech really be transferred to personal transportation?
I would imagine the delicate nature of the devices would make it hard and very expensive to enlarge. Hydrogen and solar power would probably be more practical for personal transportation, but underwater (especially deep sea) you don't have much solar energy and you probably wouldn't need all the power hydrogen can shovel at you.
Hehe. I'm a new user to Opera, actually, and recently tried to use Hotmail. I'm a little cookie paranoid, but I'm lax enough so I don't have to authorize everything...but getting into Hotmail was such a pain! They whined about my browser 'not supporting Hotmail' and all that crap...strange how every other secure sight works fine in Opera.
I can't speak about previous versions, but in 5.12 there's an Option in the prefs to set what Opera ids itself as. For some reason it defaults to IE5, but you can change it back to Opera.
I just recently installed WinMX and it tried to install Gator with it. I simply pressed the decline button and all seems well, but for other banner progs - a simple firewall will block any programs wanting to access the net.
Yup..and for what purpose? You can achieve pretty well the same power with a nice, inexpensive socket A (prices as low as $110 Canuck dollaws) and a Duron or preferably T-bird.
From a builder's standpoint, you'd ask 'Why do they even bother making chips.' But the problem is the public knows about Intel. That's the company that has the neat sticker on my computer, and has those strange blue men in their commercials. The public likes Intel, and probably haven't even heard of the viable competitors.