Depends what's wrong with it. Cleaning it out usually works. Open it up and clean all the dust off all the boards and chips. We have a working 7800 here, and quite a few games. Trying to get the 2600 sticks though, they are so much better than 7800 sticks.
The thing is that there are people who are paying money to put those ads on a website. The difference here between the magazine or television and the web is that the guy who runs the site gets money when people click/lead or whatever the pricing plan may be. If you cut ads out of a magazine, the magazine doesn't care. They made their money because the advertiser paid for the ad to be in there, and it was in there. On the web the advertiser not only pays for ad placement, which in turn brings them direct profits (e.g: online casino), but the person with the website depends on those ads being shown so he can get paid through cj, or whatever system he uses. Gator most definitely sucks because not only is it evil spyware on peoples computers. But it takes money away from people who are trying to pay the hosting bill for their very cool web sites. I mean, even slasdot is getting paid for the ads on the site. And if those ads don't show up because gator replaced them, then gator is indirectly stealing revenue from slashdot. Instead of say google (with its ultra cool google rackmount box thing) paying slashdot, company X pays gator. Do you now see why suing gator is the way to go?
from the way it looks to me, this system will actually protect your priacy and provide a decent amount of security. However, it is uknown as to whether or not microsoft will be able to invade your privacy, since they make the system. Have to double check that EULA! As for digital rights management, I am just generally opposed to it, as are most of you;-). And anyone who gives up their freedom for an illusion of security deserves neither (one of those founding father guys). Remove the DRM and this looks ok to me.
the XBox had a decent controller. Sure I could say emulate Street Fighter 2 on it. But without a stick and 6 buttons, it's worthless. There is a smaller controller available, but it's not that much better.
is a seperate lcd screen that had winamp, my instant messengers, and other small background apps. Just to get them off my screen. This would be extra cool because I could play counterstrike on one screen and have AIM on another. Thus preventing CS from fudging if I get an IM.
absolutely. When the cs lab at school is full of Sun Ultra 10s running Solaris, and I got win2k/Mandrake at home, nothing quite does the job like ssh. I prefer the basic ssh applications available free at www.ssh.com. You know our cs department has gone so far as to disable telnet, so you can ONLY use SSH, smart eh?
I program mostly in object oriented languages. So I have seperate files, which have seperate classes. I start at the bottom of my UML and work my way up testing each class as if it were its own program. When I know they all work individually, I can be certain that, despite the fact there had to be a few bugs I overlooked, that all bugs are due to the way they interact. It takes awhile, but in the end I'm mostly bug free.
This meeting thing is totally awesome. It's cool to meet/.ers in the area, but most of them go to my college. RIT and all. But the idea of a real life get together for people who all belong to one internet group is not new, but this site makes it really easy and cool. My friends write a webcomic http://www.dubthis.net about anime, and we use the forums to get people together so we can meet at conventions. There are going to be tons of us at http://www.otakon.com in the end of July. At ACen they threw a huge party, and we plan to do the same again. If/.ers meet up in the real world they should throw huge parties. If they just meet and brag about their karma and their desktop environments it would totally suck.
95% of surfers use IE because 95% of surfers are AOLers. Remember the number 1 ISP is AOL. IE is only the number one browser because AOL counts as IE. If AOL switches to Mozilla, then the #1 browser becomes Mozilla. I'm at a technical college with lots of computer nerds, and lots of non-nerds too. Since we have a LAN you can get a good idea about what browsers people use without AOL getting in the way. WRONG. Most of the non-nerds USE AOL. That's right, given for free the best ISP in the world, "stupid" people just put AOL over it, because they don't know any better. Other than that it's pretty much a 3 way tie between Mozilla, Netscape Communicator, and IE. There are actually quite a few funky opera users out there.
I personally use IE for most browsing, I have win2k and IE is fast, and it works. I disliked Mozilla because the last time I used it it was very slow. I recently installed 1.0, and am very pleased. Now I use both browsers. IE for my daily site roundup and Mozilla for browsing (pop-up protection is great). My roomate a rabid IE fan even installed Mozilla, he also only uses it when he needs to block pop-ups.
So there is no browser war. AOL just decides which browser is the standard.
Just to be informative;-) If you don't know what DDR is, it's a Japanese Game in Konami's Bemani Series. Bemani games are games that usually involve music and some sort of strange peripheral. Others include Beatmania (turntable) and paraparaparadise (hand sensors). DDR is probably the most popular one and is now on it's 7th mix. I'm really surprised this made Slashdot today. I just read it on www.ddrfreak.com 10 minutes ago.
When I first saw ddr I said "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen". Then I danced. Don't be afraid to play this game. Just go to the arcade and do it.
I don't know what you people are complaining about with dllhell. Conflicting DLL files or old dlls replacing new ones is a result of poor system administration. At least the software you are installing knows what dlls it needs, and it comes with them, rather than me trying to figure out 10000 dependencies, what they are, how to install them, etc. Deiban I would use, but the installer for the distro sucks. It's so hard to install debian its not worth my time. I don't see why you would have to install all of KDE to get QTlibs. When you runs setup.exe in windows there is always a custom button that allows you to select which components you wish to install. And versioning sounds horrible to me. Why would you keep multiple versions of a library on your system? That's a poorly designed system to me. Only the newest most up to date library should need to be on the system. If the libraries aren't backwards compatible or software isn't forwards compatible that is another design flaw.
None of those things contradict the idea of having an installshield and using a setup.exe type of installation system. Download quick time for windows. You can A) select what you want B)download only what you want C) it is very easy and consistent D)it updates all by itself. No big re-downloads of quick time. Uninstallation is also simple, add/remove programs. quick time, then 3 clicks. No, none of those are install shields in the style of windows. Those are seperate programs designed to look at any piece of software and attempt to install it. In windows each piece of software comes with its own installer. Each piece of software is different. Having one installer for every piece of software is a bad idea, because it wont always work. If it doesn't always work, it's worthless to me.
You have a valid point that it sucks to run around clicking ok on every machine. But if you are running a large network and you have any brains you shouldn't have to do that. You install the software on one machine and ghost it. And most large applications in windows have install over network options, where the administrator can install one piece of software on thousands of machines from one terminal. As for downloading extra data, that isn't a prolem either. Look at somethign like quick time. You download a very small install file. Then you select which componenets of QuickTime you want. It downloads those components and installs them. The best part is that the components have names in english. Such as Quick Time Virtual Reality Not QT-1.555354-V.r.rpm SO you can easily understand what components you are installing.
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What we need is to get rid of the entire packaging system all together. I know I'll probably get toasted for this. But software should install in linux the same way it installs in windows. There should be one file, like setup.exe. I should take that file, execute it, it will ask me what parts of the software I want, and where I want to put it, etc. From my experience there are two pieces of software for linux that do this, the Tribes 2 server, and Mozilla. The entire packaging system is just a pain in the butt. This depends on that depends on this. urpmi, rpm -i, rpm -U, things not working with no explanation. In Windows I never have to worry about one thign relying on another thing. Because just about everything uses DirectX. And directX COMES WITH anything that uses it. And it has a simple graphical isntallation. There should be one downloadable file for each piece of software I want. It should install on its own, on any linux machine, easily and graphically. And all of my library packages like glibc, etc. Should transparently update themselves to the newest versions all the time. I dont' want to have to worry about that stuff. Drivers in linux are incredibly difficult to install. They should become a simple right click, install driver. Done. I want all that other crap taken care of for me. I don't have time to change paths in config files, tinker with code, look up crazy commands and recompile crap. I feel the package system is the real place in which linux fails. Most distros, lets use Mandrake as an example, have graphical easy installations. But when you get to the package selection phase you're stuck forever weeding through thousands and thousands of checkboxes. Not cool. One piece of software should be one checkbox. KDE alone has like 20+ rpm files. There should be one file. KDE3setup.exe. You know that installshield that almsot every piece of windows software has? Maybe someone could code that for linux. I would, but I have no idea how to do something like that. But I know someone reading this does. And if you want to save your open source os, I suggest you do.
Here at RIT we have, I think the best connection anywhere. Not only is our school full of nerds. Not only are we the supposed center of all software piracy (fbi and customs have been here more than once), and not only do we have a CIA scandal. But we have 2, count 'em , 2 OC3s, with a T3 also. One of the OC3s is for internet2, so when I download my newest mandrake isos from any.edu it pretty much takes no time at all. Oh yeah, did I mention we're on 100 base full duplex ethernet? It's so fun to sit in the computer lab in the library and stream DivX;-) I'll never be able to go to a cable modem. But this rate hike will sure help DSL out a lot. The DSL I have at home in CT is crazy fast. I'm used to 2 OC3s and the DSL doesn't bother me. I've clocked 900k/s on it at some times. The upload is less, but its reached 150k, which isn't half as bad as some cable limits now.
This is because the book publishers have embraced the internet and allowed the new technology and their industry to naturally merge together into something beneficial for everybody. On the other hand the music and movie industries seem to be doing the exact opposite. Example - Stephen King's + Scott Adams E-Books. Publishers embrace the technology and don't try to make money with lawyers. I doubt the RIAA will learn a lesson however.
I want one device that meets all of the following requirements. When such a device exists for a few hundred dollars or less I will purchase my first PDA.
1. It must be a pda, keep appointments, phone numbers, etc. 2. Internet ready, must have wireless access to the net for e-mail web browsing, ssh, etc. 3. It must be able to play digital audio whehter the files are stored in the device or on the net (streaming). 4. It must have a full color LCD screen. 5. It must be no larger than a modern cellular phone (palm pilots are too wide). 6. It must be a digital camera. 7. It must play digital video. 8. I must be able to plug it into my desktop in some manner in order to trade information. 9. It must have a large amoutn of storage space, say a few gigs. IBM microdrive preferred. 10. It must run on one fully charged battery for at least 8 hours. 11. It must have an intutive alphanumeric input method. 12. It must not have DRM of any sort. 13. It must be a digital cellular phone and pager. 14. I must have a JRE (Java). 15. It must have a fast processor, fast enough to do all non-3D tasks. Maple or Mathematica (lite versions at least) should run on it. 16. It must have instant messenging, AIM, ICQ. 17. It should have a VNC client or X over SSS or equivalent, so I can use my desktop computer from the middle of the street far away. 18. The wireless net connection must be fast enough to stream mp3s.
That's all I can think of now. Any other features added are just bonuses.
I agree that the person who makes the music should be the one to hold the copyright. And that the corporation should not make more money than the artist does. However, the reason the corporation can do this is not because of flaws in copyright laws (although these laws are flawed). It is because the artist signed a contract with the record company. The problem is that signing a contract with a major record company is the only way to "make it big" as a musician. That's what needs to be fixed. The internet helps that, but not enough.
American's don't fudge around when it comes to manuals and other stuff like warning labels and other such things. Because of the abundance of stupid lawsuits. I can see it now.
Normal Instructions: Firmly insert the 3 pronged power cable into a grounded outlet.
Funny Instructions: I think you know what to do with the power cable...
Results: I shoved the power cable in my ass and I had a million dollars in proctologist fees. Their instructions are the reason I shoved somethign in my anus. I want money!
I generally dislike proprietary file formats. All file formats should be standardized. Currently there are many companies (MS, Adobe, etc.) who make money because their file format is the standard and they are the only ones who make software that can deal with that file format. If all file formats were standardized then there would be no problems of not being able to read someone elses file. And you would be able to choose from a variety of applications for dealing with those files. So while your friend may like the full featured word processor of doom, and you like the very lite textpad, if their is a universal standard for word processing documents you can read his file and he can read it after you edit it. In the end the companies that make the best software will win, not the companies that own the file formats.
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Are you sure it's supposed to be released on July 3? I mean everyone I know has it already.
If it worked. Which it doesn't
Depends what's wrong with it. Cleaning it out usually works. Open it up and clean all the dust off all the boards and chips. We have a working 7800 here, and quite a few games. Trying to get the 2600 sticks though, they are so much better than 7800 sticks.
The Atari logo is on the Neverwinter Nights box. Feaky eh?
Oh yeah.
Pitfall.
Word.
The thing is that there are people who are paying money to put those ads on a website. The difference here between the magazine or television and the web is that the guy who runs the site gets money when people click/lead or whatever the pricing plan may be. If you cut ads out of a magazine, the magazine doesn't care. They made their money because the advertiser paid for the ad to be in there, and it was in there.
On the web the advertiser not only pays for ad placement, which in turn brings them direct profits (e.g: online casino), but the person with the website depends on those ads being shown so he can get paid through cj, or whatever system he uses.
Gator most definitely sucks because not only is it evil spyware on peoples computers. But it takes money away from people who are trying to pay the hosting bill for their very cool web sites.
I mean, even slasdot is getting paid for the ads on the site. And if those ads don't show up because gator replaced them, then gator is indirectly stealing revenue from slashdot. Instead of say google (with its ultra cool google rackmount box thing) paying slashdot, company X pays gator.
Do you now see why suing gator is the way to go?
from the way it looks to me, this system will actually protect your priacy and provide a decent amount of security. However, it is uknown as to whether or not microsoft will be able to invade your privacy, since they make the system. Have to double check that EULA! As for digital rights management, I am just generally opposed to it, as are most of you ;-). And anyone who gives up their freedom for an illusion of security deserves neither (one of those founding father guys).
Remove the DRM and this looks ok to me.
the XBox had a decent controller. Sure I could say emulate Street Fighter 2 on it. But without a stick and 6 buttons, it's worthless. There is a smaller controller available, but it's not that much better.
is a seperate lcd screen that had winamp, my instant messengers, and other small background apps. Just to get them off my screen. This would be extra cool because I could play counterstrike on one screen and have AIM on another. Thus preventing CS from fudging if I get an IM.
absolutely. When the cs lab at school is full of Sun Ultra 10s running Solaris, and I got win2k/Mandrake at home, nothing quite does the job like ssh. I prefer the basic ssh applications available free at www.ssh.com.
You know our cs department has gone so far as to disable telnet, so you can ONLY use SSH, smart eh?
somethign the size of a quarter = 2CDs, why not make the media the size of a normal CD? Wouldn't that make it hold a whole lot more data?
I program mostly in object oriented languages. So I have seperate files, which have seperate classes. I start at the bottom of my UML and work my way up testing each class as if it were its own program. When I know they all work individually, I can be certain that, despite the fact there had to be a few bugs I overlooked, that all bugs are due to the way they interact. It takes awhile, but in the end I'm mostly bug free.
This meeting thing is totally awesome. It's cool to meet /.ers in the area, but most of them go to my college. RIT and all. But the idea of a real life get together for people who all belong to one internet group is not new, but this site makes it really easy and cool. /.ers meet up in the real world they should throw huge parties. If they just meet and brag about their karma and their desktop environments it would totally suck.
My friends write a webcomic http://www.dubthis.net about anime, and we use the forums to get people together so we can meet at conventions. There are going to be tons of us at http://www.otakon.com in the end of July. At ACen they threw a huge party, and we plan to do the same again.
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95% of surfers use IE because 95% of surfers are AOLers. Remember the number 1 ISP is AOL. IE is only the number one browser because AOL counts as IE. If AOL switches to Mozilla, then the #1 browser becomes Mozilla. I'm at a technical college with lots of computer nerds, and lots of non-nerds too. Since we have a LAN you can get a good idea about what browsers people use without AOL getting in the way. WRONG. Most of the non-nerds USE AOL. That's right, given for free the best ISP in the world, "stupid" people just put AOL over it, because they don't know any better. Other than that it's pretty much a 3 way tie between Mozilla, Netscape Communicator, and IE. There are actually quite a few funky opera users out there.
I personally use IE for most browsing, I have win2k and IE is fast, and it works. I disliked Mozilla because the last time I used it it was very slow. I recently installed 1.0, and am very pleased. Now I use both browsers. IE for my daily site roundup and Mozilla for browsing (pop-up protection is great). My roomate a rabid IE fan even installed Mozilla, he also only uses it when he needs to block pop-ups.
So there is no browser war. AOL just decides which browser is the standard.
And Konqueror is kool too.
Just to be informative ;-) If you don't know what DDR is, it's a Japanese Game in Konami's Bemani Series. Bemani games are games that usually involve music and some sort of strange peripheral. Others include Beatmania (turntable) and paraparaparadise (hand sensors). DDR is probably the most popular one and is now on it's 7th mix. I'm really surprised this made Slashdot today. I just read it on www.ddrfreak.com 10 minutes ago.
When I first saw ddr I said "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen". Then I danced. Don't be afraid to play this game. Just go to the arcade and do it.
I don't know what you people are complaining about with dllhell. Conflicting DLL files or old dlls replacing new ones is a result of poor system administration. At least the software you are installing knows what dlls it needs, and it comes with them, rather than me trying to figure out 10000 dependencies, what they are, how to install them, etc. Deiban I would use, but the installer for the distro sucks. It's so hard to install debian its not worth my time.
I don't see why you would have to install all of KDE to get QTlibs. When you runs setup.exe in windows there is always a custom button that allows you to select which components you wish to install.
And versioning sounds horrible to me. Why would you keep multiple versions of a library on your system? That's a poorly designed system to me. Only the newest most up to date library should need to be on the system. If the libraries aren't backwards compatible or software isn't forwards compatible that is another design flaw.
None of those things contradict the idea of having an installshield and using a setup.exe type of installation system. Download quick time for windows. You can A) select what you want B)download only what you want C) it is very easy and consistent D)it updates all by itself. No big re-downloads of quick time. Uninstallation is also simple, add/remove programs. quick time, then 3 clicks.
No, none of those are install shields in the style of windows. Those are seperate programs designed to look at any piece of software and attempt to install it. In windows each piece of software comes with its own installer. Each piece of software is different. Having one installer for every piece of software is a bad idea, because it wont always work. If it doesn't always work, it's worthless to me.
You have a valid point that it sucks to run around clicking ok on every machine. But if you are running a large network and you have any brains you shouldn't have to do that. You install the software on one machine and ghost it. And most large applications in windows have install over network options, where the administrator can install one piece of software on thousands of machines from one terminal.
As for downloading extra data, that isn't a prolem either. Look at somethign like quick time. You download a very small install file. Then you select which componenets of QuickTime you want. It downloads those components and installs them. The best part is that the components have names in english. Such as Quick Time Virtual Reality
Not QT-1.555354-V.r.rpm SO you can easily understand what components you are installing.
Damn Straight! I used all my mod points yesterday, and I already posted a comment below anyway. But at least someone out there besides me thinks InstallShield is a good idea. You rock.
What we need is to get rid of the entire packaging system all together. I know I'll probably get toasted for this. But software should install in linux the same way it installs in windows. There should be one file, like setup.exe. I should take that file, execute it, it will ask me what parts of the software I want, and where I want to put it, etc. From my experience there are two pieces of software for linux that do this, the Tribes 2 server, and Mozilla.
The entire packaging system is just a pain in the butt. This depends on that depends on this. urpmi, rpm -i, rpm -U, things not working with no explanation. In Windows I never have to worry about one thign relying on another thing. Because just about everything uses DirectX. And directX COMES WITH anything that uses it. And it has a simple graphical isntallation.
There should be one downloadable file for each piece of software I want. It should install on its own, on any linux machine, easily and graphically. And all of my library packages like glibc, etc. Should transparently update themselves to the newest versions all the time. I dont' want to have to worry about that stuff. Drivers in linux are incredibly difficult to install. They should become a simple right click, install driver. Done. I want all that other crap taken care of for me. I don't have time to change paths in config files, tinker with code, look up crazy commands and recompile crap.
I feel the package system is the real place in which linux fails. Most distros, lets use Mandrake as an example, have graphical easy installations. But when you get to the package selection phase you're stuck forever weeding through thousands and thousands of checkboxes. Not cool.
One piece of software should be one checkbox. KDE alone has like 20+ rpm files. There should be one file. KDE3setup.exe.
You know that installshield that almsot every piece of windows software has? Maybe someone could code that for linux. I would, but I have no idea how to do something like that. But I know someone reading this does. And if you want to save your open source os, I suggest you do.
Here at RIT we have, I think the best connection anywhere. Not only is our school full of nerds. Not only are we the supposed center of all software piracy (fbi and customs have been here more than once), and not only do we have a CIA scandal. But we have 2, count 'em , 2 OC3s, with a T3 also. One of the OC3s is for internet2, so when I download my newest mandrake isos from any .edu it pretty much takes no time at all. Oh yeah, did I mention we're on 100 base full duplex ethernet? It's so fun to sit in the computer lab in the library and stream DivX ;-)
I'll never be able to go to a cable modem. But this rate hike will sure help DSL out a lot. The DSL I have at home in CT is crazy fast. I'm used to 2 OC3s and the DSL doesn't bother me. I've clocked 900k/s on it at some times. The upload is less, but its reached 150k, which isn't half as bad as some cable limits now.
Yeah, so RIT rules, go to college.
This is because the book publishers have embraced the internet and allowed the new technology and their industry to naturally merge together into something beneficial for everybody.
On the other hand the music and movie industries seem to be doing the exact opposite. Example - Stephen King's + Scott Adams E-Books. Publishers embrace the technology and don't try to make money with lawyers. I doubt the RIAA will learn a lesson however.
I want one device that meets all of the following requirements. When such a device exists for a few hundred dollars or less I will purchase my first PDA.
1. It must be a pda, keep appointments, phone numbers, etc.
2. Internet ready, must have wireless access to the net for e-mail web browsing, ssh, etc.
3. It must be able to play digital audio whehter the files are stored in the device or on the net (streaming).
4. It must have a full color LCD screen.
5. It must be no larger than a modern cellular phone (palm pilots are too wide).
6. It must be a digital camera.
7. It must play digital video.
8. I must be able to plug it into my desktop in some manner in order to trade information.
9. It must have a large amoutn of storage space, say a few gigs. IBM microdrive preferred.
10. It must run on one fully charged battery for at least 8 hours.
11. It must have an intutive alphanumeric input method.
12. It must not have DRM of any sort.
13. It must be a digital cellular phone and pager.
14. I must have a JRE (Java).
15. It must have a fast processor, fast enough to do all non-3D tasks. Maple or Mathematica (lite versions at least) should run on it.
16. It must have instant messenging, AIM, ICQ.
17. It should have a VNC client or X over SSS or equivalent, so I can use my desktop computer from the middle of the street far away.
18. The wireless net connection must be fast enough to stream mp3s.
That's all I can think of now. Any other features added are just bonuses.
I agree that the person who makes the music should be the one to hold the copyright. And that the corporation should not make more money than the artist does. However, the reason the corporation can do this is not because of flaws in copyright laws (although these laws are flawed). It is because the artist signed a contract with the record company. The problem is that signing a contract with a major record company is the only way to "make it big" as a musician. That's what needs to be fixed. The internet helps that, but not enough.
American's don't fudge around when it comes to manuals and other stuff like warning labels and other such things. Because of the abundance of stupid lawsuits. I can see it now.
Normal Instructions:
Firmly insert the 3 pronged power cable into a grounded outlet.
Funny Instructions:
I think you know what to do with the power cable...
Results: I shoved the power cable in my ass and I had a million dollars in proctologist fees. Their instructions are the reason I shoved somethign in my anus. I want money!
I generally dislike proprietary file formats. All file formats should be standardized. Currently there are many companies (MS, Adobe, etc.) who make money because their file format is the standard and they are the only ones who make software that can deal with that file format. If all file formats were standardized then there would be no problems of not being able to read someone elses file. And you would be able to choose from a variety of applications for dealing with those files. So while your friend may like the full featured word processor of doom, and you like the very lite textpad, if their is a universal standard for word processing documents you can read his file and he can read it after you edit it. In the end the companies that make the best software will win, not the companies that own the file formats.