I know real piro, and I know real largo. Guess what cartoon piro == real piro. He's an angsty sappy kanon lovin' fanboy. if you didn't know, kanon is a porn dating game, not just a regular dating game. Me and my friends like dating games too, but we play toki meki memorial, non porn! Only angsty fanboys get pissed and threaten to shut forums down and stuff. I met largo at ohayocon, he's == cartoon largo, only he doesn't look the same.
Too slow to be usable? What are you tlaking about? Maybe on your machine Mozilla starts up faster than konqueror, but not on mine. Opera is the fastest, but I can't stand the interface either. I think we need some benchmarks here, last I remember mozilla was the slowest browser, um, ever.
I always wanted an iPod, since I first saw one. But I'm a PC kind of guy. Tell me there's someone out there who has written something to make the iPod work with windows/linux. I don't have money, but I have a credit card, I'll go buy one right now. Kid wherever you are, you rock.
Yeah, there are lots of DivX players for linux. I've seen them everywhere. But how come none of them seem to work with Mandrake? I tried everything. The #1 problem with linux is no longer hardware support, since Mandrake supports all the hardware in my computer, even my printer, automatically.
The #1 problem is ease of software installation and configuration. Sure rpms are great, until you get some that depend on something else. Which depends on somethign else, which dependson the rpm you were trying to install in the first place. Not to mention when you try to install something from source, and it wont compile. I don't have the time or the patience to figure out what is wrong with someone else's code.
I know how to code yes. But when I donwload a DivX player and it fails to make, make install. I have no clue how to fix it. That's why I'm downloading a DivX player, and not writing my own. So far Tribes 2 server, and Netscape/Mozilla are the only linux programs that I've seen (there are probably more) that have windows style installations. This means it can be done. Do it more often. Like all the time. Then maybe I wont have to reboot my computer to watch movies.
But Piro is an angsty pedophile. He needs a serious whuppin'. The only credit I'll ever give him is that he can draw well. Largo + Dom are cool. Stick figure dom is GREAT. The comics that Largo writes with L33t and gaming are great. But the main story line with piro and his angst suck. I wouldn't listen to a word that man says. You trust a man about internet issues when his talent is drawing sad high school girls in snow? Gimme a break.
I posted this way too late so nobody will ever see it or reply to it. However, I just want to point out this is another issue of supply and demand, just like mp3s. There is a demand for digital music. The RIAA does not supply digital music, so people take it for free. There is a demand for old video games. Game publishers do not make old video games readily available, so people take them for free. Businesses just don't get it. When people want something, give it to them, or you'll lose money. The only logic they could be using is that they make more money off of copyright infringement lawsuits than they would by selling the old video games. Somehow, I don't think that's the case.
I'm a college student. That's my job. I love being a college student because despite all the work for class, most of my time is spent in my kick ass apartment with all my cool stuff doing whatever I damn well please. And when I'm not at home or in class I'm out with my friends doing cool stuff. When I get out of college (CS Major) I plan to get a job. Actually I'll be required to go on co-op before then. Co-op is a paid internship at a real company. You actually get a real job for 10 weeks, I need to do it 4 times to graduate. No matter where I work I know one thing. My job in some way will involve writing code in some computer language. Therefore I will always like my job. You people complain about stupid management decisions, stress, all this other bullshit. I just don't let it get to me. If I'm given an assignment I do it, and I have fun doing it, because I like writing code. If someone comes up to me and says yeah, we're cancelling your project, or we're changing it, or whatever, I don't care. I tell them all the true and relevant information and continue to do whatever is necessary to get paid. The only things that can possibly happen are me writing more code, or me writing less code. Either is fine with me. Yes I know my job wont be ALL writing code. But that's what I will spend the majority of my time doing. The other stuff is just sauce on the spaghetti. If I'm doing something I like to do, and I get money for it everything else just doesn't matter.
This is perfectly fine if you think about cheap knockoffs that don't give Microsoft Licensing fees. But I think about my PSX with Dance Dance Revolution. Obscure peripherals like dance pads, light guns (nowadays), etc. Might be produced in Japan and not in the US, meaning XBox owners won't be able to play some games with the peripherals they desire. If this happens however, I guarantee a mod-chip inside of a couple months. And a perfect mod chip inside of 6.
The only copy protection that a GBA has is it's proprietary cartridge format. There really isn't any copy protection besides the fact that the only device available on the market that works with these cartridges is a GBA, until now. Just like the GameCube, there is no chip in a GameCube that prevents you from using burned discs, because nobody has the ability to read, or write those little DVDs. You can play Japanese Gamecube Games in US Gamecubes and vice versa, the same goes for all Gameboys. Australian Gameboys for some reason do not play foreign games. There really is no copy protection, so I don't think the DMCA applies. However I DO think that another law concerning the fact that Nintendo has a patent/copyright on the GBA cartridge format might make another law applicable.
Are they going to be giving them the code for 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 2k? what? I mean if they gave them the code for 98SE they would find that no, you can't provide a stripped down version of windows because well, everything is so twisted up and tied together. If they gave them the code for 2000 they would find that the only thing preventing a stripped down version are lines of code like
if( explorer != installed){
stop.working(now);
}
remove those and you got tiny 2k.
Also, doesn't the mere existance of windows CE already prove that there can be a stripped down version of windows? Hello?
Once again a security flaw is found, but nobody tells anyone what the security flaw is. While they take there time to fix it, crackers are hard at work trying to figure out what it is and how to exploit it. If they told everyone what it is right away, there would be a patch and the problem would be solved before any bad stuff happened.
MS has the same policy that these guys do. One day MS is going to get hacked while they take their time writing a patch, maybe then they'll wake up.
Japanese cell phones still beat the living crap out of the most expensive American cell phone. This one here has a digital camera in it. I refuse to buy a cell phone, PDA, digital camera, or portable mp3 player, until they are all united into 1 cell phone sized device at an affordable price. The technology exists for something like this to exist right now. No company is doing it though. I wonder why?
and Pizza Hut. I still have the instruction book with the coupon on it. I challenge anyone to find a video game with advertisements in it older than that. I'm not sure if the ads worked then or not, but it was a wildly popular game.
by allowing natural selection. We keep saving the lives of those who are "not fit". Yes it would be absolutely horrible if we didn't, and I'm not saying we should let everyone in the hospital die. But if you want evolution to continue, we have to have to have natural selection. Medical technology defeats natural selection.
It's a good thing I stopped using that. I used it for a few days but then it stated generating kazaa files. Of course we all know the bad thigns about kazaa, so I stopped using it. I still see winmx as the best file sharing program there is. www.winmx.com. Version 3 is going to be absolutely amazing, if it ever comes out.
It isn't meant to. A solution to this would be to get rid of the album system altogether. What they could do is a system like Avex trax in Japan has for super eurobeat. You buy a subscription in the mail and you get Super Eurobeat CDs every month. They have all the new Eurobeat hits from Avex trax that came out that month. At the end of the year they release a super eurobeat best hits 2 cd set for the year. if you like Eurobeat music, you get this, since all the best eurobeat music comes from Avex.
In the US you take all your shitty MTV pop stars. And you make one CD with all of their albums on it. Pop hits of the month. No seperate albums. People who like pop music will buy it. If they only like Britney and The backdoor boys, they don't have to listen to the nsuck tracks.
Another side note. In Japan CDs are very very expensive. Like 40$. People buy them a lot however. This might seem absolutely horrible at first, like wow, that's so much more evil than the RIAA. What I didn't tell you yet is that the musicians get like 50% of the money you pay for a CD. That's why the US version of Dance Dance Revolution has so few songs. They US companies aren't willing to pay vast amount of money to the artists to get their music into the game. The Japanese appartently appreciate the musicians and are willing to pay them lots of money to keep them making their quality musics.
I was just thinking the other day. This whole problem here is supply and demand. When mp3s first came about and the first versions of winamp were out. There became a demand for digital music on the internet. It was regarded by all as a highly illegal activity. The music companies proceded to not create a supply. So everyone who demanded it, took it for free. Now since "everyone is doing it" it's no longer widely regarded as a bad thing to do. Much in the same way people don't feel bad about stealing cable, or tricking their school district into thinkin they live somewhere else so they can go to a better public school.
If years back the RIAA had sold, in stores, CD's full of high quality mp3s for cheap. Few people would be downloading vast amounts of mp3s that they are today. Think about this. The Led Zeppeling boxed set costs about 80 bucks in stores. I got it for 30 from columbia house. That's 4 CDs of quality music. If the RIAA sold all of that music in mp3 format on ONE cd, with extra bonus Led Zeppelin goodies on the CD (they would easily fit) for say 30 bucks, hell tons of Zep fans would have run out and bought it. But because they didn't (and still aren't) creating products like this, people are going out and downloading all the music for free.
Now they are trying these subscription music services. I guarantee the failure of these services. They are selling a product that everyone already has for free. It's like trying to sell oranges to a farmer in Florida. He already gets oranges for free from is farm (p2p file sharing service = farm), he isn't going to buy oranges from you.
The RIAA still has a chance however. Above I mentioned selling mp3 cd's with many many goodies. That I believe will not work today, because one guy will buy the cd and share it with the world. The only way I see for them to profit off of digital audio is this. Sell FULL mp3 cds. Make an mp3 CD that has say every Beatle's song ever in 320kbps. Sell another one that is full of say every single rock hit from 1965 - 1970. Sell one that has every single disco hit ever, etc. The problem here is breaking the barriers between seperate record companies. Think about it. If you put every single disco hit in high quality mp3 format on one 800MB cd, and I was a disco fan, I would pay 30$ for that easy. Here is why.
1) The time it would take me to find and download all of those songs is worth more than 30$.
2) I wouldn't think of all the songs that are on that CD. You can't download a song you aren't conciously looking for, or remember.
Now the one hole in this is that somebody will distribute these mp3s over the internet. I say let them. If you fill the CD full up to 800MB, nobody will ever share the whole thing. Most mp3 folk are either at college or on cable/dsl. They don't have the time to download 800MB of music at once. I mean I'm at RIT we have 2 OC3s and I have trouble donwloading a 100MB video file due to the people on the other end of the connection, let alone 800MB.
I don't even want to think about what will happen with DVD audio, when DVDR gets cheap. Gigs of audio on one disc, scary.
That's all I have to say about this whole issue. There is a demand for digital music. There is no legal supply. I see only one course of action for the RIAA to take in order to profit off of this. If they do not take it, then people will be sharing mp3s until the next big thing comes around.
Why don't we ask the guys at Winzip just how many people pay for that. Winzip is a program that just about every windows user has on their computer, it's extremely difficult to do without considering the abundance of zip files everywhere on the internet. But everyone I know just uses the shareware version and clicks that little agree button every time they run the program. Getting rid of that pop-up isn't enough to make them want to pay for the program. There is also no reason to pay for the program because it never stops working. And if the pop-up pisses you off too much you can always donwload a crack by searching astalavista.
The reason people pirate software is because it is too expensive. The reason software is too expensive is because people pirate it. In my opinion NO software is worth more than $50. The most pirated software in the world is most definitely everything Adobe makes. Because they sell it for $500 a pop! I could buy a GeForce 3 and a large large hard drive for that kind of money. Photoshop != GeForce3 + hard drive. If photoshop cost 50, I'd be there.
As for little programs like winzip, they should cost 1$. I know that seems really really low. But it's a little program that has lots and lots of users. I bet over 50% of windows users use winzip. Take the number of windows users divide by half, that's a lot of money, it's as much money as that company needs/deserves.
I can't believe it. Missile command 2 has finally been found. It's the first frickin' picture I'ver ever seen. I remember back in the day there was a long article on the atari historical society's page http://www.atari-history.com this guy wrote about his long and arduous journey to find a MC2 machine. He ended up speaking to many former atari employees, and in the end he found a board, but the person wouldn't give it to him, and he found the side art. Can't find the article though, dang.
Nobody better than Mandrake. I ran red hat, because I knew the name. However, it didn't work with all my hardware, and it didn't work with all my software, and it sucked. One day I switched up to mandrake. Holy crap! It works with all my hardware and all my software. The installer is amazing, and everything is automatic, and it doesn't crash. I runs the mandrakes on all my boxen.
The guys who worked for Ultimate TV move to XBox. The XBox does have a hard drive in it? Are they going to give the XBox the functionality of Ultimate TV? I mean the PS2 has a major selling point of being a DVD player. If the XBox was also a TV recorder I just might actually consider getting one.
www.pricewatch.com
www.buy.com
and sometimes amazon.com
I buy books at amazon and it's cheaper than the bookstore, even with shipping. The others have the cheapest computer stuff around.
The only reason to buy something on ebay is if you can't get it anywhere else. Like collector's items, or imported goods. And in those cases it's ok to pay over retail price.
There have always been idiots who would pay twice as much to get the newest video game system the first day it came out. But now there is a place in which they can actually get it.
The internet still has bargains, you just have to know where to look.
Look at the graph on the company's white papers. Optical vs. Moore's law. First of all you really can't compare a law and optical. Second of all, they have moores law wrong.
HPs computer just stink. Have you opened any of those? It's scary! However HP makes the BEST printer, great scanners, ok cd burners, and more. They should stick to what they're good at.
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I know real piro, and I know real largo. Guess what cartoon piro == real piro. He's an angsty sappy kanon lovin' fanboy. if you didn't know, kanon is a porn dating game, not just a regular dating game. Me and my friends like dating games too, but we play toki meki memorial, non porn! Only angsty fanboys get pissed and threaten to shut forums down and stuff. I met largo at ohayocon, he's == cartoon largo, only he doesn't look the same.
Too slow to be usable? What are you tlaking about? Maybe on your machine Mozilla starts up faster than konqueror, but not on mine. Opera is the fastest, but I can't stand the interface either. I think we need some benchmarks here, last I remember mozilla was the slowest browser, um, ever.
I always wanted an iPod, since I first saw one. But I'm a PC kind of guy. Tell me there's someone out there who has written something to make the iPod work with windows/linux. I don't have money, but I have a credit card, I'll go buy one right now. Kid wherever you are, you rock.
So beatiful...
Yeah, there are lots of DivX players for linux. I've seen them everywhere. But how come none of them seem to work with Mandrake? I tried everything. The #1 problem with linux is no longer hardware support, since Mandrake supports all the hardware in my computer, even my printer, automatically.
The #1 problem is ease of software installation and configuration. Sure rpms are great, until you get some that depend on something else. Which depends on somethign else, which dependson the rpm you were trying to install in the first place. Not to mention when you try to install something from source, and it wont compile. I don't have the time or the patience to figure out what is wrong with someone else's code.
I know how to code yes. But when I donwload a DivX player and it fails to make, make install. I have no clue how to fix it. That's why I'm downloading a DivX player, and not writing my own. So far Tribes 2 server, and Netscape/Mozilla are the only linux programs that I've seen (there are probably more) that have windows style installations. This means it can be done. Do it more often. Like all the time. Then maybe I wont have to reboot my computer to watch movies.
But Piro is an angsty pedophile. He needs a serious whuppin'. The only credit I'll ever give him is that he can draw well. Largo + Dom are cool. Stick figure dom is GREAT. The comics that Largo writes with L33t and gaming are great. But the main story line with piro and his angst suck. I wouldn't listen to a word that man says. You trust a man about internet issues when his talent is drawing sad high school girls in snow? Gimme a break.
I posted this way too late so nobody will ever see it or reply to it. However, I just want to point out this is another issue of supply and demand, just like mp3s. There is a demand for digital music. The RIAA does not supply digital music, so people take it for free.
There is a demand for old video games. Game publishers do not make old video games readily available, so people take them for free.
Businesses just don't get it. When people want something, give it to them, or you'll lose money. The only logic they could be using is that they make more money off of copyright infringement lawsuits than they would by selling the old video games. Somehow, I don't think that's the case.
I'm a college student. That's my job. I love being a college student because despite all the work for class, most of my time is spent in my kick ass apartment with all my cool stuff doing whatever I damn well please. And when I'm not at home or in class I'm out with my friends doing cool stuff.
When I get out of college (CS Major) I plan to get a job. Actually I'll be required to go on co-op before then. Co-op is a paid internship at a real company. You actually get a real job for 10 weeks, I need to do it 4 times to graduate. No matter where I work I know one thing. My job in some way will involve writing code in some computer language. Therefore I will always like my job.
You people complain about stupid management decisions, stress, all this other bullshit. I just don't let it get to me. If I'm given an assignment I do it, and I have fun doing it, because I like writing code. If someone comes up to me and says yeah, we're cancelling your project, or we're changing it, or whatever, I don't care. I tell them all the true and relevant information and continue to do whatever is necessary to get paid. The only things that can possibly happen are me writing more code, or me writing less code. Either is fine with me.
Yes I know my job wont be ALL writing code. But that's what I will spend the majority of my time doing. The other stuff is just sauce on the spaghetti.
If I'm doing something I like to do, and I get money for it everything else just doesn't matter.
This is perfectly fine if you think about cheap knockoffs that don't give Microsoft Licensing fees. But I think about my PSX with Dance Dance Revolution. Obscure peripherals like dance pads, light guns (nowadays), etc. Might be produced in Japan and not in the US, meaning XBox owners won't be able to play some games with the peripherals they desire. If this happens however, I guarantee a mod-chip inside of a couple months. And a perfect mod chip inside of 6.
The only copy protection that a GBA has is it's proprietary cartridge format. There really isn't any copy protection besides the fact that the only device available on the market that works with these cartridges is a GBA, until now.
Just like the GameCube, there is no chip in a GameCube that prevents you from using burned discs, because nobody has the ability to read, or write those little DVDs. You can play Japanese Gamecube Games in US Gamecubes and vice versa, the same goes for all Gameboys. Australian Gameboys for some reason do not play foreign games.
There really is no copy protection, so I don't think the DMCA applies. However I DO think that another law concerning the fact that Nintendo has a patent/copyright on the GBA cartridge format might make another law applicable.
Are they going to be giving them the code for 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 2k? what? I mean if they gave them the code for 98SE they would find that no, you can't provide a stripped down version of windows because well, everything is so twisted up and tied together. If they gave them the code for 2000 they would find that the only thing preventing a stripped down version are lines of code like
if( explorer != installed){
stop.working(now);
}
remove those and you got tiny 2k.
Also, doesn't the mere existance of windows CE already prove that there can be a stripped down version of windows? Hello?
Once again a security flaw is found, but nobody tells anyone what the security flaw is. While they take there time to fix it, crackers are hard at work trying to figure out what it is and how to exploit it. If they told everyone what it is right away, there would be a patch and the problem would be solved before any bad stuff happened.
MS has the same policy that these guys do. One day MS is going to get hacked while they take their time writing a patch, maybe then they'll wake up.
Japanese cell phones still beat the living crap out of the most expensive American cell phone. This one here has a digital camera in it. I refuse to buy a cell phone, PDA, digital camera, or portable mp3 player, until they are all united into 1 cell phone sized device at an affordable price. The technology exists for something like this to exist right now. No company is doing it though. I wonder why?
and Pizza Hut. I still have the instruction book with the coupon on it. I challenge anyone to find a video game with advertisements in it older than that. I'm not sure if the ads worked then or not, but it was a wildly popular game.
by allowing natural selection. We keep saving the lives of those who are "not fit". Yes it would be absolutely horrible if we didn't, and I'm not saying we should let everyone in the hospital die. But if you want evolution to continue, we have to have to have natural selection. Medical technology defeats natural selection.
It's a good thing I stopped using that. I used it for a few days but then it stated generating kazaa files. Of course we all know the bad thigns about kazaa, so I stopped using it. I still see winmx as the best file sharing program there is. www.winmx.com. Version 3 is going to be absolutely amazing, if it ever comes out.
It isn't meant to. A solution to this would be to get rid of the album system altogether. What they could do is a system like Avex trax in Japan has for super eurobeat. You buy a subscription in the mail and you get Super Eurobeat CDs every month. They have all the new Eurobeat hits from Avex trax that came out that month. At the end of the year they release a super eurobeat best hits 2 cd set for the year. if you like Eurobeat music, you get this, since all the best eurobeat music comes from Avex.
In the US you take all your shitty MTV pop stars. And you make one CD with all of their albums on it. Pop hits of the month. No seperate albums. People who like pop music will buy it. If they only like Britney and The backdoor boys, they don't have to listen to the nsuck tracks.
Another side note. In Japan CDs are very very expensive. Like 40$. People buy them a lot however. This might seem absolutely horrible at first, like wow, that's so much more evil than the RIAA. What I didn't tell you yet is that the musicians get like 50% of the money you pay for a CD. That's why the US version of Dance Dance Revolution has so few songs. They US companies aren't willing to pay vast amount of money to the artists to get their music into the game. The Japanese appartently appreciate the musicians and are willing to pay them lots of money to keep them making their quality musics.
I was just thinking the other day. This whole problem here is supply and demand. When mp3s first came about and the first versions of winamp were out. There became a demand for digital music on the internet. It was regarded by all as a highly illegal activity. The music companies proceded to not create a supply. So everyone who demanded it, took it for free. Now since "everyone is doing it" it's no longer widely regarded as a bad thing to do. Much in the same way people don't feel bad about stealing cable, or tricking their school district into thinkin they live somewhere else so they can go to a better public school.
If years back the RIAA had sold, in stores, CD's full of high quality mp3s for cheap. Few people would be downloading vast amounts of mp3s that they are today. Think about this. The Led Zeppeling boxed set costs about 80 bucks in stores. I got it for 30 from columbia house. That's 4 CDs of quality music. If the RIAA sold all of that music in mp3 format on ONE cd, with extra bonus Led Zeppelin goodies on the CD (they would easily fit) for say 30 bucks, hell tons of Zep fans would have run out and bought it. But because they didn't (and still aren't) creating products like this, people are going out and downloading all the music for free.
Now they are trying these subscription music services. I guarantee the failure of these services. They are selling a product that everyone already has for free. It's like trying to sell oranges to a farmer in Florida. He already gets oranges for free from is farm (p2p file sharing service = farm), he isn't going to buy oranges from you.
The RIAA still has a chance however. Above I mentioned selling mp3 cd's with many many goodies. That I believe will not work today, because one guy will buy the cd and share it with the world. The only way I see for them to profit off of digital audio is this. Sell FULL mp3 cds. Make an mp3 CD that has say every Beatle's song ever in 320kbps. Sell another one that is full of say every single rock hit from 1965 - 1970. Sell one that has every single disco hit ever, etc. The problem here is breaking the barriers between seperate record companies. Think about it. If you put every single disco hit in high quality mp3 format on one 800MB cd, and I was a disco fan, I would pay 30$ for that easy. Here is why.
1) The time it would take me to find and download all of those songs is worth more than 30$.
2) I wouldn't think of all the songs that are on that CD. You can't download a song you aren't conciously looking for, or remember.
Now the one hole in this is that somebody will distribute these mp3s over the internet. I say let them. If you fill the CD full up to 800MB, nobody will ever share the whole thing. Most mp3 folk are either at college or on cable/dsl. They don't have the time to download 800MB of music at once. I mean I'm at RIT we have 2 OC3s and I have trouble donwloading a 100MB video file due to the people on the other end of the connection, let alone 800MB.
I don't even want to think about what will happen with DVD audio, when DVDR gets cheap. Gigs of audio on one disc, scary.
That's all I have to say about this whole issue. There is a demand for digital music. There is no legal supply. I see only one course of action for the RIAA to take in order to profit off of this. If they do not take it, then people will be sharing mp3s until the next big thing comes around.
Why don't we ask the guys at Winzip just how many people pay for that. Winzip is a program that just about every windows user has on their computer, it's extremely difficult to do without considering the abundance of zip files everywhere on the internet. But everyone I know just uses the shareware version and clicks that little agree button every time they run the program. Getting rid of that pop-up isn't enough to make them want to pay for the program. There is also no reason to pay for the program because it never stops working. And if the pop-up pisses you off too much you can always donwload a crack by searching astalavista.
The reason people pirate software is because it is too expensive. The reason software is too expensive is because people pirate it. In my opinion NO software is worth more than $50. The most pirated software in the world is most definitely everything Adobe makes. Because they sell it for $500 a pop! I could buy a GeForce 3 and a large large hard drive for that kind of money. Photoshop != GeForce3 + hard drive. If photoshop cost 50, I'd be there.
As for little programs like winzip, they should cost 1$. I know that seems really really low. But it's a little program that has lots and lots of users. I bet over 50% of windows users use winzip. Take the number of windows users divide by half, that's a lot of money, it's as much money as that company needs/deserves.
I can't believe it. Missile command 2 has finally been found. It's the first frickin' picture I'ver ever seen. I remember back in the day there was a long article on the atari historical society's page http://www.atari-history.com this guy wrote about his long and arduous journey to find a MC2 machine. He ended up speaking to many former atari employees, and in the end he found a board, but the person wouldn't give it to him, and he found the side art. Can't find the article though, dang.
Nobody better than Mandrake. I ran red hat, because I knew the name. However, it didn't work with all my hardware, and it didn't work with all my software, and it sucked. One day I switched up to mandrake. Holy crap! It works with all my hardware and all my software. The installer is amazing, and everything is automatic, and it doesn't crash. I runs the mandrakes on all my boxen.
The guys who worked for Ultimate TV move to XBox. The XBox does have a hard drive in it? Are they going to give the XBox the functionality of Ultimate TV? I mean the PS2 has a major selling point of being a DVD player. If the XBox was also a TV recorder I just might actually consider getting one.
Greg is going to be pissed. He really likes the guy who draws it. It's the same guy who does the homicidal maniac apparently.
www.pricewatch.com
www.buy.com
and sometimes amazon.com
I buy books at amazon and it's cheaper than the bookstore, even with shipping. The others have the cheapest computer stuff around.
The only reason to buy something on ebay is if you can't get it anywhere else. Like collector's items, or imported goods. And in those cases it's ok to pay over retail price.
There have always been idiots who would pay twice as much to get the newest video game system the first day it came out. But now there is a place in which they can actually get it.
The internet still has bargains, you just have to know where to look.
Look at the graph on the company's white papers. Optical vs. Moore's law. First of all you really can't compare a law and optical. Second of all, they have moores law wrong.
HPs computer just stink. Have you opened any of those? It's scary! However HP makes the BEST printer, great scanners, ok cd burners, and more. They should stick to what they're good at.