I don't think anybody's had an original idea at Walt Disney for the last twenty years or so.
Not that Disney ever really had any original ideas. All their movies were public domain childrens stories. Disney just neutered the endings and made them pretty.
Put pressure on George to change the way he makes the films in the future (you heard the rumors of the final triolgy)
Do you REALLY think Lucas will change his mind about anything? He doesn't have anything left other than Indiana Jones. He's going to hold on to this franchise regardless of what WE think about it.
I used to have a black and white screen phone, now I have a color one. The contrast is so much better which makes it a lot easier to read the small print on the phone. I didn't want the phone feature either, but the color screen was worth the "sacrifice".
This kind of thing needs to be done for other old DOS games that are hard to get working on new computers. X-COM (the REAL X-COM), Descent 1 and 2, Mechwarrior 2 (original, expansion and mercs), and TIE FIGHTER (the real deal, not XWA or XWVTF) are all games that need to get done like this. I mean, its easy to do, profitable and brings joy to everybody.
They did re-release tie fighter. It's bundeled in the "Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series". X-Wing and tie fighter are both updated for win98 (doesn't work under win2k/xp) w/ fully textured ships. If you thought it was amazing back then, it's even better w/ the new textures. I believe many of the textures are lifted straight from the movies.
i hate scroll bars, all my windows have tiny tiny scroll bars because i have a wheel. but sometimes they come in useful, ie: slashdot, it would take a really long time to scroll all the way to the bottom of a long post if i only used the wheel, its these times i like having the scroll bar around.
besides, i've used systems that don't have scrollbars and it slows down user functionality because you have to wait until what you want pops up. i find this rather annoying
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personally, i can't get enough mouse buttons. i currently run a logitech wheelman pro, it has the two regular buttons, a wheel (which also acts liek a button) and a thumb button. every button on the mouse i use constantly and find infinitly useful. if i only had a fifth button, i'd be happy. this is, of course, under a win environment. it should be interesting to see how c3d puts these buttons to use.
why don't you try building a combo box? i've built one and it is infinitly useful.
start with:
a cheap celeron or duron ($200):
128mb ram($60)
10 gb hd($50)
soundblaster live! 5.1 value($50)
ati all-in-wonder($100)
dvd-rom($100)
keyboard/mouse($30)
case($30)
total: $620
it'll do everything you want it to do, and you could do a little more. you can use the ati's capture capabilities like a TiVo machine. you could also use it as a game console by installing nes/snes/sega/psx/n64/mime emulators.
i don't know how much a combo set like this on the market would cost, but i think it's a good alternative
i'm sure they have the best of intentions, but it sounds like the first step towards a socialist environment. personally, if i were a parent, i rather have the chance that my kid see some porn and be able to access all the other goodies online too. it's just not worth the price we have to pay.
It doesn't really matter what Rambus does at this point. Rambus's major partner, Intel, is jumping ship and they know that the can't compete with DDR. Sure they'll get money from royalties, but all this litigation must be draining their pockets. Not to mention lack of sales. Once DDR comes out along with DDR motherboards, Rambus will probably disappear.
i don't know what's with all the craze of immersing yourselves in 3d, most of the people i know have problems perceiving in 2d as it is. besides, what's the point? would it help to be able to see what i'm typing right now in a 3d space? no. sure it would help in certain applications, ie: 3d models, environment creation, architecture. but do the average home user need this? do we need to see our e-mails in 3d? i don't think so. if anytyhing, i think they should concentrate on other forms of input other than the keyboard. i'm sure there's better things out there, and if there aren't, people can make them.
...the election process. I'm not talking about the campaigning or the lack of reallygood candidates (maybe nader); i'm talking about going into your respective municipal buildings and voting. As a college student, its not exactly convenient for me to travel the hour home missing all my classes to vote. I'm especially bothered by the way all these people urg us to "register to vote, and vote for this guy, and vote for that guy" and don't bother to tell us about absentee ballots or the fact that we have to go back to our home town. I mean, for me it's not that bad of a trip, what about all the students that are from a different state?
What's probably more sickening is the way the candidates and the media in general is pushing for younger kids to vote, but fail to inform them of all the details. No wonder there's so little voter turn out. OF the 15 friends in my circle, only one of them is voting because he lives 5 minutes from the campus.
We need to get these crusoe chips into some hardcore techies who know what they're doing. I don't think any of the synthetic benchmarks are going to help any because the more tiems you run them, the better it'll perform. Instead, maybe they should try real world benchs and watch as it suposedly gets faster (at least isn't that what the code morphing does?).
I've also seen some tests done by (i think it was HP) a few months ago with something called "Dynamo" and they showed that after the 3rd or 4th time through, the code was arithmetically faster.
as a newbie/.'er, i really think its a sorry state of affairs when the one place i thought i could get away from the corporate amoeba starts pimping it, is really sad.
because of/., i started pimping linux and open source to all my friends (many of which are dissatisfied with M$), i even convinced my g/f to install Linux on her 'doze box.
since most of my frends are relatively ignorant, they all use IE and i find it much less stable than NS ever was. Sure NS crashes every once in awhile, IE crashes on me at least once a day! i'm constantly baraged with pages that fail to load, pages that don't load corectly, and more.
the one place where i thought i could find support against M$ rallies behind it. granted this is a fairly mute point compared the the grander scope of OS's in general, but look at the consequences.
1: IE is going the way of non-standard
2: web content will stop being viewable on anything other than IE (because webMasters have to code for the masses)
3: nothing else will be able to view the pages because M$ is constantly changing its "standards"
4: we'll all be forced to find a diff OS just to read/.
or ppl can stand up against the monstor and continue to support another choice
when i was in junior high, i hated the entire skewl system, i hated the way they just forced you to do things, i thought of them as nazis, and i was one of those helpless guys in the concentration camp.
anyway, here's my story: i hated getting pictures taken because i was one of those paranoid freaks that thought ppl would try to look me up when i was older and laugh at me. so when it was time to get our school picturs, i refused to. the vice-principal physically came into the class i was in and dragged me to the photo place. and when i tried making an ugly face to the camera (ie: calvin and habbes) they suspended me.
on a side note, i refused to participate in graduation because i thought it was a farce, so they suspended me for that too. when commencement came, i gave the finger to the entire school and again, i was dragged off and suspended the last day of school.
this wasn't even in high school yet. this kinda stuff starts happening much earlier
it seems kinda strange how this guy just pops out of nowhere. i mean, you would think a guy that was better than kasperov would have challenged him already.
I rember the old days of dare, i would sit there in class with all my buddies laughing it up. Once they started talkin about how easy it was for us to get our hands on stuph, what kinds of substitutions we could use, and what it would do to us, our interests were peeked. it wasn't long until we started experimenting with cigarettes, marajuana, nitrous oxide (from whipped cream), a little bit of coke, and lots of alcohol. i'm pretty sure if it wasn't for dare, we would'v been too scared to do it on our own.
i would liek to thank dare for my experimentation (or avid use) all through high school.
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Not that Disney ever really had any original ideas. All their movies were public domain childrens stories. Disney just neutered the endings and made them pretty.
And what will ween us from fusion?
Put pressure on George to change the way he makes the films in the future (you heard the rumors of the final triolgy)
Do you REALLY think Lucas will change his mind about anything? He doesn't have anything left other than Indiana Jones. He's going to hold on to this franchise regardless of what WE think about it.
Randall: Which was your favourite Star Wars?
Dante: Empire.
Randall: Last for me.
Dante: All Jedi had was a bunch of muppets.
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I just want to watch your tv show for god's sake why do you have to make it do difficult for me. Don't you want me to watch the damned show?
The networks don't really care if you watch the shows or not. They want you to watch the commercials which is what pays them.
simple black and white screen,
I used to have a black and white screen phone, now I have a color one. The contrast is so much better which makes it a lot easier to read the small print on the phone. I didn't want the phone feature either, but the color screen was worth the "sacrifice".
i hate scroll bars, all my windows have tiny tiny scroll bars because i have a wheel. but sometimes they come in useful, ie: slashdot, it would take a really long time to scroll all the way to the bottom of a long post if i only used the wheel, its these times i like having the scroll bar around.
besides, i've used systems that don't have scrollbars and it slows down user functionality because you have to wait until what you want pops up. i find this rather annoying
personally, i can't get enough mouse buttons. i currently run a logitech wheelman pro, it has the two regular buttons, a wheel (which also acts liek a button) and a thumb button. every button on the mouse i use constantly and find infinitly useful. if i only had a fifth button, i'd be happy. this is, of course, under a win environment. it should be interesting to see how c3d puts these buttons to use.
why don't you try building a combo box? i've built one and it is infinitly useful.
start with:
a cheap celeron or duron ($200):
128mb ram($60)
10 gb hd($50)
soundblaster live! 5.1 value($50)
ati all-in-wonder($100)
dvd-rom($100)
keyboard/mouse($30)
case($30)
total: $620
it'll do everything you want it to do, and you could do a little more. you can use the ati's capture capabilities like a TiVo machine. you could also use it as a game console by installing nes/snes/sega/psx/n64/mime emulators.
i don't know how much a combo set like this on the market would cost, but i think it's a good alternative
i'm sure they have the best of intentions, but it sounds like the first step towards a socialist environment. personally, if i were a parent, i rather have the chance that my kid see some porn and be able to access all the other goodies online too. it's just not worth the price we have to pay.
It doesn't really matter what Rambus does at this point. Rambus's major partner, Intel, is jumping ship and they know that the can't compete with DDR. Sure they'll get money from royalties, but all this litigation must be draining their pockets. Not to mention lack of sales. Once DDR comes out along with DDR motherboards, Rambus will probably disappear.
i don't know what's with all the craze of immersing yourselves in 3d, most of the people i know have problems perceiving in 2d as it is. besides, what's the point? would it help to be able to see what i'm typing right now in a 3d space? no. sure it would help in certain applications, ie: 3d models, environment creation, architecture. but do the average home user need this? do we need to see our e-mails in 3d? i don't think so. if anytyhing, i think they should concentrate on other forms of input other than the keyboard. i'm sure there's better things out there, and if there aren't, people can make them.
...the election process. I'm not talking about the campaigning or the lack of reallygood candidates (maybe nader); i'm talking about going into your respective municipal buildings and voting. As a college student, its not exactly convenient for me to travel the hour home missing all my classes to vote. I'm especially bothered by the way all these people urg us to "register to vote, and vote for this guy, and vote for that guy" and don't bother to tell us about absentee ballots or the fact that we have to go back to our home town. I mean, for me it's not that bad of a trip, what about all the students that are from a different state?
What's probably more sickening is the way the candidates and the media in general is pushing for younger kids to vote, but fail to inform them of all the details. No wonder there's so little voter turn out. OF the 15 friends in my circle, only one of them is voting because he lives 5 minutes from the campus.
Alrite, thats at the end of my rant.
Where does the DOJ and intel have to do with transmeta?
We need to get these crusoe chips into some hardcore techies who know what they're doing. I don't think any of the synthetic benchmarks are going to help any because the more tiems you run them, the better it'll perform. Instead, maybe they should try real world benchs and watch as it suposedly gets faster (at least isn't that what the code morphing does?).
I've also seen some tests done by (i think it was HP) a few months ago with something called "Dynamo" and they showed that after the 3rd or 4th time through, the code was arithmetically faster.
Just a thought.
as a newbie /.'er, i really think its a sorry state of affairs when the one place i thought i could get away from the corporate amoeba starts pimping it, is really sad.
because of /., i started pimping linux and open source to all my friends (many of which are dissatisfied with M$), i even convinced my g/f to install Linux on her 'doze box.
since most of my frends are relatively ignorant, they all use IE and i find it much less stable than NS ever was. Sure NS crashes every once in awhile, IE crashes on me at least once a day! i'm constantly baraged with pages that fail to load, pages that don't load corectly, and more.
the one place where i thought i could find support against M$ rallies behind it. granted this is a fairly mute point compared the the grander scope of OS's in general, but look at the consequences.
1: IE is going the way of non-standard
2: web content will stop being viewable on anything other than IE (because webMasters have to code for the masses)
3: nothing else will be able to view the pages because M$ is constantly changing its "standards"
4: we'll all be forced to find a diff OS just to read /.
or ppl can stand up against the monstor and continue to support another choice
when i was in junior high, i hated the entire skewl system, i hated the way they just forced you to do things, i thought of them as nazis, and i was one of those helpless guys in the concentration camp. anyway, here's my story: i hated getting pictures taken because i was one of those paranoid freaks that thought ppl would try to look me up when i was older and laugh at me. so when it was time to get our school picturs, i refused to. the vice-principal physically came into the class i was in and dragged me to the photo place. and when i tried making an ugly face to the camera (ie: calvin and habbes) they suspended me. on a side note, i refused to participate in graduation because i thought it was a farce, so they suspended me for that too. when commencement came, i gave the finger to the entire school and again, i was dragged off and suspended the last day of school. this wasn't even in high school yet. this kinda stuff starts happening much earlier
it seems kinda strange how this guy just pops out of nowhere. i mean, you would think a guy that was better than kasperov would have challenged him already.
I rember the old days of dare, i would sit there in class with all my buddies laughing it up. Once they started talkin about how easy it was for us to get our hands on stuph, what kinds of substitutions we could use, and what it would do to us, our interests were peeked. it wasn't long until we started experimenting with cigarettes, marajuana, nitrous oxide (from whipped cream), a little bit of coke, and lots of alcohol. i'm pretty sure if it wasn't for dare, we would'v been too scared to do it on our own. i would liek to thank dare for my experimentation (or avid use) all through high school.