Skate or Die was what the voice said in the game 720 when the clock ran out. However, the BEST skateboarding game ever made was called Skate or Die, by Electronic Arts. I used to play this game daily for about 2 years on my C64. I remember that game had the coolest intro I had ever seen on a game at that time, which was only a picture of a skateboarder with really cool music in the background. Sure Tony Hawk 3 looks nice, but Skate or Die is still better in my books!
Instead of distributing a game which comes for Windows, Linux, or MacOS, why not put an optimized OS on the CD or DVD so that anyone can boot it and play the game.
I see a major problem with different hardware combinations. I suppose you could build in everything as a module, but then it is hardly optimized. If we all had the same CPU, chipset, GPU, sound card, it would be easy. But then, we'd all might as well be running X-Boxes.
However, it is still an interesting idea. I have never used an X-Box, but do you actually have to "install" games? Or can you just buy a game, pop in the disc and play immediately?
Re: the voice module which only 2 games worked with!)
Which games? I had B-17 Bomber and Bomb Squad, and they both worked. If I recall, there was another game called Tron:Solar Sailor. I never got a chance to play it.
Residential. Of course! I forgot about all those old textile buildings that were turned into expensive lofts for cool yuppies. Wish I could afford one. Hell I wish I could afford a Wireless card for my notebook, then I could ride around there on my bicycle.
After the adoption of Palladium, DVD's (or their successors) could be designed to play only on trusted players that don't allow you to do these things, and circumventing these restrictions will require hardware modifications.
There is a very simple solution to this problem. Don't buy these new DVD's which support DRM. Problem solved. Judging by the quality of Hollywood products lately, you'd be doing yourself a favour anyway.
I want to know who is using all those Wireless Networks all along Richmond near Spadina. I thought that was towards the end of the Club District. Even along Queen West, for that matter. Last I checked Queen West was a bunch of trendy clothing stores and used cd shops. Of course, I can't forget about Active Surplus, the best damn store in Toronto.
I saw this very thing happening last weekend. I was leaving a fairly large stadium concert (it was actually the Amphitheatre in Toronto) and at the main exit just off the Amphitheatre property a guy was handing out free CD's. They were all homemade, and each one had about 5 tracks on it.
OK, to be fair I didn't actually take one, but my friend did. If your band is as good as you say, a 5 song sampler might encourage people to buy a full-length album. Or at the very least it might lead them to your website.
Why isn't this used more often? It would be the first step to the ultimate silent pc. Is there any reason why an external power supply doesn't make sense for all desktops? I realize that many of them use the fans for heat exhaust, but with a well-placed rear fan, this problem is negated.
Am I the only person who wants one of those C64 Executives? I still fire up my C64 once in a while, just for a little nostalgia. I'd gladly trade it in for one of these, however. I would love to walk into a library, cafe, whatever and pull this thing out. Imagine the looks you'd get from all the cool kids with their brand-spankin' new laptops?
But it doesn't stop here. Imagine that nice little x86 machine...one disks of the RAID blows. Good luck on finding exactly the same model again! You will not find it. Buy a disk today, in one year that exact model of disk will not exist anymore.
We actually have 3 IBM xSeries servers here. All are SMP Xeon systems. All have RAID. When a disk fails, we call IBM and are sent a new one. Simple. I will agree that a DIY solution will have this problem, but I was never advocating running the shop on a homemade server.
But my first point still stands. I wouldn't call a quad Xeon 700 with 4 gigs of RAM a "glorified desktop". IBM even sells these things to run Linux, if you prefer that to Windows. Granted it isn't in the same league as a Power4 server running AIX, but it is hardly a toy. For a business stuck with an old AS/400, the cost to upgrade to something more robust can be very restrictive. This is not an issue for large corporations (who tend to be the places using iSeries, anyway), but smaller businesses can get much more computing power by going the x86 route.
I don't even know what I am arguing anymore. I am not advocating to replace all AS/400's with x86 hardware, but there are certainly instances where it is feasible.
AS/400 are decent machines with a good operating system. It has the virtue to "just work". I'm not really sure you would want to replace an AS/400 with a Linux
How about cost of hardware? OS/400 will only run on iSeries (the new name for AS/400) hardware. Sure, the hardware is top notch, but very expensive. Top end iSeries servers can cost upwards of $20,000. You can get a high-endish x86 box for a tenth of that cost.
Another inhibiting thing with OS/400 is licensing. OS/400 is not cheap, and upgrades are not free. IBM is very strict with Client Access licencing. You need a licence to use many aspect of the OS which a linux user would take for granted. You even need a licence for 5250 emulator, which is the defacto terminal screen.
The only downside I see is the abundance of RPG programs on OS/400, which would somehow need to be ported. I am not an RPG programmer, so I don't know how hard this might be.
Celsius is sooo easy.. 0C is freezing point and 100C is boiling point (For water)
Thanks professor. The rest of the world has know this since about grade 3. If you really want to help, tell the Americans and Brits to stop using Imperial measurements and switch to Metric.
For all the people living in the Toronto area, Lick's does this too. Although I find the Vanilla Coke in a can passable, the vanilla syrup in Lick's fountain Coke is amazing. Almost as good as the milkshakes...
and there is no difference between a cup of expresso and a cup of coffee
I thought that regular coffee actually had much more caffeine than espresso. The reason being that espresso is brewed very quickly, thus not letting th water soak the caffeine out of the beans, where drip coffee sits in that filter, and extracts much more caffeine from the beans.
IT group installed a 64MB GeForce 4 card in a coworker's desktop because her old card was bad? All we do here is simple web programming. Talk about overkill, and overspending!?!
If it was one of the GeForce4 MX cards, it is hardly overkill. I know there are cheaper cards, but the lowest model of the MX line can't be much more than a hundred bucks. The GeForce4 MX cards are NOT high-end gamer cards.
Manufacturers spend millions of pounds developing these cars, but a wanker in an anorak ten years later knows MUCH better how to get the best ride/handling balance out of it, obviously. Do they bollocks.
I used to (heck, I still do) laugh at these people as far back as high school. Mostly the Mustang lovers, but more and more Honda Civics. Lowering the suspension, adding spoilers, noisy exhaust, and of course the obligatory Powered By Honda stickers. I think those racing stickers are supposed to add.0003 hp to the car! They all talk as if they know more about a car's suspension than the engineers at Honda that designed the damn thing. For a great laugh check out the Riceboy page
fresh produce is usually not branded by the grower. The brand recognition usually comes from the store, and lots of commercials for supermarkets promote their produce department.
Yes, but most grocery stores like to point out where the produce was grown. I like to support local growers, and so I look for the Product of Ontario signs. Sure it isn't brand recognition per se, but I am still looking for a particular supplier. Of course, my theory doesn't hold much water in the winter when 90% of all the produce is imported!
But Gentoo, needs a fast CPU, if you want it to compile before you grow old and die.:)
Actually, the latest Gentoo release has ISO's for 386's right up to Athlon/P4. Still in beta, mind you, but still helpful. The part that takes the longest is the bootstrapping and the system build. These beta ISO's have all that done for you.
With a faster FSB you get more responsive ram, and PCI slot
Faster PCI slot? I thought the standard for PCI slots was 33 MHz? Are Intel boards running PCI out of spec? Isn't that the reason FSB speeds are always multiples of 33?
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Skate or Die was what the voice said in the game 720 when the clock ran out. However, the BEST skateboarding game ever made was called Skate or Die, by Electronic Arts. I used to play this game daily for about 2 years on my C64. I remember that game had the coolest intro I had ever seen on a game at that time, which was only a picture of a skateboarder with really cool music in the background. Sure Tony Hawk 3 looks nice, but Skate or Die is still better in my books!
Instead of distributing a game which comes for Windows, Linux, or MacOS, why not put an optimized OS on the CD or DVD so that anyone can boot it and play the game.
I see a major problem with different hardware combinations. I suppose you could build in everything as a module, but then it is hardly optimized. If we all had the same CPU, chipset, GPU, sound card, it would be easy. But then, we'd all might as well be running X-Boxes.
However, it is still an interesting idea. I have never used an X-Box, but do you actually have to "install" games? Or can you just buy a game, pop in the disc and play immediately?
Re: the voice module which only 2 games worked with!)
Which games? I had B-17 Bomber and Bomb Squad, and they both worked. If I recall, there was another game called Tron:Solar Sailor. I never got a chance to play it.
Residential. Of course! I forgot about all those old textile buildings that were turned into expensive lofts for cool yuppies. Wish I could afford one. Hell I wish I could afford a Wireless card for my notebook, then I could ride around there on my bicycle.
After the adoption of Palladium, DVD's (or their successors) could be designed to play only on trusted players that don't allow you to do these things, and circumventing these restrictions will require hardware modifications.
There is a very simple solution to this problem. Don't buy these new DVD's which support DRM. Problem solved. Judging by the quality of Hollywood products lately, you'd be doing yourself a favour anyway.
You old DVD's will play just fine.
I want to know who is using all those Wireless Networks all along Richmond near Spadina. I thought that was towards the end of the Club District.
Even along Queen West, for that matter. Last I checked Queen West was a bunch of trendy clothing stores and used cd shops. Of course, I can't forget about Active Surplus, the best damn store in Toronto.
Am I missing something here?
/queue/cue
Are you suggesting that his usage of the word queue should have been cue? I thought the only use for the word cue was to refer to a pool cue.
Or is the word cue just an Americanization of queue?
I saw this very thing happening last weekend. I was leaving a fairly large stadium concert (it was actually the Amphitheatre in Toronto) and at the main exit just off the Amphitheatre property a guy was handing out free CD's. They were all homemade, and each one had about 5 tracks on it.
OK, to be fair I didn't actually take one, but my friend did. If your band is as good as you say, a 5 song sampler might encourage people to buy a full-length album. Or at the very least it might lead them to your website.
Apple is no longer propertiary OSX = UNIX
When was the last time you tried to run OSX on anything but proprietary Apple hardware? Or any Mac OS for that matter?
Why isn't this used more often? It would be the first step to the ultimate silent pc. Is there any reason why an external power supply doesn't make sense for all desktops? I realize that many of them use the fans for heat exhaust, but with a well-placed rear fan, this problem is negated.
Am I the only person who wants one of those C64 Executives? I still fire up my C64 once in a while, just for a little nostalgia. I'd gladly trade it in for one of these, however. I would love to walk into a library, cafe, whatever and pull this thing out. Imagine the looks you'd get from all the cool kids with their brand-spankin' new laptops?
and thus completley unviewable to me :)
Good. Hopefully most will share your dilemma, and therefore the server will not be slashdotted!
How the fuck is this modded to +5 Funny?
Because it is funny? Geez, don't be so sensitive...
Maybe you should refrain from posting until you understand irony.
But it doesn't stop here. Imagine that nice little x86 machine...one disks of the RAID blows. Good luck on finding exactly the same model again! You will not find it. Buy a disk today, in one year that exact model of disk will not exist anymore.
We actually have 3 IBM xSeries servers here. All are SMP Xeon systems. All have RAID. When a disk fails, we call IBM and are sent a new one. Simple. I will agree that a DIY solution will have this problem, but I was never advocating running the shop on a homemade server.
But my first point still stands. I wouldn't call a quad Xeon 700 with 4 gigs of RAM a "glorified desktop". IBM even sells these things to run Linux, if you prefer that to Windows. Granted it isn't in the same league as a Power4 server running AIX, but it is hardly a toy. For a business stuck with an old AS/400, the cost to upgrade to something more robust can be very restrictive. This is not an issue for large corporations (who tend to be the places using iSeries, anyway), but smaller businesses can get much more computing power by going the x86 route.
I don't even know what I am arguing anymore. I am not advocating to replace all AS/400's with x86 hardware, but there are certainly instances where it is feasible.
AS/400 are decent machines with a good operating system. It has the virtue to "just work". I'm not really sure you would want to replace an AS/400 with a Linux
How about cost of hardware? OS/400 will only run on iSeries (the new name for AS/400) hardware. Sure, the hardware is top notch, but very expensive. Top end iSeries servers can cost upwards of $20,000. You can get a high-endish x86 box for a tenth of that cost.
Another inhibiting thing with OS/400 is licensing. OS/400 is not cheap, and upgrades are not free. IBM is very strict with Client Access licencing. You need a licence to use many aspect of the OS which a linux user would take for granted. You even need a licence for 5250 emulator, which is the defacto terminal screen.
The only downside I see is the abundance of RPG programs on OS/400, which would somehow need to be ported. I am not an RPG programmer, so I don't know how hard this might be.
Stop... Hammer Time? AMD is 2 legit 2 quit. Intel can't touch this!
Please Hammer! Don't hurt em!
Celsius is sooo easy.. 0C is freezing point and 100C is boiling point (For water)
Thanks professor. The rest of the world has know this since about grade 3. If you really want to help, tell the Americans and Brits to stop using Imperial measurements and switch to Metric.
For all the people living in the Toronto area, Lick's does this too. Although I find the Vanilla Coke in a can passable, the vanilla syrup in Lick's fountain Coke is amazing. Almost as good as the milkshakes...
and there is no difference between a cup of expresso and a cup of coffee
I thought that regular coffee actually had much more caffeine than espresso. The reason being that espresso is brewed very quickly, thus not letting th water soak the caffeine out of the beans, where drip coffee sits in that filter, and extracts much more caffeine from the beans.
IT group installed a 64MB GeForce 4 card in a coworker's desktop because her old card was bad? All we do here is simple web programming. Talk about overkill, and overspending!?!
If it was one of the GeForce4 MX cards, it is hardly overkill. I know there are cheaper cards, but the lowest model of the MX line can't be much more than a hundred bucks. The GeForce4 MX cards are NOT high-end gamer cards.
Manufacturers spend millions of pounds developing these cars, but a wanker in an anorak ten years later knows MUCH better how to get the best ride/handling balance out of it, obviously. Do they bollocks.
.0003 hp to the car! They all talk as if they know more about a car's suspension than the engineers at Honda that designed the damn thing.
I used to (heck, I still do) laugh at these people as far back as high school. Mostly the Mustang lovers, but more and more Honda Civics. Lowering the suspension, adding spoilers, noisy exhaust, and of course the obligatory Powered By Honda stickers. I think those racing stickers are supposed to add
For a great laugh check out the Riceboy page
fresh produce is usually not branded by the grower. The brand recognition usually comes from the store, and lots of commercials for supermarkets promote their produce department.
Yes, but most grocery stores like to point out where the produce was grown. I like to support local growers, and so I look for the Product of Ontario signs. Sure it isn't brand recognition per se, but I am still looking for a particular supplier.
Of course, my theory doesn't hold much water in the winter when 90% of all the produce is imported!
Let me add my favourite quote, then...
The entire Mac OS X UI -- while eminently "lickable," like no OS before it -- was tiring to look at
Mmmmm. Can't wait to try it. Sounds tasty.
But Gentoo, needs a fast CPU, if you want it to compile before you grow old and die. :)
Actually, the latest Gentoo release has ISO's for 386's right up to Athlon/P4. Still in beta, mind you, but still helpful. The part that takes the longest is the bootstrapping and the system build. These beta ISO's have all that done for you.
With a faster FSB you get more responsive ram, and PCI slot
Faster PCI slot? I thought the standard for PCI slots was 33 MHz? Are Intel boards running PCI out of spec? Isn't that the reason FSB speeds are always multiples of 33?