Because if being crammed into coach wasn't bad enough, now you can be crammed into coach next to some asshat having a loud conversation on his phone for the entire flight. Sounds like a damn good time!
So wait, they released their console a year before the other two and they're claiming they'll be the first to sell 10M of them? Or am I just reading that wrong?
I got a recorded call from GWB the other day telling me how I should vote Republican this election season to protect our homeland from "terrists". I had a good hearty laugh through most of the call before I hung up on it.
So what happens if you drop it a second time? You've already broken the part that saves it from the fall (the bomb section). Now that that's gone, you've got nothing protecting the mug from shattering on a second fall.
They made a game out of Neuromancer for the IIc and IIgs. I can't recall how many times I played through that. I wish I could find a copy of it again. I lent it to a friend many many years ago, and it got lost when he moved out of our old neighborhood.
By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now.
Why do people think that just because two platforms run on the same processor that porting things between them is "easy". I can guarantee that the OSs used to run the two platforms are nowhere near the same, not to mention the graphics/sound/networking/etc subsystems.
Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store.
Wtf does that mean? What does iTunes Music Store have to do with WiMP 10? iTunes (not the music store) can play mp3s, which means it's compatible with almost every other online music store too. It's just MS's WMA format that iTunes can't play, but neither can any other player anyways.
Really? YOu can have ours... I hate it. Since migrating our legacy, reliable, functional application to a delivery via citrix we have heard nothing but complaints. It is unreliable (sessions hang for no reason), and just plain slow. Plus we've had various issues with Terminal Server profiles becoming corrupted (at random) that keep users out of their (business critical) Citrix app.
Ah. The only thing I honestly use my company's Citrix server for is Outlook. I'm sure there's more that they try to do with it, but I don't have a need for any of it.
You know what? I'd be perfectly happy with them leaving with me just a live network connection. There's not a whole lot to being able to use a computer, and all the IT people ever seem to do for me with my Windows machine is push patches for the latest hotfix.
And they're generally the worst part of it. With Samba now (and going to 3.0 soon), you can basically do whatever you need on a corporate network with OS X. The only problem that remains is Exchange. Even though MS supposedly updated Entourage to deal with it, Exchange support still sucks. Of course, if you're lucky enough to have a company with a Citrix server, there's a native OS X client for that.
I installed the drivers+patches from minion.de today along with a fresh 2.5.66 kernel. I came back to my machine 2 hours later to a black/grey checkerboard. I had to unplug the machine, since I couldn't even drop out of XF86 with ctrl-alt-f1.
Wow, that'd be cool if you could insert meta-refresh tags into other people's webpages! I think what he wants is to be able to make a webpage (that he didn't write mind you) refresh on a timer.
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I was working on my senior design project for my bachelor's degree in CSE when I found a nice bug in Microsoft's C++ compiler (Visual Studio 6). Create a bunch of char pointers as character arrays. Then delete them in any arbitrary order. Most likely, you'll get a memory error. The problem is the way the deletion is done. You MUST delete them in the exact opposite order you created them for it not to give you a memory error every time. This is even if you don't change the data stored in memory.
That cost us about 4 or 5 hours of debugging time before we realized exactly what it was doing...
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That's great until they make it a requirement to have working RFID to go through customs.
Because if being crammed into coach wasn't bad enough, now you can be crammed into coach next to some asshat having a loud conversation on his phone for the entire flight. Sounds like a damn good time!
So wait, they released their console a year before the other two and they're claiming they'll be the first to sell 10M of them? Or am I just reading that wrong?
I got a recorded call from GWB the other day telling me how I should vote Republican this election season to protect our homeland from "terrists". I had a good hearty laugh through most of the call before I hung up on it.
I'm just amazed he can get both feet in his mouth when his head is stuck so far up his butt.
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So what happens if you drop it a second time? You've already broken the part that saves it from the fall (the bomb section). Now that that's gone, you've got nothing protecting the mug from shattering on a second fall.
They made a game out of Neuromancer for the IIc and IIgs. I can't recall how many times I played through that. I wish I could find a copy of it again. I lent it to a friend many many years ago, and it got lost when he moved out of our old neighborhood.
Did you miss the part in the summary that says:
[i]Because this program needs to be fairly small and easy to install, the use of Perl/tk isn't a valid option.[/i]
Yes, tcl isn't the same thing as perl, but at the same time I think he was saying he didn't want to use a scripting-style language.
Anyone know what the "crack the headers" bit refers to for CDs?
It means "I'm a journalist and really have no clue what I'm talking about, so I'll make up words that sound dramatic".
We all know the British can hardly get someone up a ladder, much less to the moon.
"We're monitoring you on our instruments Squindon"
Why are we reviewing a game that's been out since before Thanksgiving?
By the way, since the XBox 2 will use the PowerPC G5, it shouldn't be that difficult to port future XBox games to the Power Mac G5 and the iMac, both of which are 64-bit now.
Why do people think that just because two platforms run on the same processor that porting things between them is "easy". I can guarantee that the OSs used to run the two platforms are nowhere near the same, not to mention the graphics/sound/networking/etc subsystems.
Be careful, or he'll claim he owns this too.
Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store.
Wtf does that mean? What does iTunes Music Store have to do with WiMP 10? iTunes (not the music store) can play mp3s, which means it's compatible with almost every other online music store too. It's just MS's WMA format that iTunes can't play, but neither can any other player anyways.
Dear Steve,
Could you please stop making stuff that only 2 people in the world will buy? (i.e. that $3500 30" Display that requires a special graphics card).
Thank you.
"They also have said that these first two lawsuits will be against companies that hold SCO Unix licenses."
Wow, sounds like they're taking a page out of Metallica's book for this one.
You know what? I'd be perfectly happy with them leaving with me just a live network connection. There's not a whole lot to being able to use a computer, and all the IT people ever seem to do for me with my Windows machine is push patches for the latest hotfix.
And they're generally the worst part of it. With Samba now (and going to 3.0 soon), you can basically do whatever you need on a corporate network with OS X. The only problem that remains is Exchange. Even though MS supposedly updated Entourage to deal with it, Exchange support still sucks. Of course, if you're lucky enough to have a company with a Citrix server, there's a native OS X client for that.
I installed the drivers+patches from minion.de today along with a fresh 2.5.66 kernel. I came back to my machine 2 hours later to a black/grey checkerboard. I had to unplug the machine, since I couldn't even drop out of XF86 with ctrl-alt-f1.
That's reason enough for me not to use 2.5.x yet.
Install the Nvidia drivers, that's sure to break things.
Wow, that'd be cool if you could insert meta-refresh tags into other people's webpages! I think what he wants is to be able to make a webpage (that he didn't write mind you) refresh on a timer.
I was working on my senior design project for my bachelor's degree in CSE when I found a nice bug in Microsoft's C++ compiler (Visual Studio 6). Create a bunch of char pointers as character arrays. Then delete them in any arbitrary order. Most likely, you'll get a memory error. The problem is the way the deletion is done. You MUST delete them in the exact opposite order you created them for it not to give you a memory error every time. This is even if you don't change the data stored in memory.
That cost us about 4 or 5 hours of debugging time before we realized exactly what it was doing...