Since when did your efforts put forth on a volunteer project become more important than the expense to an individual who was offering you a free service? Whatever costs he was suffering from before would have been made even worse when he had to suffer the expense of people grabbing all those sites and doing their backups.
No matter what your complaint if you didn't backup your data that's your own damned fault. No one using that site who valued their information should have been doing so without regular and frequent backups.
Ultimately the service was free. People who bitch about the quality of free service should ask themselves why anyone who offers them a free service should be obligated to provide them with a level of service they could expect from a pay service.
And it's pretty sweet. Had so many problems with my removable disk Syquest drives I fear any removable disk drives. Though I've known people with Jaz drives who didn't lose all their data on a regular basis like I did with Syquest.
just like I did with my Virtual Boy. This new product seems as ill conceived as the Virtual Boy. Nintendo should just follow Segas lead and become a third party software developer instead of creating consoles.
Companies think they can adopt a well known image/idea rather than develop something unique as that would require imagination and be time consuming and difficult so they latch on to something and then act like it's theirs.
If everyone started asking for donations then there would be even less than there is now to go around.
Companies are lucky to make money on a game at all let alone make a killing. HL is an exceptional product so it's likely to make a lot of money but "trusting" your users not to freely distribute your product without reimbursement is just foolishness.
I've seen a near HDTV demo of "Step Into Liquid" that was very high resolution but not quite 1920x1080i. My laptop (P3 866) could not play it but my desk top 1.7GHz Xeon played it just fine.
You get far better results from the SP than Afterburner. I was one of the first people to buy an afterburner and I can tell you it was no easy job installing and getting acceptable results. At it's very best the afterburner still pales in comparison to the SP. The price difference between an SP and a gameboy advance is insignificant if you want a lighted display.
on purpose. Man they must have been under some tight deadline or under the influnence of some bad drugs to come up with that and think it's the best design for their hot new product.
We have a box here at work that we bought at auction with probably 50 mice in it... almost all with balls and PS/2 connectors. Likely to never be used again.
how do you witness somebody using a computer? How do you witness somebody writing an e-mail? Believe me when you sit in front of a computer and someone is watching they aren't just staring at your fingers flying over the keys. If I write a program and you watch the screen you will see what I type and you will be witnessing what I'm doing.
I have the original Multimedia jukebox and find that it's limited resolution support and restrictive video file format left me with a lot of reencoding to do. While being able to directly digitize the video from a video in source is ok it's not quite the perfect solution. I'd much rather have a device that can play any of the resolutions/file formats that I can play on my PC. At least any of the DIVX formats. I would rather use it as a portable method of playing my computer media than trying to reencode other media types. If I want to view DVDs I'll buy a DVD player portable. They are on par with or below the price of this $600 device.
The poster didn't ask you if you should run it but if you COULD run it. A simple yes or no would suffice. There are plenty of reasons why having a fully functional x86 emulator running at a reasonable speed is desirable. Perhaps there is a media player that they want to run or a codex that isn't available on the Mac. I know that while VLC works pretty well for most videos it's a bit on the buggy side and I'd rather for the most part run Windows Media Player in XP in an emulator.
If Microsoft is so concerned that Open Source is infringing on intellectual property then they should voice their concerns in front of an audience that is sympathetic to them.
It might make it the biggest home software but businesses won't touch linux at $699 a CPU or more if SCO wins. Most people want to run at home what they run at the office.
Slashdot Mirror
Since when did your efforts put forth on a volunteer project become more important than the expense to an individual who was offering you a free service? Whatever costs he was suffering from before would have been made even worse when he had to suffer the expense of people grabbing all those sites and doing their backups.
No matter what your complaint if you didn't backup your data that's your own damned fault. No one using that site who valued their information should have been doing so without regular and frequent backups.
Ultimately the service was free. People who bitch about the quality of free service should ask themselves why anyone who offers them a free service should be obligated to provide them with a level of service they could expect from a pay service.
And it's pretty sweet. Had so many problems with my removable disk Syquest drives I fear any removable disk drives. Though I've known people with Jaz drives who didn't lose all their data on a regular basis like I did with Syquest.
If you can't use your phone because of no signal who cares if you can switch providers?
Hate to break it to you but I moved out of my parents basement long ago. You should move out soon yourself.
just like I did with my Virtual Boy. This new product seems as ill conceived as the Virtual Boy. Nintendo should just follow Segas lead and become a third party software developer instead of creating consoles.
Companies think they can adopt a well known image/idea rather than develop something unique as that would require imagination and be time consuming and difficult so they latch on to something and then act like it's theirs.
I thought the news artical was concerning what he will speak about in his state of the union address not a speech he already gave.
Or are well all going based on the assumption that since there is a Panther patch and there isn't yet a Jaguar patch that none is forthcoming?
If I were running a company I'd patch my new product and test that before I worried about patching my legacy products.
If everyone started asking for donations then there would be even less than there is now to go around.
Companies are lucky to make money on a game at all let alone make a killing. HL is an exceptional product so it's likely to make a lot of money but "trusting" your users not to freely distribute your product without reimbursement is just foolishness.
Being a programmer what hardware should I include with my software in order to make money? Should I include a dongle?
I've seen a near HDTV demo of "Step Into Liquid" that was very high resolution but not quite 1920x1080i. My laptop (P3 866) could not play it but my desk top 1.7GHz Xeon played it just fine.
I want to install my GBA into a PC server case.
You get far better results from the SP than Afterburner. I was one of the first people to buy an afterburner and I can tell you it was no easy job installing and getting acceptable results. At it's very best the afterburner still pales in comparison to the SP. The price difference between an SP and a gameboy advance is insignificant if you want a lighted display.
on purpose. Man they must have been under some tight deadline or under the influnence of some bad drugs to come up with that and think it's the best design for their hot new product.
We have a box here at work that we bought at auction with probably 50 mice in it... almost all with balls and PS/2 connectors. Likely to never be used again.
If they are working with miniscule profits imagine what the affect would be to pay the SCO blood money for the embedded OS license.
how do you witness somebody using a computer? How do you witness somebody writing an e-mail? Believe me when you sit in front of a computer and someone is watching they aren't just staring at your fingers flying over the keys. If I write a program and you watch the screen you will see what I type and you will be witnessing what I'm doing.
I have the original Multimedia jukebox and find that it's limited resolution support and restrictive video file format left me with a lot of reencoding to do. While being able to directly digitize the video from a video in source is ok it's not quite the perfect solution. I'd much rather have a device that can play any of the resolutions/file formats that I can play on my PC. At least any of the DIVX formats. I would rather use it as a portable method of playing my computer media than trying to reencode other media types. If I want to view DVDs I'll buy a DVD player portable. They are on par with or below the price of this $600 device.
It's also expensive to get a patent. That revenue stream that you have from your free product just doesn't pay the lawyer bills like you'd hope.
The poster didn't ask you if you should run it but if you COULD run it. A simple yes or no would suffice. There are plenty of reasons why having a fully functional x86 emulator running at a reasonable speed is desirable. Perhaps there is a media player that they want to run or a codex that isn't available on the Mac. I know that while VLC works pretty well for most videos it's a bit on the buggy side and I'd rather for the most part run Windows Media Player in XP in an emulator.
If Microsoft is so concerned that Open Source is infringing on intellectual property then they should voice their concerns in front of an audience that is sympathetic to them.
It might make it the biggest home software but businesses won't touch linux at $699 a CPU or more if SCO wins. Most people want to run at home what they run at the office.
Yet. Everyone is so sure that SCO will lose. Best to not make that assumption.
There is a "Terminal" icon in either Applications or Applications/Utilities. That is the unix shell.