That's because NBC's coverage, from what I've heard, sucks. Ratings here in AU are fantastic
Seven's coverage here sucks just as bad (at least if you don't have pay TV). Full of horses and beach volleyballers -- why are these considered Olympic sports?
Spaces are not legal characters in URLs anyway; they should be escaped as %20.
When I replace the two spaces in the URL with %20%20, the link works. Shouldn't Slashdot be doing some checking of the text they put up? Can't GameCenter use a legal URL for their pages? The net's going to hell in a handbasket, I tell ya.:)
Probably an overzealous subeditor changed "I have spent two years...":)
I do know that Louis Rossetto (sp?) had been trying for a while to get some financial backing for the magazine, but I don't think that he was all that partial to investigative journalism while he was waiting...
Not only is there a Unix History tree, a friend of mine and I have been putting together a whole computer history tree. Check it out at comp-hist.sourceforge.net.
At least in the version I downloaded, Commodore seemed not to have been deemed worthy of inclusion. Strange, that....
Amstrad? There's another family of machines (and I don't mean their PC clones).
Well, you made them sound like they were consoles, why else would someone think Amiga is a hybrid because of Miners work on Atari400&800?
They took cartridges and had keyboards, BASIC, et.al., so they were hybrids, effectively, and the Amiga followed a similar system design. Not that the Amiga was a console at all, but you can see that it would have come out as one in happier times for the console market:)
I'm 25, why?
If you'd been 16 or something I could have played the "I was there" card:)
The Street Performer Protocol has little relation to the operating procedure of street performers (a.k.a. buskers): a price is set and must be matched. Have you ever seen a busker with a sign, "I'm only playing the first half of this song, if there isn't $10 in my hat by the end of the first half, I won't play the second half."? It doesn't fit the analogy at all.
I'd instead try "I'm going to keep doing this annoying street mime until there's $10 in the hat. The quicker you pay me, the quicker I move on."
The site is/.'d so I can't get there. But tell me, how else to pay except with a credit card? What if I don't live in a credit card -based consumer culture (ie. USA)? What will I use to pay in that case?
Don't forget that Napster is being sued because they allegedly infringe the rights of the RIAA -- are these laws still being infringed if both the sender and recipient of the.mp3 are outside the US?
As always, there's only one country in the world, and I'm not living in it -- I'm over in Australia instead:)
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If I were moderating at the moment it would be more likely to be
Please explain to me in which way amiga was a hybrid PC/console machine. I always thought of it as a PC, only better (at the time). The fact that the games on the amiga kicked most console games ass doesn't make it a console.
Prior to being bought by Commodore, the Amiga was (initially) being developed as the ultimate game console. Then the bottom dropped out of the console market as everyone refused to buy Atari 2600 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges (boy, did that game ever suck), and they were quickly told by their investors to turn it into a home computer. Luckily, they'd pretty much designed it like that anyway, feeling that a simple console was a waste of effort..... I think Jay Miner, one of the original hardware developers, had previously worked on the Atari 400 & 800, so you can see why this design is sometimes also considered a computer/console hybrid.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Then why do the separate countries of the UK field separate football (soccer) teams, but a united Olympic team? Can't they work it out between themselves?
As I understand it, they are separate countries.... and in fact Wales and Scotland both voted overwhelmingly for devolution.
ObBackOnTopic: As a humble Debian (l)user, I, too, appreciate what Espy has done and am sorry to hear he has passed away. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls...."
The aussies have really gone overboard with passing laws and regulations lately. It seems there have been many stories like this recently - with Australian regulations gone bad.
No argument there. But then, I didn't vote for them -- they've also introduced a goods & services tax, and I'm not rich enough to benefit:(
Maybe they need to chill out over there in Sydney (or whatever the capitol is). Maybe they should start electing some conservatives. I hear taxes are pretty bad there too.
The capital of Australia is Canberra, about 4 or 5 hours drive from Sydney; also, the government in power were traditionally the conservatives, and our Prime Minister hasn't felt truly comfortable since Australia left the 1950s.:(
Yeah... of course it aint gonna help... of course you know better than all these scientists... lets just bash the entire procedure instead of waiting a few weeks to find out how well it works. Yeah. Great.
Pre-announcement (and hype) are tools of marketing, not science.
How do you eat soup in the Matrix?
Directly from the bowl.... after all, there aren't any spoons:)
but just sticking microchips in there ain't gonna do much.
I'm sure I could stick one of those "spy"-style minicams into someone's eye socket, too, and it would produce just as many results as the current procedure is likely to.
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That's because NBC's coverage, from what I've heard, sucks. Ratings here in AU are fantastic
Seven's coverage here sucks just as bad (at least if you don't have pay TV). Full of horses and beach volleyballers -- why are these considered Olympic sports?
Regarding your .sig... if you are referring to the French Revolution, it was the revolutionaries who were doing the guillotining.
Check your history. A number of the early leaders of the Revolution ended up a head shorter... mainly due to arguments among themselves.
(-5, Offtopic, Flamebait)
:(
KDE.
Fully GPL'd -- and then they use other people's GPL sources, and link the resulting programs with a non-GPL library.
Thankfully this is over now, but in my book using code without permission is stealing it.
Pretty unethical, as well as being illegal.
"Tropic of Cancer", and other O. Henry novels
Errm... ITYM Henry Miller.
my Win AIM client just put up an ad for th is page, which seems not to be an AOL site.
:)
pathfinder.com == Time
Time == Time Warner
Time Warner == AOL Time Warner
okay, so I'm stretching things a bit (and I'm not sure if the merger is complete yet...
btw, this doesn't affect your argument one way or the other, I'm just making the observation.
Replying to myself...
:)
Spaces are not legal characters in URLs anyway; they should be escaped as %20.
When I replace the two spaces in the URL with %20%20, the link works. Shouldn't Slashdot be doing some checking of the text they put up? Can't GameCenter use a legal URL for their pages? The net's going to hell in a handbasket, I tell ya.
Not in Netscape 4.75/Linux here it doesn't. "The document contained no data. Try again or contact the server's administrator."
Spaces are not legal characters in URLs anyway; they should be escaped as %20.
it has two spaces in it, near the end.
This link should work just as well...
Probably an overzealous subeditor changed "I have spent two years..."
I do know that Louis Rossetto (sp?) had been trying for a while to get some financial backing for the magazine, but I don't think that he was all that partial to investigative journalism while he was waiting...
Back when Wired was an interesting magazine (or at least had the potential to be one :) they reported on this in their very first issue....
http://www.wired.com/wired/arch ive/1.01/inslaw.html
Not only is there a Unix History tree, a friend of mine and I have been putting together a whole computer history tree. Check it out at comp-hist.sourceforge.net.
At least in the version I downloaded, Commodore seemed not to have been deemed worthy of inclusion. Strange, that....
Amstrad? There's another family of machines (and I don't mean their PC clones).
MS left the program slide, but I think their forced recertification on everyone for win2k is a sincere effort by them to revalue the cert.
... and not a sincere effort to increase their bank balance? duty to the shareholders, etc....
Tim Reason, the author of this article, even says ``If Bill Gates made it socially acceptable to be a geek, Linus Torvalds made it cool,''
... and he's wrong on both counts there.
Someone once said
A rose by any othername would smell as sweet...
that which we call a Rose,
By any other word would smell as sweete
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet.
Well, you made them sound like they were consoles, why else would someone think Amiga is a hybrid because of Miners work on Atari400&800?
They took cartridges and had keyboards, BASIC, et.al., so they were hybrids, effectively, and the Amiga followed a similar system design. Not that the Amiga was a console at all, but you can see that it would have come out as one in happier times for the console market
I'm 25, why?
If you'd been 16 or something I could have played the "I was there" card
Don't mind what others say, think by yourself, is a nice saying.
:-)
:)
.sig a PWEI quote? Been trying to track that one down in my memory....
Ooh, very catty.
That tells me that amiga was designed to be a computer. I know others won't always find it necessary finding all the facts, but...
I'm basing my knowledge on 12 years of using the platform, not just one small article years after the platform has stopped being developed.
I think Jay Miner, one of the original hardware developers, had previously worked on the Atari 400 & 800...
So??? If you developed some consoles, you can't ever develop anything else ever? C'mon...
Ummm... the 400 & 800 were 8-bit home computers with some nifty gfx chips, for the time. How old are you, anyway?
No, but I can see why this design is sometimes misconsidered a computer/console hybrid, by people that doesn't know better.
Hey, I didn't say I agreed with them
BTW, is your
The Street Performer Protocol has little relation to the operating procedure of street performers (a.k.a. buskers): a price is set and must be matched. Have you ever seen a busker with a sign, "I'm only playing the first half of this song, if there isn't $10 in my hat by the end of the first half, I won't play the second half."? It doesn't fit the analogy at all.
I'd instead try "I'm going to keep doing this annoying street mime until there's $10 in the hat. The quicker you pay me, the quicker I move on."
:)
The site is /.'d so I can't get there. But tell me, how else to pay except with a credit card? What if I don't live in a credit card -based consumer culture (ie. USA)? What will I use to pay in that case?
.mp3 are outside the US?
:)
Don't forget that Napster is being sued because they allegedly infringe the rights of the RIAA -- are these laws still being infringed if both the sender and recipient of the
As always, there's only one country in the world, and I'm not living in it -- I'm over in Australia instead
(Score 4, Interesting), huh?
If I were moderating at the moment it would be more likely to be
(Score -1, Blatant Spam)
but then I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Please explain to me in which way amiga was a hybrid PC/console machine. I always thought of it as a PC, only better (at the time). The fact that the games on the amiga kicked most console games ass doesn't make it a console.
Prior to being bought by Commodore, the Amiga was (initially) being developed as the ultimate game console. Then the bottom dropped out of the console market as everyone refused to buy Atari 2600 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges (boy, did that game ever suck), and they were quickly told by their investors to turn it into a home computer. Luckily, they'd pretty much designed it like that anyway, feeling that a simple console was a waste of effort..... I think Jay Miner, one of the original hardware developers, had previously worked on the Atari 400 & 800, so you can see why this design is sometimes also considered a computer/console hybrid.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
Then why do the separate countries of the UK field separate football (soccer) teams, but a united Olympic team? Can't they work it out between themselves?
As I understand it, they are separate countries.... and in fact Wales and Scotland both voted overwhelmingly for devolution.
ObBackOnTopic: As a humble Debian (l)user, I, too, appreciate what Espy has done and am sorry to hear he has passed away. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls...."
The aussies have really gone overboard with passing laws and regulations lately. It seems there have been many stories like this recently - with Australian regulations gone bad.
:(
:(
No argument there. But then, I didn't vote for them -- they've also introduced a goods & services tax, and I'm not rich enough to benefit
Maybe they need to chill out over there in Sydney (or whatever the capitol is). Maybe they should start electing some conservatives. I hear taxes are pretty bad there too.
The capital of Australia is Canberra, about 4 or 5 hours drive from Sydney; also, the government in power were traditionally the conservatives, and our Prime Minister hasn't felt truly comfortable since Australia left the 1950s.
.... we're the anti-MS bloc on Slashdot.
:/
Yeah... of course it aint gonna help... of course you know better than all these scientists... lets just bash the entire procedure instead of waiting a few weeks to find out how well it works. Yeah. Great.
:)
Pre-announcement (and hype) are tools of marketing, not science.
How do you eat soup in the Matrix?
Directly from the bowl.... after all, there aren't any spoons
but just sticking microchips in there ain't gonna do much.
I'm sure I could stick one of those "spy"-style minicams into someone's eye socket, too, and it would produce just as many results as the current procedure is likely to.