Come on - I've worked in several IT shops where we had BIG sun machines (starfire and 4500's) - the only reason they had them was because they needed them for some completely proprietary application that doesn't run (or scale) on anything else (like oracle, or banner) - not because it was good, stable, reliable, cheap, or easy to use - in fact other then stable (for the most part) its none of those.
Nikon makes a camera back for its more professional cameras that takes digital pictures - its been around forever - Nikon 35 mm cameras I think are quite nice. I guess however its not compatible to regular cameras.
I felt the same way when Commodore went out of business in 94 - it wore off in like 4 years though - although sometimes I feel really nostaligic. Everything you could say about BeOS you could say about AmigaDOS - elegant, fast, efficent, and compact.
Well when you consider I use the microdrive with my ipaq it doesn't really matter - the 340 when I bought it stores around 6 cd's (more then enough for the day). Price doesn't matter because I bought the ipaq as a pda, not mainly as an mp3 player. When I got it 2 years ago the ipod didn't exist and it cost me 129$. Sure the whole setup cost me like 729$.
Ipod is great and all, but what do you do when you don't have a mac?
I'll probably get ripped a new one for mentioning this... but...
Go out and buy an Amiga:) - seriously. Even though they are largely unsupported (compared to 5~6 years ago) 16 megs of ram is still a colassal amount of memory for your average Amiga - and they can do just about anything your desktop PC can do now.
Anyhoo - the way I justify software bloat is that hardware is so cheap these days does it really matter? I mean on a desktop level...
My favorite comment about memory and the Amiga - was an issue of Amiga Format that had a full (older) copy of Real 3D - which was one of the first programs to ever do particle kenimatics. Anyhoo - the label said "warning requires at least 4 megs of ram" - I probably have the disk around here somewhere if someone doesn't believe me.
Anyhoo - software is bloated sure, but does it make any difference when hardware is so cheap?
And you obviously never learned Japanese in school:) - the amount of desparity when people "romanize" japanese words is amazing. There are standards, but people rarely adhere to them. Maken/Maiken - big deal - its pronounced may-ken either way - and it means the same thing.
I played doom since the day it came out on my 286-12MHZ box. And somehow I still became a rational engineer with a family and no history of violence....
So did I, and I seem to be OK too.
Err - no you didn't - because doom only ran on a 386 or above - and just barely at that. I know because I suffered through this era with a 386dx40 - and doom is a dpmi program - dos protected mode interface - which required a 386.
I suppose though its a thin line between playing a video game and blowing stuff up - which I like to do - it makes me feel great in a perverse sort of way. Never once though have I driven over people with my car in real life just because I felt like it - I will admit I have thought about it - kind of as a mental game. I think thats normal - what usually kicks in is another voice that says oh yeah sure then you're life will be really screwed up - I can't remember what its called in Psychology but its perfectly normal - these kinds of thought processes have been around long before video games were.
I don't want to justify terrorism - and I won't but....
You might want to take a US History class - truth is most of these regimes we end up dealing with - like Afghanistan were in fact "made in America" - the Taliban and Bin Laden - trained to fight the "evil empire". Iran? Well they were pissed that we helped prop up the sha of iran because the person who was going to replace was a bit too leftist (IE a commie!). I think they still want his assets back. 1969 - Cuba - Fidel Castro and his team overthrow Bastist - why? Because he was a ruthless dictator - why would the cubans vote him in? They didn't - the US put him there. Same with the dictators in South America, Mexico, Indonesia, the Phillipeans - just about every place there is unrest and strife we had our hands in.
I think the humanitarian aspect of this should be enough to warrant concern. I've heard that the Ukranian economy has been in trouble for quite some time now - this is something that they definately don't need.
I've met (including Balmer himself). There's big ego's, big attitudes, and big expectations. Relentless doesn't even BEGIN to describe these guys...
I can vouch for this actually - all the developer/oem conferences I've been too - all their sales/techs etc act like this - basically if given the chance would dance around a stage like an idiot (like that steve blamer video everyone has seen). In some ways this is exactly the kind of sales force you want to have - almost religous. On the other hand they treat IT people like me like idiots. "You should replace all your oracle servers with ms-sql" - me: "are you insane - do you have any idea how much work went into all that?" - I really had someone say that once - of course to be fair I had an IBM guy say that too - at least they were willing to do all the conversion work and I believe they had a product that ran on our platform - sun sloaris.
Seriously - most sparc machines can be had for pretty cheap these days, and debian is still supported well on them. And debian usually only installs absolutely what you need to survive. Its also nice for older machines like 68k macs and sparc 32 platforms since they usually come with small hard drives.
I've found as I get older that I don't have as much patience for games as I used to. For instance MGS-1 - there were several times I got stuck - sure I could have spent the next few days repeating that section over and over again (and watching that "game over" animation pop up) - but I kinda wanted to finish the game because it was like a book to me - I just wanted to find out how the story ended more then anything.
Then there's games that require you to unlock maps/vehicles. Ugh - after racing around the track about 9000 times in gt3 it got very reptitive...
And heaven knows that some games are really really impossible (at least for me). I pretty much bought the PS2 and the gameshark device (as well as the pelican code breaker) at the same time.
Surely you've heard of this:). We use this at the office. Keeps the machine room (two big rooms) really nice and cool (around 69 deg F) and the rest of the office floor is heated via central heating and stays around 71 deg F.
I don't see how things like this get modded up so high? Do they have their friends do it? It sounds like just a bunch of rambling to me personally. This is the kind of thing engineers sometimes go on and on and on and on about in meetings.
I admit - on FF7 I used a gameshark so I wouldn't get attacked every five feet I walked... - thats what annoyed me the most about that game. Once that was out of the way it was absolutely amazing I though. I especially like the ending.
Still though - back when I bought my first cdr writer it cost 595$ and disks cost around 8$ a piece. I was still in bliss. I noticed I wasn't so frivolous with what I wrote to them then.
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Well - in all honesty I only ever got a brochure (I've never seen one) - maybe it was a project that got scrapped.
D1 looks like a camera back to me though.
Come on - I've worked in several IT shops where we had BIG sun machines (starfire and 4500's) - the only reason they had them was because they needed them for some completely proprietary application that doesn't run (or scale) on anything else (like oracle, or banner) - not because it was good, stable, reliable, cheap, or easy to use - in fact other then stable (for the most part) its none of those.
Nikon makes a camera back for its more professional cameras that takes digital pictures - its been around forever - Nikon 35 mm cameras I think are quite nice. I guess however its not compatible to regular cameras.
What about prey? - it was on one of those lists...
I felt the same way when Commodore went out of business in 94 - it wore off in like 4 years though - although sometimes I feel really nostaligic. Everything you could say about BeOS you could say about AmigaDOS - elegant, fast, efficent, and compact.
Well when you consider I use the microdrive with my ipaq it doesn't really matter - the 340 when I bought it stores around 6 cd's (more then enough for the day). Price doesn't matter because I bought the ipaq as a pda, not mainly as an mp3 player. When I got it 2 years ago the ipod didn't exist and it cost me 129$. Sure the whole setup cost me like 729$.
Ipod is great and all, but what do you do when you don't have a mac?
I'll probably get ripped a new one for mentioning this... but...
:) - seriously. Even though they are largely unsupported (compared to 5~6 years ago) 16 megs of ram is still a colassal amount of memory for your average Amiga - and they can do just about anything your desktop PC can do now.
Go out and buy an Amiga
Anyhoo - the way I justify software bloat is that hardware is so cheap these days does it really matter? I mean on a desktop level...
My favorite comment about memory and the Amiga - was an issue of Amiga Format that had a full (older) copy of Real 3D - which was one of the first programs to ever do particle kenimatics. Anyhoo - the label said "warning requires at least 4 megs of ram" - I probably have the disk around here somewhere if someone doesn't believe me.
Anyhoo - software is bloated sure, but does it make any difference when hardware is so cheap?
And you obviously never learned Japanese in school :) - the amount of desparity when people "romanize" japanese words is amazing. There are standards, but people rarely adhere to them. Maken/Maiken - big deal - its pronounced may-ken either way - and it means the same thing.
I played doom since the day it came out on my 286-12MHZ box. And somehow I still became a rational engineer with a family and no history of violence....
So did I, and I seem to be OK too.
Err - no you didn't - because doom only ran on a 386 or above - and just barely at that. I know because I suffered through this era with a 386dx40 - and doom is a dpmi program - dos protected mode interface - which required a 386.
I suppose though its a thin line between playing a video game and blowing stuff up - which I like to do - it makes me feel great in a perverse sort of way. Never once though have I driven over people with my car in real life just because I felt like it - I will admit I have thought about it - kind of as a mental game. I think thats normal - what usually kicks in is another voice that says oh yeah sure then you're life will be really screwed up - I can't remember what its called in Psychology but its perfectly normal - these kinds of thought processes have been around long before video games were.
I don't want to justify terrorism - and I won't but....
You might want to take a US History class - truth is most of these regimes we end up dealing with - like Afghanistan were in fact "made in America" - the Taliban and Bin Laden - trained to fight the "evil empire". Iran? Well they were pissed that we helped prop up the sha of iran because the person who was going to replace was a bit too leftist (IE a commie!). I think they still want his assets back. 1969 - Cuba - Fidel Castro and his team overthrow Bastist - why? Because he was a ruthless dictator - why would the cubans vote him in? They didn't - the US put him there. Same with the dictators in South America, Mexico, Indonesia, the Phillipeans - just about every place there is unrest and strife we had our hands in.
I think the humanitarian aspect of this should be enough to warrant concern. I've heard that the Ukranian economy has been in trouble for quite some time now - this is something that they definately don't need.
I've met (including Balmer himself). There's big ego's, big attitudes, and big expectations. Relentless doesn't even BEGIN to describe these guys...
I can vouch for this actually - all the developer/oem conferences I've been too - all their sales/techs etc act like this - basically if given the chance would dance around a stage like an idiot (like that steve blamer video everyone has seen). In some ways this is exactly the kind of sales force you want to have - almost religous. On the other hand they treat IT people like me like idiots. "You should replace all your oracle servers with ms-sql" - me: "are you insane - do you have any idea how much work went into all that?" - I really had someone say that once - of course to be fair I had an IBM guy say that too - at least they were willing to do all the conversion work and I believe they had a product that ran on our platform - sun sloaris.
And its the name for a deamcast game already - and it was pretty crappy too.
I care... Games are a geekish thing. Games drive modern technology.
Seriously - most sparc machines can be had for pretty cheap these days, and debian is still supported well on them. And debian usually only installs absolutely what you need to survive. Its also nice for older machines like 68k macs and sparc 32 platforms since they usually come with small hard drives.
It was the guys at codebreakers who did that more then anything.
I've found as I get older that I don't have as much patience for games as I used to. For instance MGS-1 - there were several times I got stuck - sure I could have spent the next few days repeating that section over and over again (and watching that "game over" animation pop up) - but I kinda wanted to finish the game because it was like a book to me - I just wanted to find out how the story ended more then anything.
Then there's games that require you to unlock maps/vehicles. Ugh - after racing around the track about 9000 times in gt3 it got very reptitive...
And heaven knows that some games are really really impossible (at least for me). I pretty much bought the PS2 and the gameshark device (as well as the pelican code breaker) at the same time.
Surely you've heard of this :). We use this at the office. Keeps the machine room (two big rooms) really nice and cool (around 69 deg F) and the rest of the office floor is heated via central heating and stays around 71 deg F.
I don't see how things like this get modded up so high? Do they have their friends do it? It sounds like just a bunch of rambling to me personally. This is the kind of thing engineers sometimes go on and on and on and on about in meetings.
Don't forget to ask "when someone will port linux to it"
I admit - on FF7 I used a gameshark so I wouldn't get attacked every five feet I walked... - thats what annoyed me the most about that game. Once that was out of the way it was absolutely amazing I though. I especially like the ending.
what kind of dvd can hold 14 gigs? As far as I know double layered disks can do around 10.
Still though - back when I bought my first cdr writer it cost 595$ and disks cost around 8$ a piece. I was still in bliss. I noticed I wasn't so frivolous with what I wrote to them then.
I paid around that for my first CDR drive - seriosly. It was Yamaha CRW4001T.