You actually got SQ4 to run on the 1000RLX? I had a 1000RL with the optional 20MB hard drive, and I could never get the thing to run correctly. I had to skip some movie sequences, avoid some parts of the game that would freeze the system, etc.
I loved the "older" Sierra titles for it, though. Quest for Glory, The Colonel's Bequest, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3...and Prince of Persia. When everything started going VGA, like SQ4 where I had to special-order the EGA version, I knew I was in trouble.
Compared with Chinese working conditions, Microsoft is a very small evil. But most people here refuse to consider that.
Well, what's the effect that people in the US see from each of these?
Microsoft monopoly: Only one mainstream OS in the country
Chinese wage-slaves: Cheaper prices
It's easy to ignore poor conditions in other countries, but it's especially easy to ignore if you actually benefit from it.
Maybe we should lobby for a new law...a sticker on every computer telling you how old the child was that assembled your computer, how many hours he worked that week, and how many fingers he has left.
The review looks like it was done last October, just before 9.2 came out.
I bought 9.1 Personal, and 9.2 Professional, and honestly I'm a little sad to see the Personal version go. It was simple, clean, only one CD, and did most everything I needed just fine.
Also, I don't really see a lot of difference between 9.1 and 9.2. Nothing revolutionary, anyway.
Last week I was willing to pay $0 to SCO for a license, but in the face of potentially increasing fees, now I'm willing to pay ten or twenty times that amount!
You don't like the market researchers, but I say...
remember the CueCat!
And that stupid smell-o-vision device that's supposed to mount next to your monitor, too.
If these companies had done proper market research, they never would've built a prototype.
Like it or not, marketing research plays a role in society...don't complain about useless/stupid devices *after* they're on the market, help make sure that they never hit the market to begin with!
I just finished installing Suse 9.1 on the main computer. Lots of neat little things to make it a worthwhile upgrade. Then I sat down at the system and when to install: AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and Opera. Downloaded all three RPMs. Click on them...and...
nothing.
They broke Suse!
Suse 9.0 would start YaST when you clicked on an RPM, 9.1 doesn't know how to handle the file type. Even if you tell it to open the file with YaST, it still doesn't work right. You have to drop to a CLI and do the "rpm -i" thing, which is a PITA.
On the plus side, supposedly they have support for the Realtek 8180 chipset based wifi cards...I'll find out tomorrow if their "how-to" article works or not. (think ndiswrapper)
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Some guy hijacked the "gnutella2" name and website, and capitalized on the existing gnutella name to publicize his protocol.
The Gnutella2 protocol has nothing in common with the free and open gnutella protocol, which is developed by a group of volunteers.
It'd be like AMD releasing the "Pentium 5", except that in the business world it's illegal as trademark dilution, whereas in the P2P world it's scummy and wrong, but I don't believe it's illegal.
99% of this article is complaining about configuring Gnome under SUSE. The average "non-techie" that you're jumping up to defend doesn't care whether their desktop is KDE or Gnome, so long as it works.
The system, aside from the small fonts on install, ran very well.
I agree with you though, I'd like to see some usability reviews from the POV of a non-techie. Especially considering ESR's recent criticism of Linux usability.
Just a quick note about that high subscriber number...my school forces all of its business students to subscribe to the WSJ. True, we get it at a discounted rate, but I hardly ever use it...certainly not enough to justify the fee.
This kinda reminds me of AOL's inflated subscription numbers because they were giving out free months to people who'd call to cancel.
I don't think mandatory/discounted/student/group subscriptions should be counted in this figure.
Agreed. In 2002 I bought one of the higher-end (at the time) Kodak digital cameras. Right after the warranty expired, it quit working. I blame this on the cheap, flimsy construction of the camera....it might as well have said Fisher-Price on the side.
I just bought a TI Voyage 200 (V200), and I love it for the most part. The screen is on the left and the buttons on the right, so it's not very left-hand-friendly, but other than that, very nice.
The pixels look perfectly square to me, and there sure are a lot of them! over 30,000 to be exactly. Compare this to about 10,500 for the HP49G+...but that's not really fair because of the size difference. Compare it to the 16,000 pixels of the TI-89 and that's quite a difference (especially for the same size screen).
What good is a 75MHz CPU and SD-card slot and USB connection if the display sucks?
Casio makes one (crappy) calculator with a 3-color screen, and another calculator with a PDA-style touchscreen. That one is cool because all the function buttons are virtualized on the screen, changing dynamically. No more blue/red or 2nd/Diamond print above the keys!
There are some great sites out there that have comparisons of the graphing calculators...I can't wait to see the new comparisons with all the new models that are out.:)
Well, I wanted to keep my post mostly to the academic uses of the calculator, but since you want to bring it up...there are TONS of GAMES available for the TI-89/92+/Voyag200!!
Everything from your old-fashioned text-based RPG, to a (slow, but still awesome) Star Wars sim where you fly a wire-frame X-wing and fire guided missiles! Granted, it's not a great game because building the wire-frame takes a good chunk of the calc's 12MHz CPU, but still amazing considering it's a graphing calculator.
My favorites: a tetris game that performs as well as or better than tetris on the original gameboy; Sokoban-style games, pac-man, poker, etc.
Basically, any game made for the original gameboy could be recreated on this thing. Plus a good number of the games are open-source.
I had a look at your web-page..."Amazing" looks pretty good! I haven't loaded it up yet; how fast does it run? If it's too slow you might consider not having the map on the screen at the same time as the action window. Can't wait to see it with the BFG-9000 available!;)
I was recently in the market to replace a dying calculator, however since I no longer need to take standardized tests (ACT, SAT, etc) I wasn't limited by size/class, and I have no preference for algebraic or RPN input.
Casio's previous graphing calculators have been somewhat lacking, although I applaud their venture to make a 3-color model! The memory and speed limitations, as well as poor quality display, make the old Casios unusable. Casio has recently come out with something quite different though...the ClassPad 300. This looks like somewhat of a cross between a PDA and a graphing calc. About half the unit is the very large and high resolution (for a calc) display. Many of the keys were removed and virtualized on the touch-screen, and the unit has a stylus built in like any good PDA. The curious part about this calc is that it does NOT have a built in clock, and therefore can't be used as an organizer!
The TI-89, TI-92+, and TI Voyage 200 all have clock buit in, and TI has recently come out with an organizer/calendar/tasklist/addressbook application to load on it. This is what really got me...all the speed and power of a TI calc, tons of applications, and the one I got...the Voyage 200...has a QWERTY keyboard and enough memory (2.7MB) to hold lots of games/programs. The TI-89, while having the added benefit of compactness (and being allowed on standardized tests) has an ABCDE keyboard going across the rows and is more difficult to enter text on, has less than.8MB of RAM, and about half the pixels of the Voyage 200.
Still, if you need a calc for use on the SATs/ACTs I'd recommend the TI-89, otherwise the TI Voyage 200.
Keep your eye on Casio's ClassPad series, though...I think the next iteration of this calculator could really take off if they listened to some user feedback about key layout and PDA functionality!!
How evil would a company have to be before you'd stop taking money from them?
Pretty fucking evil.
Go home and look your kid in the eyes, tell him that the reason daddy has to work two jobs/is never home/there's no food/sorry no toys/clothes that don't fit/etc is because daddy has a moral problem with XYZ Co's policy on IP rights.
If *you* would rather work at McD's than make sure your child has every possible opportunity to get ahead, more power to ya. I'll take the job.
And in 20 years while my kid is in college maybe once in a while he'll find himself driving through your kid's neighborhood...time to roll up the windows and lock the doors.
Awful troll. Completely no comparison. If you don't like the price of Corvettes, you can buy a Mustang or any other muscle car.
If you don't like the price of CDs at Blockbuster Music you can just go down to MusicLand and...oh wait...same exact CDs, same high prices. Well, no matter, you can go down to Sam Goody and...hmm...same crap, still expensive. We call this a "monopoly"...it's just like the game, because in the end one person/entity ends up with all your money. In this case, it's the RIAA and the labels.
Unfair competition, price-fixing, etc...that's the name of the game.
I absolutely agree with you that copyright laws have a good reason to exist (despite the fact that in early america literature took off because america ignored british copyrights). But do we really need to have copyrights that extend 200 years after the death of the original author? (an exaggeration...for now).
You're also right, that most people download to avoid paying. But why? Could it have something to do with the fact that CDs are incredibly overpriced? People are rebelling against the system, they just don't know it. What is needed is for the masses to be educated about what's going on; at the very least, we get them to vote against politicians that perpetuate this system.
You brought the federal budget into it. If you're talking about Bush asking for 87 billion to fight in Iraq, you're right...the money's being wasted. If you're talking about a "balanced budget" amendment or something similar...it's a very bad idea and you've never studied economics. See what's happening to France, now that they no longer control their currency.
I am NOT trying to put this little RIAA on the same level as the revolution! Obviously the revolution was far more important, and had far more serious issues to deal with. What I *am* saying is that they are both about rebelling against what you feel is wrong. I am a member of the EFF, and I completely support the fight against the patriot act.
And for God's sake man this is SLASHDOT! So I spelled "righteousness" wrong...most people on this site can't spell SPELL.
I will rehash the classic argument: is it justifiable to violate the law if the system is broken? Yes, these people have violated copyright law. A copyright law which is profoundly WRONG.
Maybe you'll remember some other instances of people breaking the law...the Boston Tea Party...Minutemen militias...refusing taxation without representation...the Declaration of Independence...the list goes on...
Our forefathers saw that the system was wrong, they rebelled, many died. But in the end justice prevailed. Many people will get sued, bankrupted, go to prison; but I think that it's all our sincere hope and belief that rightousness will defeat corruption and that the RIAA will lose its stranglehold over american culture and society.
Corel's mistake was that they were actually ahead of the field. They predicted the oncome of free software and linux, but they did it way too soon. During the dotcom boom, everyone was looking at linux having some potential, but it wasn't until after the bust that IT depts started worrying about money and ways to save (e.g. linux).
Corel's only sin was trying to move everyone over too soon, and for that...they got burned.
There used to be three separate past-tense verb endings in the English language. Slowly over the last thousand years the language has been changing, and one of those changes has been a shift towards a single common past-tense verb ending of "-ed".
A few old/new words:
swam/swimmed
dreamt/dreamed
burnt/burned
snuc k/sneaked
The list goes on and on. The point is, I for one embrace anything that makes life easier for us. Damn Noah Webster for locking in spellings a hundred years ago!
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You actually got SQ4 to run on the 1000RLX? I had a 1000RL with the optional 20MB hard drive, and I could never get the thing to run correctly. I had to skip some movie sequences, avoid some parts of the game that would freeze the system, etc.
I loved the "older" Sierra titles for it, though. Quest for Glory, The Colonel's Bequest, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3...and Prince of Persia. When everything started going VGA, like SQ4 where I had to special-order the EGA version, I knew I was in trouble.
Well, what's the effect that people in the US see from each of these?
Microsoft monopoly: Only one mainstream OS in the country
Chinese wage-slaves: Cheaper prices
It's easy to ignore poor conditions in other countries, but it's especially easy to ignore if you actually benefit from it.
Maybe we should lobby for a new law...a sticker on every computer telling you how old the child was that assembled your computer, how many hours he worked that week, and how many fingers he has left.
If nothing else, then at least to play a lot of our games.
I bought 9.1 Personal, and 9.2 Professional, and honestly I'm a little sad to see the Personal version go.
It was simple, clean, only one CD, and did most everything I needed just fine.
Also, I don't really see a lot of difference between 9.1 and 9.2. Nothing revolutionary, anyway.
Last week I was willing to pay $0 to SCO for a license, but in the face of potentially increasing fees, now I'm willing to pay ten or twenty times that amount!
remember the CueCat!
And that stupid smell-o-vision device that's supposed to mount next to your monitor, too.
If these companies had done proper market research, they never would've built a prototype.
Like it or not, marketing research plays a role in society...don't complain about useless/stupid devices *after* they're on the market, help make sure that they never hit the market to begin with!
I, for one, welcome our new supersized overlords!
After the first reboot, it recognizes RPMs okay.
nothing.
They broke Suse!
Suse 9.0 would start YaST when you clicked on an RPM, 9.1 doesn't know how to handle the file type. Even if you tell it to open the file with YaST, it still doesn't work right. You have to drop to a CLI and do the "rpm -i" thing, which is a PITA.
On the plus side, supposedly they have support for the Realtek 8180 chipset based wifi cards...I'll find out tomorrow if their "how-to" article works or not. (think ndiswrapper)
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The Gnutella2 protocol has nothing in common with the free and open gnutella protocol, which is developed by a group of volunteers.
It'd be like AMD releasing the "Pentium 5", except that in the business world it's illegal as trademark dilution, whereas in the P2P world it's scummy and wrong, but I don't believe it's illegal.
The system, aside from the small fonts on install, ran very well.
I agree with you though, I'd like to see some usability reviews from the POV of a non-techie. Especially considering ESR's recent criticism of Linux usability.
Now he's not aiding and abetting, but he is encouraging and promoting. Should we stop someone from encouraging illegal activity?
If an eight year old comes up to you, cigarette in mouth, and asks for a light, is it okay to lend him your lighter?
I think both ideas...children smoking, and idiots spamming, are equally reprehensible and should be discouraged.
This kinda reminds me of AOL's inflated subscription numbers because they were giving out free months to people who'd call to cancel.
I don't think mandatory/discounted/student/group subscriptions should be counted in this figure.
Never gonna buy a kodak again.
The pixels look perfectly square to me, and there sure are a lot of them! over 30,000 to be exactly. Compare this to about 10,500 for the HP49G+...but that's not really fair because of the size difference. Compare it to the 16,000 pixels of the TI-89 and that's quite a difference (especially for the same size screen).
What good is a 75MHz CPU and SD-card slot and USB connection if the display sucks?
Casio makes one (crappy) calculator with a 3-color screen, and another calculator with a PDA-style touchscreen. That one is cool because all the function buttons are virtualized on the screen, changing dynamically. No more blue/red or 2nd/Diamond print above the keys!
There are some great sites out there that have comparisons of the graphing calculators...I can't wait to see the new comparisons with all the new models that are out. :)
-KK-
Everything from your old-fashioned text-based RPG, to a (slow, but still awesome) Star Wars sim where you fly a wire-frame X-wing and fire guided missiles! Granted, it's not a great game because building the wire-frame takes a good chunk of the calc's 12MHz CPU, but still amazing considering it's a graphing calculator.
My favorites: a tetris game that performs as well as or better than tetris on the original gameboy; Sokoban-style games, pac-man, poker, etc.
Basically, any game made for the original gameboy could be recreated on this thing. Plus a good number of the games are open-source.
I had a look at your web-page..."Amazing" looks pretty good! I haven't loaded it up yet; how fast does it run? If it's too slow you might consider not having the map on the screen at the same time as the action window. Can't wait to see it with the BFG-9000 available! ;)
Casio's previous graphing calculators have been somewhat lacking, although I applaud their venture to make a 3-color model! The memory and speed limitations, as well as poor quality display, make the old Casios unusable.
Casio has recently come out with something quite different though...the ClassPad 300. This looks like somewhat of a cross between a PDA and a graphing calc. About half the unit is the very large and high resolution (for a calc) display. Many of the keys were removed and virtualized on the touch-screen, and the unit has a stylus built in like any good PDA. The curious part about this calc is that it does NOT have a built in clock, and therefore can't be used as an organizer!
The TI-89, TI-92+, and TI Voyage 200 all have clock buit in, and TI has recently come out with an organizer/calendar/tasklist/addressbook application to load on it. This is what really got me...all the speed and power of a TI calc, tons of applications, and the one I got...the Voyage 200...has a QWERTY keyboard and enough memory (2.7MB) to hold lots of games/programs. The TI-89, while having the added benefit of compactness (and being allowed on standardized tests) has an ABCDE keyboard going across the rows and is more difficult to enter text on, has less than .8MB of RAM, and about half the pixels of the Voyage 200.
Still, if you need a calc for use on the SATs/ACTs I'd recommend the TI-89, otherwise the TI Voyage 200.
Keep your eye on Casio's ClassPad series, though...I think the next iteration of this calculator could really take off if they listened to some user feedback about key layout and PDA functionality!!
After doing a little trial-and-error, it seems there's something wrong with the javascript on the page. Disabling js makes the page load okay.
But, it probably works in IE, so why would anyone care if it works in Mozilla/Opera/Konqueror, right?
sigh.
Pretty fucking evil.
Go home and look your kid in the eyes, tell him that the reason daddy has to work two jobs/is never home/there's no food/sorry no toys/clothes that don't fit/etc is because daddy has a moral problem with XYZ Co's policy on IP rights.
If *you* would rather work at McD's than make sure your child has every possible opportunity to get ahead, more power to ya. I'll take the job.
And in 20 years while my kid is in college maybe once in a while he'll find himself driving through your kid's neighborhood...time to roll up the windows and lock the doors.
If you don't like the price of CDs at Blockbuster Music you can just go down to MusicLand and...oh wait...same exact CDs, same high prices. Well, no matter, you can go down to Sam Goody and...hmm...same crap, still expensive. We call this a "monopoly"...it's just like the game, because in the end one person/entity ends up with all your money. In this case, it's the RIAA and the labels.
Unfair competition, price-fixing, etc...that's the name of the game.
You're also right, that most people download to avoid paying. But why? Could it have something to do with the fact that CDs are incredibly overpriced? People are rebelling against the system, they just don't know it. What is needed is for the masses to be educated about what's going on; at the very least, we get them to vote against politicians that perpetuate this system.
You brought the federal budget into it. If you're talking about Bush asking for 87 billion to fight in Iraq, you're right...the money's being wasted. If you're talking about a "balanced budget" amendment or something similar...it's a very bad idea and you've never studied economics. See what's happening to France, now that they no longer control their currency.
I am NOT trying to put this little RIAA on the same level as the revolution! Obviously the revolution was far more important, and had far more serious issues to deal with. What I *am* saying is that they are both about rebelling against what you feel is wrong. I am a member of the EFF, and I completely support the fight against the patriot act.
And for God's sake man this is SLASHDOT! So I spelled "righteousness" wrong...most people on this site can't spell SPELL.
-KK-
Maybe you'll remember some other instances of people breaking the law...the Boston Tea Party...Minutemen militias...refusing taxation without representation...the Declaration of Independence...the list goes on...
Our forefathers saw that the system was wrong, they rebelled, many died. But in the end justice prevailed. Many people will get sued, bankrupted, go to prison; but I think that it's all our sincere hope and belief that rightousness will defeat corruption and that the RIAA will lose its stranglehold over american culture and society.
Corel's only sin was trying to move everyone over too soon, and for that...they got burned.
A few old/new words:
swam/swimmed
dreamt/dreamed
burnt/burned
snuc k/sneaked
The list goes on and on. The point is, I for one embrace anything that makes life easier for us. Damn Noah Webster for locking in spellings a hundred years ago!