I find it difficult to believe that CmdrTaco would:
- misspell his own name and "defiintely", and make flagrant grammatical errors
- forget to close his tags
- have a six-digit account number
- link to goatse.cx in a post
A PETAbyte would be the amount of storage space required to hold all of the arguments in favour of eating grass instead of cattle, statements about how drinking milk is as natural as nasal sex, and frivolous protests against owners of frankfurter-shaped vehicles.
Risk? He was reasonably sure his doodad was pointed at the arctic. The bit about the smaller demo though... yeah it seems unlikely that he would point a machine that vaporizes owls at a target hundreds of miles away without at least testing it locally first to see what it'd do.
On the other hand, maybe this was the smallest one he could make (!). Would you want to test a machine that did *that* in your backyard?
Am I the only one who's getting a little tired of Maxis' "guess my algorithm" game? Sim City was brilliant. Each game that came after it was either trying to cash in on success, or add an extra level of pretentious detail on top of what is essentially an experiment to see how well game players react to behaviour modification.
Porting this game to *nix won't lend any air of legitimacy to company or platform. Get Blizzard onside and I'll be impressed.
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do you remember early-mid-90s Origin games?
Touché.
Maybe the crashes under DOS didn't seem so bad because I could reboot in a few seconds. A crash in Win 98, even with a computer four times as powerful, visibly shortens my lifespan.
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From a single-task, single-user system, it was quite good, provided the programs behaved nicely
DOS essentially forced programmers to write stable, robust code and you're calling this a bad thing? Given the trend towards sloppiness and bulk in pretty much every program (read "game") available for Win9X/2K/XP today I'd expect you to be a bit more idealistic:) There's no need to be careful today, because if your program misbehaves Windows will try to shut it down, fail, crash and take all the blame.
...until the next one comes out in three weeks. It's disturbing to think they produce these things simply because they can, and more disturbing that people who don't need them (which means 90% of us) buy them because they absolutely must have them. Feh.
I'd ask people to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, but I won't.
Network? Open? Insecure? Violates FCC rules? Sounds like a job for MS! How long do you figure it'll take Bill to stick a mediocre 802.11 "My NAN" wizard onto Win XPensive and take the whole damned thing over again?
Imagine a beowulf clu... um... sorry.
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The only difference being that you have the good sense to use Mastercard.
The average computer user is, let's face it, either lazy, stupid or both. They'll use the most convenient option available, and right now that means MS's anticompetitive "software".
Thanks I'll poke around (which I should've done before asking stupid questions but it got you modded up so no all's well:>)
Nuts, that place was a source of some very interesting people. (anon.petnet.fi I mean, not the crutch). I probably won't see Travolta in person, so I'll have to go around to his next movie premiere and kick the paying public in the nads.
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The Taliban were never in Kabul in any significant numbers; their "stronghold", if you want to call it that, is in Kandahar.
1. This would now be the fifth time I've seen this sentiment posted here.
2. XP is an abbreviation, not an acronym.
I find it difficult to believe that CmdrTaco would:
- misspell his own name and "defiintely", and make flagrant grammatical errors
- forget to close his tags
- have a six-digit account number
- link to goatse.cx in a post
I once set up a pedal-powered Dance Dance Revolution... damned thing put me in the hospital for three weeks.
A PETAbyte would be the amount of storage space required to hold all of the arguments in favour of eating grass instead of cattle, statements about how drinking milk is as natural as nasal sex, and frivolous protests against owners of frankfurter-shaped vehicles.
Story? You've got to be kidding me.
Risk? He was reasonably sure his doodad was pointed at the arctic. The bit about the smaller demo though... yeah it seems unlikely that he would point a machine that vaporizes owls at a target hundreds of miles away without at least testing it locally first to see what it'd do.
On the other hand, maybe this was the smallest one he could make (!). Would you want to test a machine that did *that* in your backyard?
Am I the only one who's getting a little tired of Maxis' "guess my algorithm" game? Sim City was brilliant. Each game that came after it was either trying to cash in on success, or add an extra level of pretentious detail on top of what is essentially an experiment to see how well game players react to behaviour modification.
Porting this game to *nix won't lend any air of legitimacy to company or platform. Get Blizzard onside and I'll be impressed.
do you remember early-mid-90s Origin games?
Touché.
Maybe the crashes under DOS didn't seem so bad because I could reboot in a few seconds. A crash in Win 98, even with a computer four times as powerful, visibly shortens my lifespan.
From a single-task, single-user system, it was quite good, provided the programs behaved nicely
:) There's no need to be careful today, because if your program misbehaves Windows will try to shut it down, fail, crash and take all the blame.
DOS essentially forced programmers to write stable, robust code and you're calling this a bad thing? Given the trend towards sloppiness and bulk in pretty much every program (read "game") available for Win9X/2K/XP today I'd expect you to be a bit more idealistic
Yup. I will donate a whole hour's pay to charity if someone can use their FP to say something worth reading.
No, but it will offer "suicide" instead of OS/2.
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Anything I need huh? I already found everything I need right here!
I'm running 98 and I have a pic slideshow.... it's called Irfanview!
Being Canadian, I don't associate the word "passport" with any kind of security, unless of course I happen to be a terrorist.
Can you not use MSConfig to disable the thing on startup?
I've been looking for the longest time for an online game of BRE.... anyone?
...until the next one comes out in three weeks. It's disturbing to think they produce these things simply because they can, and more disturbing that people who don't need them (which means 90% of us) buy them because they absolutely must have them. Feh.
I'd ask people to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, but I won't.
Network? Open? Insecure? Violates FCC rules? Sounds like a job for MS! How long do you figure it'll take Bill to stick a mediocre 802.11 "My NAN" wizard onto Win XPensive and take the whole damned thing over again?
Imagine a beowulf clu... um... sorry.
The only difference being that you have the good sense to use Mastercard.
The average computer user is, let's face it, either lazy, stupid or both. They'll use the most convenient option available, and right now that means MS's anticompetitive "software".
One server holding all of the mail safely & securely, backed up nightly, easy for you to trouble-shoot, folks able to access it from any machine?
And that server is owned, maintained and no doubt rifled through for anything they don't like by...
Apparently none of those languages is English.
I won't "transition" my service quite yet. My provider doesn't restrict me to use any service I wish. All my email....
No, I won't go quite that far.
It's exactly like an Elmo: In two years the cat will stop purring and instead repeat the "You winna! Ha-ha-ha" quote from Bart's pachinko machine.
The prize? A real cat.
If it wasn't for the obscene price jump I might just suggest using Spinrite instead of Norton.
Yet one more piece of evidence to be added to the campaign to have Steve Gibson committed.
Thanks I'll poke around (which I should've done before asking stupid questions but it got you modded up so no all's well :>)
Nuts, that place was a source of some very interesting people. (anon.petnet.fi I mean, not the crutch). I probably won't see Travolta in person, so I'll have to go around to his next movie premiere and kick the paying public in the nads.