A friend of mine had a Turbo Duo back in the day that he worked his arse off for... and it was definately worth it. The TG-16 was a great system and its too bad it didn't do well.
Don't forget the rail down the center that goes THROUGH the box, err... Element. Its just before the bottom of Peak 1. One of the Element's selling points is the door layout, so I'm not surprised you can grind through it.
"DRM is an accelerator which will boost digital sales of media, because it will convince media companies their content is protected. It should not be a competitive weapon," he added.
So let me get this straight:
1. Companies encrypt their data 2. 3. Digital sales of media are "boosted"
They're leaving out the entire... well... consumer and adoption step that I think is a bit important. Just because they build it, it doesn not mean that people will come. Didn't they learn anything during the.com boom?
Honestly, there are just too many anticipated titles out there. In my game queue right now I have SSX3, Final Fantasy X-2, Simpson's Hit and Run and Knights of the Old Republic.
I really want to play Tony Hawk Underground but I simply don't have enough time... I don't even have enough time for what I have already.
Yes a lot of the games are sequels, but games like SSX3 have evolved their gameplay to a point that they are close to being new games.
All of the consoles have reached a maturity - most of the hardware that will ever be sold has been. The games are what is left, but with so many hyped (for good reason) games coming out at once, there is little a game-player, let alone a kid's parent, can do to figure out where to put their time.
At least the article ended with games to buy that WEREN'T of the type "Jonah and the Whale's Super Adventure" (aka games that no self-respecting kid except for Rodd and/or Todd would play).
I like the fact that they recommended SSX3, Zelda TWW, etc as games that children are okay to play from a "violence causing" standpoint.
It still doesn't excuse however the fact that the point of the entire article is that parents aren't doing their jobs. End of Story.
Yeah, but a smaller chip means more can fit on a waifer and therefore you can get more bang for your yen. At this point they've made so many PS2 CPUs that their yields have to be huge, so getting more out at one time and in the same process can make it cheaper.
The issues NetApp were having seem to be from the sale of their hardware on ebay. Knowing what we use NetApp for at my employer and how much its saved us on countless occasions, I I see it as a worthwhile cost IF you're company is big enough to take advantage of 1TB+ of active/non-taped data.
We're about to implement several of their 24tb arrays and wow are they great.
Just do what I'm doing - relocate to France from the US for a few months.
I get 2 hour lunches every day because that is how the society works. A 35 hour work week is so odd once you're used to US systems where you're there 40 at least (and we all know admins are there more).
Of course there is no rush to get anything done by anyone over here...hence them sending me over here to crack the whip and actually get things completed.
We had ours in March in Austin, TX... woo for us I guess.
Its great and TW's digital cable, unlike others I've seen, has no commercials on the guide (other than whats showing on TV of course). I've also seen Adelphia's in Northern Virginia and I was about to puke with the terrible interface, ads on the guide, and overall crappiness.
BiTD (Back in the day) we had RadioX in Houston, Texas. It was a radioshow put on by a lot of the big BBSers around 1996 and had a concurrent IRC chat going as well. It was a good mix of ascii/ansi and other various BBS related things. There may have even been a few juar0z people around too, if you can imagine that.
Sadly, a quick google of it only shows a bit from around 1996 and a dead website. I wonder if theres any of it still around...
The one thing I remember from it, oddly enough, was Mr. Man's comment about everyone complaining about internet lag since these were all modem days: "Lag? I use a 2400 baud modem so everything is lagged... I just can't tell the difference."
I think every dad in America double-clicks hyperlinks... at least almost every dad of a Gen-X tech worker since we're about that age.
My favorite was him coming to me trying to get the pr0n, complete with dialer, off of the computer and giving the excuse of "I was just trying to see how easy it was to protect your [younger] sister." Tsk tsk tsk.
But then again my dad is far enough up in management (and has been) that he didn't see ANY humor in Office Space at all. Now THAT is sad.
Oh I've tried that... I've had all present networks (four at one time) with mine as the #1 and only mine in the preferred list and it still does the same thing.
Thanks for the attempt at help though - its good to see people reading it.
I recently picked up a Sony Z1A with Centrino wireless built in. Its a great laptop though I'm still figuring out all the Linux stuff for it. I gave up on linux support for wireless after figuring out that the windows drivers don't even work well. They're great UNLESS you have other networks in the area.
For example, I have my home wireless network and my neighbor also has one that my laptop picks up. Because Centrino is "smart" enough to be "seamless" across networks, 5 minutes after connecting to my own network, windows lets me know that there are other networks available, prompts me to look at them, AND cuts off the current network connection!
Essentially the network connection must be reset every 4-5 minutes because it is being "smart" and cutting service at the sign of another provider.
I made it to a Sony Engineer (for fun) and they had no possible solution. I really just want to tell the network driver and/or built in windows wireless software to hold onto a network connection once its established... but NOOOOO, it wants to ask me to look at more and drops me from my current network.
The Sony guy tried to tell me that it would be okay. Riiiight, since I can't do anythign (IM, ftp, etc) that takes longer than 5 minutes to complete.
Yeah, that and 'man command.' At work we do some back-end processing via DB2 on AIX and I showed 'man ln' to a coworker the other day and you would have thought it was the second coming of Jesus.
Of course the next command they typed in after doing their symlink was 'man vi' and I was happy. There is still hope.
Back in the BBS days, I remember "a friend of mine" downloading a program that was supposed to emit "mind-altering" tones that would simulate drug-use/hallucinations. Basically the program just showed random screensaver-esque and nifty/trippy color stuff on the screen while making your pc-speaker buzz odd tones.
Yeah, it was crap, but it just makes me wonder if this thing is crap too.
Am I the only one who got a kick out of this quote?
"Bill's unique gift was always the way he does this complete and continuous synthesis. It's like he's a pipe, and all kinds of stuff goes in at this end and a continuous output of optimized strategy comes out the other end."
The metaphor just leads too all sorts of nifty stuff - potheads, pr0n, etc.
BUT, if you have something like Price Protection on your Check Card (Bank Of America Platnum or AMEX Blue), you just give them a copy of the add and they will refund the difference.
Damn those dangling modifiers! My high school English teacher would not be happy... and you don't want that, trust me. Beware the wrath of high school teachers with three doctorates in BS.
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Yeah, anything that draws that much attention to my cubicle (from my laughing out loud) deserves a +6 at least...
A friend of mine had a Turbo Duo back in the day that he worked his arse off for... and it was definately worth it. The TG-16 was a great system and its too bad it didn't do well.
And now they're bringing back Bonk!
Don't forget the rail down the center that goes THROUGH the box, err... Element. Its just before the bottom of Peak 1. One of the Element's selling points is the door layout, so I'm not surprised you can grind through it.
Lisa: Have fun seeing Bob Sagat!
Wiggum: But these tickets are for Bob Seger... Ahhhh, crap.
Or like THC. Its supposed to be the History Channel but its really just the World War II channel.
"DRM is an accelerator which will boost digital sales of media, because it will convince media companies their content is protected. It should not be a competitive weapon," he added.
.com boom?
So let me get this straight:
1. Companies encrypt their data
2.
3. Digital sales of media are "boosted"
They're leaving out the entire... well... consumer and adoption step that I think is a bit important. Just because they build it, it doesn not mean that people will come. Didn't they learn anything during the
Honestly, there are just too many anticipated titles out there. In my game queue right now I have SSX3, Final Fantasy X-2, Simpson's Hit and Run and Knights of the Old Republic.
I really want to play Tony Hawk Underground but I simply don't have enough time... I don't even have enough time for what I have already.
Yes a lot of the games are sequels, but games like SSX3 have evolved their gameplay to a point that they are close to being new games.
All of the consoles have reached a maturity - most of the hardware that will ever be sold has been. The games are what is left, but with so many hyped (for good reason) games coming out at once, there is little a game-player, let alone a kid's parent, can do to figure out where to put their time.
And then theres going outside...
Anyone else notice the ROM linked to at the bottom. That can't be very legal even if the game was never officially released...
At least the article ended with games to buy that WEREN'T of the type "Jonah and the Whale's Super Adventure" (aka games that no self-respecting kid except for Rodd and/or Todd would play).
I like the fact that they recommended SSX3, Zelda TWW, etc as games that children are okay to play from a "violence causing" standpoint.
It still doesn't excuse however the fact that the point of the entire article is that parents aren't doing their jobs. End of Story.
Yeah, but a smaller chip means more can fit on a waifer and therefore you can get more bang for your yen. At this point they've made so many PS2 CPUs that their yields have to be huge, so getting more out at one time and in the same process can make it cheaper.
Wow, a whopping 2.25 GIGAbytes of data with those 250 Meg drives...
./ arse.
Sorry, I had to be the
The issues NetApp were having seem to be from the sale of their hardware on ebay. Knowing what we use NetApp for at my employer and how much its saved us on countless occasions, I I see it as a worthwhile cost IF you're company is big enough to take advantage of 1TB+ of active/non-taped data.
We're about to implement several of their 24tb arrays and wow are they great.
Just do what I'm doing - relocate to France from the US for a few months.
I get 2 hour lunches every day because that is how the society works. A 35 hour work week is so odd once you're used to US systems where you're there 40 at least (and we all know admins are there more).
Of course there is no rush to get anything done by anyone over here...hence them sending me over here to crack the whip and actually get things completed.
Heh, like they're going to have *any* business after this... If anything most shops, ours included, are just laughing and going on with Linux.
We had ours in March in Austin, TX... woo for us I guess.
Its great and TW's digital cable, unlike others I've seen, has no commercials on the guide (other than whats showing on TV of course). I've also seen Adelphia's in Northern Virginia and I was about to puke with the terrible interface, ads on the guide, and overall crappiness.
BiTD (Back in the day) we had RadioX in Houston, Texas. It was a radioshow put on by a lot of the big BBSers around 1996 and had a concurrent IRC chat going as well. It was a good mix of ascii/ansi and other various BBS related things. There may have even been a few juar0z people around too, if you can imagine that.
Sadly, a quick google of it only shows a bit from around 1996 and a dead website. I wonder if theres any of it still around...
The one thing I remember from it, oddly enough, was Mr. Man's comment about everyone complaining about internet lag since these were all modem days: "Lag? I use a 2400 baud modem so everything is lagged... I just can't tell the difference."
I think every dad in America double-clicks hyperlinks... at least almost every dad of a Gen-X tech worker since we're about that age.
My favorite was him coming to me trying to get the pr0n, complete with dialer, off of the computer and giving the excuse of "I was just trying to see how easy it was to protect your [younger] sister." Tsk tsk tsk.
But then again my dad is far enough up in management (and has been) that he didn't see ANY humor in Office Space at all. Now THAT is sad.
Oh I've tried that... I've had all present networks (four at one time) with mine as the #1 and only mine in the preferred list and it still does the same thing.
Thanks for the attempt at help though - its good to see people reading it.
I recently picked up a Sony Z1A with Centrino wireless built in. Its a great laptop though I'm still figuring out all the Linux stuff for it. I gave up on linux support for wireless after figuring out that the windows drivers don't even work well. They're great UNLESS you have other networks in the area.
For example, I have my home wireless network and my neighbor also has one that my laptop picks up. Because Centrino is "smart" enough to be "seamless" across networks, 5 minutes after connecting to my own network, windows lets me know that there are other networks available, prompts me to look at them, AND cuts off the current network connection!
Essentially the network connection must be reset every 4-5 minutes because it is being "smart" and cutting service at the sign of another provider.
I made it to a Sony Engineer (for fun) and they had no possible solution. I really just want to tell the network driver and/or built in windows wireless software to hold onto a network connection once its established... but NOOOOO, it wants to ask me to look at more and drops me from my current network.
The Sony guy tried to tell me that it would be okay. Riiiight, since I can't do anythign (IM, ftp, etc) that takes longer than 5 minutes to complete.
And this is in Windows...
Yeah, that and 'man command.' At work we do some back-end processing via DB2 on AIX and I showed 'man ln' to a coworker the other day and you would have thought it was the second coming of Jesus.
Of course the next command they typed in after doing their symlink was 'man vi' and I was happy. There is still hope.
Back in the BBS days, I remember "a friend of mine" downloading a program that was supposed to emit "mind-altering" tones that would simulate drug-use/hallucinations. Basically the program just showed random screensaver-esque and nifty/trippy color stuff on the screen while making your pc-speaker buzz odd tones.
Yeah, it was crap, but it just makes me wonder if this thing is crap too.
And since it not running under wine/wineX is COMPLETELY Blizzards fault...
uh huh... thats what I thought =).
Am I the only one who got a kick out of this quote?
"Bill's unique gift was always the way he does this complete and continuous synthesis. It's like he's a pipe, and all kinds of stuff goes in at this end and a continuous output of optimized strategy comes out the other end."
The metaphor just leads too all sorts of nifty stuff - potheads, pr0n, etc.
Its just too much...
BUT, if you have something like Price Protection on your Check Card (Bank Of America Platnum or AMEX Blue), you just give them a copy of the add and they will refund the difference.
Damn those dangling modifiers! My high school English teacher would not be happy... and you don't want that, trust me. Beware the wrath of high school teachers with three doctorates in BS.