And maybe we should do the same with stories about Linux inevitably taking over the world
Perhaps not, since this actually has more than a snowball's chance in hell of happening.
The point is, people care about this one and Amiga are going to produce an interesting platform from the sounds of things. Give them half a chance, for goodness' sakes.
How long should "half a chance" last, though? So far we're at 5 years and counting! When will it end? What's considered a fair shake? I personally think we crossed the line separating "half a chance" and "give up already" a couple years ago. We ride Microsoft and Intel all the time for not having products out the door in time -- why the hell should we be lenient when it comes to Amiga, who hasn't shipped anything at all yet?
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"the Amiga still does a lot of things better that most OS's (including Linux)."
Were it 1994, I would probably agree with you. However, 5 years later, it's pretty safe to say that there's nothing significant you can do today on an Amiga that can't be done faster and better on a PC. Graphics? Nope. Video editing? Nope. The Amiga OS is badly dated by today's standards and it shows no signs of being "updated" any time soon.
Those who would maintain that the Amiga has anything to offer over the current crop of 1999 PCs must be living in a time warp.
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Is this Amiga thing becoming some sort of horrid running joke amongs the slashdot admins? It's sort of like watching Jay Leno - you hear the same thing every day and it doesn't get any better the 500th time you hear it.
Does anyone still care???
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Er, I have never had either FreeBSD *or* Linux crash on me in as long as I can remember. To claim one is more stable than the other and use it as a selling point strikes me as rather ill-informed.
I've got a FreeBSD box on one side of this room that's been up for 169 days, and a Linux box on the other side of the room that's been up for 168 days. Which is more stable? Flip a coin.
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They took the guy to court over it. The guy couldn't afford a lawyer so he had to represent himself and he did an absolutely *terrible* job at it too. (Then again, who wouldn't?) He lost his website, probably a ton of business, and a lot of money in the suit. And Fry's doesn't even bother to use the damned domain. Fuckers.
I'm never shopping *there* (which is made easier by the fact that there are no Fry's on the east coast.)
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Aug 14 20:26:22 tettie-gw scanlogd: From 24.66.216.6 to 167.206.46.15 ports 6670, 1243, 21554, 1080, 20034, 40421, 31338, 31785, 5400,..., flags fSrpau, TTL 50, started at 20:26:22 Aug 17 05:21:45 tettie-gw scanlogd: From 209.30.64.27 to 167.206.46.15 ports 12345, 30100, 20034, 1243, 55555, 54321, 6670, 1257, 30303,..., flags fSrpau, TOS 00, TTL 21, started at 05:21:45
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Come on. $300 will buy you one of those Aiwa "Don't turn it up 'cause it'll distort" pieces of trash at Best Buy. $300 might just barely buy a *component* of a truly "decent" stereo system, but even then, some people might laugh at me for suggesting that.
$300 is more than reasonable for this thing, IMO. (And, yes, it truly is *not* high-end stuff, but it's a nice toy nonetheless.)
A lot of slashdot readers seem to be poor whiners, which seems odd when so many of them are in the IT/CS industry and should, by rights, be swimming in money.
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...just imagine how many pennies you'll have to stack onto the cartridge mount. Your poor records will beg for mercy.
(Actually, I've heard of people playing with their decks standing up vertically, using rubber bands to keep the needles firmly in the groove of the record.)
Radio Shack sells a 110v adaptor, though.
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There must be one or two moderators off their meds today or something -- I'm seeing an awful lot of really *retarded* scores. Not that I don't agree that this one deserves a 2, but why the hell did the other ones deserve to be moderated down?
Heck, this one might piss off a Sony employee. Shouldn't it be flamebait too?
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Lucas may have one of the greatest imaginations of all time when it comes to creating new worlds and whatnot, but, dear God, his dialogue is some of the most trite, horrid stuff I've ever seen. It's as if the man has never held a conversation with another human being.
I should cut him a little slack, though. Conversational dialogue is, from what I hear, the hardest literary skill to master, and very few do it well. Few do it as poorly as Lucas does to such a wide audience, though.
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The last attack by terrorists on American soil was the World Trade Center bombing, was it not? Just how prevalent is terrorism in daily life that this scheme -- oh, and I see SO MANY terrorists with legit drivers' licenses!! -- is necessary to thwart them? I'm not the kind of person that looks up in the air for black helicopters and wears tinfoil over my head, but the whole "terrorist-as-scapegoat" excuse to invade my privacy even further, introduced by a faceless bureaucratic machine under the auspices of "protecting" me, doesn't hold much water.
Come to think of it, it doesn't hold any.
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...this is all well and good (I guess), but who the hell wants to sit there writing an email on something without a keyboard? Using arrow keys to zero in on one letter at a time is *not* my idea of fun.
This disturbing trend of products that shouldn't have email capability suddenly acquiring email capability isn't the most exciting direction for technology to be headed in.
- A.P. --
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Wow. Those prices are insane. They would be closer to what we pay here if they were in US dollars. It's a shame Pricewatch doesn't list which mail order companies will ship internationally.
- A.P. --
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Sort of indicative of many of the people that buy the things. Braggarts who, when someone says something they disagree with, break out the name-calling kit. It's truly sad to see.
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Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps not, since this actually has more than a snowball's chance in hell of happening.
The point is, people care about this one and Amiga are going to produce an interesting platform from the sounds of things. Give them half a chance, for goodness' sakes.
How long should "half a chance" last, though? So far we're at 5 years and counting! When will it end? What's considered a fair shake? I personally think we crossed the line separating "half a chance" and "give up already" a couple years ago. We ride Microsoft and Intel all the time for not having products out the door in time -- why the hell should we be lenient when it comes to Amiga, who hasn't shipped anything at all yet?
- A.P.
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Were it 1994, I would probably agree with you. However, 5 years later, it's pretty safe to say that there's nothing significant you can do today on an Amiga that can't be done faster and better on a PC. Graphics? Nope. Video editing? Nope.
The Amiga OS is badly dated by today's standards and it shows no signs of being "updated" any time soon.
Those who would maintain that the Amiga has anything to offer over the current crop of 1999 PCs must be living in a time warp.
- A.P.
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Does anyone still care???
- A.P.
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People on eBay happily pay more than items are worth.
It's a great way to make money.
- A.P.
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"In the year 2000 - The marriage of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog will come to an abrupt end when he converts to Judaism and can no longer eat pork."
Ok, bye.
- A.P.
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Badly.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I've got a FreeBSD box on one side of this room that's been up for 169 days, and a Linux box on the other side of the room that's been up for 168 days. Which is more stable? Flip a coin.
- A.P.
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I'm never shopping *there* (which is made easier by the fact that there are no Fry's on the east coast.)
- A.P.
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Aug 17 05:21:45 tettie-gw scanlogd: From 209.30.64.27 to 167.206.46.15 ports 12345, 30100, 20034, 1243, 55555, 54321, 6670, 1257, 30303,
- A.P.
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Get the source here. Yes, it really is just one C file.
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$300 is more than reasonable for this thing, IMO. (And, yes, it truly is *not* high-end stuff, but it's a nice toy nonetheless.)
A lot of slashdot readers seem to be poor whiners, which seems odd when so many of them are in the IT/CS industry and should, by rights, be swimming in money.
- A.P.
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(Actually, I've heard of people playing with their decks standing up vertically, using rubber bands to keep the needles firmly in the groove of the record.)
Radio Shack sells a 110v adaptor, though.
- A.P.
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Radio Shack sells a 110v adaptor, though.
- A.P.
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Agree? Disagree?
- A.P.
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Heck, this one might piss off a Sony employee. Shouldn't it be flamebait too?
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I should cut him a little slack, though. Conversational dialogue is, from what I hear, the hardest literary skill to master, and very few do it well. Few do it as poorly as Lucas does to such a wide audience, though.
- A.P.
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Come to think of it, it doesn't hold any.
- A.P.
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This disturbing trend of products that shouldn't have email capability suddenly acquiring email capability isn't the most exciting direction for technology to be headed in.
- A.P.
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Hopefully meta-moderation will take care of retarded stuff like that.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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