The VMU is the Dreamcast's memory-card-come-mini-gameboy gadget.
Disregarding the error in representing "Game Boy" as two capitalized words, the word "come" isn't used here. The word "cum" (stop giggling) is used to connect two nouns.
Strangely enough, Webster's doesn't even display that "other" meaning when you search for "cum".
The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars is the day the market will really take off.
Really? I suppose you'd want a WindowsCE device, then. For a few years now, Microsoft has been making the OS that turns convenient, simple devices into horribly complicated messes that admittedly have a buttload more features than PalmOS (hopefully) ever will. Have you ever needed to change memory allocation settings because an application wouldn't run? Have you found yourself running out of memory because twelve tasks are running invisibly in the background?
Please. If you want a handheld computer, you have options (WinCE, Psion, etc.) If you want a device that helps you organize and run nifty software as well, Palm is the one. "The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars" has come and gone, and people still flock to the Palm Computing Platform.
For the record, Jot isn't a Microsoft invention. It's merely licensed from Communications Intelligence Corporation, which also sells Jot for PalmOS devices. Also note the spiffy "We Like Linux" graphic on the home page.:)
True, but AOL doesn't own it. It's merely "co-branded" -- that is, another company provides the service, and sells the naming rights to AOL. Yahoo does the same thing with many of its services (maps by Mapquest, weather by WeatherNews Inc., etc.) Frankly, I don't know how many people would sign up for AOL Long Distance given the company's already crappy record for handling local dial-up number service.
I managed to get Colorcase.com's sales department on the phone, since they don't quote prices on the site. For all of their cases except the aluminum ones, prices generally run between $79-99. The aluminum cases are $159. Shipping can get expensive, and the rates depend on where you are relative to Southern California.
It's not entirely true that PERL has nothing to do with Linux. See this article for a recent example of how they're integrating their systems with Linux. However, they're not putting all their eggs in one basket; according to some of the other news they've generated in the past few months, they also appear to be actively supporting Windows 2000.
Besides, Perl isn't a common buzzword like Linux is. I'm just as cynical of modern-day "investors" as the next guy, but I don't think too many would see it as closely tied to Linux.
Although I sent the Fool an e-mail informing them that they visited the wrong LinuxOne web site, I'm glad to see that the financial press is giving fair and insightful coverage into Linux. Apparently they also read Slashdot, as some of the details of the Power Source scam (i.e. waking the guy up if you call early) were very close to the Slashdot comments about that subject.
Sigh. Stupid LinuxOne, don't ruin it for the rest of us.
After spending nearly $200 in shopping at the local mall, I spent 15 minutes walking around the parking garage looking for my car. I feared it might have been stolen. So I approached the nearest mall security agent in his hardcore Geo Tracker, and described my car to him. We went once again around looking at all the cars, then he asked whether I had looked on the lower level. "Lower level!" I said. "That's it!"
Damn modern commerce and its three-dimensional parking garages.
I'm changing the "foty" to "forty", because I can no longer remember why I left out the "r".
Far be it from me to read your mind, but "foty" sounds more Ebonics-like. This would match the dialect with "puddin" and "awwwwww yeah". (Personally, I preferred "foty," but it's your signature *g*)
N.B.: Nota Bene, or "note well." It's used as kind of an obscure alternative to "Just so you know," or "For your information,". I never really liked it myself.
Even more offtopic. Your new Sega Dreamcast does not run on Windows CE, just as mine doesn't. Sega Rally Championship 2 is the first and just about only game to run this operating system. For all games, the choice of operating systems is left to the developers.
Notice how your Dreamcast is "Compatible with Windows CE," according to the label on the front of the console. (I'm assuming you have a non-Japanese model here.)
The green-on-pink text in the search box reads "Try One or Two Keywords in ANY International Language". So I, being a Typical American, tried English. Single English words (or any single search term, for that matter) work fine. However, using two keywords (be they my name, "Microsoft Windows," "carrot cake," etc., etc., etc.) just returns the home page all over again.
So you can only search on one keyword at a time, it has a butt-ugly page, it doesn't return relevant links, and it has a horrible domain name to boot. What a waste.
Oh wait, it's GPL'ed! Hooray! Down with the software monopolies! We'll take over the world!
Read The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm, and then try to argue that OS/2's death had nothing to do with Microsoft and was wholly self-inflicted by IBM.
Hey, did anyone see Austin Powers 2? $100,000 x 1,100,000 songs equals over... you guessed it:
ONE HUNDRED... BILLION... DOLLARS!
(laughs evilly)
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$1055? Isn't that a lot of money to spend to be able to not pay speeding tickets? (Yes, yes, I know about the "points" possibilities, but you have to consider the principle of it all.)
I remember when my family was considering buying a Dreamcast, my mom referred to it as a "Dream Machine." We all had a good laugh at her lack of knowledge about the name of the system, until we found that Dream Machine is the name of the alarm clock (made by Sony!) in my brother's room.
The Japanese can make things with really weird-sounding names, can't they? If you can find any, watch some Japanese Dreamcast commercials. They all end with a bunch of high-pitched-voiced schoolgirls shouting "DREAM CAST!"
I still remember the flame a Windows95 user bestowed upon me, when I was using OS/2: OS/2 is just half an operating system. Get it? OS? Over 2? Ha ha ha! Ha! Ha!
Yeah, I didn't think it was that good either at the time.
I don't know about Nintendo, but "Atari" translates in my Japanese dictionary as neighborhood, around, hit, success, or winning. (My guess is it's one of the last three.)
Sega isn't even Japanese; according to an old Sega Visions magazine gathering dust in my house, the company was founded in the 60's as "Service Games." The abbreviation is just the first two letters of both words. Back before TV-based video games were all the rage, they made mechanical games for bars and restaurants that you still see from time to time.
85%? Try 90%, easily. In the Pittsburgh airport, you'll find rows and rows of monitors for US Airways flights, plus a whopping TWO labeled "Other Airlines." Those "Other Airlines" all get crappy gates, too, like D80 and higher.
Just a subliminal way of letting them know they're not welcome here.
It's actually not a Japanese word, just shortened forms of "Pocket" and "Monster" to make it sound Japanese.
Incidentally, in Japan the games are called "Pocket Monsters." Apparently, English is as chic to the Japanese as Japanese-sounding names are chic to Americans.
Palms run a graphical, intuitive operating system that takes many of its touches (both at the user and system level) from the Macintosh OS. What the original poster was talking about was how consumers will not buy a PDA that runs a command-line OS, which I agree with. After all, DOS-based organizers never caught on big-time, and Linux just can't compete with something like PalmOS that's designed from the ground up to work with portable systems.
I stand by my assertion that Linux is no better suited for a PDA than Windows is. Use the right tool for the right job.
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From the Slashdot blurb:
The VMU is the Dreamcast's memory-card-come-mini-gameboy gadget.
Disregarding the error in representing "Game Boy" as two capitalized words, the word "come" isn't used here. The word "cum" (stop giggling) is used to connect two nouns.
Strangely enough, Webster's doesn't even display that "other" meaning when you search for "cum".
The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars is the day the market will really take off.
Really? I suppose you'd want a WindowsCE device, then. For a few years now, Microsoft has been making the OS that turns convenient, simple devices into horribly complicated messes that admittedly have a buttload more features than PalmOS (hopefully) ever will. Have you ever needed to change memory allocation settings because an application wouldn't run? Have you found yourself running out of memory because twelve tasks are running invisibly in the background?
Please. If you want a handheld computer, you have options (WinCE, Psion, etc.) If you want a device that helps you organize and run nifty software as well, Palm is the one. "The day PDAs are more like computers and less like glorified calendars" has come and gone, and people still flock to the Palm Computing Platform.
For the record, Jot isn't a Microsoft invention. It's merely licensed from Communications Intelligence Corporation, which also sells Jot for PalmOS devices. Also note the spiffy "We Like Linux" graphic on the home page. :)
True, but AOL doesn't own it. It's merely "co-branded" -- that is, another company provides the service, and sells the naming rights to AOL. Yahoo does the same thing with many of its services (maps by Mapquest, weather by WeatherNews Inc., etc.) Frankly, I don't know how many people would sign up for AOL Long Distance given the company's already crappy record for handling local dial-up number service.
I managed to get Colorcase.com's sales department on the phone, since they don't quote prices on the site. For all of their cases except the aluminum ones, prices generally run between $79-99. The aluminum cases are $159. Shipping can get expensive, and the rates depend on where you are relative to Southern California.
It's not entirely true that PERL has nothing to do with Linux. See this article for a recent example of how they're integrating their systems with Linux. However, they're not putting all their eggs in one basket; according to some of the other news they've generated in the past few months, they also appear to be actively supporting Windows 2000.
Besides, Perl isn't a common buzzword like Linux is. I'm just as cynical of modern-day "investors" as the next guy, but I don't think too many would see it as closely tied to Linux.
Although I sent the Fool an e-mail informing them that they visited the wrong LinuxOne web site, I'm glad to see that the financial press is giving fair and insightful coverage into Linux. Apparently they also read Slashdot, as some of the details of the Power Source scam (i.e. waking the guy up if you call early) were very close to the Slashdot comments about that subject.
Sigh. Stupid LinuxOne, don't ruin it for the rest of us.
And I thought MY day was weird.
After spending nearly $200 in shopping at the local mall, I spent 15 minutes walking around the parking garage looking for my car. I feared it might have been stolen. So I approached the nearest mall security agent in his hardcore Geo Tracker, and described my car to him. We went once again around looking at all the cars, then he asked whether I had looked on the lower level. "Lower level!" I said. "That's it!"
Damn modern commerce and its three-dimensional parking garages.
I'm changing the "foty" to "forty", because I can no longer remember why I left out the "r".
Far be it from me to read your mind, but "foty" sounds more Ebonics-like. This would match the dialect with "puddin" and "awwwwww yeah". (Personally, I preferred "foty," but it's your signature *g*)
Is it too late to legally change my name to pikachu?
:)
Only if you also change your voice box so that you only communicate by saying your name (or parts thereof) with various inflections.
N.B.: Nota Bene, or "note well." It's used as kind of an obscure alternative to "Just so you know," or "For your information,". I never really liked it myself.
Even more offtopic. Your new Sega Dreamcast does not run on Windows CE, just as mine doesn't. Sega Rally Championship 2 is the first and just about only game to run this operating system. For all games, the choice of operating systems is left to the developers.
Notice how your Dreamcast is "Compatible with Windows CE," according to the label on the front of the console. (I'm assuming you have a non-Japanese model here.)
First we had the Palm III, then the IIIe, and now the IIIc? Where's the IIIgs?
(BTW, I'm a longtime Palm user, and I know there have been a ton of other names and models as well.)
The green-on-pink text in the search box reads "Try One or Two Keywords in ANY International Language". So I, being a Typical American, tried English. Single English words (or any single search term, for that matter) work fine. However, using two keywords (be they my name, "Microsoft Windows," "carrot cake," etc., etc., etc.) just returns the home page all over again.
So you can only search on one keyword at a time, it has a butt-ugly page, it doesn't return relevant links, and it has a horrible domain name to boot. What a waste.
Oh wait, it's GPL'ed! Hooray! Down with the software monopolies! We'll take over the world!
Groan...
Remember -- due to our little friend the quiet period, don't expect any stories about the ANDN stock offering for some time.
;)
We're still welcome to comment about it -- who else watched ANDN more than triple on its opening day?
Read The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm, and then try to argue that OS/2's death had nothing to do with Microsoft and was wholly self-inflicted by IBM.
Hey, did anyone see Austin Powers 2? $100,000 x 1,100,000 songs equals over... you guessed it:
ONE HUNDRED... BILLION... DOLLARS!
(laughs evilly)
$1055? Isn't that a lot of money to spend to be able to not pay speeding tickets? (Yes, yes, I know about the "points" possibilities, but you have to consider the principle of it all.)
I remember when my family was considering buying a Dreamcast, my mom referred to it as a "Dream Machine." We all had a good laugh at her lack of knowledge about the name of the system, until we found that Dream Machine is the name of the alarm clock (made by Sony!) in my brother's room.
The Japanese can make things with really weird-sounding names, can't they? If you can find any, watch some Japanese Dreamcast commercials. They all end with a bunch of high-pitched-voiced schoolgirls shouting "DREAM CAST!"
I still remember the flame a Windows95 user bestowed upon me, when I was using OS/2: OS/2 is just half an operating system. Get it? OS? Over 2? Ha ha ha! Ha! Ha!
Yeah, I didn't think it was that good either at the time.
I don't know about Nintendo, but "Atari" translates in my Japanese dictionary as neighborhood, around, hit, success, or winning. (My guess is it's one of the last three.)
Sega isn't even Japanese; according to an old Sega Visions magazine gathering dust in my house, the company was founded in the 60's as "Service Games." The abbreviation is just the first two letters of both words. Back before TV-based video games were all the rage, they made mechanical games for bars and restaurants that you still see from time to time.
85%? Try 90%, easily. In the Pittsburgh airport, you'll find rows and rows of monitors for US Airways flights, plus a whopping TWO labeled "Other Airlines." Those "Other Airlines" all get crappy gates, too, like D80 and higher.
Just a subliminal way of letting them know they're not welcome here.
It's actually not a Japanese word, just shortened forms of "Pocket" and "Monster" to make it sound Japanese.
Incidentally, in Japan the games are called "Pocket Monsters." Apparently, English is as chic to the Japanese as Japanese-sounding names are chic to Americans.
Palms run a graphical, intuitive operating system that takes many of its touches (both at the user and system level) from the Macintosh OS. What the original poster was talking about was how consumers will not buy a PDA that runs a command-line OS, which I agree with. After all, DOS-based organizers never caught on big-time, and Linux just can't compete with something like PalmOS that's designed from the ground up to work with portable systems.
I stand by my assertion that Linux is no better suited for a PDA than Windows is. Use the right tool for the right job.