IEradicator and Win98Lite have destroyed every install I have tried them on. Nothing but troubles after. I can't search on this machine anymore, I can't uninstall certain things... etc.
DON'T use it unless you're prepared to reinstall when it botches the job (installing IE doesn't fix it all up).
Better advice... set your IE proxy server to a nonexistent address. then it just won't work, esp. when security vulnerabilities try to get it to do something nasty.
Yeah a PHONE and a CAMERA -- TOGETHER! Brilliant! Brilliant! Because they are logically in the same functional category! I know, let's put a BLENDER and a PHONE together next! Oh, it's been done? Hmm. Are there two other trendy things we can slap together? Let's see, a Segway, and... A FREE LCD MONITOR... I can smell 3) Profit! a mile away!
It seems to reflect a love of motorsports instead of purely a love of profit. Go figure.
It reveals something about the game though... to him it's not considered "entertainment". I thoroughly enjoyed GT2 and was constantly frustrated with GT3, so I hope they don't take this in the wrong direction.
I've always wondered why MS didn't do this before. They get in trouble because they force a closed software system on an open hardware platform? The solution is simple, change the platform. Use all sorts of DRM/encoding/encrypting stuff and make it fairly self-contained, if simple.
If anyone buys software for the thing, MS gets 100% of the money for that (apart from existing game titles). That's what they've wanted for a long time now! And no pesky laws to get in the way; except for the pesky laws that MS will put in place to keep other software off the box.
Maybe the XBox to them was just an experiment to prove they can take the hardware loss and still make money on the software.
Very few of US will be sucked into that loop though, I'm sure, right guys? RIGHT?
Galactic Battlegrounds? It was a cheap hack, they used the AoE2 engine and built skins for it. AoE2 was getting old when they decided to use it as the engine (They could have used the Empire Earth engine instead!)
It basically WAS unfinished, because the movies also were. The "clone campaigns" expansion pack added a bit more to it. Who knows, maybe they'll put out a "Sith Squashing" expansion pack too.
All that being said, I still enjoy it quite a bit. I still have a huge amount of fun with AoE2 too.
In my (limited) experiences, if you see the early evening opener (6:30-7PM) there's a half-full theater. It's the 9:30 show that gets packed-out. At least around here.
Of course, it could be said that yes, you do miss the joy of seeing a movie with a crowd. Sometimes the crowd-response is quite enjoyable. Ok, cue the bad experiences, NOW. Heh.
I thoroughly enjoyed the opening of Sky Captain. It was well worth seeing on the big screen.
I remember using this (saved searches) feature in MR/2, an old OS/2 mail reader (not Internet mail, it was a QWK/SOUP packet reader -- some of you might have to look that up) It was *fabulously* useful.
Someone looking for new features for applications like this don't necessarily need to look at press releases, but sometimes at ancient sunsite CDs.
Uhh, yeah... What I MEANT was that you could compare RealBasic and VS.NET and say "Hey RealBasic is way cheaper" but when you add in that you only want it for personal use, neither is a valid choice. You go for the freebie. Or I do, anyway.
Ok, forget it, I tried to be coherent... I'm going back to coding... Now what language am I using again?
Uh, lack of pointers is a *bad* thing somehow??? And remember Basic != BASIC... Try loading up a C# program in SharpDevelop and running the "Convert to VB" option... it's just syntax.
Maybe you're so grumpy because some people can actually make money programming in VB? Modern commercial development is hugely VB based. If you said modern ACADEMIC development, I might have had *some* respect for everything else you said. VB up to V6 is a kludgy, clumsy language. VB.NET is considerably different -- it had to be to survive.
I'd still vote for Java for a first language. You actually learn things you will use in later development.
I'd say the exact same things about.NET using SharpDevelop... except it's not *like* Visual Basic, it *is* Visual Basic. Not sure about the remote debugging across platforms though...
Between the 100% free(beer)ness of.NET SDK + SharpDevelop or JDK+NetBeans (or Eclipse) I'm not sure why I should even bother downloading this?
(I looked at the prices for RealBasic - yikes! I'll deal with the sucky bits for that price -- of course, considerably cheaper than VS.NET, but I'm talking personal use here...)
I never bought in to OS up to 9 either, not counting my Mac Plus (4 years ago, it was an experiment). I jumped at the Panther level and it is very sweet. I have OS 9 installed on here somewhere, but I've never booted it. Never even wanted to.
The OS is very transparent, yes. I love how java seems to just fit right in with everything else. (e.g. Is NeoOffice/J REALLY all java? How can I tell?) GarageBand was a selling point for me, too.
However, as much as I play around with video capturing, compression & slight editing, I do all of that on my XP PC. a) Hardware (ATI MPEG2 capture is very nice) b) free tools (VirtualDub, TMPGenc, KVCD, AviSynth, DVDAuthorGUI, etc) c) The superdrive is not as reliable as my LG DVD burner, for some reason.
If I had the money for *software* I might switch over to doing multimedia stuff on here. But as for hardware, there's waaaay more bang for the buck on a Mac.
And here I go, sounding like a fanboy too. Back to my Debian box for a while, I think.
Filesystems are so last century. Have you been paying attention? We desperately need metadata, indexing, searching, relations and cross-referencing in our filesystems. We need a database. Filesystems are ok for floppies but anything as big as even 64 MB needs something else.
Palm has had a database ever since the start! Ok, so it was a simple database. Who cares? Mature the database instead of replacing it with something cheesy and outdated. I rarely if ever searched FOR a file on my palms, though I commonly searched IN my files... If there was a file system though, that would change for sure...
Maybe you'd like file extensions too? yeah! Then we can have.vbs files wreaking havoc on our palms too!
ohhh... kay... so they didn't invent it... they still had (used) it way back when. Agreed?
Yeah so Palms technically have no multitasking. It's also not a computer. It's not a washing machine either. Somehow I have been able to edit files, organize appointments, listen to music (in the background, BTW), keep, create, and edit all sorts of documents at my fingertips, even compile programs... Now let me list off the different things I do daily on my computer... Hm...
I guess what you mean is, it's not a Windows computer, right? It can't play Doom 3 so it can't play games. It can't run OpenOffice, so it can't edit or view documents. It can't serve files so it has no storage. You don't have a 21" monitor so it has no display. It doesn't multitask like Windows, so you can't possibly do two things, ever, on it. Drat, I paid $300 for a block of wood!
WIMR? Palm? You mean, like, "Applications | Info"? Oh or do you mean on the card? The little blue thing that happens to have a... file system? Hm...
It works great on my Mac. Unless you're talking about Card Export v1 - I've only tried v2. Read the forums too, it seems to work on Linux already (they're working on support for it).
I actually set up a folder action script to back up my card when I mount it to the desktop in OS X. Sweet.
Man, I have to be a good boy now and go register that awesome program. My demo is running out soon I think.
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Nice flamebait. 6:24PM is pretty close to 6:24PM in my books. Pity we don't have hundredths of a second visible on the postings, huh?
Read the submission again. He claims 100% fatal *after symptoms*, period. Whether vaccinated or not. Are you still going to claim it's right?
"only three people in the world are known to have survived after the onset of rabies symptoms"
Unless you meant "100% fatal", which would mean those who died would be COMPLETELY dead...
IEradicator and Win98Lite have destroyed every install I have tried them on. Nothing but troubles after. I can't search on this machine anymore, I can't uninstall certain things... etc.
DON'T use it unless you're prepared to reinstall when it botches the job (installing IE doesn't fix it all up).
Better advice... set your IE proxy server to a nonexistent address. then it just won't work, esp. when security vulnerabilities try to get it to do something nasty.
Wow I think the subject line gives us a perfect new keyword as a workaround!
Yeah a PHONE and a CAMERA -- TOGETHER! Brilliant! Brilliant! Because they are logically in the same functional category! I know, let's put a BLENDER and a PHONE together next! Oh, it's been done? Hmm. Are there two other trendy things we can slap together? Let's see, a Segway, and... A FREE LCD MONITOR... I can smell 3) Profit! a mile away!
It seems to reflect a love of motorsports instead of purely a love of profit. Go figure.
It reveals something about the game though... to him it's not considered "entertainment". I thoroughly enjoyed GT2 and was constantly frustrated with GT3, so I hope they don't take this in the wrong direction.
I've always wondered why MS didn't do this before. They get in trouble because they force a closed software system on an open hardware platform? The solution is simple, change the platform. Use all sorts of DRM/encoding/encrypting stuff and make it fairly self-contained, if simple.
If anyone buys software for the thing, MS gets 100% of the money for that (apart from existing game titles). That's what they've wanted for a long time now! And no pesky laws to get in the way; except for the pesky laws that MS will put in place to keep other software off the box.
Maybe the XBox to them was just an experiment to prove they can take the hardware loss and still make money on the software.
Very few of US will be sucked into that loop though, I'm sure, right guys? RIGHT?
Galactic Battlegrounds? It was a cheap hack, they used the AoE2 engine and built skins for it. AoE2 was getting old when they decided to use it as the engine (They could have used the Empire Earth engine instead!)
It basically WAS unfinished, because the movies also were. The "clone campaigns" expansion pack added a bit more to it. Who knows, maybe they'll put out a "Sith Squashing" expansion pack too.
All that being said, I still enjoy it quite a bit. I still have a huge amount of fun with AoE2 too.
Heh heh... glad someone would enjoy it. Once you're done with that, check out Project Gutenberg's copy of my absolute favorite: http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/7/2776/2776-8.tx t
Ok, back to topic - CURSE THOSE SPAMMERS!!!
...but you can trade for something of perceived equal value. Of course "caveat emptor" still applies, I suppose.
And for a fun semi-related link, read O Henry's "Conscience in Art" (there are many other sources if you don't like the chapter-by-chapter format).
Ringing the doorbell and leaving a flaming bag of poo on the doorstep... Now that's leaving a trojan on the compromised machine.
In my (limited) experiences, if you see the early evening opener (6:30-7PM) there's a half-full theater. It's the 9:30 show that gets packed-out. At least around here.
Of course, it could be said that yes, you do miss the joy of seeing a movie with a crowd. Sometimes the crowd-response is quite enjoyable. Ok, cue the bad experiences, NOW. Heh.
I thoroughly enjoyed the opening of Sky Captain. It was well worth seeing on the big screen.
I remember using this (saved searches) feature in MR/2, an old OS/2 mail reader (not Internet mail, it was a QWK/SOUP packet reader -- some of you might have to look that up) It was *fabulously* useful.
Someone looking for new features for applications like this don't necessarily need to look at press releases, but sometimes at ancient sunsite CDs.
This is when I become most obnoxious ;)
But seriously, folks, this is why I tweak for IE.
Actually, as an obnoxious web developer myself, I design for standards and tweak for IE. If asked, I say "just use Firefox".
It's those accursed frontpage users you're thinking about, not web developers.
Uhh, yeah... What I MEANT was that you could compare RealBasic and VS.NET and say "Hey RealBasic is way cheaper" but when you add in that you only want it for personal use, neither is a valid choice. You go for the freebie. Or I do, anyway.
Ok, forget it, I tried to be coherent... I'm going back to coding... Now what language am I using again?
Uh, lack of pointers is a *bad* thing somehow??? And remember Basic != BASIC... Try loading up a C# program in SharpDevelop and running the "Convert to VB" option... it's just syntax.
Maybe you're so grumpy because some people can actually make money programming in VB? Modern commercial development is hugely VB based. If you said modern ACADEMIC development, I might have had *some* respect for everything else you said. VB up to V6 is a kludgy, clumsy language. VB.NET is considerably different -- it had to be to survive.
I'd still vote for Java for a first language. You actually learn things you will use in later development.
I'd say the exact same things about .NET using SharpDevelop... except it's not *like* Visual Basic, it *is* Visual Basic. Not sure about the remote debugging across platforms though...
.NET SDK + SharpDevelop or JDK+NetBeans (or Eclipse) I'm not sure why I should even bother downloading this?
Between the 100% free(beer)ness of
(I looked at the prices for RealBasic - yikes! I'll deal with the sucky bits for that price -- of course, considerably cheaper than VS.NET, but I'm talking personal use here...)
I never bought in to OS up to 9 either, not counting my Mac Plus (4 years ago, it was an experiment). I jumped at the Panther level and it is very sweet. I have OS 9 installed on here somewhere, but I've never booted it. Never even wanted to.
The OS is very transparent, yes. I love how java seems to just fit right in with everything else. (e.g. Is NeoOffice/J REALLY all java? How can I tell?) GarageBand was a selling point for me, too.
However, as much as I play around with video capturing, compression & slight editing, I do all of that on my XP PC. a) Hardware (ATI MPEG2 capture is very nice) b) free tools (VirtualDub, TMPGenc, KVCD, AviSynth, DVDAuthorGUI, etc) c) The superdrive is not as reliable as my LG DVD burner, for some reason.
If I had the money for *software* I might switch over to doing multimedia stuff on here. But as for hardware, there's waaaay more bang for the buck on a Mac.
And here I go, sounding like a fanboy too. Back to my Debian box for a while, I think.
DP stands for *Dual* processors. Plus they're 64 bit, with specialized vector processors, and one VAST and FAST memory bandwidth.
I think it's safe to assume it's all that fast.
But hey you can find dual Opteron systems, and you can probably beat the speed, but remember, you are restricted to **$1000**.
Don't forget, according to the article, your $2000 DP G5 is "only as fast as a $1000 PC". I'd like to find that fast of a PC somewhere.
Face it, this whole article is flamebait.
Personally, I wouldn't run OS X on a PC... I have a Mac and love it, but I agree with you that it's a whole package, not just the OS...
Filesystems are so last century. Have you been paying attention? We desperately need metadata, indexing, searching, relations and cross-referencing in our filesystems. We need a database. Filesystems are ok for floppies but anything as big as even 64 MB needs something else.
.vbs files wreaking havoc on our palms too!
Palm has had a database ever since the start! Ok, so it was a simple database. Who cares? Mature the database instead of replacing it with something cheesy and outdated. I rarely if ever searched FOR a file on my palms, though I commonly searched IN my files... If there was a file system though, that would change for sure...
Maybe you'd like file extensions too? yeah! Then we can have
ohhh... kay... so they didn't invent it... they still had (used) it way back when. Agreed?
Yeah so Palms technically have no multitasking. It's also not a computer. It's not a washing machine either. Somehow I have been able to edit files, organize appointments, listen to music (in the background, BTW), keep, create, and edit all sorts of documents at my fingertips, even compile programs... Now let me list off the different things I do daily on my computer... Hm...
I guess what you mean is, it's not a Windows computer, right? It can't play Doom 3 so it can't play games. It can't run OpenOffice, so it can't edit or view documents. It can't serve files so it has no storage. You don't have a 21" monitor so it has no display. It doesn't multitask like Windows, so you can't possibly do two things, ever, on it. Drat, I paid $300 for a block of wood!
WIMR? Palm? You mean, like, "Applications | Info"? Oh or do you mean on the card? The little blue thing that happens to have a... file system? Hm...
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It works great on my Mac. Unless you're talking about Card Export v1 - I've only tried v2. Read the forums too, it seems to work on Linux already (they're working on support for it).
I actually set up a folder action script to back up my card when I mount it to the desktop in OS X. Sweet.
Man, I have to be a good boy now and go register that awesome program. My demo is running out soon I think.