Test Drive 2: The Duel comes to mind. Update the physics and graphics, but keep the gameplay as fun as it was then. Pretend Test Drive 3: The Passion doesn't exist.
Something else I've seen on/. (usually in regards to the CueCat): it's not my job to support a poor business plan. Failure is always an option in any business.
And, frankly, I think you're wrong about the music thing: if someone was downloading rips of songs, burning them to CD, and selling them on the street or giving them away free and being paid by advertisers, most of Slashdot would agree that's wrong.
The piece of paper at the end is the important part, the classes leading to that piece of paper are failing to provide sufficient benefit to the students.
I did that this weekend by selecting about 150 JPGs on a network drive, then right-clicking and hitting Gwenview. I thought it would load them all into one instance of Gwenview, but instead it loaded 150 copies of Gwenview. D'oh. I think I could have recovered the machine given enough time, but I didn't want to wait and rebooted.
Still, that's only the third or fourth time I've had to reboot a machine for something like that using Linux, and I've been using it since 1998 or so.
I doubt this patch will help with that type of problem though.
I was not aware of that. Having checkpoints for traveling into or out of another country is completely reasonable. Having checkpoints WITHIN the US though? Not so much. I travel mostly on the east coast so I haven't run into something like this.
Right on. I have an RV, and I much prefer that to flying these days. No "papers please", no security checks, freedom to go wherever and whenever I want, and I can carry whatever will fit into the camper (which includes my cat). Other than the very long distance trips (which includes Hawaii, Europe, etc., of course), I much prefer RVing to flying.
I was on a cruise ship in the Atlantic last week, and for some reason the network affiliates we got on TV aboard were Denver stations. HOLY CRAP you guys had some nasty campaign ads. And we live in the DC area - I thought ours were bad! You have my sympathy.
I don't remember seeing any ads for this issue, though, but I did know about it because I saw it mentioned on CNN under "oddball initiatives" or something like that.
If our politicians continue to enact such policies, then isn't that 'staying the same?' In any case, 'continuing to enact bad polices' is what I meant by the status quo.
Fair enough. But I note you didn't actually address my concern (the lack of apparent effect voting has).
By not voting you are voting for things to stay the same, and I don't think that's what you want, or what is in your best interest.
The same would be great. Unfortunately, our politicians continue to enact policies I don't agree with, and it seems whether I voted for them or against them (or even voted at all) has no effect.
Same, but they didn’t actually work while the power was out. They just kept time. The display went dark, though, and the alarm wouldn’t go off if the power was out.
I had one that did. That is, the alarm would still go off if it was on battery power. It was a nice touch. (I retired that one years ago because the alarm switch was broken and it would sometimes go off even when I didn't want it to.) My current alarm clock runs fast when the power is out, so if the power is out for, say, an hour, it'll be 5-10 minutes ahead when the power returns. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug.
I got modded Troll, but that certainly wasn't what I intended. I love the Microsoft supporters here. lol Anyway, I can't think of any reason Slackware wouldn't boot on that machine, except possibly the SATA driver - I'm not sure when they made it into the kernel. I have the disc at home, maybe sometime when I'm bored I'll try it.
But even if it didn't boot, I should be able to get it working far enough to fix the problem. Unfortunately that isn't the case with XP so far. There's no reason XP shouldn't run on a 64-bit computer; I'm doing it right now as a matter of fact (at work).
This is a great point. I used to go to LUG meetings frequently, but my current laptop is an Apple with Snow Leopard, and if I went to a LUG meeting that's what I'd have with me.
I bought my first Apple computer, a Macbook Pro, about a year ago. I chose it because I didn't want another Windows laptop, and none of the Linux laptops for sale were what I wanted in terms of size, weight, battery life, processor power (no netbooks), and so on. I figured if I didn't like OS X, I could always run Linux on it. After getting used to OS X, I decided that it's everything I wish Linux and KDE or Gnome would be.
I still run Linux on my desktop machine and love it, and it runs on my home server and works great (by which I mean, "it just works"). I even use it on a server or two at work. I want to use Linux, but the polish of OS X is tempting. Still, I've run into a few of those annoying proprietary walls, like discovering the manufacturer of my older scanner doesn't make drivers for Snow Leopard for it... (I was saved by VueScan in that instance, fortunately).
Me too. I recently upgraded to a 4-core, 64 bit processor, and I can't even get Windows XP (neither the installed copy nor the setup disc) to boot on the machine. I haven't put a lot of time into it, though, because Linux works so well.
Who wants to wear some clunky glasses while they watch a movie?
To be fair, the last time I saw a 3D movie in a theater, the glasses were like sunglasses, and they actually weren't clunky at all.
But that's not what they use at home. Theaters use polarized glasses and aren't bad at all like you said. Home systems use a shutter system that requires batteries and the associated annoyances.
I know I'm the minority when I say that I am satisfied with current DVD resolution and am okay with buying into DVDs but the price difference is unreal -- especially used discs.
We have a Blu-Ray player, and I have to agree - the difference between Blu-Ray and a DVD with good upscaling, such as what the Blu-Ray player offers, is not huge. We buy Blu-Ray discs (might as well; the price difference for new discs is no longer very large), but we're in no hurry to replace any of our DVDs.
The biggest advantage for Blu-Ray I've found so far is for TV show collections - what used to take 7 discs can now be compressed to 2, which makes it easier to play/watch them, and fewer unskippable disclaimer screens ("the studio has nothing to do with the commentaries...").
I guess this is my age showing, but what is the advantage of sending text when I can just make a call?
Ever been to some event that's loud? Text messaging doesn't require the ability to hear anyone on the phone. (In addition to all the other reasons given.) I occasionally go to pinball shows, which are pretty loud from all the people and games, and hearing someone on a cell phone is difficult at best, so you have to make your way outside. It's much easier and faster to text the person.
I remember people saying at the time they wouldn't "downgrade" from Windows 3.11 to '95. This was one of my first experiences with zealots, though I have no idea why they'd pick Win 3.11 to be zealous about. Most of them probably couldn't "downgrade" because their computers weren't fast enough, but some of them I think truly believed Win 3.11 was better than 95. (I realize Win 95 had plenty of its own problems, but to call it worse than Windows 3.11 was insane - the people saying that definitely hadn't used both.)
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Or confined to the USA...
Test Drive 2: The Duel comes to mind. Update the physics and graphics, but keep the gameplay as fun as it was then. Pretend Test Drive 3: The Passion doesn't exist.
Works for me. I don't use it anyway.
I can't believe this got rated Flamebait.
Something else I've seen on /. (usually in regards to the CueCat): it's not my job to support a poor business plan. Failure is always an option in any business.
And, frankly, I think you're wrong about the music thing: if someone was downloading rips of songs, burning them to CD, and selling them on the street or giving them away free and being paid by advertisers, most of Slashdot would agree that's wrong.
I thought I read somewhere that other articles had been lifted from other sites, too. Wonder what the explanation for those is...more deadlines?
Also, from the last sentence in the "apology":
To one writer in particular, Monica Gaudio, I wish you had given me a chance.
Uh, Gaudio DID give her the chance. CS responded with a very snippy email claiming the net was public domain.
The piece of paper at the end is the important part, the classes leading to that piece of paper are failing to provide sufficient benefit to the students.
College: You're doing it wrong.
I did that this weekend by selecting about 150 JPGs on a network drive, then right-clicking and hitting Gwenview. I thought it would load them all into one instance of Gwenview, but instead it loaded 150 copies of Gwenview. D'oh. I think I could have recovered the machine given enough time, but I didn't want to wait and rebooted.
Still, that's only the third or fourth time I've had to reboot a machine for something like that using Linux, and I've been using it since 1998 or so.
I doubt this patch will help with that type of problem though.
The Ohio State massacre really taught college kids to obey and stay in line.... Very few have the guts to do public disobedience anymore.
I think you mean Kent State. Ohio State is a very different school.
Also here's one quick example of a recent protest on a university campus. I'm sure there are plenty more from when Bush was in office protesting the Iraq and Afghanistan situations.
I was not aware of that. Having checkpoints for traveling into or out of another country is completely reasonable. Having checkpoints WITHIN the US though? Not so much. I travel mostly on the east coast so I haven't run into something like this.
Right on. I have an RV, and I much prefer that to flying these days. No "papers please", no security checks, freedom to go wherever and whenever I want, and I can carry whatever will fit into the camper (which includes my cat). Other than the very long distance trips (which includes Hawaii, Europe, etc., of course), I much prefer RVing to flying.
I was on a cruise ship in the Atlantic last week, and for some reason the network affiliates we got on TV aboard were Denver stations. HOLY CRAP you guys had some nasty campaign ads. And we live in the DC area - I thought ours were bad! You have my sympathy.
I don't remember seeing any ads for this issue, though, but I did know about it because I saw it mentioned on CNN under "oddball initiatives" or something like that.
If our politicians continue to enact such policies, then isn't that 'staying the same?' In any case, 'continuing to enact bad polices' is what I meant by the status quo.
Fair enough. But I note you didn't actually address my concern (the lack of apparent effect voting has).
By not voting you are voting for things to stay the same, and I don't think that's what you want, or what is in your best interest.
The same would be great. Unfortunately, our politicians continue to enact policies I don't agree with, and it seems whether I voted for them or against them (or even voted at all) has no effect.
Same, but they didn’t actually work while the power was out. They just kept time. The display went dark, though, and the alarm wouldn’t go off if the power was out.
I had one that did. That is, the alarm would still go off if it was on battery power. It was a nice touch. (I retired that one years ago because the alarm switch was broken and it would sometimes go off even when I didn't want it to.) My current alarm clock runs fast when the power is out, so if the power is out for, say, an hour, it'll be 5-10 minutes ahead when the power returns. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug.
I got modded Troll, but that certainly wasn't what I intended. I love the Microsoft supporters here. lol Anyway, I can't think of any reason Slackware wouldn't boot on that machine, except possibly the SATA driver - I'm not sure when they made it into the kernel. I have the disc at home, maybe sometime when I'm bored I'll try it.
But even if it didn't boot, I should be able to get it working far enough to fix the problem. Unfortunately that isn't the case with XP so far. There's no reason XP shouldn't run on a 64-bit computer; I'm doing it right now as a matter of fact (at work).
This is a great point. I used to go to LUG meetings frequently, but my current laptop is an Apple with Snow Leopard, and if I went to a LUG meeting that's what I'd have with me.
I bought my first Apple computer, a Macbook Pro, about a year ago. I chose it because I didn't want another Windows laptop, and none of the Linux laptops for sale were what I wanted in terms of size, weight, battery life, processor power (no netbooks), and so on. I figured if I didn't like OS X, I could always run Linux on it. After getting used to OS X, I decided that it's everything I wish Linux and KDE or Gnome would be.
I still run Linux on my desktop machine and love it, and it runs on my home server and works great (by which I mean, "it just works"). I even use it on a server or two at work. I want to use Linux, but the polish of OS X is tempting. Still, I've run into a few of those annoying proprietary walls, like discovering the manufacturer of my older scanner doesn't make drivers for Snow Leopard for it... (I was saved by VueScan in that instance, fortunately).
Me too. I recently upgraded to a 4-core, 64 bit processor, and I can't even get Windows XP (neither the installed copy nor the setup disc) to boot on the machine. I haven't put a lot of time into it, though, because Linux works so well.
Who wants to wear some clunky glasses while they watch a movie?
To be fair, the last time I saw a 3D movie in a theater, the glasses were like sunglasses, and they actually weren't clunky at all.
But that's not what they use at home. Theaters use polarized glasses and aren't bad at all like you said. Home systems use a shutter system that requires batteries and the associated annoyances.
I know I'm the minority when I say that I am satisfied with current DVD resolution and am okay with buying into DVDs but the price difference is unreal -- especially used discs.
We have a Blu-Ray player, and I have to agree - the difference between Blu-Ray and a DVD with good upscaling, such as what the Blu-Ray player offers, is not huge. We buy Blu-Ray discs (might as well; the price difference for new discs is no longer very large), but we're in no hurry to replace any of our DVDs.
The biggest advantage for Blu-Ray I've found so far is for TV show collections - what used to take 7 discs can now be compressed to 2, which makes it easier to play/watch them, and fewer unskippable disclaimer screens ("the studio has nothing to do with the commentaries...").
How the hell is the federal gov't supposed to know how many fire departments are needed and where they should be and how large, etc.etc.etc.
If only we had some sort of national tabulation of where everyone lived...
(The state and counties use that information too.)
I guess this is my age showing, but what is the advantage of sending text when I can just make a call?
Ever been to some event that's loud? Text messaging doesn't require the ability to hear anyone on the phone. (In addition to all the other reasons given.) I occasionally go to pinball shows, which are pretty loud from all the people and games, and hearing someone on a cell phone is difficult at best, so you have to make your way outside. It's much easier and faster to text the person.
Do you wait for the chance to post this comment in every land-related story? I see it all the time, worded almost identically.
People don't care about relevant studies. They care about what their friend Nancy's brother's ex-wife's uncle said.
I remember people saying at the time they wouldn't "downgrade" from Windows 3.11 to '95. This was one of my first experiences with zealots, though I have no idea why they'd pick Win 3.11 to be zealous about. Most of them probably couldn't "downgrade" because their computers weren't fast enough, but some of them I think truly believed Win 3.11 was better than 95. (I realize Win 95 had plenty of its own problems, but to call it worse than Windows 3.11 was insane - the people saying that definitely hadn't used both.)