What the hell does this have to do with old demos? Remember, the 'cheesy dance music' that are in these was as pioneering at the time as your 'idm' may be now. Also, if you've ever tracked in your life, you'll know just how complicated some of those tracks are and how difficult they are to compose.
Bust out with an old C64 and the JCH composer sometime (if you can find it and the english documentaion I wrote for it so long ago). Let me know when they haul you away in a straightjacket after you stare at the green numbers for long enough.:)
Those old machines, including 486's, were even mocked by the old C64 sceners as well. To this day, almost nothing beats the SID chip's qualities (for it's day), and it takes mountains of CPU power just to emulate it. It was an odd hybrid and is still popular with some people (ever hear of the SidStation?), and created by some genii at Ensoniq.
I still haven't heard a fatter pulse wave or nicer high and lowpass filters done on a chip since then.
"OTOH, Microsoft, I believe, asks for resume's in text format"
Makes perfect sense to me. Each version of Word that gets released is less and less compatible with earlier versions. If you send them a.doc from Word 4 you never know how Word XP will mangle it.
Does anyone remember the stink about Microsoft not supplying it's myriad scores of temps with insurance, despite them working well over 40 hours a week? I seem to remember something..ah yes...http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB2000121 2S0008
Microsoft is GREAT to it's employees...as long as they're full timers.
Sounds to me like he's doing something pretty damn wrong. If he's spent over 1.5 years working minimum wage, what's happening to the company? Are people getting paid on time? On one hand I kinda respect it, but on the other, I think, this guy is probably nearly legally retarded.
You'd think in 1.5 years time he could make some kind of turn around. Then again, the US economy is horrible.
Nice. As we all know, the real flamewars are best fought anonymously. As kirk would say 'double dumbass to you!', and recognize an obvious joke when you see it next time.
I don't know what sucks worse, the fact that they don't have enough bandwidth to handle a minor slashdotting, or the fact that they don't have a linux client.
Looks like alot of people won't be cracking keys for these guys until next month.
Screw the Amiga, I just want to see it's fabled multimedia abstraction layer that's designed to run on any *nix or freebsd system. Remember when that was conceptualized, oh, a year or so ago?
And, of course by then, Nvidia's chip with similar or better abilities will destroy ATI yet again simply by having better drivers.
I really feel sorry for ATI and people that buy their products. They make good hardware but their drivers are always crap. Is it so hard to make good software to complement your hardware?
Merge the robot with the old Infocom parser and you get...
Soldier: Aggghh!! They're trying to kill us! ICPR: Unknown word: aggghh!! Soldier: Aghhhhhh! ICPR: I don't understand Aghhhhhh! Soldier: help! ICPR: inv -inventory, look, verbose on/off... Soldier: We must get out of here! ICPR: Choices are N, S, W, E.
I'd rather have one that monitors my health and screams "MEDIC!" if I get blasted. You may still be alive but be to shellshocked to scream for a medic.
Better yet, how about a spiderlike robot from Minority Report, equipped to cauterize wounds and inject painkillers, while signaling to the medical center (or robot sentry) that I'm hit and need to fall back? Everyone could carry one around in a single pocket and the little guy can spring into action when your health looks bad. A sharp drop in blood pressure is a sure sign of a big wound.
Wow that's really interesting. A computer that automatically releases chemicals when you're in pain?
The interesting part is that everyone already has one. If you hadn't slept through your science classes, you'd know that your brain takes care of stuff like this by itself. If you're in pain, your brain cues the endorphins to ease it. If you have a cold, your immune system gets boosted. If you're in danger, and you know it, your adrenal gland gets stimulated and you get extra power and speed. It doesn't take a battery powered device to accomplish what nature already has.
At any rate, the sleepiness thing would be nice, but hasn't the government issued amphetamines to the military in the past? I know the Germans kinda pioneered that in WW2 and we thought it was a swell idea. Also lots of snipers are rumored to take medication normally given to Parkinson's patients to calm their jitters (which equals a clean shot).
I know what you mean about the total lack of customer service from Sony. I bought a PS2 a few months after it was released. Sony had a 7% failure rate of the DVD read laser. I got one of those 7%. I lost my receipt. The morons at Electronic Boutique in Frisco, TX couldn't find it there either (even though I used a credit card specifically to leave a paper trail, just in case). A week after the *ridiculously short* 90 day warranty was up, EB called and said they finally found the receipt. Too little, too late.
While the PS2 was still in warranty, Sony's brilliant tech support suggested that my DVD remote control wasn't a licensed Sony product and therefore voided my warranty. WTF?! Can anyone tell me how a DVD remote can break a DVD read laser?
My choices, after all the weeks of hassle, was to ship it or drop it off at a Sony repair site. The bill would be $120 at the very least. No warranty repair. After paying $300 plus a memory card for it 3 months earlier, and getting treated like shit from Sony, I wasn't about to lose more money to those fools.
I took it to the local pawnshop with some PS1 games (they don't require the dvd read lens, only the regular cd-reading lens) and got $150 for it, cold hard cash. Good riddance, PS2. Fuck you, Sony. You just lost what was once a lifelong customer.
1. Install a fresh version of win2k on some machine you own.
2. Plug it into your cable/dsl/t1 connection.
3. Watch the magic.
By the time it hits Microsoft and starts downloading updates, you'll be owned. There are so many infected win2k server farms with dead/missing admins that are spewing nimda and other virii over the net constantly. A typical win2k fresh install, connected to the internet, will get owned in 20 minutes flat. I kid you not.
So if you're savvy enough you can cache all the updates locally and apply them *before* you connect to the internet. Doing otherwise is taking your boxes' life into your own hands.
...and to add to your misery, that driver was only available months after XP was originally released and isn't easy to find. My brother had the same problem with his XP install on an Abit BE6-2. For some mysterious reason the HPT-37x is supported but not the 370 itself.
Same thing here. I upgraded my dual boot system with a new motherboard/chip, and XP refused to boot. It didn't even bother to tell me why, just flashes a bluescreen for about 4ns and then reboots the machine.
Mandrake, OTOH, didn't really care. It runs a probe at boot which solves any potential problems before they occur. Kudzu is a good service (thank you Redhat). I just had to say 'ok' to the new stuff it found, it loaded the kernel modules, and everything works.
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Ahh, the wonders of Nazi science and chemistry just never end. :)
What the hell does this have to do with old demos? Remember, the 'cheesy dance music' that are in these was as pioneering at the time as your 'idm' may be now. Also, if you've ever tracked in your life, you'll know just how complicated some of those tracks are and how difficult they are to compose.
:)
Bust out with an old C64 and the JCH composer sometime (if you can find it and the english documentaion I wrote for it so long ago). Let me know when they haul you away in a straightjacket after you stare at the green numbers for long enough.
Those old machines, including 486's, were even mocked by the old C64 sceners as well. To this day, almost nothing beats the SID chip's qualities (for it's day), and it takes mountains of CPU power just to emulate it. It was an odd hybrid and is still popular with some people (ever hear of the SidStation?), and created by some genii at Ensoniq.
I still haven't heard a fatter pulse wave or nicer high and lowpass filters done on a chip since then.
"OTOH, Microsoft, I believe, asks for resume's in text format"
.doc from Word 4 you never know how Word XP will mangle it.
Makes perfect sense to me. Each version of Word that gets released is less and less compatible with earlier versions. If you send them a
Does anyone remember the stink about Microsoft not supplying it's myriad scores of temps with insurance, despite them working well over 40 hours a week? I seem to remember something..ah yes...http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB2000121 2S0008
Microsoft is GREAT to it's employees...as long as they're full timers.
Sounds to me like he's doing something pretty damn wrong. If he's spent over 1.5 years working minimum wage, what's happening to the company? Are people getting paid on time? On one hand I kinda respect it, but on the other, I think, this guy is probably nearly legally retarded.
You'd think in 1.5 years time he could make some kind of turn around. Then again, the US economy is horrible.
Brought to you by the financial wizards at Underpants Gnomes, Inc.
1. Buy $7000 car.
2. Pay $200 a month for 12 months
3. ?
4. Profit!
Nice. As we all know, the real flamewars are best fought anonymously. As kirk would say 'double dumbass to you!', and recognize an obvious joke when you see it next time.
Scroll up retard, there's a cut and paste earlier than yours. Maybe you should look before you leap next time.
Dumbass, someone beat you to your karma whoring.
Moderators, you know what to do.
One thing looked familiar to me:
" Client Server
1. SYN ->
2.
4. Request ->"
That's very similar to the working of the infamous underpants gnomes.
1. Collect underpants
2. ?
3. Profit!
I don't know what sucks worse, the fact that they don't have enough bandwidth to handle a minor slashdotting, or the fact that they don't have a linux client.
Looks like alot of people won't be cracking keys for these guys until next month.
Screw the Amiga, I just want to see it's fabled multimedia abstraction layer that's designed to run on any *nix or freebsd system. Remember when that was conceptualized, oh, a year or so ago?
And, of course by then, Nvidia's chip with similar or better abilities will destroy ATI yet again simply by having better drivers.
I really feel sorry for ATI and people that buy their products. They make good hardware but their drivers are always crap. Is it so hard to make good software to complement your hardware?
Merge the robot with the old Infocom parser and you get...
Soldier: Aggghh!! They're trying to kill us!
ICPR: Unknown word: aggghh!!
Soldier: Aghhhhhh!
ICPR: I don't understand Aghhhhhh!
Soldier: help!
ICPR: inv -inventory, look, verbose on/off...
Soldier: We must get out of here!
ICPR: Choices are N, S, W, E.
"If the computer says that your stress level is 10 percent above the norm for a battlefield soldier do you miss a promotion?"
/.'ers work. A good point though. :)
Only if the battlefield is your typical Office Space-style cubicle where most
I'd rather have one that monitors my health and screams "MEDIC!" if I get blasted. You may still be alive but be to shellshocked to scream for a medic.
Better yet, how about a spiderlike robot from Minority Report, equipped to cauterize wounds and inject painkillers, while signaling to the medical center (or robot sentry) that I'm hit and need to fall back? Everyone could carry one around in a single pocket and the little guy can spring into action when your health looks bad. A sharp drop in blood pressure is a sure sign of a big wound.
Wow that's really interesting. A computer that automatically releases chemicals when you're in pain?
The interesting part is that everyone already has one. If you hadn't slept through your science classes, you'd know that your brain takes care of stuff like this by itself. If you're in pain, your brain cues the endorphins to ease it. If you have a cold, your immune system gets boosted. If you're in danger, and you know it, your adrenal gland gets stimulated and you get extra power and speed. It doesn't take a battery powered device to accomplish what nature already has.
At any rate, the sleepiness thing would be nice, but hasn't the government issued amphetamines to the military in the past? I know the Germans kinda pioneered that in WW2 and we thought it was a swell idea. Also lots of snipers are rumored to take medication normally given to Parkinson's patients to calm their jitters (which equals a clean shot).
Silly doormat, insecurity isn't the USER'S fault with Windows. That only applies to linux/bsd.
I know what you mean about the total lack of customer service from Sony. I bought a PS2 a few months after it was released. Sony had a 7% failure rate of the DVD read laser. I got one of those 7%. I lost my receipt. The morons at Electronic Boutique in Frisco, TX couldn't find it there either (even though I used a credit card specifically to leave a paper trail, just in case). A week after the *ridiculously short* 90 day warranty was up, EB called and said they finally found the receipt. Too little, too late.
While the PS2 was still in warranty, Sony's brilliant tech support suggested that my DVD remote control wasn't a licensed Sony product and therefore voided my warranty. WTF?! Can anyone tell me how a DVD remote can break a DVD read laser?
My choices, after all the weeks of hassle, was to ship it or drop it off at a Sony repair site. The bill would be $120 at the very least. No warranty repair. After paying $300 plus a memory card for it 3 months earlier, and getting treated like shit from Sony, I wasn't about to lose more money to those fools.
I took it to the local pawnshop with some PS1 games (they don't require the dvd read lens, only the regular cd-reading lens) and got $150 for it, cold hard cash. Good riddance, PS2. Fuck you, Sony. You just lost what was once a lifelong customer.
Try this little experiment.
1. Install a fresh version of win2k on some machine you own.
2. Plug it into your cable/dsl/t1 connection.
3. Watch the magic.
By the time it hits Microsoft and starts downloading updates, you'll be owned. There are so many infected win2k server farms with dead/missing admins that are spewing nimda and other virii over the net constantly. A typical win2k fresh install, connected to the internet, will get owned in 20 minutes flat. I kid you not.
So if you're savvy enough you can cache all the updates locally and apply them *before* you connect to the internet. Doing otherwise is taking your boxes' life into your own hands.
...and to add to your misery, that driver was only available months after XP was originally released and isn't easy to find. My brother had the same problem with his XP install on an Abit BE6-2. For some mysterious reason the HPT-37x is supported but not the 370 itself.
Same thing here. I upgraded my dual boot system with a new motherboard/chip, and XP refused to boot. It didn't even bother to tell me why, just flashes a bluescreen for about 4ns and then reboots the machine.
Mandrake, OTOH, didn't really care. It runs a probe at boot which solves any potential problems before they occur. Kudzu is a good service (thank you Redhat). I just had to say 'ok' to the new stuff it found, it loaded the kernel modules, and everything works.
XP is definitely not designed for upgrades.
Actually, I rather like not having AOL users running linux.
more advanced phone == more software == more bugs
Actually the equation is:
more advanced phone == more software + poor choice of OS manufacturer == more bugs.