I somehow doubt it since the Japanese version of FFX has been out for quite a while now. I'm sure there are subdle differences between the Japanese and Western PS2, but they can't be that great. From the hardcore people in the US who got their hands on FFX, I haven't heard anything bad about it as of yet.
seems to me 1 dimensional chips would have a huge advatage over conventional memeory in that... well, you could stick an infinate ammount side by side...
hmm..... this could be a whole new era in human destruction.
"Look it doesn't pollute!"
"Oops, now we screwed up the weather"
100 years down the road we find an alternate power source which doesn't pollute or screw up the weather, but changes the orbit of the moon. Dammit, we just can't win!
How about this? We take samplings of each eco-system, and put them on every other eco system, and see which ones destroy which eco system. If it gets out of control, that's okay - because we'll just bio-engineer giant mutant ants that can fly, which will wipe out only the bad stuff. And if that doesn't work, we'll make an army of intelligent android like machines to kill all offending life forms - and that's perfectly safe, because we can always hit the "off switch".
, but I wish that it was a little easier to leave a few little corners of ingenuity alone
I think in years to come we're going to look back on many different ideas which were very good but never made it. Why? Because they got swallowed up, the big company didn't know what to do with it, and eventually it became a casualty of a budget cut/lack of interest by the big corperation. It's sort of sad to think of how my internet experience a few years ago was defined by fairly innovative ideas that were doing pretty good, and now most of them have been taken over and either killed or corrupted beyond redemption. WBS really comes to mind as the only chat room I've ever been able to tolerate, and that was killed not so long ago (taken over by Infoseek alliance or whatever). Even slashdot itself might end up in this category eventually...
"Actually all you have to do is set the "run activex controls" setting to prompt or disable."
Probably disable. Disabling a annoying active X controls isn't all that effective when IE suddenly harasses you every time it sees an active X control. In fact I think IE still "warns" you about EVERY page with an active X control, not rendering correctly because Active X is disabled.
It seems to me that all this can backfire too. Remembering a name is one thing, but if I hate that name with a vengance after being repeatedly pissed off by an ad, that would probably not be what these advertisers want. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but there are more than a few products (which I couldn't even recall right now), that as soon as I see their name I think "I will NEVER buy their product", mainly because of some annoying crap like this
I'll agree that as a monopoly MS should have to play fair in the OS field (allowing competing products and such), but it strikes me as downright wrong to make MS develop Linux versions of a product.
Not that I think it would matter since Open/Star Office would own them in that area anyway, as most Linux users are not the sort of people that like to pay hundreds of dollars for a closed source which probably wouldn't work very well anyway. (remember MS doesn't have the advantage in controlling the system from the ground up).
wasn't the Z80 the first chip that got popular for overclocking? I recall reading somewhere that it became the posterchild for overclocking because you could set the clock from 8 to 10 Mhz for a lot cheaper than whatever intel had out.
Having formerly done tech support at a university, that could be a benifit. The place I was at was at constant war with people in the clusters who would game. Hard to game on a computer when, the computer doesn't support the game.
I still don't think this is very significant. Mars still doesn't have a sufficent AMMOUNT of atmosphere, which is probably needed to help keep the heat. Besides which, mars has a very eliptical orbit. It might be nice during the summer, but who would look foreward to over a year (earth time) of a winter that is FAR colder than any we've ever had on earth?
"Ok, so what was the first day like? Well, the servers were down for most of the day, when they were supposed to just be down for a night."
Well at least patch day has stayed the same!
I quit playing EQ a while ago, and I still don't have any regrets. And I really don't like the newer character models anyway. But what this is all missing is that the REAL heart of the problem are the fundamental rules of which EQ is based off of. And don't even get me started on how FUBAR the high end game is (level 50+) for most classes. Insane hardware requirements, Driver problems up the wazoo, and bad servers make this situation just that much worse. And what is with that patch client anyway? Hello Verant? Why can't I resume a download?
But then there are other rampant problems as well stemming from the players themselves (twinking, power leveling), which doesn't help either. But what is this? Verant has the ultimate surprise which will right all wrongs: cat people.
I mean WTF? Iksar were stretching it, but freaking CAT PEOPLE?!?
I'm going to die in about 50 years (give or take 10), if you're going to die in a couple trillion, I wouldn't be that depressed, but maybe you better live it up while you can.
Expand into nothing, compressed to a single point, eaten by a giant galactic space goat; it's all the same to me. I'd be more concerned about our sun burning out in a couple billion years myself....
oh? Well that's news to me. I've installed kmelion without Mozilla. I believe galeon also eventually resolved issues that allow them to package everything together
Mozilla ironclad? I think mozilla will be bullet proof, but more in the same way that jello is bullet proof. You can shoot at jello all you want but there really isn't a whole lot you can do to it.
because Mozilla is a FRAMEWORK. You make what you want out of it. A browser is simply a part of it. Other projects are already starting to use this framework, such as komodo (sp?). If you just want "a browser" you can use derivatives of Mozilla such as galeon and kmelion. It is open source you know
Many of these things ARE destructive, but they have a timebomb type payload. Due to crappy programming, these seem to fail the majority fo the time (bad random # generation init, etc)
even better is that it's immune to graphic porn spam; exempting ascii renditions. Other than viewing Slashdot at -1, I've never actually seen ascii porn.
Scripting is okay, but just remember to open up a command prompt. People actually think your some sort of genius when you open a command prompt. Type some stuff like 'dir C:' and such.
I heard somewhere that the PS3 would be using linux as a platform. Of course all that would be hidden away I imagine. Then again I might be misinformed, but it's an interesting idea.
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noting that faster processors make up for sloppy programming, there are also other needs as well. "Back in the day" you had components that to some extent ran themselves. Nowdays many of these components (modem, on-board sound, etc) freeload off the processor in order to reduce costs. Many benifits you don't even think about until you actually see them. Encoding an album of mp3`s on my 133Mhz computer used to take well over two hours. On my 1.4Ghz Athlon I can encode an album on OggVorbis in something like 8 minutes.
Granted that people talk about how combustion engines waste heat, but no one ever seems to adress how that very heat is neccesary for many parts of the world. I suppose with vehicles, electic cars are a good idea for those in cities that mainly would just need to drive across town, but lets face it; many people use vehicles like an SUV just to drive across town.
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I somehow doubt it since the Japanese version of FFX has been out for quite a while now. I'm sure there are subdle differences between the Japanese and Western PS2, but they can't be that great. From the hardcore people in the US who got their hands on FFX, I haven't heard anything bad about it as of yet.
seems to me 1 dimensional chips would have a huge advatage over conventional memeory in that... well, you could stick an infinate ammount side by side...
hmm..... this could be a whole new era in human destruction.
"Look it doesn't pollute!"
"Oops, now we screwed up the weather"
100 years down the road we find an alternate power source which doesn't pollute or screw up the weather, but changes the orbit of the moon. Dammit, we just can't win!
How about this? We take samplings of each eco-system, and put them on every other eco system, and see which ones destroy which eco system. If it gets out of control, that's okay - because we'll just bio-engineer giant mutant ants that can fly, which will wipe out only the bad stuff. And if that doesn't work, we'll make an army of intelligent android like machines to kill all offending life forms - and that's perfectly safe, because we can always hit the "off switch".
, but I wish that it was a little easier to leave a few little corners of ingenuity alone
I think in years to come we're going to look back on many different ideas which were very good but never made it. Why? Because they got swallowed up, the big company didn't know what to do with it, and eventually it became a casualty of a budget cut/lack of interest by the big corperation. It's sort of sad to think of how my internet experience a few years ago was defined by fairly innovative ideas that were doing pretty good, and now most of them have been taken over and either killed or corrupted beyond redemption. WBS really comes to mind as the only chat room I've ever been able to tolerate, and that was killed not so long ago (taken over by Infoseek alliance or whatever). Even slashdot itself might end up in this category eventually...
"Actually all you have to do is set the "run activex controls" setting to prompt or disable."
Probably disable. Disabling a annoying active X controls isn't all that effective when IE suddenly harasses you every time it sees an active X control. In fact I think IE still "warns" you about EVERY page with an active X control, not rendering correctly because Active X is disabled.
If there really is a technology like that in 2025, I'll actually wait in line for a Play Station 5.
It seems to me that all this can backfire too. Remembering a name is one thing, but if I hate that name with a vengance after being repeatedly pissed off by an ad, that would probably not be what these advertisers want. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but there are more than a few products (which I couldn't even recall right now), that as soon as I see their name I think "I will NEVER buy their product", mainly because of some annoying crap like this
I'll agree that as a monopoly MS should have to play fair in the OS field (allowing competing products and such), but it strikes me as downright wrong to make MS develop Linux versions of a product.
Not that I think it would matter since Open/Star Office would own them in that area anyway, as most Linux users are not the sort of people that like to pay hundreds of dollars for a closed source which probably wouldn't work very well anyway. (remember MS doesn't have the advantage in controlling the system from the ground up).
wasn't the Z80 the first chip that got popular for overclocking? I recall reading somewhere that it became the posterchild for overclocking because you could set the clock from 8 to 10 Mhz for a lot cheaper than whatever intel had out.
Really? I musta been ripped off, because I start cussing up a storm during every reboot. I want my money back... er, wait. It came with the computer.
Having formerly done tech support at a university, that could be a benifit. The place I was at was at constant war with people in the clusters who would game. Hard to game on a computer when, the computer doesn't support the game.
I still don't think this is very significant. Mars still doesn't have a sufficent AMMOUNT of atmosphere, which is probably needed to help keep the heat. Besides which, mars has a very eliptical orbit. It might be nice during the summer, but who would look foreward to over a year (earth time) of a winter that is FAR colder than any we've ever had on earth?
"Ok, so what was the first day like? Well, the servers were down for most of the day, when they were supposed to just be down for a night."
Well at least patch day has stayed the same!
I quit playing EQ a while ago, and I still don't have any regrets. And I really don't like the newer character models anyway. But what this is all missing is that the REAL heart of the problem are the fundamental rules of which EQ is based off of. And don't even get me started on how FUBAR the high end game is (level 50+) for most classes. Insane hardware requirements, Driver problems up the wazoo, and bad servers make this situation just that much worse. And what is with that patch client anyway? Hello Verant? Why can't I resume a download?
But then there are other rampant problems as well stemming from the players themselves (twinking, power leveling), which doesn't help either. But what is this? Verant has the ultimate surprise which will right all wrongs: cat people.
I mean WTF? Iksar were stretching it, but freaking CAT PEOPLE?!?
"we're all gonna die"
I'm going to die in about 50 years (give or take 10), if you're going to die in a couple trillion, I wouldn't be that depressed, but maybe you better live it up while you can.
Expand into nothing, compressed to a single point, eaten by a giant galactic space goat; it's all the same to me. I'd be more concerned about our sun burning out in a couple billion years myself....
oh? Well that's news to me. I've installed kmelion without Mozilla. I believe galeon also eventually resolved issues that allow them to package everything together
Mozilla ironclad? I think mozilla will be bullet proof, but more in the same way that jello is bullet proof. You can shoot at jello all you want but there really isn't a whole lot you can do to it.
because Mozilla is a FRAMEWORK. You make what you want out of it. A browser is simply a part of it. Other projects are already starting to use this framework, such as komodo (sp?). If you just want "a browser" you can use derivatives of Mozilla such as galeon and kmelion. It is open source you know
Many of these things ARE destructive, but they have a timebomb type payload. Due to crappy programming, these seem to fail the majority fo the time (bad random # generation init, etc)
even better is that it's immune to graphic porn spam; exempting ascii renditions. Other than viewing Slashdot at -1, I've never actually seen ascii porn.
Try Miranda . I'd guess it isn't directly exploitable by this worm, and it doesn't suck (unlike modern incarnations of ICQ...)
Scripting is okay, but just remember to open up a command prompt. People actually think your some sort of genius when you open a command prompt. Type some stuff like 'dir C:' and such.
I heard somewhere that the PS3 would be using linux as a platform. Of course all that would be hidden away I imagine. Then again I might be misinformed, but it's an interesting idea.
noting that faster processors make up for sloppy programming, there are also other needs as well. "Back in the day" you had components that to some extent ran themselves. Nowdays many of these components (modem, on-board sound, etc) freeload off the processor in order to reduce costs. Many benifits you don't even think about until you actually see them. Encoding an album of mp3`s on my 133Mhz computer used to take well over two hours. On my 1.4Ghz Athlon I can encode an album on OggVorbis in something like 8 minutes.
Actually yeah, that's what I was talking about :)
Granted that people talk about how combustion engines waste heat, but no one ever seems to adress how that very heat is neccesary for many parts of the world. I suppose with vehicles, electic cars are a good idea for those in cities that mainly would just need to drive across town, but lets face it; many people use vehicles like an SUV just to drive across town.