You stop going to the theater to see obviously mediocre/generic films like this one and, moreover, you get a lot more critical of mediocre/generic films you do happen to make the mistake of seeing - you only get so many baby-sitting days....
What that page says is that there was a security hole in the listed browsers, but all those browsers fixed it. Mozilla's developers did so within 24 hours. So, what was your point again?
Not that ID is alone, but please, just how many versions of Wolfenstein 3D do we need? Let's see, offhand, I've played that, Quake 1 and 2, Marathon 1, 2 & 3, and various other modest variations on the same old theme. Networked. Non-networked (when available.)
The only unique game out there right now is Ambrosia's Pop-Pop (in Vs. mode anyway), which isn't to say that it doesn't borrow from the past (indeed from Arcanoid, Bust-A-Move, ShufflePuck and even Street Fighter), but it does so in a unique way and doesn't duplicate the same crap that has already been beaten to death ten times over by everyone else and their sister. That and it's damn fun and you can play a match in 10 minutes or less (or more, whatever you want).
External HDs? There are lots of external firewire HDs. I have one sitting on my desk. It even has a pretty blue light. Works peachy. I also have a portable firewire CD-RW drive. Not as pretty, but works keen and requires no separate power cord - gets all the power it needs from the firewire cable. Nice. One of these days (when I actually have money) I'm going to get an iPod which has, of course, a firewire connection. I would gladly give up one of the USB ports on my Powerbook in favor of another firewire port.
I recently installed a copy of Yellow Dog Linux on an iBook. I'll skip all the boring and gratuitous details about getting the installation to work. YDL includes KDE as well as Gnome and lots of goodies. This was my first experience with the much vaunted KDE (3.0.1) and was one of the main reasons I installed YDL (the main main being that I use Gimp, which is the number one reason to use X Windows in any form.) I now appreciate Microsoft Windows more. Mind you, I don't like Windows at all, indeed I hate it. It is somewhat hard to believe that KDE could be the rallying cry of legions of Linux fans. KDE is painfully unrefined, hokey and klunky. My experiment with Linux lasted all of 3 days. I'm back to using Mac OS X with XDarwin along side it in order to run Gimp, a much better solution anyway. Why I would want to run Linux instead I have absolutely no idea and similarly, I can't imagine a Windows user wanting to run Linux either, other than to run Gimp on occasion. Linux needs something a whole hell of a lot better than KDE before it makes any real headway among anyone other than system-administrators-with-a-high-tolerance-for-me diocrity.
The good ol' WP made a nice little article featuring one of our leagues, but failed to provide even a lowly link to our web site. We currently have leagues in Maryland and Virginia, including the one noted in the article.
Moreover, my experimentation with Ogg did not exactly produce stellar results. In fact the stuff I tried sounded (to my ears) worse in Ogg than it did in MP3, at roughly the same file size. Noticeably so. Add to that the greater processing power needed and I just don't get Ogg.
Given that all forms of high-speed internet access are already too expensive, unless their plan is to drop the price for low-bandwitch users very significantly from the current rates, then all such a plan will do is send people searching for cable-modem alternatives and certainly won't recruit new subscribers. Who is going to pay $50+ a month for limited access?
If you have 15 different systems you have to log in to and you are forced to change them frequently, two things result:
1. You (at least try) to use the same password on all of them.
2. When you are forced to change your password you will do so only in the most trivial of ways, typically by incrementing a digit by 1. For example, flim7flam will become flim8flam, then flim9flam, etc.
The reason you end up doing this is as otherwise it is impossible to keep track of them all. Security would be improved by *stopping* the insidious practice of forced password changing. Continue to enforce password selection rules, such as having both letters and digits or symbols as well as educate people on how to pick good passwords, but please stop making me change my 15 f-ing passwords!
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If you were within shouting range of an Apple store, they were giving away a version of it without development tools for free.
Actually, you could also get the free 10.1 update CDs from authorized apple resellers, not just the Apple-owned retail stores. I got mine at CompUSA, for example.
10.2 does not have those graphics card requirements, only Quartz Extreme does. Yes, you will be able to install and take advantage of everything else in Jaguar (which may or may not be called 10.2.)
They sent me a free "mach 3" razor in the mail. I wouldn't mind it if Epson sent me a free printer in the mail. Unlike the razor, though, I wouldn't use it - I'd sell it on ebay as ***NEW***. That would help pay for the blades.
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You stop going to the theater to see obviously mediocre/generic films like this one and, moreover, you get a lot more critical of mediocre/generic films you do happen to make the mistake of seeing - you only get so many baby-sitting days....
Just how small does your 640 KB of RAM need to be?
"some people actually mistook the 128 kBit/sec Ogg samples for the uncoded version"
I challenge you to not find some people who think even a taped copy of a CD is indistinguishable from the original.
What that page says is that there was a security hole in the listed browsers, but all those browsers fixed it. Mozilla's developers did so within 24 hours. So, what was your point again?
n/t
Not that ID is alone, but please, just how many versions of Wolfenstein 3D do we need? Let's see, offhand, I've played that, Quake 1 and 2, Marathon 1, 2 & 3, and various other modest variations on the same old theme. Networked. Non-networked (when available.)
The only unique game out there right now is Ambrosia's Pop-Pop (in Vs. mode anyway), which isn't to say that it doesn't borrow from the past (indeed from Arcanoid, Bust-A-Move, ShufflePuck and even Street Fighter), but it does so in a unique way and doesn't duplicate the same crap that has already been beaten to death ten times over by everyone else and their sister. That and it's damn fun and you can play a match in 10 minutes or less (or more, whatever you want).
Ours goes up to 65-bits
External HDs? There are lots of external firewire HDs. I have one sitting on my desk. It even has a pretty blue light. Works peachy. I also have a portable firewire CD-RW drive. Not as pretty, but works keen and requires no separate power cord - gets all the power it needs from the firewire cable. Nice. One of these days (when I actually have money) I'm going to get an iPod which has, of course, a firewire connection. I would gladly give up one of the USB ports on my Powerbook in favor of another firewire port.
I recently installed a copy of Yellow Dog Linux on an iBook. I'll skip all the boring and gratuitous details about getting the installation to work. YDL includes KDE as well as Gnome and lots of goodies. This was my first experience with the much vaunted KDE (3.0.1) and was one of the main reasons I installed YDL (the main main being that I use Gimp, which is the number one reason to use X Windows in any form.) I now appreciate Microsoft Windows more. Mind you, I don't like Windows at all, indeed I hate it. It is somewhat hard to believe that KDE could be the rallying cry of legions of Linux fans. KDE is painfully unrefined, hokey and klunky. My experiment with Linux lasted all of 3 days. I'm back to using Mac OS X with XDarwin along side it in order to run Gimp, a much better solution anyway. Why I would want to run Linux instead I have absolutely no idea and similarly, I can't imagine a Windows user wanting to run Linux either, other than to run Gimp on occasion. Linux needs something a whole hell of a lot better than KDE before it makes any real headway among anyone other than system-administrators-with-a-high-tolerance-for-me diocrity.
... they would have found that 73% prefer to have pop-up ads without AoL.
The good ol' WP made a nice little article featuring one of our leagues, but failed to provide even a lowly link to our web site. We currently have leagues in Maryland and Virginia, including the one noted in the article.
It just sounds way too complicated. What does cost factorization have to do with cute little bears anyway?
...and they've been doing it for years: put utter crap on the air.
As can be seen.
Her talent died in 1994.
Step 1: Call K-Mart. Order Linux PC
Step 1: Place Linux PC on top of Xbox
Step 2: Turn it on
Moreover, my experimentation with Ogg did not exactly produce stellar results. In fact the stuff I tried sounded (to my ears) worse in Ogg than it did in MP3, at roughly the same file size. Noticeably so. Add to that the greater processing power needed and I just don't get Ogg.
boy-man.meetup.com
Given that all forms of high-speed internet access are already too expensive, unless their plan is to drop the price for low-bandwitch users very significantly from the current rates, then all such a plan will do is send people searching for cable-modem alternatives and certainly won't recruit new subscribers. Who is going to pay $50+ a month for limited access?
That is why both are wildly successful
If you have 15 different systems you have to log in to and you are forced to change them frequently, two things result:
1. You (at least try) to use the same password on all of them.
2. When you are forced to change your password you will do so only in the most trivial of ways, typically by incrementing a digit by 1. For example, flim7flam will become flim8flam, then flim9flam, etc.
The reason you end up doing this is as otherwise it is impossible to keep track of them all. Security would be improved by *stopping* the insidious practice of forced password changing. Continue to enforce password selection rules, such as having both letters and digits or symbols as well as educate people on how to pick good passwords, but please stop making me change my 15 f-ing passwords!
n/t
Actually, you could also get the free 10.1 update CDs from authorized apple resellers, not just the Apple-owned retail stores. I got mine at CompUSA, for example.
10.2 does not have those graphics card requirements, only Quartz Extreme does. Yes, you will be able to install and take advantage of everything else in Jaguar (which may or may not be called 10.2.)
They sent me a free "mach 3" razor in the mail. I wouldn't mind it if Epson sent me a free printer in the mail. Unlike the razor, though, I wouldn't use it - I'd sell it on ebay as ***NEW***. That would help pay for the blades.