Whow. I would kill for a laptop and 133Mhz is more than enough.I used to have a 25Mhz monochrome which worked fine until the disk controller died... Are you serious about selling it for 50? I'd buy two of those! The shipping would kill me though, I live in Portugal. I'm sorry for the off topic. Please dont mod me down, I have very little karma:(
The later versions of MS-DOS came with MSAV, and Windows 3.x came with MWAV. MSAV - MicroSoft AntiVirus MWAV Microsoft Windows AntiVirus
Thing is, they sucked, and I had no idea where to get updates, or even if they were updatable at all, whereas I had a fresh evaluation floppy of McAffee every month for free! I have no idea why they canned their anti-virus.It would be very useful to most windows lusers to have an anti-virus installed by default on their boxen. It would sure save me a lot of trouble... and probably put a stop to the ever-growing email worm epidemic.Just have it auto-update itself like the rest of XP and you're home free.
I cant for the life of me imagine what kind of twisted legal logic allows some idiotic capitalist to have a program in my computer that changes everything he wants about my browser, and can still condemn the common burglar that comes through an open window and turns my house upside down, looking for something valuable. Bloody incoherent, if you ask me. The state of the modern world disgusts me to the hilt.
This is all part of his plan, dont you get it?
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After all the obvious jokes, he is now giving us a false sense of security... so that when he posts the real killer we all fall for it!
I can't believe no one's mentioned this before. There is a great, free win32 C compiler with all the win32 libs and a few extras of its own, called LCC. It comes with an IDE that includes advanced debugging features and it's pretty easy to use. The page: www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant or something, but... Isn't taking a boatload of money in exchange for making a law basically corruption?
You may call it "campaign contributions" but it's fairly obvious to anyone what the real purpose of the money is. Hell I wouldnt be surprised if the (RI/MP)AA was writing up the laws and having Hollings just sign on the dotted line.
If it's so bloody obvious that the guy is "bought" why on earth is no one raising an awful ruckus about it? Well shit if the guy was getting a BJ from some intern (which doesnt hurt anyone) all hell would break loose, but since he is "just" getting money from Big Business in order to make a law for them, I guess it's all ok!?!?
I'm from Portugal and AFAIK there isn't anything like that here, if some politician was caught receiving money from a big company in exchange for trying to make a law that favours it, well it would be an enormous scandal!
Why isn't anyone arresting that Hollings idiot? What on earth are your laws like, that they permit your politicians to be so obviously and openly corrupt??
Because of the Almighty Buck's all-mighty interests.
If we could be free of cavities forever with just one whiff of a spray, then half the dentists out there would be out of business, and so would toothpaste/brush industries.
I would sure like a bit of that spray though.
I have a genetic condition that weakens my teeth somehow. My grandmother had mostly false teeth when she turned 20 and my mother has the same problem. I brush my teeth like 5 times a day and I keep getting cavities. Most of my teeth have already been drilled at least once and I'm only 22 years old:|
...would make a great dil^H^H^H adult toy!;))))
Ok, ok, I know, I'm a perv. Sorry:)
But if you think about it, this could revolutionize the whole industry, really. How much more realistic could a "toy" get than actual living pulsing flesh?
There's tons of lonely people out there, sick of plastic, glass and cold metal, yearning for the real thing. We should not look down at such devices, they provide a valuable service to the "beauty-deprived" who nevertheless should be able to experience a realistic sexual experience.
Remember your Maslow pyramid: Sex is a basic human need (and right), placed on the same level as eating, drinking and using the WC.
I have been thinking for a long time, that life actualy has no value whatsoever. This just confirms my hypothesis.
Rack up a few dozen of these artificial wombs, inject some in-vitro-fertilized eggs into each, and you got yourself a baby factory.
This effectively turns humans into objects.
Mass-produce them, China style, and a human will be a CHEAP object.
How long will it take until someone legalizes the destruction of these objects? Or human experiments? Or any of those other "special treatments" humans get when compared to other animals, plants or inanimate objects?
This could be the death of ethics. Just wait a few hundred years.
Next thing you know, we'll be getting our babies at the supermarket, right next to the onion rings and the potato chips.
This is SICK!
Can anyone say "Army of Clones"?
Put this together with cloning. Get some cells from Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Clone them to the hilt, raise them to be bloodthirsty.mil-bots.
Invade a country of your choice. Repeat until world is conquered.
Now all we need is some accelerated growth hormones for humans like they use in cattle and some vegetables too.
Oh my God, if Billy actually means what he says, what are we going to do now? We've always had a major advantage in security and stability with Linux. Our arguments have always been based on the fact that M$ windoze is a bloated hacker haven.
Linux and the open source movemnet will most certainly never die, but I would really like to see a day where mom, pop and granny all used Linux, most games and popular software ran natively on it, and windows was a weird "fringe" thing like Macs.
I honestly believed we could pull it off in 5 years, 10 tops. But with the full resources of a gigantic monopoly turned to focus on what has always been our strong point, dear lord, what are we going to do now???
Worse than that, what if ole Billy also decides to make it a lot faster? What if the deepest pockets in the world turn to actually making windows a decent OS?
No matter how illegal my computer uses are, no one has the right to put an explosive device in my computer. There are still courts in this country, and it is up to those to decide if I did something illegal or not. Besides...
What if some weird random crash triggers it?
What if my CPU overheating triggered it?
What if me messing around with my hardware triggered it?
It would make a very cool anti-theft device, though.If someone stole my laptop when I wasnt looking I would very much rather blow it up than let the thief re-sell it.
Of course such an explosive would have to be very mild and not hurt anyone. I wouldnt like to become a murderer. But if it packed some ink, like money bags, it would help find the thief.
Xanadu has definitely got to be the king of vapourware!
Four decades in the making, and still not ready:)
I guess it will never be, really. The original concept was way too wacky, even for modern times.
But three cheers to Ted Nelson for his advances in Hypertext systems! Many of his concepts are used on the internet nowadays. Modern version-control systems remind me of his "time-scrolling" idea, and although we dont need "visible" links we certainly would be better off having zero broken links. He even foresaw copyright problems in the digital age!
Personally, I think that the "meteor" explanation is more a "buzzword-of-the-moment" phenomenon than anything else. Everyone has been talking about meteor imapacts in the past few years and trying to relate them to just about everything.
Secondly, a two-mile crater causing the downfall of multiple civilisations? No way! Sure, it does affect a much wider range than just two miles, but a civilization is usually something relatively large... it would most definitely not have a significant effect on egyptian or israeli civs, thousands of miles away.
Games aren't built from the ground up for christ's sake.
Serious companies have their own in-house libraries which they extend and adapt to make their next game.
Think SCUMM and Lucas Arts for instance. There were *oodles* of adventure games made with it, and they all ruled!
Think of the Final Fantasy games. I love all of them, even though they are all very similar. The first five or six in the series must have shared a LOT of code, being almost photocopies of each other with updated graphics and slightly different gameplay. They were all basically a tile graphics engine plus some sort of scripting thing for the gameplay events etc.
Then they went 3D with FF7 and I can bet whatever you want that FF 8 and 9 reused one hell of a lot of code from 7.
People don't do anything from scratch these days.It would take *years* to develop the sort of libs companies have accumulated over time.
If someone tried to make a game from scratch, it would most certainly end up being bug-ridden, delayed, and much less than the cutting-edge stuff large companies put out with the latest in 3D and EAX-enhanced sound.
Start-ups just buy an old engine and try to make something interesting with it. And often fail.
Ummm why am I the only person literate enough to know that Square has decided to axe the FF series?
FF XI will be the last one, will be played online, subscription-based, and will have a "chapter" system that allows them to keep on feeding the masses with new stuff (i.e. more of the same, but with subtle palette changes in the monsters) every week or month or whatever.
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Whow. I would kill for a laptop and 133Mhz is more than enough.I used to have a 25Mhz monochrome which worked fine until the disk controller died... Are you serious about selling it for 50? I'd buy two of those! The shipping would kill me though, I live in Portugal. :(
I'm sorry for the off topic. Please dont mod me down, I have very little karma
The later versions of MS-DOS came with MSAV, and Windows 3.x came with MWAV.
MSAV - MicroSoft AntiVirus
MWAV Microsoft Windows AntiVirus
Thing is, they sucked, and I had no idea where to get updates, or even if they were updatable at all, whereas I had a fresh evaluation floppy of McAffee every month for free!
I have no idea why they canned their anti-virus.It would be very useful to most windows lusers to have an anti-virus installed by default on their boxen. It would sure save me a lot of trouble... and probably put a stop to the ever-growing email worm epidemic.Just have it auto-update itself like the rest of XP and you're home free.
Anyone tried it yet? How stable is it already?
I cant for the life of me imagine what kind of twisted legal logic allows some idiotic capitalist to have a program in my computer that changes everything he wants about my browser, and can still condemn the common burglar that comes through an open window and turns my house upside down, looking for something valuable.
Bloody incoherent, if you ask me. The state of the modern world disgusts me to the hilt.
After all the obvious jokes, he is now giving us a false sense of security... so that when he posts the real killer we all fall for it!
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I can't believe no one's mentioned this before.
There is a great, free win32 C compiler with all the win32 libs and a few extras of its own, called LCC.
It comes with an IDE that includes advanced debugging features and it's pretty easy to use.
The page:
www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant or something, but... Isn't taking a boatload of money in exchange for making a law basically corruption?
You may call it "campaign contributions" but it's fairly obvious to anyone what the real purpose of the money is. Hell I wouldnt be surprised if the (RI/MP)AA was writing up the laws and having Hollings just sign on the dotted line.
If it's so bloody obvious that the guy is "bought" why on earth is no one raising an awful ruckus about it? Well shit if the guy was getting a BJ from some intern (which doesnt hurt anyone) all hell would break loose, but since he is "just" getting money from Big Business in order to make a law for them, I guess it's all ok!?!?
I'm from Portugal and AFAIK there isn't anything like that here, if some politician was caught receiving money from a big company in exchange for trying to make a law that favours it, well it would be an enormous scandal!
Why isn't anyone arresting that Hollings idiot?
What on earth are your laws like, that they permit your politicians to be so obviously and openly corrupt??
Because of the Almighty Buck's all-mighty interests. :|
If we could be free of cavities forever with just one whiff of a spray, then half the dentists out there would be out of business, and so would toothpaste/brush industries.
I would sure like a bit of that spray though.
I have a genetic condition that weakens my teeth somehow. My grandmother had mostly false teeth when she turned 20 and my mother has the same problem. I brush my teeth like 5 times a day and I keep getting cavities. Most of my teeth have already been drilled at least once and I'm only 22 years old
...would make a great dil^H^H^H adult toy! ;))))
:)
Ok, ok, I know, I'm a perv. Sorry
But if you think about it, this could revolutionize the whole industry, really. How much more realistic could a "toy" get than actual living pulsing flesh?
There's tons of lonely people out there, sick of plastic, glass and cold metal, yearning for the real thing. We should not look down at such devices, they provide a valuable service to the "beauty-deprived" who nevertheless should be able to experience a realistic sexual experience.
Remember your Maslow pyramid: Sex is a basic human need (and right), placed on the same level as eating, drinking and using the WC.
I have been thinking for a long time, that life actualy has no value whatsoever. This just confirms my hypothesis.
.mil-bots.
Rack up a few dozen of these artificial wombs, inject some in-vitro-fertilized eggs into each, and you got yourself a baby factory.
This effectively turns humans into objects.
Mass-produce them, China style, and a human will be a CHEAP object.
How long will it take until someone legalizes the destruction of these objects? Or human experiments? Or any of those other "special treatments" humans get when compared to other animals, plants or inanimate objects?
This could be the death of ethics. Just wait a few hundred years.
Next thing you know, we'll be getting our babies at the supermarket, right next to the onion rings and the potato chips.
This is SICK!
Can anyone say "Army of Clones"?
Put this together with cloning. Get some cells from Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Clone them to the hilt, raise them to be bloodthirsty
Invade a country of your choice. Repeat until world is conquered.
Now all we need is some accelerated growth hormones for humans like they use in cattle and some vegetables too.
Oh my God, if Billy actually means what he says, what are we going to do now? We've always had a major advantage in security and stability with Linux. Our arguments have always been based on the fact that M$ windoze is a bloated hacker haven.
Linux and the open source movemnet will most certainly never die, but I would really like to see a day where mom, pop and granny all used Linux, most games and popular software ran natively on it, and windows was a weird "fringe" thing like Macs.
I honestly believed we could pull it off in 5 years, 10 tops. But with the full resources of a gigantic monopoly turned to focus on what has always been our strong point, dear lord, what are we going to do now???
Worse than that, what if ole Billy also decides to make it a lot faster? What if the deepest pockets in the world turn to actually making windows a decent OS?
No matter how illegal my computer uses are, no one has the right to put an explosive device in my computer. There are still courts in this country, and it is up to those to decide if I did something illegal or not. Besides...
What if some weird random crash triggers it?
What if my CPU overheating triggered it?
What if me messing around with my hardware triggered it?
It would make a very cool anti-theft device, though.If someone stole my laptop when I wasnt looking I would very much rather blow it up than let the thief re-sell it.
Of course such an explosive would have to be very mild and not hurt anyone. I wouldnt like to become a murderer. But if it packed some ink, like money bags, it would help find the thief.
Hi, we're the humans, look at all the cool scientifical data we got!
a/s/l?
Xanadu has definitely got to be the king of vapourware! Four decades in the making, and still not ready :)
I guess it will never be, really. The original concept was way too wacky, even for modern times. But three cheers to Ted Nelson for his advances in Hypertext systems! Many of his concepts are used on the internet nowadays. Modern version-control systems remind me of his "time-scrolling" idea, and although we dont need "visible" links we certainly would be better off having zero broken links. He even foresaw copyright problems in the digital age!
And next time we'll have an interview with someone who got his PPC to talk to a Geforce 3 :o)
Personally, I think that the "meteor" explanation is more a "buzzword-of-the-moment" phenomenon than anything else. Everyone has been talking about meteor imapacts in the past few years and trying to relate them to just about everything.
Secondly, a two-mile crater causing the downfall of multiple civilisations? No way! Sure, it does affect a much wider range than just two miles, but a civilization is usually something relatively large... it would most definitely not have a significant effect on egyptian or israeli civs, thousands of miles away.
Games aren't built from the ground up for christ's sake.
Serious companies have their own in-house libraries which they extend and adapt to make their next game.
Think SCUMM and Lucas Arts for instance. There were *oodles* of adventure games made with it, and they all ruled!
Think of the Final Fantasy games. I love all of them, even though they are all very similar. The first five or six in the series must have shared a LOT of code, being almost photocopies of each other with updated graphics and slightly different gameplay. They were all basically a tile graphics engine plus some sort of scripting thing for the gameplay events etc.
Then they went 3D with FF7 and I can bet whatever you want that FF 8 and 9 reused one hell of a lot of code from 7.
People don't do anything from scratch these days.It would take *years* to develop the sort of libs companies have accumulated over time.
If someone tried to make a game from scratch, it would most certainly end up being bug-ridden, delayed, and much less than the cutting-edge stuff large companies put out with the latest in 3D and EAX-enhanced sound.
Start-ups just buy an old engine and try to make something interesting with it. And often fail.
...is the sign of a misspent youth.
Ummm why am I the only person literate enough to know that Square has decided to axe the FF series? FF XI will be the last one, will be played online, subscription-based, and will have a "chapter" system that allows them to keep on feeding the masses with new stuff (i.e. more of the same, but with subtle palette changes in the monsters) every week or month or whatever.