Hmm, I don't know if even Bicycles would count. They seem to help produce increased levels of CO2 and increase the saline content of the local groundwater.
Damn, I thought the labs in my school were crowded, the ones you have here are working at 105%!
Most of the unix machines at my school were actually PCs running FreeBSD or Linux, which have the advanatage of being very cheap to put in the lab. The other Unix machines were DEC Alphas, but they were old, slow, and crusty.
Still, this is about using the right tool for the job. TeX isn't a particulary good choice for those CS students writing small papers for the Philosophy course, and VC++ is still pretty expensive in the bookstore, and it's hard to get a VC++ project to compile under GCC (incompatable makefiles for one), which may cost you your grade when the TA can't get your program to compile on his Linux box to grade it.
The problem is finding it. Most bands are unbelievably obscure, and their material is not easy to find. Worse, when you find some material you have to research it a lot to discover if it's truely free or if you will become an evildoer pirate by downloading it (this is frequently not clear, sometimes the bands don't even realize that they aren't allowed to put their music online because they didn't read that contract they signed 5 years ago that's doing nothing for them).
Unless you like Gregorian Chants don't expect much must to enter the public domain for a long long time. Your local lobbyist will make sure of that.
IEEE1394 (AKA Firewire) is completely different from USB (and USB2). It comes standard on Macs and many other workstation type machines. USB is a different standard originally designed for low data rate peripherals (like keyboards, mice, and other such devices) by Intel. USB2 is a successor to USB that mostly just ups the bitrate to around IEEE1394 speeds.
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I can't imagine too many people were buying Macs because the iPod software was only written for the Mac; however I can see the huge numbers of Windows users who would love to get the iPod. With this software Apple wins two ways:
1. Windows people start buying the iPod, which increases the sales.
2. Apple doesn't have to support the moving target that is Windows, instead this other company can deal with all of the support headaches while Apple makes money hand over fist.
I'm having trouble seeing why Apple just didn't outsource this eariler, unless Jobs is trying to make the Windows users feel like the Mac users have for so many years with the "That looks really cool, too bad it's for the platform I don't run." envy.
No. Local calls (and even "Extended area" calls) are not itimized on the bill. You just get a flat rate bill at the end of each month plus any long distance (which IS itemized, and charged by the minute).
Note that Extended area is very annoying, it shows up as a per-minute charge (albiet a very small one, 2-4 cents a minute) with no itemization. It's pretty much impossible to dispute charges on the extended area portion of your bill (I used to call an ISP that the phone company couldn't decide if it was in my area or not, sometimes I got charged extended area, other times I didn't.)
Note: If your drives are running fantastically hot, then you need to activly cool them. In my experiance HDs are the most heat senstive component in an average computer, and if you let them overheat constantly they will die on you very very quickly. I've suspected for awhile that a lot of the problems with these IBMs comes from people jamming them in their crappy $15 case with no airflow and letting them cook themselves. I also suspect the 75XPs are a bit more prone to this than other drives, due to either higher operating temperature or overly heat senstive compoenents.
This theory would also explain why some people's drives keep on dying on them while other people never have a problem. It might be interesting if there is a higher failure rate in the summer, or down south. Unfortunatly IBM has been very disappointingly tight lipped about the entire affair. I actually switched away from them when I built my new storage machine (650GB of usable storage on RAID5 with IDE...yes I'm nuts), because I didn't trust the IBM drives (even though I spent a lot of time working out the cooling system for all of those drives).
I did take a look at it once, though. Sweet machine(s):-) And you can't help but be impressed when you learn that it took 4.5 TONS of cabling to wire that puppy!
That's less impressive if you've every worked with cabling those high end systems. 4.5 tons of Craylink would only be like 100 feet (at least when you have to carry it around all day.:)
It's not quite that bad, but when you have 500 conductor cables the weight does add up quick.
Frequently the ability to play the game online, especially with Blizzard titles.
Caveat: I've been out of the Warez scene for quite a while now, so I don't know if this problem has been fixed yet (with Keygens or some other means). These days I buy very little software (the last thing I bought was from Loki) because almost everything I want to run is free. I'd say free software has takine a bit of wind out of the sails of the Warez community.
If you look around, you can often times find electronics like digital cameras that use standard sized (AA) batteries. In fact most mid range digital cameras seem to opt for the AA route, it's only the exceptionally fancy ones like the Sony Elph series that use custom batteries. The best part about getting one that uses AAs is that the rechargeable AA batteries (like the Rayovac NiMH batteires) have come down in price recently and really do last a long time. Finally, if you get something that uses AAs and you forget your charger on vacation somewhere, you can buy standard Alkaline batteries to hold you over until you can recharge the NiMHs.
No kidding. Have you priced laptop batteries yet? Most of them seem to run about $100US these days. In some cases that's 15% of the entire cost of the laptop!
To me this sounds a lot like SVHS, superior technology that only the professionals buy because they're the only ones with the equiptment to use it (these new DVDs aren't going to look significantly better on a standard consumer TV). Worse, because only professionals use it the companies have to price it at professional rates, virtually guarenteeing that the average consumer never even sees it. When was the last time you saw an SVHS player at Walmart? How many people even have S Video jacks on their TV? Most of the people I know still hook up their TV through the Coax because that's the only input their TV has.
I remember those days. Those were the days when the phone company assumed that anybody who wanted an ISDN line was a business. I remember pricing schemes like: 56k (full duplex though): $250/month + 2 cents a megabyte + 10 cents a minute. I don't know if anybody ever actually bought that, but it seemed like a complete ripoff to me. The scary part was, they actually offered more expensive options (dual line ISDN).
I'm pretty sure they really wanted you to buy the T1 for $4500/month. Even these days with DSL and Cablemodem everywhere they still want $1500/month for a T1 and have completly forgotten about ISDN again.
Mplayer already does pretty much everything Windows Media Player can do, and it's native to Linux. The Quicktime support mentioned in the writeup is a red herring, Windows Media Player (IIRC) still does not support Sorenson Quicktimes, making it no better than xanim at playing modern.mov files.
Isn't that monopoly behavior? In the free market things that are cheaper to manufacture and more popular are supposed to go down in price. Granted the record companies don't have to play by the rules because they have a limited monopoly (only 70 years and counting so far), on the content.
I think Command and Conquor would be the first Mainstream game where the sides weren't mirror images of each other. Starcraft was the first game to get it right with 3 races though, which was mindblowing at the time, especially since the races _are_ so different.
I would just accuse you of being dumb actually, and your opponent was even dumber. I reserve the word "cheating" for people who actually hack the client or the protocol and give themselves an unfair adavantage. Like the old "high lag multiple refund bug" lots of RTSes suffered from (and some still do).
That's a bit much though. If you aren't some world class Quake player, having some bot using lamer always shoot you with the railgun the first time your model's clipping plane is in sight (then calling you a "fag") just isn't very fun.
Yes, I nominate the Anonymous coward above to fly down to africa and start executing all of the "excess population". We wouldn't want to infringe on mother nature's turf now.
If you're playing on Joe-Bob's l33t server (and you even understand how, since it involves a bit of registry hacking!), then you should not be surprised if it's hacked. Generally people play on their own bnetd servers because they're behind a firewall that blocks access to Battle.net (becoming more and more frequent these days) on a LAN party, or because they have some hack they want to try. I can't imagine people smart enough to find a server and then hack the registry would then complain that it's not as well maintained to Blizzard. That just goes beyond all sane logic. Besides, the misfits hang out on Battle.net, not the private servers.
Although the strange thing is, I can't figure out why they're doing this. It just doesn't make much sense. Maybe someone with a bug up their butt sent an anonymous email to the legal department saying that this bnetd thing was hacking their product and they just fired off the standard form letter to these guys.
s that they do not know your true intentions. They saw what was being imported, and thought some 1337 h4x0r was going to use it to copy Dreamcast software.
This has to be a troll. Are you suggeting they should disallow import of anything that could be used to break the law? Like Pencils that can be used to stab people?
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Ah, young grasshopper. You have forgotten the tao of timezones. You must now walk all the way around the earth to become enligtened.
Or more often: Guido is the only game in town, in fact Guido squealed on all his competitors already to insure that there will never be any competition.
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Hmm, I don't know if even Bicycles would count. They seem to help produce increased levels of CO2 and increase the saline content of the local groundwater.
Damn, I thought the labs in my school were crowded, the ones you have here are working at 105%!
Most of the unix machines at my school were actually PCs running FreeBSD or Linux, which have the advanatage of being very cheap to put in the lab. The other Unix machines were DEC Alphas, but they were old, slow, and crusty.
Still, this is about using the right tool for the job. TeX isn't a particulary good choice for those CS students writing small papers for the Philosophy course, and VC++ is still pretty expensive in the bookstore, and it's hard to get a VC++ project to compile under GCC (incompatable makefiles for one), which may cost you your grade when the TA can't get your program to compile on his Linux box to grade it.
The problem is finding it. Most bands are unbelievably obscure, and their material is not easy to find. Worse, when you find some material you have to research it a lot to discover if it's truely free or if you will become an evildoer pirate by downloading it (this is frequently not clear, sometimes the bands don't even realize that they aren't allowed to put their music online because they didn't read that contract they signed 5 years ago that's doing nothing for them).
Unless you like Gregorian Chants don't expect much must to enter the public domain for a long long time. Your local lobbyist will make sure of that.
Um, that's pretty much entirely wrong.
IEEE1394 (AKA Firewire) is completely different from USB (and USB2). It comes standard on Macs and many other workstation type machines. USB is a different standard originally designed for low data rate peripherals (like keyboards, mice, and other such devices) by Intel. USB2 is a successor to USB that mostly just ups the bitrate to around IEEE1394 speeds.
I can't imagine too many people were buying Macs because the iPod software was only written for the Mac; however I can see the huge numbers of Windows users who would love to get the iPod. With this software Apple wins two ways:
1. Windows people start buying the iPod, which increases the sales.
2. Apple doesn't have to support the moving target that is Windows, instead this other company can deal with all of the support headaches while Apple makes money hand over fist.
I'm having trouble seeing why Apple just didn't outsource this eariler, unless Jobs is trying to make the Windows users feel like the Mac users have for so many years with the "That looks really cool, too bad it's for the platform I don't run." envy.
No. Local calls (and even "Extended area" calls) are not itimized on the bill. You just get a flat rate bill at the end of each month plus any long distance (which IS itemized, and charged by the minute).
Note that Extended area is very annoying, it shows up as a per-minute charge (albiet a very small one, 2-4 cents a minute) with no itemization. It's pretty much impossible to dispute charges on the extended area portion of your bill (I used to call an ISP that the phone company couldn't decide if it was in my area or not, sometimes I got charged extended area, other times I didn't.)
Don't forget Maelstrom, which believe it or not is still around and available for Linux.
Note: If your drives are running fantastically hot, then you need to activly cool them. In my experiance HDs are the most heat senstive component in an average computer, and if you let them overheat constantly they will die on you very very quickly. I've suspected for awhile that a lot of the problems with these IBMs comes from people jamming them in their crappy $15 case with no airflow and letting them cook themselves. I also suspect the 75XPs are a bit more prone to this than other drives, due to either higher operating temperature or overly heat senstive compoenents.
This theory would also explain why some people's drives keep on dying on them while other people never have a problem. It might be interesting if there is a higher failure rate in the summer, or down south. Unfortunatly IBM has been very disappointingly tight lipped about the entire affair. I actually switched away from them when I built my new storage machine (650GB of usable storage on RAID5 with IDE...yes I'm nuts), because I didn't trust the IBM drives (even though I spent a lot of time working out the cooling system for all of those drives).
That's less impressive if you've every worked with cabling those high end systems. 4.5 tons of Craylink would only be like 100 feet (at least when you have to carry it around all day.
It's not quite that bad, but when you have 500 conductor cables the weight does add up quick.
Frequently the ability to play the game online, especially with Blizzard titles.
Caveat: I've been out of the Warez scene for quite a while now, so I don't know if this problem has been fixed yet (with Keygens or some other means). These days I buy very little software (the last thing I bought was from Loki) because almost everything I want to run is free. I'd say free software has takine a bit of wind out of the sails of the Warez community.
If you look around, you can often times find electronics like digital cameras that use standard sized (AA) batteries. In fact most mid range digital cameras seem to opt for the AA route, it's only the exceptionally fancy ones like the Sony Elph series that use custom batteries. The best part about getting one that uses AAs is that the rechargeable AA batteries (like the Rayovac NiMH batteires) have come down in price recently and really do last a long time. Finally, if you get something that uses AAs and you forget your charger on vacation somewhere, you can buy standard Alkaline batteries to hold you over until you can recharge the NiMHs.
No kidding. Have you priced laptop batteries yet? Most of them seem to run about $100US these days. In some cases that's 15% of the entire cost of the laptop!
To me this sounds a lot like SVHS, superior technology that only the professionals buy because they're the only ones with the equiptment to use it (these new DVDs aren't going to look significantly better on a standard consumer TV). Worse, because only professionals use it the companies have to price it at professional rates, virtually guarenteeing that the average consumer never even sees it. When was the last time you saw an SVHS player at Walmart? How many people even have S Video jacks on their TV? Most of the people I know still hook up their TV through the Coax because that's the only input their TV has.
I remember those days. Those were the days when the phone company assumed that anybody who wanted an ISDN line was a business. I remember pricing schemes like: 56k (full duplex though): $250/month + 2 cents a megabyte + 10 cents a minute. I don't know if anybody ever actually bought that, but it seemed like a complete ripoff to me. The scary part was, they actually offered more expensive options (dual line ISDN).
I'm pretty sure they really wanted you to buy the T1 for $4500/month. Even these days with DSL and Cablemodem everywhere they still want $1500/month for a T1 and have completly forgotten about ISDN again.
I think there's a KDE version, kspaceduel IIRC. I think it comes with the standard KDE games distribution.
Mplayer already does pretty much everything Windows Media Player can do, and it's native to Linux. The Quicktime support mentioned in the writeup is a red herring, Windows Media Player (IIRC) still does not support Sorenson Quicktimes, making it no better than xanim at playing modern .mov files.
Isn't that monopoly behavior? In the free market things that are cheaper to manufacture and more popular are supposed to go down in price. Granted the record companies don't have to play by the rules because they have a limited monopoly (only 70 years and counting so far), on the content.
I think Command and Conquor would be the first Mainstream game where the sides weren't mirror images of each other. Starcraft was the first game to get it right with 3 races though, which was mindblowing at the time, especially since the races _are_ so different.
I would just accuse you of being dumb actually, and your opponent was even dumber. I reserve the word "cheating" for people who actually hack the client or the protocol and give themselves an unfair adavantage. Like the old "high lag multiple refund bug" lots of RTSes suffered from (and some still do).
That's a bit much though. If you aren't some world class Quake player, having some bot using lamer always shoot you with the railgun the first time your model's clipping plane is in sight (then calling you a "fag") just isn't very fun.
Yes, I nominate the Anonymous coward above to fly down to africa and start executing all of the "excess population". We wouldn't want to infringe on mother nature's turf now.
If you're playing on Joe-Bob's l33t server (and you even understand how, since it involves a bit of registry hacking!), then you should not be surprised if it's hacked. Generally people play on their own bnetd servers because they're behind a firewall that blocks access to Battle.net (becoming more and more frequent these days) on a LAN party, or because they have some hack they want to try. I can't imagine people smart enough to find a server and then hack the registry would then complain that it's not as well maintained to Blizzard. That just goes beyond all sane logic. Besides, the misfits hang out on Battle.net, not the private servers.
Although the strange thing is, I can't figure out why they're doing this. It just doesn't make much sense. Maybe someone with a bug up their butt sent an anonymous email to the legal department saying that this bnetd thing was hacking their product and they just fired off the standard form letter to these guys.
s that they do not know your true intentions. They saw what was being imported, and thought some 1337 h4x0r was going to use it to copy Dreamcast software.
This has to be a troll. Are you suggeting they should disallow import of anything that could be used to break the law? Like Pencils that can be used to stab people?
Ah, young grasshopper. You have forgotten the tao of timezones. You must now walk all the way around the earth to become enligtened.
Or more often: Guido is the only game in town, in fact Guido squealed on all his competitors already to insure that there will never be any competition.