Actually, The Pentium Pro, PII, PIII, and Pentium M are all based on the P6 design, so if Intel had gone that route they would all be "Hexium" or 80686 chips. The Pentium 4 is based on the P7 design, so I guess it would be the first "Septium" or 80786.
But you're right, it's all branding. Pentium has a nice ring to it.
It really won't matter how good or bad the movie is. Nobody is going to see a movie called "Castlevania". It's a cute name for a video game, but for a movie it just sounds cheesy.
It's not "Robby the Robot", it's R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy). This is Robby the Robot But yeah, your point stands. R.O.B. was a dumb idea. Then again, if Nintendo had supported it a little more, who knows what kind of interesting games might have been developed for it. AFAIK only two games were ever made that supported the device.
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Which ones exactly? Lots of sports and racing games, but that's not really my thing. Grand Theft Auto might be interesting, if I hadn't played it three times already on the PS2. Lumines, the game everyone always raves about, doesn't look that interesting, plus there's a free clone available for the GBA which I have played and didn't find that much fun. I have yet to see one PSP game that looks interesting or revolutionary enough to justify spending $300 ($250 for the system + $50 for the game). Granted, I haven't seen anything on the DS that looks very interesting either, but at least its games are breaking some new ground. I think I'll stick with console gaming for now.
Dude, SBC offers DSL for $15/mo for new customers for a year. After that you just renew your contract to keep that price. DSL is dirt cheap, mainly because it's ass slow compared to cable, but its still a hell of a lot faster than dialup. Why are you on dialup?
Okay I took your advice and downloaded an episode. I was surprised. The picture quality is actually pretty good, despite being half the resolution of the Xvid encodes you find on torrent networks. I still think it should be HD ("Lost" is broadcast in HD isn't it?) but this isn't bad. The process was nice and easy and the download was fast too. Just click and watch. I have now reconsidered my previous opinion on the matter, although I still think two bucks is too much. Maybe if they let you burn them to DVDs so you can watch on your TV (in the same way they let you burn iTMS purchased music to CD)... But anyway it is indeed a good start.
I'm pretty sure it's just the opposite. Remember that video games and McDonalds, both of which are popular in Japan, are American inventions. It's our cultural exports that are bringing them closer to our level. If anything, we are prepping them for our Reoccupation Plan Part Deux.
So the only real incentive is to ease my conscience? Not good enough. How about some value added features, or if nothing else, at least high def picture quality. Encoding with H264 the files wouldn't be too big.
For now I'll keep doing what I've been doing, downloading the shows with BitTorrent until the DVD set comes out (which unfortunatly is months, sometimes years later). The DVD sets cost less than $2 an episode (usually), have better picture and sound quality than the torrents, and have some value added features, so I can easily justify their cost. What Apple is doing here is too little for too much money. 320x240? $2 per episode? C'mon.
How low is the resolution? Stuff from BitTorrent is usually 640x480 and bitrates are around 1000kpbs or so. Sometimes more or less depending on the show and the group who encoded it.
Sound to me like Apple is offering an inferior product than the "pirates" are. What's the incentive to pay two bucks when I can get higher quality downloads for free?
You've seriously never seen Gattaca? Well let me sumarize. Our hero whats-his-name longs to be an astronaut, but he was born just as genetic engineering of babies was becoming popular and as such missed out on the chance to be a genetic superbaby. As time progresses, all jobs except manual labor require you to be geneticly engineered, and people who were not geneticly engineered are labeled 'invalids'. Our hero decides to sneak his way into the space program by pretending to be someone else, but because of an incident comes close to being discovered.
It isn't as bad a movie as people say it is. I rather liked it.
That isn't always the case. Some clubs serve drinks, but the shows are still all ages. You just need to get show your ID at the door to get of those bracelets that allow you to buy drinks. I've been to plenty of shows like this before and after I was 21.
Yeah, that's what 4694s are. My calling them "dumb terminals" wasn't very accurate. They are x86 hardware with no hard drive and some extra IBM stuff added on, like special serial ports for POS equipment. If the controller went down, they would operate in Offline mode, but couldn't get credit card auth and couldn't scan anything it hadn't already scanned and cached into memory. If the register went down too while the controller was down, all sales made while the controller was down would be lost and they would have to be manually reentered from the journal data. It was always a pain in the ass when that happened.
I used to work in retail support for a little while, so I'm no expert, but AFAIK at many major chains the POS terminals (aka cash registers) don't actually have an OS installed on them. Rather, they network boot and download their OS from a server (either in the store or centrally). Where I was working, we used an OS made by IBM called 4690 which is designed exclusivly to act as a controller for the POS terminals. Other popular options are to run the POS server software on top of Windows or OS/2. But from what I gathered, usually registers themselves won't have any sort of OS installed on them. At least this is the case with IBM registers. See for yourself next time you are at the supermarket. If the register is an IBM machine type 4694 or 4800, it probably is just an overglorified dumb terminal.
Of course I could be totally wrong about this, but from everyone I talked to while working there, I gathered that this was pretty much the norm.
Why does Jerkcity never get any of the recognition it so justly deserves? They've published a new comic every single day since August 18th, 1998. And every one of them bursting with quality and tasteful humor. See for yourself. It is without a doubt the best webcomic out there.
Hehe yeah. The people who buy these things have evidently never heard of an emulator. I sold my mint copy of Chrono Trigger on for about $80 (which incedentally about what I paid for it new). From the looks of it, my copy of Valkyire Profile could fetch significantly more than I paid for it.
Yet, when it comes down to it, I can feel part of a well-written book over a game any day.
You know, I like a good book and all, but I've never gotten an emotional responce from a book the same way I have from a movie. I'm not sure why it is, but for some reason a book, no matter how well written, fails to move me the same way a movie can. Perhaps it's because a movie forces you to take it all in at once, whereas a book is more drawn out and typically not finished in one sitting. Or perhaps I've just been reading the wrong books. Maybe you could offer some examples?
One book that really did get to me was Kurt Vonnegut's "Deadeye Dick", which might seem like an unlikely cannidate, but God, what a depressing story. I heard Vonnegut tried to commit suicide shortly after writing that book. Reading it made me want to do the same.
Never played Silent Hill then I take it. Tell you what, try playing Silent Hill 2 at night with the lights off and the volume up and tell me how you sleep that night.
Game prices, if adjusted for inflation, are significantly cheaper than they were in the NES era. A game these days costs $50 new. A game in the NES days costs $40-50 new. Adjusted (1987 dollars) that is $67-84. And think about how much more it costs to make a game vs. in 1987. If anything, were getting a way better deal since the days of the NES. I wouldn't complain. I think $50 is perfectly reasonable.
but pc gaming is very unfortunetly becoming like the console crowd. extremely invasive copy prevention methods like starforce and securom/safedisc that install drivers behind the users back and interfere with normal computer function is enough for me to avoid games that use those methods.
Perhaps even worse than consoles. Aren't there now PC games that will refuse to run if you have certain applications installed, such as Alcohol 120%? It can't get much more invasive than that.
Personally I've never minded console DRM. I buy games, I don't copy them, and I don't use my consoles for anything besides gaming (ie their original purpose), so DRM has never been an issue to me. It does nothing to interfere with my use of the device. But with PC games, things get installed that you don't want installed, and they want you to remove things you don't want removed. I don't want a game to tell me how I should and should not use my computer.
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But you're right, it's all branding. Pentium has a nice ring to it.
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"If you work in the entertainment business and you make money, you're a sellout!"
I'd say <50000 is moderatly respectable
It really won't matter how good or bad the movie is. Nobody is going to see a movie called "Castlevania". It's a cute name for a video game, but for a movie it just sounds cheesy.
How and when did the government put the "mp3 genie back in its bottle"? AFAIK mp3 "sharing" is as rampant as ever, and sales of mp3 players are brisk.
It's not "Robby the Robot", it's R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy). This is Robby the Robot But yeah, your point stands. R.O.B. was a dumb idea. Then again, if Nintendo had supported it a little more, who knows what kind of interesting games might have been developed for it. AFAIK only two games were ever made that supported the device.
As a matter of fact, they are.
Which ones exactly? Lots of sports and racing games, but that's not really my thing. Grand Theft Auto might be interesting, if I hadn't played it three times already on the PS2. Lumines, the game everyone always raves about, doesn't look that interesting, plus there's a free clone available for the GBA which I have played and didn't find that much fun. I have yet to see one PSP game that looks interesting or revolutionary enough to justify spending $300 ($250 for the system + $50 for the game). Granted, I haven't seen anything on the DS that looks very interesting either, but at least its games are breaking some new ground. I think I'll stick with console gaming for now.
Dude, SBC offers DSL for $15/mo for new customers for a year. After that you just renew your contract to keep that price. DSL is dirt cheap, mainly because it's ass slow compared to cable, but its still a hell of a lot faster than dialup. Why are you on dialup?
Okay I took your advice and downloaded an episode. I was surprised. The picture quality is actually pretty good, despite being half the resolution of the Xvid encodes you find on torrent networks. I still think it should be HD ("Lost" is broadcast in HD isn't it?) but this isn't bad. The process was nice and easy and the download was fast too. Just click and watch. I have now reconsidered my previous opinion on the matter, although I still think two bucks is too much. Maybe if they let you burn them to DVDs so you can watch on your TV (in the same way they let you burn iTMS purchased music to CD)... But anyway it is indeed a good start.
I'm pretty sure it's just the opposite. Remember that video games and McDonalds, both of which are popular in Japan, are American inventions. It's our cultural exports that are bringing them closer to our level. If anything, we are prepping them for our Reoccupation Plan Part Deux.
For now I'll keep doing what I've been doing, downloading the shows with BitTorrent until the DVD set comes out (which unfortunatly is months, sometimes years later). The DVD sets cost less than $2 an episode (usually), have better picture and sound quality than the torrents, and have some value added features, so I can easily justify their cost. What Apple is doing here is too little for too much money. 320x240? $2 per episode? C'mon.
Sound to me like Apple is offering an inferior product than the "pirates" are. What's the incentive to pay two bucks when I can get higher quality downloads for free?
It isn't as bad a movie as people say it is. I rather liked it.
- Game Boy came out in 1989.
- Game Boy Pocket (essentially the "micro" version of the original GB) came out in 1996. 7 years after the GB
- Game Boy Color came out in 1998. One year after the Pocket and 8 years after the original GB
- Game Boy Advance came out in 2001. Three years after the GBC and 12 years after the original GB.
- GBA SP came out in 2003, two years after the GBA
- Game Boy Micro came out in 2005, 2 years after the GBA SP and 4 years after the original GBA.
So don't hold your breath waiting for a revision of the DS.That isn't always the case. Some clubs serve drinks, but the shows are still all ages. You just need to get show your ID at the door to get of those bracelets that allow you to buy drinks. I've been to plenty of shows like this before and after I was 21.
Yeah, that's what 4694s are. My calling them "dumb terminals" wasn't very accurate. They are x86 hardware with no hard drive and some extra IBM stuff added on, like special serial ports for POS equipment. If the controller went down, they would operate in Offline mode, but couldn't get credit card auth and couldn't scan anything it hadn't already scanned and cached into memory. If the register went down too while the controller was down, all sales made while the controller was down would be lost and they would have to be manually reentered from the journal data. It was always a pain in the ass when that happened.
Of course I could be totally wrong about this, but from everyone I talked to while working there, I gathered that this was pretty much the norm.
Why does Jerkcity never get any of the recognition it so justly deserves? They've published a new comic every single day since August 18th, 1998. And every one of them bursting with quality and tasteful humor. See for yourself. It is without a doubt the best webcomic out there.
Hehe yeah. The people who buy these things have evidently never heard of an emulator. I sold my mint copy of Chrono Trigger on for about $80 (which incedentally about what I paid for it new). From the looks of it, my copy of Valkyire Profile could fetch significantly more than I paid for it.
You know, I like a good book and all, but I've never gotten an emotional responce from a book the same way I have from a movie. I'm not sure why it is, but for some reason a book, no matter how well written, fails to move me the same way a movie can. Perhaps it's because a movie forces you to take it all in at once, whereas a book is more drawn out and typically not finished in one sitting. Or perhaps I've just been reading the wrong books. Maybe you could offer some examples?
One book that really did get to me was Kurt Vonnegut's "Deadeye Dick", which might seem like an unlikely cannidate, but God, what a depressing story. I heard Vonnegut tried to commit suicide shortly after writing that book. Reading it made me want to do the same.
Never played Silent Hill then I take it. Tell you what, try playing Silent Hill 2 at night with the lights off and the volume up and tell me how you sleep that night.
Game prices, if adjusted for inflation, are significantly cheaper than they were in the NES era. A game these days costs $50 new. A game in the NES days costs $40-50 new. Adjusted (1987 dollars) that is $67-84. And think about how much more it costs to make a game vs. in 1987. If anything, were getting a way better deal since the days of the NES. I wouldn't complain. I think $50 is perfectly reasonable.
Perhaps even worse than consoles. Aren't there now PC games that will refuse to run if you have certain applications installed, such as Alcohol 120%? It can't get much more invasive than that.
Personally I've never minded console DRM. I buy games, I don't copy them, and I don't use my consoles for anything besides gaming (ie their original purpose), so DRM has never been an issue to me. It does nothing to interfere with my use of the device. But with PC games, things get installed that you don't want installed, and they want you to remove things you don't want removed. I don't want a game to tell me how I should and should not use my computer.
No Madden for the Revolution?! Oh heartache and woe!