I know what you mean. We actually got our PS2 for GTA3. We love our GC OH SO MUCH more. I may see about talking my wife into an N64 or even a SNES. She's lovin' Zelda: Winkwaker right now. Then again, with emulators being out there for those systems, it's always possible to go that route.
Very true. I noticed that, but I own both, and truthfully, I haven't been very thrilled with my PS2. I mainly just kept it for GTA. Hey, maybe I can trade in my PS2 for a copy of this game! *heh*
I'm looking forward to something like this on the GameCube. Perhaps now I can get rid of my PS2...
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Whoever modded the parent post down to -1 Offtopic is an idiot. It has complete relevance to the question! The above poster is trying to point out "it's a matter of choice and taste". It's also "a matter of need". Some people drive pickups because they need to haul stuff. some people have minivans because they have big families or the need to transport sizable groups of people otherwise.
I personally use FreeBSD because Linux didn't satisfy what I was looking for. To me, FreeBSD has all the things that many Linux distros have only a few of. A poster below mentions the reasons for choosing a number of different linux distros (redhat for corporate acceptance, gentoo for customization, etc) for me, FreeBSD has the customization of Gentoo, the stability of Debian, and just an overall feel that I prefer. I really do like Gentoo, but being on a dialup connection, when things fail to build for one reason or another, it's a pain to start over (because the bootstrap.sh fails or something) With FreeBSD I can start with as many binaries on my system as I want, and I can build from source from there. And if I decide I want to rebuild everything from source, so be it. it's a simple "make world" (or something similar. I haven't actually done it yet).
It's all a matter of choice or preference. Just because someone disagrees with THAT is no reason to mod the parent post as Offtopic./rant
I now return you to your regularly scheduled pants...
I have to say that I agree here. A year ago, my wife and I started out with an XBox because of DOA3, Enclave, and Halo. (though we are not much for FPS games (or sports), we wanted something we could play together) Beyond that, XBox specific games haven't piqued our interest. So, two months later, we wound up going for a PS2 for GTA3. We got a couple of other games for it, and it was kind of fun, but not spectacular. Don't get me wrong. The graphics were good (although we like the XBox graphics better), but the games were all the same. So two months ago we invested in a GC. We LOVE Zelda, Mario Sunshine, SMB2, and Metroid Prime. Hardly a day has gone by that one (or both) of us haven't played anything on there. Contrast that with a week for the XBox and PS2. I wish now that we had gone with the GC and only the GC...
Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
Well, this is one to ponder, granted that you consider life to be basically an earthbound form or entity. It always amuses me that there is talk about whether this place or that could support life. Just because we, as earthbound beings, rely on certain conditions to live, who is to say that other lifeforms would live in something that we'd consider completely destructive to our own very nature. How do we know that there aren't life forms out there that don't depend on breathing molten gold in the same way we need to breathe oxygen? Or to take it even farther, who says they need to breath at all?
But to come back on topic, I think that the multiverse theory is a very interesting one. I think it's possible. Why? Because it's interesting that way. =0)
If only I had mod points... This is one of the most useful ideas I've seen. In fact, I liked these so much, I went and ordered two for me, one for my wife, one for my brother, and one for a coworker! And that price... that makes it even better! Thank you for posting this!
My wife got me a Celestron NexStar 60 GT for Christmas this year, and I love it. It has a number of the things that you're looking for. The magnification and clarity are very good, even in bad lighting conditions. I can see the colored bands of Jupiter, the spot, and at least 4 of the moons. I can see the rings of Saturn. Nebulae. Galaxies. Etc. Oh, did I mention that I live 5 minutes from Baltimore? And I have a street light at the end of my drive way? And it was nearly full moon at the time? Baaaaaad light pollution, but it still does great. Nearly any object that I look at in the sky seems to have 2-5 other celestial bodies around it in my view that I can't see with the naked eye.
Also, It's motorized and it has a hand control with an Object Database of some 4000 pre-programmed celestial objects. On the same note, it also has a tracking mechanism to compensate for the earth's rotation. Also, it was not expensive. At full price, it would be roughly $600. Because of discounts and such, my wife was able to get it for ~$250.
This model (the 60 GT) is the low-end of the NexStar series. (it's a 60mm scope. That's something like a 2.75 in. aperture) The next ones up are the 80 and the 114. (also coming in the GT models, which are the ones that have the hand control with object database). I would hightly suggest any one of these. I love mine.
I believe, too, that it has the ability to hook up to your computer. That's a feature I haven't tried, though. My HEAVY computer is on the second floor of the house, and it's not going outside with me... =0) I believe that it's for controlling the telescope, though. Capturing images is another ballgame entirely that I don't believe this model is suited for.
I have a small telescope (60mm) and I can see planetary detail fairly well (ie, the Big Red Spot(tm) on Jupiter along with 4-6 of it's moons, and the rings of Saturn). I just got it at christmas, though, and I haven't had much time to mess with it, but looking up a galaxy or two is my next venture...
Hmmmm... yes, yours is bigger. Thanks for the info. As far as the BeOS filesystem, though, I really liked the attributes because they could be any size, AND they could be arbitrary binary data. So, for example, file icons could be kept in the attributes. Or sounds (although how that would be useful, I dunno). Another good example of this was the default BeOS text editor. It could handle colors, bold, italic, and underline, much like a word processor, but it was still a plain text file. The style data was kept in the attributes. Also, I think my real disappointment with the whole XFS thing is that there are no file managers that can handle those extended attributes. In BeOS, the file manager utilized these attributes with ease. Icons were displayed, you could layout a manager window so that it would display the various types of data, and you could basically use the filesystem as a database. And the tools for it were so easy to use and readily available. I just haven't seen it with Linux yet. Although, if I found one, I'd surely give it a go.
Another quick note, I've read somehwere that FreeBSD's UFS2 also has extended attributes. It would interesting to know how that would compare to both the BeOS FS and XFS as far as file size and what types of attributes it supports.
I remember reading in the BeOS Bible that the BeOS filesystem could contain files as large as 18 petabytes. Makes you wonder two things: What's the biggest filesystem that you could use with a BeOS machine? and Why don't other OSs have filesystem like this. Espcecially with those awesome extended attributes. I weep for the loss of the BeOS filesystem...
You've got to buy StarOffice to get the DB Component.
True. But even then, it's a limited database. (at least the version that comes with StarOffice. I don't know if you could get the full version of AdabasD and make it work or not)
What I'd like to see, though, is for OpenOffice to have database connectivity with something like PostgreSQL or MySQL. I think that could really blow away the use of Adabas in StarOffice.
I'd love to try this out, but I have more than 1GB of RAM in my system, so the old BeOS won't even boot completely. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in this version?
They use a SCO Unix/Linux based POS system. I don't know who you would contact about that, but I'm sure you could contact someone at corporate and inquire.
I would love to see this in Linux as well. This is why I switched over to XFS. Unfortunately, I quickly found that it wasn't at all like BFS and I am planning on disposing of it very soon. I used to use BeOS, and out of all the things that BeOS had to offer that made the system as a whole so great, the filesystem is what I miss the most. Unfortunately I can't run it anymore because BeOS won't even boot on my system.
I definitely have to second this. Bible of Dreams is awesome. I've only been into electronic music for a short time (noticing it first about 5 or 6 years ago, but only really starting a little collection in the past 2 years) and I was fortunate enough to pick this one up by chance about a year or so ago. In fact, I like a LOT of Juno Reactor's stuff. I look for it whenever I go music hunting.
Perhaps some ambitious soul will bolt a reasonable interface onto the 3D app.
Or perhaps some ambitious soul will bolt a brain into that head of yours.
The interface is the best for a 3D app I've ever seen, and if they change it, then I'm dropping blender... I get so sick and tired of hearing people whine about an interface that they are not willing to sit down and learn how to use. Patience levels of people are rediculous when it comes to learning how to use something like this. Heaven forbid that it doesn't look like Microsoft Office and you actually have to learn something NEW once in your life.
I tried poking around with blender for at least an hour without getting anywhere.
A WHOLE hour, eh? Wow. I hope that you don't ever have to learn anything that may actually be slightly difficult or might require a nuance of brain power. Good luck in your career at McDonalds.
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I know what you mean. We actually got our PS2 for GTA3. We love our GC OH SO MUCH more. I may see about talking my wife into an N64 or even a SNES. She's lovin' Zelda: Winkwaker right now. Then again, with emulators being out there for those systems, it's always possible to go that route.
Very true. I noticed that, but I own both, and truthfully, I haven't been very thrilled with my PS2. I mainly just kept it for GTA. Hey, maybe I can trade in my PS2 for a copy of this game! *heh*
I'm looking forward to something like this on the GameCube. Perhaps now I can get rid of my PS2...
Whoever modded the parent post down to -1 Offtopic is an idiot. It has complete relevance to the question! The above poster is trying to point out "it's a matter of choice and taste". It's also "a matter of need". Some people drive pickups because they need to haul stuff. some people have minivans because they have big families or the need to transport sizable groups of people otherwise.
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I personally use FreeBSD because Linux didn't satisfy what I was looking for. To me, FreeBSD has all the things that many Linux distros have only a few of. A poster below mentions the reasons for choosing a number of different linux distros (redhat for corporate acceptance, gentoo for customization, etc) for me, FreeBSD has the customization of Gentoo, the stability of Debian, and just an overall feel that I prefer. I really do like Gentoo, but being on a dialup connection, when things fail to build for one reason or another, it's a pain to start over (because the bootstrap.sh fails or something) With FreeBSD I can start with as many binaries on my system as I want, and I can build from source from there. And if I decide I want to rebuild everything from source, so be it. it's a simple "make world" (or something similar. I haven't actually done it yet).
It's all a matter of choice or preference. Just because someone disagrees with THAT is no reason to mod the parent post as Offtopic.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled pants...
I have to say that I agree here. A year ago, my wife and I started out with an XBox because of DOA3, Enclave, and Halo. (though we are not much for FPS games (or sports), we wanted something we could play together) Beyond that, XBox specific games haven't piqued our interest. So, two months later, we wound up going for a PS2 for GTA3. We got a couple of other games for it, and it was kind of fun, but not spectacular. Don't get me wrong. The graphics were good (although we like the XBox graphics better), but the games were all the same. So two months ago we invested in a GC. We LOVE Zelda, Mario Sunshine, SMB2, and Metroid Prime. Hardly a day has gone by that one (or both) of us haven't played anything on there. Contrast that with a week for the XBox and PS2. I wish now that we had gone with the GC and only the GC...
Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
Well, this is one to ponder, granted that you consider life to be basically an earthbound form or entity. It always amuses me that there is talk about whether this place or that could support life. Just because we, as earthbound beings, rely on certain conditions to live, who is to say that other lifeforms would live in something that we'd consider completely destructive to our own very nature. How do we know that there aren't life forms out there that don't depend on breathing molten gold in the same way we need to breathe oxygen? Or to take it even farther, who says they need to breath at all?
But to come back on topic, I think that the multiverse theory is a very interesting one. I think it's possible. Why? Because it's interesting that way. =0)
I wonder if they're just talking about hardware platforms, or software as well. Does this mean some good games getting released for Linux?
What? I don't understand. That was a great movie! How could you even begin to black it out? *snicker*
"Look Mario! I think the fungus is trying to help us!"
If only I had mod points... This is one of the most useful ideas I've seen. In fact, I liked these so much, I went and ordered two for me, one for my wife, one for my brother, and one for a coworker! And that price... that makes it even better! Thank you for posting this!
If you want to open a video game rental store, then Acts of Gord [actsofgord.com] is required reading.
Beautiful stuff! Where are my mod points when I need them? *sigh* Anywho, thanks for the link!
My wife got me a Celestron NexStar 60 GT for Christmas this year, and I love it. It has a number of the things that you're looking for. The magnification and clarity are very good, even in bad lighting conditions. I can see the colored bands of Jupiter, the spot, and at least 4 of the moons. I can see the rings of Saturn. Nebulae. Galaxies. Etc. Oh, did I mention that I live 5 minutes from Baltimore? And I have a street light at the end of my drive way? And it was nearly full moon at the time? Baaaaaad light pollution, but it still does great. Nearly any object that I look at in the sky seems to have 2-5 other celestial bodies around it in my view that I can't see with the naked eye.
Also, It's motorized and it has a hand control with an Object Database of some 4000 pre-programmed celestial objects. On the same note, it also has a tracking mechanism to compensate for the earth's rotation. Also, it was not expensive. At full price, it would be roughly $600. Because of discounts and such, my wife was able to get it for ~$250.
This model (the 60 GT) is the low-end of the NexStar series. (it's a 60mm scope. That's something like a 2.75 in. aperture) The next ones up are the 80 and the 114. (also coming in the GT models, which are the ones that have the hand control with object database). I would hightly suggest any one of these. I love mine.
I believe, too, that it has the ability to hook up to your computer. That's a feature I haven't tried, though. My HEAVY computer is on the second floor of the house, and it's not going outside with me... =0) I believe that it's for controlling the telescope, though. Capturing images is another ballgame entirely that I don't believe this model is suited for.
I hope this helps you out.
Jeremy
I have a small telescope (60mm) and I can see planetary detail fairly well (ie, the Big Red Spot(tm) on Jupiter along with 4-6 of it's moons, and the rings of Saturn). I just got it at christmas, though, and I haven't had much time to mess with it, but looking up a galaxy or two is my next venture...
Hmmmm... yes, yours is bigger. Thanks for the info. As far as the BeOS filesystem, though, I really liked the attributes because they could be any size, AND they could be arbitrary binary data. So, for example, file icons could be kept in the attributes. Or sounds (although how that would be useful, I dunno). Another good example of this was the default BeOS text editor. It could handle colors, bold, italic, and underline, much like a word processor, but it was still a plain text file. The style data was kept in the attributes. Also, I think my real disappointment with the whole XFS thing is that there are no file managers that can handle those extended attributes. In BeOS, the file manager utilized these attributes with ease. Icons were displayed, you could layout a manager window so that it would display the various types of data, and you could basically use the filesystem as a database. And the tools for it were so easy to use and readily available. I just haven't seen it with Linux yet. Although, if I found one, I'd surely give it a go.
Another quick note, I've read somehwere that FreeBSD's UFS2 also has extended attributes. It would interesting to know how that would compare to both the BeOS FS and XFS as far as file size and what types of attributes it supports.
Thanks again for the info!
I remember reading in the BeOS Bible that the BeOS filesystem could contain files as large as 18 petabytes. Makes you wonder two things: What's the biggest filesystem that you could use with a BeOS machine? and Why don't other OSs have filesystem like this. Espcecially with those awesome extended attributes. I weep for the loss of the BeOS filesystem...
You've got to buy StarOffice to get the DB Component.
True. But even then, it's a limited database. (at least the version that comes with StarOffice. I don't know if you could get the full version of AdabasD and make it work or not)
What I'd like to see, though, is for OpenOffice to have database connectivity with something like PostgreSQL or MySQL. I think that could really blow away the use of Adabas in StarOffice.
Mmmm... now that would be tasty!
Does this mean that NetBSD can now support SMP, or am I just way off here... ?
I'd love to try this out, but I have more than 1GB of RAM in my system, so the old BeOS won't even boot completely. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in this version?
Jeremy
They use a SCO Unix/Linux based POS system. I don't know who you would contact about that, but I'm sure you could contact someone at corporate and inquire.
Linux is so Derelicte.
That would be good, but no matter what, BeOS won't boot if you have more than 1 GB of RAM. =0(
I would love to see this in Linux as well. This is why I switched over to XFS. Unfortunately, I quickly found that it wasn't at all like BFS and I am planning on disposing of it very soon. I used to use BeOS, and out of all the things that BeOS had to offer that made the system as a whole so great, the filesystem is what I miss the most. Unfortunately I can't run it anymore because BeOS won't even boot on my system.
I definitely have to second this. Bible of Dreams is awesome. I've only been into electronic music for a short time (noticing it first about 5 or 6 years ago, but only really starting a little collection in the past 2 years) and I was fortunate enough to pick this one up by chance about a year or so ago. In fact, I like a LOT of Juno Reactor's stuff. I look for it whenever I go music hunting.
Perhaps some ambitious soul will bolt a reasonable interface onto the 3D app.
Or perhaps some ambitious soul will bolt a brain into that head of yours.
The interface is the best for a 3D app I've ever seen, and if they change it, then I'm dropping blender... I get so sick and tired of hearing people whine about an interface that they are not willing to sit down and learn how to use. Patience levels of people are rediculous when it comes to learning how to use something like this. Heaven forbid that it doesn't look like Microsoft Office and you actually have to learn something NEW once in your life.
Mental midgets are such tragedies...
I tried poking around with blender for at least an hour without getting anywhere.
A WHOLE hour, eh? Wow. I hope that you don't ever have to learn anything that may actually be slightly difficult or might require a nuance of brain power. Good luck in your career at McDonalds.