I agree. I normally despise commercials, but I can watch that one over and over. It's the only commercial that I can think of that actually makes me feel like I want the product. Even the most entertaining of commercials get really old and annoying after you've seen them 10 times a day, but not this one. Then there are the ones that are annoying or stupid from the beginning, and make you never want to purchase a product from that company. I wouldn't hate commercials as much if more commercials were as pleasant and effective as this one. Bravo to whoever Volkswagen's ad agency is.
Because they're starting from scratch, they're not encumbered by limitations of the traditional auto: they put a separate motor into each wheel, which 'one-ups' conventional 4x4 - there's no differential or axle to limit the ground clearance.
Tetris for the Game Boy. I have never found a game that equals the Game Boy version. Every other version has some little quirk, which I end up HATING.:)
I might as well glue the cart into my circa 1989 Game Boy, as it's the only game I play on it anymore. Well, that, and half of the screen is worn out, and Tetris is the only game that I can see well enough to play.:D
Thanks to a conversation that went something like this:
"I need some new music." "What kind?" "I dunno, surprise me."
I've been getting into music like this. I'm liking it. While most of my favorites so far have been mentioned by others (Aphex Twin's Richard D. James, Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children, etc.), I haven't seen my top favorite mentioned. Boulderdash's We Never Went to Koxut Island is an absolutely awesome album, IMO. The songs "Headless in a Topless Bar" and "Dregs of Tar" are just... Wow.
(Be sure to try the Iris plugin for xmms, with the Background color Random on beat option set, and the output plugin set to the OSS driver. Fullscreen, obviously.;))
Yes, it can. At the last MWSF, rumors were flying of huge product revamps. New iMac, G5, some sort of PDA-like device, all of it. When the "only" thing introed was the new flat-panel iMac, lots of people bitched and whined like it was Apple that promised them all that stuff, and only gave them one thing. Caused a lot of people to overlook how great the new iMac was. Of course, the more reasonable people were impressed, but still.;)
The article is slashdotted already, but since we're on the subject of keyboards...
IBM Model M: Best. Keyboard. Ever. I found two of 'em in a box full of crappy Dell QuietKeys a while back, and was instantly hooked.
Apple Extended Keyboard II: Not nearly as "clack clack" as the Model M, but a very nice feel to a very solid keyboard. Whenever I get around to buying a new(er) Mac, I think the USB keyboard will just stay in the box, while the Extended II gets hooked up with an adapter.
The Microsoft Naturals are supposed to be nice, but I can't stand the look or the feel of split keyboards.
That'd be the SiPixStyleCam. 640x480 with 8MB of storage for (I believe) $50. SiPix also makes the StyleCam Blink, which has the same resolution, but is even tinier.
Unfortunately, SiPix's cameras don't seem to be supported under Linux (gPhoto) or OS X (iPhoto). If someone knows differently, I'd like to know.:)
It would be perfect (in my book) if it had an actual 2600 cartridge slot. Both joysticks for my 2600 are pretty much dead, the console itself may be too. But I have a bunch of games I miss playing, and emulation doesn't cut it for me.
That said, it's still cool.:) Too bad it doesn't have River Raid built in. Oh well.
Yep. Who says being in the minority is a bad thing?
My 6100/66 running System 7.5.x (one of the less stable MacOSes IMO) is up for weeks at a time, and my P233 running Red Hat 7.2 hasn't been so much as rebooted in almost 17 days. My point? Well, the other computer (the one that isn't mine:)) in the house (a PII/400 running Win2k) needs to be rebooted daily, and still feels slower than my 66MHz and 233MHz machines. I just ran the latest Ad-Aware, and found 56 pieces of spyware that the previous version of Ad-Aware missed.
I'm just glad I don't have to use that thing on a daily basis.
So Unix is inflexible. I take that to mean that Microsoft's products are incredibly flexible. So they'd have no problem disassociating Internet Explorer and all the other "value added" software, and releasing a lite version of Windows, right?
That's probably true, although the difference isn't that large if you compare Macs to name-brand PCs.
I remember when the new LCD iMac came out, I went to Dell's site and built a system with specs as similar to the SuperDrive equipped iMac as I could. Surprisingly, the Dell came in at about $200 more than the iMac. (for the life of me, I can't find where I posted the results, or I'd do a little cut & paste here...)
It may not have been a 100% accurate comparison, but the fact of the matter is that you can find a computer for far less than the iMac. But if you match the specs on a brand-name PC, you will find the iMac to be quite competitive. It is no longer a few years ago when a PC cost $2000 and a Mac was closer to $6000.:)
I've actually switched to using the mouse with my left-hand (even though I'm right handed) whenever possible, because I found those kinds of key combinations easier to do with my right hand while my left hand is on the mouse. Sure, some of them take some getting used to, but I've found it to be a nicer solution in the end.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?
No, seriously, that's what it'll come to. Computing will go back to the stone age. Remember rooms full of computers? It'll turn back in to that. Stacks of everything from 486s to Pentium 4s to G3s and G4s. Need more power? Scour eBay for some more old unrestriced computers. (I believe I read that the trading of hard/software that was made previous to the law would continue to be legal.)
What the hell are they thinking?
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This won't fly. No one will buy into it. Hell, Apple has already said that they won't release Quicktime 6 until the per use fees go away. I seriously doubt Apple will be the only one to puke on the fees.
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I agree. I normally despise commercials, but I can watch that one over and over. It's the only commercial that I can think of that actually makes me feel like I want the product. Even the most entertaining of commercials get really old and annoying after you've seen them 10 times a day, but not this one. Then there are the ones that are annoying or stupid from the beginning, and make you never want to purchase a product from that company. I wouldn't hate commercials as much if more commercials were as pleasant and effective as this one. Bravo to whoever Volkswagen's ad agency is.
Go-go gadget wheels!
Tetris for the Game Boy. I have never found a game that equals the Game Boy version. Every other version has some little quirk, which I end up HATING. :)
:D
I might as well glue the cart into my circa 1989 Game Boy, as it's the only game I play on it anymore. Well, that, and half of the screen is worn out, and Tetris is the only game that I can see well enough to play.
Happy birthday, Tetris!
Thanks to a conversation that went something like this:
;))
"I need some new music."
"What kind?"
"I dunno, surprise me."
I've been getting into music like this. I'm liking it. While most of my favorites so far have been mentioned by others (Aphex Twin's Richard D. James, Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children, etc.), I haven't seen my top favorite mentioned. Boulderdash's We Never Went to Koxut Island is an absolutely awesome album, IMO. The songs "Headless in a Topless Bar" and "Dregs of Tar" are just... Wow.
(Be sure to try the Iris plugin for xmms, with the Background color Random on beat option set, and the output plugin set to the OSS driver. Fullscreen, obviously.
According to NetFlix, It is out on DVD.
Yes, it can. At the last MWSF, rumors were flying of huge product revamps. New iMac, G5, some sort of PDA-like device, all of it. When the "only" thing introed was the new flat-panel iMac, lots of people bitched and whined like it was Apple that promised them all that stuff, and only gave them one thing. Caused a lot of people to overlook how great the new iMac was. Of course, the more reasonable people were impressed, but still. ;)
The article is slashdotted already, but since we're on the subject of keyboards...
:)
IBM Model M: Best. Keyboard. Ever. I found two of 'em in a box full of crappy Dell QuietKeys a while back, and was instantly hooked.
Apple Extended Keyboard II: Not nearly as "clack clack" as the Model M, but a very nice feel to a very solid keyboard. Whenever I get around to buying a new(er) Mac, I think the USB keyboard will just stay in the box, while the Extended II gets hooked up with an adapter.
The Microsoft Naturals are supposed to be nice, but I can't stand the look or the feel of split keyboards.
Anyway, that's my list, as if you care.
That'd be the SiPix StyleCam. 640x480 with 8MB of storage for (I believe) $50. SiPix also makes the StyleCam Blink, which has the same resolution, but is even tinier.
:)
Unfortunately, SiPix's cameras don't seem to be supported under Linux (gPhoto) or OS X (iPhoto). If someone knows differently, I'd like to know.
Not when they find out that the "secure" box is actually an empty ATX case. :)
It would be perfect (in my book) if it had an actual 2600 cartridge slot. Both joysticks for my 2600 are pretty much dead, the console itself may be too. But I have a bunch of games I miss playing, and emulation doesn't cut it for me.
:) Too bad it doesn't have River Raid built in. Oh well.
That said, it's still cool.
I hope so too. :)
;)
Lack of Quicktime and Shockwave are at the top of my "Annoying things about Linux" list. Not annoying enough to switch back to Windows, but still.
There are a lot of Apple-related things that are posted only to apple.slashdot.org, and don't make it to the front page.
In addition to that, they need to start throwing drug dealers and drug users in jail! That will eliminate drug use!
Oh, wait...
Looks like that server needs an injection of dontcrashium... :P
Yep. Who says being in the minority is a bad thing?
:)) in the house (a PII/400 running Win2k) needs to be rebooted daily, and still feels slower than my 66MHz and 233MHz machines. I just ran the latest Ad-Aware, and found 56 pieces of spyware that the previous version of Ad-Aware missed.
My 6100/66 running System 7.5.x (one of the less stable MacOSes IMO) is up for weeks at a time, and my P233 running Red Hat 7.2 hasn't been so much as rebooted in almost 17 days. My point? Well, the other computer (the one that isn't mine
I'm just glad I don't have to use that thing on a daily basis.
Well, as long as the rolling DSL blackouts happen during the rolling electricity blackouts... bring it on!
So Unix is inflexible. I take that to mean that Microsoft's products are incredibly flexible. So they'd have no problem disassociating Internet Explorer and all the other "value added" software, and releasing a lite version of Windows, right?
Right?
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That's probably true, although the difference isn't that large if you compare Macs to name-brand PCs.
:)
I remember when the new LCD iMac came out, I went to Dell's site and built a system with specs as similar to the SuperDrive equipped iMac as I could. Surprisingly, the Dell came in at about $200 more than the iMac. (for the life of me, I can't find where I posted the results, or I'd do a little cut & paste here...)
It may not have been a 100% accurate comparison, but the fact of the matter is that you can find a computer for far less than the iMac. But if you match the specs on a brand-name PC, you will find the iMac to be quite competitive. It is no longer a few years ago when a PC cost $2000 and a Mac was closer to $6000.
Really? Interesting.
:)
I've actually switched to using the mouse with my left-hand (even though I'm right handed) whenever possible, because I found those kinds of key combinations easier to do with my right hand while my left hand is on the mouse. Sure, some of them take some getting used to, but I've found it to be a nicer solution in the end.
YMMV I guess.
I don't see Microsoft charging for updates
*cough*Win98SE*cough*
No, it's not Xbox related, but Microsoft has in the past charged for what should have been free updates.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?
No, seriously, that's what it'll come to. Computing will go back to the stone age. Remember rooms full of computers? It'll turn back in to that. Stacks of everything from 486s to Pentium 4s to G3s and G4s. Need more power? Scour eBay for some more old unrestriced computers. (I believe I read that the trading of hard/software that was made previous to the law would continue to be legal.)
Mad Max, anyone?
DVD-RAM for life! Woooooo!
*cough*
Sorry.
...looked somewhat familiar...
:)
Not implying anything of course, it was just one of those "I've seen that somewhere before" moments.
Actually, yes.
<cue Twilight Zone theme>
This won't fly. No one will buy into it. Hell, Apple has already said that they won't release Quicktime 6 until the per use fees go away. I seriously doubt Apple will be the only one to puke on the fees.