This is a good thing beleive it or not. It should mean that program files will be compatable across systems. Porting software to a bunch of different operating systems is a good way to get near perfect compatability between multiple different operating systems. This should in theory make a network work a little bit smoother for the user who will want to have the same program when he migrates from computer to computer.
I know when I migrated from SuSe to FreeBSD, some of my stuff didn't work right so I had to waste time changing it so that it did work right. However now that I have everything working correctly under FreeBSD there is almost no way in hell I will go back to any of the Linux distros (unless there was an EXTREME incentive to go back, which i doubt will ever happen).
If someone can come up with a reason why these ports are a waste of time i would really like to know. Until then I will lump them with the other stuff in my 'good things' catagory of software ideas. Also, if someone can come up with a VALID reason why Linux is a better operating system for me to be using, I would really like to know it as well.
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Why would they want to make a system that you can hack up or play copied games on? That would be just stupid for them to do. I personally don't care if people hack it up, but for gods sake don't just copy games and not buy any. If you do that you will just make systems fail. The days when you could make prophet off of a console are long gone. The console companies need to sell games to make money now, as you can no longer make a prophet off of the console itself. If you don't sell the games then you won't survive in the industry.
You can thank sony for making it so that copied games hurt companies as badly as they do now. If it wasn't for sony companies would actually pull a profit from the console itself, instead they loose money every system sold. By buying the system and copying games for it you are hurting the company selling the console badly. If you like something you should always support it, if not you shouldn't use it. I am really getting tired of seeing the amount of copying and stealing going on in the game community it is sickening to me, i am sure it is sickening to the companies involved as well, and it should be sickening to any other developer as well.
Porting Linux/BSD/whatever to a console is a good thing, but for gods-sake don't off balance the industry by pirating your software. If you pirate software everyone but you is hurt in the processes. Because of you people who can't play by the rules we wind up with game prices being 50 bucks for a game and shit like that. Prohaps if you actually worked for something instead of stealing it (which actually is one of the problems with the open source community, if you download it and use it you should have to make a contribution or an improvement for them, freeloading is not the answer) you would value things more. Hell, who pays for the programmer who wrote the software if you just burn the game instead of paying for it.
This also explains why the game demographics get messed up so badly, people watch the sales not what games you actually are playing. If a game sells well than more games like it will come out. Same goes for things outside the videogame market. For christs sake people, copying intellectual property is bad, this is how we wind up with things like a mass of britney spears/n'sync clones out there, instead of the real bands.
You should always pay (not always monitarily) for anything you use. It doesn't matter what it is you use, you should always give something back to the community that provides it. Copying with out giving back is stealing, there is no way to justify it. If everyone was as selfish about things like this concept as a lot of the people here seem to be we are in a world of hurt further on down the line. It doesn't matter who you are if you don't contribute to a cause you only hurt it, and that is not the way our society should work. If you are not a team player get out, and this means you.
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when will I see a system that does it right. they should make it have a custom disk size and check to make sure that the disk is the right size and not a copy (maybe a 4" disk and have the laser pull bits from there or have a special surface on the disk so that it sends back a different signal (color?)). Also I hope nintendo gets it right on the Gamecube and makes it so people can't play copied games on it.
actually iMacs do have a use in this world, just not one that you would expect. They make great X terminals, that is how we use them here. Other than that, you could get 2 of them and make bookends, or use them as door stops.
You know it really isn't about the Mhz so much as what the power of the processor is. How long will it take to get rid of this shitty Mhz myth that Intel seems to benifit so much from. You know tweeking a processor so that it does in two cycles what is normally done in one isn't a problem, also if i remember right Mot was measuring their Mhz differently than Intel was. Plus you know it will be a better processor when the G5 comes out even if this is a rumor. Mot has always had the better chips. so when will the horrid x86 arc finally die.
I hope this brings down the price on that dual-G4 desktop with superdrive in it. Damn those are fine peices of computing power, i need one with OSX on it. First I must get that, attach my tablet to it and off i go into the picture editing craze i went into when i got my 1.1 Ghz PC that I have now. Also, does anyone know of software on either PC or Mac that will let me use the tablet to replace my keyboard (thus making my desk look super-spiff and empty)?
On a side note: If anyone is looking at tablets out there, yes it is worth the extra money to get a Wacom tablet instead of the other ones that compUSA et al seem to have. AFAIK, Wacom is the only good brand I have seen in the computer stores around here for such devices.
This is exactly what should be going on. If the government can't check on the people that it governs it can't do its job. the FBI/CIA/NSA (of any country) should be allowed to do things like this, banning such activities makes the world less safe. The way to make an open society work best is to have the government monitoring for possible possible problems before they become serious. It sickens me the amount of talk about how we should try to ban the government from being able to decrypt things and wiretap 'net connections and so forth. This is exactly what they should be doing, it is their place to make sure that we are kept safe from dangers that we don't know about. You all complain about things like this, but this is a good way to deter things from happening, just like that security system sticker that people put on their windows. I am surprised that the US government isn't already keeping tabs on what people look at on the 'net. I honestly think that they should be tapping our connections to make sure that we are not sitting their getting people to join Bin Laden, submitting kiddy porn, downloading warez, and other activities that hurt society.
I am a supporter for strong rights of people, but the internet is a place that should stay monitored for illegal activities (and i am not talking about things as trivial as mp3s as i doubt the government really cares what mp3s you download). Personally I think this is a good first step towards a safer internet for people of all ages. I really don't see why every time a monitoring thing comes up in the news here you all get your panties in a twist.
what about the word in StarOffice. IMHO it is a better word processor than M$ Word, as well as it is free (or atleast it was last time i checked). Open? no. Free? yes. Granted RTF and HTML would have been better ones to pick, but IIRC there are some nasty things that can happen to RTF when using M$ Word (plus, isn't that one of their formats anyways?). HTML however I have never seen messed up.
On a side note: why don't they just release the document in an ascii text file, skip all these unnecessary formats. Also, why don't we see more of StarOffice in the world?
actually there are an insane number of DBZ episodes and they would probly like to run through the series about 6-8 times a year. However i would like to catch DBGT instead, as i don't think i caught that whole thing.
you know, if you don't want to read about anime on slashdot you can get yourself an account (like most of us here) and make it so that anything in the anime catagory doesn't appear. as an added bonus you will post at score: 1 instead of 0 as you do now being the AC that you are. You honestly don't think that a group is going to change what it does simply because you don't like do you, now that is just poor thinking.
What I really want to know is why everytime someone says that something like this happens everyone seems to froth at the mouth about how this is a violation of this and that. What you people need to realize is that you are sending mail on THEIR servers and it is THEIR right to do what THEY want with them, they are only letting you people use them. If they use carnivore and you don't like it go somewhere else. If the monitor your traffic and you don't like it, use a different service. If they read your email and you don't want them to, don't send email or go elsewhere. You know there is such a their rights to do business how they see fit. It isn't really your place to tell companies how they should be doing their business and how they should be conducting themselves. They are in this for the money not just to provide a service. If they think this will make their image look good then they will do it, if not they probly won't.
You see one of the great things about our society is that competition exists for everything (except in the occurence of a monopoly which for the most part mucks up the whole economy and the rest of society with it). Since competition exists, why don't you use it instead of complaining about what company A is doing. Go use company B if company A isn't working the way you want it to, that is what our society should do. Unfortunately it is people who just complain instead of doing something about it. The way our society works one person actually can make a difference and not just get lost in the crowd as we tend to think we will.
Big businesses tend to think that we won't do anything about their actions that surpress us little by little. They think this because they know that the american public has gotten lazy and slothful. We would rather fit in or do the easiest thing with is simply to complain and not do something. This is why we haven't made bills to protect us against things like DMCA and SSSCA and so forth. What we should do is get groups together to generate laws that protect us, the technology people in a time when the fasionable thing to do is pass laws to restrict what we can do with our computers.
There is a game that was made where you could look around at the world around you using Quicktime VR. The way the game worked was you went from point to point where all you saw was one movie of your movement, then when you stopped you could look around via Quicktime VR. When it came out it was quite impressive, though looking back it isn't nearly as cool. The game was Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time (1998) and still to date is one of my favorite games.(bonus: it is not violent either)
What about Unreal 2 or do you not think that it will raise the bar on computer hardware needed. To be honest the only times i have upgraded were for Unreal and Unreal Tournament. I wonder if D3, Q4, RtCW, or U2 will make me need to upgrade my system to something a bit bigger. Any word on a *nix or mac release of this, because i am really getting tired of being in windows for my games.
the logical step in this will be to install Aquarious routers and have computers sit their and sift through your transmissions and redirecting it to the 'appropriate' parties, regardless of where you originally wanted it to go. After that the Illuminati come in take over completely and we become subject to their whims (or are we their already). How do we know that this isn't where this wedge of anti-freedom heads us to. Taking real power is always done in wedges, you can't get all the power you want all at once, you need to first insert the wedge then keep slamming on it harder and harder, driving it into the constitution until you can't pull it out with out serious problems.
it is their lame way of trying to keep people from posting goatse.cx links and other nasties with out putting anything else in the text. However, I haven't yet encountered this 'lameness filter' so i have no idea exactly how to trigger it and how not to, but that is my best guess.
Yeah but wingdings produces (skull&cross bones)(star of david)(thumbs up)
so M$ is saying thrying to tell me that killing jews is good? I should hope not, and here i thought gates was the second coming of christ. Where is this world heading. Why does our saviour, bill gates, want us to kill the jews in NYC? I am confused now, my world is shattering around me.
I agree with this fully. This is a good idea, if done right this will be a very good thing. I fail to see how this could be a bad thing. What we should also do is have a box that sits their and rapidly decodes things (maybe pass msgs to different boxes to be decoded on the hardware level, quickly browsed for combinations of words, re-encrypted and passed on, and if it falls into the 'risky' catagory it gets flagged and put on a HDD for evaluation). The would cut down on a lot of illegal activity through electronic communication.
uhm, don't know if you noticed this or not, but we spent a whole day covering that. To stop what we are doing to cover it more would be giving victory to the terrorists, we need to keep going. If we stop all that we do just because something horrorable happened then we loose, also covering this trivial stuff keeps peoples minds off of the atrocities that happened yesterday, and that is a good thing. Keeping the peoples minds off of the horrorable events will help the depression that we all feel towards the cowards that caused them.
In a way slashdot is providing a service to the american public and the rest of the world by simply carrying on with what they do. Do not say this is trivial, do not say this is monstorous, do however say that this is the right thing for them to be doing. By doing this we are helping to fight off the evil that tried to demoralize and destroy the american people. Sometimes the most appropriate action is to not take action at all, to instead just go about your business. I think they are doing a good job at what they are supposed to do. Also, remember that this site doesn't just cater to the Americans, that it caters to the rest of the world as well, and i seriously doubt that they want to hear as much about the death and destruction as we will be hearing in the next couple days. Also, what you should be doing is saying prayers, giving blood, and donating money if you that that will help, complaining things online does nothing. Bitching will get you nowhere, only actions will.
Well, there is an atleast a few other IDEs out there and i know CodeWarrior is available for linux. I can't remember what all the features of it is as I don't use it anymore, I usually code in a CLI window having another open to run the compiler.
Also, what was so good about Visual Studio, i thought it was rather poor, there is much better for Windows than VS (Dev C++ is my personal favorite when i am working under Windows). The only thing that VS offers that it offers best is Visual Basic and we all know that VB isn't a real programming language now don't we:).
Also, on a side note i find Windows a bit more irritating to write for than Linux/Unix. (actually a bit more irritating in general, but that is a different story)
Trackballs work great for gaming, much better than this looks like it would. Plus if you don't like the way this mouse works why don't you just play with the settings or get a USB mouse that you just plug in for games. I wonder if i can use my tablet for controlling UT.
This is a very good suggestion, i have been using a Logitech trackball for years and the amount of pain my wrists give me is far less that it was 4 years ago when i actually used a mouse. It took no time to get used to using the trackball.
unfortunately for lefties out there, some of the trackballs seem to be only for righties, however switching hands for mouse work is a good idea anyways. The best ones that i have used are the logitech ones that have a ball that goes under the thumb and has a scrollwheel (I would give a model on that but my label has been worn out), these give me far less pain and troubles than those that have the ball in the middle. Works well in both X and MS windows, I just wish that MS knew what the hell a 3rd mouse button was for.
But I need all this space to store my MP3s, warez, pirated movies, and porn. Also think of the number of linux distros you could put on here. For the next step in storage lets try storing data as waves in murcury, or what about as strands of RNA and just read the encoding from there.
ATAPI is like a Ford Escort
SCSI is like a Ford Mustang
The mustang will always be nicer, but much more pricy than the Escort. (not that the local cops will actually pull you over for having SCSI as the local cops here have pulled over ppl for having mustangs just so they can look at it) As the Escort gets better so will the Mustang and in the end it will be the better performer.
the reason to keep them in wav format is so that they sound better (granted still not the best format for listening but a lot better than mp3's quality) besides if a friend wants an mp3 off of you, they just have to chill for a min or two while you make the mp3 for them at their settings not the ones that you chose.
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This is a good thing beleive it or not. It should mean that program files will be compatable across systems. Porting software to a bunch of different operating systems is a good way to get near perfect compatability between multiple different operating systems. This should in theory make a network work a little bit smoother for the user who will want to have the same program when he migrates from computer to computer.
I know when I migrated from SuSe to FreeBSD, some of my stuff didn't work right so I had to waste time changing it so that it did work right. However now that I have everything working correctly under FreeBSD there is almost no way in hell I will go back to any of the Linux distros (unless there was an EXTREME incentive to go back, which i doubt will ever happen).
If someone can come up with a reason why these ports are a waste of time i would really like to know. Until then I will lump them with the other stuff in my 'good things' catagory of software ideas. Also, if someone can come up with a VALID reason why Linux is a better operating system for me to be using, I would really like to know it as well.
Why would they want to make a system that you can hack up or play copied games on? That would be just stupid for them to do. I personally don't care if people hack it up, but for gods sake don't just copy games and not buy any. If you do that you will just make systems fail. The days when you could make prophet off of a console are long gone. The console companies need to sell games to make money now, as you can no longer make a prophet off of the console itself. If you don't sell the games then you won't survive in the industry.
You can thank sony for making it so that copied games hurt companies as badly as they do now. If it wasn't for sony companies would actually pull a profit from the console itself, instead they loose money every system sold. By buying the system and copying games for it you are hurting the company selling the console badly. If you like something you should always support it, if not you shouldn't use it. I am really getting tired of seeing the amount of copying and stealing going on in the game community it is sickening to me, i am sure it is sickening to the companies involved as well, and it should be sickening to any other developer as well.
Porting Linux/BSD/whatever to a console is a good thing, but for gods-sake don't off balance the industry by pirating your software. If you pirate software everyone but you is hurt in the processes. Because of you people who can't play by the rules we wind up with game prices being 50 bucks for a game and shit like that. Prohaps if you actually worked for something instead of stealing it (which actually is one of the problems with the open source community, if you download it and use it you should have to make a contribution or an improvement for them, freeloading is not the answer) you would value things more. Hell, who pays for the programmer who wrote the software if you just burn the game instead of paying for it.
This also explains why the game demographics get messed up so badly, people watch the sales not what games you actually are playing. If a game sells well than more games like it will come out. Same goes for things outside the videogame market. For christs sake people, copying intellectual property is bad, this is how we wind up with things like a mass of britney spears/n'sync clones out there, instead of the real bands.
You should always pay (not always monitarily) for anything you use. It doesn't matter what it is you use, you should always give something back to the community that provides it. Copying with out giving back is stealing, there is no way to justify it. If everyone was as selfish about things like this concept as a lot of the people here seem to be we are in a world of hurt further on down the line. It doesn't matter who you are if you don't contribute to a cause you only hurt it, and that is not the way our society should work. If you are not a team player get out, and this means you.
when will I see a system that does it right. they should make it have a custom disk size and check to make sure that the disk is the right size and not a copy (maybe a 4" disk and have the laser pull bits from there or have a special surface on the disk so that it sends back a different signal (color?)). Also I hope nintendo gets it right on the Gamecube and makes it so people can't play copied games on it.
actually iMacs do have a use in this world, just not one that you would expect. They make great X terminals, that is how we use them here. Other than that, you could get 2 of them and make bookends, or use them as door stops.
You know it really isn't about the Mhz so much as what the power of the processor is. How long will it take to get rid of this shitty Mhz myth that Intel seems to benifit so much from. You know tweeking a processor so that it does in two cycles what is normally done in one isn't a problem, also if i remember right Mot was measuring their Mhz differently than Intel was. Plus you know it will be a better processor when the G5 comes out even if this is a rumor. Mot has always had the better chips. so when will the horrid x86 arc finally die.
I hope this brings down the price on that dual-G4 desktop with superdrive in it. Damn those are fine peices of computing power, i need one with OSX on it. First I must get that, attach my tablet to it and off i go into the picture editing craze i went into when i got my 1.1 Ghz PC that I have now. Also, does anyone know of software on either PC or Mac that will let me use the tablet to replace my keyboard (thus making my desk look super-spiff and empty)?
On a side note: If anyone is looking at tablets out there, yes it is worth the extra money to get a Wacom tablet instead of the other ones that compUSA et al seem to have. AFAIK, Wacom is the only good brand I have seen in the computer stores around here for such devices.
This is exactly what should be going on. If the government can't check on the people that it governs it can't do its job. the FBI/CIA/NSA (of any country) should be allowed to do things like this, banning such activities makes the world less safe. The way to make an open society work best is to have the government monitoring for possible possible problems before they become serious. It sickens me the amount of talk about how we should try to ban the government from being able to decrypt things and wiretap 'net connections and so forth. This is exactly what they should be doing, it is their place to make sure that we are kept safe from dangers that we don't know about. You all complain about things like this, but this is a good way to deter things from happening, just like that security system sticker that people put on their windows. I am surprised that the US government isn't already keeping tabs on what people look at on the 'net. I honestly think that they should be tapping our connections to make sure that we are not sitting their getting people to join Bin Laden, submitting kiddy porn, downloading warez, and other activities that hurt society.
I am a supporter for strong rights of people, but the internet is a place that should stay monitored for illegal activities (and i am not talking about things as trivial as mp3s as i doubt the government really cares what mp3s you download). Personally I think this is a good first step towards a safer internet for people of all ages. I really don't see why every time a monitoring thing comes up in the news here you all get your panties in a twist.
what about the word in StarOffice. IMHO it is a better word processor than M$ Word, as well as it is free (or atleast it was last time i checked). Open? no. Free? yes. Granted RTF and HTML would have been better ones to pick, but IIRC there are some nasty things that can happen to RTF when using M$ Word (plus, isn't that one of their formats anyways?). HTML however I have never seen messed up.
On a side note: why don't they just release the document in an ascii text file, skip all these unnecessary formats. Also, why don't we see more of StarOffice in the world?
actually there are an insane number of DBZ episodes and they would probly like to run through the series about 6-8 times a year. However i would like to catch DBGT instead, as i don't think i caught that whole thing.
you know, if you don't want to read about anime on slashdot you can get yourself an account (like most of us here) and make it so that anything in the anime catagory doesn't appear. as an added bonus you will post at score: 1 instead of 0 as you do now being the AC that you are. You honestly don't think that a group is going to change what it does simply because you don't like do you, now that is just poor thinking.
What I really want to know is why everytime someone says that something like this happens everyone seems to froth at the mouth about how this is a violation of this and that. What you people need to realize is that you are sending mail on THEIR servers and it is THEIR right to do what THEY want with them, they are only letting you people use them. If they use carnivore and you don't like it go somewhere else. If the monitor your traffic and you don't like it, use a different service. If they read your email and you don't want them to, don't send email or go elsewhere. You know there is such a their rights to do business how they see fit. It isn't really your place to tell companies how they should be doing their business and how they should be conducting themselves. They are in this for the money not just to provide a service. If they think this will make their image look good then they will do it, if not they probly won't.
You see one of the great things about our society is that competition exists for everything (except in the occurence of a monopoly which for the most part mucks up the whole economy and the rest of society with it). Since competition exists, why don't you use it instead of complaining about what company A is doing. Go use company B if company A isn't working the way you want it to, that is what our society should do. Unfortunately it is people who just complain instead of doing something about it. The way our society works one person actually can make a difference and not just get lost in the crowd as we tend to think we will.
Big businesses tend to think that we won't do anything about their actions that surpress us little by little. They think this because they know that the american public has gotten lazy and slothful. We would rather fit in or do the easiest thing with is simply to complain and not do something. This is why we haven't made bills to protect us against things like DMCA and SSSCA and so forth. What we should do is get groups together to generate laws that protect us, the technology people in a time when the fasionable thing to do is pass laws to restrict what we can do with our computers.
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no *NIX and lots of women are teh components of a perfect world.
actually, the perfect world would have *NIX and women both and lots of it.
There is a game that was made where you could look around at the world around you using Quicktime VR. The way the game worked was you went from point to point where all you saw was one movie of your movement, then when you stopped you could look around via Quicktime VR. When it came out it was quite impressive, though looking back it isn't nearly as cool. The game was Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time (1998) and still to date is one of my favorite games.(bonus: it is not violent either)
What about Unreal 2 or do you not think that it will raise the bar on computer hardware needed. To be honest the only times i have upgraded were for Unreal and Unreal Tournament. I wonder if D3, Q4, RtCW, or U2 will make me need to upgrade my system to something a bit bigger. Any word on a *nix or mac release of this, because i am really getting tired of being in windows for my games.
the logical step in this will be to install Aquarious routers and have computers sit their and sift through your transmissions and redirecting it to the 'appropriate' parties, regardless of where you originally wanted it to go. After that the Illuminati come in take over completely and we become subject to their whims (or are we their already). How do we know that this isn't where this wedge of anti-freedom heads us to. Taking real power is always done in wedges, you can't get all the power you want all at once, you need to first insert the wedge then keep slamming on it harder and harder, driving it into the constitution until you can't pull it out with out serious problems.
it is their lame way of trying to keep people from posting goatse.cx links and other nasties with out putting anything else in the text. However, I haven't yet encountered this 'lameness filter' so i have no idea exactly how to trigger it and how not to, but that is my best guess.
Yeah but wingdings produces (skull&cross bones)(star of david)(thumbs up)
so M$ is saying thrying to tell me that killing jews is good? I should hope not, and here i thought gates was the second coming of christ. Where is this world heading. Why does our saviour, bill gates, want us to kill the jews in NYC? I am confused now, my world is shattering around me.
I agree with this fully. This is a good idea, if done right this will be a very good thing. I fail to see how this could be a bad thing. What we should also do is have a box that sits their and rapidly decodes things (maybe pass msgs to different boxes to be decoded on the hardware level, quickly browsed for combinations of words, re-encrypted and passed on, and if it falls into the 'risky' catagory it gets flagged and put on a HDD for evaluation). The would cut down on a lot of illegal activity through electronic communication.
uhm, don't know if you noticed this or not, but we spent a whole day covering that. To stop what we are doing to cover it more would be giving victory to the terrorists, we need to keep going. If we stop all that we do just because something horrorable happened then we loose, also covering this trivial stuff keeps peoples minds off of the atrocities that happened yesterday, and that is a good thing. Keeping the peoples minds off of the horrorable events will help the depression that we all feel towards the cowards that caused them.
In a way slashdot is providing a service to the american public and the rest of the world by simply carrying on with what they do. Do not say this is trivial, do not say this is monstorous, do however say that this is the right thing for them to be doing. By doing this we are helping to fight off the evil that tried to demoralize and destroy the american people. Sometimes the most appropriate action is to not take action at all, to instead just go about your business. I think they are doing a good job at what they are supposed to do. Also, remember that this site doesn't just cater to the Americans, that it caters to the rest of the world as well, and i seriously doubt that they want to hear as much about the death and destruction as we will be hearing in the next couple days. Also, what you should be doing is saying prayers, giving blood, and donating money if you that that will help, complaining things online does nothing. Bitching will get you nowhere, only actions will.
Well, there is an atleast a few other IDEs out there and i know CodeWarrior is available for linux. I can't remember what all the features of it is as I don't use it anymore, I usually code in a CLI window having another open to run the compiler. :).
Also, what was so good about Visual Studio, i thought it was rather poor, there is much better for Windows than VS (Dev C++ is my personal favorite when i am working under Windows). The only thing that VS offers that it offers best is Visual Basic and we all know that VB isn't a real programming language now don't we
Also, on a side note i find Windows a bit more irritating to write for than Linux/Unix. (actually a bit more irritating in general, but that is a different story)
Trackballs work great for gaming, much better than this looks like it would. Plus if you don't like the way this mouse works why don't you just play with the settings or get a USB mouse that you just plug in for games. I wonder if i can use my tablet for controlling UT.
This is a very good suggestion, i have been using a Logitech trackball for years and the amount of pain my wrists give me is far less that it was 4 years ago when i actually used a mouse. It took no time to get used to using the trackball.
unfortunately for lefties out there, some of the trackballs seem to be only for righties, however switching hands for mouse work is a good idea anyways. The best ones that i have used are the logitech ones that have a ball that goes under the thumb and has a scrollwheel (I would give a model on that but my label has been worn out), these give me far less pain and troubles than those that have the ball in the middle. Works well in both X and MS windows, I just wish that MS knew what the hell a 3rd mouse button was for.
But I need all this space to store my MP3s, warez, pirated movies, and porn. Also think of the number of linux distros you could put on here. For the next step in storage lets try storing data as waves in murcury, or what about as strands of RNA and just read the encoding from there.
ATAPI is like a Ford Escort
SCSI is like a Ford Mustang
The mustang will always be nicer, but much more pricy than the Escort. (not that the local cops will actually pull you over for having SCSI as the local cops here have pulled over ppl for having mustangs just so they can look at it) As the Escort gets better so will the Mustang and in the end it will be the better performer.
the reason to keep them in wav format is so that they sound better (granted still not the best format for listening but a lot better than mp3's quality) besides if a friend wants an mp3 off of you, they just have to chill for a min or two while you make the mp3 for them at their settings not the ones that you chose.