I also have a Windows machine and a Linux machine at home. I don't use the linux machine much though because the hardware it is running on isn't very good. How many people actually have the time and patience to install another operating system such as Lindows? Or even the patience to learn how to use something different from either Linux or Windows.
I'll buy a Apple computer someday too, but I'm waiting for Apple to make an iMac with a built in toaster. It would be perfect for my kitchen.
Actually, you could get an upgrade version of Windows for about $100. If you wanted a full version you would have to pay at least twice that. Still, I think that would be stupid to buy an emulated version of Windows, when I could have the full version and Linux on a dual boot config. If your software tools don't operate correctly, then who cares what operating system you are using.
I've been typing in Dvorak for at least 4 years and I do believe that it does help reduce stress. I'm just suprised that people don't at least try Dvorak. I think its silly that they teach students how to type incorrectly and frustrate them. They should at least tell students that there IS a differerent way of typing.
I think it is important to make sure that your work environment is as comfortable as possible. That means doing away with that old keyboard and deskchair.
I wonder if this technology could be used to create more advanced laser weapons. How long can you stop the light and how much can you hold? If there is essentially no limit, you could store enough energy to create a very powerful weapon, and then release it as an explosion of light.
Of course, it would have been prohibative to run that many coax cables to every home (you can only fit so many channels on one cable). Of course the telecom industry wants us to use video phones, but I don't really see why it is necessary. Right now we have the ability to easily send voice messages or use internet based telephone systems, but I still prefer to use e-mail.
Some Windows CE devices use an input method called Jot which is very similar to Graffiti. I'm suprised that Palm never sued over that. Maybe Xerox will go after Jot next? There are many other input methods that are actually better than Jot or Graffiti so I don't think this would be a problem.
I never found the battles in any of the Final Fantasy series entertaining, except for the occasional boss that added to the story line. I think the problem is that it is too easy to fight. If you actually do lose a battle, you can simply gain experience points until your characters are strong enough to defeat the enemy. They should make it more challenging then that. I also prefer interactive battles like in Secret of Mana where you can actually fight the enemy without using silly menu commands.
Code is unlikely to be that large. That would mean that you would have been typing 100,000,000 characters. I don't think that existing code libraries count, but original code does. Try to write a 1,000,000 character document and see how long it takes.
Rewrite the code in intercal to really impress people!
You're code base will go from over a meg to at least 10 times that, and as a bonus, no one will ever be able to understand it.
What if you're a contracter programming part of a missile defense system? I personally think they should just eliminate the income tax and only have a sales tax.
How does a cordless optical mouse not make noise? That hiss from the soundcard may be because it isn't designed very well. There should be a certain signal to noise ratio.
I was not aware that PGP had a backdoor. Who discovered this? There may be many even be loopholes with open source encryptian packages that are only known to some mathmaticians in the U.S. government. I don't think you can ever have 100% security with encryption.
Hmm... I wonder what color that photon is? How can they send a single photon through a fibre optic cable and not loose it and still be able to detect it?
That's why companies release Demos and shareware. Why do you believe you need to steal the full version of the software when the software developer usually gives you access to a copy that you can use for evaluation? "Try before you buy" is just another excuse warezers use to justify their immoral behavior.
I would say that billions in losses is correct considering how little they actually do enforce copyright law. If they didn't bother to enforce copyright laws at all than software companies would not make any money and would definitely loose billions. This is why they have to continue enforcing the anti-piracy laws even if it is mostly symbolic.
I'm not sure about the quality. Since most people only use CDR's to transfer data or make copies of their music CD's I would guess that quality probably isn't the most important thing to some manufactures. You can actually scratch a CD really badly and the computer will still read the CD. I did this on purpose once and also drew a picture on the CD and it still read. That might not mean that the files are 100% intact though. Error correction on the CD can only recover so much of the file and it won't give you a warning if something is wrong.
You will always make 100k a year or below, you will never get rich like bill gates. So why the hell make bill gates richer off of your services than he already is?
Have you ever heard of stock options?
Oh wait, you have shares in the company and want them to be successful, ok you may have shares, but why not let your company go out of business and put your shares into redhat or some company which is Open source?
Why would someone who works for a successful company and who has stock want their company to go out of business and then invest in a company that only sells a service? There are other companies besides Microsoft that sells and makes a living off of their software.
One reason is the amount of bandwidth that is available on the local LAN at the colleges. Also, students are more likely to meet people who have CD burners and such in this environment. And yes, college students don't have as much money to pay for software so they would rather steal it. What are some solutions to this?
You can often get student versions of software for much less than the commercial versions. You can usually find them in the book store of the college or through some websites. I've purchased quite a few products this way.
Some colleges are now requiring all students to pay a small fee ($100?) as part of their tuition and are then given a suite of Microsoft applications worth $1000. One thing I don't like about this is that it seems like they assume you are going to steal your software, so they charge you for something you may not even use or want.
I personally won't ever Warez because:
1. It's morally wrong (most important reason) and
2. I would be stealing from the industry I would be working for in the future.
I liked the intro music to the game. This was a great game to play with friends as it was one of the few that actually supported 2 player simultaneously back in the days of SNES. I spent quite a lot of time searching for the weapon orbs but I could never find all of them. I think there might have been a bug in the game because I had one weapon up to level 9, which I don't think was possible.
I really couldn't follow the story the first time I watched the movie. Try watching the DVD version with the commentary (there are two tracks of it!) turned on. After watching it this way I could actually understand and appreciate the plot, although I think they could have done a better job to explain the story better in the movie.
other cons: The acting wasn't very good. The characters lips did not match what they were saying.
Remember, the movie took almost 4 years to make. In a few years our video games will be able to render at this quality!
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They also had a silly VRML game at one time you could play based on the characters of this SGI demo. I have no idea where it went though. It was pretty slow on my 133Mhz 6x86 at the time so it didn't play very well. You basically just walked through a maze.
Final Fantasy Legend III
Unlike in previous Final Fantasy Legends, you don't choose the species of your party members
Actually, you could choose the species of your party by eating the meat from enemies you fight, or you could turn your character into a cyborg. I think the transformation went like: monster->beast->human->cyborg->robot.
It's the only FF game I had for the gameboy. I thought it was fun.
There are no such thing as USB extension cables. The USB specification warn against extension cables (use a USB hub instead). Also, monitor cables with extensions start to lose some signal strength or add interferance that can distort the picture.
It might be a requirement for some people to be able to store a file larger than 700Mb on one disk. Besides, maybe the cost of $16 is worth the convience of having all of your data on one DVD instead of a set of 5 or more CD's.
I probably won't be purchasing a DVD+RW drive any time soon because I have yet to use up that much data. I have 8 years of files that can still fit on a 100Mb zip disk.
Or, you can simply use the mouse in explorer, browse the network, right click on the network folder and select map network drive. A typical user can understand this because they can see the folders and the menu options instantly without having to memorize a parameter. I think the problem with Linux is that you cannot do as much using the mouse as you can with the command line.
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I also have a Windows machine and a Linux machine at home. I don't use the linux machine much though because the hardware it is running on isn't very good. How many people actually have the time and patience to install another operating system such as Lindows? Or even the patience to learn how to use something different from either Linux or Windows.
I'll buy a Apple computer someday too, but I'm waiting for Apple to make an iMac with a built in toaster. It would be perfect for my kitchen.
Actually, you could get an upgrade version of Windows for about $100. If you wanted a full version you would have to pay at least twice that. Still, I think that would be stupid to buy an emulated version of Windows, when I could have the full version and Linux on a dual boot config. If your software tools don't operate correctly, then who cares what operating system you are using.
I've been typing in Dvorak for at least 4 years and I do believe that it does help reduce stress. I'm just suprised that people don't at least try Dvorak. I think its silly that they teach students how to type incorrectly and frustrate them. They should at least tell students that there IS a differerent way of typing.
I think it is important to make sure that your work environment is as comfortable as possible. That means doing away with that old keyboard and deskchair.
I wonder if this technology could be used to create more advanced laser weapons. How long can you stop the light and how much can you hold? If there is essentially no limit, you could store enough energy to create a very powerful weapon, and then release it as an explosion of light.
Of course, it would have been prohibative to run that many coax cables to every home (you can only fit so many channels on one cable). Of course the telecom industry wants us to use video phones, but I don't really see why it is necessary. Right now we have the ability to easily send voice messages or use internet based telephone systems, but I still prefer to use e-mail.
Some Windows CE devices use an input method called Jot which is very similar to Graffiti. I'm suprised that Palm never sued over that. Maybe Xerox will go after Jot next? There are many other input methods that are actually better than Jot or Graffiti so I don't think this would be a problem.
I never found the battles in any of the Final Fantasy series entertaining, except for the occasional boss that added to the story line. I think the problem is that it is too easy to fight. If you actually do lose a battle, you can simply gain experience points until your characters are strong enough to defeat the enemy. They should make it more challenging then that. I also prefer interactive battles like in Secret of Mana where you can actually fight the enemy without using silly menu commands.
Code is unlikely to be that large. That would mean that you would have been typing 100,000,000 characters. I don't think that existing code libraries count, but original code does. Try to write a 1,000,000 character document and see how long it takes.
Rewrite the code in intercal to really impress people!
You're code base will go from over a meg to at least 10 times that, and as a bonus, no one will ever be able to understand it.
pork barrel missile defense systems
What if you're a contracter programming part of a missile defense system? I personally think they should just eliminate the income tax and only have a sales tax.
How does a cordless optical mouse not make noise? That hiss from the soundcard may be because it isn't designed very well. There should be a certain signal to noise ratio.
I was not aware that PGP had a backdoor. Who discovered this? There may be many even be loopholes with open source encryptian packages that are only known to some mathmaticians in the U.S. government. I don't think you can ever have 100% security with encryption.
Hmm... I wonder what color that photon is? How can they send a single photon through a fibre optic cable and not loose it and still be able to detect it?
That's why companies release Demos and shareware. Why do you believe you need to steal the full version of the software when the software developer usually gives you access to a copy that you can use for evaluation? "Try before you buy" is just another excuse warezers use to justify their immoral behavior.
I would say that billions in losses is correct considering how little they actually do enforce copyright law. If they didn't bother to enforce copyright laws at all than software companies would not make any money and would definitely loose billions. This is why they have to continue enforcing the anti-piracy laws even if it is mostly symbolic.
I'm not sure about the quality. Since most people only use CDR's to transfer data or make copies of their music CD's I would guess that quality probably isn't the most important thing to some manufactures. You can actually scratch a CD really badly and the computer will still read the CD. I did this on purpose once and also drew a picture on the CD and it still read. That might not mean that the files are 100% intact though. Error correction on the CD can only recover so much of the file and it won't give you a warning if something is wrong.
You will always make 100k a year or below, you will never get rich like bill gates. So why the hell make bill gates richer off of your services than he already is? Have you ever heard of stock options?
Oh wait, you have shares in the company and want them to be successful, ok you may have shares, but why not let your company go out of business and put your shares into redhat or some company which is Open source?
Why would someone who works for a successful company and who has stock want their company to go out of business and then invest in a company that only sells a service? There are other companies besides Microsoft that sells and makes a living off of their software.
One reason is the amount of bandwidth that is available on the local LAN at the colleges. Also, students are more likely to meet people who have CD burners and such in this environment. And yes, college students don't have as much money to pay for software so they would rather steal it. What are some solutions to this?
You can often get student versions of software for much less than the commercial versions. You can usually find them in the book store of the college or through some websites. I've purchased quite a few products this way.
Some colleges are now requiring all students to pay a small fee ($100?) as part of their tuition and are then given a suite of Microsoft applications worth $1000. One thing I don't like about this is that it seems like they assume you are going to steal your software, so they charge you for something you may not even use or want.
I personally won't ever Warez because:
1. It's morally wrong (most important reason) and
2. I would be stealing from the industry I would be working for in the future.
I liked the intro music to the game. This was a great game to play with friends as it was one of the few that actually supported 2 player simultaneously back in the days of SNES. I spent quite a lot of time searching for the weapon orbs but I could never find all of them. I think there might have been a bug in the game because I had one weapon up to level 9, which I don't think was possible.
I really couldn't follow the story the first time I watched the movie. Try watching the DVD version with the commentary (there are two tracks of it!) turned on. After watching it this way I could actually understand and appreciate the plot, although I think they could have done a better job to explain the story better in the movie.
other cons: The acting wasn't very good. The characters lips did not match what they were saying.
Remember, the movie took almost 4 years to make. In a few years our video games will be able to render at this quality!
They also had a silly VRML game at one time you could play based on the characters of this SGI demo. I have no idea where it went though. It was pretty slow on my 133Mhz 6x86 at the time so it didn't play very well. You basically just walked through a maze.
Final Fantasy Legend III Unlike in previous Final Fantasy Legends, you don't choose the species of your party members
Actually, you could choose the species of your party by eating the meat from enemies you fight, or you could turn your character into a cyborg. I think the transformation went like: monster->beast->human->cyborg->robot.
It's the only FF game I had for the gameboy. I thought it was fun.
and scratches or dust on a DVD are not a problem? I have even had problems with CDROM backups that have had scratches or write problems with them.
There are no such thing as USB extension cables. The USB specification warn against extension cables (use a USB hub instead). Also, monitor cables with extensions start to lose some signal strength or add interferance that can distort the picture.
It might be a requirement for some people to be able to store a file larger than 700Mb on one disk. Besides, maybe the cost of $16 is worth the convience of having all of your data on one DVD instead of a set of 5 or more CD's.
I probably won't be purchasing a DVD+RW drive any time soon because I have yet to use up that much data. I have 8 years of files that can still fit on a 100Mb zip disk.
Or, you can simply use the mouse in explorer, browse the network, right click on the network folder and select map network drive. A typical user can understand this because they can see the folders and the menu options instantly without having to memorize a parameter. I think the problem with Linux is that you cannot do as much using the mouse as you can with the command line.