Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has. On the front bezel of the BeBox, there are two bar graphs made of green lights. Each graph represents the amount of work each CPU is doing - you can tell at a glance whether the application you're running is taxing the machine's processors or not.
At the special meeting of it stockholders, held on November 12, 2001, Be's stockholders approved the sale of substantially all of its intellectual property and other technology assets to Palm, Inc. and the dissolution of Be through the adoption of a plan of dissolution.
Panasonic Says No DVD/GameCube Hybrid in U.S.
Audio/Video
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A hybrid DVD player and Nintendo (news - web sites)
GameCube video game console set for a December launch in Japan will not be
released in the United States at all, a spokesman for Panasonic said on
Friday.
Earlier this week in Tokyo, Panasonic, the consumer electronics brand of
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (6752.T), unveiled the "Q,'' which
is a combination of a DVD player and Nintendo's new console.
"It's simply a Japan device.... Right now there are absolutely no plans for
U.S. marketing,'' said Kurt Praschak, a Panasonic spokesman.
The GameCube itself uses a smaller disc than the standard DVD format and is
unable to play DVDs. The two companies announced earlier this year that
Panasonic would produce its own unit with licensed GameCube technology.
Panasonic plans to sell the device from Dec. 14 in Japan for the equivalent
of around $325.
The two main competitors to the GameCube in the U.S. console market, the
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Xbox (news - web sites) and the Sony
Corp (news - web sites). (6758.T) PlayStation 2 (news - web sites), both can
play DVDs.
The GameCube will launch on Nov. 18 at a retail price of $199. The Xbox
launches on Nov. 15 at $299. The PS2, which launched in the U.S. in November
2000, also sells for $299.
Nintendo has said repeatedly in the past that its hardware is secondary to
its games, and that it is not concerned with putting features like DVD
playback in its devices.
A Nintendo spokesman said he was unaware if there were any licensing
restriction in Panasonic's deal with Nintendo that would keep the "Q'' from
being released in the United States.
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4 Monitors on my desk, 5 PC's under it.
you get waves in the screen.
If I hung some LCD's on the wall....*reaches for the VISA card*
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=1319992444
Like, schools for the deaf :)
Microsoft would love to get this to work with XP's copy protection
I can't remember where I read this, it may have been in the Allegro documentation.
All good things must come to an end. Unfortunately, documentation isn't a good thing
Pretty much sums it up, don't you think?
Chicken in a Biskit!
Directory of C:\WINNT\system32
07/26/2000 05:00p 69,886 edit.com
1 File(s) 69,886 bytes
Personally, my all-time favorite
Speed, and lots of it. Stay up for 1 or 2 weeks! Then sleep for 1 or 2 days!
After the first all nighter, Caffiene is rendered useless. Then ya gotta hit the hard stuff.
You'll look like a saggy black eyed zombie tho.
You don't want to hack a laptop up (at least I don't)
I would do the stickers/paint thing...
I'm cancelling mine....Since @Home went under. Charter Communications has decided this:
I'm getting 256/128 service now...instead of 1.5mbs/384
$10 more a month, since I don't get cable TV.
$7.95 Cable modem rental!?
$4.53 in misc tax FCC etc franchise fees
On top of that, it hardly works!
Taking away static IP's!
They filter all the good ports...which is a main reason to have it...
I've went from $49.95 to nearly $70!
Even at $49.95, it's still pretty expensive. DSL in my area costs more! Slower! More restrictions! $100 setup fee!
"Country Bumpkins" don't care enough about that fangled Internet thing to demand Broadband.
I used to work at a big computer/electronics store.
You'd be amazed at the amount of people who'd travel 50 and even 100+ miles to come to our store.
Rural areas are havens of computer users. Deer Hunter used to be the #1 selling game, for pete's sake!
I'm running MkLinux, so I use BootX. There's YaBoot too.
DVD+RW on Linux
No, it's more of the fact that they'd include USB 1.1 (obsolete) in favor of 2.0
True, but remember that: 600mhz P3 = 1998 600mhz G4 = 2001
640k? How many home users do you know that require more than this?
Sarcasm aside....Most office LAN's don't have gig ethernet....but regardless, the rest of Apple's lineup have them
Well, just put it on the list of upgrades for the next iMac.
It also doesn't have gig ethernet, like the other G4's do....
I'm sure www.be.com is worth some dough!
Plus, the BeBox has one amazingly impressive feature that no other machine in the world has. On the front bezel of the BeBox, there are two bar graphs made of green lights. Each graph represents the amount of work each CPU is doing - you can tell at a glance whether the application you're running is taxing the machine's processors or not.
My IBM AS/400 and NetFinity's have those...
At the special meeting of it stockholders, held on November 12, 2001, Be's stockholders approved the sale of substantially all of its intellectual property and other technology assets to Palm, Inc. and the dissolution of Be through the adoption of a plan of dissolution.
Many people, including myself, cast the Game Cube aside orginally.
People think it is Kiddy.
Although Nintendo's big cash cow is the 5-13 year old Pokemon crowd, that fad is nearly gone.
Let's remember these are video games, and they are supposed to be kiddy and fun.
Super Mario Brothers 3 is a game I still play, to this day! As is the original Donkey Kong. Sure, it's cartoony, no photo-realism, no blood and gore.
Doesn't matter, they're fun.
I for one, think games should be fun, and not super realism. There are exceptions, like Flight Simulators.
There are some VERY cool games coming out for the GameCube. Remember other Nintendo classics such as Metroid?
The Playstation 2 doesn't do 5.1 during games, just cutscenes.
The XBOX can.
The Nintendo GameCube can't, but the Panasonic model can.
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Panasonic Says No DVD/GameCube Hybrid in U.S.
Audio/Video
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A hybrid DVD player and Nintendo (news - web sites)
GameCube video game console set for a December launch in Japan will not be
released in the United States at all, a spokesman for Panasonic said on
Friday.
Earlier this week in Tokyo, Panasonic, the consumer electronics brand of
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (6752.T), unveiled the "Q,'' which
is a combination of a DVD player and Nintendo's new console.
"It's simply a Japan device.
U.S. marketing,'' said Kurt Praschak, a Panasonic spokesman.
The GameCube itself uses a smaller disc than the standard DVD format and is
unable to play DVDs. The two companies announced earlier this year that
Panasonic would produce its own unit with licensed GameCube technology.
Panasonic plans to sell the device from Dec. 14 in Japan for the equivalent
of around $325.
The two main competitors to the GameCube in the U.S. console market, the
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Xbox (news - web sites) and the Sony
Corp (news - web sites). (6758.T) PlayStation 2 (news - web sites), both can
play DVDs.
The GameCube will launch on Nov. 18 at a retail price of $199. The Xbox
launches on Nov. 15 at $299. The PS2, which launched in the U.S. in November
2000, also sells for $299.
Nintendo has said repeatedly in the past that its hardware is secondary to
its games, and that it is not concerned with putting features like DVD
playback in its devices.
A Nintendo spokesman said he was unaware if there were any licensing
restriction in Panasonic's deal with Nintendo that would keep the "Q'' from
being released in the United States.
So now, the XBOX isn't the only console which can do this during regular game play. Granted, the game has to support it, but the hardware does.
If you can install a sound card you can replace your spark plugs.
There's very infamous cars with spark plugs.
Anyone can change plugs on an overhead cam honda, but on engines where you can't SEE the plugs, it's a whole nother story.
sound cards are sound cards, installing them is cake in almost any computer.