When you can just get a Touchpad Mouse that'll probably do the same and be more compact to "slip easily into your travel bag as the perfect external USB pointer for your laptop."
Every time some new, cool tech gadget comes out here, i talk to my friend from Tokyo and he tells me he had it a year ago.
The way I took this -- and I could be dead wrong -- is that US companies watch these newer, cool gadgets get released into foreign markets and sit back and watch. I'm sure they do studies on how well the products work and what could be improved. Once the product has been proven a success, improvements are made and bugs are flushed out, then the product is release in the US.
I'm also pretty sure that the every cool gadget that Japan gets before we do, there are a dozen gadgets that fail miserably quickly in Japan and would never see the light of day in the US in the first place.
With the development of much smaller PC's, built in video out to TV on graphics cards, and USB controllers that are just like console ones, I think it's entirely possible for PC's to behave just as a console does.
Even if it is possible to do side-by-side multiplayer gaming with a PC, the sheer number of games that allow this is small. Also, think about the steps required to play on a PC versus a console in that situation:
On a PC:
Head out of the cozy living room into your wreck of a computer room with a couple of barstools for your buds to sit on.
Boot up the computer...wait...wait
WinXP is popping up a reminder to install updates. Better do that...nah, let's skip it.
Locate game CD. Insert into drive. Start game. Wait...wait...
Oh *^%# forgot to hook up the controllers...where the heck did I put those...?
Locate controllers, hook them up. AH &^#$!! Need to reboot. Goto step 2, else continue.
Playing game now...WTF?! Crash?! Guess you shouldn't have ignored step 3.
On a console:
Gather friends around the cozy couch in front of your 27" TV.
Turn on console. Insert game CD.
Play.
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Doesn't anyone recall Spielberg's Amazing Stories? I'm a huge fan of Twilight Zone, and these were similar shows to that. However, I believe just as with Taken, Spielberg did not wright all of the episodes -- he just had his name attached to the series.
So when MS catches "Wind" of this...
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...how long before they sue the maker for using "Win" in its name?
"because in 5-10 years from now, IDE may not even exist anymore..."
In that case, you could always just buy a new, cheap system for the purpose of reading the IDE disks, and keep that in the vault with the drives "just in case".
I'm not saying this idea with backing up to IDE is a good idea, though. Drop a tape on the floor while you're running to the tape drives for a critical restore, no biggie. Drop a drive on the floor in the same situation, you'd better hope your resume wasn't one of the files needing a restore.
"My biggest frustration is the page size limit. When visiting a page such as E-Bay that has dozens of listings, the page cuts off and displays a warning about the page being too large. You can't get to the end of it then! I don't know if this problem is caused by the physical viewing size of the page (since webtv resizes things and makes pages much longer), or the time it takes to download."
It's probably the limited physical memory in the WebTV -- there's only so much it can download before it'll get used up.
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Is it just me, or is Michael Crichton starting to write screenplays instead of books?
It's not just you. I had the same exact feeling from Timeline. I hadn't read a Crichton since Jurrasic Park, then I picked up Timeline and the difference in his writing style was huge. As soon as they introduced the character in Timeline who was a Medeival nut (forget his name), it was painfully obvious how, in a movie, it would end. Sure enough, he ended the book that way and I just felt let down.
I'm doing this now at Boston University. If you take one class a semester, it's only a one night a week (3 hours, 6pm-9pm) class that lasts a standard semester. I believe WPI also offers this.
But of course, this is only useful if you live in East. MA.
Why not just get a small pack of blank business card sized CDRs and throw whatever bootable OS you want on it. Carry the OS and whatever other files you want in your wallet. Works for me, and most current BIOS's will at least boot via CD.
a hair net (or hat) and a dust mask (just to keep the drive safe from you)
Go to your bathroom and turn on the shower for about 10 minutes on hot, so there is lots of steam in there. Then, take the box fan and blow the steam out of the bathroom, this will catch all the particles of dust that hang in the air and blow them with the steam outside of the bathroom.
I can't tell if they announced the final decree in the Microsoft case, or if they're trying to say the employees of Microsoft caught some kind of new STD.
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That's how a bunch of us get to work.
When you can just get a Touchpad Mouse that'll probably do the same and be more compact to "slip easily into your travel bag as the perfect external USB pointer for your laptop."
The way I took this -- and I could be dead wrong -- is that US companies watch these newer, cool gadgets get released into foreign markets and sit back and watch. I'm sure they do studies on how well the products work and what could be improved. Once the product has been proven a success, improvements are made and bugs are flushed out, then the product is release in the US.
I'm also pretty sure that the every cool gadget that Japan gets before we do, there are a dozen gadgets that fail miserably quickly in Japan and would never see the light of day in the US in the first place.
Even if it is possible to do side-by-side multiplayer gaming with a PC, the sheer number of games that allow this is small. Also, think about the steps required to play on a PC versus a console in that situation:
On a PC:
On a console:
Doesn't anyone recall Spielberg's Amazing Stories ? I'm a huge fan of Twilight Zone, and these were similar shows to that. However, I believe just as with Taken, Spielberg did not wright all of the episodes -- he just had his name attached to the series.
...how long before they sue the maker for using "Win" in its name?
$5,000 from Moldy Muffins (5,000 @ $1 each)
Hey what is this, the MMORPG 12-Days of Christmas?
On the 11th day of Christmas, a newbie gave to me, Two Moldy Muffins
...Uber Swords of Slaying
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In that case, you could always just buy a new, cheap system for the purpose of reading the IDE disks, and keep that in the vault with the drives "just in case".
I'm not saying this idea with backing up to IDE is a good idea, though. Drop a tape on the floor while you're running to the tape drives for a critical restore, no biggie. Drop a drive on the floor in the same situation, you'd better hope your resume wasn't one of the files needing a restore.
It's probably the limited physical memory in the WebTV -- there's only so much it can download before it'll get used up.
That is unless the 911 Virus has been fixed.
Now when someone says, "stay away from him -- he's got some kind of virus," it won't just mean someone's got the flu.
You could always just do it with Good ol' Calculus.
It's not just you. I had the same exact feeling from Timeline. I hadn't read a Crichton since Jurrasic Park, then I picked up Timeline and the difference in his writing style was huge. As soon as they introduced the character in Timeline who was a Medeival nut (forget his name), it was painfully obvious how, in a movie, it would end. Sure enough, he ended the book that way and I just felt let down.
For those who are interested: WU2WAV
Err wait a minute, they're cooling with sound...ummm nevermind. Move along.
"Ee Peach View. EIEIO."
We use Iron Mountain for an off-site location for storing our backup tapes, but they're pricey and certainly overkill for home backups.
But of course, this is only useful if you live in East. MA.
Why not just get a small pack of blank business card sized CDRs and throw whatever bootable OS you want on it. Carry the OS and whatever other files you want in your wallet. Works for me, and most current BIOS's will at least boot via CD.
I may not run Doom II, but is it just me or are the button labels on that PDA the same as a Playstation 2?
"Hey j4cka55es! WTF is up with me not bein able to rip yor CDs and pirate them off to peeps?
Peace,
Mr. xxx!"
Hm, could someone send a mass-broadcast virus this way?
- saran wrap
- latex gloves
- a good box fan
- a hair net (or hat) and a dust mask (just to keep the drive safe from you)
Go to your bathroom and turn on the shower for about 10 minutes on hot, so there is lots of steam in there. Then, take the box fan and blow the steam out of the bathroom, this will catch all the particles of dust that hang in the air and blow them with the steam outside of the bathroom....or do the guys on the top of the Nokia 8910i page look like members of 'Sprockets'?
I can't tell if they announced the final decree in the Microsoft case, or if they're trying to say the employees of Microsoft caught some kind of new STD.