The echoes of my triumphant "YES!!!" upon first solving the Babelfish puzzle still resound through the structure of my parents' house, lo these decades later.
This clearly means you still live at home... : p
And for some reason, I always thought the 5 senses puzzle was harder to solve (the first time) than the babelfish one. At least with the babelfish puzzle, it was just a matter of trial and error. A whole lot of it, but T&E nonetheless...
Agreed. The Mr Show DVDs are like this. After you select an episode, a screen pops up asking if you want to watch it with commentary (Yes/No). I can never tell which one is highlighted by default, and moving the cursor doesn't help the situation. It just reverses the colors on the two options... : /
On a lot of those long animated transitions you can usually hit the select/OK button again and it will skip the animation and go straight to the menu. Or press the menu button twice to get to the main menu (if there's an intro sequence before the main menu).
How many of those AMD systems were overclocked? If you're living in a house of geeks with a dozen homebuilt systems, I can guarantee more than a few will be overclocked. And we all know that it's easier to overclock AMD chips than Intel.
Does this mean that/. will eventually make podcasts available? I know I'd love to be able to listen to Taco reading the most highly modded comments, or CowboyNeil reading all the -1 Troll comments...
Maybe it's because having to save all your work, rebooting, rebooting again when your game is done, and restoring all your applications to the right state is a HUGE WASTE OF TIME
And spending hours playing WoW or Halflife isn't? I agree with you about it being a pain, but by calling it a "waste of time" you ain't gonna get any sympathy from me...
I'm sure the default setting of creating an admin level user with no password at install time, and then having it set to automatically log them in has nothing to do with it...
Hey troll, please explain HOW this makes more sense from a usability perspective. I've seen two or three posts from you saying "MS program managers made the decision based on usability tests," which as far as I'm concerned means jack shit. Give us several examples of how this came about as a usability decision...Go ahead, I'm waiting...
Please elaborate. I don't believe I've ever come across a Mac app in 10+ years where the menu items change depending on which window you have selected. Sure, some items are greyed out depending on context, but the actual menus don't change...As I said, please elaborate on your statement.
No kidding. I mean, I came across this one blog once that was just a whole ton of dorks sitting around talking about "penguins" (must be code for something) and "hacking" things...What a bunch of losers...
I used some freeware prog I found online once to retrieve images from a corrupted CompactFlash card. I'm assuming a new market for retrieval tools would be created for flash based HDs (assuming modifications to existing utils wouldn't work).
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The echoes of my triumphant "YES!!!" upon first solving the Babelfish puzzle still resound through the structure of my parents' house, lo these decades later.
This clearly means you still live at home... : p
And for some reason, I always thought the 5 senses puzzle was harder to solve (the first time) than the babelfish one. At least with the babelfish puzzle, it was just a matter of trial and error. A whole lot of it, but T&E nonetheless...
Agreed. The Mr Show DVDs are like this. After you select an episode, a screen pops up asking if you want to watch it with commentary (Yes/No). I can never tell which one is highlighted by default, and moving the cursor doesn't help the situation. It just reverses the colors on the two options... : /
On a lot of those long animated transitions you can usually hit the select/OK button again and it will skip the animation and go straight to the menu. Or press the menu button twice to get to the main menu (if there's an intro sequence before the main menu).
Not to mention that you could pull off the rubber coating for the stick and slap it onto the TV as a big suction cup...
I can't wait to hear the rationalization given for this by some clueless people out there: "But it sounds more than 2.5x better than 5.1!"
...large perspiring underground mammals.
I'm trying to figure out what this would be, but can't come up with anything. Any help here?
How many of those AMD systems were overclocked? If you're living in a house of geeks with a dozen homebuilt systems, I can guarantee more than a few will be overclocked. And we all know that it's easier to overclock AMD chips than Intel.
And Intel has never shipped a defective chip?
Does this mean that /. will eventually make podcasts available? I know I'd love to be able to listen to Taco reading the most highly modded comments, or CowboyNeil reading all the -1 Troll comments...
So "free" means I need to have two cell phone plans and a VoIP plan? Sign me up!
*ding*ding*ding*ding*
We have a winner!
Maybe it's because having to save all your work, rebooting, rebooting again when your game is done, and restoring all your applications to the right state is a HUGE WASTE OF TIME
And spending hours playing WoW or Halflife isn't? I agree with you about it being a pain, but by calling it a "waste of time" you ain't gonna get any sympathy from me...
Okay, I could understand missing the quotes, but did you miss the italics, too?
I believe slashdot has reached a new level of gayness...
I'm sure the default setting of creating an admin level user with no password at install time, and then having it set to automatically log them in has nothing to do with it...
Hey troll, please explain HOW this makes more sense from a usability perspective. I've seen two or three posts from you saying "MS program managers made the decision based on usability tests," which as far as I'm concerned means jack shit. Give us several examples of how this came about as a usability decision...Go ahead, I'm waiting...
Please elaborate. I don't believe I've ever come across a Mac app in 10+ years where the menu items change depending on which window you have selected. Sure, some items are greyed out depending on context, but the actual menus don't change...As I said, please elaborate on your statement.
The name works purely because Universal Studios has released a few things on UMD. Nuff said...
Oh, c'mon! Like that's all gonna happen at the same time. Be realisitc here...
I would rather see them refer to slashdot as /. (or as many *nix using dyslexic slashdotters say ./)
Because blogs aren't gay enough already.
No kidding. I mean, I came across this one blog once that was just a whole ton of dorks sitting around talking about "penguins" (must be code for something) and "hacking" things...What a bunch of losers...
Install OS 9 on it and it won't even last 6 months... : p
I used some freeware prog I found online once to retrieve images from a corrupted CompactFlash card. I'm assuming a new market for retrieval tools would be created for flash based HDs (assuming modifications to existing utils wouldn't work).
The extra bonus: Apple gets to sell you a new one after 1,000 or so boots... : p
Yup...Sure do...