WOW! I loved Joe Versus The Volcano, and until now I thought I was the only person in the world to like that movie.
One of the other things I liked was the visual gimmick whereby they repeatedly showed that jagged line (lightning bolt-type line) throughout, in scene after scene. I don't know what that meant, but it certainly was neat.
I've ranted about Yamaha on many web forums previously, so I'll be brief here.
In a nutshell, I bought a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW drive about 3 or 4 years ago for about $300. Within 2 months it died. For over a year Yamaha Tech Support (including Phone, Fax, & Email) absolutely, stubbornly insisted the problems were software-related, in spite of the fact that I had tried the drive with multiple software packages, on 3 different PCs running 3 different OSes.
Then, one day I worked up the energy to call them yet again for help. This time, with a record of my previous contacts right in front of him, a rep told me that "the burner certainly did seem to be broken, sorry, and oh yeah, it was out of warranty so he couldn't do anything for me. But in a few weeks there was going to be an unadvertised promotion whereby I could trade in my old unit for a discount on a brand-new one, so I should call back in a few weeks." He adamantly refused to let me speak to a supervisor, repeatedly claiming he was the top guy and there was nobody above him I could speak to.
Since then I've refused to knowingly buy anything from Yamaha (including a Ford SHO with a Yamaha-engine), and I've told anybody that will listen about this.
I only hope this is the start of a steady downfall for the crooks.
(Sorry, I tried to be brief, but got carried away...)
Well, this is possibly inappropriate for a family-oriented website, but the rumor is that A: is planning on running off to participate in an illicit life of hedonistic passion with B: and Channel 1.
On the one hand, yes, it's true the money & effort could have been used for more noble, benevolent purposes.
On the other hand, however, this could be viewed as support of culture and art. I haven't watched enough Farscape to make that determination for myself, but it's a valid consideration.
Of course, in every group there are always some people who feel no resources should be, in their opinion, wasted on endeavours like space exploration, culture/arts projects, entertainment ventures, etc... so long as there is poverty and suffering going on somewhere. I disagree.
I believe that there is no chance, ever, that every single expenditure could be used to improve every poor soul's lot prior to funding something more 'frivolous'. Given that, I hope the less fortunate are helped wherever possible, but I don't begrudge efforts to pursue other achievements.
If you'd read the article, which btw, is the shortest article I've ever linked to from a Slashdot post, you'd have read that the X-Box remains banned EVEN IF THE MOD CHIP IS REMOVED. So, to 'unmod' your console would simply be a waste of time and effort.
As noted, a similar product was mentioned earlier. In response to the earlier article, I replied that I had used a very similar product, and it was extremely low quality, unplayable junk.
I still recommend you try this before buying it, or at least verify return policies. It'd be a shame to give these out as gifts only to find the games aren't playable.
It must be idyllic to live in a town with such a low crime rate the police are this responsive:
Mr. Runner, 55, of 4561 Westbourne Ct., Sylvania, resigned as Waterville solicitor in March, 2001, after a covert police surveillance operation videotaped him stealing coffee, creamer, and paper from village supplies.
Actually, I have spent a lot of time following Dreamcast doings on various videogame-related websites & newsgroups, and my understanding is that the after-market BBAs were NOT compatible with the BBA-enabled games. The difference in value is not solely du to lesser collectability.
Why (or whether) the games don't simply use a hardware-abstracting driver, thus allowing the use of any standard IP connection, I don't know. But it was made clear to online Dreamcast enthusiasts that the Asian BBAs would not allow Dreamcast players to play their BBA-compatible games; it was only useful for ethernet networking for other reasons (hacking/hobbyist pursuits). I don't know if they were compatible with the Dreamcast web browsers.
Once I learned the above, I didn't bother pursuing one myself, even when I found one for under $50. With the new units coming out at ncsx, I'm curious to find out if the above holds true for them, or even if it was ever true to begin with. It certainly doesn't seem likely.
>>> The only problem was that on occasion I would accidently make the gesture for "close window" and my pages would magically disappear.
I used to encounter this same problem, and a handy suggestion pointed out to me was to enable the 'Confirm Exit' option in Preferences|Starting & Exiting . I haven't unintentionally closed Opera since, and I use mouse gestures in Opera without thinking about it every single day.
Unfortunately, I also tend to hit a site that requires IE about once/day, and almost always try to use mouse gestures there too. Of course the only consequence is having to wait for IE to pop up a slowly-drawn context menu that I can then use. It's a small, daily annoyance.
I have a similar, low-interest/low bandwidth server running over my DSL line in my basement.
I chose SPEAKEASY as my ISP specifically because their TOS explicitly allows the operation of servers, provided the bandwidth consumption isn't excessive and you aren't running child-porn servers or other illegal activities.
Just to be clear, will the finished product be freely available to all? I read the article, and it seems that way to me, but I'm unsure & don't want to get my hopes up too much.
It certainly seems a little farfetched to expect that out of the blue we'll get an Outlook/Exchange replacement at no cost.
Seriously, how is this mocking your religion, or any other for that matter? How is this an example of using Star Wars to persecute your church? So far you're the only person in this discussion that even knows to which religion/church you adhere.
I try to be very mindful and respectful of others, and I don't see why what these people did is harmful or demeaning in any way to any religion or church. It's possible I could have been one of those pranksters. If you can explain why it is so offensive, it might allow me to avoid perpetrating a similar offense myself.
On the one hand, I like, and use, Opera's integrated email program daily. I have few complaints about it.
On the other hand, the integrated newsreader is hardly better than something I would write in QBASIC (at least in Opera 5.12), and I'm not a good programmer.
I assume you meant W3C? At any rate, the first reply to my question answered what I was asking. Unless I misunderstand your answer (& the other reply below), you aren't answering my question, at least not satisfactorily.
My point was that there has to be some sort of reference. Unless the W3C has a reference-browser with which to view pages, I didn't see how one could specify what was 'perfect'. If IE, Moz, NS, & Opera all adhere to the specific standards published, and yet things appear different on-screen, which is correct?
The explanation that used the GIF & background color makes sense, and answered my original question.
This just provoked a thought in my dull brain: How exactly is(should) www-rendering (be) defined?
What I mean is, assume the designer of the original page wrote the page, using IE to view it as he/she wrote the code. Now, he or she gets it looking as intended. They then use a couple of other browsers to test it's compatibility, and publishes the page. In this case, wouldn't the standard against which to compare be however IE renders the page? Or, to put it another way, IE would BE the standard, and therefore would render it 100% accurately.
Simply change which browser the original designer started with, and in that case that browser would render 100% correctly.
Obviously I'm missing something here, and being very dense, but I'm tired and don't see it myself. What am I missing? How can rendering-accuracy be quantified?
Shortly after the Zip drive hit the scene, the LS-120 Superdisk came out. Nearly every PC BIOS I've seen over the last 5 years supports it as a bootable device, it is backward-compatible with the 1.44mb floppy, and it holds 120mb on each disk.
I *think*, but am not sure, that the media cost is about the same as a Zip disk (maybe $10 each?).
I've only seen one outside of a store or website once, though. It seems to me consumers by & large had no interest in this product.
So don't automatically blame the manufacturers for this one. It looks to me like they produced a solution & nobody wanted it.
I can't state the obligatory IANAL strongly enough, but would it be possible to subpoena somebody digitally (I.e., email) ? If so, could the subpoeana be crafted in such a way that decoding it would violate the DMCA?
If a person is served, are they legally obligated to respond? If so, and if the fact that they can see the subpoena indicates they've violated the DMCA, and if this is possible to do, then it seems to me somebody obviously more knowledgeable about this than myself should send something like this to Senator Hollings, among others.
(Though the whole idea of subpoenaing someone for reading the subpoena seems a bit recursive to me.)
Obviously these are all anecdotal, unusably small samples, so take it all with a grain of salt.
Having said that, in my experience (fyi within the US), 2 or 3 years ago EVERYBODY that IM'd was on AIM. They may have been the only IM in existence, for all anybody knew. (aside: were they in fact the only IM around?)
Currently, I know only a few people that use AIM. Almost everybody I know, including every person I know through work (IT-related), uses Yahoo Pager (Y!). I know one MSN Messenger user, and no ICQ folks.
So, from my perspective it seems everyone has abandoned AOL and moved to Yahoo.
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WOW! I loved Joe Versus The Volcano, and until now I thought I was the only person in the world to like that movie.
One of the other things I liked was the visual gimmick whereby they repeatedly showed that jagged line (lightning bolt-type line) throughout, in scene after scene. I don't know what that meant, but it certainly was neat.
If he smells (assumedly bad) and never changes his clothes, how likely is it there would be any used condoms?
I've ranted about Yamaha on many web forums previously, so I'll be brief here.
In a nutshell, I bought a Yamaha SCSI CD-RW drive about 3 or 4 years ago for about $300. Within 2 months it died. For over a year Yamaha Tech Support (including Phone, Fax, & Email) absolutely, stubbornly insisted the problems were software-related, in spite of the fact that I had tried the drive with multiple software packages, on 3 different PCs running 3 different OSes.
Then, one day I worked up the energy to call them yet again for help. This time, with a record of my previous contacts right in front of him, a rep told me that "the burner certainly did seem to be broken, sorry, and oh yeah, it was out of warranty so he couldn't do anything for me. But in a few weeks there was going to be an unadvertised promotion whereby I could trade in my old unit for a discount on a brand-new one, so I should call back in a few weeks." He adamantly refused to let me speak to a supervisor, repeatedly claiming he was the top guy and there was nobody above him I could speak to.
Since then I've refused to knowingly buy anything from Yamaha (including a Ford SHO with a Yamaha-engine), and I've told anybody that will listen about this.
I only hope this is the start of a steady downfall for the crooks.
(Sorry, I tried to be brief, but got carried away...)
Jeez, man, just buy a new cartridge connector -
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dsullo/nes.htm
You'll have the old NES running like new in about 10 minutes.
Well, this is possibly inappropriate for a family-oriented website, but the rumor is that A: is planning on running off to participate in an illicit life of hedonistic passion with B: and Channel 1.
On the one hand, yes, it's true the money & effort could have been used for more noble, benevolent purposes.
On the other hand, however, this could be viewed as support of culture and art. I haven't watched enough Farscape to make that determination for myself, but it's a valid consideration.
Of course, in every group there are always some people who feel no resources should be, in their opinion, wasted on endeavours like space exploration, culture/arts projects, entertainment ventures, etc... so long as there is poverty and suffering going on somewhere. I disagree.
I believe that there is no chance, ever, that every single expenditure could be used to improve every poor soul's lot prior to funding something more 'frivolous'. Given that, I hope the less fortunate are helped wherever possible, but I don't begrudge efforts to pursue other achievements.
If you'd read the article, which btw, is the shortest article I've ever linked to from a Slashdot post, you'd have read that the X-Box remains banned EVEN IF THE MOD CHIP IS REMOVED. So, to 'unmod' your console would simply be a waste of time and effort.
earlier comment
I still recommend you try this before buying it, or at least verify return policies. It'd be a shame to give these out as gifts only to find the games aren't playable.
Why (or whether) the games don't simply use a hardware-abstracting driver, thus allowing the use of any standard IP connection, I don't know. But it was made clear to online Dreamcast enthusiasts that the Asian BBAs would not allow Dreamcast players to play their BBA-compatible games; it was only useful for ethernet networking for other reasons (hacking/hobbyist pursuits). I don't know if they were compatible with the Dreamcast web browsers.
Once I learned the above, I didn't bother pursuing one myself, even when I found one for under $50. With the new units coming out at ncsx, I'm curious to find out if the above holds true for them, or even if it was ever true to begin with. It certainly doesn't seem likely.
google groups are great!
another reference
>>> The only problem was that on occasion I would accidently make the gesture for "close window" and my pages would magically disappear.
I used to encounter this same problem, and a handy suggestion pointed out to me was to enable the 'Confirm Exit' option in Preferences|Starting & Exiting . I haven't unintentionally closed Opera since, and I use mouse gestures in Opera without thinking about it every single day.
Unfortunately, I also tend to hit a site that requires IE about once/day, and almost always try to use mouse gestures there too. Of course the only consequence is having to wait for IE to pop up a slowly-drawn context menu that I can then use. It's a small, daily annoyance.
I have a similar, low-interest/low bandwidth server running over my DSL line in my basement.
I chose SPEAKEASY as my ISP specifically because their TOS explicitly allows the operation of servers, provided the bandwidth consumption isn't excessive and you aren't running child-porn servers or other illegal activities.
Just to be clear, will the finished product be freely available to all? I read the article, and it seems that way to me, but I'm unsure & don't want to get my hopes up too much.
It certainly seems a little farfetched to expect that out of the blue we'll get an Outlook/Exchange replacement at no cost.
I moved to the middle of a suburb of a big city. I get it all! I can now complain about traffic AND hayfever!
Seriously, how is this mocking your religion, or any other for that matter? How is this an example of using Star Wars to persecute your church? So far you're the only person in this discussion that even knows to which religion/church you adhere.
I try to be very mindful and respectful of others, and I don't see why what these people did is harmful or demeaning in any way to any religion or church. It's possible I could have been one of those pranksters. If you can explain why it is so offensive, it might allow me to avoid perpetrating a similar offense myself.
On the one hand, I like, and use, Opera's integrated email program daily. I have few complaints about it.
On the other hand, the integrated newsreader is hardly better than something I would write in QBASIC (at least in Opera 5.12), and I'm not a good programmer.
I assume you meant W3C? At any rate, the first reply to my question answered what I was asking. Unless I misunderstand your answer (& the other reply below), you aren't answering my question, at least not satisfactorily.
My point was that there has to be some sort of reference. Unless the W3C has a reference-browser with which to view pages, I didn't see how one could specify what was 'perfect'. If IE, Moz, NS, & Opera all adhere to the specific standards published, and yet things appear different on-screen, which is correct?
The explanation that used the GIF & background color makes sense, and answered my original question.
quote----> more accurate that IE in rendering!
This just provoked a thought in my dull brain:
How exactly is(should) www-rendering (be) defined?
What I mean is, assume the designer of the original page wrote the page, using IE to view it as he/she wrote the code. Now, he or she gets it looking as intended. They then use a couple of other browsers to test it's compatibility, and publishes the page. In this case, wouldn't the standard against which to compare be however IE renders the page? Or, to put it another way, IE would BE the standard, and therefore would render it 100% accurately.
Simply change which browser the original designer started with, and in that case that browser would render 100% correctly.
Obviously I'm missing something here, and being very dense, but I'm tired and don't see it myself. What am I missing? How can rendering-accuracy be quantified?
Maybe the difference between somebody that writes & a 'writer' is the existence of an editor ?
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Blade Runner
Tron
Shortly after the Zip drive hit the scene, the LS-120 Superdisk came out. Nearly every PC BIOS I've seen over the last 5 years supports it as a bootable device, it is backward-compatible with the 1.44mb floppy, and it holds 120mb on each disk.
I *think*, but am not sure, that the media cost is about the same as a Zip disk (maybe $10 each?).
I've only seen one outside of a store or website once, though. It seems to me consumers by & large had no interest in this product.
So don't automatically blame the manufacturers for this one. It looks to me like they produced a solution & nobody wanted it.
And spyware, DRM, activation codes, etc, etc....
I can't state the obligatory IANAL strongly enough, but would it be possible to subpoena somebody digitally (I.e., email) ? If so, could the subpoeana be crafted in such a way that decoding it would violate the DMCA?
If a person is served, are they legally obligated to respond? If so, and if the fact that they can see the subpoena indicates they've violated the DMCA, and if this is possible to do, then it seems to me somebody obviously more knowledgeable about this than myself should send something like this to Senator Hollings, among others.
(Though the whole idea of subpoenaing someone for reading the subpoena seems a bit recursive to me.)
Obviously these are all anecdotal, unusably small samples, so take it all with a grain of salt.
Having said that, in my experience (fyi within the US), 2 or 3 years ago EVERYBODY that IM'd was on AIM. They may have been the only IM in existence, for all anybody knew. (aside: were they in fact the only IM around?)
Currently, I know only a few people that use AIM. Almost everybody I know, including every person I know through work (IT-related), uses Yahoo Pager (Y!). I know one MSN Messenger user, and no ICQ folks.
So, from my perspective it seems everyone has abandoned AOL and moved to Yahoo.
Well, if the manufacturer installed it, and you screw around with it, I'm thinking that might be some sort of DMCA violation goin' there, bubba...