I guess they forgot about the "splash" dammage effet of a "laser". If this device were to hit any sort of reflective material, the potential to permenently blind large ammounts of people is great.
Wallmart is now pushing PC's with the Via C3 800 running Lindows 2.0 for sub 200 W/O monitor. For about double the price you can get a p4 1.4 in the lindows box. I think that using this logic: ||
So, as long as people can buy PC's with Windows on them for $500 - $1,000 vs. a Mac which will cost at least 2 or 3 times as much, then Mac sales will continue to be dwarfed by PC
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these low cost low to mid perfromace Lindows machines will be more popular then anything else.
IMHO The point that everyone is mising here, is a very simple one. People like to play games on computers ASWELL as doing work on them. There are very few good games for Apple (aside from Diablo 2) or any *ix based OS unless you are running them in a shell which the average person cannot understand how to setup, nevermind the performance hit when doing this! (joe beergut who likes to lookup pr0n will not be getting a lindows cheap box or a crapple).
It is the demand for simplicity, the demand for usability, the demand for playability, and the demand for low price which sells the command "beige" box to joe beergut.
First of all, LAPD has them. They had them before they had bean bag guns. I have seen many demo's of this on a few TLC programs and other programs aswell. And it is not tear gas as those first 2 replys thought. The substance is bright yellow/green in color, and just a little more liquid then the pain in normal paintballs. On a few of the demo's I saw of this, a law officer shot another officer in the chesh from about 60 feet, the officer on the recieving end described it as being pepper sprayed but with more long lasting effects as the substance permiated his clothing.
I like the way that you posted XP/2K there is a HUGE difference in what will run in 2K to what will run in XP. Take NFS5 for instance (there are many many other programs but thats just one of my favs and the reason I dont use 2K)
It still would not work dude, the only way is a linuxshell then editing the windows registry via the shell and hoping you did all the right files before restarting. Been there dun that, know how to do it.
While I was still going to my 8-12 school (a few years ago) I did some work for the current computer science teacher. I also fixed the network (they are still doing this my little brother goes there) as they were having very similar problems. I found a program called Deepfreeze it is cheap and it restors the harddrive to how it was when it was installed. All saving must be done to a disk or burned on a cd (unless you know the password). If will bring it back even if they fdisk the drive, as soon as they restart. The only way to get around it is to run a linux shell and disable the program that way. It is still very complicated to so that and even the average computer geek is not able to. Check out the website at http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/ .
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I guess they forgot about the "splash" dammage effet of a "laser". If this device were to hit any sort of reflective material, the potential to permenently blind large ammounts of people is great.
Wallmart is now pushing PC's with the Via C3 800 running Lindows 2.0 for sub 200 W/O monitor. For about double the price you can get a p4 1.4 in the lindows box. I think that using this logic:
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So, as long as people can buy PC's with Windows on them for $500 - $1,000 vs. a Mac which will cost at least 2 or 3 times as much, then Mac sales will continue to be dwarfed by PC
||
these low cost low to mid perfromace Lindows machines will be more popular then anything else.
IMHO The point that everyone is mising here, is a very simple one. People like to play games on computers ASWELL as doing work on them. There are very few good games for Apple (aside from Diablo 2) or any *ix based OS unless you are running them in a shell which the average person cannot understand how to setup, nevermind the performance hit when doing this! (joe beergut who likes to lookup pr0n will not be getting a lindows cheap box or a crapple).
It is the demand for simplicity, the demand for usability, the demand for playability, and the demand for low price which sells the command "beige" box to joe beergut.
First of all, LAPD has them. They had them before they had bean bag guns. I have seen many demo's of this on a few TLC programs and other programs aswell. And it is not tear gas as those first 2 replys thought. The substance is bright yellow/green in color, and just a little more liquid then the pain in normal paintballs. On a few of the demo's I saw of this, a law officer shot another officer in the chesh from about 60 feet, the officer on the recieving end described it as being pepper sprayed but with more long lasting effects as the substance permiated his clothing.
Great post, I could not have put it better myself.
I like the way that you posted XP/2K there is a HUGE difference in what will run in 2K to what will run in XP. Take NFS5 for instance (there are many many other programs but thats just one of my favs and the reason I dont use 2K)
It still would not work dude, the only way is a linuxshell then editing the windows registry via the shell and hoping you did all the right files before restarting. Been there dun that, know how to do it.
While I was still going to my 8-12 school (a few years ago) I did some work for the current computer science teacher. I also fixed the network (they are still doing this my little brother goes there) as they were having very similar problems. I found a program called Deepfreeze it is cheap and it restors the harddrive to how it was when it was installed. All saving must be done to a disk or burned on a cd (unless you know the password). If will bring it back even if they fdisk the drive, as soon as they restart. The only way to get around it is to run a linux shell and disable the program that way. It is still very complicated to so that and even the average computer geek is not able to. Check out the website at http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/ .