You're a liberal basher. You don't think that people on welfare should be allowed to vote. You're elitist. When you can't counter somebody's ideas, you attack them personally. You somehow think that you're older than me, as indicated by your "son" comment, despite the fact that you're either in univ or late 20's at the oldest.
You fully support Bush and his war in Iraq. You think that people who don't support the war shouldn't enjoy the "freedoms" that you do.
You're a troll, as evidenced by your other posts. You try your hardest to get people to attack your posts, as indicated by your bio on your/. hope page ("let's get more freaks and foes! let's see how many people can hate me!")
That pretty much sums it up. Am I wrong? No, probably not.
I haven't bought a Lego set in years simply because they suck. When I was a kid I was into the Space Police, Blacktron (old school and new) and all the freaking awesome sets that Lego used to create out of the blue instead of Harry Potter and Star Wars. The last decent set was Mission To Mars - the mecha were certainly cool. If they decide to drop the movie licensing, TERRIFIC! I just hope they can get back the spirit of Lego in the 80's and early 90's.
"That said, with its then-ancient PS2 technology, Sony is being quite ambitious and greedy."
I thought this too until I thought about the GBA SP and Gamecube - here in Canada, they both cost $139. Why? The Gamecube is more powerful, comes with a controller... but the GBA SP comes with an LCD screen and a LI-ION battery. That and miniturisation jacks up the cost. For a tiny PS2 with a LCD screen, maybe it would cost them $200 or so to market it, eh?
"Freedom? You think people who don't raise a finger and don't understand a thing about the blood that has been shed to give them that freedom, actually deserve it? They don't. They are undeserving swine."
How much blood have you shed for your country? And no, pricking your finger on a "God Bless America and Nobody Else" pin doesn't count.
Hey, there's an idea - if you can't actually counter my ideas, just attack me personally! Yeah, a priori attacks work every time, right?!? Um... no. Thanks for reminding me why I shouldn't respond to people like you.
Agreed; the dropping price point of a Gamecube has convinced me to buy one, where I wouldn't have bought one for twice the price two years ago. But I'm sure that Nintendo will bring GBA SP's successor by late 2005 (at the latest), and since the PSP is supposed to be released in Q4 2004 (optimistic), Nintendo has all the time in the world to react to the PSP.
Your iPod comparison doesn't do justice to the situation. You forget - the GBA is the market leader and it's incredibly cheap. Imagine the iPod selling for $70 USD, and then a HP or Dell Mp3 player debuting at $200 a year or two later. Not to mention that the GBA has fifteen years of backwards compatibility, whereas the PSP is brand new.
As for predictions: I *did* predict that the n-gage would flop precisely because it was too ambitious and too expensive before it came on the market. I'll say it here too - the PSP will have its market share because it's being pushed by Sony, sure, but the GBA will not be dethroned until its Nintendo successor comes on the market. Why? Battery power. Low battery power on a laptop is acceptable because it's used for work and Suits don't mind having the thing plugged in for most of the time (yes, generalisation, sue me), but customers of the GBA and PSP want to be mobile (think kids in a minivan for a long ride, or students wasting time between classes at univ). Predicted battery life of the PSP is 2-3 hours. This is far too little for a portable gaming platform - see Sega Game Gear for an example. GBA SP's battery life is ~8 hours with light, ~15 without, and that's more than plenty.
SO: Unless the PSP will cost at the highest $50 more than the GBA, and unless it has more than 4 hours of battery life, it's not going anywhere.
This is just plain too expensive. Fancy graphics aside, who wants to pay $200+USD for a portable console? The GBA is a great platform because it's cheap, backwards compatible, has decent graphics and a TON of great games, also at reasonable prices. I have a feeling that terrific anti-aliased graphics and complex 3D renderings would be lost on a tiny screen, whereas the GBA's cartoon style is perfect for the screen size.
"But if they leave people like Borrayo with the impression that they?re actual law enforcement, that?s a mistake.
"We want to be very clear who we are and what we?re doing," says John Langley, Western regional coordinator for the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit. "First and foremost, we?re professionals."
Freaking hilarious! And what does this imply, that cops *aren't* professionals? Also, they're *not* professionals, unless the RIAA have had a rent-a-cop outfit for longer than a few months, in which case they're "rank amateurs." If I put on a jacket that says "TLLE" (for Txiasaeia's Local Law Enforcement"), does that make me a professional?
RIAA, we already hate you. You can stop inciting our wrath any day now.
HP all the way. I still have problems with Calc in windows... I want to hit + or - before I enter a number which inevitably isn't a good thing. I can still "feel" the feedback of an HP-42G... wish mine wasn't stolen... sigh...
You guys had it easy! We had to open up SysteM Properties in Word (95?) in order to get at the task manager (and hence a run prompt)! Uphill both ways!
I managed to find out the root password of a computer when I was in grade eight and changed it to something else... the comp teacher called me up that night in order to ask me what the password was:) I told him, of course. No detention, no suspension, nothing of the sort. Cool guy, but boy, was he pissed! (especially when he found out that I changed the p/w to the name of his wife!)
Writing assignments sure helped me out - I was an ass in high school and, as a consequence of my frequent and lengthy detentions, I'm now on my way to earning my Masters degree in English literature.
When I was in ninth grade, I went to my school's measly computer room (all of ten computers) at lunch time and put passwords on all the screensavers in the lab. Little did i Know that there were several seniors writing papers over the double block (one class before, one after lunch)... holy crap was I in trouble! Not only that, but my best friend ratted me out to the admin... I can still see the scene: i was called to the computer room after lunch, and as soon as he saw me my best friend pointed at me and said "He did it!" Ah, those were the good ol' days.
"And it's not that Win XP is crash prone. But in the past 20 months of using Win2k on my home built computer I've had 2 non-recoverable lockups and 2 bluescreens (both BSOD's were caused by buggy logitech gamepad drivers when the gamepad wasn't even being used). And this computer has seen quite a bit of gaming, net surfing, DVD watching, and MP3 playing. Win 2000 is probably the most stable OS Microsoft has ever produced."
If you say that WinXP is not prone to crash, then what's the problem? In your experience, has XP crashed more or less than 2000? I've been using XP since it came out in 01, and it hasn't crashed on me yet. This includes using alternate shells. I used 2000 before it had any service packs and it was nasty, but XP worked terrific out of the box.
Anyway, as it stands now, 2000 and XP are almost equal; I would say that XP has better performance, but I've got an XP 2000, 512MB RAM and a nice vid card so 1% (or whatever) of performance gain is moot.
My mom's 486 SX (25 mhz) is still running Win 3.1 happily. In fact, I *do* believe that she'll be using it forever, as long as solitare and minesweeper are still functional (I wish I was joking, truly I do...)
Did you actually use Win95 out of the box? Methinks you don't remember the days of Win3.11 and DLL hell, either. Fact is, 98SE is second only to XP. 2000 (when I used it) was buggy and bloated.
"But they still don't even compare to OS X in terms of stability, usability, security and plug and play compatibility."
I guess we know where you stand on the issue. But trust me - 98 was good; I know quite a few people still using it, and happy with it too.
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you spelled it wrong. "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
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Awesome. You mean I was spot on about everything else? Thanks, you just made my day.
You fully support Bush and his war in Iraq. You think that people who don't support the war shouldn't enjoy the "freedoms" that you do.
You're a troll, as evidenced by your other posts. You try your hardest to get people to attack your posts, as indicated by your bio on your /. hope page ("let's get more freaks and foes! let's see how many people can hate me!")
That pretty much sums it up. Am I wrong? No, probably not.
Because we grew up with Lego and don't have the same sort of feeling towards music.
And pirate ships too!
I thought this too until I thought about the GBA SP and Gamecube - here in Canada, they both cost $139. Why? The Gamecube is more powerful, comes with a controller... but the GBA SP comes with an LCD screen and a LI-ION battery. That and miniturisation jacks up the cost. For a tiny PS2 with a LCD screen, maybe it would cost them $200 or so to market it, eh?
Socialism's great up here, buddy. Last I heard the CDN$ was going up while the USD was going down. Guess socialism's faring pretty well!
How much blood have you shed for your country? And no, pricking your finger on a "God Bless America and Nobody Else" pin doesn't count.
Hey, there's an idea - if you can't actually counter my ideas, just attack me personally! Yeah, a priori attacks work every time, right?!? Um... no. Thanks for reminding me why I shouldn't respond to people like you.
Agreed; the dropping price point of a Gamecube has convinced me to buy one, where I wouldn't have bought one for twice the price two years ago. But I'm sure that Nintendo will bring GBA SP's successor by late 2005 (at the latest), and since the PSP is supposed to be released in Q4 2004 (optimistic), Nintendo has all the time in the world to react to the PSP.
As for predictions: I *did* predict that the n-gage would flop precisely because it was too ambitious and too expensive before it came on the market. I'll say it here too - the PSP will have its market share because it's being pushed by Sony, sure, but the GBA will not be dethroned until its Nintendo successor comes on the market. Why? Battery power. Low battery power on a laptop is acceptable because it's used for work and Suits don't mind having the thing plugged in for most of the time (yes, generalisation, sue me), but customers of the GBA and PSP want to be mobile (think kids in a minivan for a long ride, or students wasting time between classes at univ). Predicted battery life of the PSP is 2-3 hours. This is far too little for a portable gaming platform - see Sega Game Gear for an example. GBA SP's battery life is ~8 hours with light, ~15 without, and that's more than plenty.
SO: Unless the PSP will cost at the highest $50 more than the GBA, and unless it has more than 4 hours of battery life, it's not going anywhere.
This is just plain too expensive. Fancy graphics aside, who wants to pay $200+USD for a portable console? The GBA is a great platform because it's cheap, backwards compatible, has decent graphics and a TON of great games, also at reasonable prices. I have a feeling that terrific anti-aliased graphics and complex 3D renderings would be lost on a tiny screen, whereas the GBA's cartoon style is perfect for the screen size.
"We want to be very clear who we are and what we?re doing," says John Langley, Western regional coordinator for the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit. "First and foremost, we?re professionals."
Freaking hilarious! And what does this imply, that cops *aren't* professionals? Also, they're *not* professionals, unless the RIAA have had a rent-a-cop outfit for longer than a few months, in which case they're "rank amateurs." If I put on a jacket that says "TLLE" (for Txiasaeia's Local Law Enforcement"), does that make me a professional?
RIAA, we already hate you. You can stop inciting our wrath any day now.
Funny guy, but that's how it works with deconstructionism. I'd tell you more but then you'd start to deconstruct yourself.
Lol... I typed in notes on my HP42 the long way, usually equations that we were supposed to memorise. Look at me now! I'm an... well, English major :)
HP all the way. I still have problems with Calc in windows... I want to hit + or - before I enter a number which inevitably isn't a good thing. I can still "feel" the feedback of an HP-42G... wish mine wasn't stolen... sigh...
You guys had it easy! We had to open up SysteM Properties in Word (95?) in order to get at the task manager (and hence a run prompt)! Uphill both ways!
I managed to find out the root password of a computer when I was in grade eight and changed it to something else... the comp teacher called me up that night in order to ask me what the password was :) I told him, of course. No detention, no suspension, nothing of the sort. Cool guy, but boy, was he pissed! (especially when he found out that I changed the p/w to the name of his wife!)
Writing assignments sure helped me out - I was an ass in high school and, as a consequence of my frequent and lengthy detentions, I'm now on my way to earning my Masters degree in English literature.
When I was in ninth grade, I went to my school's measly computer room (all of ten computers) at lunch time and put passwords on all the screensavers in the lab. Little did i Know that there were several seniors writing papers over the double block (one class before, one after lunch)... holy crap was I in trouble! Not only that, but my best friend ratted me out to the admin... I can still see the scene: i was called to the computer room after lunch, and as soon as he saw me my best friend pointed at me and said "He did it!" Ah, those were the good ol' days.
Thanks for that useful comment. I've already found tonnes of links where I can buy "technology scholarship" on eBay!
If you say that WinXP is not prone to crash, then what's the problem? In your experience, has XP crashed more or less than 2000? I've been using XP since it came out in 01, and it hasn't crashed on me yet. This includes using alternate shells. I used 2000 before it had any service packs and it was nasty, but XP worked terrific out of the box.
Anyway, as it stands now, 2000 and XP are almost equal; I would say that XP has better performance, but I've got an XP 2000, 512MB RAM and a nice vid card so 1% (or whatever) of performance gain is moot.
There was a huge difference between Win98 and Win98SE (second edition); which did you use, out of curiousity?
My mom's 486 SX (25 mhz) is still running Win 3.1 happily. In fact, I *do* believe that she'll be using it forever, as long as solitare and minesweeper are still functional (I wish I was joking, truly I do...)
"But they still don't even compare to OS X in terms of stability, usability, security and plug and play compatibility."
I guess we know where you stand on the issue. But trust me - 98 was good; I know quite a few people still using it, and happy with it too.
you spelled it wrong. "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"