They're not selling a hook, they're burning money in an attempt to beat everyone else out of the market and pwnz0r your home entertainment forever...
Yeah, but wasn't that what they were saying when the PS2 and the original XBox came out; "Yeah, these are going to be more than games consoles, they'll be media centres, yadda yadda...."
(Wasn't that the justification given for the more VCR/DVD-Player/HiFi appearance of the PS2 (*) compared to the original PS? Or was it just me thinking that?)
At any rate, they said they were going to be media centres... and beyond playing DVDs, they never were.
(*) Which I thought looked pretty ugly (I still do). It was odd that they decided to make it black 2-3 years after the audio-visual industry had suddenly abandoned black en-masse and switched to silver and various other non-black schemes. Possibly because it was cheaper than a sprayed-silver finish. It looked cheap, anyway. Those dust-gathering fins were also pretty ugly.
No, I didn't mean that. I meant, why the "UK + Scandinavia" combination?
Other countries are closer to Scandinavia than the UK, and the UK is closer to other non-Scandinavian countries.
For example, at some cheap shops which source goods from various places, I can buy the same can of foam, but with the text in (IIRC) German, French, Spanish and so on. I could have understood better if the English language was printed along with those instead (look at a map of Europe to see why I think this).
There's probably a good reason for it, I just don't know why.
the difference is vast. finnish is a whole different language family.
Yeah; if you live in the UK and buy Gillette shaving foam (IIRC), you can compare the Finnish blurb with other Scandinavian languages- totally different. (No, I don't know why Gillette use the same supply of cans for Scandinavia and the UK(!))
Anyhow, what's up with all those double-dots above half the letters in Finnish? They're *everywhere*!
The supermarkets' own brands may be 2/3 of the price, but you don't get Finnish on the back of them:(
Perhaps the problem is that you put too much work into your background, then.
White is generally accepted as best, and that takes about 15 seconds to include in the HTML.
An important lesson I learned is that "I put a lot of work into it" does not per se make something good. It also has the disadvantage that you have more emotionally invested in it and are less likely to judge it impartially.
If you're happy with it, that's fine. It's not actually that awful a background compared to some but its use as the background of that particular 'UN Black Helicopters' message gives the impression I originally described.
OTOH, the really paranoid websites are the ones with 50,000 words, 1000 sections and red, yellow and blue text and highlighting on the front page. *That* is a dead giveaway:)
nothing turns heads like a 25 year old male with a Britney Spears "ringtune" (*walks away humming toxic).
This is going to come across as trolling; however...
I'd guess that 25 year old males with Britney ringtones aren't as unusual as you might think; but I *would* assume that a rather high proportion of them are gay.
As for the heads turning, either they're surprised work colleagues who hadn't previously questioned your sexuality, or they're other gay men checking you out.
Stick to the Britney-with-her-tits-out wallpapers if this is a problem...
Not that I'd ever consider (or advocate) downloading the overpriced ringtone nor the crappy wallpaper. Mind you, as my phone is 4 1/2 years old with mono screen and mono tones it wouldn't impress anyone anyway.
Thankfully, now no longer trading. According to a hand-written note on the door of my local 'Time' branch, they even stiffed their retail employees.
Apparently, Watford Electronics has taken over the rights to Tiny computers. Begs the question as to how important brand recognition is versus reputation. I mean, Tiny are a *big* name, but the news of their demise and the general crapness that lead to it were all over the newspapers. So are Watford doing themselves a favour? Who knows?
Odd thing is that Watford have been in the business a long time, since the BBC Micro days, so I'd have thought they'd have a good reputation. According to these reviews, their 'Savastore' website looks to be every bit as bad as Tiny.
(My only experience with this site was when I ordered something, it turned out not to be in stock, and they- at least- informed me of the problem over the phone in reasonable time. That was 3 years ago, however.)
So obviously you haven't seen the ads now-a-days where they say something along the lines of "do X" (e.g. shoot the watermelon, knock out Osama, hit the mailbox) and "get a free Y* participation in our spam marketing promotions required"
They seem to come disguised as Slashdot sigs these days; though at least the moderation system can be used as a de facto spam/"popup" blocker.
Dilbert: The Complete Animated Series [..] Those are just the Sony Tri-Star Home Entertainment DVDs I have in my collection. None of them were purchased new. All of them I personally like. All of them would beat the stupid Charlie's Angels movie.
Except that being faithful to its source strip, Dilbert is a relatively simply-drawn animation with little detail (*) and regardless of its merits would be a *lousy* choice for demonstrating the capability of a hi-res disc format.
(*) Not that this is necessarily a criticism. I haven't seen much of the animated series, but the flat and simple style of drawing in the original strip suited the banality of the subject matter perfectly.
fear is biological, not ideological. fear is about avoiding predators
You're pretty damn confident in asserting an overly simplistic and incomplete idea. People have fear about lots of things; social rejection is one, because if your life depends on being a part of a social group and you're cast out, you may starve to death, etc. etc. One could argue that predators (i.e. defence from) might enter into that equation, but there are other factors, such as the ability to get your own food, be protected from the elements, etc. that also enter into it.
not what kind of partisan brainwashed victim you are, either from the right or the left. but don't let me stating the obvious stop you from spewing more of your braindead propaganda against more of their braindead propaganda
Where the hell did you get that one from? I didn't see him/her taking sides; on the contrary, it looked healthily sceptical of those on any particular side. Your knee jerked and the guy hadn't even touched it.
From what I can tell, the Flashback 2 only includes 2600 games, though.
Anyhow, I want an Atari 400/800 version or nothing! I'm not really bothered whether or not it's an emulator *internally*, so long as externally it is (to all intents and purposes) a 400/800/XL/XE (a la Commodore64 thing), and it's hackable.:)
I seem to remember seeing quite a few things about alignment in Atari magazines, so it was probably an issue.
Personally, I never had trouble loading commercial disks or my own stuff. I rarely transferred stuff to other peoples' drives (because where I live, there were very few people with 8-bit Atari machines), but the one time I did, it worked.
And in the UK, the budget software market was cassette driven (although Atari XLs were commonly available with disk drives at a competitive price, the same wasn't true for the more popular formats, and I assume it wouldn't have been worth introducing disks into the supply-channel equation for what was overall a small niche; bear in mind that budget software- £2 to £3 was very popular with kids, so they were less likely to have a disk drive).
Anyhow, I had *loads* of Atari games on tape for that reason, and I *hated* the damn things. Especially as the Atari had such a slow baud rate >:-(
I couldn't imagine trying to make the old 1050 disk drive work (they were barely reliable when they were new
Speak for yourself; my one was in use for years, and I never had a problem with it. It even kept working after I knocked it off the desk onto the floor once (it still makes me wince to think about that.) Unfortunately, one of the case "fins" got slightly damaged, but that was purely cosmetic.
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I mean, the Atari Flashbacks (1 & 2) were both reasonably successful at $30.
If you mean the Atari 7800 flashbacks, they weren't genuine emulators; they'd simply reprogrammed the game IIRC, and there were apparently quite a few differences between the Flashbacks and the "real thing". I think it was built on a Nintendo emulator or something(!). So don't hold your breath on that count, as they took the easy way out (i.e. cost-effective, but not nearly so worthwhile from the point of view of what we want).
If they released a *genuine* (a la that Commode-64-in-a-joystick thing that's out just now) Atari 400/800/XL/XE on a joystick (or whatever) at a similar price to the Commodork all-in-one I'd snap it up in a minute. A few "simulated", not-quite-right games, probably not.
Though wasn't the Crappydore one based on a "universal" design (the C= One or something IIRC, there were several/. stories about it)? Sounds promising if they can get it to do an Atari too...
AFAIK they don't sell soft lenses for anything above -10 Dpt.
Have you considered simply getting the soft ones at -10 anyway, and living with the imperfect vision? I don't know how workable that would be, but it's going to be no more than 1.25Dpt out.
If I manage to get enough money together I'll probably have my eyes lasered.
Makes me glad that soft contact lenses are an option for me. 4 or 5 years ago, I said I'd wait at least 10 years before I even considered laser surgery. I'd still say there's at least 10 years to go; there's plenty of risk with that option, despite what the nice adverts might let you believe. If people want to go for it, fine, but I'd rather they went in with their eyes open (ha ha.... actually that wasn't meant to be a pun; though they *do* operate on your eyes while they're open and you're awake.)
Now imagine the glasses break in the middle of basic training. Doubleplusungood, especially since the damn things cost 0.5 kilobucks.
Why so expensive? I'd assume that you could get glasses to that spec for 1/5 of that price. Granted, they'd be no-frills; e.g. bottle-end lenses that made you look a dork (if I was in your position, I *would* pay more for the nice lenses for day-to-day use), but I don't see that as an issue here.
What's the military's take on contact lenses? The soft monthtly disposable ones I use have never fallen out (the older hard ones I had were slightly more prone to this, but nowhere near as bad as you'd expect). You can carry another disposable pair, or two, or ten in your pocket. The only problem might be hygiene (i.e. you're more prone to get an eye infection from bad hygiene in the place where you *least* want to get one).
Yeah, but strawmen don't make particularly good soldiers either (fall apart at the first hint of battle), so what's your point?
That anyone who eats "healthy" food is a hippy-vegan-organic-food-pacifist-commie idealist and that we should just shut the fuck up and let soldiers eat crap because it's "convenient" (or so the manufacturers say)?
Convenience and battle-suitability sounds like a nice cover for people to sell (and justify selling) processed garbage at inflated prices and bypass the obvious criticisms.
And no, I don't think you'd find anyone who'd claim that grapes were suitable for the battlefield. That shouldn't damn every healthy/unprocessed food to the same fate.
My dentist told me it has to do with saliva. My(and my mother's) saliva is particularly good at repairing teeth.
(Cheap joke follows, not to be taken personally)
I guess when you caught your mother kissing all those strange guys that she told you she was "helping those nice men repair their teeth"?
So I tend to get a lot of tartan [sic] that dentist needs to remove every now and then.
You've got tartan on your teeth?! My God, you must be eating too much haggis and whisky!
And if you know someone who needs it, Xylitol gum DOES help, at least some.
In all seriousness, I can believe this. I occasionally have a bowl of cereal during the middle of the night. I don't like brushing my teeth too often, but if I just go straight back to sleep, my mouth has that acidic "sugar bacteria at work" taste in the morning.
The breath mints I had also claimed to fight cavities (via Xylitol). Well, I was pretty damn sceptical about this, but... eat one of those before I go back to sleep and there's no acidic taste in the morning. They actually work...
Especially when the United Nations are shooting it at you from their big black helicopters!!!!
If the background on that page wasn't enough to convince you that it's a wacko conspiracy theorist site, the mention of the UN "New World Order" certainly should have.
Oh yeah, and I *am* speaking as someone who's strongly opposed to putting fluoride in water supplies. I just happen to think those particular guys are nuts...
I'm foreseeing some latency problems, and the bandwidth can't be too good, but at least you never drop a connection until your neighbor decides to go hunting.
No, no. The pigeons are the Data-link/physical layers used for carrying the IP packets. If one packet goes missing, the TCP layer simply resends it, and you won't notice any problem. Except for an additional 12 hour delay, obviously.
Pfft. That's nothing; some nice people called "Linksys" already offer free unregulated wireless broadband in *any* large conurbation. Don't believe me? Just turn on your laptop wherever you go and I guarantee you there'll be an open access point with the SID "Linksys".
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They're not selling a hook, they're burning money in an attempt to beat everyone else out of the market and pwnz0r your home entertainment forever...
Yeah, but wasn't that what they were saying when the PS2 and the original XBox came out; "Yeah, these are going to be more than games consoles, they'll be media centres, yadda yadda...."
(Wasn't that the justification given for the more VCR/DVD-Player/HiFi appearance of the PS2 (*) compared to the original PS? Or was it just me thinking that?)
At any rate, they said they were going to be media centres... and beyond playing DVDs, they never were.
(*) Which I thought looked pretty ugly (I still do). It was odd that they decided to make it black 2-3 years after the audio-visual industry had suddenly abandoned black en-masse and switched to silver and various other non-black schemes. Possibly because it was cheaper than a sprayed-silver finish. It looked cheap, anyway. Those dust-gathering fins were also pretty ugly.
No, I didn't mean that. I meant, why the "UK + Scandinavia" combination?
Other countries are closer to Scandinavia than the UK, and the UK is closer to other non-Scandinavian countries.
For example, at some cheap shops which source goods from various places, I can buy the same can of foam, but with the text in (IIRC) German, French, Spanish and so on. I could have understood better if the English language was printed along with those instead (look at a map of Europe to see why I think this).
There's probably a good reason for it, I just don't know why.
the difference is vast. finnish is a whole different language family.
:(
Yeah; if you live in the UK and buy Gillette shaving foam (IIRC), you can compare the Finnish blurb with other Scandinavian languages- totally different. (No, I don't know why Gillette use the same supply of cans for Scandinavia and the UK(!))
Anyhow, what's up with all those double-dots above half the letters in Finnish? They're *everywhere*!
The supermarkets' own brands may be 2/3 of the price, but you don't get Finnish on the back of them
Perhaps the problem is that you put too much work into your background, then.
:)
White is generally accepted as best, and that takes about 15 seconds to include in the HTML.
An important lesson I learned is that "I put a lot of work into it" does not per se make something good. It also has the disadvantage that you have more emotionally invested in it and are less likely to judge it impartially.
If you're happy with it, that's fine. It's not actually that awful a background compared to some but its use as the background of that particular 'UN Black Helicopters' message gives the impression I originally described.
OTOH, the really paranoid websites are the ones with 50,000 words, 1000 sections and red, yellow and blue text and highlighting on the front page. *That* is a dead giveaway
nothing turns heads like a 25 year old male with a Britney Spears "ringtune" (*walks away humming toxic).
This is going to come across as trolling; however...
I'd guess that 25 year old males with Britney ringtones aren't as unusual as you might think; but I *would* assume that a rather high proportion of them are gay.
As for the heads turning, either they're surprised work colleagues who hadn't previously questioned your sexuality, or they're other gay men checking you out.
Stick to the Britney-with-her-tits-out wallpapers if this is a problem...
Not that I'd ever consider (or advocate) downloading the overpriced ringtone nor the crappy wallpaper. Mind you, as my phone is 4 1/2 years old with mono screen and mono tones it wouldn't impress anyone anyway.
Thankfully, now no longer trading. According to a hand-written note on the door of my local 'Time' branch, they even stiffed their retail employees.
Apparently, Watford Electronics has taken over the rights to Tiny computers. Begs the question as to how important brand recognition is versus reputation. I mean, Tiny are a *big* name, but the news of their demise and the general crapness that lead to it were all over the newspapers. So are Watford doing themselves a favour? Who knows?
Odd thing is that Watford have been in the business a long time, since the BBC Micro days, so I'd have thought they'd have a good reputation. According to these reviews, their 'Savastore' website looks to be every bit as bad as Tiny.
(My only experience with this site was when I ordered something, it turned out not to be in stock, and they- at least- informed me of the problem over the phone in reasonable time. That was 3 years ago, however.)
So obviously you haven't seen the ads now-a-days where they say something along the lines of "do X" (e.g. shoot the watermelon, knock out Osama, hit the mailbox) and "get a free Y* participation in our spam marketing promotions required"
They seem to come disguised as Slashdot sigs these days; though at least the moderation system can be used as a de facto spam/"popup" blocker.
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I think it looks gay.
How do you figure out that this particular tarsier is gay? I couldn't even tell if it was a boy or a girl, personally.
Other /. oxymorons
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Dilbert: The Complete Animated Series [..] Those are just the Sony Tri-Star Home Entertainment DVDs I have in my collection. None of them were purchased new. All of them I personally like. All of them would beat the stupid Charlie's Angels movie.
Except that being faithful to its source strip, Dilbert is a relatively simply-drawn animation with little detail (*) and regardless of its merits would be a *lousy* choice for demonstrating the capability of a hi-res disc format.
(*) Not that this is necessarily a criticism. I haven't seen much of the animated series, but the flat and simple style of drawing in the original strip suited the banality of the subject matter perfectly.
I know this is one step above typing 'LOL!!!!!!', but... mod parent up 'Funny'. It's languishing at Score:0 and really deserves better :)
fear is biological, not ideological. fear is about avoiding predators
You're pretty damn confident in asserting an overly simplistic and incomplete idea. People have fear about lots of things; social rejection is one, because if your life depends on being a part of a social group and you're cast out, you may starve to death, etc. etc. One could argue that predators (i.e. defence from) might enter into that equation, but there are other factors, such as the ability to get your own food, be protected from the elements, etc. that also enter into it.
not what kind of partisan brainwashed victim you are, either from the right or the left. but don't let me stating the obvious stop you from spewing more of your braindead propaganda against more of their braindead propaganda
Where the hell did you get that one from? I didn't see him/her taking sides; on the contrary, it looked healthily sceptical of those on any particular side. Your knee jerked and the guy hadn't even touched it.
From what I can tell, the Flashback 2 only includes 2600 games, though.
:)
Anyhow, I want an Atari 400/800 version or nothing! I'm not really bothered whether or not it's an emulator *internally*, so long as externally it is (to all intents and purposes) a 400/800/XL/XE (a la Commodore64 thing), and it's hackable.
I seem to remember seeing quite a few things about alignment in Atari magazines, so it was probably an issue.
Personally, I never had trouble loading commercial disks or my own stuff. I rarely transferred stuff to other peoples' drives (because where I live, there were very few people with 8-bit Atari machines), but the one time I did, it worked.
And in the UK, the budget software market was cassette driven (although Atari XLs were commonly available with disk drives at a competitive price, the same wasn't true for the more popular formats, and I assume it wouldn't have been worth introducing disks into the supply-channel equation for what was overall a small niche; bear in mind that budget software- £2 to £3 was very popular with kids, so they were less likely to have a disk drive).
Anyhow, I had *loads* of Atari games on tape for that reason, and I *hated* the damn things. Especially as the Atari had such a slow baud rate >:-(
Hack a laser to draw information vector-style directly onto your retina, then.
;-)
Watch out for the Asteroids-style CRT, erm... retina burn when you've been looking at the same thing too long though
I couldn't imagine trying to make the old 1050 disk drive work (they were barely reliable when they were new
Speak for yourself; my one was in use for years, and I never had a problem with it. It even kept working after I knocked it off the desk onto the floor once (it still makes me wince to think about that.) Unfortunately, one of the case "fins" got slightly damaged, but that was purely cosmetic.
I mean, the Atari Flashbacks (1 & 2) were both reasonably successful at $30.
/. stories about it)? Sounds promising if they can get it to do an Atari too...
If you mean the Atari 7800 flashbacks, they weren't genuine emulators; they'd simply reprogrammed the game IIRC, and there were apparently quite a few differences between the Flashbacks and the "real thing". I think it was built on a Nintendo emulator or something(!). So don't hold your breath on that count, as they took the easy way out (i.e. cost-effective, but not nearly so worthwhile from the point of view of what we want).
If they released a *genuine* (a la that Commode-64-in-a-joystick thing that's out just now) Atari 400/800/XL/XE on a joystick (or whatever) at a similar price to the Commodork all-in-one I'd snap it up in a minute. A few "simulated", not-quite-right games, probably not.
Though wasn't the Crappydore one based on a "universal" design (the C= One or something IIRC, there were several
AFAIK they don't sell soft lenses for anything above -10 Dpt.
Have you considered simply getting the soft ones at -10 anyway, and living with the imperfect vision? I don't know how workable that would be, but it's going to be no more than 1.25Dpt out.
If I manage to get enough money together I'll probably have my eyes lasered.
Makes me glad that soft contact lenses are an option for me. 4 or 5 years ago, I said I'd wait at least 10 years before I even considered laser surgery. I'd still say there's at least 10 years to go; there's plenty of risk with that option, despite what the nice adverts might let you believe. If people want to go for it, fine, but I'd rather they went in with their eyes open (ha ha.... actually that wasn't meant to be a pun; though they *do* operate on your eyes while they're open and you're awake.)
Now imagine the glasses break in the middle of basic training. Doubleplusungood, especially since the damn things cost 0.5 kilobucks.
Why so expensive? I'd assume that you could get glasses to that spec for 1/5 of that price. Granted, they'd be no-frills; e.g. bottle-end lenses that made you look a dork (if I was in your position, I *would* pay more for the nice lenses for day-to-day use), but I don't see that as an issue here.
What's the military's take on contact lenses? The soft monthtly disposable ones I use have never fallen out (the older hard ones I had were slightly more prone to this, but nowhere near as bad as you'd expect). You can carry another disposable pair, or two, or ten in your pocket. The only problem might be hygiene (i.e. you're more prone to get an eye infection from bad hygiene in the place where you *least* want to get one).
Yeah, but strawmen don't make particularly good soldiers either (fall apart at the first hint of battle), so what's your point?
That anyone who eats "healthy" food is a hippy-vegan-organic-food-pacifist-commie idealist and that we should just shut the fuck up and let soldiers eat crap because it's "convenient" (or so the manufacturers say)?
Convenience and battle-suitability sounds like a nice cover for people to sell (and justify selling) processed garbage at inflated prices and bypass the obvious criticisms.
And no, I don't think you'd find anyone who'd claim that grapes were suitable for the battlefield. That shouldn't damn every healthy/unprocessed food to the same fate.
My dentist told me it has to do with saliva. My(and my mother's) saliva is particularly good at repairing teeth.
(Cheap joke follows, not to be taken personally)
I guess when you caught your mother kissing all those strange guys that she told you she was "helping those nice men repair their teeth"?
So I tend to get a lot of tartan [sic] that dentist needs to remove every now and then.
You've got tartan on your teeth?! My God, you must be eating too much haggis and whisky!
And if you know someone who needs it, Xylitol gum DOES help, at least some.
In all seriousness, I can believe this. I occasionally have a bowl of cereal during the middle of the night. I don't like brushing my teeth too often, but if I just go straight back to sleep, my mouth has that acidic "sugar bacteria at work" taste in the morning.
The breath mints I had also claimed to fight cavities (via Xylitol). Well, I was pretty damn sceptical about this, but... eat one of those before I go back to sleep and there's no acidic taste in the morning. They actually work...
Floride makes you complacent and submissive.
Especially when the United Nations are shooting it at you from their big black helicopters!!!!
If the background on that page wasn't enough to convince you that it's a wacko conspiracy theorist site, the mention of the UN "New World Order" certainly should have.
Oh yeah, and I *am* speaking as someone who's strongly opposed to putting fluoride in water supplies. I just happen to think those particular guys are nuts...
I'm foreseeing some latency problems, and the bandwidth can't be too good, but at least you never drop a connection until your neighbor decides to go hunting.
No, no. The pigeons are the Data-link/physical layers used for carrying the IP packets. If one packet goes missing, the TCP layer simply resends it, and you won't notice any problem. Except for an additional 12 hour delay, obviously.
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Pfft. That's nothing; some nice people called "Linksys" already offer free unregulated wireless broadband in *any* large conurbation. Don't believe me? Just turn on your laptop wherever you go and I guarantee you there'll be an open access point with the SID "Linksys".
Lovely people.