Good lord man, Sylpheed? Do you pine for the days of teco on a tty as you snap your suspenders and smooth your beard? Do you have a fetish for slightly quirky japanese-developed-and-centered open source software? Hasn't everyone who isn't Japanese switched to the Claws-Mail fork of Sylpheed by now?
And 640x480 was still the standard resolution for set-top boxes until around 2007
Define "set top box", since both you and I know, that both the PS2 and the original Xbox were capable of putting out a 1080i signal.
The PS3 was released in 2006, it's a set top box, when using HDMI by default it outputs the highest resolution your display supports up to 1080p.
Now admittedly, if you're you, and you're babysitting kids in the early to mid 2000's with a SNES/PSone/ or perhaps a PS2 attached to an SDTV, you might not realize the HD revolution is passed you by. Sony was selling nice little 15" 720p HDTV's in the early 2000's if I remember correctly, I think they cost about $550 - $600 or so.
I've not used Enigmail, I didn't know it was that bad. I use Claws-Mail myself, which has an included by default gpg plugin.
One of the reasons keyservers are used are so people can get someones public key BEFORE they contact them securely, and don't have to wait for someone to send them their public key block before they check a signature. For example, if I sign this comment, you could grab my pubkey from Slashdot and/or the keyservers to check the sig and not have to send me an e-mail or reply to this comment asking for my pubkey. Though if I want the sig to get past the lameness filter I have to use SHA1, not SHA256 (which requires a quick config edit)
That said, while claws-mail does have a "Insert My Public Key Block" function in the Tools menu of the compose window, it can't as far as I know, automatically attach a pubkey. And if it did, people would probably complain and say things like "Why do I get these weird text attachments from claws-mail users all the time"
But you're right that it isn't Mom-proof, though it's better than it was. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1
What person is so sadistic that they would play C&C or Warcraft on a PS1?
/me raises hand.
Well, not Warcraft, I don't own it, but I do own Red Alert, RA: Retaliation, and Dune 2000. I also had the PSone mouse.
My memory may be failing me, but I do believe one of those games could do multiplayer via system link...
Your memory is correct I know that RA and RA: Retaliation can do system link as well as DOOM. You only need 1 copy of the game for RA since one person can use the Allied disc and the other can use Soviet for system-link skirmishes.
/me raises hand again. I still have it, though I don't have a working PSone to use it with.
I was hoping the PS3 would include a feature to "tunnel" PSone system link games over the internet similar to how you can use "ad-hoc party" to tunnel ad-hoc only PSP games, but it doesn't. It also doesn't have a "have a USB mouse emulate the old PSone mouse" feature either.
Nor did it play any of the hugely popular games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat, SimCity 2000, Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Need For Speed and countless others, so it wasn't good for gaming either.
But you didn't need Windows for those games. EVERY one of the games you listed is also available on the PSone.
The sad thing is that Linux still has the same problem today. All commercial software and games are missing, which is entirely what you use the computer for...
I pay $20 every 90 days to Virgin Mobile (works out to $6.67 per month). I'll upgrade to a smart phone if and when the price of a plan that includes a reasonable amount of data drops to $15 per month.
I have a smartphone without a data plan, I pay $25 every 3 months to AT&T. I'd upgrade to a data plan when it doesn't cost 5X as much. Currently the cheapest AT&T data plan is $45.
You seem to lack the ability to update your information and keep harping on the same old axes you grind when your info is outdated and/or simply wrong.
I had a V3xx that had a standard mini-usb port. Nice phone, the Moto wired headphones designed for it, suck so if you want to use it as a music player you really need a bluetooth headset, which the V3xx supports. It can handle many j2m3 apps.
I want something as close to a smart phone as possible that The phone company will not force me to get a data plan for
You can get that.
ATT, Verizon, and others have a policy that you cannot use certain phones on their network without a data plan. They will automatically upgrade you to a data plan, even if you would rather use your phone with WiFi.
That's possible with AT&T at least. Head to your local big box store, pick up one of AT&T's Android Go phones. While the phone's quick start card says to "enable" the phone via the phone, if you do it that way it automatically signs the phone up for a smartphone plan...you don't want that.
What you do is enable the phone online at the go phone website. Doing it that way lets you choose a non-smartphone plan even with your smartphone.
Frankly, I would like an Android device with no non-Wifi data functionality, that the phone companies would classify as a dumb phone.
That's partly my point, Apple didn't adapt to what Commodore and Atari were doing. They saw themselves as IBM's competitors, when their competition with the Apple II line was Atari and Commodore.
Worst part of the Apple line? The sound. Beep, borp, blip. . The design of the future was to use all "off the shelf" components without any custom hardware? Fuck you. Nothing unique about it, except the high price tag
Well the Apple line wasn't really intended for home use, after all the first Apple killer app was Visicalc. Later on they did the school donation thing hoping it would also stimulate sales to the home.
But as we know, as a "home computer", the Apple II line was not quite as successful (or good) as the Atari 8 bits and Commodore's Vic 20/C64. Both of which were derived from designs for video game consoles. That made them cheap, and with the graphics and sound for games.
One could play games on an apple II, but that doesn't mean it was good at it.
He had -one- parking place for a handicapped van accessible (as per the law).
That isn't the law. It's actually based on the NUMBER of spaces. The minimum is one, and the access area next to it needs to have a minimum width of 96" Your buddy got tripped because either he, or his contractor didn't know that. Also some states have more restrictive rules than the federal ones, that is also allowed.
was the fact that in the 1970s, the Senate was changed from district representation to representating by population. This completely de-voiced all the rural areas, and essentially made the heavily populated coastal cities the only political thing that matters in the state.
That's how it should work, representation by population. If the Rural areas want more representation, they can get more people to move there.
Texas, OTOH still has a senate with one senator for each geographic area, which does a lot to mitigate just one part of the state having full control of everything.
Ah, so a bunch of rural bumfucks and rednecks can essentially veto anything "progressive", is that it?
"We good ol boys dont need none of them there handicapped spaces no-sirree that's for them fags and city slickers yee-haw."
Just because a place is "rural" doesn't mean they should get away with ignoring minorities
then got stung again a year later because even though he had plenty of handicapped parking, there was an issue about at least two handcapped vans have to be able to open their ramps out at the same time... and he only had one handicapped spot with 4-6 feet to the side of it for that.
Yep, thems the rules, been in place since what? 92? If his parking had been built AFTER 92, he could get the contractor to fix it. It's their job to build within compliance. Before that, well fixing the problem would cost less than the 100 c-notes. Because all you have to do is replace one spot with a ramp area ( and maybe do a curb cutout)
In most cases making the changes costs MUCH less than a lawyer. Last I heard that average cost for bringing places up to compliance was less than a thousand bucks.
In some cases where they did modifications that contractors told them were in compliance (but weren't) the business can make THEM pay/do the necessary upgrades.
A local hospital had that issue, they were told their new parking lot was in compliance, but it wasn't. The company that did the lot had to fix it for them.
I bet some of these business owners think it costs more than it actually does to fix compliance issues because they don't have good information. Advocacy groups for disabled folks have been doing accessibility Audits...for FREE, for years.
Back in the "don't copy that floppy" days, we were promised by software publishers that prices for games and applications were high due to piracy. Now with consoles having a 0% piracy rate, if one factors all the DLC needed to play an average console game, the price has gone up by 2 to 10 times.
DLC is not NEEDED to play, it's optional. One can still play Skyrim without Dawnguard, Hearthfire or Dragonborn. One can play Akiba's Trip without purchasing the DLC for the Prinny weapon. One can play War Thunder without buying the Premium vehicles.
One must also remember that back in the don't copy that floppy days, the average game cost $39 and had much less content. Taking inflation and included content in account modern games are cheaper than the ones of the 70's/80's.
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Good lord man, Sylpheed? Do you pine for the days of teco on a tty as you snap your suspenders and smooth your beard? Do you have a fetish for slightly quirky japanese-developed-and-centered open source software? Hasn't everyone who isn't Japanese switched to the Claws-Mail fork of Sylpheed by now?
And 640x480 was still the standard resolution for set-top boxes until around 2007
Define "set top box", since both you and I know, that both the PS2 and the original Xbox were capable of putting out a 1080i signal.
The PS3 was released in 2006, it's a set top box, when using HDMI by default it outputs the highest resolution your display supports up to 1080p.
Now admittedly, if you're you, and you're babysitting kids in the early to mid 2000's with a SNES/PSone/ or perhaps a PS2 attached to an SDTV, you might not realize the HD revolution is passed you by. Sony was selling nice little 15" 720p HDTV's in the early 2000's if I remember correctly, I think they cost about $550 - $600 or so.
And even then, Slashdot sometimes messes up the formatting so the above comment won't verify.
Then again, gpg isn't really intended for message board/Slashdot use.
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I've not used Enigmail, I didn't know it was that bad. I use Claws-Mail myself, which has an included by default gpg plugin.
One of the reasons keyservers are used are so people can get someones public key BEFORE they contact them securely, and don't have to wait for someone to send them their public key block before they check a signature. For example, if I sign this comment, you could grab my pubkey from Slashdot and/or the keyservers to check the sig and not have to send me an e-mail or reply to this comment asking for my pubkey. Though if I want the sig to get past the lameness filter I have to use SHA1, not SHA256 (which requires a quick config edit)
That said, while claws-mail does have a "Insert My Public Key Block" function in the Tools menu of the compose window, it can't as far as I know, automatically attach a pubkey. And if it did, people would probably complain and say things like "Why do I get these weird text attachments from claws-mail users all the time"
But you're right that it isn't Mom-proof, though it's better than it was.
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What person is so sadistic that they would play C&C or Warcraft on a PS1?
/me raises hand.
Well, not Warcraft, I don't own it, but I do own Red Alert, RA: Retaliation, and Dune 2000. I also had the PSone mouse.
My memory may be failing me, but I do believe one of those games could do multiplayer via system link...
Your memory is correct I know that RA and RA: Retaliation can do system link as well as DOOM. You only need 1 copy of the game for RA since one person can use the Allied disc and the other can use Soviet for system-link skirmishes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
but who seriously owned one of those cables?
/me raises hand again. I still have it, though I don't have a working PSone to use it with.
I was hoping the PS3 would include a feature to "tunnel" PSone system link games over the internet similar to how you can use "ad-hoc party" to tunnel ad-hoc only PSP games, but it doesn't. It also doesn't have a "have a USB mouse emulate the old PSone mouse" feature either.
whereas the main point was all the commercial software -- which was entirely my point. Stuff we need doesn't run on Linux, and it probably never will
Depends on what your needs are and what software you use.
Windows ran all of the software people needed *and* also games as a bonus (without having to buy an expensive console on top of that).
Expensive console? That's a rather funny statement considering some of those "PC Master Race" types refer to console gamers as "welfare gamers"
Nor did it play any of the hugely popular games like Doom, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat, SimCity 2000, Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Need For Speed and countless others, so it wasn't good for gaming either.
But you didn't need Windows for those games. EVERY one of the games you listed is also available on the PSone.
The sad thing is that Linux still has the same problem today. All commercial software and games are missing, which is entirely what you use the computer for...
Not everyone plays games on their PC.
It's not quirky if you you use a tried and true desktop environment (say XFCE) on a tried and true distro (say CentOS/RHEL or Ubuntu LTS)
I pay $20 every 90 days to Virgin Mobile (works out to $6.67 per month). I'll upgrade to a smart phone if and when the price of a plan that includes a reasonable amount of data drops to $15 per month.
I have a smartphone without a data plan, I pay $25 every 3 months to AT&T. I'd upgrade to a data plan when it doesn't cost 5X as much. Currently the cheapest AT&T data plan is $45.
Stop spreading incorrect info.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/com...
You need to start learning to update your information rather than researching something once and parotting outdated info like a robot years later.
Things change. How many times have I said to you, something like
"That's not entirely correct." or "That's outdated information there"
I purchased it because it was the most smartphone-like phone on which AT&T does not require a data plan
You can use AT&T smartphones without a data plan:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/com...
I've had 2 AT&T android go phones I've used that way, a Fusion and a Z998.
The problem with using a Windows Phone is that AT&T will probably still make you pay for a data plan that you don't use.
Only if you activate the phone via the phone itself, if you do it online you can have any plan you want. As I told you...two years ago in this reply:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/com...
You seem to lack the ability to update your information and keep harping on the same old axes you grind when your info is outdated and/or simply wrong.
https://www.jitterbugdirect.co...
https://www.consumercellular.c...
http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/ce...
You can still buy feature-phones at Wal-mart.
I had a V3xx that had a standard mini-usb port. Nice phone, the Moto wired headphones designed for it, suck so if you want to use it as a music player you really need a bluetooth headset, which the V3xx supports. It can handle many j2m3 apps.
I want something as close to a smart phone as possible that The phone company will not force me to get a data plan for
You can get that.
ATT, Verizon, and others have a policy that you cannot use certain phones on their network without a data plan. They will automatically upgrade you to a data plan, even if you would rather use your phone with WiFi.
That's possible with AT&T at least. Head to your local big box store, pick up one of AT&T's Android Go phones. While the phone's quick start card says to "enable" the phone via the phone, if you do it that way it automatically signs the phone up for a smartphone plan...you don't want that.
What you do is enable the phone online at the go phone website. Doing it that way lets you choose a non-smartphone plan even with your smartphone.
Frankly, I would like an Android device with no non-Wifi data functionality, that the phone companies would classify as a dumb phone.
I use one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/AT-Z998-...
In EXACTLY the way you describe with THIS plan:
http://www.att.com/shop/wirele...
Basically I buy a $25 card every 3 months.
She-it, you got me beat. I paid $120 for a AT&T Go Phone I use similarly, though I actually do use it as a phone now and then.
It makes a nice android-style iPod touch, as you said.
I'm more of a script monkey than a programmer these days.
Nothing wrong with that. For most people "scripting" is more useful day-to-day than "programming".
Yes, I know they're technically the same but "real programmers" would laugh at me if I called what few scripts I rarely do "programming"
At least your VIC-20 had a sound chip.
Wasn't there a LOGO port for the Vic-20, or was that for the C64?
That's partly my point, Apple didn't adapt to what Commodore and Atari were doing. They saw themselves as IBM's competitors, when their competition with the Apple II line was Atari and Commodore.
Worst part of the Apple line? The sound. Beep, borp, blip. . The design of the future was to use all "off the shelf" components without any custom hardware? Fuck you. Nothing unique about it, except the high price tag
Well the Apple line wasn't really intended for home use, after all the first Apple killer app was Visicalc. Later on they did the school donation thing hoping it would also stimulate sales to the home.
But as we know, as a "home computer", the Apple II line was not quite as successful (or good) as the Atari 8 bits and Commodore's Vic 20/C64. Both of which were derived from designs for video game consoles. That made them cheap, and with the graphics and sound for games.
One could play games on an apple II, but that doesn't mean it was good at it.
Steve Jobs continues, "One more thing. I still had the balls to name my $10000 computer after her!. I'm awesome."
He had -one- parking place for a handicapped van accessible (as per the law).
That isn't the law. It's actually based on the NUMBER of spaces. The minimum is one, and the access area next to it needs to have a minimum width of 96" Your buddy got tripped because either he, or his contractor didn't know that. Also some states have more restrictive rules than the federal ones, that is also allowed.
was the fact that in the 1970s, the Senate was changed from district representation to representating by population. This completely de-voiced all the rural areas, and essentially made the heavily populated coastal cities the only political thing that matters in the state.
That's how it should work, representation by population. If the Rural areas want more representation, they can get more people to move there.
Texas, OTOH still has a senate with one senator for each geographic area, which does a lot to mitigate just one part of the state having full control of everything.
Ah, so a bunch of rural bumfucks and rednecks can essentially veto anything "progressive", is that it?
"We good ol boys dont need none of them there handicapped spaces no-sirree that's for them fags and city slickers yee-haw."
Just because a place is "rural" doesn't mean they should get away with ignoring minorities
then got stung again a year later because even though he had plenty of handicapped parking, there was an issue about at least two handcapped vans have to be able to open their ramps out at the same time... and he only had one handicapped spot with 4-6 feet to the side of it for that.
Yep, thems the rules, been in place since what? 92? If his parking had been built AFTER 92, he could get the contractor to fix it. It's their job to build within compliance. Before that, well fixing the problem would cost less than the 100 c-notes. Because all you have to do is replace one spot with a ramp area ( and maybe do a curb cutout)
In most cases making the changes costs MUCH less than a lawyer. Last I heard that average cost for bringing places up to compliance was less than a thousand bucks.
In some cases where they did modifications that contractors told them were in compliance (but weren't) the business can make THEM pay/do the necessary upgrades.
A local hospital had that issue, they were told their new parking lot was in compliance, but it wasn't. The company that did the lot had to fix it for them.
I bet some of these business owners think it costs more than it actually does to fix compliance issues because they don't have good information. Advocacy groups for disabled folks have been doing accessibility Audits...for FREE, for years.
Back in the "don't copy that floppy" days, we were promised by software publishers that prices for games and applications were high due to piracy. Now with consoles having a 0% piracy rate, if one factors all the DLC needed to play an average console game, the price has gone up by 2 to 10 times.
DLC is not NEEDED to play, it's optional. One can still play Skyrim without Dawnguard, Hearthfire or Dragonborn. One can play Akiba's Trip without purchasing the DLC for the Prinny weapon. One can play War Thunder without buying the Premium vehicles.
One must also remember that back in the don't copy that floppy days, the average game cost $39 and had much less content. Taking inflation and included content in account modern games are cheaper than the ones of the 70's/80's.