Are you talking about dos or 3.1 games that run on Windows 9x? I believe walmart has a lot of that. Funny how people have been playing those games for so long. Still sold by many major retailers.
All Direct X games and 9X applications (32 bit code that that didn't run on dos or were 3.1 aps) still work if you have the correct drivers and settings.
I believe the only apps that don't work are 16 bit applications written for windows 3.1 and dos that worked with windows 9x but wasn't made for it.
IF you have competent employees that know linux well. They can setup many workstations easily at 1/3rd the price. However OS X does look more physically polished and has a better looking gui.
I personally can easily forgo the nice little graphics of OS X and settle with Linux. My biggest beef with OS X Server (the apple os i am most familiar with) is it's directory system. It stores many things in nonstandard places and it make it a pain to configure services(I guess not many people care about that).
It got so annoying along with the speed issues (OSX Server 10.0 and 10.1 has many speed issues related to server function) that i decided to just use yellow dog linux instead. I haven't yet tried 0S X 10.2 yet, it supposedly faster but I also heard that it messes with directories and moves things around again.
I know this place is filled with anti-microsoft people, but please notice that this isn't a flamebait.
I like being able to change the file extension of a file and have it open in different programs or behave a little differently. I constantly due it for many different reasons. When I used a mac os for the first time, this was a really large pain for me.
Also if for some reason you are changing file extension of a file with the file extensions set to hidden well that really does kinda say something negative about ones intelligence.
All in all, I'm glad that OSX allows people to more active use file extensions. I am also happy that Windows has always allowed one to do it. I personally choose flexibility on a computer system more then a little convenience. Isn't that why many geeks also use os's like linux?
I doubt that they just looked at one anime... It incorporates ideas from numerous anime and the main idea seemed to from a video game from like two decades ago. They might have not even played the game but looked at anime that had something similar.
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For one thing, there are a lot more animation houses and styles that are applicable. Also the Square Studio that made Final Fantasy, the not so great movie no longer exists. I doubt they had a hand in it.
Well, I don't know about what stats your looking but I'm guessing it's the best selling single laptop. Well there's a good reason for something like this. IT'S PROBABLY THE ONLY LAPTOP AVAILABLE TO MAC USERS.
I'll bet about 8x more laptops run on the x86 architecture.
I'm not a genius but it seems as though this guy just got lucky guessing a password. If you have a stupid network or system admin that uses common passwords then OS is irrelvant.
I also noticed that you mentioned hacking webservers like Webstar... the article mentions that he hacked into the intranet, this is different from hacking into a webserver.
And nothing really happend... he was throwing it everywhere and for the most part it just evaporated before it could really do anything. A human won't even feel a few drops of liquid nitrogen if it were to start falling on him.
Liquid Nitrogen is very cold but it cannot survive in the extreme heat of room temperature. When the Liquid nitrogen was on the surface of our lab tables it acted like water on a top of a 600 degrees frying pan. It danced wildly then evaporated. A cup of nitrogen should be no problem unless one of these guys dipped their hands in it.
I'm surprised no one posted this already... About 99.9% of all cd's you buy are not BURNT they are pressed in a factory. This includes virtually all silver cds (there are some cd-r's made to look silver i think).
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anti-dub propaganda? Come one... judging from your previous post you seem overly emotional with these things. I myself when first watching anime a long time ago easily loved subs far more then dubs. That doesn't necessarily mean I like dubs better then subs all the time but I usally do.
One of the rare times I enjoyed a dub more was (cough) when i watched princess mononoke(cough).
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Good points... Ii was probably good but it got soooooo much attention you'd think it'd be better. I guess I will have to give this new film a chance.
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Oops... Sorry... I personally know a lot of people that like Princess Mononoke myself but never could figure out why.
I still believe that most of geeks in the U.S. like sci-fi and martial arts genres(I kinda forgot fantasy). Now based on your site url... Have you been to the U.S.?
As for my childish hatred on Disney... Yep, it probably is childish but come on every animated film they made since i don't know when happen to be so.... disneyish! You know that sappy/corny stuff.
What's up With the Populariy of Princess Mononoke
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I remember all the anime hype related to Princess Mononoke being a huge anime fan and ended up totally disliking the film. It seemed like a the Japanese counterpart of a disney film. A totally non-geek anime as far as I'm concerned. Most of the anime us geeks love in the U.S. are the sci-fi type and sometimes martial arts ones but not the disneyish ones like this.
I read the story line of this one at the site linked by slashdot and it sounded pretty corny. Perhaps some slashdotters can inform me as to why films like this are popular among some geeks?
This is true... but most of the unused bandwidth is here in the U.S. (I wouldn't say earth). But the applications the internet two are hyping and the applications most slashdotters are concerned with require far more bandwidth then the average net user is using now. In the short term fiber isn't a problem but the same bandwidth problems that plagued the current net will also affect net2.
If you go to their site you'll see in their presentations a lot of stuff related to high bandwidth applications. It is true that if you look at their work it's really just infastruction/protocol improvements but that is not what they are hyping.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all... I just don't see internet2 as something that will solve our bandwidth issues. This is true... but alot of the hype that internet2 is generating are things like video phones and other high bandwidth applications. Currently the average user is on a 56k modem but most of the hyped applications use at least 10x that bandwidth. If the average user at least 500 kb/s of bandwidth and the number of users increase then I can easily see all that dark fiber being lit and still not be enough.
I don't really see how this would increase our bandwidth in a revolutionary way. Maybe latency will improve with a better network infastruction but the same thing that prevent large bandwidth usage in the internet will probably plague internet2.
One of the highest cost backbone providers suffer comes from laying down fiber. This has caused many to declare bankruptcy. Equipment (not talking about those home linksys routers) are crazily expensive as well. I don't see how internet2 will magically bring down the prices of either of the two dramatically. Equipment like this will always be expensive to ISPs and laying down fiber isn't going to get cheaper either.
I admit I am not an expert in this arena but that doesn't change the cold hard facts that I'm seeing. Money seems to be the major factor that is preventing the current internet from utilizing higher bandwidth applications.
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Are you talking about dos or 3.1 games that run on Windows 9x? I believe walmart has a lot of that. Funny how people have been playing those games for so long. Still sold by many major retailers. All Direct X games and 9X applications (32 bit code that that didn't run on dos or were 3.1 aps) still work if you have the correct drivers and settings. I believe the only apps that don't work are 16 bit applications written for windows 3.1 and dos that worked with windows 9x but wasn't made for it.
But because it's totally controlled by Apple... prices will remain sky high. (I personally believe 3x more for a comparable mac is sky high).
IF you have competent employees that know linux well. They can setup many workstations easily at 1/3rd the price. However OS X does look more physically polished and has a better looking gui.
I personally can easily forgo the nice little graphics of OS X and settle with Linux. My biggest beef with OS X Server (the apple os i am most familiar with) is it's directory system. It stores many things in nonstandard places and it make it a pain to configure services(I guess not many people care about that).
It got so annoying along with the speed issues (OSX Server 10.0 and 10.1 has many speed issues related to server function) that i decided to just use yellow dog linux instead. I haven't yet tried 0S X 10.2 yet, it supposedly faster but I also heard that it messes with directories and moves things around again.
I know this place is filled with anti-microsoft people, but please notice that this isn't a flamebait.
I like being able to change the file extension of a file and have it open in different programs or behave a little differently. I constantly due it for many different reasons. When I used a mac os for the first time, this was a really large pain for me.
Also if for some reason you are changing file extension of a file with the file extensions set to hidden well that really does kinda say something negative about ones intelligence.
All in all, I'm glad that OSX allows people to more active use file extensions. I am also happy that Windows has always allowed one to do it. I personally choose flexibility on a computer system more then a little convenience. Isn't that why many geeks also use os's like linux?
There are tons of shitty books. They usually don't get published as widely, or at least i think they don't.
They stopped making dreamcasts and left the hardware businesss like more then a year ago.
Silly me... ignore my previous post...
I doubt that they just looked at one anime... It incorporates ideas from numerous anime and the main idea seemed to from a video game from like two decades ago. They might have not even played the game but looked at anime that had something similar.
For one thing, there are a lot more animation houses and styles that are applicable. Also the Square Studio that made Final Fantasy, the not so great movie no longer exists. I doubt they had a hand in it.
So it's not the only mac laptop... But still it seems to be an ibook or powerbook. But that's still not much of a choice...
Well, I don't know about what stats your looking but I'm guessing it's the best selling single laptop. Well there's a good reason for something like this. IT'S PROBABLY THE ONLY LAPTOP AVAILABLE TO MAC USERS.
I'll bet about 8x more laptops run on the x86 architecture.
I'm not a genius but it seems as though this guy just got lucky guessing a password. If you have a stupid network or system admin that uses common passwords then OS is irrelvant.
I also noticed that you mentioned hacking webservers like Webstar... the article mentions that he hacked into the intranet, this is different from hacking into a webserver.
And nothing really happend... he was throwing it everywhere and for the most part it just evaporated before it could really do anything. A human won't even feel a few drops of liquid nitrogen if it were to start falling on him.
Liquid Nitrogen is very cold but it cannot survive in the extreme heat of room temperature. When the Liquid nitrogen was on the surface of our lab tables it acted like water on a top of a 600 degrees frying pan. It danced wildly then evaporated. A cup of nitrogen should be no problem unless one of these guys dipped their hands in it.
I'm surprised no one posted this already... About 99.9% of all cd's you buy are not BURNT they are pressed in a factory. This includes virtually all silver cds (there are some cd-r's made to look silver i think).
anti-dub propaganda? Come one... judging from your previous post you seem overly emotional with these things. I myself when first watching anime a long time ago easily loved subs far more then dubs. That doesn't necessarily mean I like dubs better then subs all the time but I usally do. One of the rare times I enjoyed a dub more was (cough) when i watched princess mononoke(cough).
Good points... Ii was probably good but it got soooooo much attention you'd think it'd be better. I guess I will have to give this new film a chance.
Oops... Sorry... I personally know a lot of people that like Princess Mononoke myself but never could figure out why.
I still believe that most of geeks in the U.S. like sci-fi and martial arts genres(I kinda forgot fantasy). Now based on your site url... Have you been to the U.S.?
As for my childish hatred on Disney... Yep, it probably is childish but come on every animated film they made since i don't know when happen to be so.... disneyish! You know that sappy/corny stuff.
I remember all the anime hype related to Princess Mononoke being a huge anime fan and ended up totally disliking the film. It seemed like a the Japanese counterpart of a disney film. A totally non-geek anime as far as I'm concerned. Most of the anime us geeks love in the U.S. are the sci-fi type and sometimes martial arts ones but not the disneyish ones like this. I read the story line of this one at the site linked by slashdot and it sounded pretty corny. Perhaps some slashdotters can inform me as to why films like this are popular among some geeks?
This is true... but most of the unused bandwidth is here in the U.S. (I wouldn't say earth). But the applications the internet two are hyping and the applications most slashdotters are concerned with require far more bandwidth then the average net user is using now. In the short term fiber isn't a problem but the same bandwidth problems that plagued the current net will also affect net2. If you go to their site you'll see in their presentations a lot of stuff related to high bandwidth applications. It is true that if you look at their work it's really just infastruction/protocol improvements but that is not what they are hyping.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all... I just don't see internet2 as something that will solve our bandwidth issues. This is true... but alot of the hype that internet2 is generating are things like video phones and other high bandwidth applications. Currently the average user is on a 56k modem but most of the hyped applications use at least 10x that bandwidth. If the average user at least 500 kb/s of bandwidth and the number of users increase then I can easily see all that dark fiber being lit and still not be enough.
I don't really see how this would increase our bandwidth in a revolutionary way. Maybe latency will improve with a better network infastruction but the same thing that prevent large bandwidth usage in the internet will probably plague internet2.
One of the highest cost backbone providers suffer comes from laying down fiber. This has caused many to declare bankruptcy. Equipment (not talking about those home linksys routers) are crazily expensive as well. I don't see how internet2 will magically bring down the prices of either of the two dramatically. Equipment like this will always be expensive to ISPs and laying down fiber isn't going to get cheaper either.
I admit I am not an expert in this arena but that doesn't change the cold hard facts that I'm seeing. Money seems to be the major factor that is preventing the current internet from utilizing higher bandwidth applications.