With the RIAA taxing web broadcasters out of existance, I can't imagine anything interesting being played on a LPFM station besides talk shows and garage bands.
But it seemed they were more concerned with the short term business model than the long term business model. Drop an insignificant minority here, gain some newbies there, raise subscription rates for 3 months. Seems okay on the surface, but by shunning long time players and relying on a constant flow of newbies, your game is destined to fail.
Seriously, what would you do with 17,000 PlayStations?
Duh, sell them, or give them to your family, friends, or "business associates". Just like those coolers Tony was giving away during the bust out at the sporting goods store.
I'd hate to dissapoint everyone, but this also features Artie Lang as the 300 lb pet. This combined with the fact it's on UPN almost guarantees that it's going to suck. I give it three months, and that's generous.
And before anyone says, "Yeah, but one of the writers is from the Simpsons!", look at Conan O'Brian.
But close a laptop while accidentally leaving a pen on the keyboard, or spill some soda on it and you'll be $1500 poorer. I spilled a big cup of coffee on my desktop keyboard a couple months ago. For $10 I had a new keyboard and was ready to go. Recently, some kid at my school rested his laptop bag in puddle outside and found out the hard way what water does to a laptop's motherboard and hard drive.
How does this relate to Joe Sixpack? Well, compare a short trip to the computer store vs a 2 week wait from IBM/Dell/Compaq and big fat bill.
Not to mention the fact that there's almost no upgrades you can do, besides maybe memory and the hard drive. Need a new computer? Gotta buy a whole new one! My old Thinkpad is nice, but for home use I'll stick to my desktop. MUCH cheaper that way.
I get that on Verizon DSL too, except my alert system is for Verizon's mail server. Last night every BF1942 server I tried was unplayable, and sure enough tonight the mail server is going down for "routine maintenance".
My only problem I ever had with netware was the insane way of configuring netware... what sick person thought that was a good idea? it makes editing sendmail configs by hand look easy.
Then you need Netware client for the workstations and maybe Zenworks for client configuration. But hey, once it works, you won't have to mess with it anymore.
Yes, but Novell eDirectory for Linux requires a real Novell Netware server somewhere in the tree to function as an NDS server, it's not standalone. Nterprise OTOH will function as a full Novell NDS server on it's own.
IMO, it's about time someone put X.500 functionality into Linux, I just wish someone would have made it OSS. OSSDS or OpenDirectory anyone?
The kicker is that when the mouse is plugged directly to the machine, the mouse wheel works just fine!
And that is exactly what I do. I use an old PIII 600E as my home workstation running Red Hat 8.0 and I have my generic CrapUSA USB optical plugged directly into it. In the KVM however, I plugged an old wheeless 3 button ps2 mouse along with the keyboard, so when I switch to the other computer I use the old ps2. It isn't really efficient, but it works.
When I first set this up, I tried using the USB-PS2 adapter that came with the optical mouse and plugging that into the KVM, but when I started X on the workstation I got the cursor but couldn't move it. The light didn't even come on in the mouse so I figured that idea was FUBAR. Since the second machine runs Netware 5.1 and I don't use the GUI anyway, I just scrounged up an old ps2 and plugged that into the KVM, and tossed it behind the Netware box, and plugged the USB mouse directly into the workstation.
Shit, HAMs have been building their own satellites for some time now....
HAMs don't need no stinking satellites, that's what the ionosphere is for. As for pooling resources, they've been chatting it up around the world before the Internet was a gleam in Al Gore's eye.
I do, but it's not a toy. It's an old beat up Realistic TRC-214 3 channel CB Walkie T with "Push to Talk" still clearly stamped on the transmit button, which is amazing since almost every other marking on it is wore off from sitting in my pile of misc electronic junk. This thing is at least 15 years old.
I can't find the manual for that model, but here's an example. A lot of the Walkie Talkies have Push to Talk on the transmit button.
We have that here in the US, but it's not used by actual people. It's used primarily by telemarketing scum to find your number and call you at dinner time to sell you crap you don't want. My number is listed pretty much everywhere, but I'm on the NY do not call list, which is IMO the most important listing to be on.
The problem with glycol is while it's a good heat conductor, it isn't a good conductor of heat as plain old water, so a lot of gearheads use water wetter in addition to antifreeze/water mix. For around $9 a bottle, its cheap insurance and it keeps the temp down at least 5% less than 50/50 water and antifreeze. I thought the stuff was bogus until I used it, and when I did, it kept the needle down on the temp gauge at least 10 - 15 deg F.
IMO, instead of building a huge contraption in his garage, he could have ripped the radiator out of that old Tercel and experimented with that.
I get flashbacks of this horror. No multiplay, no add-ons, and it contains only one kind of enemy, some sort of racist caracature of a Vietnamese. No wonder we lost that war, the gameplay sucked.
Sounds like Imperium Galactica. Been done... twice. Very hard game, especially when you conquer a good chunk of the galaxy and have multiple races all pissed off at you so you have to build them crap and lower their taxes, etc. The amount of detail in that game is pretty amazing.
Micro$will - Yes, all of those who bought a lifetime subscription to GameSpy3D now have to fork out $5 a month for all the new crap, like Roger Wilco and GameSpy Arcade. Joy!
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And for those of you that like to keep their games up to date (I.E. actually play them online) get the extra special benefit of shelling out more cash for access to FilePlanet! Don't bother trying to access id's ftp site, they're always full, just like our "free" 25 user ftp sites.
Thankfully, most games these days come with built in game browsers, and as for patches and maps, there's Google.
Well, I hope you figure it out soon. Frankly Redhat looks pretty silly next to support policies from, say Microsoft, who will only cease security updates for Windows 98 at the end of this year (and don't charge any subscription fee). That's over 5 years of support on a consumer OS.
Ever called Microsoft for desktop support? Sure,there's no subscription fees, but you'll be $5 lighter per minute. That's if YOU purchased and installed the OS. If you bought the entire machine from an OEM and left their default image M$ will refer you to the vendor.
Seriously though how long till you see *Hacked with Megasquirt* stickers on all the rice mobiles going around?
This won't happen, because MegaSquirt has an actual performance product, as opposed to the dozen or so companies that just make cool stickers. Oh yeah, some of them also make giant wings, seat and seat belt covers, and those stupid blue windshield washer LEDs.
I'd rather see a Mass Air Flow version of this. Maybe because I'm a little biased towards Ford's system, but MAF seems to be easier to modify. Supercharger? Turbo? No problem! Just make sure you plumb the MAF sensor before the blower or turbo inlet.Of course this is on a stock system, stock or mild cam, and good exhaust. No other modifications necessary.
OTOH, with access to the assembler code for the EFI controller, you can run any setup you want, but you'll have to spend a couple days driving around with a laptop in the passenger seat adjusting A/F ratios and various timings until the engine runs smooth. This is also a great option for the multitude of oddball engines that never had an EFI option, or if you're like me and don't like those overpriced Rube Goldberg TBI setups Holley makes.
Yeah, when Bill Gates decides to release the NT source code and license it GNU. Just like the record industry, the movie industry enjoys it's little spot at the top, and it will take a lot more than a few entrepreneurs to make them let go.
The only way to make the MPAA and RIAA listen to customer demands is if there is an all out boycott. No CDs, no singles, no DVDs, no movies, no tapes, no bargain bin, no radio, no downloads, nothing... not one more penny enters their pockets, and not one byte to blame on software piracy. Just like drugs, as long as there is demand, there will be a dealer. Like Nancy said, "Just say NO!"
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Does that clip remind anyone else of Young Frankenstein? Add some people waving torches at him.
Mwaaaaaaaaah!
With the RIAA taxing web broadcasters out of existance, I can't imagine anything interesting being played on a LPFM station besides talk shows and garage bands.
But it seemed they were more concerned with the short term business model than the long term business model. Drop an insignificant minority here, gain some newbies there, raise subscription rates for 3 months. Seems okay on the surface, but by shunning long time players and relying on a constant flow of newbies, your game is destined to fail.
This is true for any service. It could explain why AOL lost over a quarter million subscribers this year.
Seriously, what would you do with 17,000 PlayStations?
Duh, sell them, or give them to your family, friends, or "business associates". Just like those coolers Tony was giving away during the bust out at the sporting goods store.
I'd hate to dissapoint everyone, but this also features Artie Lang as the 300 lb pet. This combined with the fact it's on UPN almost guarantees that it's going to suck. I give it three months, and that's generous.
And before anyone says, "Yeah, but one of the writers is from the Simpsons!", look at Conan O'Brian.
But close a laptop while accidentally leaving a pen on the keyboard, or spill some soda on it and you'll be $1500 poorer. I spilled a big cup of coffee on my desktop keyboard a couple months ago. For $10 I had a new keyboard and was ready to go. Recently, some kid at my school rested his laptop bag in puddle outside and found out the hard way what water does to a laptop's motherboard and hard drive.
How does this relate to Joe Sixpack? Well, compare a short trip to the computer store vs a 2 week wait from IBM/Dell/Compaq and big fat bill.
Not to mention the fact that there's almost no upgrades you can do, besides maybe memory and the hard drive. Need a new computer? Gotta buy a whole new one! My old Thinkpad is nice, but for home use I'll stick to my desktop. MUCH cheaper that way.
I get that on Verizon DSL too, except my alert system is for Verizon's mail server. Last night every BF1942 server I tried was unplayable, and sure enough tonight the mail server is going down for "routine maintenance".
New from Fisher Price:
AOL = "My First ISP"
Motorola = "My First Cell Phone" - now in pretty colors!
Windows = "My First Operating System"
My only problem I ever had with netware was the insane way of configuring netware... what sick person thought that was a good idea? it makes editing sendmail configs by hand look easy.
I agree. What's the management app count now? 9?
nwadmin (remote)
ConsoleOne (local or remote)
DNS/DHCP (remote)
nwconfig (local)
ndsmanager (remote)
inetcfg (local)
rconsole (remote console)
Netware Management Portal (remote)
NSS (local)
Then you need Netware client for the workstations and maybe Zenworks for client configuration. But hey, once it works, you won't have to mess with it anymore.
Yes, but Novell eDirectory for Linux requires a real Novell Netware server somewhere in the tree to function as an NDS server, it's not standalone. Nterprise OTOH will function as a full Novell NDS server on it's own.
IMO, it's about time someone put X.500 functionality into Linux, I just wish someone would have made it OSS. OSSDS or OpenDirectory anyone?
F.U.
The kicker is that when the mouse is plugged directly to the machine, the mouse wheel works just fine!
And that is exactly what I do. I use an old PIII 600E as my home workstation running Red Hat 8.0 and I have my generic CrapUSA USB optical plugged directly into it. In the KVM however, I plugged an old wheeless 3 button ps2 mouse along with the keyboard, so when I switch to the other computer I use the old ps2. It isn't really efficient, but it works.
When I first set this up, I tried using the USB-PS2 adapter that came with the optical mouse and plugging that into the KVM, but when I started X on the workstation I got the cursor but couldn't move it. The light didn't even come on in the mouse so I figured that idea was FUBAR. Since the second machine runs Netware 5.1 and I don't use the GUI anyway, I just scrounged up an old ps2 and plugged that into the KVM, and tossed it behind the Netware box, and plugged the USB mouse directly into the workstation.
Shit, HAMs have been building their own satellites for some time now....
HAMs don't need no stinking satellites, that's what the ionosphere is for. As for pooling resources, they've been chatting it up around the world before the Internet was a gleam in Al Gore's eye.
I do, but it's not a toy. It's an old beat up Realistic TRC-214 3 channel CB Walkie T with "Push to Talk" still clearly stamped on the transmit button, which is amazing since almost every other marking on it is wore off from sitting in my pile of misc electronic junk. This thing is at least 15 years old.
I can't find the manual for that model, but here's an example. A lot of the Walkie Talkies have Push to Talk on the transmit button.
We have that here in the US, but it's not used by actual people. It's used primarily by telemarketing scum to find your number and call you at dinner time to sell you crap you don't want. My number is listed pretty much everywhere, but I'm on the NY do not call list, which is IMO the most important listing to be on.
The problem with glycol is while it's a good heat conductor, it isn't a good conductor of heat as plain old water, so a lot of gearheads use water wetter in addition to antifreeze/water mix. For around $9 a bottle, its cheap insurance and it keeps the temp down at least 5% less than 50/50 water and antifreeze. I thought the stuff was bogus until I used it, and when I did, it kept the needle down on the temp gauge at least 10 - 15 deg F.
IMO, instead of building a huge contraption in his garage, he could have ripped the radiator out of that old Tercel and experimented with that.
I get flashbacks of this horror. No multiplay, no add-ons, and it contains only one kind of enemy, some sort of racist caracature of a Vietnamese. No wonder we lost that war, the gameplay sucked.
Sounds like Imperium Galactica. Been done ... twice. Very hard game, especially when you conquer a good chunk of the galaxy and have multiple races all pissed off at you so you have to build them crap and lower their taxes, etc. The amount of detail in that game is pretty amazing.
I agree. It seems every new idea these days is beaten to death 5 times over, then again 10 years later.Look at all the WW2 based games out now.
I must admit though, a new version of ShadowRun (Genesis and SNES) or Paradroid (C64/128) would probably get my attention.
#27 - Gamespy Arcade
Micro$will - Yes, all of those who bought a lifetime subscription to GameSpy3D now have to fork out $5 a month for all the new crap, like Roger Wilco and GameSpy Arcade. Joy!
#28 - FilePlanet
And for those of you that like to keep their games up to date (I.E. actually play them online) get the extra special benefit of shelling out more cash for access to FilePlanet! Don't bother trying to access id's ftp site, they're always full, just like our "free" 25 user ftp sites.
Thankfully, most games these days come with built in game browsers, and as for patches and maps, there's Google.
Well, I hope you figure it out soon. Frankly Redhat looks pretty silly next to support policies from, say Microsoft, who will only cease security updates for Windows 98 at the end of this year (and don't charge any subscription fee). That's over 5 years of support on a consumer OS.
Ever called Microsoft for desktop support? Sure,there's no subscription fees, but you'll be $5 lighter per minute. That's if YOU purchased and installed the OS. If you bought the entire machine from an OEM and left their default image M$ will refer you to the vendor.
Seriously though how long till you see *Hacked with Megasquirt* stickers on all the rice mobiles going around?
This won't happen, because MegaSquirt has an actual performance product, as opposed to the dozen or so companies that just make cool stickers. Oh yeah, some of them also make giant wings, seat and seat belt covers, and those stupid blue windshield washer LEDs.
I'd rather see a Mass Air Flow version of this. Maybe because I'm a little biased towards Ford's system, but MAF seems to be easier to modify. Supercharger? Turbo? No problem! Just make sure you plumb the MAF sensor before the blower or turbo inlet.Of course this is on a stock system, stock or mild cam, and good exhaust. No other modifications necessary.
OTOH, with access to the assembler code for the EFI controller, you can run any setup you want, but you'll have to spend a couple days driving around with a laptop in the passenger seat adjusting A/F ratios and various timings until the engine runs smooth. This is also a great option for the multitude of oddball engines that never had an EFI option, or if you're like me and don't like those overpriced Rube Goldberg TBI setups Holley makes.
Yeah, when Bill Gates decides to release the NT source code and license it GNU. Just like the record industry, the movie industry enjoys it's little spot at the top, and it will take a lot more than a few entrepreneurs to make them let go.
The only way to make the MPAA and RIAA listen to customer demands is if there is an all out boycott. No CDs, no singles, no DVDs, no movies, no tapes, no bargain bin, no radio, no downloads, nothing... not one more penny enters their pockets, and not one byte to blame on software piracy. Just like drugs, as long as there is demand, there will be a dealer. Like Nancy said, "Just say NO!"