It's the TBITS 5 keyboard standard used in the Government. In the early 90s they tried to pushed these as a mandated standard. I don't think anyone liked them; They had no English words on the keyboard and instead used iconic images to represent insert, home, and so on. Nowadays you just see bilingual keyboards that show the accented characters and placement of other characters on a key (some have 4 characters) and switch modes in the OS.
As well, that's 4 millions current subscribers. I know a lot of people, including myself, who cancelled their accounts. They made a *lot* of money off the box sales alone.
Dr. Strange would be a great Franchise. The first movie would need a lot of back story but subsequent films could really be fun. The effects they can do now would make the Dr. Strange universe and villians look great.
But they wouldn't make as much profit. They're losing big money selling consoles and need to recoup their losses through acessories and games. I'd complain more about the $40 memory cards than a $99 20gb HD.
Is Pacifica a product or a technology that Microsoft and EMC/VMware would use? I'm still not exactly clear on this. VMware has a number of technologies that make using virtual machines very useful.
I think a lot of people think of VMware as VMware Workstation but their ESX (and GSX to an extent) is their business bread and butter along with VirtualCenter not to mention VMotion pretty much has a patened lockdown on real time machine moving.
It's good to see some cometition in the market but VMware has been doing this for many years and it will take some time for them to fall behind.
There a number of ways to do so. If you have a 3.5" drive and access to a mac, it can read the disk that way. If you have a PCTransporter card, you can save the data on PC formated disks. You can buy a compact flash reader i/o card and shrink your disks and transfer via the flash card.
I've not tried it but apparently you can now read Apple disks on a PC in FDI format and use a program called CiderPress to convert them after.
A little late, but this is it exactly. I haven't had to place a call but I know others that have and had 0 help, some tickets never replied to after sitting there days.
Companies who want to use Linux but want a nice safe company to blame use Red Hat. $500-1750 per year per copy. They get around $25k a year from us. I've never once in 3 years called Red Hat for support but management is happy to pay that price to point the finger at someone to blame.
If Opera had a true Adblock equivilent (regex capable would be nice) it would be enough for me to switch. Even better if it had the extensibility Firefox does but I could live without the other extensions but not adblock.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I've had 15 years of PC evolution at work and home from 386/16mhz to P4/2.8ghz. However, after looking at the reviews and seeing the specs of the Althon 64 X2 4400+ (what a mouthful), I have to say I am impressed for the first time in many years. It's a great CPU.
I'll be replacing my main system with one this summer. And then probably wishing I had the 4800+ but that's tech for you.
I think it was a much simpiler reason. Piracy. The DC was the first console I know of that was extremely easy to copy the games. I don't like it's hyperbole to say everyone was doing it.
They lost money on every console sold and no one bought any games. The games were great it's just that sales must of been awful.
I can almost hear Sega scream "Stop buying our hardware you're killing us!."
When they were the only one (or the biggest one I forget if anyone had a choice circa '99) you had no choice. I mean $35 to have a computer easily accessible to anyone in the world is a pretty good deal really. $100 could be a good deal when there's no other option =p
Fortunately, market competition has made these prices lower. I think NetSol can keep their price at $35 because so many people just renewel when the notices come, and they still have mind share (need to register a domain = Network Solutions). Plus they make it a hassle to switch.
Also they only need to sell about 1/4 the number to make the same money as GoDaddy so maybe they're still making good profit. If you lower your price then you need to compete on other services to win people over that may not want to move.
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It's the TBITS 5 keyboard standard used in the Government. In the early 90s they tried to pushed these as a mandated standard. I don't think anyone liked them; They had no English words on the keyboard and instead used iconic images to represent insert, home, and so on. Nowadays you just see bilingual keyboards that show the accented characters and placement of other characters on a key (some have 4 characters) and switch modes in the OS.
As well, that's 4 millions current subscribers. I know a lot of people, including myself, who cancelled their accounts. They made a *lot* of money off the box sales alone.
Dr. Strange would be a great Franchise. The first movie would need a lot of back story but subsequent films could really be fun. The effects they can do now would make the Dr. Strange universe and villians look great.
"Naveed Khan from London says" well shut my mouth. It must be true. KHAAAANNNN!!!!
But they wouldn't make as much profit. They're losing big money selling consoles and need to recoup their losses through acessories and games. I'd complain more about the $40 memory cards than a $99 20gb HD.
One of my favorites was in Pitfall, The Mayan Adventure. Inside the game was the original Atari 2600 Pitfall.
They will have special weekends where you can play online to entice you to upgrade but it won't be every weekend.
Xbox silver is only for downloading new content and patches and such. You can't play online games. You need to upgrade to gold.
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Is Pacifica a product or a technology that Microsoft and EMC/VMware would use? I'm still not exactly clear on this. VMware has a number of technologies that make using virtual machines very useful.
I think a lot of people think of VMware as VMware Workstation but their ESX (and GSX to an extent) is their business bread and butter along with VirtualCenter not to mention VMotion pretty much has a patened lockdown on real time machine moving.
It's good to see some cometition in the market but VMware has been doing this for many years and it will take some time for them to fall behind.
Why can't they get this information from the scanner/cash registers then? What is the card doing that makes it a required part of this process?
Not to mention, the hard drive can be used to copy over data say from a second dvd if needed.
Curses, you beat me to the VGCats one.
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I'm the opposite. I actually really enjoyed PointCast back in the day. And now I'm completely disinterested in RSS feeds.
There a number of ways to do so. If you have a 3.5" drive and access to a mac, it can read the disk that way. If you have a PCTransporter card, you can save the data on PC formated disks. You can buy a compact flash reader i/o card and shrink your disks and transfer via the flash card.
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I've not tried it but apparently you can now read Apple disks on a PC in FDI format and use a program called CiderPress to convert them after.
But the typical way is connecting a cable between the PC and the Apple and use ADT (http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Sel/ADTWin.html
As a top ranked moderator for the leading news aggregration site on the Internet, I concur.
Centos (www.centos.org) is a great replacement for RHEL. I find it's more active than whitebox.
A little late, but this is it exactly. I haven't had to place a call but I know others that have and had 0 help, some tickets never replied to after sitting there days.
A Google seach is better.
I use www.map24.com. A lot more up to date than Google for Canada.
Companies who want to use Linux but want a nice safe company to blame use Red Hat. $500-1750 per year per copy. They get around $25k a year from us. I've never once in 3 years called Red Hat for support but management is happy to pay that price to point the finger at someone to blame.
If Opera had a true Adblock equivilent (regex capable would be nice) it would be enough for me to switch. Even better if it had the extensibility Firefox does but I could live without the other extensions but not adblock.
I'm inclined to agree with you. I've had 15 years of PC evolution at work and home from 386/16mhz to P4/2.8ghz. However, after looking at the reviews and seeing the specs of the Althon 64 X2 4400+ (what a mouthful), I have to say I am impressed for the first time in many years. It's a great CPU.
I'll be replacing my main system with one this summer. And then probably wishing I had the 4800+ but that's tech for you.
I think it was a much simpiler reason. Piracy. The DC was the first console I know of that was extremely easy to copy the games. I don't like it's hyperbole to say everyone was doing it.
They lost money on every console sold and no one bought any games. The games were great it's just that sales must of been awful.
I can almost hear Sega scream "Stop buying our hardware you're killing us!."
MAME has over 4000 games. If you played one game a day it would take you 10 years to go through the library. Compare that to the PS1 library.
When they were the only one (or the biggest one I forget if anyone had a choice circa '99) you had no choice. I mean $35 to have a computer easily accessible to anyone in the world is a pretty good deal really. $100 could be a good deal when there's no other option =p
Fortunately, market competition has made these prices lower. I think NetSol can keep their price at $35 because so many people just renewel when the notices come, and they still have mind share (need to register a domain = Network Solutions). Plus they make it a hassle to switch.
Also they only need to sell about 1/4 the number to make the same money as GoDaddy so maybe they're still making good profit. If you lower your price then you need to compete on other services to win people over that may not want to move.