Point well taken but I bet I can burn a CD with a 1.44mb file on it, take it to the other computer and copy it off in the time it takes one of those 3.5" POS to write the damn file. Not to mention the shelf life of what, 14 days? 'Bah!' I say. I've been floppyless and proud of it for years.
Really? I figured Nintendo wouldn't touch Nokia after that nGage crap. nGage was anything but elegant or simplistic. Hell, they even took a second stab at it and didn't fix a single damn problem.
You're beig a whiny dickhead with too much money and too little sense.
That would be all well and good if I owned an iPod or any other mp3 player for that matter but thanks for the smiting and poor analogy (psst... almost noone follows their car handbooks) and enjoy the lashings... again there is exactly one place to legally buy your iPod tunes. And that's a 'your' because between you the dickhead and me the dickhead no more than one of us could possibly have an iPod and I know it ain't me.
Apple said the iPod specifically worked with songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. Would your dealer be obligated to support after-market parts on your car?
Wouldn't you be pissed if you had to go to the dealership to get your windshield washer fluid?
They're being protectionist dickheads with a $400 music player, no two ways around it. You can try to placate yourself any way you want but this behavior is exactly what slashdotters rail against every day.
Do you use any Linux?
As a policy, I don't run anything that competes with Microsoft. My goal is to make sure Microsoft products are the best products in the world.
Ah, the old 'bury your head in the sand' technique. It works well. Maybe if they actually *tried* linux they could see what pisses disenfranchised Windows users off or where these TCO numbers come from.
My parents gave me a Toyota Tercel for my 17th birthday. I'm not sure why they chose Toyota, but I suspect they expect it to be replaced by a Lexus or BMW by the user.
It's the hardware they're selling for cheap. They'd have to replace you for the analogy to be correct:)
OK, we got it... Macs do Photo shit well. Point made. We don't need 500 of the same 'just get a Mac' posts. If he wanted to get a Mac I think he might've discovered that secret a couple years ago. How about some helpful person actually post their experience with the Linux tools they've used or maybe how to get the damn Epson Perfection line working in Linux (I'm using a 3170 though VMWare).
I used a regular BT8x8 card in a 1400 for a long time as my main Myth machine. I even had that card in a 1ghz machine for a while and they both seemed to handle encoding sufficiently -- although I think the 1ghz was recording at 320x240 for a 19" TV. You can feel the reduction in CPU utilization you get from a hardware encoder in the snappiness of the menus and video searches and such but even a modest machine should be able to software-encode video reasonably.
The latest uber-MMORPG that revolutionizes the genre and flips the industry on its ear! This one's larger, prettier, faster, flashier, and beats out every other MMORPG to date...
...just like every other MMORPG before it. I give it a month before people start to get tired of it. Before tons of elves start bitching about how their class got nerfed or the magic users are unbalanced or the economic system is skewed. Another few months after that all the l337 WoW players that are 42 levels above any normal player are in every town on the map while Joe-gamer grinds away the free hour or two of free time he has per night trying to get *anywhere*. A few months after that this MMORPG sits on a shelf next to SWG and EQ Expansion #7 and instead of being $40-50 out Joe-gamer is down about $90. He spent more money and less time on this than he did on San Andreas but got really good at repeating the same 4 in-game actions over and over and over again. All the gaming sites come to the realization that, while slightly cooler than the other MMORPGs this one sucks too and anything where there are a 'massive' number of people all doing the same thing you're doing for the millionth time isn't a game at all, it's a poor facsimile of the worst part of life... work.
There are two critical requirements for a Media PC that's going to reside in your living room, it has to look great and be quiet as a mouse
Mine sits behind the big-ass 55" TV... It's a plain beige box but you wouldn't know it. Oh, and it could be built for around $400... $450 if you put in ultra quiet fans.
So taking the cells from an embryo that's going to be destroyed anyway is immoral but taking them from this woman is not? That's like preventing inmates on death row from donating their kidneys.
I don't think anyone is promoting abortions just for the stem cells... nor would they support commiting capital crimes to donate organs but if the research material is there, use it damnit! Over a *million* abortions are performed every year in the US. Abortion may suck but at least some good could come from it.
It's all google-able. And if we count those 'insurgents' as terrorist, which we're fond of doing when it serves our purposes, terrorism is astronomical.
Not as bad as one would think. Most of the machines just kinda fall asleep after a while. The notable exceptions are the Myth box which spins 24/7 and, if torrents are downloading, the box with Azureus on it. I'd say we lose more money the day I forget to turn off the 1500watt heater before bed than a week of a constantly sleeping machine.
I think that's the point a lot of 'techies' are getting at: "Wow... you did all that crap. The same crap you could do on a $250 i386 Linux box. So you're paying $2000+ for the GUI?" Most hardcore techies outpace what the GUI offers them which is why KDE and Gnome were so poor for so long. They'd rather buy 8 $250 boxen, do 8x the crap and deal with the less flashy but still flashy enough lights.
I'm not saying it's right, just how it is. I must admit, if money weren't an obstacle I'd splurge on the pretty pictures too. But since money is always an obstacle my 6 x86 boxes will have to do.
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Bah! We're union. You give us 2.68 microseconds and we'll leave 3 microseconds early!
Point well taken but I bet I can burn a CD with a 1.44mb file on it, take it to the other computer and copy it off in the time it takes one of those 3.5" POS to write the damn file. Not to mention the shelf life of what, 14 days? 'Bah!' I say. I've been floppyless and proud of it for years.
Damn... I'm 5. I think I can feel the continuum tearing.
If we do something enough, we start thinking of the world in those terms.
Well that explains the White House... but we're supposed to be talking about games here.
near-PS2 quality
Getting a little ahead of ourselves aren't we? Both in specs and in previews people have likened it more to the original PSX than the PS2.
About the only place they aren't the copyright owners is Gilligan's Island.
So we can make as many copies as we like of "The Real Gilligan's Island"?
Nintendo + Nokia = True
Really? I figured Nintendo wouldn't touch Nokia after that nGage crap. nGage was anything but elegant or simplistic. Hell, they even took a second stab at it and didn't fix a single damn problem.
You're beig a whiny dickhead with too much money and too little sense.
That would be all well and good if I owned an iPod or any other mp3 player for that matter but thanks for the smiting and poor analogy (psst... almost noone follows their car handbooks) and enjoy the lashings... again there is exactly one place to legally buy your iPod tunes. And that's a 'your' because between you the dickhead and me the dickhead no more than one of us could possibly have an iPod and I know it ain't me.
Hey, damnit! It doesn't get much more high-brow than MXC!
Apple said the iPod specifically worked with songs bought from the iTunes Music Store. Would your dealer be obligated to support after-market parts on your car?
Wouldn't you be pissed if you had to go to the dealership to get your windshield washer fluid?
They're being protectionist dickheads with a $400 music player, no two ways around it. You can try to placate yourself any way you want but this behavior is exactly what slashdotters rail against every day.
Do you use any Linux?
As a policy, I don't run anything that competes with Microsoft. My goal is to make sure Microsoft products are the best products in the world.
Ah, the old 'bury your head in the sand' technique. It works well. Maybe if they actually *tried* linux they could see what pisses disenfranchised Windows users off or where these TCO numbers come from.
"The same one's that can't deal with a spatial browser."
It's a matter of preference, damnit, not lack of ability. Besides, I like the other WM's panels more.
My parents gave me a Toyota Tercel for my 17th birthday. I'm not sure why they chose Toyota, but I suspect they expect it to be replaced by a Lexus or BMW by the user.
:)
It's the hardware they're selling for cheap. They'd have to replace you for the analogy to be correct
OK, we got it... Macs do Photo shit well. Point made. We don't need 500 of the same 'just get a Mac' posts. If he wanted to get a Mac I think he might've discovered that secret a couple years ago. How about some helpful person actually post their experience with the Linux tools they've used or maybe how to get the damn Epson Perfection line working in Linux (I'm using a 3170 though VMWare).
Hey, for a horror movie Resident Evil wasn't bad!
I used a regular BT8x8 card in a 1400 for a long time as my main Myth machine. I even had that card in a 1ghz machine for a while and they both seemed to handle encoding sufficiently -- although I think the 1ghz was recording at 320x240 for a 19" TV. You can feel the reduction in CPU utilization you get from a hardware encoder in the snappiness of the menus and video searches and such but even a modest machine should be able to software-encode video reasonably.
The latest uber-MMORPG that revolutionizes the genre and flips the industry on its ear! This one's larger, prettier, faster, flashier, and beats out every other MMORPG to date...
...just like every other MMORPG before it. I give it a month before people start to get tired of it. Before tons of elves start bitching about how their class got nerfed or the magic users are unbalanced or the economic system is skewed. Another few months after that all the l337 WoW players that are 42 levels above any normal player are in every town on the map while Joe-gamer grinds away the free hour or two of free time he has per night trying to get *anywhere*. A few months after that this MMORPG sits on a shelf next to SWG and EQ Expansion #7 and instead of being $40-50 out Joe-gamer is down about $90. He spent more money and less time on this than he did on San Andreas but got really good at repeating the same 4 in-game actions over and over and over again. All the gaming sites come to the realization that, while slightly cooler than the other MMORPGs this one sucks too and anything where there are a 'massive' number of people all doing the same thing you're doing for the millionth time isn't a game at all, it's a poor facsimile of the worst part of life... work.
But I just might be a cynic.
I believe the anti-nimda virus brought down almost as many networks as nimda itself.
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Holy hell, it's getting worse right before our eyes! This one only took 2 minutes!
There are two critical requirements for a Media PC that's going to reside in your living room, it has to look great and be quiet as a mouse
Mine sits behind the big-ass 55" TV... It's a plain beige box but you wouldn't know it. Oh, and it could be built for around $400... $450 if you put in ultra quiet fans.
So taking the cells from an embryo that's going to be destroyed anyway is immoral but taking them from this woman is not? That's like preventing inmates on death row from donating their kidneys.
I don't think anyone is promoting abortions just for the stem cells... nor would they support commiting capital crimes to donate organs but if the research material is there, use it damnit! Over a *million* abortions are performed every year in the US. Abortion may suck but at least some good could come from it.
Parent is correct. KDE has fixed this and windows do open on the desktop they were launched.
At least on my machine.
How many terrorist incidents have there been in the US since 9/11? The Macy's Parade looked pretty calm to me.
eh? Acts of terrorism are stable if not on the rise. So, we haven't been bombed on American soil in 4 years? That's not something to brag about.
Story 1 -- global terrorism rose in 2002
Story 2 -- global terrorism sucks. US may be as safe as we were since 9/11 but reelection may prompt new acts
Story 3 -- Rise in terrorism in 2003 over 2002. (Note in the first article 2002's numbers were understated though.
Story 4 -- Lebanese, people who actually know something about terrorim, see 100% rise due to foreign policy.
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It's all google-able. And if we count those 'insurgents' as terrorist, which we're fond of doing when it serves our purposes, terrorism is astronomical.
Not as bad as one would think. Most of the machines just kinda fall asleep after a while. The notable exceptions are the Myth box which spins 24/7 and, if torrents are downloading, the box with Azureus on it. I'd say we lose more money the day I forget to turn off the 1500watt heater before bed than a week of a constantly sleeping machine.
I think that's the point a lot of 'techies' are getting at: "Wow... you did all that crap. The same crap you could do on a $250 i386 Linux box. So you're paying $2000+ for the GUI?" Most hardcore techies outpace what the GUI offers them which is why KDE and Gnome were so poor for so long. They'd rather buy 8 $250 boxen, do 8x the crap and deal with the less flashy but still flashy enough lights.
I'm not saying it's right, just how it is. I must admit, if money weren't an obstacle I'd splurge on the pretty pictures too. But since money is always an obstacle my 6 x86 boxes will have to do.