The coolest thing was the credit-card sized games.
The worst things were the 2 button controllers and unimpressive power of the "8-bit" console.
It wasn't fully 16-bit! The sound and graphics chips were 16-bit, and the CPU was 8-bit. I remember getting in to the biggest argument with a kid over this at Toys R Us. Sad, in a way.
Today I have to go fetch, exchange at the store, and return a 2 month old HP inkjet.
On the other hand, I've got a 4 year old Laserjet 4100 that's on page 300,000 (which is pretty low for a Laserjet) and has been rock solid those 4 years.
You can buy an older, used car for $3,000-5,000. If you learn to work on them yourself, you can save money on repairs and maintainence.
Sure, it won't be the shiniest, newest thing on the road, but you won't be shelling out $500 a month for a car payment, plus half that for full coverage insurance.
Quark? Horrible. But its better than the others. As sad as that is.
I used to work at a place that did all their stuff in Word, then exported it all to PDF. Talk about a nightmare. Then they hired a 'graphic artist' who moved everything to Publisher. Not much better. Later on they hired another girl who used Adobe. Quite a bit better, but still not quite it.
Guess who's stuck doing everything now, in Quark on a blue G3?
Every PC, every switch, every printer, every server.
We installed 3 printers, 6 PC's, and 1 server at a client. The next day, the pole outside got hit by lighting. The electricty burned the CAT 5 in the walls and smoked all the PC's and printers. The server survived, all it needed was a new NIC.
A configuration error on the Live CD allows for a passwordless, remote root login to the system via ssh, if the computer has booted from the Live CD and if it is connected to a network. If this were a Microsoft or Apple product...
Search Bars, Bonzi Buddy...those aren't a big deal to remove. The browser hijackers are the worst.
I support about 60 users in two offices, and about 20 users in remote offices, and my biggest problems are Spyware, viruses, and Trojans. Anti-virus software (on the PC's I manage in the office) takes care of almost all viruses, but spyware and shit is harder to stop.
The best thing you can do is have your users setup as 'users' instead of 'power users' (if you can). I'd have everyone on Mozilla but 2 of our ASP's -require- IE.
Look2Me is the worst one, walking someone through that removal over the phone isn't my idea of fun.
Maybe HP will buy them, like they did Compaq. They'll gain in the server market, plus they'll have the Sun OS. Not like they don't have UNIX cred, with HP/UX and DEC and all...
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The coolest thing was the credit-card sized games.
The worst things were the 2 button controllers and unimpressive power of the "8-bit" console.
It wasn't fully 16-bit! The sound and graphics chips were 16-bit, and the CPU was 8-bit. I remember getting in to the biggest argument with a kid over this at Toys R Us. Sad, in a way.
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Almost all of the Lucas games kicked serious butt, for Nintendo, PC, what have you.
The majority of video-game based games blow chunks. ET? Home Alone?
It's been like that forever.
There'd be no sound.
I'm sure people would sit through it anyway, though.
Who's paying $62.50 for a game?
Today I have to go fetch, exchange at the store, and return a 2 month old HP inkjet.
On the other hand, I've got a 4 year old Laserjet 4100 that's on page 300,000 (which is pretty low for a Laserjet) and has been rock solid those 4 years.
Or, just buy them from a web site that sells them cheap. Example
Even better, buy a book (or check one out from the library) and install the CD that comes with it.
"I hate cars. --
Then why, do you have as the #1 thing on your 'wish list' on your website, a Chrysler PT Cruiser?
You can buy an older, used car for $3,000-5,000. If you learn to work on them yourself, you can save money on repairs and maintainence.
Sure, it won't be the shiniest, newest thing on the road, but you won't be shelling out $500 a month for a car payment, plus half that for full coverage insurance.
Unless you live in a major city in the US, there's no such thing as public transportation, and heck, in many large cities there isn't.
And, if you live in suburbia, it's just too far to ride a bike/walk.
You think?
'Quark' isn't a product either. Quark is a company.
I just didn't feel like typing out QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign.
*sigh*
It might put their IPO on 'hold'!
Publisher? Be serious.
Adobe? Better, but still not quite there.
Quark? Horrible. But its better than the others. As sad as that is.
I used to work at a place that did all their stuff in Word, then exported it all to PDF. Talk about a nightmare. Then they hired a 'graphic artist' who moved everything to Publisher. Not much better. Later on they hired another girl who used Adobe. Quite a bit better, but still not quite it.
Guess who's stuck doing everything now, in Quark on a blue G3?
Me.
"Shit. Osama, you think they used the wrong planes?"
Massive NYC flood kills 30 people
It's still a better player than a PS2.
Nothing takes the romance out of a date more than swearing at your PS2 for screwing up the DVD you just rented.
Or $1,000,000 from Bangalore
Every PC, every switch, every printer, every server.
We installed 3 printers, 6 PC's, and 1 server at a client. The next day, the pole outside got hit by lighting. The electricty burned the CAT 5 in the walls and smoked all the PC's and printers. The server survived, all it needed was a new NIC.
Insurance paid us to do the job all over again...
A configuration error on the Live CD allows for a passwordless, remote root login to the system via ssh, if the computer has booted from the Live CD and if it is connected to a network.
If this were a Microsoft or Apple product...
Search Bars, Bonzi Buddy...those aren't a big deal to remove. The browser hijackers are the worst.
I support about 60 users in two offices, and about 20 users in remote offices, and my biggest problems are Spyware, viruses, and Trojans. Anti-virus software (on the PC's I manage in the office) takes care of almost all viruses, but spyware and shit is harder to stop.
The best thing you can do is have your users setup as 'users' instead of 'power users' (if you can). I'd have everyone on Mozilla but 2 of our ASP's -require- IE.
Look2Me is the worst one, walking someone through that removal over the phone isn't my idea of fun.
Think of the games you can't beat. There's many of them!
I was a much better video game player when I was 10 or 12 compared to now. I can still beat most Playstation 2 games.
If I go back and play some NES games like Ghouls and Ghosts, the original Ninja Gaiden, I wonder how I even got as far as I used to.
[i]You mean the NetZero that is one of about Five surviving nationwide dialup internet providers? Doesn't seem like failure to me. [/i]
They failed miserably at giving away free Internet access in exchange for advertising. As you can see, they don't do it anymore.
But, United Online, who owns Juno/BlueLight/NetZero, is a profitable company, like you said. But they don't give free Internet away access anymore.
In 1981, an Apple 5MB HD was $3,000! $600 bucks a meg!
Today on TigerDirects web site you can get a a 200GB drive for $99 (with rebate). 50 cents a gig!
Today for $5,999 you can get 1TB of disk storage (Apple XServe). Adjusting for inflation I'd assume that's pretty similar to $3,000 back 23 years ago.
Microsoft's looks pretty similar.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/apps/charts?mode=basic
Maybe HP will buy them, like they did Compaq. They'll gain in the server market, plus they'll have the Sun OS. Not like they don't have UNIX cred, with HP/UX and DEC and all...
It would almost seem like Unreal would go with Playstation II and Doom 3 would go with XBox.
If those games ever caught on with the console/home crowd like they did on the PC...