I like to think my earliest memory was when I was 3 years old. For my birthday (this was in the early 80's) I got A*TEAM guns. I could remember 'shooting' guests as they arrived at my party. At that party, I had a Ghostbuster's themed cake.
Do I remember it? Or, do I remember 'remembering' it? Thinking about memories helps embed them into your long term memory.
Lets say, I'm 7 or 8 years old, and I'm looking through a family photo album. I see the cake, I see me with my gifts. I might have forgotten all about that had I not seen these pictures.
And, as you remember memories, details fade, embellishments occur, much like JPEG artifacts.
Out of sheer boredom, I blew about $80 on an SGI from eBay.
Pretty old machine. 133MHz, 64MB, dual 2GB SCSI drives.
IRIX is pretty neat. It had some pretty decent 3D hardware. The installed Demos were equal to about a 400MHz Pentium II with a graphics card that didn't come out until 1998. No idea what year this SGI came out. early 90's?
I've also used O2's at some customers sites, and they're about as fast as the fastest wintel desktop you can get right now, at least in the CAD programs and such that they use. They tell us the Windows boxes can't handle the file sizes and datasets they use, and a lot of the software isn't even availble under 2K/NT.
Re:Backwards compatible?
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1.5 TB DVD by 2010
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15 years to buy DVD players?
In 1983 the first CD players were released in the USA.
CD's have only been out ~ 20 years, DVD's half of that.
When we'd do this, half the guys would like the game, half wouldn't, and then there's 1 or 2 guys who just killed everyone else.
Pass the games out a day or two before so that everyone can get some seat time. That way, your boss isn't in the corner crying "WHAT KEY SWITCHES WEAPONS" while you've got the quad damage and you're sniping with the rail gun from the other corner of the map.
Age of Empires 1 Doom/Doom 2 Quake I, Quake III Duke Nukem 3D NHL/NBA/NFL 200x (any EA Sports games) XPilot:D
I'm thinking there will be another Video Game crash. Too many systems, way too many games. Just like how Atari went down.
All the games on the market are crappy racing games, crappy first person shooters, or crappy RPG's.
What about Domain Squatting, etc?
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Do the majority of people think it is wrong?
Maybe some of the problem is giving up some of the current domains. Sure, if you've registered the name, you own it, and should be able to sell it. But, I can't go to the copyright office and register every word in the dictionary, can I?
So here's what upper management wants to do: remove the security from all of our Windows 2000 machines. Has anybody else seen security cut just to save money?
I've got some Windows 98 CD's you can have for free around here somewhere....
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My system:
Windows 2000
Pentium II 400MHz
256MB RAM
149 MP3 files, 568MB
I encrypted the entire folder from Windows Explorer. It took just over 3 minutes.
Next, I fired up WinAmp. Playing music hovers between 0% and 2% according to Windows Task Manager.
From the start of the process, I had 1 PuTTY window, 4-5 Internet Explorer windows, AIM, and IRC clients running.
An MP3 player shouldn't have to encrypt/decrypt the file 'on the fly', it should read the whole 3MB-5MB of the MP3 and just store it in RAM.
An encrypted file system shouldn't be hurting MP3 playback much. Database access on the other hand...
I like to think my earliest memory was when I was 3 years old. For my birthday (this was in the early 80's) I got A*TEAM guns. I could remember 'shooting' guests as they arrived at my party. At that party, I had a Ghostbuster's themed cake.
Do I remember it? Or, do I remember 'remembering' it? Thinking about memories helps embed them into your long term memory.
Lets say, I'm 7 or 8 years old, and I'm looking through a family photo album. I see the cake, I see me with my gifts. I might have forgotten all about that had I not seen these pictures.
And, as you remember memories, details fade, embellishments occur, much like JPEG artifacts.
Every time I turn on the TV or the Radio, I hear the ads talking about thousands of jobs opening in the fast growing field of IT.
I looked in todays newspaper, there were 0 IT jobs!
And then, they've got crappy classes at our local community colleges, churning out "IT Professionals".
Ugh.
I'm glad I have a job *knocks on wood*
Can he use Internet2?
Just wondering...
Sell it on eBay, my friend.
Out of sheer boredom, I blew about $80 on an SGI from eBay.
Pretty old machine. 133MHz, 64MB, dual 2GB SCSI drives.
IRIX is pretty neat. It had some pretty decent 3D hardware. The installed Demos were equal to about a 400MHz Pentium II with a graphics card that didn't come out until 1998. No idea what year this SGI came out. early 90's?
I've also used O2's at some customers sites, and they're about as fast as the fastest wintel desktop you can get right now, at least in the CAD programs and such that they use. They tell us the Windows boxes can't handle the file sizes and datasets they use, and a lot of the software isn't even availble under 2K/NT.
15 years to buy DVD players?
In 1983 the first CD players were released in the USA.
CD's have only been out ~ 20 years, DVD's half of that.
Okay...
You could drive a 1987 Pontiac 6000LE to work, but you don't, do you?
25mpg, cheap maintenance, cheap insurance, dirt cheap to buy one.
"You could ride a horse to work, but you don't"
-Author Unknown
If it's anything like the whole
Yeah, like there's no right-click context-sensitive menu, which IMHO is one of the best UI features since GUIs have been around.
I agree. Right clicking is great. But you can command-click things in OS X
You can't very well right click when Apple sends you a 1 button mouse.
Apple designed the Mac around a one button mouse because it's EASIER.
You should see the fools I work with, WHAT BUTTON AGAIN!? THE RIGHT ONE? WHY DID THE PUT 2 BUTTONS ON THIS DAMN THING!
3 buttons are great if you're a person like me, but for Joe Manager or Joe Grandpa, one button is enough...
Direct3D --- OpenGL
Compared to paying $2.99 a minute for a 976 number
Another good one to try is Abuse.
Pretty sweet game by the now defunct Crack Dot Com
When we'd do this, half the guys would like the game, half wouldn't, and then there's 1 or 2 guys who just killed everyone else.
Pass the games out a day or two before so that everyone can get some seat time. That way, your boss isn't in the corner crying "WHAT KEY SWITCHES WEAPONS" while you've got the quad damage and you're sniping with the rail gun from the other corner of the map.
Age of Empires 1
Doom/Doom 2
Quake I, Quake III
Duke Nukem 3D
NHL/NBA/NFL 200x (any EA Sports games)
XPilot
WinQuake works real good under 2K/XP
Most of the improvment seems to be in the 'lighting' that made the retail game so scary and not so cartoonish.
There doesn't seem to be any lighting in these screen shots, and the game looks VERY amatuer.
Look at some of the other screens. This just shows ID released the game when they had everything looking right, in a 'Doom' sort of way.
They are building a 440 foot coaster at Cedar Point.
Here's some pictures
Think of HOW MANY people see Apple's products before they hit the stores/web
What kind of evidence do they have?
You can play GameBoy games on the SNES as well.
SuperGameBoy
http://www.buyritegames.com/product_information
Software licenses are a small % of the TCO.
The initial costs, maybe.
I'm thinking there will be another Video Game crash. Too many systems, way too many games. Just like how Atari went down.
All the games on the market are crappy racing games, crappy first person shooters, or crappy RPG's.
Do the majority of people think it is wrong?
Maybe some of the problem is giving up some of the current domains. Sure, if you've registered the name, you own it, and should be able to sell it. But, I can't go to the copyright office and register every word in the dictionary, can I?
So here's what upper management wants to do: remove the security from all of our Windows 2000 machines. Has anybody else seen security cut just to save money?
I've got some Windows 98 CD's you can have for free around here somewhere....
Didn't Microsoft hire everyone away from Borland in like 1994?