Why is Microsoft making it difficult to write games that run on both PC (Windows XP) and XBox 360?
One of the primary reasons I use Windows is for games. If game developers stop writing for Windows because they move to XBox 360, then it'll make it even easier for me to go all FreeBSD or Linux or Mac OSX.
Look at most new games. They come out for GameCube, XBox, and PS2 all at the same time.
The Imagerunner is a pretty fancy printer, judging from its web site. I 've never used it, but if its like other color laser printers, it'll cost 10 to 15 cents a page just for expendables. And a lot of companies don't buy their high-end printers, they lease them with a by-the-page charge of 25 to 30 cents. Better ask yourself whether you want to spend $200 plus binding costs just to have the manual in hard copy.
Nice try. That may have been true in 1997 but not now. We have an imageRunner 3200, color costs per page are from 1 to 5 cents. We also have an imageRunner 5500. It's a black and white model. 70 pages per minute. Costs someting like a tenth of a cent per page. A ream of paper is $2.25 from Staples. 800 pages? Sounds like the FreeBSD manual. I actually printed this Friday on our imagerunner, it took about 10 minutes (the copier even three-hole punched it for me.
We should delivering easy-to-use web sites and help files; instead we deliver stupid PDF files that are just huge page dumps. We don't even exploit the PDF format as much as we should -- it's a horribly obsolete format, but it does support some basic hypertext concepts that would be very helpful, if more people bothered to use them.
We recently replaced (for no good reason) an IBM Netfinity 5000 server. Dual Pentium II Xeon, 512MB RAM, 36GB RAID 5, dual power supplies...Original cost was like $30,000
It toiled away running Exchange 5.5 and NT 4 since 1998. It still runs great. Sure, service packs have been applied, the tape drive was replaced once, and one of the hard drives was replaced, but it still ran fine. We grew from 50 to 70 users, and it sat there at pretty low CPU utlization. Various other applications (accounting, database, file sharing) were run over the years as well. But it ran 24/7 and never quit.
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Dvorak wrote some article about Windows CE on a low-end x86 machine. If it runs good on a handheld, it should run great on a Pentium II-233MHz.
http://www.netscape.com/detourns.adp
Yea, I found the same thing.
Why is Microsoft making it difficult to write games that run on both PC (Windows XP) and XBox 360?
One of the primary reasons I use Windows is for games. If game developers stop writing for Windows because they move to XBox 360, then it'll make it even easier for me to go all FreeBSD or Linux or Mac OSX.
Look at most new games. They come out for GameCube, XBox, and PS2 all at the same time.
The Imagerunner is a pretty fancy printer, judging from its web site. I 've never used it, but if its like other color laser printers, it'll cost 10 to 15 cents a page just for expendables. And a lot of companies don't buy their high-end printers, they lease them with a by-the-page charge of 25 to 30 cents. Better ask yourself whether you want to spend $200 plus binding costs just to have the manual in hard copy.
Nice try. That may have been true in 1997 but not now. We have an imageRunner 3200, color costs per page are from 1 to 5 cents. We also have an imageRunner 5500. It's a black and white model. 70 pages per minute. Costs someting like a tenth of a cent per page. A ream of paper is $2.25 from Staples. 800 pages? Sounds like the FreeBSD manual. I actually printed this Friday on our imagerunner, it took about 10 minutes (the copier even three-hole punched it for me.
We should delivering easy-to-use web sites and help files; instead we deliver stupid PDF files that are just huge page dumps. We don't even exploit the PDF format as much as we should -- it's a horribly obsolete format, but it does support some basic hypertext concepts that would be very helpful, if more people bothered to use them.
PDF is a great format.
As long as I can continue to use an older version, I'll be happy.
Didn't they have a similar survey last time?
Wait, I found it.
http://valve.speakeasy.net/
Schools can license Office for like $17 a copy.
One 1GHz CPU is better than 2 512MHz CPUs
1GHz = 1024GHz ???
Clockspeed isn't done in powers of 2, like memory
Haven't been on the Internet much, have you?
Most of the time I surf the net I am shaking my head saying "What the fuck..."
Apple sells the Xserve if that's what you want to do.
The old 'Google' as far as searching is concerned, was AltaVista
I hate clicking on a bookmark, and finding out the page has been moved.
We recently replaced (for no good reason) an IBM Netfinity 5000 server. Dual Pentium II Xeon, 512MB RAM, 36GB RAID 5, dual power supplies...Original cost was like $30,000
It toiled away running Exchange 5.5 and NT 4 since 1998. It still runs great. Sure, service packs have been applied, the tape drive was replaced once, and one of the hard drives was replaced, but it still ran fine. We grew from 50 to 70 users, and it sat there at pretty low CPU utlization. Various other applications (accounting, database, file sharing) were run over the years as well. But it ran 24/7 and never quit.
Charter Communications in Michigan does that all the time.
Beating Contra or Mario just never gets old, but once you've beaten the latest-greatest game for a new system you rarely go back to it.
Dying 30 in Ninja Gaiden times and then throwing your controller at the wall never gets old, either.
What happened to the briQ or whatever from YellowDog?
I'll save another $50 and buy an Xbox 3 this Christmas.
$249 is a lot of money to some people.
Customizability, Support, Available packages...
Linux, defined.
Try MiniSlack
y =20050325224633845
http://minislack.slackplanet.org/article.php?stor
It's pretty neat, 400MB, KDE is optional
Build your own Slackware CD
Create a custom install CD from both CD's by stripping out what you don't want. Better yet, only download the packages you want in the first place.
Yep, no mention of Titanium Powerbooks. Those things set the world on fire, and companies still try to imitate them with no success.
When did Microsoft ship out the PowerPC-based Xbox 2 (or whatever its called) dev kits?
I remember reading PC Magazine years ago, 1996 maybe, and there was an advertisement for a visual programming tool.
They had a screenshot and then the tagline "NOT ONE MORE DAMN LINE OF CODE, EVER!"
Anyone know what it was?
You've never had anything taken have you?
You'd think they would take only the hard drive. But they don't. If you have a Mac, they'll take your monitor, mouse, keyboard...
When and if you do get anything back, it's usually broken and covered with evidence stickers.
Yea, when does Google get its own category and icon?