Knowing the real value of such a cure and if they really think there are good chances to find it, I'd say "no" too until I saw some good 10-digit figures in my bank account.
It still cracks me up that opening a bloody PDF reader in under a second, in the 4Ghz era, is an achievement. It also takes 20-30MB of RAM with just the simplest documents, and this is v7 that I'm talking about.
1992 was the "very late" I meant. I got my Amigas circa 1986 IIRC (an A500 and an A2000) my A500 expanded first to 1MB then later to 4MB. Around 1992 I think they released the A1200 which is the one I think you're talking about. The scene was pretty much dead already. There were other monsters like the A3000, A3000T etc but those were professional machines. Too expensive for the average home user.
Even at 640x200, the Amiga was a slow bitch... the interlaced mode mentioned in sibling posts must have been unusable for most tasks other than showing static images and the like.
My personal experience is different. It has happened to me just a few times in ~15 years that I can't kill -9 a process in any Unix, and I've been stuck with processes I can't kill from the task manager relatively often... most remarkably virii and malware manage to get unkillable quite easily. Flaky security or the unability to chmod your stuff may have something to do with it.
Fact 1. I now work 50-80+ hours a week, free time isn't exacltly what it was in college. So only one next gen console will make it into my house.
Fact 3. I have a PC that could handle just about any game out there and I can do work on it.
If you work 50-80+ hours, you shouldn't mess with your computer installing and uninstalling games and every other driver iteration (needed to play "just about any game"). Just an idea. Also your GC and PS2 will still have good games released for quite a while.
The Amiga (unless you're talking about one of the very latest ones which I don't know, hi-res was 640x200) couldn't handle anywhere near 800x600. The Commodore 64 had indeed a "slightly" lower resolution at 25 X 40 text, 320 X 200 16 colors.
Hotmail was quite succesful in porting the mail client to the web, well before it was bought by Microsoft. I believe they weren't the first but they were the first very succesful ones. My first hotmail account is around 10 years old IIRC (blocked and wiped clean twice during vacation time).
1. turn on your computer 2. watch your operating system boot 3. start your web browser 4. click your word processor button on the google toolbar 5. age 2 years as the program loads
word:
1. turn on your computer 2. watch your operating system boot 3. start microsoft office
You seem to think "operating system" means Windows. Not that I think you are right otherwise anyway.
Even leaving aside the huge digital divide and thus the relatively low number of computers and internet connections, that would be like an online game had 2 million people playing ONLY in the USA. Mind you, there is no online game nearly this popular.
Maybe if anyone mentioned the cradle/shell, many more people would consider Nintendo's controller less suicide... Linky: http://cube.ign.com/articles/651/651559p1.html I wonder why I had to find this info by chance, considering all the coverage around this.
They're not getting outsould by the XBOX in any continent other than America.
Here in Spain, the XBOX is selling on par with the GC despite being the GC rarely modded and pirated. The XBOX is a joy to pirate, and their poor game sales show that.
I'm tired already of this argument. It's not about "merit" but about CONSEQUENCES. How come this is not interesting?
You know what? the USA is the biggest economy also LARGELY because of its population (ranking 3rd after China and India). Norway, Luxembourg, Japan, Germany to name a few would be as big in GDP, in some cases more, than the USA if they had its population. A country with the standard of living of the USA but, say, 10 million inhabitants wouldn't be very relevant in the global scale of matters.
So... we're not talking about "merit" but direct consequences of an internet with a massive and active Chinese-speaking community that we will probably notice in years to come.
If China topped the USA in GDP... would you say again "this isn't very interesting news at all"?
Now when China "tops the USA at everything" like some other enlightened slashdotter pointed out, people post it in FP.
... but in case you're wondering if this may have caused the derailment at Amagasaki, apparently it didn't. Amagasaki is located in western Japan (covered by JR-West).
Still, the coincidence in time makes me wonder. I sure hope they don't use Windows in the train system I use... just read the EULA. My life is pretty "mission-critical" to me.
That's exactly the reason it's looking like VHS-Beta more and more... also HD-DVD is already there (or soon will be wherever you are), while BluRay is vapor.
I'm running out of excuses to make my gf switch to Linux or Mac. These people are doing a (too fscking) good job.
--Excuse 1 (dead): "TCO. Windows may have 'come with the computer' but almost anything else will cost you top dollar."
1a. Office apps
1b. a mail client not dumb enough to put everything in the same folder
1c. a browser with tabs and no ads
--Excuse 2 (partly dead): "Security. Windows is too darn insecure and so are many (closed source) apps for Windows."
Quit using IE and Outlook. 90% of the trouble is gone. Still worse than the competition, but dangerously approaching "reasonable" status.
--Excuse 3 (still valid): "But... but... Windows is closed... M$ is evil... they impose a tax on hardware... they expand and overtake a new software branch every year..."
3a. http://www.stallman.org/
3b. http://www.GNU.org/
3c. explanation of the GPL and MIT licenses
Girlfriend: "sure, I'm going to stop using the OS I'm used to and surrender years of Windows trial-and-error because of this guy's philosophy."
I've learnt to skip the colored google ads because those are the ones who want to leech money from me. I always go for the first non-colored result, except for the rare I'm looking for some product that's going to actually cost me money. Best of both worlds, but I guess most people don't get it.
But now there is technology to make that both cheap and useful; in particular, there is cheap multi-megabyte wireless transmission tech, and excelent video compression algorithms already implemented in hardware.
Happens often in IT that something that fails once is a big success years later. Next time you know tablet PC will be reasonably priced;).
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Knowing the real value of such a cure and if they really think there are good chances to find it, I'd say "no" too until I saw some good 10-digit figures in my bank account.
It still cracks me up that opening a bloody PDF reader in under a second, in the 4Ghz era, is an achievement. It also takes 20-30MB of RAM with just the simplest documents, and this is v7 that I'm talking about.
1992 was the "very late" I meant. I got my Amigas circa 1986 IIRC (an A500 and an A2000) my A500 expanded first to 1MB then later to 4MB. Around 1992 I think they released the A1200 which is the one I think you're talking about. The scene was pretty much dead already. There were other monsters like the A3000, A3000T etc but those were professional machines. Too expensive for the average home user.
Even at 640x200, the Amiga was a slow bitch... the interlaced mode mentioned in sibling posts must have been unusable for most tasks other than showing static images and the like.
My personal experience is different. It has happened to me just a few times in ~15 years that I can't kill -9 a process in any Unix, and I've been stuck with processes I can't kill from the task manager relatively often... most remarkably virii and malware manage to get unkillable quite easily. Flaky security or the unability to chmod your stuff may have something to do with it.
If you work 50-80+ hours, you shouldn't mess with your computer installing and uninstalling games and every other driver iteration (needed to play "just about any game"). Just an idea. Also your GC and PS2 will still have good games released for quite a while.
Just a couple points:
The Amiga (unless you're talking about one of the very latest ones which I don't know, hi-res was 640x200) couldn't handle anywhere near 800x600. The Commodore 64 had indeed a "slightly" lower resolution at 25 X 40 text, 320 X 200 16 colors.
I said "around 10 years" I can't recall exactly when. If I had my original welcome mail... but as I said before, I got my account wiped clean twice.
Oh, and BTW hi there fellow TechReporter.
Hotmail was quite succesful in porting the mail client to the web, well before it was bought by Microsoft. I believe they weren't the first but they were the first very succesful ones. My first hotmail account is around 10 years old IIRC (blocked and wiped clean twice during vacation time).
You seem to think "operating system" means Windows. Not that I think you are right otherwise anyway.
Even leaving aside the huge digital divide and thus the relatively low number of computers and internet connections, that would be like an online game had 2 million people playing ONLY in the USA. Mind you, there is no online game nearly this popular.
Maybe if anyone mentioned the cradle/shell, many more people would consider Nintendo's controller less suicide...
Linky:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/651/651559p1.html
I wonder why I had to find this info by chance, considering all the coverage around this.
By Konami's soccer he means Pro-Evolution Soccer or, in Japan, Winning Eleven.
Most people I know prefer it to FIFA. Yeah I'm in Europe.
They're not getting outsould by the XBOX in any continent other than America.
Here in Spain, the XBOX is selling on par with the GC despite being the GC rarely modded and pirated. The XBOX is a joy to pirate, and their poor game sales show that.
How is this a troll? The PSP is cumbersome for what some people are trying to do. If your time is worth more than 1$/h, buy a PDA and save.
Wow just check out those pics... either the guy is tiny or the thing is huge!
I will need a bigger cabinet to hide this other one.
Seriously, I wish they left those "breaking news" for tomorrow.
I'm tired already of this argument. It's not about "merit" but about CONSEQUENCES. How come this is not interesting?
You know what? the USA is the biggest economy also LARGELY because of its population (ranking 3rd after China and India). Norway, Luxembourg, Japan, Germany to name a few would be as big in GDP, in some cases more, than the USA if they had its population. A country with the standard of living of the USA but, say, 10 million inhabitants wouldn't be very relevant in the global scale of matters.
So... we're not talking about "merit" but direct consequences of an internet with a massive and active Chinese-speaking community that we will probably notice in years to come.
If China topped the USA in GDP... would you say again "this isn't very interesting news at all"?
Now when China "tops the USA at everything" like some other enlightened slashdotter pointed out, people post it in FP.
... but in case you're wondering if this may have caused the derailment at Amagasaki, apparently it didn't. Amagasaki is located in western Japan (covered by JR-West).
Still, the coincidence in time makes me wonder. I sure hope they don't use Windows in the train system I use... just read the EULA. My life is pretty "mission-critical" to me.
In Asia... Battlefield Vietnam looks a lot more real.
That's exactly the reason it's looking like VHS-Beta more and more... also HD-DVD is already there (or soon will be wherever you are), while BluRay is vapor.
Dude I have to move to the US of A.
I'm running out of excuses to make my gf switch to Linux or Mac. These people are doing a (too fscking) good job.
--Excuse 1 (dead): "TCO. Windows may have 'come with the computer' but almost anything else will cost you top dollar."
1a. Office apps
1b. a mail client not dumb enough to put everything in the same folder
1c. a browser with tabs and no ads
--Excuse 2 (partly dead): "Security. Windows is too darn insecure and so are many (closed source) apps for Windows."
Quit using IE and Outlook. 90% of the trouble is gone. Still worse than the competition, but dangerously approaching "reasonable" status.
--Excuse 3 (still valid): "But... but... Windows is closed... M$ is evil... they impose a tax on hardware... they expand and overtake a new software branch every year..."
3a. http://www.stallman.org/
3b. http://www.GNU.org/
3c. explanation of the GPL and MIT licenses
Girlfriend: "sure, I'm going to stop using the OS I'm used to and surrender years of Windows trial-and-error because of this guy's philosophy."
...bitter as it may sound.
I've learnt to skip the colored google ads because those are the ones who want to leech money from me. I always go for the first non-colored result, except for the rare I'm looking for some product that's going to actually cost me money. Best of both worlds, but I guess most people don't get it.
1 wasn't proper ANSI C. In ANSI C, main HAS TO return int. Picky teachers will "mod you down" for that.
int main(void){if (printf("Hello World!\n")){}}
(you left a parenthesis open)
But now there is technology to make that both cheap and useful; in particular, there is cheap multi-megabyte wireless transmission tech, and excelent video compression algorithms already implemented in hardware.
;).
Happens often in IT that something that fails once is a big success years later. Next time you know tablet PC will be reasonably priced