Actually this does exist on production cars. The technology is known as variable valve timing, and Toyota's family of engines is actually named VVT-I (Variable Valve Timing with Intelligence). Even without the name, many automobiles come with this technology.
Why does it need to crash Windows? You could just make the CD reboot it, you kno--OH, sorry, forgot that you must win the hearts of/.ers everywhere by referencing Windows crashing! Of COURSE! Sorry, my bad.
Here is a secret guys: Windows is unstable and is not as secure as Linux!!!!!111one
/. readers will flood this newspost with potentially offensive replies but will be so frightened to lose the karma they have built up by spelling "MS" with a dollar sign...
My 3 month subscription ($5/mo) just ended, and I think I'm going to renew it. Paying a small amount of money to fuel the research for a DirectX compatability layer for Linux is cool with me. I want to get away from Windows.
There's a difference between people and products. Just because you haven't been clever enough to create something that other people would buy doesn't mean other people don't deserve a reward for their hard work and creativity. I guess we should make a giant communist state and we can all get everything for free, and best of all, you'll obviously have earned the prestigious position of sitting on your ass. I don't see how THAT wouldn't fail.
MongoJerry, who obviously needs to get laid, really badly: "Hey dudes I got an idea I'm going to play this like 3 year old click-your-way-through-an-adventure-game and not use items or points omg. ps: I'm going to make it into a crappy fiction story with pictures"
Rimbo: "I bet this would make a GREAT story. I bet there are tons of people interested in this! It's almost as exciting as the poll results for those who want them to bring the McRib back!"
simoniker, really plastered: "Whoa, naked sorceress? That's so hot."
What the hell kind of replies does this story get? You expect people to use mod points in less than 3 days with stories like this?
Or you could pay the developer for the work they've done, assface.
Half-Life: Blue Shift is $10 at most places like Circuit City. Get someone else's copy of HL and use that CD key on it. The Blue Shift key is a regular HL key. And that's if you need more keys for more computers. You should at least buy the original game, however. If you haven't had Half-Life since it came out in 1998 then you're a tool anyway.
Or we could stop being such pussies. Christ, wash your hands after you use the toilet. That's all you need to do.
If you sanitize EVERYTHING all of the time, your immune system will not be as strong. Eventually you'll run into something that's not so clean, and it will kill your stupid hand-washing ass.
Oh, for crying out loud. It's not THAT bad. Yes, the open source and Gnu/Linux communities have better intentions than a giant corporation, but that doesn't mean Windows is really all that bad.
I will admit, during the Windows9X days, using Microsoft products was a joke. But I can honestly say Windows XP is a good operating system. What more do you want it to do? It does everything I want it to. The only times it crashed were when I didn't have the right drivers installed for my hardware (old versions). I can get the same thing to happen in Linux (or any OS) if I screw up the drivers. The OS detects USB devices immediately after they're plugged in. It doesn't hog all my resources (maybe if you have a 300mhz CPU, 64mb of RAM and a 2gb hard drive, it doesn't work too well... but if you have a 300mhz CPU, 64mb of RAM and a 2gb hard drive, you shouldn't be complaining that you can't run the latest software on your 6+ year old machine) and I have no problems installing anything.
Microsoft supplies users with an after-distribution set of utilities called XP PowerToys, including a special calculator, web cam stuff, more system configuration (TweakUI), alt-tab replacement, "Open command window here" (like Ctrl-T in KDE). They make the OS easily more usable.
Bootvis.exe makes Windows boot faster. A lot faster, in my case. The only thing that sucks is that you have to reboot when you install some things. That was one of the nice things about Linux, being able to restart the X server instead of having to reboot. Sometimes in Linux you didn't have to reboot at all. Kernel patching amazes me.
I think the only thing that would make you zealots like Microsoft Windows was if you replace Microsoft with "Not Microsoft" and Windows with "Linux".
Windows XP Pros: You can actually play games(when they come out). Cons: Costs money, you have to activate it, which is a pain in the ass
Linux Pros: Free Whatever that other guy said, secure, versatile, yeah, yeah Cons: Can't play games (right away).
All in all, I rest my case on the following: I can go to the store on the release date of any game and pick it up, bring it home, and find myself playing it within 10 minutes.
That is one thing I cannot say for Linux. (And I'd like to say that I love Linux, I use it for a server for all my game images, installers for both OSs, and I'm trying to master using Debian at the moment.)
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Some big company with lots of money should license this idea from me. I want my Mario All-Stars on a handheld!
Albeit illegal, because ROMs are always illegal no matter what, regardless of what some stupid site said about having the original copy and 24 hours (but that doesn't mean I don't have any because they stopped selling the games...), it is possible to put SNES games on your Game Boy Advance with the aid of a special flash cartridge that uses ROMs from your computer. It can also hold, of course, GBA games (up to 8, I believe, at a time, on the larger carts) and NES games.
The problem with SNES games on GBA is the lack of X and Y buttons. I'd probably have a GBA and one of those carts just for SNES games, if there were X and Y buttons.
I read somewhere that there's a machine that looks JUST like GBA but with a bigger screen, and it can emulate about 10 systems, including of course, GBA.
The project is supported by St John's School in Northwood, London, UK. St John's uses a Red Hat Linux 6.0 based server to provide MySQL and PHP enabled web space, shell access and Pine based email to a network of 24 Research Machines PCs running Windows 98. The single Linux machine is now used by 150 boys under the age of 14 for lessons in web programming, Unix commands, network chat and email etiquette.
I thought the writing was better than most technical articles. Also felt like he knew what he was talking about.
Don't give me your Junior High "don't start sentences with 'but,'" and "fragments are ALWAYS bad," grammar rules. Writing with a reasonable amount of colloquialisms can be quite refreshing.
Yeah, I've come to that conclusion too. I doesn't matter what you do as a job, it's never going to be completely enjoyable. As soon as you no longer have the option to turn it off and walk away, it becomes much less enjoyable.
I bet pornstars don't have any complaints about their fucking jobs. No pun intended. Wait, on second thought, yes, pun intended.
I live in brand new (Est. 1998) white suburbia of rich people in Colorado, and we didn't get broadband until the summer of 2001, and that's only because I kept bitching. (Or so I think)
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Actually this does exist on production cars. The technology is known as variable valve timing, and Toyota's family of engines is actually named VVT-I (Variable Valve Timing with Intelligence). Even without the name, many automobiles come with this technology.
Here is a secret guys: Windows is unstable and is not as secure as Linux!!!!!111one
Maybe Windows HP, Windows MP, or Windows HitDie.
Those watches are actually Swiss, not Swedish.
Here's something that looks GREAT*: http://www.vugames.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=7 87
*horrible
/. readers will flood this newspost with potentially offensive replies but will be so frightened to lose the karma they have built up by spelling "MS" with a dollar sign...
You do work FOR the Haitians in the game, too.
My 3 month subscription ($5/mo) just ended, and I think I'm going to renew it. Paying a small amount of money to fuel the research for a DirectX compatability layer for Linux is cool with me. I want to get away from Windows.
So you don't think you need to pay for things? Good luck with that.
There's a difference between people and products. Just because you haven't been clever enough to create something that other people would buy doesn't mean other people don't deserve a reward for their hard work and creativity. I guess we should make a giant communist state and we can all get everything for free, and best of all, you'll obviously have earned the prestigious position of sitting on your ass. I don't see how THAT wouldn't fail.
Rimbo: "I bet this would make a GREAT story. I bet there are tons of people interested in this! It's almost as exciting as the poll results for those who want them to bring the McRib back!"
simoniker, really plastered: "Whoa, naked sorceress? That's so hot."
What the hell kind of replies does this story get? You expect people to use mod points in less than 3 days with stories like this?
Don't get Master of Orion III, it's horrible.
Or you could pay the developer for the work they've done, assface. Half-Life: Blue Shift is $10 at most places like Circuit City. Get someone else's copy of HL and use that CD key on it. The Blue Shift key is a regular HL key. And that's if you need more keys for more computers. You should at least buy the original game, however. If you haven't had Half-Life since it came out in 1998 then you're a tool anyway.
I've never seen so many stupid replies for one Slashdot story. Thanks for being the only one that makes sense.
Maybe if we killed all the lawyers, the suing would end.
Or we could stop being such pussies. Christ, wash your hands after you use the toilet. That's all you need to do.
If you sanitize EVERYTHING all of the time, your immune system will not be as strong. Eventually you'll run into something that's not so clean, and it will kill your stupid hand-washing ass.
I just got an Actiontec ADSL modem to work, and this was the first URL I used to test it. Odd.
Oh, for crying out loud. It's not THAT bad. Yes, the open source and Gnu/Linux communities have better intentions than a giant corporation, but that doesn't mean Windows is really all that bad.
I will admit, during the Windows9X days, using Microsoft products was a joke. But I can honestly say Windows XP is a good operating system. What more do you want it to do? It does everything I want it to. The only times it crashed were when I didn't have the right drivers installed for my hardware (old versions). I can get the same thing to happen in Linux (or any OS) if I screw up the drivers. The OS detects USB devices immediately after they're plugged in. It doesn't hog all my resources (maybe if you have a 300mhz CPU, 64mb of RAM and a 2gb hard drive, it doesn't work too well... but if you have a 300mhz CPU, 64mb of RAM and a 2gb hard drive, you shouldn't be complaining that you can't run the latest software on your 6+ year old machine) and I have no problems installing anything.
Microsoft supplies users with an after-distribution set of utilities called XP PowerToys, including a special calculator, web cam stuff, more system configuration (TweakUI), alt-tab replacement, "Open command window here" (like Ctrl-T in KDE). They make the OS easily more usable.
Bootvis.exe makes Windows boot faster. A lot faster, in my case. The only thing that sucks is that you have to reboot when you install some things. That was one of the nice things about Linux, being able to restart the X server instead of having to reboot. Sometimes in Linux you didn't have to reboot at all. Kernel patching amazes me.
I think the only thing that would make you zealots like Microsoft Windows was if you replace Microsoft with "Not Microsoft" and Windows with "Linux".
Windows XP
Pros:
You can actually play games(when they come out).
Cons:
Costs money, you have to activate it, which is a pain in the ass
Linux
Pros:
Free
Whatever that other guy said, secure, versatile, yeah, yeah
Cons:
Can't play games (right away).
All in all, I rest my case on the following: I can go to the store on the release date of any game and pick it up, bring it home, and find myself playing it within 10 minutes.
That is one thing I cannot say for Linux. (And I'd like to say that I love Linux, I use it for a server for all my game images, installers for both OSs, and I'm trying to master using Debian at the moment.)
Albeit illegal, because ROMs are always illegal no matter what, regardless of what some stupid site said about having the original copy and 24 hours (but that doesn't mean I don't have any because they stopped selling the games...), it is possible to put SNES games on your Game Boy Advance with the aid of a special flash cartridge that uses ROMs from your computer. It can also hold, of course, GBA games (up to 8, I believe, at a time, on the larger carts) and NES games.
The problem with SNES games on GBA is the lack of X and Y buttons. I'd probably have a GBA and one of those carts just for SNES games, if there were X and Y buttons.
I read somewhere that there's a machine that looks JUST like GBA but with a bigger screen, and it can emulate about 10 systems, including of course, GBA.
As we say on SA forums..
R->C->P
I thought the writing was better than most technical articles. Also felt like he knew what he was talking about.
Don't give me your Junior High "don't start sentences with 'but,'" and "fragments are ALWAYS bad," grammar rules. Writing with a reasonable amount of colloquialisms can be quite refreshing.
I go to smaller coffee establishments with the same coffee and cheaper prices. Starbucks? More like Fourbucks.
I bet pornstars don't have any complaints about their fucking jobs. No pun intended. Wait, on second thought, yes, pun intended.
or maybe /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/ksh /bin/zsh
and now: /bin/psych
I live in brand new (Est. 1998) white suburbia of rich people in Colorado, and we didn't get broadband until the summer of 2001, and that's only because I kept bitching. (Or so I think)