Microsoft should buy Rockstar, then sit back and watch Sony die. I think Sony owes a lot of their marketshare with the PS2 to haveing GTA3 exclusive for over a year.
I kind of doubt that. I have an Inspiron 5100, which isn't a Pentium M/Centrino machine, but came out about the same time. It doesn't support APM at all, it's pure ACPI, and thus no sleep or any other power management for me with Linux. I don't know if ACPI is a big secret that OSS developers aren't in on or what, but the (near)absolute lack of ACPI support in Linux is one if the main reasons I stick with WinXP.
That's the boat I'm in. My primary mission is to print out backups of our "website" (read: one HTML page on an internal server hard linking to Office documents on a Novell share). Luckily we don't use papyrus as a back up medium anymore.
I can see this being fantastic for something like SOCOM(one third person view, one first person or map or whatever), but I'll be interested to see what they use it for in a portable.
It seems to me that if I were the one this kid was trying to pass a one sided photocopy of a bill to I'd just tell him to fuck off and forget about it. I find it hard to believe anyone would push this kind of half assed effort at counterfeiting through the legal system. But I suppose it happens.
I didn't play this much, but as I recall the cars were absolutely glued to the ground. While GTA's physics were probably over the top, I'd like to see some in-between with car physics.
Does sleep and/or hibernate work yet? My single biggest issue with any Linux distro I've tried is that I can't close the lid of my laptop and have it go to sleep. Depending on machine and distro either X would get all messed up, or absolutely nothing would happen, as is the case with my current machine.
I'd like to know the answer to that question as well. I had a SpeedPass for a while, you have to hold it within inches of the reader thing for it to work, so I don't see how large scale tracking of anything would be possible with it.My biggest concern with it was the lack of authentication, if you were to lose it anyone could go purchase stuff at Exxon.
It's exactly like paying with your Visa. When you register you give SpeedPass credit/debit card info, they send the little thing and Speedpass just charges your chosen credit/debit card. I got rid of mine because taking my wallet out and using my card isn't that hard, and I forgot my speedpass password to change the exp date of my card.
Usually when I see a release date that's the 1st day of a quarter I assume it won't be out then. All that means is either the developer mentioned a quarter at some point, or somebody speculated a quarter for them.
a) wtf? iTunes doesn't require an iPod, I shop iTunes on occasion don't have an iPod, and I burn CDS. b) How does the HP deal reduce consumer choice, XP has Media Player built in, there's no removing it. So now if you buy an HP you get both. I see no reduction in choice there.
If Microsoft were to declare the GUI dead tomorrow and rerelease DOS as a new OS Paul Thurrott would be there to cheer. You can disregard pretty much anything he says as fast as most/. comments.
On the other hand I don't see WMA support in the iPod being a bad thing, choice is good. While I've found the DRM that tends to come with WMA files annoying (Would you like to back up your license? wtf!?) I don't think it can hurt for the iPod to support another format.
Mine is like 8 pounds(Inspiron 5100), and I can't wait to have the money to replace it. I had an iBook for a while, I think it was 5 pounds or so. That was my ideal, fairly light but still had a drive, just wish it had been able to do a resolution higher than 1024x768, but that seems to be what you get with all of the smaller laptops. You're right about the really small ones though, I don't understand how anyone can use something like a Picturebook.
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Microsoft should buy Rockstar, then sit back and watch Sony die. I think Sony owes a lot of their marketshare with the PS2 to haveing GTA3 exclusive for over a year.
Just grabbed MDK 9.2, laptop already has three partitions, so I shall just rearrage things and play when I get home from work.
Hmm.. I may give that a shot, because all I really want from ACPI is suspend.
I kind of doubt that. I have an Inspiron 5100, which isn't a Pentium M/Centrino machine, but came out about the same time. It doesn't support APM at all, it's pure ACPI, and thus no sleep or any other power management for me with Linux. I don't know if ACPI is a big secret that OSS developers aren't in on or what, but the (near)absolute lack of ACPI support in Linux is one if the main reasons I stick with WinXP.
That's the boat I'm in. My primary mission is to print out backups of our "website" (read: one HTML page on an internal server hard linking to Office documents on a Novell share). Luckily we don't use papyrus as a back up medium anymore.
Thanks for the screen, I do remember that now.
I don't remember that. Was it an option?
So basically this was pushed by prior history, not a single instance.
I can see this being fantastic for something like SOCOM(one third person view, one first person or map or whatever), but I'll be interested to see what they use it for in a portable.
It seems to me that if I were the one this kid was trying to pass a one sided photocopy of a bill to I'd just tell him to fuck off and forget about it. I find it hard to believe anyone would push this kind of half assed effort at counterfeiting through the legal system. But I suppose it happens.
I didn't play this much, but as I recall the cars were absolutely glued to the ground. While GTA's physics were probably over the top, I'd like to see some in-between with car physics.
Rather than searching the registry I'd get Regmon, it'll be quicker that way.
This is not flamebait IMHO. Much MS coverage here is at least taken out of context, if not utter bs.
Does sleep and/or hibernate work yet? My single biggest issue with any Linux distro I've tried is that I can't close the lid of my laptop and have it go to sleep. Depending on machine and distro either X would get all messed up, or absolutely nothing would happen, as is the case with my current machine.
I can't even stay on step two, crappy ACPI support drives me crazy.
I'd like to know the answer to that question as well. I had a SpeedPass for a while, you have to hold it within inches of the reader thing for it to work, so I don't see how large scale tracking of anything would be possible with it.My biggest concern with it was the lack of authentication, if you were to lose it anyone could go purchase stuff at Exxon.
It's exactly like paying with your Visa. When you register you give SpeedPass credit/debit card info, they send the little thing and Speedpass just charges your chosen credit/debit card. I got rid of mine because taking my wallet out and using my card isn't that hard, and I forgot my speedpass password to change the exp date of my card.
Usually when I see a release date that's the 1st day of a quarter I assume it won't be out then. All that means is either the developer mentioned a quarter at some point, or somebody speculated a quarter for them.
a) wtf? iTunes doesn't require an iPod, I shop iTunes on occasion don't have an iPod, and I burn CDS. b) How does the HP deal reduce consumer choice, XP has Media Player built in, there's no removing it. So now if you buy an HP you get both. I see no reduction in choice there.
If Microsoft were to declare the GUI dead tomorrow and rerelease DOS as a new OS Paul Thurrott would be there to cheer. You can disregard pretty much anything he says as fast as most /. comments.
On the other hand I don't see WMA support in the iPod being a bad thing, choice is good. While I've found the DRM that tends to come with WMA files annoying (Would you like to back up your license? wtf!?) I don't think it can hurt for the iPod to support another format.
Mine is like 8 pounds(Inspiron 5100), and I can't wait to have the money to replace it. I had an iBook for a while, I think it was 5 pounds or so. That was my ideal, fairly light but still had a drive, just wish it had been able to do a resolution higher than 1024x768, but that seems to be what you get with all of the smaller laptops. You're right about the really small ones though, I don't understand how anyone can use something like a Picturebook.
It's ok. They just look kind of dull to me.
I agree about the colors, they're all ugly as far as I'm concerned.
Ok, you win. IMHO this is a boring innovation, but to each his own.