A budget-class PC laptop of that time might have been about 900 MHz to 1.1 GHz. I wouldn't consider such a laptop anything near useable. They tended to have poor quality sound systems that bottlenecked the processor and atrociously short battery times. The ibook was legendary for its excellent battery performance
Get off what you 'assume', assumption is just intuition for idiots.
Heartily agree. In 2000, I bought a Compaq Armada 500MHz/128MB ram laptop. I've since upgraded it with 128 Mb ram and just last month replaced the harddisk. I use it just about every day, for simple work related tasks (like web programming with Dreamweaver/Ultraedit), for browsing, for email, for writing, for graphics/photo etc. It's not the fastest computer in the world, but it's perfectably usable.
And the crappiest Pacman of all time. The Pacman conversion was one of the two highly anticipated games that almost single-handledy brought down the entire game industry back in 1983 when everybody realised they were so incredibly bad (E.T. was the other one). The Atari 2600 may have been cool once, but only if you got original one (with the veneer casing).
Gates: I have never searched for such a sentence. Plus: if you understand the search engine properly, it doesn't mean that you will find exactly this sentence on these pages.
If you understand the search engine properly, it does mean that you will find exactly this sentence on these pages.
Yes, if you include the brackets, sure. But did the reporter specify this? Gates' reply is equally right and wrong, depending on how the query is entered, and the search engine that is used.
Bullsh*. Europe is not one country, it does not have *one* law regarding this. In Norway, it's perfectly all right to compare competing brands in a commercial (as long as you use factual arguments that can be proven).
If Trek was smart they would have thrown a bunch of money at JMS to get good scripts written for the show but now he's busy working on The Memory of Shadows.
They're bringing back Galen - the most interesting guy from the Crusade series and the trilogy of books concerning techno mages. Cool.:)
I remember reading a post by JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated that he was approached by the Star Trek team, but that he balked because they wouldn't give him a meaningful position (probably meaning he'd be in a position below Berman and Braga, a decision which I think anyone would find wise. I'd link to the post if I could find it again.
Well, yeah, but the Xbox, great as it is, is getting a bit old. The PS2 is positively ancient. The tech is from the late nineties, basically (OK, the Xbox is tip of the century, but only just), so it's nice to see it upgraded. What I'm most worried about, is the mod scene. They have to go right back to scratch with the next Xbox and the next PS3. I wonder how long it'll take'em to hack'em.
And Playstation 2 can presumably render the original Toy Story in real time, right? Just like Sony claimed before PS2 was released (
http://www.dvdfuture.com/features.php?id=2)?
I am afraid that many people could use the nofollow tag in a commercial way. I have outlined my thought in my blog. What do you think about this possibility?
So, are you trying to boost your blog by getting a free ride on the Slashdot pagerank?:D
However, no other OS in history has had to have an Antivirus industry EXCEPT Microsoft!
While I agree with you're saying, I call bogus on this. Even the Amiga had an antivirus "industry" growing (if anything about the Amiga could be called an industry).
...don't give a shit about case mods and flourescent lights and blinky RAM, just like how real car enthusiasts don't adorn piece-of-shit imports with stickers and tacky wings. It's all about what's under the hood, not how pretty it looks on the outside.
People who waste money on this nonsense should be ridiculed by us proud, genuine nerds.
Damn straight. I did succumb to the case modding frenzy a couple of years ago and cut open one of my old PCs (P2 with a Voodoo2 card). While the modding work was rather enjoyable, the end result was a PC that glows red in the dark and is really annoying to look at;P.
I've only had problems with excess heat in the Shuttle computers I've put together when a beefy video card has been added. It seems that a Radeon 9800 Pro tends to overwork the puny power supply, which adds to the heat that the video card itself is putting out.
I've never had any of the components fail, but it's warmer than I'm comfortable with.
God forbid you stick one of Intel's Prescott processors in too.
I'm actually really impressed by the cooling system in the Shuttle. I've got a P4 in it, and while it does get hot in there, it doesn't seem to get too hot for comfort. However, I haven't tried putting in a gamer's video card in it, just a Matrox Millennium P650 (for the dual screen, 2d quality it delivers). As you observed, a high powered gfx card would tax the PSU too much and generate too much heat. I looked at getting a new PSU for it, but it was far too expensive last time I checked.
I took a photo on a beach this holiday, and I can with a high degree of confidence say I spotted something that looked like a girl in the distance. (I think she was running away though.)
Ok, so mod me off topic.:P
Anyways, it's hard to get excited about this. I mean, it's just a few pixels on a grainy image. I know I should be excited and all, but I'll hold on the enthusiasm until we're able to take a *real* picture of an extra-solar planet.
I've had my Shuttle for well over a year, without problems. Well, last week the 80GB SATA Maxtor disk in it crashed and burned, but while I suspect heat buildup inside the Shuttle to be part of the cause, it might just have been a bad HD.;)
Bet you wouldn't say this if it was about Linux and the submitter spelt it "Linuse". Windose is not even a word - wouldn't even a half decent spell checker have picked it up?
Yeah, I know, but I only use it for windows (not games) and for it's (adequate) dual monitor support. I have a second graphics card in the machine, a Geforce2 dual PCI card, and it performs as well as the Matrox card. Nvidia even has 64 bit drivers for it, so it actually outperforms the Matrox card. I picked it up at a clearance sale for next to nothing. Had I known about this one, I'd never have bought the Matrox card.;)
I got a pr email from NASA quoting this. The headline was something like this: LARGEST ERUPTION IN THE GALAXY. If the mail hadn't been from NASA, that would be an exceedingly naughty subject line, even for a spam message.:D
I think part of the problem is drivers. I have an Athlon 64 and are running the beta Windows XP 64 bit edition (dual booting with the 32 bit Windows XP) and while it seems to work all right, there are very few drivers for the platform. FI. my Matrox Parhelia is not supported, which means no dual/triple screen support and a screen update that *crawls*. There are lots of other devices that doesn't work as well + quite a few 32 bit programs that won't install.
One of many problems facing Linux is that it really doesn't have any killer apps. All the good apps (or the high profiled one anyway, like Firefox, Gimp, Open Office et al) are released on the Windows platform as well, and that's the one getting promoted. Nobody will switch to using a Linux distro because of Firefox, since it's already available on the Windows platform.
OTOH, Windows have several killer apps, like Photoshop & other Adobe apps, Macromedias apps, Microsoft apps (and my own personal favourite, Directory Opus) etc. Sure, you can run some of them through Wine, but that's not something a lot of people will want to do.
I'm sure this would suffice if you didn't actually *own* said laptop. If you did, you'd be more careful with it;)
Anyway, this pizza box is obviously not real, but it's a funny gag. Who'd pay for this anyway? It's just a cardboard box with some foam tucked inside...
Back then, you called long distance to the BBS of interest.
And let me tell you, using a 300bps modem really was like walking to school in the snow, uphill, both ways...
And yet... It was also computer nirvana. You got a taste of being online and even with only 300bps, it was sooo easy to get hooked. (I had a c64 first, but when the Amiga came along with its 2400 bps modems, things were really rolling.)
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And the crappiest Pacman of all time. The Pacman conversion was one of the two highly anticipated games that almost single-handledy brought down the entire game industry back in 1983 when everybody realised they were so incredibly bad (E.T. was the other one). The Atari 2600 may have been cool once, but only if you got original one (with the veneer casing).
Bullsh*. Europe is not one country, it does not have *one* law regarding this. In Norway, it's perfectly all right to compare competing brands in a commercial (as long as you use factual arguments that can be proven).
I remember reading a post by JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated that he was approached by the Star Trek team, but that he balked because they wouldn't give him a meaningful position (probably meaning he'd be in a position below Berman and Braga, a decision which I think anyone would find wise. I'd link to the post if I could find it again.
Well, yeah, but the Xbox, great as it is, is getting a bit old. The PS2 is positively ancient. The tech is from the late nineties, basically (OK, the Xbox is tip of the century, but only just), so it's nice to see it upgraded. What I'm most worried about, is the mod scene. They have to go right back to scratch with the next Xbox and the next PS3. I wonder how long it'll take'em to hack'em.
And Playstation 2 can presumably render the original Toy Story in real time, right? Just like Sony claimed before PS2 was released ( http://www.dvdfuture.com/features.php?id=2)?
This is insightful? It isn't even on topic. And the anon posted this very message in a mini mac thread a few days back. ;)
I took a photo on a beach this holiday, and I can with a high degree of confidence say I spotted something that looked like a girl in the distance. (I think she was running away though.)
:P
Ok, so mod me off topic.
Anyways, it's hard to get excited about this. I mean, it's just a few pixels on a grainy image. I know I should be excited and all, but I'll hold on the enthusiasm until we're able to take a *real* picture of an extra-solar planet.
I've had my Shuttle for well over a year, without problems. Well, last week the 80GB SATA Maxtor disk in it crashed and burned, but while I suspect heat buildup inside the Shuttle to be part of the cause, it might just have been a bad HD. ;)
That's because this story is three years old :D
This exploit uses the the following file: c:/windows/help/ntshared.chm. Maybe a quick solution would be to delete or rename this file?
Bet you wouldn't say this if it was about Linux and the submitter spelt it "Linuse". Windose is not even a word - wouldn't even a half decent spell checker have picked it up?
Yeah, I know, but I only use it for windows (not games) and for it's (adequate) dual monitor support. I have a second graphics card in the machine, a Geforce2 dual PCI card, and it performs as well as the Matrox card. Nvidia even has 64 bit drivers for it, so it actually outperforms the Matrox card. I picked it up at a clearance sale for next to nothing. Had I known about this one, I'd never have bought the Matrox card. ;)
I got a pr email from NASA quoting this. The headline was something like this: LARGEST ERUPTION IN THE GALAXY. If the mail hadn't been from NASA, that would be an exceedingly naughty subject line, even for a spam message. :D
I think part of the problem is drivers. I have an Athlon 64 and are running the beta Windows XP 64 bit edition (dual booting with the 32 bit Windows XP) and while it seems to work all right, there are very few drivers for the platform. FI. my Matrox Parhelia is not supported, which means no dual/triple screen support and a screen update that *crawls*. There are lots of other devices that doesn't work as well + quite a few 32 bit programs that won't install.
OTOH, Windows have several killer apps, like Photoshop & other Adobe apps, Macromedias apps, Microsoft apps (and my own personal favourite, Directory Opus) etc. Sure, you can run some of them through Wine, but that's not something a lot of people will want to do.
I'm sure this would suffice if you didn't actually *own* said laptop. If you did, you'd be more careful with it ;)
Anyway, this pizza box is obviously not real, but it's a funny gag. Who'd pay for this anyway? It's just a cardboard box with some foam tucked inside...
"Efforts by the industries affected are under way to extend the levy to computer peripherals and, where not yet implemented, photocopying machines."1 2-6894r
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030312-1209
Good for you. Sheesh, it doesn't take much for something to be modded as interesting on slashdot... ;)