Honestly this is a fine achievement if it does what it says. But for $100? To run on slow machines so that companies don't have to upgrade their hardware?
Come on.
Unless it supports things like USB for devices Linux doesn't already support, etc. I really don't see this being a viable competitor.
My main beef w/Linux at this point is that I can't sync my Casiopeia via USB cradle (I have to use the serial keyboard "cradle") which is slow and painful.
My god damn parallel printer (HP 960c) is not very well supported and making a/etc/printcap entry w/printtool is not helping (even w/the drivers from the HP sourceforge page).
If Lindows will solve those problems for me I would be less weary... For $100 though? I will suffer w/my serial cradle and using WP8 (which works w/the printer just fine).
There was an internal email w/the subject line "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR.NET". A good majority of the votes came from a referrer that had that SUBJECT line and the USERNAME coming from microsoft.com.
228 votes from a single user there? That's not being a pro-MS worker. That's having some sort of incentive.
I like them just fine. I don't like Pokemon or Harry Potter. I also don't appreciate them not paying attention when they should be working out.
Games are fine, not paying attention is against policy, remember I was a kid once too, I understand how it works, just do it on your own time, not mine.
You are one of those parents that I just don't deal w/. I have two simple rules. One for kids, one for adults:
Kids #1 -- No tattling. If I don't see it, I don't want to hear about it.
Parents #1 -- I am generally more knowledgable and better at this than you, keep you nose in your own business. If you don't like this policy, your kid doesn't have to be on the team.
yep, I coach little kids during the summers and they play that fucking game Pokemon all the fucking time. Their lives consist of three things during the summers... Harry fucking Potter, Pokemon, and aggrivating adults.
Try to get a little kid to do anything other than play Pokemon and you might as well be tearing his fingers off (disabling him from playing Pokemon or turning the pages in Potter).
Now, as far as MS making it in this market.. I like being able to play games and shit from my favorte console but I am not in like dire need of Madden 2002 when I am at work (or whereever). Unless MS starts gearing its games to a younger audience (which it doesn't seem to be doing currently) I can't see it working all that well.
Unless he is trying to get into wireless Internet to interface w/the XBox and him coming over the TV every morning giving his daily address to his nation (and expanding that to his required handhelds) then I don't see him taking over Nintendo.
Harry Potter vs. Pokemon Platinum -- available only on XBox-mini.
I love my 1GB card. I had a 64mb CF card prior that (and thought it was huge) but now I can store just about anything I want on my PocketPC and not have to worry about running out of room anytime soon.
Nothing like carrying around SimCity 2k, a bunch of MP3s and all the courses to Ziogolf. And those Palm users think that their 8mb machines are the shit. Ha!:)
My 64mb card is getting good use in my digital camera. It hold like 100+ pictures but it is nothing like having that HD in there.
The only thing that I find as a drawback is the fact that there is no "lip" on the card to pull it out of the slot in the back of the PocketPC. Other than that small drawback it is great.
I suggest that anyone who uses a CF card makes the investment.
yep. it should. if it doesn't, tough, it's part of life. There is no reason to get all up in arms about it and start bitching to everyone you know about how bad the service is.
I once bought a Dell laptop and after a week the tilde key broke on the keyboard. They wanted me to pay quite a bit of money to have a $20 part replaced. I didn't pay it, I fixed it myself. Did I buy their product again? No. But I certainly did bitch and moan about it. That was a $3300 toy.
I personally do not like analog sticks at all. I found the N64 to be a real waste of time just b/c of that controller. The analog is just hard to use. I use the digital pad for most games and the Logitech steering wheel for GT3.
Try as I might I just can't understand how an analog stick is better. But that's just me.
But I do agree, at times L3 and R3 are a pain but most games don't use them all that much. They seem to click when I use them though.
I am not a pro-MS person by any means but some defective units and some whiners about poor customer service does not mean that their shit is really bad. Everyone in the world whines about CS. People sometimes need to understand that just b/c you paid $300 for something does not mean that it is going to work and it isn't going to get repaired that instant. Chill.
As far as Gamecube having games that people want. I just don't see it. I like sitting down in front of my PS2 (or I guess XBox from what I have seen) and firing up my copy of GT3 or Madden 2002 and looking at some sweet as stuff. The Gamecube reminds me of Barney. Purple and cartoonish.
Sorry but GT3 makes the PS2 a must buy. There is no car driving game out there that is anything like it. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is great, and it never gets old (hell I have been playing GT1 for 3 straight years).
Playing XBox, PS2, and Gamecube in stores is what made me decide what I liked. The controllers for XBox and Gamecube are pretty poor. The PS2 is the only one that is actually comfortable and makes sense. Yeah, this is my opinion but honestly the others are just too bulky and overdone.
I enjoy my PS2. It has the time behind it and the games that are great. You just can't beat what it has.
soon we will have Billy greeting us every morning w/his daily thought. He will be there watching your every move and telling you what he wants you to eat for dinner.
Aside from the fact that I am paranoid that the XBox is just Bill's way of taking over the world I really don't like it for several reasons:
1. the god damn controller sucks. It is just so damn big and bulky. I tried to play some hockey game at Best Buy and I just couldn't control the damn guys. Too many controller sticks and pads. I don't have hands like Shaq or anything but they should be comfortable w/in the controller.
2. the game selection is iffy at this point. Yeah I know the PS2 was in the same boat at its release but I expected better from MS and their normal tactics.
3. did I mention that Bill is going to be on your TV when you wake up?
there have been studies upon studies of how marijuana effects short-term memory (NORML always posts messages about how it has been proven that it does not in any way effect short term memory).
So, if the researchers start smoking will:
A) the neurons will start firing so fast that they light up the room?
B) the neurons die -- proving that it has a negative effect on STM
C) the neurons have no change
D) you don't remember any of the options -- proving for sure that marijuana does have an effect on STM
why am I so lucky that I recieve almost no spam? In the past year I have recieved less than 25 pieces of e-mail spam.
I know that I don't advertise my email address on the web all that much and I don't use a free-web based service but that doesn't seem like great protection against spamming.
I am just lucky I guess.
since I really would like some free porn, email me at: garcia@localhost
reliable huh? Do some tech support and log the # of calls you get from dissatisfied XP buyers...
I do all my writing on Linux in WP. Works just fine.
I don't playu around w/Linux much at all. It isn't a game for me. I have a PS1 and 2 for those... I use it to stay MS and crash free not to play around w/.
I agree that some people would use it for that. I hear a lot of "I would love to install Linux and learn it." But for most Linux users it is for the reasons I listed above.
They are working to make Linux easier, someday it will get to the point where it will be a viable competitor but for now the goal is not to do that.
AT&T Broadband Internet has the same stuff listed:
. DHCP. They do not give out static IPs. VPNs are still acceptable.
. this is a rec use only service. Doesn't mean you can't do your business shit on it, just means you can't get reimbursed for lost wages.
. pretty much any ISP has the right to do that.
. as far as intellectual property is their's. That would never work. That would be like saying just b/c someone sent a piece of mail w/FedEx to a nuclear scientist it is now FedEx's.
I get paid by Company. Company makes money by selling Program. Program is stolen. Company loses that much moeny on Program. Because there is less money due to piracy I might possibly lose my job at Company.
overreaction? We should just let people STEAL and keep what they steal? We should also allow them to keep the tools w/which they steal?
No way man. If you are caught dealing drugs or stealing a car, they take all that crap from you. They take whatever you used to steal and whatever you stole.
Umm, copying a program and distributing it is fucking stealing. There is no and's, if's, or but's about it.
And yes, if someone is stealing and sending it across international borders, I say take them out.
what the government will do to protect ALL fucking programmers. Just b/c some of the software being pirated was MS does not mean that's what they were protecting. Some people...
Hey, I am not saying that I have no copied programs in the past, hell probably just about 100% of people have. What I am saying is that it isn't right. Fucking programmers work their asses off writing code for people to use. They make their living off of this crap and people are stealing it.
I am not defending MS, in fact I only run Win98 on a laptop so that my GF can use a computer to do work while she is over here... I own that copy (it came w/the laptop). I don't use Windows products b/c I don't like their methods or their stability.
I am defending those people that are having their hardwork and money stolen and distributed...
Just b/c a good majority of the people here do not like MS doesn't mean that we should get pissed off when people are caught stealing programs. You should be pissed off that a good majority of people that read this site are in the same boat. Writing code that is bettering some part of the industry and that people are out there stealing the hardwork.
Get over yourselves. Piracy is illegal and tough if you get caught.
hey not a problem! How bout I sell you my C128D for $199 and you can run them from disk. It will save you $100. That should at least make up for the lack of a CD w/500 games.
reminds me of using unix based apps on OS/2. When given the choice of telnetting to a box and running ircII or using it on OS/2 natively the choice was obvious.
I know that there are better examples of this now (as BitchX -- ick runs on Windows natively already) but you get the idea.
I had been using cp, mv, rm, etc for years on Windows b/c I was so accusomted to it I couldn't get out of the habbit of doing mv instead of move.
I used an iBook at our University library (to try and see the settings for the wireless card so I could attempt to hop on and steal some bw). The latch confused me for a bit and caused me to almost drop the god damn thing once I did finally get it open.
Although the latch was a pain I did like the weight, size, and feel of the laptop.
I just don't think that Apple should be the hardware vendor of choice in schools. Pay the extra money and use what is really in existance out there.
Linux and MacOS is great but it isn't what we need to be teaching.
I have always been pro-cheap on hardware. I am always at least a year behind or so when I purchase a new machine... The games are great at the time but then after like 6 mos I get bored and start seeing the great crap that just came out...
wrong. Their prices may vary per region but their services do not. And don't disagree w/me. I know.
Perhaps you had Roadrunner that was affiliated w/@Home or something, but the straight up @Home service has the same about of mail accounts, the same webspace, etc.
Static IPs are no longer available in any area. They were for a time but no more.
exactly. They offer this amt of bandwith, I don't see why we can't have a bunch of computers connected behind it.
@Home allows you to network and do whatever you want w/your connection but also does offer IPs at 4.95/mo.
They are losing money by people not using the extra IP option but I don't see how the lack of IPs would be an even larger problem.
People roguing IPs is the biggest problem. They feel that they should be allowed to have a static IP even though policy says no. I say put up w/the dynamic or pony up the dough.
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thanks for the info man. I went and got CUPS and I have it working beautifully and even over Samba :)
My girlfriend will be very happy that she no longer will have to unplug it from my desktop and plug it into the laptop to print.
Thanks again.
Honestly this is a fine achievement if it does what it says. But for $100? To run on slow machines so that companies don't have to upgrade their hardware?
/etc/printcap entry w/printtool is not helping (even w/the drivers from the HP sourceforge page).
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Come on.
Unless it supports things like USB for devices Linux doesn't already support, etc. I really don't see this being a viable competitor.
My main beef w/Linux at this point is that I can't sync my Casiopeia via USB cradle (I have to use the serial keyboard "cradle") which is slow and painful.
My god damn parallel printer (HP 960c) is not very well supported and making a
If Lindows will solve those problems for me I would be less weary... For $100 though? I will suffer w/my serial cradle and using WP8 (which works w/the printer just fine).
Just my worthless
did you read the article?
.NET". A good majority of the votes came from a referrer that had that SUBJECT line and the USERNAME coming from microsoft.com.
There was an internal email w/the subject line "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR
228 votes from a single user there? That's not being a pro-MS worker. That's having some sort of incentive.
I like them just fine. I don't like Pokemon or Harry Potter. I also don't appreciate them not paying attention when they should be working out.
Games are fine, not paying attention is against policy, remember I was a kid once too, I understand how it works, just do it on your own time, not mine.
You are one of those parents that I just don't deal w/. I have two simple rules. One for kids, one for adults:
Kids #1 -- No tattling. If I don't see it, I don't want to hear about it.
Parents #1 -- I am generally more knowledgable and better at this than you, keep you nose in your own business. If you don't like this policy, your kid doesn't have to be on the team.
yep, I coach little kids during the summers and they play that fucking game Pokemon all the fucking time. Their lives consist of three things during the summers... Harry fucking Potter, Pokemon, and aggrivating adults.
Try to get a little kid to do anything other than play Pokemon and you might as well be tearing his fingers off (disabling him from playing Pokemon or turning the pages in Potter).
Now, as far as MS making it in this market.. I like being able to play games and shit from my favorte console but I am not in like dire need of Madden 2002 when I am at work (or whereever). Unless MS starts gearing its games to a younger audience (which it doesn't seem to be doing currently) I can't see it working all that well.
Unless he is trying to get into wireless Internet to interface w/the XBox and him coming over the TV every morning giving his daily address to his nation (and expanding that to his required handhelds) then I don't see him taking over Nintendo.
Harry Potter vs. Pokemon Platinum -- available only on XBox-mini.
all the PCMCIA sleeves I have seen for the Cassiopeia were w/an external powersupply only (I was looking to use my wireless PCMCIA cards w/it)
External PS's just won't work.
I love my 1GB card. I had a 64mb CF card prior that (and thought it was huge) but now I can store just about anything I want on my PocketPC and not have to worry about running out of room anytime soon.
:)
Nothing like carrying around SimCity 2k, a bunch of MP3s and all the courses to Ziogolf. And those Palm users think that their 8mb machines are the shit. Ha!
My 64mb card is getting good use in my digital camera. It hold like 100+ pictures but it is nothing like having that HD in there.
The only thing that I find as a drawback is the fact that there is no "lip" on the card to pull it out of the slot in the back of the PocketPC. Other than that small drawback it is great.
I suggest that anyone who uses a CF card makes the investment.
yep. it should. if it doesn't, tough, it's part of life. There is no reason to get all up in arms about it and start bitching to everyone you know about how bad the service is.
I once bought a Dell laptop and after a week the tilde key broke on the keyboard. They wanted me to pay quite a bit of money to have a $20 part replaced. I didn't pay it, I fixed it myself. Did I buy their product again? No. But I certainly did bitch and moan about it. That was a $3300 toy.
Remember, shit happens.
I personally do not like analog sticks at all. I found the N64 to be a real waste of time just b/c of that controller. The analog is just hard to use. I use the digital pad for most games and the Logitech steering wheel for GT3.
Try as I might I just can't understand how an analog stick is better. But that's just me.
But I do agree, at times L3 and R3 are a pain but most games don't use them all that much. They seem to click when I use them though.
couple of things here...
I am not a pro-MS person by any means but some defective units and some whiners about poor customer service does not mean that their shit is really bad. Everyone in the world whines about CS. People sometimes need to understand that just b/c you paid $300 for something does not mean that it is going to work and it isn't going to get repaired that instant. Chill.
As far as Gamecube having games that people want. I just don't see it. I like sitting down in front of my PS2 (or I guess XBox from what I have seen) and firing up my copy of GT3 or Madden 2002 and looking at some sweet as stuff. The Gamecube reminds me of Barney. Purple and cartoonish.
Sorry but GT3 makes the PS2 a must buy. There is no car driving game out there that is anything like it. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is great, and it never gets old (hell I have been playing GT1 for 3 straight years).
Playing XBox, PS2, and Gamecube in stores is what made me decide what I liked. The controllers for XBox and Gamecube are pretty poor. The PS2 is the only one that is actually comfortable and makes sense. Yeah, this is my opinion but honestly the others are just too bulky and overdone.
I enjoy my PS2. It has the time behind it and the games that are great. You just can't beat what it has.
soon we will have Billy greeting us every morning w/his daily thought. He will be there watching your every move and telling you what he wants you to eat for dinner.
Aside from the fact that I am paranoid that the XBox is just Bill's way of taking over the world I really don't like it for several reasons:
1. the god damn controller sucks. It is just so damn big and bulky. I tried to play some hockey game at Best Buy and I just couldn't control the damn guys. Too many controller sticks and pads. I don't have hands like Shaq or anything but they should be comfortable w/in the controller.
2. the game selection is iffy at this point. Yeah I know the PS2 was in the same boat at its release but I expected better from MS and their normal tactics.
3. did I mention that Bill is going to be on your TV when you wake up?
there have been studies upon studies of how marijuana effects short-term memory (NORML always posts messages about how it has been proven that it does not in any way effect short term memory).
So, if the researchers start smoking will:
A) the neurons will start firing so fast that they light up the room?
B) the neurons die -- proving that it has a negative effect on STM
C) the neurons have no change
D) you don't remember any of the options -- proving for sure that marijuana does have an effect on STM
Happy New Year everyone.
why am I so lucky that I recieve almost no spam? In the past year I have recieved less than 25 pieces of e-mail spam.
I know that I don't advertise my email address on the web all that much and I don't use a free-web based service but that doesn't seem like great protection against spamming.
I am just lucky I guess.
since I really would like some free porn, email me at: garcia@localhost
reliable huh? Do some tech support and log the # of calls you get from dissatisfied XP buyers...
I do all my writing on Linux in WP. Works just fine.
I don't playu around w/Linux much at all. It isn't a game for me. I have a PS1 and 2 for those... I use it to stay MS and crash free not to play around w/.
I agree that some people would use it for that. I hear a lot of "I would love to install Linux and learn it." But for most Linux users it is for the reasons I listed above.
They are working to make Linux easier, someday it will get to the point where it will be a viable competitor but for now the goal is not to do that.
AT&T Broadband Internet has the same stuff listed:
. DHCP. They do not give out static IPs. VPNs are still acceptable.
. this is a rec use only service. Doesn't mean you can't do your business shit on it, just means you can't get reimbursed for lost wages.
. pretty much any ISP has the right to do that.
. as far as intellectual property is their's. That would never work. That would be like saying just b/c someone sent a piece of mail w/FedEx to a nuclear scientist it is now FedEx's.
ok let's look at this from the correct angle.
I get paid by Company. Company makes money by selling Program. Program is stolen. Company loses that much moeny on Program. Because there is less money due to piracy I might possibly lose my job at Company.
If I lose my job at Company I am fucked.
That's stealing.
overreaction? We should just let people STEAL and keep what they steal? We should also allow them to keep the tools w/which they steal?
No way man. If you are caught dealing drugs or stealing a car, they take all that crap from you. They take whatever you used to steal and whatever you stole.
Umm, copying a program and distributing it is fucking stealing. There is no and's, if's, or but's about it.
And yes, if someone is stealing and sending it across international borders, I say take them out.
what the government will do to protect ALL fucking programmers. Just b/c some of the software being pirated was MS does not mean that's what they were protecting. Some people...
Hey, I am not saying that I have no copied programs in the past, hell probably just about 100% of people have. What I am saying is that it isn't right. Fucking programmers work their asses off writing code for people to use. They make their living off of this crap and people are stealing it.
I am not defending MS, in fact I only run Win98 on a laptop so that my GF can use a computer to do work while she is over here... I own that copy (it came w/the laptop). I don't use Windows products b/c I don't like their methods or their stability.
I am defending those people that are having their hardwork and money stolen and distributed...
Just b/c a good majority of the people here do not like MS doesn't mean that we should get pissed off when people are caught stealing programs. You should be pissed off that a good majority of people that read this site are in the same boat. Writing code that is bettering some part of the industry and that people are out there stealing the hardwork.
Get over yourselves. Piracy is illegal and tough if you get caught.
hey not a problem! How bout I sell you my C128D for $199 and you can run them from disk. It will save you $100. That should at least make up for the lack of a CD w/500 games.
reminds me of using unix based apps on OS/2. When given the choice of telnetting to a box and running ircII or using it on OS/2 natively the choice was obvious.
I know that there are better examples of this now (as BitchX -- ick runs on Windows natively already) but you get the idea.
I had been using cp, mv, rm, etc for years on Windows b/c I was so accusomted to it I couldn't get out of the habbit of doing mv instead of move.
the abuse of a teenager?
I used an iBook at our University library (to try and see the settings for the wireless card so I could attempt to hop on and steal some bw). The latch confused me for a bit and caused me to almost drop the god damn thing once I did finally get it open.
Although the latch was a pain I did like the weight, size, and feel of the laptop.
I just don't think that Apple should be the hardware vendor of choice in schools. Pay the extra money and use what is really in existance out there.
Linux and MacOS is great but it isn't what we need to be teaching.
I have always been pro-cheap on hardware. I am always at least a year behind or so when I purchase a new machine... The games are great at the time but then after like 6 mos I get bored and start seeing the great crap that just came out...
So the cycle begins again.
wrong. Their prices may vary per region but their services do not. And don't disagree w/me. I know.
Perhaps you had Roadrunner that was affiliated w/@Home or something, but the straight up @Home service has the same about of mail accounts, the same webspace, etc.
Static IPs are no longer available in any area. They were for a time but no more.
exactly. They offer this amt of bandwith, I don't see why we can't have a bunch of computers connected behind it.
@Home allows you to network and do whatever you want w/your connection but also does offer IPs at 4.95/mo.
They are losing money by people not using the extra IP option but I don't see how the lack of IPs would be an even larger problem.
People roguing IPs is the biggest problem. They feel that they should be allowed to have a static IP even though policy says no. I say put up w/the dynamic or pony up the dough.
it approached the topic in a different fashion. It had too much serousness for me. I think Kubrick came out w/a far better flick.