According to GameSpot The Fire Red and Leaf Green Pokemon games are the only two that are currently known to support Nintendo's new wireless GBA multiplayer adapter, but Nintendo has stated that it will announce more compatible titles in the future. So this will *only* work with new games... which sorta stinks. The game has to support it. Which I imagine new ones will... but don't jump on the bandwagon yet.
I just don't get it... I have a Mac here at home and with multi-session CD's it mounts both sessions as different CD's on the desktop... when I bring the same CD to work and try to play it on my Windows 2000 box it asks if I want to install all kinds of junk to play the CD. I can't listen to the CD with WinAmp at all like I can with any other normal CD...
So I have to download it (usually via IRC) and store a copy on my computer at work just so I can conveniently listen to a CD I bought... I wonder how much this brings up the RIAA's numbers of illegally downloaded songs... for instance if I didn't know all that much about computers and I was downloading songs I legitimately should be able to make MP3's out of and now Kazaa downloads them into a shared folder... well now the RIAA has 10-15 tracks more that they can claim are being widespread because I just wanted to listen to music I had given them money for.
Is it just me or is this statment from the Yahoo article a gross exaggeration:
"This is not only good for Nintendo, but great for consumers," says Lucky Evani, Toys 'R Us representative. "For $99, you can now buy video game technology that you couldn't have purchased for $99,000 just a few years ago."
I'd be apt to believe *maybe* $9,900 on a bad day... unless of course he just means you couldn't have purchased it period because it didn't exist or there was only 1 or 2 prototypes sitting around.
.... about to put my GameCube on eBay (along with my XBox)... but now that I'd be lucky to get $75 out of it... I might as well keep it. Stinks that I bought it at $200 but that's obviously going to happen. And I've gotten my extra $100 out of it.
Does flash render the same on all browsers? If so this could be an option. I know a lot of people hate flash but it does have its good uses. Yeah it won't work on some browsers. But for a good majority of people I think it might be a viable option.
Ohhh! Or even better yet! Have your site auto-post the articles text in a slashdot comment plus block the slashdot referer header for 24 hours! (patent pending)
Hmmm... what if a website admin did become a subscriber. Could they theoretically take the RSS feed to know when a new post was made, pull the article text, scan it for their domain and if their domain was linked to just have a script auto-block referers from slashdot for like 24 hours or so? Somebody less lazy than me might look into that. Then you could sell it for like $100! It'd be like paying the mob not to beat you up! But only if somebody affiliated with slashdot wrote it I guess.
Ruin the iTunes Music Store that's what. Maybe you don't like it from your noted reasons above. But for me it happens to work just dandy. I'm not going to argue any of your points because we both know neither of us will get anywhere (this is slashdot)... But myself and I'm certain numerous other people find the iTunes Music store a delight to have on their computer and use it frequently. That's what I hope he doesn't ruin for the rest of us.
I've installed various distros of Linux (Redhat, Pogo?, and one other (maybe Slackware?)) and maybe it was just my total lack of patience but it seemed like I could get something to work on one distro and not on another. Graphics card would/wouldn't work, ethernet would/wouldn't work, sound would/wouldn't work. I actually started keeping a notebook around to write down the methods I got things to work. Sometimes it'd work again and sometimes it wouldn't.
Then once I got everything working I'd have to figure out which GUI(s) were installed on it. Sometimes they'd work and sometimes they wouldn't. Mostly due to video card issues I'm sure.
Then if I got the GUI to work I couldn't figure out head from tails how to get programs installed. Most everything that I downloaded it felt like I had to build or download from CVS or some weird junk like that.
Eventually I gave up on wasting my time and went back into Windows. Then my Windows machine bombed out (CPU overheated I think) so I scrapped it for parts and now am over joyously running Mac OS X. Yeah it's more expensive, yeah I *used* to have a one button mouse, yeah it looks like a lamp... whatever. I know I have a good and solid OS underneath all those fancy widgets (which is why I wanted to install Linux in the first place) and I have those fancy widgets (which is why I always went back to Windows). Everything works and to get applications installed I just copy them into a directory and voila! Yes on occassion some random freeware/shareware program doesn't work for some reason or another. But overall I think it's a good middle ground between Linux and Windows.
I'm not by any means knocking Linux. I know most a good 25% of the people here probably can get it to run in their sleep and I applaud you for it. But I just don't have the patience I suppose. It's not that I'm afraid of breaking something. It's just that after a weeks worth of trial and error it sorta makes you discouraged.
Just out of curiosity (and possibly mildly off-topic) does anybody else find that their XBox is fairly noisy whilst watching DVD's? I've almost contemplated getting a dedicated DVD player for this reason. Unfortunately I don't have room the way my entertainment center is set up.
While I'm sitting there watching a movie at the theater I text all my friends vivid details of what's going on. It's almost like downloading the "cam" version off the internet anyhow... this just saves them all time...
*hangs his head and sticks out his arms ready for the cuffs*
I think SCO has taken this whole "free as in beer" thing way too far... the *only* rational I can see at this point is they are all really really drunk off free beer.
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According to GameSpot
The Fire Red and Leaf Green Pokemon games are the only two that are currently known to support Nintendo's new wireless GBA multiplayer adapter, but Nintendo has stated that it will announce more compatible titles in the future.
So this will *only* work with new games... which sorta stinks. The game has to support it. Which I imagine new ones will... but don't jump on the bandwagon yet.
Sometimes I do... but why should I have to copy the CD (which they don't want me to do anyhow) in order to make it work?
I just don't get it... I have a Mac here at home and with multi-session CD's it mounts both sessions as different CD's on the desktop... when I bring the same CD to work and try to play it on my Windows 2000 box it asks if I want to install all kinds of junk to play the CD. I can't listen to the CD with WinAmp at all like I can with any other normal CD...
So I have to download it (usually via IRC) and store a copy on my computer at work just so I can conveniently listen to a CD I bought... I wonder how much this brings up the RIAA's numbers of illegally downloaded songs... for instance if I didn't know all that much about computers and I was downloading songs I legitimately should be able to make MP3's out of and now Kazaa downloads them into a shared folder... well now the RIAA has 10-15 tracks more that they can claim are being widespread because I just wanted to listen to music I had given them money for.
Is it just me or is this statment from the Yahoo article a gross exaggeration:
"This is not only good for Nintendo, but great for consumers," says Lucky Evani, Toys 'R Us representative. "For $99, you can now buy video game technology that you couldn't have purchased for $99,000 just a few years ago."
I'd be apt to believe *maybe* $9,900 on a bad day... unless of course he just means you couldn't have purchased it period because it didn't exist or there was only 1 or 2 prototypes sitting around.
.... about to put my GameCube on eBay (along with my XBox)... but now that I'd be lucky to get $75 out of it... I might as well keep it. Stinks that I bought it at $200 but that's obviously going to happen. And I've gotten my extra $100 out of it.
From Microsoft on how ATM works...
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ohhhhh... you mean... gotcha... nevermind.
Apple must have been using their time machine:
Which they stole from me as I'll be inventing it in about 20 years. Or so I told myself the other day when I came back.
Does flash render the same on all browsers? If so this could be an option. I know a lot of people hate flash but it does have its good uses. Yeah it won't work on some browsers. But for a good majority of people I think it might be a viable option.
Anybody have a bit torrent link to the movie yet?
Must be the work of a hacker...
When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework.
Only a hacker would spell the like that.
Ohhh! Or even better yet! Have your site auto-post the articles text in a slashdot comment plus block the slashdot referer header for 24 hours! (patent pending)
Hmmm... what if a website admin did become a subscriber. Could they theoretically take the RSS feed to know when a new post was made, pull the article text, scan it for their domain and if their domain was linked to just have a script auto-block referers from slashdot for like 24 hours or so? Somebody less lazy than me might look into that. Then you could sell it for like $100! It'd be like paying the mob not to beat you up! But only if somebody affiliated with slashdot wrote it I guess.
...and I very well might be but..
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs
How does renting movies mess up the RIAA's plans?
Ruin the iTunes Music Store that's what. Maybe you don't like it from your noted reasons above. But for me it happens to work just dandy. I'm not going to argue any of your points because we both know neither of us will get anywhere (this is slashdot)... But myself and I'm certain numerous other people find the iTunes Music store a delight to have on their computer and use it frequently. That's what I hope he doesn't ruin for the rest of us.
It plainly states in his auction that he will accept US bidders only.
My only hope is he doesn't ruin the iTunes music store for the rest of us somehow.
... in the article.
$467 with Linux, $519 with Windows XP Home, or $589 for Windows XP Professional.
I had the same thing happen with Safari (on OS X of course). Open in new tab works just dandy (and is what I would probably do anyhow).
I've installed various distros of Linux (Redhat, Pogo?, and one other (maybe Slackware?)) and maybe it was just my total lack of patience but it seemed like I could get something to work on one distro and not on another. Graphics card would/wouldn't work, ethernet would/wouldn't work, sound would/wouldn't work. I actually started keeping a notebook around to write down the methods I got things to work. Sometimes it'd work again and sometimes it wouldn't.
Then once I got everything working I'd have to figure out which GUI(s) were installed on it. Sometimes they'd work and sometimes they wouldn't. Mostly due to video card issues I'm sure.
Then if I got the GUI to work I couldn't figure out head from tails how to get programs installed. Most everything that I downloaded it felt like I had to build or download from CVS or some weird junk like that.
Eventually I gave up on wasting my time and went back into Windows. Then my Windows machine bombed out (CPU overheated I think) so I scrapped it for parts and now am over joyously running Mac OS X. Yeah it's more expensive, yeah I *used* to have a one button mouse, yeah it looks like a lamp... whatever. I know I have a good and solid OS underneath all those fancy widgets (which is why I wanted to install Linux in the first place) and I have those fancy widgets (which is why I always went back to Windows). Everything works and to get applications installed I just copy them into a directory and voila! Yes on occassion some random freeware/shareware program doesn't work for some reason or another. But overall I think it's a good middle ground between Linux and Windows.
I'm not by any means knocking Linux. I know most a good 25% of the people here probably can get it to run in their sleep and I applaud you for it. But I just don't have the patience I suppose. It's not that I'm afraid of breaking something. It's just that after a weeks worth of trial and error it sorta makes you discouraged.
"Quick! Block port 80!"
Just out of curiosity (and possibly mildly off-topic) does anybody else find that their XBox is fairly noisy whilst watching DVD's? I've almost contemplated getting a dedicated DVD player for this reason. Unfortunately I don't have room the way my entertainment center is set up.
While I'm sitting there watching a movie at the theater I text all my friends vivid details of what's going on. It's almost like downloading the "cam" version off the internet anyhow... this just saves them all time...
*hangs his head and sticks out his arms ready for the cuffs*
I for one welcome our friendly worm overlords.
(although running OS X I care quite little except that both the good and bad eat up unnecessary bandwidth)
That sound is just millions of fanboys suddenly crying out in terror and suddenly being silenced.
I think SCO has taken this whole "free as in beer" thing way too far... the *only* rational I can see at this point is they are all really really drunk off free beer.