Legacy was supposed to be released on December 5th but it sure has been hard to find. Starting on December 6th I started checking stores on a daily basis and nobody had any in stock until December 11th, at least not in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia. I can't wait to install it and play it.
Too bad about the cut story line, I like it when it seems like a movie sometimes. (Anyone remember Traffic Department 2192?)
I'll blame the 65% decrease in sales on the new version of iTunes which broke even the latest version of SharpMusique more than a year ago. SharpMusique was the successor to PyMusique. Both programs allowed you to purchase iTunes music from Linux without the use of a Windows emulator. On top of that, both programs didn't install DRM on your music (the iTunes program itself is what adds the DRM, all iTunes music is stored on their server without any DRM).
I bought a lot of music using SharpMusique but now... I guess Apple doesn't want my money anymore.
To most people, any of the files they used on computers before their first "IBM Compatible" is probably lost forever already. Think of how many files are "frozen" on 5.25" floppy disk for the Commodore 64 alone!
That dosen't have to be the case though, you can retrieve files from disks of hundreds of different 80's era computers on a modern PC using a Catweasel card. http://www.vesalia.de/e_catweaselmk4.htm
With the catweasel, a standard 5.25" PC floppy disk drive (hello, ebay), and a 3.5" PC floppy disk drive there's hardly a floppy disk you won't be able to retrieve your petrified files from.
Finding a program that can do anything with those files is another subject entirely.
Dude, you are so, like, behind the times. Everybody thats anybody knows the filthy rich white suburbanites play Battlefield 2142 now instead of that old Battlefield 2.
without habeas corpus, you can be seized and you have no ability to challenge the ruling; it doesn't matter that no court would ever affirm your arrest
I'm not even sure what I'm doing responding to this.
Sure "habeas corpus" is Latin for "You may have the body"... but in Legal jargon it refers to a "body of evidence" not an actual body or person.
Because we're doing such a bang-up job protecting speech in the US now!
Yeah yeah, I'm sure you were being sarcastic but you made such a perfect example of free speech. If you didn't have freedom of speech, you could be hunted down and killed for your little remark. Are you in fear right now of being hunted down and killed by the government for what you just said? Yeah... I thought not.
The poster missed past articles on Google Bombing. Certain tactics to affect pageranks are against Google's pagerank policy and Google has already been known to remove these pages.
Albeit, I've only seen them do it with advertisers and corporations.
Disclaimer: I have an insane number of machines. Meaning that I am probably insane.
There are lots and lots of possible reasons to upgrade from one operating system to another. I'm just going to lull on 2 of them: "New Hardware Support" and "Eye-Candy". I'm going to go all the way back to my first operating system that was stored on a hard-drive, Windows 3.0 on my IBM 386 massively huge tower (50MB HDD). I upgraded from Windows 3.0 to 3.1 as soon as I could because 3.1 made it so much easier to add Networking Cards, Modems (AOL 2.0 yeah! Oh wait, I mean BOOO! AOL SUCKS), CD-ROM's, and... SOUND CARDS!!!!!!!!
Naturally, when I upgraded to a 120MHz Pentium with a good 16MB of RAM and an jaw dropping 1.6GB HDD I got Windows 95 with it. Not only did Windows 95 have more eye candy than Windows 3.1 but it had better support and support for newer versions of everything mentioned before plus it added the possibility for adding 3D accelerators. I played Interplay's SpaceFleet Academy, StarCraft, Quake, Doom, Duke Nuke 3D all on that machine for the first time.
Following that I upgraded to Windows 98 with my 500MHz AMD K6-2, 64MB of RAM, and 10GB HDD!! Windows 98 only added a little bit of eye-candy and its new hardware support seems smaller but was very important - USB for the first time and vastly improved 3D accelerators like the TNT2 on which I played Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament for the first time.
I skipped over Windows 2000 and ME and went straight for Windows XP because I naturally had to have the newest thing when I built my computer based around an AthlonXP 2100+. XP added quite a bit of eye candy compared to Windows 98, especially when you tweaked it with "Style XP" but at first I didn't really notice any additional hardware support. (I'm pretty sure AGP video cards run just as well in Windows 98). Service Pack 1 finally added USB 2.0 support, even though my motherboard had USB 2.0 for months before Service Pack 1 came out (my USB 2.0 scanner, plugged into a USB 2.0 port stopped working when SP1 came out because I was using a USB 1.1 cable). Most of the games I played could also be run in Windows 98, although generally they were just easier to get running in Windows XP.
The next few years sort of blurr together: I discovered Linux and trampled through dozens of flavors and versions, appreciating them for their awesome eye candy and usually good hardware support. I also became part of a corporation and havn't had time for even 1 minute of video game play in over a month, and hardly have time to play with my toy computers
Now I run OpenSuSE 10.1 on my primary machine and experiment with some others like Gentoo and Ubutnu and Knoppix on some of my extra machines. I have WindowsXP on a standby machine for what I now refer to as "Legacy Apps" I discovered Windows 2000 can do anything Windows XP can except for Style XP so I have that on a few of my older machines. I've got Windows Server 2003 on my dual 550MHz Pentium 3 machine with a bunch of 10,000 RPM SCSI drives just for playing around. I need to put Windows 98 on a decent machine for really old "Legacy Apps" like the video game Star Trek Judgement Rights that won't run on XP or 2000. I physically swap 500MB HDD's on my 133MHz 486 (yeah, thats right... a 133MHz 486) with 64MB of RAM to switch between Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 - although thats mostly for playing. And finally, I also run Contiki on my Commodore 128 just so I can go onto IRC and say "Why yes, I am typing this from a Commodore 128".
Now about Windows Vista. Windows Vista has a TON of new eye candy over WindowsXP but I'm already getting that from Linux and I expect rapid improvements from what I've been seeing already. The only new hardware support I've noticed in Windows Vista is for DirectX 10. Not only are DirectX 10 cards way down the road but I don't have time for video games anymore because I'm a corporate drone. So I really don't have any time for Windows Vista besides the copies of Vista beta
"Herr" is just German for "Mister", so you effectively just called him "Mister Bush"... Sir, don't you realize that its considered proper to call the president "Mr. President" and not "Mr. Bush"?
If you were trying to imply some sort of nazism, you should have said something along the lines of "Sieg HEIL BUSH, MEIN FUHRER!"
oh, btw. Sieg Heil Bush, MEIN FUHRER!
I am seriously behind the times. I thought they still only had 42" LCD flat panels but I see that Fry's Electronics has 46" ones and damn they look nice.
Oh, I'm still also using a 2.1 megapixel camera that I bought 6 years ago for $300 and its pictures still look better than any of those 4 or 5 megapixel cameras they are selling for under $200... although some of those $400 ones really really blow it away. And I'm still using an MP3 CD "Soul Player", also 6 years old. It plays up to 320Kbit MP3's and WMA's, lasts 10 hours off a single pair of AA batteries and I can fit every album in MP3 format from almost any artist/band onto a single CD so thats good enough for me. Its hard to believe I was an "early adopter" when I got my HDTV, surround sound, digital camera, and Mp3 player but I had those things long before most people did and they're still good enough that I'm not too strongly tempted to become an early adopter again. Maybe its because I take too good care of my stuff. Maybe someday I'll get a 1080p TV, an Cannon EOS Digital Camera, and an iPod... or maybe I'll just wait until the next generation of kewl stuff and then YOU'LL be the one whining about how outdated your 1080p HDTV is.:-P
I have what I guess you could consider a first gen Hi-Def TV. Its a 52 inch rear projection Hitachi(not to be confused with those new LCD rear projections). It supports both 1080i and 540p. My hi-def cable box outputs 1080i for some channels and it looks crystal clear and my progressive scan DVD player which outputs 480p which is just as good to my eyes. However most channels, VHS players, and older DVD players all output 480i which does look like total crap (well, the DVD at 480i still blows away regular channels and VHS players).
When I go into stores and take a look at the TV's that sport 1080p they don't look much better, some look worse... much worse. Especially a lot of those lower-end brand LCD rear projections, they look much worse to me than my traditional rear projection Hitachi. I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon. I'll probably wait to see 50 inch and larger LCD flat panels with 1080p before I even consider it.
Plasmas are over-priced, wear out too fast, and get burn-in. LCD Rear Projection look comparitively bad. I think LCD flat panels are going to be what takes over once the sizes improve. So I'm happy with my 1080i/540p traditional rear projection and 5.1 surround sound for now.
Well, I know that if the Norweigen band Katthult is going to be one of the 3 million bands on MySpace Music then I'll be buying every album they offer because you can't buy their physical albums in the USA and I don't wanna buy them on iTunes.
Linksys is not the only company who has Draft-N. Netgear has the Rangemax Next (not to be confused with the original Rangemax or the Rangemax 240 which are like Belkin's pre-N but are not Draft-N - the N is really big on the box). Dlink also has Draft-N now as well as Belkin (not Belkin's pre-N, Belkin really has a Draft-N now). Linksys, Netgear, Dlink, and Belkin all have Draft-N.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 3G. This is not the kind of wireless internet you can get by hooking up your cell-phone to your laptop or using one of those little Laptop cards that lets you get internet anywhere there's a cellular signal.
This is about Local-Area wireless, commonly used to share a cable or DSL internet connection within a single home or business. With 802.n you can probably cover 20 of your neighbors homes too but going from "the beach to the city and out to the suburbs. - when passign through the city, will the buildings and more importantly the tunnels" is out of the question. This is LOCAL AREA WIRELESS.
If this petaflop supercomputer really only costs $9 million and only occupies the space of a large walk-in closet, why don't they mass-produce it and sell it. No, not to individuals but to corporations and governments. Folding@Home and Seti@Home could suddenly be like, sorry guys we don't need you anymore - we got something better. Having hundreds of copies of this super computer could quickly solve problems across the globe that much slower supercomputers are currently having trouble with!
I read that at first as "'Laser Tweezers' Used to Short Atoms" (like shorting a circuit), which in my opinion would have been a much more amazing accomplishment than sorting atoms.
Umm, no. The companies that own the blocks are NOT dead. They are alive, and perfectly capable of selling off some of their subnets if they chose.
Thats where you're wrong. A lot of the companies don't even exist anymore. The networks were assigned to them, not purchased by them.
That strikes the nail on the head. IPv6 isn't really because of a lack of IPv4 addresses its for new and future applications. There are so many IPv6 addresses available that it'll be cost effective to dedicate an address to things that would normally only have a local network address.
More than half the rooms in my house sit unoccupied. I suppose the government should step-in and "release" half my house, to slightly delay the problem.
A better analogy is if you owned a gigantic ware-house complex and then... died with no heirs, no relatives, no business partners, no debtors. Should the warehouse complex continue to be owned by a dead guy and abandoned or should it be resold by the government and used again?
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Legacy was supposed to be released on December 5th but it sure has been hard to find. Starting on December 6th I started checking stores on a daily basis and nobody had any in stock until December 11th, at least not in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia. I can't wait to install it and play it.
Too bad about the cut story line, I like it when it seems like a movie sometimes. (Anyone remember Traffic Department 2192?)
I'll blame the 65% decrease in sales on the new version of iTunes which broke even the latest version of SharpMusique more than a year ago. SharpMusique was the successor to PyMusique. Both programs allowed you to purchase iTunes music from Linux without the use of a Windows emulator. On top of that, both programs didn't install DRM on your music (the iTunes program itself is what adds the DRM, all iTunes music is stored on their server without any DRM).
I bought a lot of music using SharpMusique but now... I guess Apple doesn't want my money anymore.
All I can say is :-O
To most people, any of the files they used on computers before their first "IBM Compatible" is probably lost forever already. Think of how many files are "frozen" on 5.25" floppy disk for the Commodore 64 alone!
That dosen't have to be the case though, you can retrieve files from disks of hundreds of different 80's era computers on a modern PC using a Catweasel card. http://www.vesalia.de/e_catweaselmk4.htm
With the catweasel, a standard 5.25" PC floppy disk drive (hello, ebay), and a 3.5" PC floppy disk drive there's hardly a floppy disk you won't be able to retrieve your petrified files from.
Finding a program that can do anything with those files is another subject entirely.
Dude, you are so, like, behind the times. Everybody thats anybody knows the filthy rich white suburbanites play Battlefield 2142 now instead of that old Battlefield 2.
The prosecution for a frivolous lawsuit is calling the defense frivolous? Isn't that like the pot calling the sheet of white paper black?
Sure "habeas corpus" is Latin for "You may have the body"... but in Legal jargon it refers to a "body of evidence" not an actual body or person.
Yeah yeah, I'm sure you were being sarcastic but you made such a perfect example of free speech. If you didn't have freedom of speech, you could be hunted down and killed for your little remark. Are you in fear right now of being hunted down and killed by the government for what you just said? Yeah... I thought not.
The poster missed past articles on Google Bombing. Certain tactics to affect pageranks are against Google's pagerank policy and Google has already been known to remove these pages.
Albeit, I've only seen them do it with advertisers and corporations.
Its not long hair that I associate with femininity, its pony-tails.
Disclaimer: I have an insane number of machines. Meaning that I am probably insane.
There are lots and lots of possible reasons to upgrade from one operating system to another. I'm just going to lull on 2 of them: "New Hardware Support" and "Eye-Candy".
I'm going to go all the way back to my first operating system that was stored on a hard-drive, Windows 3.0 on my IBM 386 massively huge tower (50MB HDD). I upgraded from Windows 3.0 to 3.1 as soon as I could because 3.1 made it so much easier to add Networking Cards, Modems (AOL 2.0 yeah! Oh wait, I mean BOOO! AOL SUCKS), CD-ROM's, and... SOUND CARDS!!!!!!!!
Naturally, when I upgraded to a 120MHz Pentium with a good 16MB of RAM and an jaw dropping 1.6GB HDD I got Windows 95 with it. Not only did Windows 95 have more eye candy than Windows 3.1 but it had better support and support for newer versions of everything mentioned before plus it added the possibility for adding 3D accelerators. I played Interplay's SpaceFleet Academy, StarCraft, Quake, Doom, Duke Nuke 3D all on that machine for the first time.
Following that I upgraded to Windows 98 with my 500MHz AMD K6-2, 64MB of RAM, and 10GB HDD!! Windows 98 only added a little bit of eye-candy and its new hardware support seems smaller but was very important - USB for the first time and vastly improved 3D accelerators like the TNT2 on which I played Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament for the first time.
I skipped over Windows 2000 and ME and went straight for Windows XP because I naturally had to have the newest thing when I built my computer based around an AthlonXP 2100+. XP added quite a bit of eye candy compared to Windows 98, especially when you tweaked it with "Style XP" but at first I didn't really notice any additional hardware support. (I'm pretty sure AGP video cards run just as well in Windows 98). Service Pack 1 finally added USB 2.0 support, even though my motherboard had USB 2.0 for months before Service Pack 1 came out (my USB 2.0 scanner, plugged into a USB 2.0 port stopped working when SP1 came out because I was using a USB 1.1 cable). Most of the games I played could also be run in Windows 98, although generally they were just easier to get running in Windows XP.
The next few years sort of blurr together: I discovered Linux and trampled through dozens of flavors and versions, appreciating them for their awesome eye candy and usually good hardware support. I also became part of a corporation and havn't had time for even 1 minute of video game play in over a month, and hardly have time to play with my toy computers
Now I run OpenSuSE 10.1 on my primary machine and experiment with some others like Gentoo and Ubutnu and Knoppix on some of my extra machines.
I have WindowsXP on a standby machine for what I now refer to as "Legacy Apps"
I discovered Windows 2000 can do anything Windows XP can except for Style XP so I have that on a few of my older machines.
I've got Windows Server 2003 on my dual 550MHz Pentium 3 machine with a bunch of 10,000 RPM SCSI drives just for playing around.
I need to put Windows 98 on a decent machine for really old "Legacy Apps" like the video game Star Trek Judgement Rights that won't run on XP or 2000.
I physically swap 500MB HDD's on my 133MHz 486 (yeah, thats right... a 133MHz 486) with 64MB of RAM to switch between Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 - although thats mostly for playing.
And finally, I also run Contiki on my Commodore 128 just so I can go onto IRC and say "Why yes, I am typing this from a Commodore 128".
Now about Windows Vista. Windows Vista has a TON of new eye candy over WindowsXP but I'm already getting that from Linux and I expect rapid improvements from what I've been seeing already. The only new hardware support I've noticed in Windows Vista is for DirectX 10. Not only are DirectX 10 cards way down the road but I don't have time for video games anymore because I'm a corporate drone. So I really don't have any time for Windows Vista besides the copies of Vista beta
I thought they were trying to make them look more masculine. The hair on the new one looks a lot more feminine than the old one to me!
"Herr" is just German for "Mister", so you effectively just called him "Mister Bush"... Sir, don't you realize that its considered proper to call the president "Mr. President" and not "Mr. Bush"? If you were trying to imply some sort of nazism, you should have said something along the lines of "Sieg HEIL BUSH, MEIN FUHRER!" oh, btw. Sieg Heil Bush, MEIN FUHRER!
The way they described the soft tissue, it sounds like beef jerky.
Mmmm, T-Rex Jerky. I wonder if I can get it Hickory Smoked.
I am seriously behind the times. I thought they still only had 42" LCD flat panels but I see that Fry's Electronics has 46" ones and damn they look nice. Oh, I'm still also using a 2.1 megapixel camera that I bought 6 years ago for $300 and its pictures still look better than any of those 4 or 5 megapixel cameras they are selling for under $200... although some of those $400 ones really really blow it away. And I'm still using an MP3 CD "Soul Player", also 6 years old. It plays up to 320Kbit MP3's and WMA's, lasts 10 hours off a single pair of AA batteries and I can fit every album in MP3 format from almost any artist/band onto a single CD so thats good enough for me. Its hard to believe I was an "early adopter" when I got my HDTV, surround sound, digital camera, and Mp3 player but I had those things long before most people did and they're still good enough that I'm not too strongly tempted to become an early adopter again. Maybe its because I take too good care of my stuff. Maybe someday I'll get a 1080p TV, an Cannon EOS Digital Camera, and an iPod... or maybe I'll just wait until the next generation of kewl stuff and then YOU'LL be the one whining about how outdated your 1080p HDTV is. :-P
I have what I guess you could consider a first gen Hi-Def TV. Its a 52 inch rear projection Hitachi(not to be confused with those new LCD rear projections). It supports both 1080i and 540p. My hi-def cable box outputs 1080i for some channels and it looks crystal clear and my progressive scan DVD player which outputs 480p which is just as good to my eyes. However most channels, VHS players, and older DVD players all output 480i which does look like total crap (well, the DVD at 480i still blows away regular channels and VHS players).
When I go into stores and take a look at the TV's that sport 1080p they don't look much better, some look worse... much worse. Especially a lot of those lower-end brand LCD rear projections, they look much worse to me than my traditional rear projection Hitachi. I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon. I'll probably wait to see 50 inch and larger LCD flat panels with 1080p before I even consider it.
Plasmas are over-priced, wear out too fast, and get burn-in. LCD Rear Projection look comparitively bad. I think LCD flat panels are going to be what takes over once the sizes improve. So I'm happy with my 1080i/540p traditional rear projection and 5.1 surround sound for now.
Well, I know that if the Norweigen band Katthult is going to be one of the 3 million bands on MySpace Music then I'll be buying every album they offer because you can't buy their physical albums in the USA and I don't wanna buy them on iTunes.
Follow up: You can buy all 4 brands mentioned at Fry's Electronics.
Linksys is not the only company who has Draft-N. Netgear has the Rangemax Next (not to be confused with the original Rangemax or the Rangemax 240 which are like Belkin's pre-N but are not Draft-N - the N is really big on the box). Dlink also has Draft-N now as well as Belkin (not Belkin's pre-N, Belkin really has a Draft-N now). Linksys, Netgear, Dlink, and Belkin all have Draft-N.
In layman's terms:
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 3G. This is not the kind of wireless internet you can get by hooking up your cell-phone to your laptop or using one of those little Laptop cards that lets you get internet anywhere there's a cellular signal.
This is about Local-Area wireless, commonly used to share a cable or DSL internet connection within a single home or business. With 802.n you can probably cover 20 of your neighbors homes too but going from "the beach to the city and out to the suburbs. - when passign through the city, will the buildings and more importantly the tunnels" is out of the question. This is LOCAL AREA WIRELESS.
If this petaflop supercomputer really only costs $9 million and only occupies the space of a large walk-in closet, why don't they mass-produce it and sell it. No, not to individuals but to corporations and governments. Folding@Home and Seti@Home could suddenly be like, sorry guys we don't need you anymore - we got something better. Having hundreds of copies of this super computer could quickly solve problems across the globe that much slower supercomputers are currently having trouble with!
I read that at first as "'Laser Tweezers' Used to Short Atoms" (like shorting a circuit), which in my opinion would have been a much more amazing accomplishment than sorting atoms.
Umm, no. The companies that own the blocks are NOT dead. They are alive, and perfectly capable of selling off some of their subnets if they chose. Thats where you're wrong. A lot of the companies don't even exist anymore. The networks were assigned to them, not purchased by them.
That strikes the nail on the head. IPv6 isn't really because of a lack of IPv4 addresses its for new and future applications. There are so many IPv6 addresses available that it'll be cost effective to dedicate an address to things that would normally only have a local network address.
More than half the rooms in my house sit unoccupied. I suppose the government should step-in and "release" half my house, to slightly delay the problem. A better analogy is if you owned a gigantic ware-house complex and then ... died with no heirs, no relatives, no business partners, no debtors. Should the warehouse complex continue to be owned by a dead guy and abandoned or should it be resold by the government and used again?