4. Merge with Nvidia, totally mess up the PC scene, it'll be fun:-)
(shudders) I can see the disclaimers and support lines for PC gaming now. Every game needing two versions to be built, directx versions dependant upon amd vs intel, it would be like the massive difference between graphics drivers now, but taken to the extreme. At least nvidia and intel both have decent levels of support for linux.
This is very true, and still true amongst non-Internet users as well. I have had some funny looks from luddites in the past when refering to Internet friends (though more often than not they are more sincerely curious about how one goes about making friends on the Internet)
I dont know, I live in London and have such a large local area that most of the time I dont know what is where. The Internet has helped out a lot, from casual browsing of online mapping services to see what is just outside the immediate area, to sites like up my street which lets me find any businesses near me. I have learned a lot more about my area from the Internet than I have by just going out and exploring (which I do fairly often as well).
Using drum patterns from Hydrogen is indeed useful and I use them along with dubbed recordings using Ardour which allows the usual multi-track recording, editing, etc. A requirement is the brilliant jackd audio connection kit which allows a crazy level of audio processing and manipulation. All in all, I have no need for anything other than linux when recording/dubbing music.
I wonder how many end-of-year tests are not going to be changed from saying '9 planets' this year, and how many schoolgoers will answer with the 8 due to their being exposed to the knowledge by TV. Certainly seems like the type of question that lazy administrators will ignore until next year so they dont have to re-print exam papers. Saying that, it will probably not be re-printed until textbooks are updated and replaced which could be a few years, giving another lost point to students who learn things outside of school.
Lord of the Flies lacked communication with the outside world which a mars populace would not have a problem with. Now having 7/8 minute latency when playing games on the Internet... that will be what destroys an early martian civilisation since it will be mainly made up of geeks and scientists.
I use webmail.us since they let me host domains elsewhere, http elsewhere and just forward the MX details on to their servers. Not had any problems yet but only been using them for 3 months. They have all the standard smtp/pop/imap/web access too.
As far as I understand it, the development environment is very similar to the gamecube, with the primary difference obviously being the input system. Nintendo have said a few times that developers can reuse a lot of their gamecube code because of this, and many gamecube to wii ports are planned to take advantage of the wii remote.
Indeed I run thunderbird from a memory stick but it is starting to take a while to process my mailboxes (around 4000 messages in each), and can be up to 10 seconds to load for the first time each day. Though I could always write a program to pre-cache I am lazy and will probably just get a better memory stick.
Where I was had a similar thing, and every dorm was on a firewalled subnet so there was no inter-dorm gaming either which sucked. In the end we had to make do with consoles in the community areas of the dorms which had nice big TVs so it was not a total loss and was more of a monkey ball party vibe than a serious LAN session vibe.
Freeserve is a name I have not heard since the.com boom and hoped I would not hear again.
That is great that privacy is protected provided you dont mind:
server logs
ISP logs
upstream proxy logs/cache
dns cache
any identifiable information you give out to websites
Nice idea for the 'hide-it-from-your-wife' crowd, but other than that not too much use for this, and not really anything that is not provided by extensions for existing browsers already.
rsync is also great fun if you put your source and destination the wrong way wrong as you get to sychronise an empty folder over your stuff. Not happened to me yet, but had some close calls. I am very glad that rsync is kind enough to included --dry-run as an option.
meanwhile somewhere on the outskirts of Tokyo, the head of Microsoft's XBOX division and the head of Nintendo's Wii division are shaking hands whilst laughing as their lackeys bolt the doors on a warehouse full to the roof with blue laser diodes.
I have to agree with the parent. I have a wide range of bulbs as I bought a random one every time an incadescent bulb died in our house. Some are mediocre with a dim period followed by a short (2 minute) warm up until full brightness is realised. Others are instantly on full brightness and you would not know they are cfls. There has been a decent amount of energy saved in our house, but the main reason I like them is it takes ages for them to die. The only one I have ever had to replace lasted about 7 years which beats climbing on chairs and ladders to swap out burnt bulbs every year or so.
I agree that N3 is a B-Grade game, but the XBOX360 does not really have too many turn-your-brain-off button mashers. I am fairly happy with the game as it allows a winding-down from playing something heavy and involved like oblivion and yet still maintains a sense of scale and grandeur. Although the 300 enemies pouring over the hill are the same you have faced before, it still feels good to use some of the orb moves and cut through them all. I think N3 is the type of game that you say you dont like, you dont recommend to anyone, but play more than you think you should.
More and more things are now XP only (battle for middle earth 2, nintendo wireless USB dongle, etc.) and I dont see the number of XP-only products falling any time soon. The vista-only software and hardware is bound to come sooner rather than later and I will do what I did before I had XP and simply ignore those restrictive bits of software and hardware until I eventually get a new computer with Vista bundled.
At last, a chance for a rejected ask slashdot of mine... What is the structure of your file storage area / file server? How do you filter and back things up for your home file server?
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(shudders) I can see the disclaimers and support lines for PC gaming now. Every game needing two versions to be built, directx versions dependant upon amd vs intel, it would be like the massive difference between graphics drivers now, but taken to the extreme. At least nvidia and intel both have decent levels of support for linux.
Since you will probably get a lot of crappy replies to your post, I feel I should make a public service announcement by showing Penny Arcade's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
This is very true, and still true amongst non-Internet users as well. I have had some funny looks from luddites in the past when refering to Internet friends (though more often than not they are more sincerely curious about how one goes about making friends on the Internet)
I dont know, I live in London and have such a large local area that most of the time I dont know what is where. The Internet has helped out a lot, from casual browsing of online mapping services to see what is just outside the immediate area, to sites like up my street which lets me find any businesses near me. I have learned a lot more about my area from the Internet than I have by just going out and exploring (which I do fairly often as well).
Using drum patterns from Hydrogen is indeed useful and I use them along with dubbed recordings using Ardour which allows the usual multi-track recording, editing, etc. A requirement is the brilliant jackd audio connection kit which allows a crazy level of audio processing and manipulation. All in all, I have no need for anything other than linux when recording/dubbing music.
I wonder how many end-of-year tests are not going to be changed from saying '9 planets' this year, and how many schoolgoers will answer with the 8 due to their being exposed to the knowledge by TV. Certainly seems like the type of question that lazy administrators will ignore until next year so they dont have to re-print exam papers. Saying that, it will probably not be re-printed until textbooks are updated and replaced which could be a few years, giving another lost point to students who learn things outside of school.
Lord of the Flies lacked communication with the outside world which a mars populace would not have a problem with. Now having 7/8 minute latency when playing games on the Internet... that will be what destroys an early martian civilisation since it will be mainly made up of geeks and scientists.
I use webmail.us since they let me host domains elsewhere, http elsewhere and just forward the MX details on to their servers. Not had any problems yet but only been using them for 3 months. They have all the standard smtp/pop/imap/web access too.
As far as I understand it, the development environment is very similar to the gamecube, with the primary difference obviously being the input system. Nintendo have said a few times that developers can reuse a lot of their gamecube code because of this, and many gamecube to wii ports are planned to take advantage of the wii remote.
time to build a lego bot that uses bluetooth to hunt down and destroy people's ringing cell phones. Yay technology!
Indeed, didnt we learn from the cinematic masterpiece WarGames that the only way to win is not to play? :)
Yeah, the motion detection and PSP Live! would have been great too. Ah well.
Indeed I run thunderbird from a memory stick but it is starting to take a while to process my mailboxes (around 4000 messages in each), and can be up to 10 seconds to load for the first time each day. Though I could always write a program to pre-cache I am lazy and will probably just get a better memory stick.
Samsung have a SSD HDD now, and I think it is available in some parts of the world (though not seen it myself yet so who knows).
Where I was had a similar thing, and every dorm was on a firewalled subnet so there was no inter-dorm gaming either which sucked. In the end we had to make do with consoles in the community areas of the dorms which had nice big TVs so it was not a total loss and was more of a monkey ball party vibe than a serious LAN session vibe.
Freeserve is a name I have not heard since the .com boom and hoped I would not hear again.
That is great that privacy is protected provided you dont mind:
server logs
ISP logs
upstream proxy logs/cache
dns cache
any identifiable information you give out to websites
Nice idea for the 'hide-it-from-your-wife' crowd, but other than that not too much use for this, and not really anything that is not provided by extensions for existing browsers already.
Probably beats firing by text-message though.
rsync is also great fun if you put your source and destination the wrong way wrong as you get to sychronise an empty folder over your stuff. Not happened to me yet, but had some close calls. I am very glad that rsync is kind enough to included --dry-run as an option.
Programming language handles file input, processing and output. News at 11.00.
Steal someone's identity.
meanwhile somewhere on the outskirts of Tokyo, the head of Microsoft's XBOX division and the head of Nintendo's Wii division are shaking hands whilst laughing as their lackeys bolt the doors on a warehouse full to the roof with blue laser diodes.
I have to agree with the parent. I have a wide range of bulbs as I bought a random one every time an incadescent bulb died in our house. Some are mediocre with a dim period followed by a short (2 minute) warm up until full brightness is realised. Others are instantly on full brightness and you would not know they are cfls. There has been a decent amount of energy saved in our house, but the main reason I like them is it takes ages for them to die. The only one I have ever had to replace lasted about 7 years which beats climbing on chairs and ladders to swap out burnt bulbs every year or so.
I agree that N3 is a B-Grade game, but the XBOX360 does not really have too many turn-your-brain-off button mashers. I am fairly happy with the game as it allows a winding-down from playing something heavy and involved like oblivion and yet still maintains a sense of scale and grandeur. Although the 300 enemies pouring over the hill are the same you have faced before, it still feels good to use some of the orb moves and cut through them all. I think N3 is the type of game that you say you dont like, you dont recommend to anyone, but play more than you think you should.
More and more things are now XP only (battle for middle earth 2, nintendo wireless USB dongle, etc.) and I dont see the number of XP-only products falling any time soon. The vista-only software and hardware is bound to come sooner rather than later and I will do what I did before I had XP and simply ignore those restrictive bits of software and hardware until I eventually get a new computer with Vista bundled.
At last, a chance for a rejected ask slashdot of mine... What is the structure of your file storage area / file server? How do you filter and back things up for your home file server?