My good old Nokia 1100
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The 1100 is cheap, small, reliable, nice-looking, easy to use - and an easy to replace, dirt cheap changeable cover protects the lcd display. Guess it's kinda old and low tech by now, but it's working really well, so no complains on the phone part of the phone.
The built-in games, however... Snake II is nothing special, and Space Impact must be the shittiest Moon Patrol wannabe ever. Tetris would have been much better. Still, a good phone.
They used to spread FUD that at least sounded vaguely realistic. But this is so far-fetched, I think it gives the term a new meaning: Fucking Utterly DESPERATE.
If your old iMac came with OS9, I'm not surprised. That was terribly unstable. If she had used OSX - especially 10.3 or later - now that'd be surprising.
Virtual Boy was not VR, it just had a weird 3D effect. Now, have you ever played with a serious VR machine, like those arcades by (now defunct) Virtuality Inc.? They were pretty good, back in the early 1990s... now, a VR machine with today's technology would kick serious ass!
> Due to bundling of IE a superior, more > secure and free product is not able to > get even a 10% share.
Oh, come on. The bundling thing is nasty, but IE actually got better - not great by any means, but it has improved - while Netscape became bloated, slow, and unstable (NS6, anyone?!). Mosaic has died a long time ago. Opera kicks ass, but it's not free. This may sound heretic to some, but the truth is: for some time, IE was the best browser one could get (without paying).
Maybe the tide will turn now, with new browsers like Firefox and Safari - slim, fast, rock-solid, and free.
Both are very bloated. Truth be told, most software nowadays is much bigger than whatever was their equivalent back in the 1990s. That's why I like Write and Calc, by Mariner Software for Macintosh.
They are fast, lean, powerful, ellegant, and really damn rock-solid alternatives to those, uh, slightly overweight programs of debatable reliability. And much cheaper than Microsoft's stuff too. Not as cheap as OpenOffice, sure, but this much quality deserves a reward. So, say to to bloatware, try Mariner's stuff! But first, compare these:
Rather than worrying so much about WMDs and other minutiae, one should pay more attention to a moral and philosophical principle that vindicates this course of actions. These words remains as true now as when they were first published, back in 1963...
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The right of "the self-determination of nations" applies only to free societies or to societies seeking to establish freedom; it does not apply to dictatorships. Just as an individual's right of free action does not include the "right" to commit crimes (that is, to violate the rights of others), so the right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave."A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right.
It does not matter, in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force, like Soviet Russia, or by vote, like Nazi Germany. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Whether a slave society was conquered or chose to be enslaved, it can claim no national rights and no recognition of such "rights" by civilized countries - just as a mob of gangsters cannot demand a recognition of its "rights" and a legal equality with an industrial concern or a university, on the ground that the gangsters chose by unanimous vote to engage in that particular kind of group activity.
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent "rights" of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.
This right, however, is conditional. Just as the suppression of crimes does not give a policeman the right to engage in criminal activities, so the invasion and destruction of a dictatorship does not give the invader the right to establish another variant of a slave society in the conquered country.
> The reason I buy CDs is because the music > I listen to is hard to find on the net.
On the other hand, some of the music I listen to - old videogame soundtracks - is easy to find on the net and almost impossible to find in stores. Fuck, I can't even find Chris Isaak or The Bolshoi albums around here!
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The 1100 is cheap, small, reliable, nice-looking, easy to use - and an easy to replace, dirt cheap changeable cover protects the lcd display. Guess it's kinda old and low tech by now, but it's working really well, so no complains on the phone part of the phone.
The built-in games, however... Snake II is nothing special, and Space Impact must be the shittiest Moon Patrol wannabe ever. Tetris would have been much better. Still, a good phone.
They did, but the new thing is as full of security holes as the old one.
if it was THAT quick, what'd have been the difference? By the time the ambulance had arrived, wouldn't the child be already dead anyway?
They used to spread FUD that at least sounded vaguely realistic. But this is so far-fetched, I think it gives the term a new meaning: Fucking Utterly DESPERATE.
If your old iMac came with OS9, I'm not surprised. That was terribly unstable. If she had used OSX - especially 10.3 or later - now that'd be surprising.
Virtual Boy was not VR, it just had a weird 3D effect. Now, have you ever played with a serious VR machine, like those arcades by (now defunct) Virtuality Inc.? They were pretty good, back in the early 1990s... now, a VR machine with today's technology would kick serious ass!
It's fake. But if it were real, who would NOT buy one?
Playstation? Eww. Stay away, inferior race! Mine is a pure-breed Nintendo lineage!
Harry Potter is a stupid, sissified TIM HUNTER RIP-OFF!!!
No way, man! Use Apple's own browser, Safari!
> Due to bundling of IE a superior, more
> secure and free product is not able to
> get even a 10% share.
Oh, come on. The bundling thing is nasty, but IE actually got better - not great by any means, but it has improved - while Netscape became bloated, slow, and unstable (NS6, anyone?!). Mosaic has died a long time ago. Opera kicks ass, but it's not free. This may sound heretic to some, but the truth is: for some time, IE was the best browser one could get (without paying).
Maybe the tide will turn now, with new browsers like Firefox and Safari - slim, fast, rock-solid, and free.
But he IS married - ever heard of Ms. Pac Man?
Dude, you're getting Red Hat!
...Stan Lee sues Microsoft.
Both are very bloated. Truth be told, most software nowadays is much bigger than whatever was their equivalent back in the 1990s. That's why I like Write and Calc, by Mariner Software for Macintosh.
.... $ 229 .... $ 229 .... $ 399
.... $ 59.95 .... 59.95 .... $ 89.95
They are fast, lean, powerful, ellegant, and really damn rock-solid alternatives to those, uh, slightly overweight programs of debatable reliability. And much cheaper than Microsoft's stuff too. Not as cheap as OpenOffice, sure, but this much quality deserves a reward. So, say to to bloatware, try Mariner's stuff! But first, compare these:
Microsoft:
Word 2004
PPoint 2004
Office 2004
Mariner:
Write
Calc
MarinerPak (Write + Calc)
> Microsoft has one of the best R&D labs.
Yes, it is called "Apple".
Rather than worrying so much about WMDs and other minutiae, one should pay more attention to a moral and philosophical principle that vindicates this course of actions. These words remains as true now as when they were first published, back in 1963...
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The right of "the self-determination of nations" applies only to free societies or to societies seeking to establish freedom; it does not apply to dictatorships. Just as an individual's right of free action does not include the "right" to commit crimes (that is, to violate the rights of others), so the right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave."A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right.
It does not matter, in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force, like Soviet Russia, or by vote, like Nazi Germany. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Whether a slave society was conquered or chose to be enslaved, it can claim no national rights and no recognition of such "rights" by civilized countries - just as a mob of gangsters cannot demand a recognition of its "rights" and a legal equality with an industrial concern or a university, on the ground that the gangsters chose by unanimous vote to engage in that particular kind of group activity.
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent "rights" of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.
This right, however, is conditional. Just as the suppression of crimes does not give a policeman the right to engage in criminal activities, so the invasion and destruction of a dictatorship does not give the invader the right to establish another variant of a slave society in the conquered country.
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from Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness"
> "His password will be hard to crack but
> I think I can do it." (five seconds pass)
> "Yeah, I got in." Was it "password" by any
> chance?
It could have been: "1 2 3 4 5" (the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage).
...would love to see Jar Jar Binks' death scene.
First, try to do that with your software. Then, we'll talk cars.
So THAT's why Acquisition is so damn slow, it's as slow as Limewire. I use Poisoned instead!
Slackware could be a reference to the pursuit of Slack, the central belief of the Church of the Subgenius.
If you mean the Christ the Redemeer statue , it is not a cross, he just has his arms open wide.
> The reason I buy CDs is because the music
> I listen to is hard to find on the net.
On the other hand, some of the music I listen to - old videogame soundtracks - is easy to find on the net and almost impossible to find in stores. Fuck, I can't even find Chris Isaak or The Bolshoi albums around here!
...they voided the computers' warranties.