The school took advantage of a Microsoft effort called Fresh Start that offers free software upgrades for schools with donated computers, switching from Windows 98 to Windows 2000.
Even a ten-year-old would see this as a perfect opportunity to move to Linux.
Also there was some Japanese cartoon that accidentally caused seizures in som watchers and it was popular for a while for people to post clips of the offending scenes on their websites. Not much a hack.
It was Pokemon. But the reason may be different: since that episode was never aired in the US, I guess some people wanted to try their luck, "russian roulette lite".
It is getting harder and harder to find standard built pcs with ps/2; however, I always make sure I get one. No mushy rubber dome with fading sticky keys and too many buttons can ever replace my mid 80's model m space saver.
Unicomp makes keyboards with the same technology as the Model M, and now they have USB models too.
As far as I know, Macs didn't have a CLI before OS X. Well, except if you had a debugger installed, but that doesn't count. I mean a CLI that comes with the system.
Hey, it's not like religious people are all irrational! In fact, except for fanatics, it's like they have two brains - one to deal with day by day matters, and one for the church things. Which is a good thing, actually. But when you think about... well, it's quite a freakish notion.
I can make *anything* work if I want to but I don't have to put in the effort with the Mac.
Well, there's one thing I can't really do on my Mac (actually a hackintosh): scan with my old all-in-one. Blame HP, who didn't update the drivers for Leopard.
In any case, I wasn't talking about Apple's success as a function of Jobs overall performance, but rather about the claim that his being a jerk was the cause for Apple's success. What about Next? Wasn't he enough of a jerk there to be successful?
If the reasoning is: "Jobs' attitude results in commercial success", then something is wrong here.
But try an indirect route: "Jobs' attitude results in quality products, which make Apple commercially successful."
Maybe NeXT was too good for their own good; from what I read, they had some fantastic machines, but they also were far more expensive than any Mac or IBM-PC at the time. Then again, they were planned as workstations for higher education and business, not personal computers.
Back on the "Classic MacOS" days, I recall that Norton Utilities had a little app that would do precisely that -- two tiny colored icons on the menubar to show disk reading or writing. Pretty much pointless, but somehow cute.
Why should I buy something that, more likely than not, will be range-compressed shit?
For example, I once downloaded a Genesis compilation; I listened to some songs that I already knew from their 83 album, and immediately knew it wasn't the same thing. A quick comparison made it obvious: the new version was "squashed on the roof" -- much louder, muffled drums, too much bass, it sounded like something off a cassete tape.
It was so awful that I deleted the damn thing. I still wanted to know their early stuff, but not in this defaced form. So I downloaded the whole albums; but now the sound quality was really good. Even their earliest records, done over 30 years ago, sounded nice and crystalline.
Let me say it again: for that compilation, someone took those beautiful songs and deliberately made them sound like an old cassete tape. For what purpose? To make them "loud".
There's the problem. Everyone does it! The way record companies produce music nowadays, everything sounds so awful that I wouldn't want most of it for free. Yet they expect me to pay for it? Hell no! I used to buy a lot of music, but now every CD is a gamble and my chances are too slim. And I doubt I'm the only one who feels the same.
Fuck you very much, record labels. You have ruined your own product, now reap the consequences!
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Wooosh. ;)
Go back to producing music that is not overcompressed shit that sounds worse than an old cassete tape , and maybe, just maybe, I'll consider ever paying for music again.
Or maybe IT attracts people who think clearly and like precise, rational answers, rather than compromises or appeal to emotions?
Dhimmitude isn't really much of a protection, is it?
As far as I know, Macs didn't have a CLI before OS X. Well, except if you had a debugger installed, but that doesn't count. I mean a CLI that comes with the system.
Macs now have a command line now too. Have fun.
Hey, it's not like religious people are all irrational! In fact, except for fanatics, it's like they have two brains - one to deal with day by day matters, and one for the church things. Which is a good thing, actually. But when you think about... well, it's quite a freakish notion.
1 - put crapware on your new computer
2 - offer free crapware removal
3 - ???
4 - PROFIT!
Could be worse. At least you are not an hero.
Well, there's one thing I can't really do on my Mac (actually a hackintosh): scan with my old all-in-one. Blame HP, who didn't update the drivers for Leopard.
My workaround? Parallels + Windows XP.
If the reasoning is: "Jobs' attitude results in commercial success", then something is wrong here.
But try an indirect route: "Jobs' attitude results in quality products, which make Apple commercially successful."
Maybe NeXT was too good for their own good; from what I read, they had some fantastic machines, but they also were far more expensive than any Mac or IBM-PC at the time. Then again, they were planned as workstations for higher education and business, not personal computers.
If they are "Bush tax cuts for the wealthy", why repeal them -- just add some tax cuts for the poor too!
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
Back on the "Classic MacOS" days, I recall that Norton Utilities had a little app that would do precisely that -- two tiny colored icons on the menubar to show disk reading or writing. Pretty much pointless, but somehow cute.
Microsoft Weather - seems to be a very fine weather, but all of a sudden it may turn into a hailstorm.
Why should I buy something that, more likely than not, will be range-compressed shit?
For example, I once downloaded a Genesis compilation; I listened to some songs that I already knew from their 83 album, and immediately knew it wasn't the same thing. A quick comparison made it obvious: the new version was "squashed on the roof" -- much louder, muffled drums, too much bass, it sounded like something off a cassete tape.
Just a pic to compare: "Home By The Sea", original versus new version.
It was so awful that I deleted the damn thing. I still wanted to know their early stuff, but not in this defaced form. So I downloaded the whole albums; but now the sound quality was really good. Even their earliest records, done over 30 years ago, sounded nice and crystalline.
Let me say it again: for that compilation, someone took those beautiful songs and deliberately made them sound like an old cassete tape. For what purpose? To make them "loud".
There's the problem. Everyone does it! The way record companies produce music nowadays, everything sounds so awful that I wouldn't want most of it for free. Yet they expect me to pay for it? Hell no! I used to buy a lot of music, but now every CD is a gamble and my chances are too slim. And I doubt I'm the only one who feels the same.
Fuck you very much, record labels. You have ruined your own product, now reap the consequences!
Cut him some slack, will ya? The "tubes" analogy does make sense.
- http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1042
After actually playing Daikatana, I can honestly say... all the bashing is deserved. It is awful.
Ray casting != ray tracing
Agree. Break the magnetic tape, you can still put it together with a bit of adhesive tape. Break a flash memory, you have worthless pieces of silicon.