Although, I might not be much help. But I have the exact same scanner and, well... see the exact same error. Actually, I think my error says ":000:003:" where yours says "000:002".
In the credits to Road Rage, the Comic Book Guy says "Worst. Video Game. Ever !".
I actually think that I can name *several* games which are much worse ( those godawful "pacman world" games come to mind ), Road Rage is neither the best nor worst PS2 game I own. I'm just happy that it's a game my two-year-old can play without any 'actual' violence ( although you can run over the characters, they go flying and aren't hurt ). That and probably several other differences exist between the two games in this lawsuit.
Prediction? It'll settle out of court. That's probably what Sega is counting on here, actually.
When I was your age, we loaded programs onto our computers using cassette tapes.
oooh, that hurt.
I'm still not as old as the punchcard guy, though.
But, dude, thanks to South Park, everyone will always know who Robert Smith is. Morrissey, on the other hand, always was and always will be the idol of a smaller cult following.
Dude, you had Pascal ? Under what OS ? You're too young to be talking about being old...
Is there any advice for a Mac n00b on what to look for? I am coming from Linux and am mostly interested in a machine I can let the kids play games on. I may stick to windows if that is my only choice, but I would like to know what you guys do to keep your kids happy? and do the Disney games run on Mac since they are mostly Flash based?
What to look for depends on what you need/want/can afford. How old are the kids? Could you trust them not to destroy that nice iMac flat screen ( although honestly, it's pretty tough, my two-year-old hasn't damaged mine yet )? Or do you need a CRT? Or do you have a CRT and/or a tight budget? These questions would need to be answered before anyone could tell you to get an eMac, iMac or PowerMac. Get yourself and maybe your kids to an Apple Store, you'll figure it out.
In my experience, Linux users who would even consider Apple hardware absolutely love OS X once they wrap their heads around what's going on.
Obviously you'll have to check out the system requirements of those games yourself, but I've found almost all web-based Flash and Shockwave content works fantastically on OS X these days, Macromedia has been good about supporting the platform, especially over the past year.
Of course, I'd want to get a dual 2.0Ghz G5 PowerMac myself, although that would be overkill for even my own digital video editing use, let alone my two-year-old's games... not that overkill is a bad thing. It's extra-nice that I can easily set up the kid's login account so he can't destroy the machine or launch some of the more violent games.
actually, one of our IT guys has taken to carrying around software install packages on his iPod. He has gone so far as to set it up so he can boot OS X from it- apparently, it wasn't so difficult to do.
not interesting. mod parent down.
The first version of iTunes for Windows released had a bug which caused some Win2k machines to crash. I bet that's the first time any first-release windows software had a problem like that. There's an update which fixes that problem anyway ( I think it was out about a week after the first version ).
The issue isn't with new, Windows-compatible iPods, it's with old, first-generation Macintosh-only iPods that you have no business hooking to a PC anyway. Duh.
I'm looking for the report where a Windows-compatible iPod is broken by iTunes... none? No? Why is this article posted? This guy needs to re-install the last iPod firmware update and remember not to try that again, end of story.
Very little at Apple actually happens without a report in this "RadarWeb" bug tracking system of theirs. Think about it- this is how actual engineers have actual tasks/problems assigned to them, except maybe when Steve says "make it so".
Of course, as you're perfectly aware, you broke your Macintosh-only iPod while trying to use it on a PC, something you were rather clearly warned against doing when you bought the device. Did you complain to Sony because your Betamax tape player was screwed up by a VHS tape, too?
So why are you complaining about it on Slashdot, anyway ?
I'm willing to bet you could fix the problem by installing the most recent iPod firmware update, if you were willing to try that and weren't just trolling.
I'm going to guess two things after reading this latest article by Mr. Lyons:
1) Daniel had to face some of the criticism generated by his previous articles, and recognize that criticism as legitimate. Maybe one of his editors caught wind of what was going on and had to have a talk with him. While the top brass at Forbes are obviously pro-business, they don't want to be seen as biased or ( worse ) unable to comprehend current technology issues.
2) He's woken up to the fact that SCO has used him as a mouthpiece in the past, and realized they're trying to do so again. Perhaps he is understandably bitter about that. Good. Maybe he'll be more careful in the future.
To me, he'll always be the idiot who wrote an article about the FSF's lawyers being hit-men without having actually bothered to understand the GPL or research what the FSF's lawyers do. It's nice to see he can learn, though...
Going all solar or all wind, for example, means clearing a lot of land that might otherwise be natural wilderness. It's hard to say that's better than a coal-fired plant, and I know I personally feel that it's worse than a nuclear power plant.
I'll have to assume you've never seen the results of uranium mining, nor assessed the contamination experienced by people living near such mines or related processing facilities.
Have you purposely avoided learning about the realities of nuclear power production and mining, or are you just a hypocrite yourself ?
anyone want to explain why that post might remotely be considered flamebait? A previous post asks the same question ( and answers that yes, the difference is due to an exchange rate ), but it's not modded down, what gives?
Is it because I have no idea what the Australian currency is, and thus characterize it as wacky ?
I'm starting to understand some of the complaints about the moderation around here... rather than trolling, I really did want to know if the issue was one of currency conversion.
Even so, I'll stand by the view that the article should stick to ONE currency, either quote $US everywhere, or convert the MS player "suggested" 2004 price to Australian currency. To do otherwise seems designed to favor one or the other of the two amounts, which are ultimately there to be compared. Thus, I call shenanigans, the AIT article is an example of either bias toward the MS player, or an example of bad reporting. And it's hard for me to see that point as flamebait.
Are the dollar quotes in this article some sort of wacky Aussie currency, or is the reporting just really, really bad?
At the end of the article, they say iPods are $529 to $799... other dollar quotes in the story say $US and these last quotes leave out the US... is that what's going on?? Strike anyone else as odd ?
Want to bet that low-end iPod is $249 ( or less ) by the time these MS players actually ship? Competition is good.
The above page has pictures taken in places like Georgia, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas... some *great* views in Colorado, too. Alaska? The entire sky was green and red last night.
It was too windy here ( SF bay area ) for me to have ventured out last night. Ok, I admit, I forgot to look. My view to the north sucks anyway.
I had thought I was going to start my own thread, but RickL makes exactly the point I was going to make.
If you work overtime and don't get paid for it, that is a mistake. Don't do that. If your boss tells you that you are 'exempt', you should make sure you actually qualify.
I don't work over 40 hours a week, and if I do, I take time off in the following week. I'm not legally an Exempt employee. My boss would like to consider me exempt from overtime, and generally treats me as exempt in that he doesn't want to *ever* pay overtime. But I am not paid over $80,000 per year, and by the law of the state of California, where I live and work, as a computer programmer I can not therefore be considered exempt. I am protecting my boss by not working more than 40 hours a week.
I *could* work overtime, but that'd be my decision, and my boss can't legally ask me to do so without paying overtime. If your boss asks you to work overtime, they either have to pay overtime ( time and a half, folks! ) or worry about a lawsuit- unless you are actually technically an 'exempt' employee. In CA, you'd better make over $80k as a programmer, the law is *very* explicit. My boss has never asked me to work overtime or mentioned that I only work 40 hours per week, or I'd point this out to him ( a raise would be nice! ). If he subsequently fired me, there'd be a wrongful termination lawsuit which I'd likely win.
If all you working fools would stop letting employers take advantage of you, they wouldn't expect to be able to do so. The law is on the side of the employee in this one case. People who work overtime without compensation are either ignorant of the law or don't value their own time, as far as I can tell.
If I had more free time, I'd just blow it playing Vice City anyway. 40 hours a week is no problem. My time is already my own.
I've confirmed, with the help of a co-worker's browser cache, that Apple changed thier web page since I first posted about this! It now says "Velocity Engine" in the iBook page as well, on the first paragraph no less!!
Too funny! I'm glad to learn that the omission was a mistake!!
Sorry for the false alarm guys, the words "Velocity Engine" are on the iBook pages ( at least, they are now ), they just weren't where I expected to see them and I missed it.
If you look at the "Technical Specifications" page for the new iBooks, you'll notice there is NO mention of the "Velocity Engine". Same for the new "G4" eMac.
Any other Technical Specifications page for any other "G4" Apple offers, they say "with Velocity Engine".
I am afraid the iBook and eMac may not *have* a "Velocity Engine", or Apple would advertise it, wouldn't they ? These might be IBM chips, but they are not IBM chips with "Altivec". They may be "G4" in name only, i.e. we're marketing guys, we're willing to call it "G4" just because it's over 800 Mhz... this totally sucks if it's the case. I hope I'm wrong and Apple updates the Tech Specs to include mention of Velocity Engine, but I am afraid that Apple might have just stooped to the level of other hardware companies here.
1GHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine, 512K SRAM on-chip L2 cache, 133MHz system bus (12-inch models)
Why do the iBook specs leave out the "Velocity Engine" reference?
Maybe because it's not there. If it was there, Apple would market as being there. As much as I really am a fan of Apple, this was a bad move by their marketing folks.
So there is a reason why you might want to still consider that PowerBook G4. Personally, I don't care how fast it is, if it doesn't have a "Velocity Engine", Apple shouldn't call it a G4. It *is* misleading. Sure, Dell or IBM would do the same, but I do in fact expect more from Apple.
There is a lot of speculation about what chip is really in these machines, since the cache size is different from the PowerBook line, which *does* use the Motorola "G4".
The IBM chips are fast ( if not faster ), cheaper, and since they include and Altivec unit, the G3/G4 distinction is more than a little blurry where the "G3" IBM chips are compared to "G4" Motorola chips.
Which speaks volumes about Motorola. Too bad, it was once a good company...
Interestingly enough, I just noticed a post which states as fact that this is the IBM chip. Too bad there's no reference to back up that claim. I wonder if it's true.
Whenever you mount a CD-ROM drive, a harddisk or a floppy drive, be sure to use the wrong type of screw; use the small ones for the harddisk and the big ones for the CD-ROM and floppy drive.
after I realized they weren't talking about "/sbin/mount" , I became *really* confused.
They're talking about PC hardware, right?
pops open case, checks inside
Aren't you suppose to have a SCSI drive just sitting loose in the bottom of your case? That's where mine has been for a couple of years now...
We have two windows machines in our office, neither of which are on an employee's desk.
We used to run a Linux file and command-line application server, relying on netatalk. That's all on OS X Server now, and so many little issues are now gone. Our extremely small IT department actually has time to write end-user applications, while we sit around and laugh about all the SoBig virus email we see.
The Windows machines seem to be able to network with our OS X server just fine, though they are a bit tougher to admin than our other systems.
I did not install the original update, and was repeating something someone else told me ( which is why I used '~' for the smaller number, but new for sure the 40.6MB number ).
Please be gentle. This is the first time I've submitted a story. I wasn't even aware that everything would be on one line, or I'd have made the story more concise.
On the other hand, you're going to give me a hard time for a little 100k difference? Admit it, you love to nitpick !
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Boy do I want to talk to you.
Although, I might not be much help. But I have the exact same scanner and, well... see the exact same error. Actually, I think my error says ":000:003:" where yours says "000:002".
In the credits to Road Rage, the Comic Book Guy says "Worst. Video Game. Ever !".
I actually think that I can name *several* games which are much worse ( those godawful "pacman world" games come to mind ), Road Rage is neither the best nor worst PS2 game I own. I'm just happy that it's a game my two-year-old can play without any 'actual' violence ( although you can run over the characters, they go flying and aren't hurt ). That and probably several other differences exist between the two games in this lawsuit.
Prediction? It'll settle out of court. That's probably what Sega is counting on here, actually.
oooh, that hurt.
I'm still not as old as the punchcard guy, though.
But, dude, thanks to South Park, everyone will always know who Robert Smith is. Morrissey, on the other hand, always was and always will be the idol of a smaller cult following.
Dude, you had Pascal ? Under what OS ? You're too young to be talking about being old...
Nurse : Hi, I'm here to inject you with some sythentic Ebola virus.
Volunteer : Uh... how much am I getting paid for this study ? Maybe I can get a job flipping burgers...
I mean, really, are YOU going to volunteer ?
Perhaps they _were_ working on this type of thing, or have reason to believe he used company resources to make the product ?
What to look for depends on what you need/want/can afford. How old are the kids? Could you trust them not to destroy that nice iMac flat screen ( although honestly, it's pretty tough, my two-year-old hasn't damaged mine yet )? Or do you need a CRT? Or do you have a CRT and/or a tight budget? These questions would need to be answered before anyone could tell you to get an eMac, iMac or PowerMac. Get yourself and maybe your kids to an Apple Store, you'll figure it out.
In my experience, Linux users who would even consider Apple hardware absolutely love OS X once they wrap their heads around what's going on.
Obviously you'll have to check out the system requirements of those games yourself, but I've found almost all web-based Flash and Shockwave content works fantastically on OS X these days, Macromedia has been good about supporting the platform, especially over the past year.
Of course, I'd want to get a dual 2.0Ghz G5 PowerMac myself, although that would be overkill for even my own digital video editing use, let alone my two-year-old's games... not that overkill is a bad thing. It's extra-nice that I can easily set up the kid's login account so he can't destroy the machine or launch some of the more violent games.
OK. thanks for writing the response I *wanted* to write. That was pretty funny.
actually, one of our IT guys has taken to carrying around software install packages on his iPod. He has gone so far as to set it up so he can boot OS X from it- apparently, it wasn't so difficult to do.
not interesting. mod parent down. The first version of iTunes for Windows released had a bug which caused some Win2k machines to crash. I bet that's the first time any first-release windows software had a problem like that. There's an update which fixes that problem anyway ( I think it was out about a week after the first version ). The issue isn't with new, Windows-compatible iPods, it's with old, first-generation Macintosh-only iPods that you have no business hooking to a PC anyway. Duh. I'm looking for the report where a Windows-compatible iPod is broken by iTunes... none? No? Why is this article posted? This guy needs to re-install the last iPod firmware update and remember not to try that again, end of story.
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Very little at Apple actually happens without a report in this "RadarWeb" bug tracking system of theirs. Think about it- this is how actual engineers have actual tasks/problems assigned to them, except maybe when Steve says "make it so".
Of course, as you're perfectly aware, you broke your Macintosh-only iPod while trying to use it on a PC, something you were rather clearly warned against doing when you bought the device. Did you complain to Sony because your Betamax tape player was screwed up by a VHS tape, too?
So why are you complaining about it on Slashdot, anyway ?
I'm willing to bet you could fix the problem by installing the most recent iPod firmware update, if you were willing to try that and weren't just trolling.
I'm going to guess two things after reading this latest article by Mr. Lyons :
1) Daniel had to face some of the criticism generated by his previous articles, and recognize that criticism as legitimate. Maybe one of his editors caught wind of what was going on and had to have a talk with him. While the top brass at Forbes are obviously pro-business, they don't want to be seen as biased or ( worse ) unable to comprehend current technology issues.
2) He's woken up to the fact that SCO has used him as a mouthpiece in the past, and realized they're trying to do so again. Perhaps he is understandably bitter about that. Good. Maybe he'll be more careful in the future.
To me, he'll always be the idiot who wrote an article about the FSF's lawyers being hit-men without having actually bothered to understand the GPL or research what the FSF's lawyers do. It's nice to see he can learn, though...
I'll have to assume you've never seen the results of uranium mining, nor assessed the contamination experienced by people living near such mines or related processing facilities.
Have you purposely avoided learning about the realities of nuclear power production and mining, or are you just a hypocrite yourself ?
anyone want to explain why that post might remotely be considered flamebait? A previous post asks the same question ( and answers that yes, the difference is due to an exchange rate ), but it's not modded down, what gives?
Is it because I have no idea what the Australian currency is, and thus characterize it as wacky ?
I'm starting to understand some of the complaints about the moderation around here... rather than trolling, I really did want to know if the issue was one of currency conversion.
Even so, I'll stand by the view that the article should stick to ONE currency, either quote $US everywhere, or convert the MS player "suggested" 2004 price to Australian currency. To do otherwise seems designed to favor one or the other of the two amounts, which are ultimately there to be compared. Thus, I call shenanigans, the AIT article is an example of either bias toward the MS player, or an example of bad reporting. And it's hard for me to see that point as flamebait.
At the end of the article, they say iPods are $529 to $799... other dollar quotes in the story say $US and these last quotes leave out the US... is that what's going on?? Strike anyone else as odd ?
Want to bet that low-end iPod is $249 ( or less ) by the time these MS players actually ship? Competition is good.
Aurora pictures from last night
The above page has pictures taken in places like Georgia, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas... some *great* views in Colorado, too. Alaska? The entire sky was green and red last night.
It was too windy here ( SF bay area ) for me to have ventured out last night. Ok, I admit, I forgot to look. My view to the north sucks anyway.
I had thought I was going to start my own thread, but RickL makes exactly the point I was going to make.
If you work overtime and don't get paid for it, that is a mistake. Don't do that. If your boss tells you that you are 'exempt', you should make sure you actually qualify.
I don't work over 40 hours a week, and if I do, I take time off in the following week. I'm not legally an Exempt employee. My boss would like to consider me exempt from overtime, and generally treats me as exempt in that he doesn't want to *ever* pay overtime. But I am not paid over $80,000 per year, and by the law of the state of California, where I live and work, as a computer programmer I can not therefore be considered exempt. I am protecting my boss by not working more than 40 hours a week.
I *could* work overtime, but that'd be my decision, and my boss can't legally ask me to do so without paying overtime. If your boss asks you to work overtime, they either have to pay overtime ( time and a half, folks! ) or worry about a lawsuit- unless you are actually technically an 'exempt' employee. In CA, you'd better make over $80k as a programmer, the law is *very* explicit. My boss has never asked me to work overtime or mentioned that I only work 40 hours per week, or I'd point this out to him ( a raise would be nice! ). If he subsequently fired me, there'd be a wrongful termination lawsuit which I'd likely win.
If all you working fools would stop letting employers take advantage of you, they wouldn't expect to be able to do so. The law is on the side of the employee in this one case. People who work overtime without compensation are either ignorant of the law or don't value their own time, as far as I can tell.
If I had more free time, I'd just blow it playing Vice City anyway. 40 hours a week is no problem. My time is already my own.
Actually, this smells like a marketing slip-up!
I've confirmed, with the help of a co-worker's browser cache, that Apple changed thier web page since I first posted about this! It now says "Velocity Engine" in the iBook page as well, on the first paragraph no less!!
Too funny! I'm glad to learn that the omission was a mistake!!
Sorry for the false alarm guys, the words "Velocity Engine" are on the iBook pages ( at least, they are now ), they just weren't where I expected to see them and I missed it.
If you look at the "Technical Specifications" page for the new iBooks, you'll notice there is NO mention of the "Velocity Engine". Same for the new "G4" eMac.
Any other Technical Specifications page for any other "G4" Apple offers, they say "with Velocity Engine".
I am afraid the iBook and eMac may not *have* a "Velocity Engine", or Apple would advertise it, wouldn't they ? These might be IBM chips, but they are not IBM chips with "Altivec". They may be "G4" in name only, i.e. we're marketing guys, we're willing to call it "G4" just because it's over 800 Mhz... this totally sucks if it's the case. I hope I'm wrong and Apple updates the Tech Specs to include mention of Velocity Engine, but I am afraid that Apple might have just stooped to the level of other hardware companies here.
iBook Tech Specs
scroll down to "Technical Specifications", it says :
Processor and memory
compare this to
PowerBook Tech Specs
which says :
Processor and Memory
Why do the iBook specs leave out the "Velocity Engine" reference?
Maybe because it's not there. If it was there, Apple would market as being there. As much as I really am a fan of Apple, this was a bad move by their marketing folks.
So there is a reason why you might want to still consider that PowerBook G4. Personally, I don't care how fast it is, if it doesn't have a "Velocity Engine", Apple shouldn't call it a G4. It *is* misleading. Sure, Dell or IBM would do the same, but I do in fact expect more from Apple.
There is a lot of speculation about what chip is really in these machines, since the cache size is different from the PowerBook line, which *does* use the Motorola "G4".
The IBM chips are fast ( if not faster ), cheaper, and since they include and Altivec unit, the G3/G4 distinction is more than a little blurry where the "G3" IBM chips are compared to "G4" Motorola chips.
Which speaks volumes about Motorola. Too bad, it was once a good company...
Interestingly enough, I just noticed a post which states as fact that this is the IBM chip. Too bad there's no reference to back up that claim. I wonder if it's true.
They're talking about PC hardware, right?
pops open case, checks inside
Aren't you suppose to have a SCSI drive just sitting loose in the bottom of your case? That's where mine has been for a couple of years now...
We have two windows machines in our office, neither of which are on an employee's desk. We used to run a Linux file and command-line application server, relying on netatalk. That's all on OS X Server now, and so many little issues are now gone. Our extremely small IT department actually has time to write end-user applications, while we sit around and laugh about all the SoBig virus email we see. The Windows machines seem to be able to network with our OS X server just fine, though they are a bit tougher to admin than our other systems.
maybe he would have found his teacher to be more simpathetic if he'd remembered to include "\n" at the end of his argument to printf.
I did not install the original update, and was repeating something someone else told me ( which is why I used '~' for the smaller number, but new for sure the 40.6MB number ).
Please be gentle. This is the first time I've submitted a story. I wasn't even aware that everything would be on one line, or I'd have made the story more concise.
On the other hand, you're going to give me a hard time for a little 100k difference? Admit it, you love to nitpick !