Yeah, OK, this is somewhat off-topic, but I'd like to know: does anybody know if iTMS will ever get to Canada? As of now, all online music buying services in Canada suck, and besides I prefer Apple's DRM to Microsoft's.
The article forgot to mention how ridiculously power-hungry the Gear Gear was. It ate 6 AA batteries in 2-3 hours. Definitely unsuable. And of course, the Nomad was even worse.
Yeah, those Dreamcast warnings were pretty fun. In Shenmue, each of the 4 discs had the usual "don't use the disc in a music player" message, only instead of being the generic voice, it's the voice of a character from the game, and a different one on each one of the discs! Talk about nice little details.
Also, the commercial homebrew game Feet of Fury has a funny parody of the warning, something like "running the disc in a music player can cause children of third world countries to spontaneously explode".
Pfff... Blizzard shut down bnetd because it made it too easy to play their beta releases illegally and out of their control. Sure, it was kind of nasty (especially with the use of the DMCA) but a company protecting itself is hardly a reason to boycott.
I bet the driving motivation behind this license update was to resolve legal issues with PHP (which is under the Apache license) linking to the MySQL client library (GPL!). Due to the grey area licensing issues between the Apache and GPL licenses, the PHP guys were actually planning to drop MySQL support from PHP! Good to know they are working on fixing that.
Yet another +5 Troll from Debian Troll's Best! You rule, please have my baby. I follow your apt-get adventures every day. I bet someday you'll find a way to cure cancer with apt-get! Keep on apt-getting!!
As much as I liked the original Half-Life, I sure am not buying Half-Life 2 when it'll come out. Valve has proven themselves to be total dickheads over the past year, with that piece of shit Steam, their complete refusal of porting their games to Mac and Linux, and the fact that Gabe Newell got HL2's code leaked because he's too fucking stupid to use a more secure email client than outlook express. Valve, please get a clue.
Gentoo is working on a project they call Catalyst, basically it's a framework for allowing gentoo users to create their own custom live cds and binary installations.
All those companies apparetly don't understand why the GBA is so cool: it's an oldskool device. It's only a slightly better SNES, with all that good ol' stuff like tile rendering and scrolling. Those so-called "GBA killers" all sport fancy-pants mobile 3D GPUs and other silly stuff that only makes them bland, shitty versions of living room consoles. I bet 90% of the games we'll see on these handhelds will be washed-out versions of current console games. Who the hell wants to play that?
Best Buy has given up a release date!! woopeedoo... Seriously, what's the big deal? Places like that make up release dates all the time. And I'll be damned if Best Buy actually got this from id/Activision. And why is this front page news?! A games-section-only article I could understand, but what the hell?
But even stupider is the title "DOOM 3 Vaporware no more". Wow. id has released lots of info about DOOM 3, but until Best fucking Buy tells us, it's vaporware?! Ugh.
Bullshit, both the 2500+ and 3200+ run at the exact same multiplier (11x). Only the frequency is different (166 vs 200). Running a 2500+ at 3200+ only requires you to crank up the frequency. (That's what I do on mine.)
Well maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I installed dosemu on a Celeron 550 in order to run some QBasic stuff, and damn was it slow. I could see the text scrolling, and hell, nibbles actually worked without modifications, despite the classic "cpu too fast for the polling timer" issue that shows on at least a 300MHz system. I also tried running Hexen (DOOM engine game) and it was a slideshow, even though it normally takes only a 200MHz cpu to run it at full framerate (35fps).
Warning: What they failed to mention in this guide is that DOSEMU is SO DAMN SLOW. You need a very good CPU to play those old DOS games at a decent framerate. And BTW all of the games mentionned here have Linux ports, so what gives?
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Yeah, OK, this is somewhat off-topic, but I'd like to know: does anybody know if iTMS will ever get to Canada? As of now, all online music buying services in Canada suck, and besides I prefer Apple's DRM to Microsoft's.
The article forgot to mention how ridiculously power-hungry the Gear Gear was. It ate 6 AA batteries in 2-3 hours. Definitely unsuable. And of course, the Nomad was even worse.
Yeah, those Dreamcast warnings were pretty fun. In Shenmue, each of the 4 discs had the usual "don't use the disc in a music player" message, only instead of being the generic voice, it's the voice of a character from the game, and a different one on each one of the discs! Talk about nice little details.
Also, the commercial homebrew game Feet of Fury has a funny parody of the warning, something like "running the disc in a music player can cause children of third world countries to spontaneously explode".
It seems Jean Reno really digs Japan. Aybody remember the french movie "Wasabi"?
"Scientists believe it may be possible to grow gold like growing potatoes."
All right, who let those "scientists" escape from the mental institute?
"Well wait a minute, how do you know it never will? All they need is a software upgrade..."
No, the iPod has dedicated AAC and MP3 decoding chips and a slow CPU. Apple can't just add new formats with firmware upgrades.
Pfff... Blizzard shut down bnetd because it made it too easy to play their beta releases illegally and out of their control. Sure, it was kind of nasty (especially with the use of the DMCA) but a company protecting itself is hardly a reason to boycott.
Which kernel version are you referring to? I run 2.6.1 and I still have to disable APIC on my nForce2 mobo.
"with revised song selections better suited to an American audience"
I can already hear the cries of agony from fanboys.
No wait that was me.
I bet the driving motivation behind this license update was to resolve legal issues with PHP (which is under the Apache license) linking to the MySQL client library (GPL!). Due to the grey area licensing issues between the Apache and GPL licenses, the PHP guys were actually planning to drop MySQL support from PHP! Good to know they are working on fixing that.
"Phantasy Star Online", "Broadband Adapter"
I knew it! Dr. Evil was behind this!
Future slashdot headline:
"Linus says 2034 really, really is the Year for Desktop Linux, honest! I'm pretty damn sure this time! I swear!"
Seriously, we hear that every goddamn year since 2002. It's an annual thing, like those stupid so-called analysts saying "Apple is dying this year".
It's not that I'm against it, in fact I am a desktop Linux user, but this is just ridiculous.
Quick, somebody port DDR to the NES!!
Gabucino from the Mplayer team is furious,
Dude, that guy's like, ALWAYS furious about everything. heh.
Yet another +5 Troll from Debian Troll's Best! You rule, please have my baby. I follow your apt-get adventures every day. I bet someday you'll find a way to cure cancer with apt-get! Keep on apt-getting!!
As much as I liked the original Half-Life, I sure am not buying Half-Life 2 when it'll come out. Valve has proven themselves to be total dickheads over the past year, with that piece of shit Steam, their complete refusal of porting their games to Mac and Linux, and the fact that Gabe Newell got HL2's code leaked because he's too fucking stupid to use a more secure email client than outlook express. Valve, please get a clue.
Gentoo is working on a project they call Catalyst, basically it's a framework for allowing gentoo users to create their own custom live cds and binary installations.
Why not going for a non-commercial distro? Gentoo, Slackware, Debian...
"RTFMS"
Read the fucking Microsoft??
All those companies apparetly don't understand why the GBA is so cool: it's an oldskool device. It's only a slightly better SNES, with all that good ol' stuff like tile rendering and scrolling. Those so-called "GBA killers" all sport fancy-pants mobile 3D GPUs and other silly stuff that only makes them bland, shitty versions of living room consoles. I bet 90% of the games we'll see on these handhelds will be washed-out versions of current console games. Who the hell wants to play that?
Best Buy has given up a release date!! woopeedoo... Seriously, what's the big deal? Places like that make up release dates all the time. And I'll be damned if Best Buy actually got this from id/Activision. And why is this front page news?! A games-section-only article I could understand, but what the hell?
But even stupider is the title "DOOM 3 Vaporware no more". Wow. id has released lots of info about DOOM 3, but until Best fucking Buy tells us, it's vaporware?! Ugh.
Bullshit, both the 2500+ and 3200+ run at the exact same multiplier (11x). Only the frequency is different (166 vs 200). Running a 2500+ at 3200+ only requires you to crank up the frequency. (That's what I do on mine.)
Well maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I installed dosemu on a Celeron 550 in order to run some QBasic stuff, and damn was it slow. I could see the text scrolling, and hell, nibbles actually worked without modifications, despite the classic "cpu too fast for the polling timer" issue that shows on at least a 300MHz system. I also tried running Hexen (DOOM engine game) and it was a slideshow, even though it normally takes only a 200MHz cpu to run it at full framerate (35fps).
Warning: What they failed to mention in this guide is that DOSEMU is SO DAMN SLOW. You need a very good CPU to play those old DOS games at a decent framerate. And BTW all of the games mentionned here have Linux ports, so what gives?
Heh, at first I thought this article was about a new GTA game.