Yeah, they might even rush out and buy a ton of books. Or hold conversations with their family members around the dinner table.
Sign me up, I'm converted.
We had instant start 20 years ago with the Sinclair Spectrum and the Atari ST. I've been waiting two decades for PCs to catch up;-)
Okay, to be fair those old PCs had the OS on a rom and you still had to load your application. But you didn't have time to make a cup of coffee between switching on and being able to choose the app you wanted to use, which is my morning routine using my Athlon64 3400+
I use a grammar checker as a final-final catch for stupid mistakes like 'the the' and other extraneous words which a spell check won't find. Yes, some of the suggestions it makes are ridiculous, circular or just plain unnecessary, but a couple of times it's picked up one of my silly errors and that makes it all worthwhile.
Would I rely on a computer to correct and improve my grammar? No thanks. Ditto a spelling checker - I just use it for typos.
Remember the one about the doctor wandering around a hospital with a thermometer tucked behind his ear? Someone points it out to him, and he says 'Damn, which arsehole has my pencil?'
Ah. I meant the first series of Dr Who which she's ever expressed an interest in... ie, the new, revised, less-wobbly-sets episodes. But I think you guessed that;-)
Trust me, when they release a boxed (20' container, probably) set of Dr Who featuring my own faves - Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker - then I'll be worried about DVT.
I never bought a movie on video because of the degradation you get after playing the thing a couple of times. The quality is crap, the audio is shocking and the tapes are huge.
On the other hand, the DVD format is perfect. My wife and I just watched the whole series of Dr Who on the laptop. You can buy old movies for pocket change, they don't take up half your house and they'll still be watchable in 5-10 years.
The Subaru WRX STI is 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) in 5.4 seconds: Subaru WRX STI. Plus it's a 4 cylinder car so fuel economy is pretty good - assuming you're not hitting 0-60 in 5.4 seconds at every set of lights. (Which you tend to do, 'cause that's the point of having one.) It's all-wheel-drive, so it corners like it's on rails, and it only weighs around 1300kg so it flies like a rocket. Top speed 135mph.
I don't know whether they sell them in the US. Originally they only got the non-turbo model thanks to emission controls. That would be something like a Viper with half the cylinders blanked off.
1) I live in Australia and 90% of the sites I visit are flogging stuff to US-based internet users. I couldn't buy the stuff if I wanted to.
2) Most ads are large, very colourful and very distracting.
3) It's so easy to block them. Right-click the offending image, choose Adblock, shorten the url and stick a * on the end for a wildcard match.
4) My first broadband account had a 500mb month cap and 15c/meg over that. If I did a lot of web browsing I could literally end up paying to view ads.
5) When I'm in the market for a big-ticket item I read reviews and compare prices and features. No amount of advertising will influence my decision to purchase. If a manufacturer wants to influence me they need to make a product so good that it's a no-brainer. E.g. the Subaru WRX.
6) I usually buy small ticket items on impulse. I'm there in the shop, it's staring at me, I buy it. Online ads for small ticket items are pointless. (Freight + waiting time)
I live in Australia, where (I think) it's not legal to back up content. E.g. ripping tracks from a cd and putting them on an mp3 player is verboten. Common sense prevails, in that you don't get police kicking your door down to forcibly search for infringements.
I believe the program I used to read the files off the disk has to bypass encryption to do so. I don't care what it does/did - I had a non-working disk which I paid good money for, and it was the only way I could think of to view the content.
I did try a direct read of the dvd, but there were too many sector errors and it failed. This way I managed to salvage something.
I just recieved a Las Vegas season 2 boxed set from overseas. (Original) Ep3 and Ep6 don't work, and Ep2 and Ep5 have skips (It's a double-sided disk, and there's obviously a load of bad sectors.) Sending it back is not really an option - two more lots of international postage will cost more than the boxed set did in the first place.
The point is, using a freely-available program I was able to extract all of side one to my hard drive and watch episode 3. Episode 6 is beyond saving, from the look of it, but I haven't given up yet.
I'm not copying disks to sell or pirating anything, all I'm doing is using a third party tool to watch something I paid for which is otherwise unwatchable.
Agreed. Text or html please. I wrote my own ebook reader because scrolling and reading books do not mix. PDF doesn't reflow into a smaller page size, so you either read the top half followed by the bottom half, or you zoom out to eye-strain font sizes.
I get two or three emails a week begging me to add PDF support to yBook. No can do.
I don't mind feeding dead cats into my car, but do I really have to put a tray of kitty litter under the muffler every night?
By the way, some parts of Australia have a really bad feral cat problem, and they kill off the native wildlife like you wouldn't believe. One guy has a solution: he fences off a large piece of land and shoots all the cats inside the fence. As a sideline he sells catskin hats (Like a frontiersman's hat, complete with the dangling tail. I assume the studded collar and bell are optional extras)
Hey, Nasa could stick Hubble on eBay (with the proviso the purchaser keeps it in orbit). Upside - they might sell it instead of burning it up in the atmosphere. Downside - they might not get much of a bidding war...
It's a good idea to revamp the console over its lifetime, but it's not really a selling point for people buying the first generation. Either you get games which push the hardware now, but will work better on future, unreleased hardware (sounds like PC gaming). Or you get future games which work only on future revisions of the console, and are unplayable on the current generation. (sounds like PC gaming). Alternatively, you get generic titles which will work on the lowest common system. (ditto)
MS Flight sim is an example from the PC world. When first released, there's no hardware which can render smooth frame rates with all settings maxed out. As the hardware improves over time, the visuals can be pushed higher and higher until... the next version comes out and we start all over.
What's to stop large companies trademarking all the words in their industry? If that happens, competitors couldn't place a Google Adwords advert using those terms, effectively shutting newcomers out of the market.
Sure, people could sue and counter-sue, but large companies have deeper pockets.
... run their database on MS software? If so, why does Microsoft bother applying for patents? They could just get in through a back door and insert retroactive patents on anything they like.
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Yeah, they might even rush out and buy a ton of books. Or hold conversations with their family members around the dinner table.
Sign me up, I'm converted.
When all their 350w power supplies melt.
We had instant start 20 years ago with the Sinclair Spectrum and the Atari ST. I've been waiting two decades for PCs to catch up ;-)
Okay, to be fair those old PCs had the OS on a rom and you still had to load your application. But you didn't have time to make a cup of coffee between switching on and being able to choose the app you wanted to use, which is my morning routine using my Athlon64 3400+
... but then I'd have to kill you.
I use a grammar checker as a final-final catch for stupid mistakes like 'the the' and other extraneous words which a spell check won't find. Yes, some of the suggestions it makes are ridiculous, circular or just plain unnecessary, but a couple of times it's picked up one of my silly errors and that makes it all worthwhile.
Would I rely on a computer to correct and improve my grammar? No thanks. Ditto a spelling checker - I just use it for typos.
Remember the one about the doctor wandering around a hospital with a thermometer tucked behind his ear? Someone points it out to him, and he says 'Damn, which arsehole has my pencil?'
Well, they just ruined that joke...
Ah. I meant the first series of Dr Who which she's ever expressed an interest in... ie, the new, revised, less-wobbly-sets episodes. But I think you guessed that ;-)
Trust me, when they release a boxed (20' container, probably) set of Dr Who featuring my own faves - Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker - then I'll be worried about DVT.
I never bought a movie on video because of the degradation you get after playing the thing a couple of times. The quality is crap, the audio is shocking and the tapes are huge.
On the other hand, the DVD format is perfect. My wife and I just watched the whole series of Dr Who on the laptop. You can buy old movies for pocket change, they don't take up half your house and they'll still be watchable in 5-10 years.
Die, VCR, die. You will not be missed.
The Subaru WRX STI is 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) in 5.4 seconds: Subaru WRX STI. Plus it's a 4 cylinder car so fuel economy is pretty good - assuming you're not hitting 0-60 in 5.4 seconds at every set of lights. (Which you tend to do, 'cause that's the point of having one.) It's all-wheel-drive, so it corners like it's on rails, and it only weighs around 1300kg so it flies like a rocket. Top speed 135mph.
I don't know whether they sell them in the US. Originally they only got the non-turbo model thanks to emission controls. That would be something like a Viper with half the cylinders blanked off.
1) I live in Australia and 90% of the sites I visit are flogging stuff to US-based internet users. I couldn't buy the stuff if I wanted to.
2) Most ads are large, very colourful and very distracting.
3) It's so easy to block them. Right-click the offending image, choose Adblock, shorten the url and stick a * on the end for a wildcard match.
4) My first broadband account had a 500mb month cap and 15c/meg over that. If I did a lot of web browsing I could literally end up paying to view ads.
5) When I'm in the market for a big-ticket item I read reviews and compare prices and features. No amount of advertising will influence my decision to purchase. If a manufacturer wants to influence me they need to make a product so good that it's a no-brainer. E.g. the Subaru WRX.
6) I usually buy small ticket items on impulse. I'm there in the shop, it's staring at me, I buy it. Online ads for small ticket items are pointless. (Freight + waiting time)
I live in Australia, where (I think) it's not legal to back up content. E.g. ripping tracks from a cd and putting them on an mp3 player is verboten. Common sense prevails, in that you don't get police kicking your door down to forcibly search for infringements.
I believe the program I used to read the files off the disk has to bypass encryption to do so. I don't care what it does/did - I had a non-working disk which I paid good money for, and it was the only way I could think of to view the content.
I did try a direct read of the dvd, but there were too many sector errors and it failed. This way I managed to salvage something.
I just recieved a Las Vegas season 2 boxed set from overseas. (Original) Ep3 and Ep6 don't work, and Ep2 and Ep5 have skips (It's a double-sided disk, and there's obviously a load of bad sectors.) Sending it back is not really an option - two more lots of international postage will cost more than the boxed set did in the first place.
The point is, using a freely-available program I was able to extract all of side one to my hard drive and watch episode 3. Episode 6 is beyond saving, from the look of it, but I haven't given up yet.
I'm not copying disks to sell or pirating anything, all I'm doing is using a third party tool to watch something I paid for which is otherwise unwatchable.
Agreed. Text or html please. I wrote my own ebook reader because scrolling and reading books do not mix. PDF doesn't reflow into a smaller page size, so you either read the top half followed by the bottom half, or you zoom out to eye-strain font sizes.
I get two or three emails a week begging me to add PDF support to yBook. No can do.
I don't mind feeding dead cats into my car, but do I really have to put a tray of kitty litter under the muffler every night?
By the way, some parts of Australia have a really bad feral cat problem, and they kill off the native wildlife like you wouldn't believe. One guy has a solution: he fences off a large piece of land and shoots all the cats inside the fence. As a sideline he sells catskin hats (Like a frontiersman's hat, complete with the dangling tail. I assume the studded collar and bell are optional extras)
I can just imagine it: Hundreds of toffs winking and waving hankies at microphones as they try to bid on a piece of art they can't see.
I thought we'd got over the dotcom madness?
Hey, Nasa could stick Hubble on eBay (with the proviso the purchaser keeps it in orbit). Upside - they might sell it instead of burning it up in the atmosphere. Downside - they might not get much of a bidding war...
I bags the drumstick.
In korea, old people no longer get old.
(Sorry, I don't normally contribute to the perpetuation of Slashdot cliches, but nobody had posted this one. With good reason, I might add.)
The one where he discusses open-sourcing qake III?
It's a good idea to revamp the console over its lifetime, but it's not really a selling point for people buying the first generation. Either you get games which push the hardware now, but will work better on future, unreleased hardware (sounds like PC gaming). Or you get future games which work only on future revisions of the console, and are unplayable on the current generation. (sounds like PC gaming). Alternatively, you get generic titles which will work on the lowest common system. (ditto)
MS Flight sim is an example from the PC world. When first released, there's no hardware which can render smooth frame rates with all settings maxed out. As the hardware improves over time, the visuals can be pushed higher and higher until... the next version comes out and we start all over.
What's to stop large companies trademarking all the words in their industry? If that happens, competitors couldn't place a Google Adwords advert using those terms, effectively shutting newcomers out of the market.
Sure, people could sue and counter-sue, but large companies have deeper pockets.
A bit of sensationalist nonsense is all.
What, here?
Judging from the number of tricked-out cars on the road, plenty of enthusiasts already discovered how to apply cflags to their vehicles:
USE="big_fat_exhaust massive_spoiler neon_underbody_light bloody_bright_headlights furry_dice performance_cams side_skirts air_dam"
emerge -Dpuv ricer
... run their database on MS software? If so, why does Microsoft bother applying for patents? They could just get in through a back door and insert retroactive patents on anything they like.
(Yeah, my tinfoil hat just fell off.)
I'd install Gentoo on my car, but it doesn't sit in the garage for more than 10 hours at a time so the compiling would never get done.