I used to run D&D sessions in lunchtimes at school, back in the 80s. They got more and more popular until a dozen or so of my fellow students would gather in the classroom to get involved in my latest effort. Then the PTA got wind of it, the school banned it, and the kids went back to doing nothing much at all. (To add insult to injury, we were only playing Basic & Expert D&D. I tried to explain it wasn't 'The devil worshipping one' but they weren't buying it.)
Ditto. The Sam & Max talkie version was far and away my favourite, although my wife and I played Loom and Zak on the Atari ST and enjoyed them both immensely. Thank goodness for Scumm, eh?
That was a 16k game, too. I played 3d deathchase a lot, what with my first speccy being a 16k model and me not actually having any other games to play on it.
My brother had a quickshot joystick for DTD. He'd stick a lump of blu-tack on the end, then shake the base to make the shaft wobble (ooer). It was much, much quicker than I could mash the keys, and he only broke two or three joysticks in his quest for better and better scores.
If the stores don't make more money selling BDs than DVDs, why would they bother setting aside shelf space? Customer demand is the only reason I can think of, and there's apparently very little demand.
That's the reason I'm not interested. If I wanted to rip a DVD and put it on my Treo or a NAS here at home I could find the tools to do so, legal or not. Until you can say the same about Blu-Ray, there's no way I'm spending a cent on the format.
In any case, DVD rez is good enough for me - bearing in mind I pre-date the VCR by a good two decades, and thought those were just amazing when they came out.
Another point: I've already paid for all my fave movies and TV shows once, and I'm not paying again for an improved picture.
Final point: Most of my purchases are 60's, 70's and 80's TV & movies. The original quality wasn't up to much in the first place (and neither was the picture quality... boom boom.)
I make a modest income from my commercial charting software, and in the 7-8 years I've been selling & supporting it I think only one person asked for the entire source code. I declined politely, and that was that. I have shared small bits and pieces (mainly to do with indicators) with a handful of people but that inevitably leads to a string of emails and requests for clarification which I don't have the time to deal with. (Think along the lines of 'thanks for the code, now how do I make it do X and Y and Z, and...)
They don't have to develop an OS, just a pretty front-end. You have Xubuntu and Kubuntu, and I'm guessing you'll see an HP branded Hubuntu before very long.
I live in Australia, and ditto (except it's four major banks rather than five.)
I'm not up for letting companies take whatever they want. I mean, Australia's largest ISP still sends me a credit note for 1 cent every single bloody month, for two years now, no matter what I do to stop them. If they can't handle 1 cent properly, what's the odds they can sort out any irregularities in my everyday bills?
If every site took up that reCaptcha thing all these paid captcha-solvers would be helping to digitise thousands upon thousands of old books... on the spammers' dime.
I'm a subscriber to a couple of PC mags here in Australia, and until yesterday I'd only seen laptop ads with 'Windows XP downgrade included'. Yesterday, for the first time, I saw pages of mid-range laptops with 'Windows XP Professional' listed under the features and NO mention of Vista at all.
My parents are staying in Squamish on holiday.. they just hired a boat and sailed straight up the river. (They were offered the round trip showing on that google map, but declined.)
Many older authors have only just (grudgingly) given up on typewriters. Now you want them to bash out 150,000 word novels by waving their hands in thin air? Good luck;-)
Damn right they should quote verbatim. I'm sick of people saying proper grammar and spelling doesn't matter because "it's only the internet" - maybe if they think their illiterate scribble could be quoted in a national newspaper they'll take a little more care with it.
(Mind you, I refused to send an SMS for 15-20 years until I finally got hold of a phone with a qwerty keyboard, so you're welcome to ignore me.)
I've always preferred KDE over Gnome, but unlike many I didn't rush to install KDE 4.0 (what with it being an incomplete beta and all.) I didn't get XP until it had been out for years either, and by the time I'm considering Vista it'll be lying in a shallow grave from the sound of things.
Basically, I see KDE 4.x as something to play with alongside my regular desktop. I'll jump onboard properly when things calm down, but in the meantime I have work to do.
Funny you should say that - just this morning I used HDOgg to record an interview which was only available as a radio stream. HDOgg is a freeware app which will divert audio (in this case, yes, from stereo mix) into an Ogg or MP3 file for later consumption.
I'm not trying to do anything iffy with the interview - I just want to listen to it later, in my car.
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I used to run D&D sessions in lunchtimes at school, back in the 80s. They got more and more popular until a dozen or so of my fellow students would gather in the classroom to get involved in my latest effort. Then the PTA got wind of it, the school banned it, and the kids went back to doing nothing much at all. (To add insult to injury, we were only playing Basic & Expert D&D. I tried to explain it wasn't 'The devil worshipping one' but they weren't buying it.)
Ditto. The Sam & Max talkie version was far and away my favourite, although my wife and I played Loom and Zak on the Atari ST and enjoyed them both immensely. Thank goodness for Scumm, eh?
That was a 16k game, too. I played 3d deathchase a lot, what with my first speccy being a 16k model and me not actually having any other games to play on it.
My brother had a quickshot joystick for DTD. He'd stick a lump of blu-tack on the end, then shake the base to make the shaft wobble (ooer). It was much, much quicker than I could mash the keys, and he only broke two or three joysticks in his quest for better and better scores.
I have a faint suspicion the OP was being sarcastic.
If the stores don't make more money selling BDs than DVDs, why would they bother setting aside shelf space? Customer demand is the only reason I can think of, and there's apparently very little demand.
That's the reason I'm not interested. If I wanted to rip a DVD and put it on my Treo or a NAS here at home I could find the tools to do so, legal or not. Until you can say the same about Blu-Ray, there's no way I'm spending a cent on the format.
... boom boom.)
In any case, DVD rez is good enough for me - bearing in mind I pre-date the VCR by a good two decades, and thought those were just amazing when they came out.
Another point: I've already paid for all my fave movies and TV shows once, and I'm not paying again for an improved picture.
Final point: Most of my purchases are 60's, 70's and 80's TV & movies. The original quality wasn't up to much in the first place (and neither was the picture quality
I make a modest income from my commercial charting software, and in the 7-8 years I've been selling & supporting it I think only one person asked for the entire source code. I declined politely, and that was that. I have shared small bits and pieces (mainly to do with indicators) with a handful of people but that inevitably leads to a string of emails and requests for clarification which I don't have the time to deal with. (Think along the lines of 'thanks for the code, now how do I make it do X and Y and Z, and ...)
They don't have to develop an OS, just a pretty front-end. You have Xubuntu and Kubuntu, and I'm guessing you'll see an HP branded Hubuntu before very long.
It's like wages: required usage = (disposable amount) + 1
I live in Australia, and ditto (except it's four major banks rather than five.)
I'm not up for letting companies take whatever they want. I mean, Australia's largest ISP still sends me a credit note for 1 cent every single bloody month, for two years now, no matter what I do to stop them. If they can't handle 1 cent properly, what's the odds they can sort out any irregularities in my everyday bills?
If every site took up that reCaptcha thing all these paid captcha-solvers would be helping to digitise thousands upon thousands of old books ... on the spammers' dime.
Same here - particularly MP3 players. Either it runs on AAA or I'm not buying.
"The only reason you need it is if you want to play DirectX 10 games."
...
I'm not exactly hanging out for either of them
I'm a subscriber to a couple of PC mags here in Australia, and until yesterday I'd only seen laptop ads with 'Windows XP downgrade included'. Yesterday, for the first time, I saw pages of mid-range laptops with 'Windows XP Professional' listed under the features and NO mention of Vista at all.
It seems the market has spoken.
My parents are staying in Squamish on holiday .. they just hired a boat and sailed straight up the river. (They were offered the round trip showing on that google map, but declined.)
Many older authors have only just (grudgingly) given up on typewriters. Now you want them to bash out 150,000 word novels by waving their hands in thin air? Good luck ;-)
You should have, because I really did mean narky:
narky adjective-- British term -- easily annoyed; overly sensitive; quick to fly off the handle.
Stop being so narky and just enjoy the show!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=narky
It IS vaguely rude. It's also elitist and narky.
I love it!
Damn right they should quote verbatim. I'm sick of people saying proper grammar and spelling doesn't matter because "it's only the internet" - maybe if they think their illiterate scribble could be quoted in a national newspaper they'll take a little more care with it.
(Mind you, I refused to send an SMS for 15-20 years until I finally got hold of a phone with a qwerty keyboard, so you're welcome to ignore me.)
I've always preferred KDE over Gnome, but unlike many I didn't rush to install KDE 4.0 (what with it being an incomplete beta and all.) I didn't get XP until it had been out for years either, and by the time I'm considering Vista it'll be lying in a shallow grave from the sound of things.
Basically, I see KDE 4.x as something to play with alongside my regular desktop. I'll jump onboard properly when things calm down, but in the meantime I have work to do.
This is the one I use:
http://www.fridgesoft.de/downloads.php
"UPDATE: HarddiskOgg is now Open Source, the source code is available on SourceForge."
It says it's not for streaming audio, but it worked on the radio interview I mentioned above.
Funny you should say that - just this morning I used HDOgg to record an interview which was only available as a radio stream. HDOgg is a freeware app which will divert audio (in this case, yes, from stereo mix) into an Ogg or MP3 file for later consumption.
I'm not trying to do anything iffy with the interview - I just want to listen to it later, in my car.
I read the foundation series as a pre-teen, and I agree.
I also read The Hobbit and then Lord of the Rings.
... except you can't buy it outside Australia. You can download the first one though - see the sig.
(There are over 1000 copies of the Hal Spacejock books in Australian school libraries.)