... transporting my LCD from home to the dorm 2000 km away. I taped a plastic cover to the screen (it came with a little sheet blocking the screen - I kept it), wrapped it in a thick comforter, and put it in my suitcase.
Not a single scratch or dead pixel on it.
...isn't this type of thing still legal in the US?
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I mean, yeah, having the company ask for repayment of loans is fine and such, but it isn't a "legal" nessessity... meaning... who cares?
Wow, I wish it was like that here... in South Florida, my DSL ISP is Bellsouth.net. They are the only one. Before you tell me to go hunt for others and such, hear me out.
If, lets say, I want to go to another ISP, bellsouth tells them that I can't receive DSL service in my area. (Bellsouth is also my local phone carrier. Gee, what surprise)... no, I'm not kidding. Been through it. Ticks me off too. I'd take a speed cut if I didn't have to put up with my moronic ISP to say the least....
Um... that should be a comma, not a period. Anyways though, there will always be more filesharing services... for every one that goes down, it seems like 5 spring up.
I still say the solution is that ISPs tack on an extra 5 USD (or equivilent in other currency) on to net connection bills, then allow free legal access. *shrug*
Exactly. There is so much stuff packed in my case, ventilation is near zip and my machine freezes when I have it back home (Florida) unless the case is off during the day.
I'm a college student. I bought a PDA the summer before I entered, preparing for what I thought I would need for the University. Spent 299 USD on the PDA.
... never spent a better 299 ever. Also picked up a targus keyboard, and I use it to take notes. As someone with an average/. typing speed (110 wpm), I type far faster then I write... so, I take very complete notes, I can pay attention to the professor (since I'm not busily writing), and my grades have improved.
PDAs for gradeschoolers? I'm all for it. Just make sure you still have desktops in the classroom
I mean, come on, anyone ELSE see this as similar to when the Cult of the Dead Cow released Back Oriface 2000 with CIH preinstalled?:)
Seriously, before any of the "OH ITZ M$, THY SUXX!!!1111" posts come out, lets be honest. Any company can make that mistake. It takes a special moron in Quality Assurance to release that one.
I have to ask though... what would YOU do if you were MS in this case?
Considering PDAs do not have a keyboard without buying one extra, me thinks you are lying out some random oriface in your body.
I've had to do one hard reset now (just after I posted the comment) when attempting to load an emulator that seems was only meant to run on an iPaq (but never said otherwise).
... an HP Jornada 547. Before you flame the pure living crap out of me for running WinCE, hear me out.
It is the best OS I have ever ran a PDA under. Hell, it beats a lot of OSes on the PC even. I have yet to see it completely crash to the point where I need to reload it (I've had it for a little over a year), which is something I can't say for Palm. I also have no problems hardware wise, nothing is insensitive, and it works perfectly fine for me! That, and I like color. I dislike Palm due to previous problems with their hardware AND OS.
A lot of BBS Doors are available to be played on Telnet BBS sites now... although nothing replaces being able to dial in to a BBS early in the morning...
... so, in other words, Microsoft gives an actual student discount (go right ahead and ask them - they will give you a discount), but Sun only gives it to institutions? What crap is that?!
Lets look at this.
Microsoft holds a huge marketshare of computer software, from OSes, to office suites, to browsers. However, they are (for all practical purposes) limited to computers.
AOL-TimeWarner (AOL = EVIL!). Holds both Vertical and Horizontal Integration, BOTH of which are qualifications for being a monopoly by themselves. Not only do they hold a massive percentage of the population on their ISP, but they also control everything from the cable lines to the ISP to the content provided to them. They also control multiple media formats, as well as multiples of each of those!
I'm sorry- I view AOL more of as a monopoly then Microsoft even. Microsoft may hold higher percentages, but it is in just a few areas- AOL owns high percentages in a few DOZEN areas.
Bleem! was a great concept- PSX emulator on the PC for sale to the public. I saw those ugly yellow boxes in the local comptuer stores myself- it was enticing.
However, other emulators came up. VGStation took Bleem!'s place on the top of the line quickly as it was more compatable. Then Sony sued...
Bleem! stopped updating, and virtually abandoned the PC emulation market for something new- a commercial PSX emulator for the Dreamcast. It was a bright future, if it weren't for two things- one, only one game would work on it, and two, the DC was dying.
The PS2 would never need a PSX emulator.
The GC and X-Box were far away at that point. Bleem! had no choice but to slowly fade away. I guess they finally gave up.
There are better PSX emulators now (ePSXe is considered by me to be the best)... but it is still sad to see someone in the Emulation community go away.
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... transporting my LCD from home to the dorm 2000 km away. I taped a plastic cover to the screen (it came with a little sheet blocking the screen - I kept it), wrapped it in a thick comforter, and put it in my suitcase.
Not a single scratch or dead pixel on it.
I mean, yeah, having the company ask for repayment of loans is fine and such, but it isn't a "legal" nessessity... meaning... who cares?
Is there something I'm missing or something?
Talking about monitoring usage in games and music.
Hard to monitor usage on music when it can't play music CDs, no?
Um... no? Nintendo has no CD-based (or DVD-based) console. Maybe next time you can actually look at what the Gamecube has before you support it?
... there is no Palm County in Florida. It is Palm BEACH County.
Wow, I wish it was like that here... in South Florida, my DSL ISP is Bellsouth.net. They are the only one. Before you tell me to go hunt for others and such, hear me out.
... no, I'm not kidding. Been through it. Ticks me off too. I'd take a speed cut if I didn't have to put up with my moronic ISP to say the least....
If, lets say, I want to go to another ISP, bellsouth tells them that I can't receive DSL service in my area. (Bellsouth is also my local phone carrier. Gee, what surprise)
First "mirror" link is broken in the article...
Then just throw it on broadband then - there is no reason to have anything but dialup if that is all you are doing, no?
Um... that should be a comma, not a period. Anyways though, there will always be more filesharing services... for every one that goes down, it seems like 5 spring up.
I still say the solution is that ISPs tack on an extra 5 USD (or equivilent in other currency) on to net connection bills, then allow free legal access. *shrug*
Exactly. There is so much stuff packed in my case, ventilation is near zip and my machine freezes when I have it back home (Florida) unless the case is off during the day.
I sketch things all the time on it... I just use draw mode.
I'm a college student. I bought a PDA the summer before I entered, preparing for what I thought I would need for the University. Spent 299 USD on the PDA.
/. typing speed (110 wpm), I type far faster then I write... so, I take very complete notes, I can pay attention to the professor (since I'm not busily writing), and my grades have improved.
... never spent a better 299 ever. Also picked up a targus keyboard, and I use it to take notes. As someone with an average
PDAs for gradeschoolers? I'm all for it. Just make sure you still have desktops in the classroom
I mean, come on, anyone ELSE see this as similar to when the Cult of the Dead Cow released Back Oriface 2000 with CIH preinstalled? :)
Seriously, before any of the "OH ITZ M$, THY SUXX!!!1111" posts come out, lets be honest. Any company can make that mistake. It takes a special moron in Quality Assurance to release that one.
I have to ask though... what would YOU do if you were MS in this case?
News.com had this story for awhile.
My biggest question - from reading this, this would actually work correctly on other competing VCards... why did nVidia create it?
Should I take a picture of my d30 then? I have it with me... Or is this a "I don't think, therefore it isn't" situation?
Considering PDAs do not have a keyboard without buying one extra, me thinks you are lying out some random oriface in your body.
I've had to do one hard reset now (just after I posted the comment) when attempting to load an emulator that seems was only meant to run on an iPaq (but never said otherwise).
Nope. Never crashed full stop. Some of the applications running on it have crashed, but those are bugs in the app itself thus far.
... an HP Jornada 547. Before you flame the pure living crap out of me for running WinCE, hear me out.
It is the best OS I have ever ran a PDA under. Hell, it beats a lot of OSes on the PC even. I have yet to see it completely crash to the point where I need to reload it (I've had it for a little over a year), which is something I can't say for Palm. I also have no problems hardware wise, nothing is insensitive, and it works perfectly fine for me! That, and I like color. I dislike Palm due to previous problems with their hardware AND OS.
A lot of BBS Doors are available to be played on Telnet BBS sites now... although nothing replaces being able to dial in to a BBS early in the morning...
... so, in other words, Microsoft gives an actual student discount (go right ahead and ask them - they will give you a discount), but Sun only gives it to institutions? What crap is that?!
Lets look at this.
Microsoft holds a huge marketshare of computer software, from OSes, to office suites, to browsers. However, they are (for all practical purposes) limited to computers.
AOL-TimeWarner (AOL = EVIL!). Holds both Vertical and Horizontal Integration, BOTH of which are qualifications for being a monopoly by themselves. Not only do they hold a massive percentage of the population on their ISP, but they also control everything from the cable lines to the ISP to the content provided to them. They also control multiple media formats, as well as multiples of each of those!
I'm sorry- I view AOL more of as a monopoly then Microsoft even. Microsoft may hold higher percentages, but it is in just a few areas- AOL owns high percentages in a few DOZEN areas.
I'll stick with my phrase: AOL = EVIL!
I meant that each package could only emulate one game, not only one game ever worked... sorry, must not have been clear.
Bleem! was a great concept- PSX emulator on the PC for sale to the public. I saw those ugly yellow boxes in the local comptuer stores myself- it was enticing.
However, other emulators came up. VGStation took Bleem!'s place on the top of the line quickly as it was more compatable. Then Sony sued...
Bleem! stopped updating, and virtually abandoned the PC emulation market for something new- a commercial PSX emulator for the Dreamcast. It was a bright future, if it weren't for two things- one, only one game would work on it, and two, the DC was dying.
The PS2 would never need a PSX emulator.
The GC and X-Box were far away at that point. Bleem! had no choice but to slowly fade away. I guess they finally gave up.
There are better PSX emulators now (ePSXe is considered by me to be the best)... but it is still sad to see someone in the Emulation community go away.
Farewell Bleem!.
... seems harryfox.com is being slashdotted. May I suggest easing up a bit for a short period of time or trying a google cache
... and I happen to love Imagine myself, so it gets me angrier...
Oh well, yet another reason why I don't listen to conventional radio anymore anyways.