Only caveat is that you would need a suitable network card in the thing first. I would say this is far more likely than getting either windows networking or a USB controller in there.
You think typing "apt-get install somedriverpackage" is difficult? Think about what you have to do on windows; plug in the device, track down the driver CD (or floppy), start the install wizard, click through a EULA, choose which of the many drivers on the CD actually match your device (since they ship one CD for many models), wait while things install, click through several "the driver is installed" messages, and finally reboot (at least once). You only think it's easier to install drivers in windows because a) it's what you're used to, and b) you've never tried installing an obscure device.
Despite the origins of wario, warioware has nothing at all to do with any of the Mario Games; it contains 12 characters who have never showed up in a mario game, has no common gameplay, and has a completely different art/music style.
There's nothing wrong with having a popular franchise and a well-known mascot, it's good marketing. People recognise the name "Mario" and associate it with both "Nintendo" and "fun", making it an excellent marketing decision to keep him around. If you don't like the mario branding, there's plenty of other titles to choose from. I greatly enjoy Elebits, Zelda, Wii Sports, and Super Monkey Ball, all near-launch titles without Mario branding. Then there's Call of Duty 3, Excite Truck, Far Cry Vengeance, GT Pro, Harvest Moon, Rayman Ravid Rabbids, Tiger Woods, Trauma Center, Wii Play... To say that they are depending on Mario spinoffs is to ignore the vast majority of titles that are now or will be available.
"which system delivers more bang for your buck in the backwards compatibility department. Hands down, Sony wins. Period."
Well, no, the wii delivers 100% backwards compatibility, and has done so from day 1. In fact, the wii's virtual console lets you play games from consoles that weren't even made by nintendo (sega genesis, etc), so it could even be said that it has >100% backwards compatibility...
Regardless, I am excited to hear that sony has made good with the firmware updates!
That is exactly his idea, except he also wants to add a heavyweight "forums" page or somesuch to further waste your bandwidth every time you make a spelling mistake.
Repeat after me: copyright piracy is NOT theft. Making a copy does NOT deprive the original owner of the item. The only people losing anything are the record companies losing their ability to sell the exact same movie to you over and over again.
My take on that is that they're spending their money on aerospace engineers, not web designers. If shitty webpage means cheaper spaceflight, I'm all for it!
Even on a crappy non-HD tv, the text looks great once you zoom in. I assume that on a bigger tv the zoom would be less necessary.
The browser is definitely fast, though there's some latency before the page is shown where there's no obvious "loading" throbber.
Having used the web browser on the PSP, I have to say that the wii's browser is far more pleasant to use. The onscreen keyboard, while hunt-and-pecky, is far better than a cellphone-style text input; the zoom is easy, and the trigger-scrolling is good once you find it.
Elebits is lots of fun and easy to play/learn. I'm amout 3/4 of the way through the main story after a week, and I'm still entertained. The only downside is the terrible voice acting in the cutscenes, though kids probably won't mind that.
Radio waves may not respect borders, but they *do* respect the inverse square law, i.e. they don't travel indefinitely. A quick search says that most US radio stations (and I assume tv stations) have a broadcast range of approximate 20 miles. The Netherlands (Holland is a province) has an area of 16,033 sq mi, which means that over 2/3 of the country is out of range of foreign broadcasts.
Honestly, my own computers fight off thousands of "attacks" a month, if you lower the bar enough. Are there worms knocking on port 137? Or are these actual hackers with stolen passwords/passcards?
I haven't replaced/recharged mine yet, after an hour or two a day for the past 2 weeks or so. From what I've heard, it takes a marathon all-day session to drain them.
Also, they're just AAs, which are cheap and plentiful.
I frequently play NeverWinter Nights and Quake 4 using the native Linux clients. As for other games, get Cedega or Wine; I can play SimCity 4, Diablo II and various other games using it. Just because the publishers don't support Linux doesn't mean you can't play their games.
Usually, if a bot is getting past your captcha, it is circumventing it, not solving it. First, check if you are running with REGISTER_GLOBALS set to "off". Then, make sure your site is only accepting form submissions from the relevant form on your own site; a simple referer check is enough to stop most forum/comment spam. Only if you have secured everything else and you have proof that the bots are actually solving your captcha should you blame the captcha.
Ubuntu is billed as "linux for human beings". In practice, this means "usable and welcoming to non-geeks"; those same non-geeks who purchase a new windows OS because it has a new default desktop background and shinier buttons. So, while you may not judge a distro by its art, there are plenty of people who *do*, and those are the people ubuntu is trying to reach.
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So, which one is the third dimension? X, Y, or Z? The point is how many dimensions you are using, not the order they are in.
I've done the same thing; I have a lower salary, but my life is far better for enjoying the third of it that I am at work. Go with the job you would enjoy more; you're getting a fairly big raise either way...
Agreed; my only real problem with the upgrade was the download speed. I ended up downloading the Alternate CD image at full speed, using apt-cdrom to add it to my list of sources, and then doing the upgrade. It still took a while to get everything from universe/multiverse, but I saved myself many hours of downloading the rest.
There's no real excuse for having hardware issues on an upgrade when you can *easily* download and try a live CD. Ubuntu has a *wonderful* hardware reporting program included, where you can report problems or success with your hardware without even touching your hard drive. This is a great way to contribute some QA without submitting a bug report, and I encourage everyone to log their hardware info even if they aren't planning to install ubuntu.
I'm glad that somebody else is as annoyed with their new UI as I am. Doesn't MS have a UI standards document that they are supposed to follow, and are clearly not? They have hidden the file menu, shuffled all of the buttons around, renamed some bits, poorly copied things from other browsers... I get the impression that they are making things up just so that they are not seen as copying ideas; after all, "just because mozilla does it that way doesn't mean it's right". There was a time when MS put more effort into usability studies than the competition, but they must have entirely skipped that step to get IE7 out the door.
While I hope that everyone who visits one of my websites in IE upgrades to IE7, I feel sorry for them choosing to use such a poorly designed browser interface.
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Actually, Vista's DRM prevents such "Echo cancellation" from being implemented. See the "Indirect Disabling of Functionality" section in this document:c ost.html
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_
"anyone suppose it would be possible to network this machine (DOS 7.1) with an XP box that sits next to it?"
I successfully shoehorned ssh onto an old dos box (6.0, IIRC) a year or two back, and documented the experience here:
http://www.jess2.net/doc/dos_internet.html
Only caveat is that you would need a suitable network card in the thing first. I would say this is far more likely than getting either windows networking or a USB controller in there.
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so they put in a copy of memtest86?
You think typing "apt-get install somedriverpackage" is difficult? Think about what you have to do on windows; plug in the device, track down the driver CD (or floppy), start the install wizard, click through a EULA, choose which of the many drivers on the CD actually match your device (since they ship one CD for many models), wait while things install, click through several "the driver is installed" messages, and finally reboot (at least once). You only think it's easier to install drivers in windows because a) it's what you're used to, and b) you've never tried installing an obscure device.
Despite the origins of wario, warioware has nothing at all to do with any of the Mario Games; it contains 12 characters who have never showed up in a mario game, has no common gameplay, and has a completely different art/music style.
There's nothing wrong with having a popular franchise and a well-known mascot, it's good marketing. People recognise the name "Mario" and associate it with both "Nintendo" and "fun", making it an excellent marketing decision to keep him around. If you don't like the mario branding, there's plenty of other titles to choose from. I greatly enjoy Elebits, Zelda, Wii Sports, and Super Monkey Ball, all near-launch titles without Mario branding. Then there's Call of Duty 3, Excite Truck, Far Cry Vengeance, GT Pro, Harvest Moon, Rayman Ravid Rabbids, Tiger Woods, Trauma Center, Wii Play... To say that they are depending on Mario spinoffs is to ignore the vast majority of titles that are now or will be available.
Here's wikipedia's list of titles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games
"which system delivers more bang for your buck in the backwards compatibility department. Hands down, Sony wins. Period."
Well, no, the wii delivers 100% backwards compatibility, and has done so from day 1. In fact, the wii's virtual console lets you play games from consoles that weren't even made by nintendo (sega genesis, etc), so it could even be said that it has >100% backwards compatibility...
Regardless, I am excited to hear that sony has made good with the firmware updates!
That is exactly his idea, except he also wants to add a heavyweight "forums" page or somesuch to further waste your bandwidth every time you make a spelling mistake.
Repeat after me: copyright piracy is NOT theft. Making a copy does NOT deprive the original owner of the item. The only people losing anything are the record companies losing their ability to sell the exact same movie to you over and over again.
My take on that is that they're spending their money on aerospace engineers, not web designers. If shitty webpage means cheaper spaceflight, I'm all for it!
Wow. You just described windows Vista!
Even on a crappy non-HD tv, the text looks great once you zoom in. I assume that on a bigger tv the zoom would be less necessary.
The browser is definitely fast, though there's some latency before the page is shown where there's no obvious "loading" throbber.
Having used the web browser on the PSP, I have to say that the wii's browser is far more pleasant to use. The onscreen keyboard, while hunt-and-pecky, is far better than a cellphone-style text input; the zoom is easy, and the trigger-scrolling is good once you find it.
Elebits is lots of fun and easy to play/learn. I'm amout 3/4 of the way through the main story after a week, and I'm still entertained. The only downside is the terrible voice acting in the cutscenes, though kids probably won't mind that.
Radio waves may not respect borders, but they *do* respect the inverse square law, i.e. they don't travel indefinitely. A quick search says that most US radio stations (and I assume tv stations) have a broadcast range of approximate 20 miles. The Netherlands (Holland is a province) has an area of 16,033 sq mi, which means that over 2/3 of the country is out of range of foreign broadcasts.
Honestly, my own computers fight off thousands of "attacks" a month, if you lower the bar enough. Are there worms knocking on port 137? Or are these actual hackers with stolen passwords/passcards?
I haven't replaced/recharged mine yet, after an hour or two a day for the past 2 weeks or so. From what I've heard, it takes a marathon all-day session to drain them.
Also, they're just AAs, which are cheap and plentiful.
I frequently play NeverWinter Nights and Quake 4 using the native Linux clients. As for other games, get Cedega or Wine; I can play SimCity 4, Diablo II and various other games using it. Just because the publishers don't support Linux doesn't mean you can't play their games.
Usually, if a bot is getting past your captcha, it is circumventing it, not solving it. First, check if you are running with REGISTER_GLOBALS set to "off". Then, make sure your site is only accepting form submissions from the relevant form on your own site; a simple referer check is enough to stop most forum/comment spam. Only if you have secured everything else and you have proof that the bots are actually solving your captcha should you blame the captcha.
Ubuntu is billed as "linux for human beings". In practice, this means "usable and welcoming to non-geeks"; those same non-geeks who purchase a new windows OS because it has a new default desktop background and shinier buttons. So, while you may not judge a distro by its art, there are plenty of people who *do*, and those are the people ubuntu is trying to reach.
So, which one is the third dimension? X, Y, or Z? The point is how many dimensions you are using, not the order they are in.
I've done the same thing; I have a lower salary, but my life is far better for enjoying the third of it that I am at work.
Go with the job you would enjoy more; you're getting a fairly big raise either way...
Agreed; my only real problem with the upgrade was the download speed. I ended up downloading the Alternate CD image at full speed, using apt-cdrom to add it to my list of sources, and then doing the upgrade. It still took a while to get everything from universe/multiverse, but I saved myself many hours of downloading the rest.
There's no real excuse for having hardware issues on an upgrade when you can *easily* download and try a live CD. Ubuntu has a *wonderful* hardware reporting program included, where you can report problems or success with your hardware without even touching your hard drive. This is a great way to contribute some QA without submitting a bug report, and I encourage everyone to log their hardware info even if they aren't planning to install ubuntu.
Luckily, IE7 is actually *less* usable than IE6.
Depending on his method of detecting/ignoring his own virus; if done right, he could be looking for a signature that his future virii share.
That's about what I had guessed; it would have been nice if there was a "Classic mode" button/option. Ah well.
I'm glad that somebody else is as annoyed with their new UI as I am. Doesn't MS have a UI standards document that they are supposed to follow, and are clearly not? They have hidden the file menu, shuffled all of the buttons around, renamed some bits, poorly copied things from other browsers... I get the impression that they are making things up just so that they are not seen as copying ideas; after all, "just because mozilla does it that way doesn't mean it's right". There was a time when MS put more effort into usability studies than the competition, but they must have entirely skipped that step to get IE7 out the door.
While I hope that everyone who visits one of my websites in IE upgrades to IE7, I feel sorry for them choosing to use such a poorly designed browser interface.