Yeah, because that USB drive will only cost me $20+ and then a USB card... another $20. How about just a FASTER DRIVE, so that I can use my still existing floppies.
Forget batteries. Why the hell is my FLOPPY DRIVES still read at the speed they did back in the 386 days.
Throw some more heads on there, work some evil voodoo magic, I dont care. I would pay good money for a floppy drive that could read an entire floppy in seconds.
This reminds me of a Married with Childeren episode, where Peg gets a Personal Trainer. Only after a couple of days, the trainer is sitting on the couch, smoking and eating bon-bons with Peg.... then he dies.
Al points out that he was a well maintained machine, so when he started taking in things such as this full on, when he never has, his body shocked. Same is most likely true for you.
Boy, dont you just sound like a Weight Watchers instructor.
Before you get the opinion I am some sort of fat monkey, rest assured, I am in fantastic shape.
With that, there are LOADS of people... MULTITUDES of people, where changing their diet alone WILL NOT WORK for weight loss. They might not GAIN so much weight, but excersize ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS will beat out a diet. Hands down. A diet should be supplimental to your excersize ordeal.
Mostly related, the water all of the time approach is actually a cause of a lot of people quitting such things. Esecially women, that water goes somewhere... and weights a lot. Someone a bit nieve will only look at the scale, and not be happy with the constant need to urinate, with the added bloat. Soda is NOT bad for you in moderation. As a matter of fact, during/after excersize is a GREAT time to have a soda. Your body is out of carbs, and it needs some. If you are terribly lazy, then the body will take your muscle AS WELL as fat along with it, if it has to rely on body material for energy. Until those muscles are solid, you DO NOT want to deprive your body of things... muscles are whats going to help burn that lazy fat while you are doing nothing
I was skepical myself of how "great" HDTV could be until I was at walmart by some off chance, and they had an HDTV program on this time rather then a regular signal... and it... was... amazing. Much more so then I had seen before... thought before.
If you really have that opionion, then you havent REALLY experienced HDTV yet.
The reason is, there can be no confusion between "FreeBSD the kernel" and "FreeBSD the operating system". One kernel... one "distro".. even if you are confused, it doesnt really matter. Linux on the other hand is very import to make the distinction between "Linux the Kernel" and "Linux the operating system". There will be a day when the Linux kernel powers an OS that isnt just a Unix wannabe. Then what? Poor grandma just knows Billy told her to get Linux... and she sees all of these boxes with Linux on it... but what it was really saying was "Powered by Linux"... what does that mean?
But they ARE GNU/Linux.
If I were to take the Linux kernel, and magically craft a win32 compatible OS out of it... or a BeOS clone, it wouldnt "Be Linux" to coin the bastardized term. You need to seperate the kernel from the whole operating system... then it will all make better sense.
Dude... ok, call me an ASS, but this is EXACTALLY the point of a PDA.
As for expensive, what exactally IS your budget? Sure there ARE $500 PDA's, but there are also $50 PDA's. You can't justify your avoidance on cost and I personally think the "I like to get away from computers...." arguement is rediculous. If you were a bus driver, this would be equivilent to saying you want to go on vacation, without being subject to a car/bus/whatever-can-be-driven.
Hell, if its notess you want, get a $10 mini-cassette recorder, and just talk into it. It will be much easier to deal with then pen and paper anyway.
That kind of reasoning will be your downfall my friend. Should I have my webpages 100k a piece with 30k images all over the place, just because the majority of people have broadband? Should I insert obscene amounts of worthless features into my application, requiring it to have a 2000+ rated processor and buttload of ram, just because this is what the average home user has?
When you go above 128kbps, most formats become indistiguishable from the uncompressed sample. I mean hell, most people CAN NOT hear the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and the unmangled sample it came from. For this test to work, it has to be within the threshhold of the subjects to HEAR where the compression scheme lacks.
This is EXACTALLY what happened with OS/2. With WinOS2, there was no reason to write applications in the OS/2 api, because if you used the windows API, you are guaranteed one more OS your app can run on.
And a lot of people don't realize it, but the same is of course true wint Winnt/2k/XP. The Windows API is on top/along side the actual Native NT API (convienient since NT evolved from OS/2)... and how many Native NT applications do you know of?
The point of this isnt REALLY about who stole what, but all of the freedoms... legitimate freedoms we lose so that Super Corp X can keep a few more dollars. And the sad thing is it is perpetual... the more rights they take away, the easier it will be for them to do it again... and again. Until we have nothing left.
I started porting this to sparc 32 as a kind of contribution to the Aurora Linux project, but damn is that tedious. I dont even know of a distro that has an up to date port for sparc 32... except maybe gentoo, and I still think it lags behind a little.
I spent way too much of my life on this game. As stupid as it sounds, I am thankful for my mother thinkng D&D was a satanic cult and grounding me for weeks for playing it. Else, I would be... not the person I am... and I don't mean that in a good way.
Its not exactally a "port" in the sense that they took the source code and recompiled/tweaked them for this platform. They took the middleground between porting and emulation. I dont know if it was here at slashdot, or elsewhere, but they explained how they translate the games opcode by opcode to work on the GBA from the SNES.
Ok, so its ASSOCIATED with some random application (3d studio max), but ANYTHING that does 3d will read/write to a.3ds file, if they take themselves seriously. Whats wrong with that?
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Yeah, because that USB drive will only cost me $20+ and then a USB card... another $20. How about just a FASTER DRIVE, so that I can use my still existing floppies.
Forget batteries. Why the hell is my FLOPPY DRIVES still read at the speed they did back in the 386 days.
Throw some more heads on there, work some evil voodoo magic, I dont care. I would pay good money for a floppy drive that could read an entire floppy in seconds.
This reminds me of a Married with Childeren episode, where Peg gets a Personal Trainer. Only after a couple of days, the trainer is sitting on the couch, smoking and eating bon-bons with Peg.... then he dies.
Al points out that he was a well maintained machine, so when he started taking in things such as this full on, when he never has, his body shocked. Same is most likely true for you.
Boy, dont you just sound like a Weight Watchers instructor.
... MULTITUDES of people, where changing their diet alone WILL NOT WORK for weight loss. They might not GAIN so much weight, but excersize ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS will beat out a diet. Hands down. A diet should be supplimental to your excersize ordeal.
Before you get the opinion I am some sort of fat monkey, rest assured, I am in fantastic shape.
With that, there are LOADS of people
Mostly related, the water all of the time approach is actually a cause of a lot of people quitting such things. Esecially women, that water goes somewhere... and weights a lot. Someone a bit nieve will only look at the scale, and not be happy with the constant need to urinate, with the added bloat. Soda is NOT bad for you in moderation. As a matter of fact, during/after excersize is a GREAT time to have a soda. Your body is out of carbs, and it needs some. If you are terribly lazy, then the body will take your muscle AS WELL as fat along with it, if it has to rely on body material for energy. Until those muscles are solid, you DO NOT want to deprive your body of things... muscles are whats going to help burn that lazy fat while you are doing nothing
You are kidding, right?
... was... amazing. Much more so then I had seen before... thought before.
I was skepical myself of how "great" HDTV could be until I was at walmart by some off chance, and they had an HDTV program on this time rather then a regular signal... and it
If you really have that opionion, then you havent REALLY experienced HDTV yet.
The reason is, there can be no confusion between "FreeBSD the kernel" and "FreeBSD the operating system". One kernel... one "distro".. even if you are confused, it doesnt really matter. Linux on the other hand is very import to make the distinction between "Linux the Kernel" and "Linux the operating system". There will be a day when the Linux kernel powers an OS that isnt just a Unix wannabe. Then what? Poor grandma just knows Billy told her to get Linux... and she sees all of these boxes with Linux on it... but what it was really saying was "Powered by Linux"... what does that mean?
But they ARE GNU/Linux. If I were to take the Linux kernel, and magically craft a win32 compatible OS out of it... or a BeOS clone, it wouldnt "Be Linux" to coin the bastardized term. You need to seperate the kernel from the whole operating system... then it will all make better sense.
Dude... ok, call me an ASS, but this is EXACTALLY the point of a PDA.
As for expensive, what exactally IS your budget? Sure there ARE $500 PDA's, but there are also $50 PDA's. You can't justify your avoidance on cost and I personally think the "I like to get away from computers...." arguement is rediculous. If you were a bus driver, this would be equivilent to saying you want to go on vacation, without being subject to a car/bus/whatever-can-be-driven.
Hell, if its notess you want, get a $10 mini-cassette recorder, and just talk into it. It will be much easier to deal with then pen and paper anyway.
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That kind of reasoning will be your downfall my friend. Should I have my webpages 100k a piece with 30k images all over the place, just because the majority of people have broadband? Should I insert obscene amounts of worthless features into my application, requiring it to have a 2000+ rated processor and buttload of ram, just because this is what the average home user has?
When you go above 128kbps, most formats become indistiguishable from the uncompressed sample. I mean hell, most people CAN NOT hear the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and the unmangled sample it came from. For this test to work, it has to be within the threshhold of the subjects to HEAR where the compression scheme lacks.
You're a java programmer, aren't you?
This is EXACTALLY what happened with OS/2. With WinOS2, there was no reason to write applications in the OS/2 api, because if you used the windows API, you are guaranteed one more OS your app can run on.
And a lot of people don't realize it, but the same is of course true wint Winnt/2k/XP. The Windows API is on top/along side the actual Native NT API (convienient since NT evolved from OS/2)... and how many Native NT applications do you know of?
If you found it complete and utter crap, then I question if you could even comprehend its contents.
I recommend the OpenGL Super Bible as a good reference book too.
The math I use the most in my programming is matrix math. You will find this used lots, especially in 3d graphics/physics.
The point of this isnt REALLY about who stole what, but all of the freedoms... legitimate freedoms we lose so that Super Corp X can keep a few more dollars. And the sad thing is it is perpetual... the more rights they take away, the easier it will be for them to do it again... and again. Until we have nothing left.
Think Saturn.
GNU/Linux is what we know as the "operating system".
Please Drive Through.
I started porting this to sparc 32 as a kind of contribution to the Aurora Linux project, but damn is that tedious. I dont even know of a distro that has an up to date port for sparc 32... except maybe gentoo, and I still think it lags behind a little.
Saves on having to hunt down and kill the jerk that forks NetBSD and calls it NetBSD. This would have saved a lot of hell with MySQL.
I spent way too much of my life on this game. As stupid as it sounds, I am thankful for my mother thinkng D&D was a satanic cult and grounding me for weeks for playing it. Else, I would be ... not the person I am... and I don't mean that in a good way.
Its not exactally a "port" in the sense that they took the source code and recompiled/tweaked them for this platform. They took the middleground between porting and emulation. I dont know if it was here at slashdot, or elsewhere, but they explained how they translate the games opcode by opcode to work on the GBA from the SNES.
Ok, so its ASSOCIATED with some random application (3d studio max), but ANYTHING that does 3d will read/write to a .3ds file, if they take themselves seriously. Whats wrong with that?
A lot of these "features" were present in the 3dfx Voodoo 5 line... and since Nvidia aquired them, I would have to say this is their implementation.