I was probably a bit unclear, by "PC's" I meant computers in general. Those specific platforms might be a bit behind these days (sorry, I'm a diehard Commodore user), but my point is that the market for computer games is alive and well. Since people still use computers, there's still a market for computer games, even if consoles have all kinds of advantages from the software houses point of view.
I have a computer magazine (Svenska Hemdatornytt) from April 1988 here that says the same thing (Amiga, Atari, PC and C64 will soon be dead as gaming platforms! Everybody will focus on Nintendo and Sega in the near future!). And I've been reading the same stuff over and over again for the past 20 years.
As long as people use "PC's", there will be a huge market for games, and there will be new (major) games for them, no matter how much more convenient it is to develop for some console.
Different on different markets I guess. Here in Sweden I see TV-commercials for NOD32 all the time. Assuming you're from the US, I guess they might be focusing on the EU market?
Seconded. My Logitech X-blahasomething broke a few weeks ago. First I replaced it with a spare usb keyboard I had lying around, which worked well enough. However, a week after that I found a Model M (1391411 to be exact, the Swedish version of 1391401) in the attic, and thought "why not"?
Wow.
I had totally forgotten how great these things are to type on, not to mention how easy it was to clean it after 10+ years in a dusty attic - just take off the keys and scrub them in the sink!
It's a bit like fishing. Can be hard to get a good catch and you have to know where to look, but it's easier if you use something like nzbmatrix.com that indexes the fish.
And I don't get who they got so populair in the first place. I mean, in 1999 - on a 56k modem - I guess it was OK to download warez from websites, but today? Why would anyone choose that over Bittorrent or the thing that should not be mentioned (but starts with a "U")?
Nonsense. I have around 17000 C64 games in my collection, and at least 7000 demos. I don't how many applications there are in total, but I bet two sacks of gold it's at least 100.000.
And what's that about "Major Hollywood releases available for download same date as DVD"? No, but a lot of titles hit the shops the same day as the movie they were based on premiered at the cinema.
On the one hand it's nice to see stuff about the C64 on Slashdot, but it's kinda silly when it's because of some stupid blogpost that hasn't been researched for more than 2 minutes.
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Behind bars? They're going to appeal. They won't serve any jail time or have to pay anything until after this case have been decided by Högsta domstolen, or Hovrätten if it goes that far. And that will take years.
Why not shoot the people of Florida? I can't imagine people being happy about living in crowded, polluted cities all the time. The population is way too big and alligators, unlike humans, doesn't destroy the environment or to drive other species to extinction. Not to mention that they were there first.
> Sorry if it offends but many of us are actually very proud of our country
It doesn't offent me, I just find it bizarre (I wasn't trolling, it was an honest question). But I kind of understand it better now thanks for the insightful poster below who talked about ethnicity vs citizenship.
Could someone please explain this to me, why does Americans see the need to constantly surround themselves with US flags?
To most (non-american) people that's just plain bizarre. Outside the USA, you'll only see it in dictatorships that tries to whip up unity/loyalty for to state, but obvously it's not quite the same thing here (since americans spam their surroundings with US flags by their own free will, not by a state decree). Are the majority of the population so bad at geography that they have to see a flag to know what country they're in? Or would people assume that General Ann Dunwoody is Canadian or (gasp!) French if it wasn't for the flag in the background?
How is this news? You get a... (checking local carriers) HP 550 or Toshiba S300 at *no* extra cost when you sign up for a normal 24 month mobile broadband subscription here (Sweden), and this has been common for years.
Or is this some US-specific backwardness, like paying for recieving calls? (no offense intended, but the US market really does seem to be 10 years behind the rest of the developed world, at least judging from slashdot-articles:-))
America's biggest image problem is that people around the world can't distinguish between an American and the Federal Government of the United States of America.
I don't think so. Lots of Europeans dislike the US government and are "concerned" (to put it midly) about the american people because of http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml. We can understand the Bush-phenomena since all countries have that kind of politicians, but it's a bit harder to understand the 19th century mentality of (the majority of?) americans.
However, most americans who come here (Europe) to work or study are rational and civilized (at least the ones I've met) and therefore appreciated. (Except for the missionaries, who are seen as some kind of excotic animals.)
Seconded. After 3 years handling, among other things, the abuse-department of a very large webhost, I'm convinced that online crime is almost 100% risk-free.
And it's not just "minor" stuff like phishing or spamming, or scamming people with "nigerian" mails that's riskfree, I've had a few cases were we or our customers reported people who used stolen creditcards, people who were traceable since they were stupid enough to use their own home connection (in other words, I had their real IP-address and logs with timestamps)... and the police (in Sweden) basically said "sorry, we don't have the time, manpower or competence to do anything".
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Thanks. I'm visiting Iceland in 3 weeks, will be good to know some useful words!
I was probably a bit unclear, by "PC's" I meant computers in general. Those specific platforms might be a bit behind these days (sorry, I'm a diehard Commodore user), but my point is that the market for computer games is alive and well. Since people still use computers, there's still a market for computer games, even if consoles have all kinds of advantages from the software houses point of view.
I have a computer magazine (Svenska Hemdatornytt) from April 1988 here that says the same thing (Amiga, Atari, PC and C64 will soon be dead as gaming platforms! Everybody will focus on Nintendo and Sega in the near future!). And I've been reading the same stuff over and over again for the past 20 years.
As long as people use "PC's", there will be a huge market for games, and there will be new (major) games for them, no matter how much more convenient it is to develop for some console.
Different on different markets I guess. Here in Sweden I see TV-commercials for NOD32 all the time. Assuming you're from the US, I guess they might be focusing on the EU market?
Seconded. My Logitech X-blahasomething broke a few weeks ago. First I replaced it with a spare usb keyboard I had lying around, which worked well enough. However, a week after that I found a Model M (1391411 to be exact, the Swedish version of 1391401) in the attic, and thought "why not"?
Wow.
I had totally forgotten how great these things are to type on, not to mention how easy it was to clean it after 10+ years in a dusty attic - just take off the keys and scrub them in the sink!
It's a bit like fishing. Can be hard to get a good catch and you have to know where to look, but it's easier if you use something like nzbmatrix.com that indexes the fish.
And I don't get who they got so populair in the first place. I mean, in 1999 - on a 56k modem - I guess it was OK to download warez from websites, but today? Why would anyone choose that over Bittorrent or the thing that should not be mentioned (but starts with a "U")?
"Total applications available 10,000"
Nonsense. I have around 17000 C64 games in my collection, and at least 7000 demos. I don't how many applications there are in total, but I bet two sacks of gold it's at least 100.000.
And what's that about "Major Hollywood releases available for download same date as DVD"? No, but a lot of titles hit the shops the same day as the movie they were based on premiered at the cinema.
On the one hand it's nice to see stuff about the C64 on Slashdot, but it's kinda silly when it's because of some stupid blogpost that hasn't been researched for more than 2 minutes.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone has built an flash-based storage device for them.
Yep, there's plenty of flash-storage solutions for the C64. I'm using MMC replay (http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/MMC_Replay) and uIEC (http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/uIEC)
Short .nfo:
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"Orrin Hatch reminds of putrid old snatch."
"The beta is currently available for every modern OS platform."
Really? Says who? I can't find any such statement on Operas site, and if it's true - where's the build for AmigaOS 4.1?
deaths of thousands in Vietnam
Uhm, death of millions (acccording to wikipedia).
It's not just the tiny amount of dead americans that counts.
Behind bars? They're going to appeal. They won't serve any jail time or have to pay anything until after this case have been decided by Högsta domstolen, or Hovrätten if it goes that far. And that will take years.
Why not shoot the people of Florida? I can't imagine people being happy about living in crowded, polluted cities all the time. The population is way too big and alligators, unlike humans, doesn't destroy the environment or to drive other species to extinction. Not to mention that they were there first.
That's science fiction, not archaeology.
> Every act of stealing a song doesn't mean the person stealing would have purchased the song, for example.
Pirating, not stealing. If the song had been stolen then I guess the figures could be right, since the artist/record company wouldn't have it anymore.
Perhaps people who are actually interested in computers?
But I understand that kids who just want an intarnetbox to access myspace would be less interested.
I think your memory is playing tricks on you.
The A2000HD came with a 50MB harddrive, it did however have 1MB ram (and the diskdrive takes 880k disks).
> Sorry if it offends but many of us are actually very proud of our country
It doesn't offent me, I just find it bizarre (I wasn't trolling, it was an honest question). But I kind of understand it better now thanks for the insightful poster below who talked about ethnicity vs citizenship.
Thanks, that's the best explanation I've seen so far. I would mod you +1 insightful if I could.
Could someone please explain this to me, why does Americans see the need to constantly surround themselves with US flags?
To most (non-american) people that's just plain bizarre. Outside the USA, you'll only see it in dictatorships that tries to whip up unity/loyalty for to state, but obvously it's not quite the same thing here (since americans spam their surroundings with US flags by their own free will, not by a state decree). Are the majority of the population so bad at geography that they have to see a flag to know what country they're in? Or would people assume that General Ann Dunwoody is Canadian or (gasp!) French if it wasn't for the flag in the background?
How is this news? You get a... (checking local carriers) HP 550 or Toshiba S300 at *no* extra cost when you sign up for a normal 24 month mobile broadband subscription here (Sweden), and this has been common for years.
:-))
Or is this some US-specific backwardness, like paying for recieving calls? (no offense intended, but the US market really does seem to be 10 years behind the rest of the developed world, at least judging from slashdot-articles
America's biggest image problem is that people around the world can't distinguish between an American and the Federal Government of the United States of America.
I don't think so. Lots of Europeans dislike the US government and are "concerned" (to put it midly) about the american people because of http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml. We can understand the Bush-phenomena since all countries have that kind of politicians, but it's a bit harder to understand the 19th century mentality of (the majority of?) americans.
However, most americans who come here (Europe) to work or study are rational and civilized (at least the ones I've met) and therefore appreciated. (Except for the missionaries, who are seen as some kind of excotic animals.)
Seconded. After 3 years handling, among other things, the abuse-department of a very large webhost, I'm convinced that online crime is almost 100% risk-free.
And it's not just "minor" stuff like phishing or spamming, or scamming people with "nigerian" mails that's riskfree, I've had a few cases were we or our customers reported people who used stolen creditcards, people who were traceable since they were stupid enough to use their own home connection (in other words, I had their real IP-address and logs with timestamps)... and the police (in Sweden) basically said "sorry, we don't have the time, manpower or competence to do anything".
Ok. Reality for most people is sad, but point taken.
It really sucks that we live in a world where most people have to be "slaves".