Current X-box won't do, because it's already there, and someone could actually check the claims your company spouts out.
next-generation X-boxes are a fantastic hype-o-thetical benchmarking tool for as long as they're unavailable. In the mean time, just to not confuse people with the xbox 360, benchmarks should be performed on the PS3. In related news, their benchmarking tool includes Duke Nukem Forever and its follow-up.
Well, but their system had been open all the time! They should have done this not only because he accessed their pc's, but just because anyone could have accessed it! It seems pretty unfair that the damage repair that their lack of security caused should be paid by the one who more or less found out about it. But that's the way things go, huh, seen enough movies about this to know that it's true;)
GP's remark and the other remarks I read that wince 5.0 already had.Net compatibility makes me wonder a bit if this is a remake or an update? Maybe they're just misusing their numbering system to hide the fact that they just needed some bugsfixes on 5.0 out.
Anyway, it doesn't sound like a too good idea, I guess the manufacturers that just put 5.0 on their devices might be a bit pissed about making a series of devices that just recently came out obsolete with this move.
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I use more or less the same subset, and of course the regexps, but that's about it. Probably this way one misses out on a lot and a lot of vim features that could really speed editing up, but it'd take some effort and time to learn it and remember it, and in the end it just never comes to this:)
Speaking about cheap sci-fi props: why not just re-use existing stuff that looks nice enough, say HP cartridge holders, as subtle decoration of the set:
Is it me or are the people of MT washington really proud on their death rate, publishing all this data on their website. I already found that they're setting up a memorial part with details about the deaths: http://www.mountwashington.com/deaths/details.html.
Maybe they should join with the people from nelson rocks in their quest to make their place really unattractive to tourists.
I wonder if, in the beginning, you could impress your friends by showing how huge your portable phone was:) Can someone explain me the logic here anyway? From experience, I learned the following: Car, house, boat, cooking equipment, TV, reproductive organs should be big, while mobile phones, mp3 player, noses should be small. But how do you know beforehand in what category something will fall?
And where do the laptops fit? 19 inch laptops? 12 inch laptops? I get confused!
Actually, if you look at the videogame, you'll see that they managed to put the pictures in the wrong order: left is the new one, right the old one:)
I've spend a bit of time on www.c64s.com lately, and found out that a lot of the games of the time really weren't worth the effort of loading in. Remember listening to 30 minutes of peeps and squicks to find out that you just loaded an amazingly crappy game? (luckily you got a cracked version from a copied tape for free anyway) The were some real quality games (Commando!!) with very cool sound etc, and the memory just biases to think that all games were better that time. Hell no!
By the way: did anyone ever manage to play Monty Mole with success? I never found out wath the goal was!!! Or Mission Impossible (with the buildings where you had to search lockers), I think I never finished that one
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Come on people, stop whining and enjoy a good bit of nerd nostalgia!:)
As a kid (lucky me), I had a seiko RC-1000 that you could program with a commodore 64! It took a shitload of time to fill in all the data and there was a maximum of 80 lines, but still! I remember trying to program my french homework in it, but in the end it took longer than just learning the work by heart:)
yo, any site that can't be browsed by a simple text interface, w3m or so (be it with broken output), is a broken website. I agree that optimizing sites just to please google is a bad thing, but it's a good thing that one is forced at least this way to make an accessable alternative.
I agree, I think someone can be called tech-savy if they manage to find the right technological tool for their technogical job. For someone who edits videos, he probably found the machine to edit videos with the least effort, which is exactly what technology should be for. Just let me be a bit insulting here, but in some respect, linux is not a very good technological solution in as far you have to do a lot human effort to reach your goal with it (e.g. I have several years of computing experience (with any OS), but configuring my sound card on a debian install requires finding a correct module, recompiling the kernel and I don't know what, I just gave up on this, it doesn't help me to ease things.)
The cool thing of MacOSX is now that if this guy would like to do automated batches of video-editing, he could probably start learning scripts to do this in an efficient way and have all the UNIX-like scripting possibilies at hand.
Configurability is very good, but it shouldn't be in the way for getting simple things done. It's also why I like opera more than mozilla. Opera is the solution for dummies: you do one install and it works, if needed, you can edit the configure file to change your settings. Mozilla, after the default install, misses a lot of functions. It has a world of extensions available, but you'll have to find and test them yourselves. What is the more tech-savy browser solution?
Yeah, but Bic refuses to tell us where all the pens and pencils that get lost end up! They might all be transported to a planet in another galaxy and resaled to us again, who knows?
Maybe if you have them build for cheap in china... I mean, they must have discussed some matter of importance in his villa, don't you think? At least, that's how it went in the last james bond movie I saw that featured meetings of that kind...
Maybe they should first optimize the search, and then optimize the advertizing. It doesn't work the other way around, as people don't use search engines for the ads that are there.
As long as google's search engine is better, everyone will search there. On the other hand google's search engine is still far from flawless, so msn could do a nice job if they improved on that. When people will have an actual reason to use MSN search, advertizers will have a reason to get their ads there.
It's the same way that horoscopes work, just make enough general statements that have at least some chance to hold and at one point you will be right. Since he makes so many widely scattering statements, there will always be a true one. Furthermore, people have a selective memory and will bias the hits over the misses, so he'll earn some predictory status over this in the end.
Science this is not. I could probably show that by citing Popper or the like, if I had actually paid attention during philosophy class instead of sleeping and looking at the girls following the class.
According to the peapod wiki, peapod is now entirely owned by Royal Ahold, which is a pretty big grocer, big enough to survive a major top-management accounting scandal several years ago. Apart from that troubles, it's a very old and stable company, they propably won't run things that are not economically rewarding, so I guess peapod could survive a long long time this way.
Indeed! As a student I had to do lots of group projects. People wrote parts of the report at home, and we merged it all at a PC at the university. We had already gotten courses in styles, so (almost) everybody used that. Success !?! What happens if you mix different version/document language styles? You just get them all in your document! Very nice... So now we had a main report of which half was in 10pt, the rest in 12pt for standard text, and also lots different heading 1, 2, etc.
The only solution to make this more or less representable was by removing all styles and adding them again. In the end I guess we just prepared the text unformatted, and formatted it at only the end. And please, even worse than styles in different word versions, are the picture inclusions! Our group had a very embarassing talk once, because about half of the included pictures where replaced by a big red cross in the powerpoint presentation. It worked on the PC where we prepared it, so we couldn't have known:(
Latex is also not free of blame, though. Recently the suse versions of our PCs at work got upgraded. My A0 poster layout that used to work is now broken for some unknown reason. Maybe different calculation of length units? If someone could help me out on this I'd be quite happy! (Furthermore the scaling of the newest acroread->print-to-file got broken, so I wasn't able to make A4 previews, arghhhh, updates!!!)
I really like how LEGO changed its strategy a few years ago and moved from making a lot of crappy stuff noone was waiting for (harry potter lego, huge single parts that have few connectability options, etc), to making things that their fans are really into: more use of versatile, standard, blocks, and bringing new life to the mindstorms project. I don't know the exact figures but I read somewhere (very vague, I know) that they're actually doing financially better now!
I hope they go on with this, and be an example of how a company that lives of IP can respect the wishes of their buyers and still thrive. That would be nice contrast to other companies that just seem to lock their IP as much as possible and just annoy their clientele (e.g. unplayable CD's due to copy protection etc)
I thought they at least made sure franchise titles went to movies with a decent budget
You haven't seen the prices they currently ask for swimsuits, do you? Even with a 6-figure budget, you'll won't have much left to pay for the less important things like a script-writer etc.
I've always had the easiest installs with openbsd, on a rather exotic motherboard with via C3 processor, I got my sound, video, IBM rapid access keyboard with all extra keys, etc working directly from install. I never had this with any linux version I tried. For the things I want to do: edit files, run a (web)server, listen to music, watch videos, OpenBSD gives me more than enough.
So to me, OpenBSD is just a Good Thing (R) from a practical point of view. I don't bother to have the latest version of everything, but I'm happy when things "just work";) and you can trust that they are solid and safe.
Maybe S3 is not really trying to make this graphic card thing working, but is only interested in starting a new slashdot meme about them, it's cheap advertizing, and can last pretty long.
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next-generation X-boxes are a fantastic hype-o-thetical benchmarking tool for as long as they're unavailable. In the mean time, just to not confuse people with the xbox 360, benchmarks should be performed on the PS3. In related news, their benchmarking tool includes Duke Nukem Forever and its follow-up.
Bearded man have already been a subject of intensive scientific study, so I guess they didn't think it interesting to test more on this topic.
Well, but their system had been open all the time! They should have done this not only because he accessed their pc's, but just because anyone could have accessed it! It seems pretty unfair that the damage repair that their lack of security caused should be paid by the one who more or less found out about it. But that's the way things go, huh, seen enough movies about this to know that it's true ;)
Actual pictures from the Dwarf Galaxy here, here, and here
Anyway, it doesn't sound like a too good idea, I guess the manufacturers that just put 5.0 on their devices might be a bit pissed about making a series of devices that just recently came out obsolete with this move.
I use more or less the same subset, and of course the regexps, but that's about it. Probably this way one misses out on a lot and a lot of vim features that could really speed editing up, but it'd take some effort and time to learn it and remember it, and in the end it just never comes to this :)
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(from: http://fusionanomaly.net/hp.html )
Apparently some people took the effort to make a remake http://montymole.sourceforge.net/
Maybe they should join with the people from nelson rocks in their quest to make their place really unattractive to tourists.
And where do the laptops fit? 19 inch laptops? 12 inch laptops? I get confused!
I've spend a bit of time on www.c64s.com lately, and found out that a lot of the games of the time really weren't worth the effort of loading in. Remember listening to 30 minutes of peeps and squicks to find out that you just loaded an amazingly crappy game? (luckily you got a cracked version from a copied tape for free anyway) The were some real quality games (Commando!!) with very cool sound etc, and the memory just biases to think that all games were better that time. Hell no!
By the way: did anyone ever manage to play Monty Mole with success? I never found out wath the goal was!!! Or Mission Impossible (with the buildings where you had to search lockers), I think I never finished that one
As a kid (lucky me), I had a seiko RC-1000 that you could program with a commodore 64! It took a shitload of time to fill in all the data and there was a maximum of 80 lines, but still! I remember trying to program my french homework in it, but in the end it took longer than just learning the work by heart :)
RC-1000 and other nerd watch nostalgia: http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch/fun2.htm l
yo, any site that can't be browsed by a simple text interface, w3m or so (be it with broken output), is a broken website. I agree that optimizing sites just to please google is a bad thing, but it's a good thing that one is forced at least this way to make an accessable alternative.
The cool thing of MacOSX is now that if this guy would like to do automated batches of video-editing, he could probably start learning scripts to do this in an efficient way and have all the UNIX-like scripting possibilies at hand.
Configurability is very good, but it shouldn't be in the way for getting simple things done. It's also why I like opera more than mozilla. Opera is the solution for dummies: you do one install and it works, if needed, you can edit the configure file to change your settings. Mozilla, after the default install, misses a lot of functions. It has a world of extensions available, but you'll have to find and test them yourselves. What is the more tech-savy browser solution?
Yeah, but Bic refuses to tell us where all the pens and pencils that get lost end up! They might all be transported to a planet in another galaxy and resaled to us again, who knows?
Maybe if you have them build for cheap in china... I mean, they must have discussed some matter of importance in his villa, don't you think? At least, that's how it went in the last james bond movie I saw that featured meetings of that kind...
As long as google's search engine is better, everyone will search there. On the other hand google's search engine is still far from flawless, so msn could do a nice job if they improved on that. When people will have an actual reason to use MSN search, advertizers will have a reason to get their ads there.
Science this is not. I could probably show that by citing Popper or the like, if I had actually paid attention during philosophy class instead of sleeping and looking at the girls following the class.
Yeah, just imagine if Dvorak was right and Apple would start using Intel chips!! When that day will come I will see the pigs fly over!!
Oh, wait...
According to the peapod wiki, peapod is now entirely owned by Royal Ahold, which is a pretty big grocer, big enough to survive a major top-management accounting scandal several years ago. Apart from that troubles, it's a very old and stable company, they propably won't run things that are not economically rewarding, so I guess peapod could survive a long long time this way.
The only solution to make this more or less representable was by removing all styles and adding them again. In the end I guess we just prepared the text unformatted, and formatted it at only the end. And please, even worse than styles in different word versions, are the picture inclusions! Our group had a very embarassing talk once, because about half of the included pictures where replaced by a big red cross in the powerpoint presentation. It worked on the PC where we prepared it, so we couldn't have known :(
Latex is also not free of blame, though. Recently the suse versions of our PCs at work got upgraded. My A0 poster layout that used to work is now broken for some unknown reason. Maybe different calculation of length units? If someone could help me out on this I'd be quite happy! (Furthermore the scaling of the newest acroread->print-to-file got broken, so I wasn't able to make A4 previews, arghhhh, updates!!!)
I hope they go on with this, and be an example of how a company that lives of IP can respect the wishes of their buyers and still thrive. That would be nice contrast to other companies that just seem to lock their IP as much as possible and just annoy their clientele (e.g. unplayable CD's due to copy protection etc)
You haven't seen the prices they currently ask for swimsuits, do you? Even with a 6-figure budget, you'll won't have much left to pay for the less important things like a script-writer etc.
So to me, OpenBSD is just a Good Thing (R) from a practical point of view. I don't bother to have the latest version of everything, but I'm happy when things "just work" ;) and you can trust that they are solid and safe.
Maybe S3 is not really trying to make this graphic card thing working, but is only interested in starting a new slashdot meme about them, it's cheap advertizing, and can last pretty long.