How can you say the PSX dual shock controller was an ergonomic nightmare after the horror that M$ unleashed with the first XBox controller? Not to mention the fact that my original Dual Shock controller is still functional, unlike those classic N64 controllers.... you know, the ones where the joystick would wear out after a few months use?
Your statement about tossing the "64 bit processor" isn't true. The N64 never actually had one 64 bit processor. What did have was a 32 bit graphics processor and 32 bit sound coprocessor - when you add the two of those together, you get 64 bits... hence N64. Just a marketing ploy by Nintendo.
2 steps away from LFS? Hardly. Having installed both systems, and actively maintained my LFS system, I can tell you right now that Gentoo's gotta be about 5 steps away at the very least. Gentoo: No checking source code for errors, no manual patch application, no having to write your own initscripts, no having to tweak your/dev entries, the list goes on.
I've had the chance to use vector before, and I have to say it's the cleanest distro I've ever come across. No bloat, no extra features, no bizillion things starting at system boot.
The last time I used a public phone was probably only a couple months ago, when I was out without my cell phone and needed to phone somebody. Believe it or not, not everyone has a working cell phone on them at all times, and the ability to make phone calls from a public place at a nominal fee really is useful.
The situation you're thinking of is the one where competition produces overlap, redundancies and inefficiencies. In Canada, for example, Rogers has a monopoly on the installation, maintenance and management of cable TV lines. They can also sell cable access over these lines, but so can everyone else. Bell has a similar monopoly over telephone infrastructure, but other companies can sell services over this infrastructure. This is because having two companies put down phone lines down the same street is inefficient - you only need one phone line, not two. Having only one phone line benefits the consumer. Having only one company sell services over the phone line does NOT benefit the consumer.
I agree completely. The fact that the Green Party has, and continues to move in this ludicrous direction despite all the evidence is just sad.
Let's play a simple game: take off your socks so you can count all your fingers and toes. Now, count up all the people who have been killed by functioning nuclear power reactors in North America. That's easy: you can count to zero with your socks on. Now try doing the same thing for deaths from coal and oil burning plants this year (hint: you may need to get a few hundred friends)
When I was a kid, I literally wore out the VHS copy of Spaceballs I owned... I used to be able to pretty accurately quote the entire movie to boot. Of course, the problem right now is that most of us are adults/mature-type people. Most of us watched Spaceballs when we were kids, and watching people get shot in the crotch was funny. So there's bound to be all sorts of bitching if Mel Brooks makes another kids' movie, and we all go "wtf the guy gets hit in the crotch, that wasn't in the first one at all the first was so much better omgwtf..... oh wait"
In case you haven't noticed, the Japanese haven't been launching hostile invasions of soveriegn states recently. Nor are they sitting on the world's largest stockpile of WMDs. The British were part of the Coalition of the Willing, granted, but their leaders didn't start the whole thing, and past precedent indicates they probably won't start anything like that in the future (note: by past precedent, I mean the recent past, not the colonial/imperial domination past). As for the Chinese, they seem to be more focused on xenophobia right now than anything else. As long as they contiue with their current rate of economic growth, the rest of the world doesn't have too much to complain with about the Chinese leadership (beyond those pesky human rights violations).
In the past ten or fiteeen years, how many countries has the US bombed? How many civilians have been killed by US military actions? How many regions have been contaminated by the use of "high-tech" American weaponry (first Agent Orange, then depleted uranium shells)? Which nuclear power has been most vocal about moving away from the current state of MAD? The good ol' US of A has the worst history of stepping on other peoples' toes and the greatest potential for damage out of all the democratic nations on Earth. Shouldn't it be obvious why we all have opinions on this upcoming election?
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How can you say the PSX dual shock controller was an ergonomic nightmare after the horror that M$ unleashed with the first XBox controller? Not to mention the fact that my original Dual Shock controller is still functional, unlike those classic N64 controllers .... you know, the ones where the joystick would wear out after a few months use?
Your statement about tossing the "64 bit processor" isn't true. The N64 never actually had one 64 bit processor. What did have was a 32 bit graphics processor and 32 bit sound coprocessor - when you add the two of those together, you get 64 bits ... hence N64. Just a marketing ploy by Nintendo.
2 steps away from LFS? Hardly. Having installed both systems, and actively maintained my LFS system, I can tell you right now that Gentoo's gotta be about 5 steps away at the very least. /dev entries, the list goes on.
Gentoo: No checking source code for errors, no manual patch application, no having to write your own initscripts, no having to tweak your
I've had the chance to use vector before, and I have to say it's the cleanest distro I've ever come across. No bloat, no extra features, no bizillion things starting at system boot.
The last time I used a public phone was probably only a couple months ago, when I was out without my cell phone and needed to phone somebody. Believe it or not, not everyone has a working cell phone on them at all times, and the ability to make phone calls from a public place at a nominal fee really is useful.
The situation you're thinking of is the one where competition produces overlap, redundancies and inefficiencies. In Canada, for example, Rogers has a monopoly on the installation, maintenance and management of cable TV lines. They can also sell cable access over these lines, but so can everyone else. Bell has a similar monopoly over telephone infrastructure, but other companies can sell services over this infrastructure. This is because having two companies put down phone lines down the same street is inefficient - you only need one phone line, not two. Having only one phone line benefits the consumer. Having only one company sell services over the phone line does NOT benefit the consumer.
I agree completely. The fact that the Green Party has, and continues to move in this ludicrous direction despite all the evidence is just sad.
Let's play a simple game: take off your socks so you can count all your fingers and toes. Now, count up all the people who have been killed by functioning nuclear power reactors in North America. That's easy: you can count to zero with your socks on. Now try doing the same thing for deaths from coal and oil burning plants this year (hint: you may need to get a few hundred friends)
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... I used to be able to pretty accurately quote the entire movie to boot. Of course, the problem right now is that most of us are adults/mature-type people. Most of us watched Spaceballs when we were kids, and watching people get shot in the crotch was funny. So there's bound to be all sorts of bitching if Mel Brooks makes another kids' movie, and we all go "wtf the guy gets hit in the crotch, that wasn't in the first one at all the first was so much better omgwtf ..... oh wait"
When I was a kid, I literally wore out the VHS copy of Spaceballs I owned
In case you haven't noticed, the Japanese haven't been launching hostile invasions of soveriegn states recently. Nor are they sitting on the world's largest stockpile of WMDs. The British were part of the Coalition of the Willing, granted, but their leaders didn't start the whole thing, and past precedent indicates they probably won't start anything like that in the future (note: by past precedent, I mean the recent past, not the colonial/imperial domination past). As for the Chinese, they seem to be more focused on xenophobia right now than anything else. As long as they contiue with their current rate of economic growth, the rest of the world doesn't have too much to complain with about the Chinese leadership (beyond those pesky human rights violations).
In the past ten or fiteeen years, how many countries has the US bombed? How many civilians have been killed by US military actions? How many regions have been contaminated by the use of "high-tech" American weaponry (first Agent Orange, then depleted uranium shells)? Which nuclear power has been most vocal about moving away from the current state of MAD? The good ol' US of A has the worst history of stepping on other peoples' toes and the greatest potential for damage out of all the democratic nations on Earth. Shouldn't it be obvious why we all have opinions on this upcoming election?