When my granddad was in the hospital with a repirator and a feeding tube and all that, we got a smaller whiteboard, and velcro'd a marker and eraser to it. Worked very well.
Fine. Please direct me to the nearest place I can purchase a new-in-box copy of, say, Chrono Trigger for Super Nintendo, not for PSX with craptastic load times. Or how about a copy of Earthbound. What about the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for NES. I would buy those new if I could without paying an insane price on eBay for the priviledge. Not like you see any profit from those sales anyways. Unfortunately, that is nearly impossible. So I get these games from Game Crazy, or eBay. I get most of my games on current-gen systems new, but older systems are out of the question.
nVidia seems to support those obscure/non-mainstream OS/distros pretty well. They have drivers designed for solaris(x86), FreeBSD, and the linux one works fine for me on Arch Linux. Just seems you'll have problems with a non x86 computer.
You fail to understand that
-Photo/video editors
-music/video players
-web browsers
-IM clients
-email clients, etc.
are all necessary parts of any OS
I call bullshit. None of those are necessary on a game console, even though they run an OS. None of those are required on Linux, either. I do not need any of those on, say, a dedicated Nethack machine.
Last time I reinstalled, I rebooted into Linux right after I had my drivers in place and tar.bz2'd the thing. My install hasn't gotten laggy yet, but when it does I'll have 90% of the work done for me already. The rest is pretty much reinstalling registry fanatic software.
At least my high school did. They offer a few computer classes, from programming to web design to hardware and networking. All through the year we surplused out old P2s, and a few of the student techs (including me) got to dig through the machines before they went to the warehouse. At the end of the year, one of the computer teachers had a old P2 and a P3 that he didn't need, and couldn't surplus since they were donated, not standard equipment provided by the school. I was in the right place at the right time, and picked them up for free. The p2 was pretty much useless, since it was slow and was one of those cases that bring pain to even look into, but the P3 was an old IBM. Put the memory and the hard drive into the P3, trashed the p2, and brought it home. Linuxed it up, made sure the network cards and RAM were good, tossed in a couple of large hard drives for data, and I've got my server. I also got a better P3 (450MHz=>600MHz) for free from a friend from a computer he was junking, so it's a rather decent server.
Colleges also have high tech turnover rates, so check them, too.
The fact of the matter is that many VCR's and DVD players already have this type of display-based DRM. Many DVD's will not play if they detect a VCR between the DVD player and the television. You don't see very many people objecting to this...
I whine like a little girl about this. I could buy a new TV, but the one I've got, combined with a VCR, is great for playing video game consoles. Because someone had a hissy fit, even though I can play DVDs on my ps2, they aren't watchable. The only movies I've been able to watch recently were usual suspects, and aqua teen hunger force. My video card has 3 types of inputs. If I plug my ps2 in to that, I still can't watch it. But start up my favorite file sharing app, and I can get my movie and start watching it. When I move out to go to college somewhere else, I'm not probably getting a new TV or computer, so I'm SOL for watching my DVDs. It really sucks, since I'd like to be able to watch movies legally. But I can't without putting a couple hundred dollars into a new TV. Fuck it, I'll just download them.
during any time between helping teachers, me and the rest of the high school tech class played starcraft brood war almost every time. Our teacher did, too. You can play in the same net game with the same cdkey, or the battle chest is only 20 bucks. We also played Soldat a bit, and Worms World Party. WCIII was played, even though it lagged to hell on our dells with onboard video. I also got a few other students to play stepmania with me, though that can get expensive on the disk space fast. I would have loved to get some quake running, but I never found a copy of it to use, and I was sad.
When I started using linux a few months ago, I had a second hard drive that I installed linux too, so I could just change the boot device to switch. I had to reinstall windows a couple weeks later, and when I tried to go back to linux, it kept booting into windows. pulled the windows drive, got Windows cannot be found. So I learned how to reinstall grub, and decided windows can fuck off. worse than a malicious website, it hijacked my boot sector.
You're talking about running down to the navarro base and getting around 15000 exp, advanced power armor, and a pulse rifle, super sledgehammer, whatever pleases you, right? Try doing it with a character that can't even speak right. Getting into navarro without murdering chris is a bitch. Excellent reward, and it somehow manages to not totally ruin the difficulty of the game. I'd play it more, but wine has an annoying glitch in the code that handles the fades. Takes over 30 seconds to fade out the main menu, on a athlon xp 2600, even with the april 05 version pulled with pacman. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=319 is the appdb entry for it. If I wasn't doing all this formality crap for my graduation I'd play FO2 until I fall asleep tonight.
Super Metroid is a better example. There is so much cool stuff you can do, staying within what the game gives you, that I don't think we'll ever perfect it. http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?boar d=588741 is the super metroid board on gamefaqs, probably the best SM players in the world are there.
Wait, burning the music to a CD in raw music format, as it is on a normal CD, then taking that to a different computer and ripping the audio, in say, winamp with the lame mp3 encoder will produce the same WMA file that the audio source is from?
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keep the gas tax as a mileage tax, and tax vehicles by weight at registration to compensate for road wear
chrome 9 beta channel: 665+69+9411 (13070)
ie9 beta: 159+3+2779 (3352)
galaxy s fascinate (eclair): 148+1+1397 (2310) (getting froyo last october >_>)
pc's running an i3 @2.13
sounds like you don't need an HTML5/JS benchmark all that much, then.
When my granddad was in the hospital with a repirator and a feeding tube and all that, we got a smaller whiteboard, and velcro'd a marker and eraser to it. Worked very well.
The Fred Meyer by my house has a confirmed 2 60GB and 2 20GB shipment of PS3s.
Agreed. The new flavor, Khaos, is probably the best tasting energy drink I've consumed.
Looks like when I get a Athlon 64 setup, I'll just be using XP. The Ext2/3 driver is too useful to go without on a dual-boot system.
Fine. Please direct me to the nearest place I can purchase a new-in-box copy of, say, Chrono Trigger for Super Nintendo, not for PSX with craptastic load times. Or how about a copy of Earthbound. What about the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games for NES. I would buy those new if I could without paying an insane price on eBay for the priviledge. Not like you see any profit from those sales anyways. Unfortunately, that is nearly impossible. So I get these games from Game Crazy, or eBay. I get most of my games on current-gen systems new, but older systems are out of the question.
nVidia seems to support those obscure/non-mainstream OS/distros pretty well. They have drivers designed for solaris(x86), FreeBSD, and the linux one works fine for me on Arch Linux. Just seems you'll have problems with a non x86 computer.
You fail to understand that
-Photo/video editors
-music/video players
-web browsers
-IM clients
-email clients, etc.
are all necessary parts of any OS
I call bullshit. None of those are necessary on a game console, even though they run an OS. None of those are required on Linux, either. I do not need any of those on, say, a dedicated Nethack machine.
Damn, that's awesome. Didn't know you could do that in screen. Thanks for the tip.
Last time I reinstalled, I rebooted into Linux right after I had my drivers in place and tar.bz2'd the thing. My install hasn't gotten laggy yet, but when it does I'll have 90% of the work done for me already. The rest is pretty much reinstalling registry fanatic software.
At least my high school did. They offer a few computer classes, from programming to web design to hardware and networking. All through the year we surplused out old P2s, and a few of the student techs (including me) got to dig through the machines before they went to the warehouse. At the end of the year, one of the computer teachers had a old P2 and a P3 that he didn't need, and couldn't surplus since they were donated, not standard equipment provided by the school. I was in the right place at the right time, and picked them up for free. The p2 was pretty much useless, since it was slow and was one of those cases that bring pain to even look into, but the P3 was an old IBM. Put the memory and the hard drive into the P3, trashed the p2, and brought it home. Linuxed it up, made sure the network cards and RAM were good, tossed in a couple of large hard drives for data, and I've got my server. I also got a better P3 (450MHz=>600MHz) for free from a friend from a computer he was junking, so it's a rather decent server.
Colleges also have high tech turnover rates, so check them, too.
don't know if you've got enough upload, but try http://httpd.apache.org/ I've got no problems with my DIY web hosting, but YMMV.
I did this at school as a student tech. Hell, another tech changed the start up shell to firefox.
I had Starcraft blue screen on me. On a regularly patched and scanned computer. I've never had Starcraft die on me in Linux under Wine.
The fact of the matter is that many VCR's and DVD players already have this type of display-based DRM. Many DVD's will not play if they detect a VCR between the DVD player and the television. You don't see very many people objecting to this... I whine like a little girl about this. I could buy a new TV, but the one I've got, combined with a VCR, is great for playing video game consoles. Because someone had a hissy fit, even though I can play DVDs on my ps2, they aren't watchable. The only movies I've been able to watch recently were usual suspects, and aqua teen hunger force. My video card has 3 types of inputs. If I plug my ps2 in to that, I still can't watch it. But start up my favorite file sharing app, and I can get my movie and start watching it. When I move out to go to college somewhere else, I'm not probably getting a new TV or computer, so I'm SOL for watching my DVDs. It really sucks, since I'd like to be able to watch movies legally. But I can't without putting a couple hundred dollars into a new TV. Fuck it, I'll just download them.
during any time between helping teachers, me and the rest of the high school tech class played starcraft brood war almost every time. Our teacher did, too. You can play in the same net game with the same cdkey, or the battle chest is only 20 bucks. We also played Soldat a bit, and Worms World Party. WCIII was played, even though it lagged to hell on our dells with onboard video. I also got a few other students to play stepmania with me, though that can get expensive on the disk space fast. I would have loved to get some quake running, but I never found a copy of it to use, and I was sad.
When I started using linux a few months ago, I had a second hard drive that I installed linux too, so I could just change the boot device to switch. I had to reinstall windows a couple weeks later, and when I tried to go back to linux, it kept booting into windows. pulled the windows drive, got Windows cannot be found. So I learned how to reinstall grub, and decided windows can fuck off. worse than a malicious website, it hijacked my boot sector.
Actually some part of dos will likely still be in longhorn. I've found parts of win3.1 in XP, i'm sure there's some that i'm not aware of from dos.
just use your computer like a normal person
You must be new here. Where's the fun in Word and Excel?
You're talking about running down to the navarro base and getting around 15000 exp, advanced power armor, and a pulse rifle, super sledgehammer, whatever pleases you, right? Try doing it with a character that can't even speak right. Getting into navarro without murdering chris is a bitch. Excellent reward, and it somehow manages to not totally ruin the difficulty of the game.
I'd play it more, but wine has an annoying glitch in the code that handles the fades. Takes over 30 seconds to fade out the main menu, on a athlon xp 2600, even with the april 05 version pulled with pacman. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=319 is the appdb entry for it. If I wasn't doing all this formality crap for my graduation I'd play FO2 until I fall asleep tonight.
don't know if they're religious, but starcraft has zealots. Also you can blow up a cathedral in Fallout, and slaughter a cult in Fallout 2.
Super Metroid is a better example. There is so much cool stuff you can do, staying within what the game gives you, that I don't think we'll ever perfect it. http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?boar d=588741 is the super metroid board on gamefaqs, probably the best SM players in the world are there.
Wait, burning the music to a CD in raw music format, as it is on a normal CD, then taking that to a different computer and ripping the audio, in say, winamp with the lame mp3 encoder will produce the same WMA file that the audio source is from?