It's weird...back in the day, my dad bought a "2GB" Samsung hard drive. On the drive label (not the box - right on the drive), it said 2.16GB and came up in Windows 95 as 2.00GB. So in the past, they *did* adjust for the difference in GB/GiB...however, it was only ~160MB worth back then. Now they'd have to add 70GB of space to this drive. I guess they don't want to do that.
That 15GB consists mostly of other software bundled with, not OS X. A typical fresh OS X install (with nothing else on it) is around 4GB. Besides, I don't know why anyone would sell a computer with 8GB of flash memory now anyway; that flash HD replacement from SanDisk is already 32GB. If you wanted more, you could always allow for any 1.8" HD (same size as the SanDisk thingy, I think).
What about old *real* rockers, like Judas Priest? KK Downing and Glenn Tipton are guitars KINGS, and would have all the pretty-hair "rockers" for breakfast.
Oh, indeed. Thing is, I don't see them on the list.;) Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll be among the ones not known to the public yet.
And yes, early Iron Maiden and AC/DC were good too.:) But they haven't shown up for this game either (and I figure that the announcement would list off the biggest names in the playlist).
Rock music (especially the "hair metal" that near-defines the decade) sucked in the 80s. Why would you make an entire game of those kinds of tracks? Especially given how diverse the playlists are in the regular GH games.
They look more detailed than the laserdiscs, but are also grainier. If you can stand film grain, by all means. I don't imagine a restored version any time...ever.
Speaking of ipconfig/renew... my BellSouth DSL went down a while back. I called up and got "Jim" from India. Now, my modem is an older model and does not do its own DHCP - you use PPPoE (either in Windows or the router) to make the connection. Well, that didn't stop him from telling me to do "ipconfig/renew" a half dozen times over the course of an hour, even though he KNEW what model I had. When I tried telling him this, he basically ignored me.
I've heard it too. The game is pretty tough to get working these days...natively, it only works in pure DOS, and DOSBox performance with it isn't great.
The really amazing thing was that, sound aside, the game was horrible - and I couldn't stop playing!
Microfilm can last 100-500 years. How about this: convert data to UUE/YEnc, print that out, and put that on microfilm. To retrieve it, print it out, have a computer scan that, and use some sort of OCR software to rebuild the file. Would that work?
Pretty much all widescreen/HD TVs have the zoom feature. I tried it on an HDTV with the Star Wars "original" Trilogy DVDs, which are exactly as you describe normally.
The T60 line came out after the Lenovo deal. There are no "IBM" T60s. I must also say that my dad got a Z61m recently - a Lenovo, obviously - and the whole "lower quality" thing is a myth. The thing is just as solid as any ThinkPad I've ever seen.
Perhaps this doesn't matter much now...but the BBC is broadcasted to North/Central America for *two* hours in the afternoon: 4pm EST to 5 on 11675, and 5 to 6 on 5975. The same thing is simulcasted on 9660, but I can't hear anything there in SW Florida. I've only been able to pick Radio NL on the weekend so far.:( But then again I live in a building that blocks the signals, so I have to outside (omg, outside?!?) to hear anything except Radio Marti.
Distributed.net client gets flagged because, in the past, some people have actually distributed it as spyware - they would have a script install it and then run it on the user's computer 24/7. A rather stupid idea, because in order to get credit for those packets, you have to supply an email address...duh.
The problem with using PowerEdge systems is that its not a fair comparison. Apple did sell PowerMacs configured as servers, but vista is a client OS so you should use the dell Precision line. A 7 year old precision may or may not run vista. I know my ~4 year old Precision could not run Vista beta2 due to lack of drivers for the LSI scsi controller. That's a dual Xeon 2Ghz Precision 650 workstation.
Going by this page, I doubt a 7-year-old Precision could run Vista. It supported up to a 700MHz P3 and 1GB RAM, and AGP 2x. It might install and run, but slowly at best.
The irony here is that Walt Disney himself hated sequels. The whole "sequelize everything on DVD" campaign started around the time of Walt's 100th birthday - apparently, Eisner's idea of a sick joke.
You can get "American Pie" by itself. Instead of going to the entry for the namesake album, go instead to "Don McLean's Greatest Hits" (fancy that). From that album, you can buy any one song, including American Pie.
Now we have NTFS which doesn't require defragmenting.
Since when? Nearly every Windows machine I work on (owned by laypeople) with NTFS has a badly fragmented hard drive. I can't say if the drives are faster afterwards (I don't run benchmarks), but they are still pretty fragmented.
Sounds like a SCSI drive would suit you. You'd need to buy the controller card, and the drives are expensive, but if you want a reliable, smaller drive, that's it.
I thought not putting a CD in there was stupid. If they wanted to make the packaging smaller, they could've used those tiny CDs instead of full-size ones.
That's not actually true. All the files on Apple's servers are unencrypted, and stay that way until the iTunes client encrypts them. That's how DVD Jon was able to make a iTMS client that sent you unencrypted files.
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It's weird...back in the day, my dad bought a "2GB" Samsung hard drive. On the drive label (not the box - right on the drive), it said 2.16GB and came up in Windows 95 as 2.00GB. So in the past, they *did* adjust for the difference in GB/GiB...however, it was only ~160MB worth back then. Now they'd have to add 70GB of space to this drive. I guess they don't want to do that.
That 15GB consists mostly of other software bundled with, not OS X. A typical fresh OS X install (with nothing else on it) is around 4GB. Besides, I don't know why anyone would sell a computer with 8GB of flash memory now anyway; that flash HD replacement from SanDisk is already 32GB. If you wanted more, you could always allow for any 1.8" HD (same size as the SanDisk thingy, I think).
Oh, indeed. Thing is, I don't see them on the list.
And yes, early Iron Maiden and AC/DC were good too.
Rock music (especially the "hair metal" that near-defines the decade) sucked in the 80s. Why would you make an entire game of those kinds of tracks? Especially given how diverse the playlists are in the regular GH games.
They look more detailed than the laserdiscs, but are also grainier. If you can stand film grain, by all means. I don't imagine a restored version any time...ever.
There were no Model M keyboards 24 years ago.
Speaking of ipconfig /renew... my BellSouth DSL went down a while back. I called up and got "Jim" from India. Now, my modem is an older model and does not do its own DHCP - you use PPPoE (either in Windows or the router) to make the connection. Well, that didn't stop him from telling me to do "ipconfig /renew" a half dozen times over the course of an hour, even though he KNEW what model I had. When I tried telling him this, he basically ignored me.
I think Apple's 1080p trailers are 14Mbps H.264, not 8. I wish I had the equipment to enjoy them on :(
I've heard it too. The game is pretty tough to get working these days...natively, it only works in pure DOS, and DOSBox performance with it isn't great.
The really amazing thing was that, sound aside, the game was horrible - and I couldn't stop playing!
Ha, just like Letterman, your #1 isn't very good. ;) (Seriously, how many times has Dave's #1 been funny? Two?)
Microfilm can last 100-500 years. How about this: convert data to UUE/YEnc, print that out, and put that on microfilm. To retrieve it, print it out, have a computer scan that, and use some sort of OCR software to rebuild the file. Would that work?
Pretty much all widescreen/HD TVs have the zoom feature. I tried it on an HDTV with the Star Wars "original" Trilogy DVDs, which are exactly as you describe normally.
The T60 line came out after the Lenovo deal. There are no "IBM" T60s. I must also say that my dad got a Z61m recently - a Lenovo, obviously - and the whole "lower quality" thing is a myth. The thing is just as solid as any ThinkPad I've ever seen.
Shortwave really isn't what it used to be.
Distributed.net client gets flagged because, in the past, some people have actually distributed it as spyware - they would have a script install it and then run it on the user's computer 24/7. A rather stupid idea, because in order to get credit for those packets, you have to supply an email address...duh.
Going by this page, I doubt a 7-year-old Precision could run Vista. It supported up to a 700MHz P3 and 1GB RAM, and AGP 2x. It might install and run, but slowly at best.
Ft. Lauderdale International Airport still had free wi-fi as of March 2006.
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Seriously dude...he wants a handheld calculator, and you respond with UMPC with Mathematica installed on it. Wow.The irony here is that Walt Disney himself hated sequels. The whole "sequelize everything on DVD" campaign started around the time of Walt's 100th birthday - apparently, Eisner's idea of a sick joke.
You can get "American Pie" by itself. Instead of going to the entry for the namesake album, go instead to "Don McLean's Greatest Hits" (fancy that). From that album, you can buy any one song, including American Pie.
I tried spreading that one personally. I got modded down for it. :(
Since when? Nearly every Windows machine I work on (owned by laypeople) with NTFS has a badly fragmented hard drive. I can't say if the drives are faster afterwards (I don't run benchmarks), but they are still pretty fragmented.
Sounds like a SCSI drive would suit you. You'd need to buy the controller card, and the drives are expensive, but if you want a reliable, smaller drive, that's it.
I thought not putting a CD in there was stupid. If they wanted to make the packaging smaller, they could've used those tiny CDs instead of full-size ones.
That's not actually true. All the files on Apple's servers are unencrypted, and stay that way until the iTunes client encrypts them. That's how DVD Jon was able to make a iTMS client that sent you unencrypted files.