Hmm... The thread off the news article on iPod Lounge's front page has a comment that is word for word exactly the same as this one, except that it is formatted properly.
Is this the best that a Rio employee and/or fanboy can come up with? The iPod mini "look like butt." Amazing! I'd like to see that in a press release. I have to say that I'm not too impressed with the incredibly obvious bogus "grass roots" movement behind the Nitrus.
Snake oil gets its name from the snake people (The SENECA Nation of Indians, part of the iroquois league). It's petroleum. In the old times, oil used to come up from the ground on its own in some places (such as Oil Springs, NY). It still does, actually, but not in nearly as many places. The Seneca used to use that oil as a liniment for all sorts or ailments, like arthritis and pulled muscles, congestion, and sores. It was also taken internally as a laxative. It was called Seneca oil or Snake oil by the white people. It was also called "Cynical oil" when taken as a laxative. It works, actually, and it works for a lot of things. It prevents chapping and chafing, and allows scabs and scrapes to heal faster. For sore muscles, the volatile components evaporate and the non-volatile components insulate. This gives a cool then warm feeling to the area. Rubbed on the chest, it breaks up congestion (and your sinus lining, if you keep inhaling the stuff for a long time-- but the phlegm and mucous protects the sinus lining while you're congested). Rubbing it into the skin can also improve circulation (as can rubbing in general). In colonial times, snake oil was shipped back to the "old world" by the barrel ages before anyone ever had to drill for it. It was popular medicine. People also started making outrageous claims for what it could do, and what it was and where it came from. So it fell into disrepute. Today, snake oil is used for lots of medicines. Many prescription drugs as well as innumerable OTC drugs and cosmetics include petrochemicals derived from snake oil. The reason the stuff got such a bad name was because people went around selling various and sundry substances as snake oil, and making all sorts of outrageous claims about what snake oil can do. Now, snake oil is synonymous with quackery, even though it is, was, and has always been legitimate medicine.
Apparently you aren't aware of the fact that the ending in AI was exactly as Kubrick wrote it. The scene's that Spielberg added were (gasp) the Flesh Fair, which was dark.
Don't get me wrong, Spielberg has "happied to death" several movies, but to his credit, AI wasn't one of them.
http://www.xbox-saves.com/ is where you can find more info on the Mega X-Key mentioned in the article, and they also have the save needed to get linux going in their saves archive.
thanks for the link!! I'm getting 300k/s, much better than waiting 250 minutes for FilePlanets slow download:)
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HP Buys Compaq
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Actually, CompUSA sells IBM machines also, but not Gateway or Dell. Well, when I say sells I mean they have displays of their machines, but they are RARELY ever sold, as Compaq and HP make up most of the computer sales at the Comp where I worked.
Its going to be quite interesting to see what happens with this merger...
How is this informative exactly? DirectX handles that stuff yes, but Direct3D is the topic, and it only does 3d, which guess what, is what OpenGL is for. wow, way to go mods!
I work at a EB in my town, and I hear all sides of how people are looking at the next round of console wars. Basically, there are a few groups that pretty much everyone can be put it.
A) The platform loyalists. I have heard people come in and say they will buy whatever Sony/Nintendo/Sega/Microsoft/Grandma/Acme puts out and they have no doubts that it will be the system that destroys all others.
B) The patient waiter. These are the people that are going to wait for the next 3 systems to be released and then buy the one (ones) that have the best games. This seems to be the most logically one, but these days, whats logic anyways)
C) The misinformed. You would be amazed at what some people think about the various systems. This is where the hype really plays in, and these are the people that marketing folks just LOVE.
Unfortunately, it seems that most people fall into category C. Some peolpe think the PS2 is more powerful than a $3000 PC. Others think the GameCube is less powerful than the Dreamcast. Others still will try and convince you that Superman for the N64 is a good game.
The Betamax comparison is completely off base here. The reason being that Betamax was actually better quality than VHS, but VHS still won the war. If anything, in the coming months Sony and its PS2 will be the VHS of the upcoming console shoot out, and it will be up to their marketing department to make the PS2 the mainstream machine.
Everyone here knows that superior tech wont mean squat if you don't have a compelling reason to use it. On consoles this means exclusive games. Its looking like the PS2 is not going to get those exclusive titles from third parties like Oddworld 2 (recently announced to have switched to XBox exclusively), and instead they are going to have to rely on their in house dev teams (there is only ONE Sony brand launch title) to draw people to their platform.
These upcoming console wars are going to be interesting indeed.
I may be showing some of my "lack of culture" but what is the big accomplishment here? I am sure that hundreds of people have made doodles on their Palms before, and this guy goes to Kinkos and prints them out in a large manor and he is an originator?
This would have been a far greater accomplishment (or perhaps an accomplishment at all really) if he had created some coherent picture by only drawing one screen at a time, and then placing them all together in the end.
I am sure that before the advent of the Palm Pilot some artist somewhere has thrown together a bunch of small pictures on a single canvus, and I am willing to bet that most of the people who read/. would upon looking at it said 'So what?' but because its on a Palm Pilot its revolutionary.
What I'd really be interested to know is how many people would really be interested in something simply because its done on a digital medium. I don't see why its such a big deal, as every day the digital world is becoming more analogue and lifelike. Eventually I hope this digital lust ends and people start to appreciate art not because of how it was made, but what it says.
The advantage of this is increased display size. The displays on aftermarket stereos are much larger now that they hide the slot behind the face. Very cool idea, whomever came up with it.
Has SuSE for PPC gotten out of beta releases yet? I know they were taking names for beta Cd's a while back, and I signed up to give it a try and see how it was different from LPPC but I'm still waiting for the Cd, which leads me to believe that its still in beta. Its a bit more understandable if they didn't list it because its still in beta, but maybe whoever put the page together didn't know about SuSE PPC yet?
Not updated? If you read the page the first item past the fluff at the top is dated Feb 2000. Thats seems pretty current to me. The links the the hernels that boot iBooks seems new, as they are now being hosted on Apple's servers. Not to flame, but you should read a little before you try and suck up some karma for a comment thats, well, completely wrong. They don't have the Aqua style nav bar, but they do have new content!
Why is the media so quick to jump to conclusions?
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After reading the coverage of this story on cnet, I have decided that they are a completely worthless source of news. No where are any real facts given, as the story is based on alleged talks between the chip makers that is loosely based on an agreement of a few months ago.
At the bottom of the article however, is this interesting link to a previous story ran by cnet. Guess what this one says. That Motorola is going to produce chips for AMD. Well, this article is equally as worthless as the current story, as they even in there own article state that its not true. The article is about how Mot is going to make AMD's chips, and then it states that the agreement did not include manufacturing of any of AMD's PC processors.
This sounds like Microsoft may be about to use the same tactics it used in the "Java war" here. By now controlling the middle man in the porting of software between Win32 and *nix they can feel free to use a flawed implementation that is flaunted around as the "greatest ever." Then when people begin to encounter problems, Microsoft can just smile, and tell them that it is their *nix boxes that are the problem, and that they should consider moving to WinNT. This looks to be some bad news indeed!
The Dreamcast comes with a 56k modem for internet game play and web browsing and the like (it actually includes an irc chat client which I thought was awesome).
The OS issue is not as clear cut. The dreamcast supports two OS's, and games are allowed to pick and choose which one they want to run on top of. A heavily modified version of WinCE is one choice, which should allow for easy ports of PC games (or rather, would make for easy ports to Win32 from the Dreamcast I would be willing to bet). The other choice is Sega's own proprietry OS, that is rumored to be based on the Saturn's OS. It would be interesting to know if the person who did this TCP/IP scan was running the web browser CD when he did this, or one of the games that supports internet play, such as Sonic Adventure.
Of course they would know. They know everything. If they didn't know everthing then I wouldn't be safe in my average house with my average car, which they also know everything about. Who is they? Why its... THEM. The people who know everything about everything, esp. the software on your web page.
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Hmm... The thread off the news article on iPod Lounge's front page has a comment that is word for word exactly the same as this one, except that it is formatted properly.
Is this the best that a Rio employee and/or fanboy can come up with? The iPod mini "look like butt." Amazing! I'd like to see that in a press release. I have to say that I'm not too impressed with the incredibly obvious bogus "grass roots" movement behind the Nitrus.
Snake oil gets its name from the snake people (The SENECA Nation of Indians,
part of the iroquois league). It's petroleum. In the old times, oil used to
come up from the ground on its own in some places (such as Oil Springs, NY).
It still does, actually, but not in nearly as many places. The Seneca used to
use that oil as a liniment for all sorts or ailments, like arthritis and
pulled muscles, congestion, and sores. It was also taken internally as a
laxative. It was called Seneca oil or Snake oil by the white people. It was
also called "Cynical oil" when taken as a laxative. It works, actually, and
it works for a lot of things. It prevents chapping and chafing, and allows
scabs and scrapes to heal faster. For sore muscles, the volatile components
evaporate and the non-volatile components insulate. This gives a cool then
warm feeling to the area. Rubbed on the chest, it breaks up congestion (and
your sinus lining, if you keep inhaling the stuff for a long time-- but the
phlegm and mucous protects the sinus lining while you're congested). Rubbing
it into the skin can also improve circulation (as can rubbing in general).
In colonial times, snake oil was shipped back to the "old world" by the
barrel ages before anyone ever had to drill for it. It was popular medicine.
People also started making outrageous claims for what it could do, and what
it was and where it came from. So it fell into disrepute. Today, snake oil
is used for lots of medicines. Many prescription drugs as well as innumerable
OTC drugs and cosmetics include petrochemicals derived from snake oil. The
reason the stuff got such a bad name was because people went around selling
various and sundry substances as snake oil, and making all sorts of
outrageous claims about what snake oil can do. Now, snake oil is synonymous
with quackery, even though it is, was, and has always been legitimate
medicine.
Gotta love google.
Apparently they are using one of their underpowered machines as their webserver...shes dead.
Apparently you aren't aware of the fact that the ending in AI was exactly as Kubrick wrote it. The scene's that Spielberg added were (gasp) the Flesh Fair, which was dark.
Don't get me wrong, Spielberg has "happied to death" several movies, but to his credit, AI wasn't one of them.
http://www.xbox-saves.com/ is where you can find more info on the Mega X-Key mentioned in the article, and they also have the save needed to get linux going in their saves archive.
Actually, the 3000+ means that the performance would be equal to an Original Athlon running at 3000Mhz. It has nothing to do with Intel's chips.
thanks for the link!! I'm getting 300k/s, much better than waiting 250 minutes for FilePlanets slow download :)
Actually, CompUSA sells IBM machines also, but not Gateway or Dell. Well, when I say sells I mean they have displays of their machines, but they are RARELY ever sold, as Compaq and HP make up most of the computer sales at the Comp where I worked.
Its going to be quite interesting to see what happens with this merger...
How is this informative exactly? DirectX handles that stuff yes, but Direct3D is the topic, and it only does 3d, which guess what, is what OpenGL is for. wow, way to go mods!
haha, nice post!
i had a friend that would constantly request them with fun names like Fidel Castro or Ghandi.
The best one ever was Jesus H. Christ though, because it included a letter addressed to Jesus, thanking him for his interest in America Online.
I think he framed it.
Today is a great time to be a gamer!!
I work at a EB in my town, and I hear all sides of how people are looking at the next round of console wars. Basically, there are a few groups that pretty much everyone can be put it.
A) The platform loyalists. I have heard people come in and say they will buy whatever Sony/Nintendo/Sega/Microsoft/Grandma/Acme puts out and they have no doubts that it will be the system that destroys all others.
B) The patient waiter. These are the people that are going to wait for the next 3 systems to be released and then buy the one (ones) that have the best games. This seems to be the most logically one, but these days, whats logic anyways)
C) The misinformed. You would be amazed at what some people think about the various systems. This is where the hype really plays in, and these are the people that marketing folks just LOVE.
Unfortunately, it seems that most people fall into category C. Some peolpe think the PS2 is more powerful than a $3000 PC. Others think the GameCube is less powerful than the Dreamcast. Others still will try and convince you that Superman for the N64 is a good game.
The Betamax comparison is completely off base here. The reason being that Betamax was actually better quality than VHS, but VHS still won the war. If anything, in the coming months Sony and its PS2 will be the VHS of the upcoming console shoot out, and it will be up to their marketing department to make the PS2 the mainstream machine.
Everyone here knows that superior tech wont mean squat if you don't have a compelling reason to use it. On consoles this means exclusive games. Its looking like the PS2 is not going to get those exclusive titles from third parties like Oddworld 2 (recently announced to have switched to XBox exclusively), and instead they are going to have to rely on their in house dev teams (there is only ONE Sony brand launch title) to draw people to their platform.
These upcoming console wars are going to be interesting indeed.
I may be showing some of my "lack of culture" but what is the big accomplishment here? I am sure that hundreds of people have made doodles on their Palms before, and this guy goes to Kinkos and prints them out in a large manor and he is an originator? This would have been a far greater accomplishment (or perhaps an accomplishment at all really) if he had created some coherent picture by only drawing one screen at a time, and then placing them all together in the end. I am sure that before the advent of the Palm Pilot some artist somewhere has thrown together a bunch of small pictures on a single canvus, and I am willing to bet that most of the people who read /. would upon looking at it said 'So what?' but because its on a Palm Pilot its revolutionary.
What I'd really be interested to know is how many people would really be interested in something simply because its done on a digital medium. I don't see why its such a big deal, as every day the digital world is becoming more analogue and lifelike. Eventually I hope this digital lust ends and people start to appreciate art not because of how it was made, but what it says.
Nintendos GPU is from ArtX, the same people that designed the GPU for the n64
Ask and yee shall recieve, and no, this doesnt link to that damn goatsex shit.
http://www.zdnet.com/ zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2240504,00.html
The advantage of this is increased display size. The displays on aftermarket stereos are much larger now that they hide the slot behind the face. Very cool idea, whomever came up with it.
Has SuSE for PPC gotten out of beta releases yet? I know they were taking names for beta Cd's a while back, and I signed up to give it a try and see how it was different from LPPC but I'm still waiting for the Cd, which leads me to believe that its still in beta. Its a bit more understandable if they didn't list it because its still in beta, but maybe whoever put the page together didn't know about SuSE PPC yet?
Not updated? If you read the page the first item past the fluff at the top is dated Feb 2000. Thats seems pretty current to me. The links the the hernels that boot iBooks seems new, as they are now being hosted on Apple's servers. Not to flame, but you should read a little before you try and suck up some karma for a comment thats, well, completely wrong. They don't have the Aqua style nav bar, but they do have new content!
After reading the coverage of this story on cnet, I have decided that they are a completely worthless source of news. No where are any real facts given, as the story is based on alleged talks between the chip makers that is loosely based on an agreement of a few months ago.
At the bottom of the article however, is this interesting link to a previous story ran by cnet. Guess what this one says. That Motorola is going to produce chips for AMD. Well, this article is equally as worthless as the current story, as they even in there own article state that its not true. The article is about how Mot is going to make AMD's chips, and then it states that the agreement did not include manufacturing of any of AMD's PC processors.
This sounds like Microsoft may be about to use the same tactics it used in the "Java war" here. By now controlling the middle man in the porting of software between Win32 and *nix they can feel free to use a flawed implementation that is flaunted around as the "greatest ever." Then when people begin to encounter problems, Microsoft can just smile, and tell them that it is their *nix boxes that are the problem, and that they should consider moving to WinNT. This looks to be some bad news indeed!
The Dreamcast comes with a 56k modem for internet game play and web browsing and the like (it actually includes an irc chat client which I thought was awesome).
The OS issue is not as clear cut. The dreamcast supports two OS's, and games are allowed to pick and choose which one they want to run on top of. A heavily modified version of WinCE is one choice, which should allow for easy ports of PC games (or rather, would make for easy ports to Win32 from the Dreamcast I would be willing to bet). The other choice is Sega's own proprietry OS, that is rumored to be based on the Saturn's OS. It would be interesting to know if the person who did this TCP/IP scan was running the web browser CD when he did this, or one of the games that supports internet play, such as Sonic Adventure.
Of course they would know. They know everything. If they didn't know everthing then I wouldn't be safe in my average house with my average car, which they also know everything about. Who is they? Why its... THEM. The people who know everything about everything, esp. the software on your web page.