Someone with mod points should flag this Informative. I've been a Mac owner for a few years and never thought much about games other than Mahojongg and Myst, since I do all of my gaming on consoles. But I checked the list and it's not bad. Halo on a Mac? Whoda thunk it? I wonder how many other people are as blind to the Mac's gaming side.
This is France, that's a very large pot of money that isn't going to be overlooked.
You are either a self-important Frenchman, or have been brainwashed by one. This isn't the 19th century. The world doesn't give a crap what France thinks. China? Yes. The United States? For a little while longer, at least. But FRANCE? France could fall off the face of the Earth and it wouldn't matter. There are individual STATES in the United States with bigger GDPs than France. Sorry to break it to you, but 100 years ago France gave us great architecture and great food and some diplomatic language and philosophy that was useful. But it's been a century since France has done anything but stare at it's own belly button and contemplate how great it is. Don't believe me? That glow on the horizon isn't the dawn of a new age. It's yet another French city burning.
Windows users like to tinker with their hardware. It's a hobby for a lot of us.
Sounds like this "Windows" you speak of isn't ready for the desktop yet. Sure, it may be good for geeks and high school students living in their parents basements, but it certainly sounds unproductive.
At my company, we need to get business done. We follow industry standards. We can't afford downtime and tinkering, and rebuilding a machine is unthinkable. That's why we're 100% Macs.
Maybe at some date in the future, when this "Windows" becomes more viable, we'll look into it. But if you have to do this much maintenance every few months on your computer, the future of that software doesn't look good.
because I upgraded to a 64 bit processor, I upgraded to a 64 bit version of XP.
Wow. Great. How's that 64-bit version of Solitare working out for you? Is the internet prettier in 64 bits? How about e-mail? Do you get less spam with 64 bits?
You, sir, may consider youself a victim of marketing hype.
It happens to me once every few days. Most likely explanation? Hardware failure. I play games a lot, causing the fans to go full blast, and crashes generally follow that.
I had the same symptoms, and it turned out to be bad third-party RAM. Freakin' NewEgg. I should have learned my lesson the first time they screwed me.
I'm looking forward to the new mechanism. The old hook-and-catch method on my 17" Powerbook and my wife's 12" iBook both broke. Mine after two years, hers after five. Cost to fix? $600. Not. Gonna. Happen.
If you were "just fine" you wouldn't have to re-build your computers; they would just work. Being proud that everything works on your computer just five months after you rebuilt it only reinforces his point. Get back to us in three years and we'll see how much maintenance you've done.
Another note is that other companies DID make plenty of MD devices but most of them were sold only in Japan.
Actually, they still DO. Go to any Yodobashi Camera location and you'll see lots of non-Sony choices for MD devices. But as you pointed out, it's only in Japan. I wonder why that is.
That, and considering China has a billion and a half people, chances are they would win in combat. Every man, woman, and child in America managed to kill five Chinese. No point starting a war we know we're going to lose before we even get there.
Pretty lame article. There's all of one line of "Yahoo defending itself." The rest is just rehash of stuff we've heard for months. Here's the Yahoo line:
"You have to get whatever news you possibly can into China as opposed to pulling back," he said. "Will they be edited? Yes. Should you go home? No."
There, now you don't have to waste your time reading this so-called "article." I've seen blog entries by drunken teen-agers with more content and insight.
Oh, great. I've been putting bogus information in Realplayer registrations for years. Now I'm going to have to remember what they were in order to open a bank account!
Dunno if I was unlucky or not, but I had to take my 2600 in for repairs at least three times that I can remember.
I exchanged my Commodore 64 at least eight times before I got one that worked. And it was considered regular maintenance to bring your 1541 drive in for "realignment." Imagine telling a kid today that he can't play his favorite game every couple of months because his drive needs to be realigned.
It seems like components have gotten more reliable, but the entire assembly of components hasn't for some reason.
Apple goes after anyone, anywhere, that ever posts or reproduces anything from their service manuals
While I agree that what Apple is doing is protecting its copyrighted material, I think your statement is untrue. If this was in the New York Times instead of Something Awful, I think Apple would bite its tongue.
How can dell sell monitors at 200 dollars but apple can't?
You mean like the 200 Dell monitors my company bought two years ago that are so dim now that you have to squint to see them for the first two hours until they warm up?
Apple has never tried to compete on price. It's always been about quality with Apple. Hopefully that won't change. Windows users are so used to being abused by cheap prices and shoddy products that they forget what a quality is like.
I had Verizon for internet for about 18 months in my old place. Outages and mail problems the entire time. One day I asked them to install a second phone line. Instead, they disconnected the first one. The only way I ever got Verizon's attention was to file a complaint with the Illinois Public Utilities Board. Only after that did I start getting the promised call-backs and attention.
I'd rather pay twice as much for internet from another company than go with Verizon. And if they run the rest of their operation as badly as their ISP end, then I'll never have any Verizon services.
I'm really glad to hear that Firewire 800 is still there. I didn't realize how much of a mental dealbreaker this was for me until I saw it and felt relieved. All of my external drives are triple interface (FW400/FW800/USB), but I really prefer using 800. Speed is important for me when I'm moving around lots of data; it's not uncommon for me to have to move 40 gigs from one drive to another a couple of times a week. FW800 is also fast enough that I can keep my Virtual PC partitions on it and not really have any noticible slowdown from the internal drive.
This is the same group that sent me a cease and desist letter from their lawyers in New York. They claimed to own the copyright to my vacation photos -- with me in them!
Let me repeat that: They claim to own the copyright to my vacation photos!
These were pictures that someone took of me, standing in a park, they claimed were owned by them, and demanded I take them off my web site or go to court. I filed the C&D with EFF.org, but I later found out that 99% of the complaints EFF gets are ignored. Probably because they're swamped.
I'm talking about all the "Password Denied" and "Accepted" messages,
There was a version of this for the Palm Pilot that pretended to read your fingerprint to gain access. In reality, all you had to do was secretly press any button.
along with the slight tick-tick-tick as each character is printed to the screen.
Back in the good old days of 8-bit computing, when the TV show Whiz Kids was on TV all the computer magazines published type-in programs that allowed you to do this on your Commodore 64, or whatever you were using. Of course, those few of us who were on line (via Compuserve, Delphi, Panix, Bitnet, ARBnet, or whatever), didn't have to fake it because our screaming 115 and 300 baud modems would take care of that for us.
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Someone with mod points should flag this Informative. I've been a Mac owner for a few years and never thought much about games other than Mahojongg and Myst, since I do all of my gaming on consoles. But I checked the list and it's not bad. Halo on a Mac? Whoda thunk it? I wonder how many other people are as blind to the Mac's gaming side.
This is France, that's a very large pot of money that isn't going to be overlooked.
You are either a self-important Frenchman, or have been brainwashed by one. This isn't the 19th century. The world doesn't give a crap what France thinks. China? Yes. The United States? For a little while longer, at least. But FRANCE? France could fall off the face of the Earth and it wouldn't matter. There are individual STATES in the United States with bigger GDPs than France. Sorry to break it to you, but 100 years ago France gave us great architecture and great food and some diplomatic language and philosophy that was useful. But it's been a century since France has done anything but stare at it's own belly button and contemplate how great it is. Don't believe me? That glow on the horizon isn't the dawn of a new age. It's yet another French city burning.
Mod me down, if you want. That felt really good.
Windows users like to tinker with their hardware. It's a hobby for a lot of us.
Sounds like this "Windows" you speak of isn't ready for the desktop yet. Sure, it may be good for geeks and high school students living in their parents basements, but it certainly sounds unproductive.
At my company, we need to get business done. We follow industry standards. We can't afford downtime and tinkering, and rebuilding a machine is unthinkable. That's why we're 100% Macs.
Maybe at some date in the future, when this "Windows" becomes more viable, we'll look into it. But if you have to do this much maintenance every few months on your computer, the future of that software doesn't look good.
because I upgraded to a 64 bit processor, I upgraded to a 64 bit version of XP.
Wow. Great. How's that 64-bit version of Solitare working out for you? Is the internet prettier in 64 bits? How about e-mail? Do you get less spam with 64 bits?
You, sir, may consider youself a victim of marketing hype.
It happens to me once every few days. Most likely explanation? Hardware failure. I play games a lot, causing the fans to go full blast, and crashes generally follow that.
I had the same symptoms, and it turned out to be bad third-party RAM. Freakin' NewEgg. I should have learned my lesson the first time they screwed me.
I'm looking forward to the new mechanism. The old hook-and-catch method on my 17" Powerbook and my wife's 12" iBook both broke. Mine after two years, hers after five. Cost to fix? $600. Not. Gonna. Happen.
If you were "just fine" you wouldn't have to re-build your computers; they would just work. Being proud that everything works on your computer just five months after you rebuilt it only reinforces his point. Get back to us in three years and we'll see how much maintenance you've done.
Another note is that other companies DID make plenty of MD devices but most of them were sold only in Japan.
Actually, they still DO. Go to any Yodobashi Camera location and you'll see lots of non-Sony choices for MD devices. But as you pointed out, it's only in Japan. I wonder why that is.
Great objective source.
According to your link there is no one in prison in ten countries. Some of the whose own governments admit there are prisoners.
Try again.
Tell that to the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can only do so much by remote control. Eventually you have to put your feet on the ground.
That, and considering China has a billion and a half people, chances are they would win in combat. Every man, woman, and child in America managed to kill five Chinese. No point starting a war we know we're going to lose before we even get there.
Pretty lame article. There's all of one line of "Yahoo defending itself." The rest is just rehash of stuff we've heard for months. Here's the Yahoo line:
"You have to get whatever news you possibly can into China as opposed to pulling back," he said. "Will they be edited? Yes. Should you go home? No."
There, now you don't have to waste your time reading this so-called "article."
I've seen blog entries by drunken teen-agers with more content and insight.
Oh, great. I've been putting bogus information in Realplayer registrations for years. Now I'm going to have to remember what they were in order to open a bank account!
Dunno if I was unlucky or not, but I had to take my 2600 in for repairs at least three times that I can remember.
I exchanged my Commodore 64 at least eight times before I got one that worked. And it was considered regular maintenance to bring your 1541 drive in for "realignment." Imagine telling a kid today that he can't play his favorite game every couple of months because his drive needs to be realigned.
It seems like components have gotten more reliable, but the entire assembly of components hasn't for some reason.
Apple goes after anyone, anywhere, that ever posts or reproduces anything from their service manuals
While I agree that what Apple is doing is protecting its copyrighted material, I think your statement is untrue. If this was in the New York Times instead of Something Awful, I think Apple would bite its tongue.
How can dell sell monitors at 200 dollars but apple can't?
You mean like the 200 Dell monitors my company bought two years ago that are so dim now that you have to squint to see them for the first two hours until they warm up?
Apple has never tried to compete on price. It's always been about quality with Apple. Hopefully that won't change. Windows users are so used to being abused by cheap prices and shoddy products that they forget what a quality is like.
If they can detect "invalid clicks" then they can filter them just as well.
That assumes they can be detected in real time. It's possible that Google detects them later in random spot audits of server logs or something.
I had Verizon for internet for about 18 months in my old place. Outages and mail problems the entire time. One day I asked them to install a second phone line. Instead, they disconnected the first one. The only way I ever got Verizon's attention was to file a complaint with the Illinois Public Utilities Board. Only after that did I start getting the promised call-backs and attention.
I'd rather pay twice as much for internet from another company than go with Verizon. And if they run the rest of their operation as badly as their ISP end, then I'll never have any Verizon services.
I'm really glad to hear that Firewire 800 is still there. I didn't realize how much of a mental dealbreaker this was for me until I saw it and felt relieved. All of my external drives are triple interface (FW400/FW800/USB), but I really prefer using 800. Speed is important for me when I'm moving around lots of data; it's not uncommon for me to have to move 40 gigs from one drive to another a couple of times a week. FW800 is also fast enough that I can keep my Virtual PC partitions on it and not really have any noticible slowdown from the internal drive.
This is the same group that sent me a cease and desist letter from their lawyers in New York. They claimed to own the copyright to my vacation photos -- with me in them!
Let me repeat that: They claim to own the copyright to my vacation photos!
These were pictures that someone took of me, standing in a park, they claimed were owned by them, and demanded I take them off my web site or go to court. I filed the C&D with EFF.org, but I later found out that 99% of the complaints EFF gets are ignored. Probably because they're swamped.
If you can't afford $149 for a nano, then maybe you should put that money towards food and rent and other basic necessities.
Time for you to learn something new.
I'm talking about all the "Password Denied" and "Accepted" messages,
There was a version of this for the Palm Pilot that pretended to read your fingerprint to gain access. In reality, all you had to do was secretly press any button.
along with the slight tick-tick-tick as each character is printed to the screen.
Back in the good old days of 8-bit computing, when the TV show Whiz Kids was on TV all the computer magazines published type-in programs that allowed you to do this on your Commodore 64, or whatever you were using. Of course, those few of us who were on line (via Compuserve, Delphi, Panix, Bitnet, ARBnet, or whatever), didn't have to fake it because our screaming 115 and 300 baud modems would take care of that for us.
I worked with a girl in Cincinnati who got really bad headaches for about a month. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died within a week.
This was in the early 80's.. before most people (and especially her) had cell phones.
Yes, it's only one anecdotal case, but still it reinforces my belief that NOT holding a cell phone against your head just can't be good for you.
Hotmail was a successful webmail operation years before Microsoft bought it.