That smell was the smell of joy and despair, as in the anticipation of a new game, and suspicion of a problem happened during the (naturally illegal) copy process...
Back then copying (commercial) games and software was so relaxed. We still knew it hurt the producers, but there wasn't worries about Pirate Bay being blocked, MPAA/RIAA, and no severe ethical issues. It was just nice to have games. Maybe my friend bought Secret Weapons of Luftwaffe, of which I made a copy for myself, and let him have a copy of my original Kings Quest V.
Wow, didn't know that. Actually, Bush younger seems to be right-handed though. I dug slightly to it and yes, there's even a Wikipedia article about the topic.
Do you think your father could do everything he needs by using desktop Linux? If so, you could consider switching him to Ubuntu or some other distro. This could be a good turning point as you need to wipe the machine anyway.
Erm by definition, at full brightness there is no flicker from the backlight.
Any effect you noticed must have been something else.
Many times there is PWM running at max brightness too. However sometimes even in cheap devices there is good quality LED displays with which you don't sense any flicker at any brightness levels.
That's not the whole story. There are badly implemented displays where the frequency is much lower. For example the one in Acer Ferrari One 200 subnotebook. Even at max brightness I found it annoying (but the glossy coating and small pixel size contributed to it, too). At lower levels the flicker was clearly visible. In a good display I should be done at the kHz range, though.
The 1 good thing "hacker/cracker" types online do is spot holes that need "shoring up"... but, that's about it!
Is it always necessary? For example, if the attacks to the Sony PSN network were left undone, where would we be now? We can't tell for sure, but possibly the network would be humming along just fine, no one would have their credit card numbers stolen, and Sony would have avoided the cleanup of all the mess. So would the world actually be collectively in a better state?
Even if the cracking is be done in an ethical manner, that is by not destroying anything or leaking username/password lists, maybe just leaving a "haha you got cracked" message...even then the service provider can't for sure know if the integrity of the system has somehow been threatened, and it just causes unnecessary worry.
Which kind of worked fine (though it couldn't sort my mp3's in s sane order, which is why I wanted XMMS in the first place) until I got tired of music and wanted to stop. So, I clicked the X in the upper-right corner... the window dissapeared, but the music continued.
If you close the window, Rhythmbox stays in the tray. You have to explicitly quit it from the menu.
Great. Had to ps and kill, and now my beer supply is out of sync with my enthusiam for music.
What is interesting though, would FF2 still sell, if it was available for, let's say 1€? Should game publishers put their past catalogue on sale, bundled with proper emulators to support them? I'm just asking a neutral question. In a way this is already happening at GOG.com.
Maybe legally so. But if I was the creator of FF2, at this point I would only be glad if people were copying it and, thus preserving and enjoying the game.
Movies usually have pretty good sound quality. My assumption has been that the sound artists adhere strictly to one or another Dolby standard. Mixing and mastering CDs should have similar standards.
If this was about a random Logitech keyboard, it could have been just a blatant advertisement. However a keyboard that has been ground-up designed for dishwashering is kind of a new concept so it is interesting to discuss about it.
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PC64 could be a nice term for the x86-64 architecture.
lerppu(floppy) vs. korppu(hardy).
Later computer magazines also tried to root the term "romppu" for CDRs, but it was mostly used by lamers only.
That smell was the smell of joy and despair, as in the anticipation of a new game, and suspicion of a problem happened during the (naturally illegal) copy process...
Back then copying (commercial) games and software was so relaxed. We still knew it hurt the producers, but there wasn't worries about Pirate Bay being blocked, MPAA/RIAA, and no severe ethical issues. It was just nice to have games. Maybe my friend bought Secret Weapons of Luftwaffe, of which I made a copy for myself, and let him have a copy of my original Kings Quest V.
I'm left-handed and if I want to quickly skim through some magazine or book, I tend to start from the back cover.
Wow, didn't know that. Actually, Bush younger seems to be right-handed though. I dug slightly to it and yes, there's even a Wikipedia article about the topic.
One could think that hiring another father is a bit overkill solution...
Do you think your father could do everything he needs by using desktop Linux? If so, you could consider switching him to Ubuntu or some other distro. This could be a good turning point as you need to wipe the machine anyway.
Erm by definition, at full brightness there is no flicker from the backlight. Any effect you noticed must have been something else.
Many times there is PWM running at max brightness too. However sometimes even in cheap devices there is good quality LED displays with which you don't sense any flicker at any brightness levels.
Except the flicker you describe occurs at kHz.
That's not the whole story. There are badly implemented displays where the frequency is much lower. For example the one in Acer Ferrari One 200 subnotebook. Even at max brightness I found it annoying (but the glossy coating and small pixel size contributed to it, too). At lower levels the flicker was clearly visible. In a good display I should be done at the kHz range, though.
The 1 good thing "hacker/cracker" types online do is spot holes that need "shoring up"... but, that's about it!
Is it always necessary? For example, if the attacks to the Sony PSN network were left undone, where would we be now? We can't tell for sure, but possibly the network would be humming along just fine, no one would have their credit card numbers stolen, and Sony would have avoided the cleanup of all the mess. So would the world actually be collectively in a better state?
Even if the cracking is be done in an ethical manner, that is by not destroying anything or leaking username/password lists, maybe just leaving a "haha you got cracked" message...even then the service provider can't for sure know if the integrity of the system has somehow been threatened, and it just causes unnecessary worry.
Exactly. Destroying anarchistically random stuff all over the Internet and putting the label "Anonymous" on it, not much sophistication required.
Which kind of worked fine (though it couldn't sort my mp3's in s sane order, which is why I wanted XMMS in the first place) until I got tired of music and wanted to stop. So, I clicked the X in the upper-right corner... the window dissapeared, but the music continued.
If you close the window, Rhythmbox stays in the tray. You have to explicitly quit it from the menu.
Great. Had to ps and kill, and now my beer supply is out of sync with my enthusiam for music.
Heh. I know the feeling!
Why say *nix? We're gonna use Linux anyway, right?
For an interesting alternative VIA recently released the VAB-800 pico-ITX ARM board.
Isn't popcon opt-in?
This is one of the reasons I have never acquired any of the bonus cards of the supermarkets.
What is interesting though, would FF2 still sell, if it was available for, let's say 1€? Should game publishers put their past catalogue on sale, bundled with proper emulators to support them? I'm just asking a neutral question. In a way this is already happening at GOG.com.
Maybe legally so. But if I was the creator of FF2, at this point I would only be glad if people were copying it and, thus preserving and enjoying the game.
Movies usually have pretty good sound quality. My assumption has been that the sound artists adhere strictly to one or another Dolby standard. Mixing and mastering CDs should have similar standards.
Well played.
Your business model would effectively ruin my childhood.
No wonder, look at the nickname to whom you replied...
Indeed. While simplicity is okay, the logo speaks absolutely nothing.
While I see what you mean, the logo does personally give me that impression.
Are you sure that's not something related to the GNU project?
If this was about a random Logitech keyboard, it could have been just a blatant advertisement. However a keyboard that has been ground-up designed for dishwashering is kind of a new concept so it is interesting to discuss about it.