Actually, I was right on every count! You even got modded up, too! One of my friends probably saw it and amused him / her self with their mod points. Either that, or I was right.
You will get Insightful mods, because it's a good point,and I'll get Flamebait mods because every subsequent mod who sees my comment will see your modded-up comment, and your UID, and mod it up without reading it.
THIS comment, however, will probably get "Informative" mods, but only from those who check the links!;-)
Wow, I'm scared to fire up my console now. GUIs only from now on for me - I had no idea that I was invoking the devil with my black backround and myriad switches and parameters passed!
Having been a "builder" from a very young age, I can identify with being considered "heathen" for being able connect things that other people had no idea could work together (yet obviously could work together - for example I've used a decent amp and speakers with whatever source was playing since I left home, but using the AUX input with my NICAM video recorder was blasphemy to my parents - and connecting the computer (Amstrad CPC464) to the speakers must have been like summoning demons - because they put a stop to that quickly - and no, it wasn't loud either.)
This perception of me as "hacker" carried on through school and college. Despite me having more integrity than anyone else around me at the time, and an innate sense of "right" and "wrong" and natural justice, I found myself distrusted because people couldn't understand how I did the things I did with so little (and such a crap background. Computer books were NOT on any shopping lists. I had the CPC464 manual, and POKE.)
|| "The following OEM versions of Windows software are eligible"
Hmmm. Seems like my ruined Vista machine is stuck where it is, since I went out and paid my £50 for a retail copy, like everyone else who wants to UPGRADE from Vista right now in the UK HAS TO, because buying a HDD is pointless (1TB onboard) and doing so doesn't make me a new machine (so is it even legal?)
Thanks, Targus, for helping Microsoft re-secure domination again next time round. After all, a heavy brick-like screen with portable gaming specs (Radeon 4870, 1Gb) can't cost that much to make if EVERYONE wants one.
You could have it running Windows 7-esque Aero GUI when connected the KB and monitor, (come on M$, your best GUI yet and you ditch it after one, the most successful ever, release?) and running Metro and switching to Intel low-power graphics on the road.
And a small ps, Why can't I buy Win7 Retail in the UK now? Wouldn't you (M$) rather just take my £50 that crippled my rig with Win8 "Pro" (don't make laugh) and give me a key for my 7? I don't need disks...
I thought that this comment was sarcasm until I looked into the "Shareware CD-ROM archive". For the Computer Gaming World stuff, there's no way to even get an IDEA of what MIGHT be on each disc without actually downloading the 600MB+ ISO's in blind faith and hoping for the best.
All the "metadata" just points to more "metadata", which points to the previously mentioned "metadata". All in XML, just to add to the annoyance.
This wasn't about PNG's, nor "my internets is crap" because the two contradict each other - and the obvious solution, if you weren't trolling, is shown above.;-)
Why add "NT" to anything at all, ever? Microsoft did that, and got us all bogged down on a more reliable, but just as evil, proprietory kernel which we'd have ditched for something better* sometime between Windows 98 and Windows ME (NT4 SP4 had real-time audio!) if Win2k and XP had not come along...
*had the barriers to entry not been so high at the time - ie proprietory AAA game support!)
PS - in response to the inevitable future post by an AC:
| "NT SP4 had real-time audio!"
[citation needed]
webmistressrachel sid=3577793 pid=inthefuture
Read the Unreal Tournament documentation dumbass...;-)
Close, but way too thick. Why can't we make watches with thin screens like Casio did in the bloomin' 80's?? It's not like that stubby G-Shock crap actually makes anything stronger, it's still a plastic case with a delicate LCD screen...
I also found that article subsquently, but thought I'd be spamming if I wrote a second reply to my own post. I also found that one on eBay, with a Buy it Now of 399 and starting bid of 100, and it isn't even functioning properly (no light, no alarm).
There just aren't any other plain, square, flat-ish, digital watches with nice edge-to-displays and multiple alarms and timers around, either that or I'm not looking hard enough. The product in the article is really thick and will probably catch on everything I walk past, and cheap plastic watches now have all this stubby masculine G-Shock designs sticking out and making the watch stubby. Like I said, I challenge anyone to find me a similar design to the W-50U. It's silly, it's like there was a conspiracy to make watches thicker and bulkier from that point onward.
Great concept, I'm waiting for a thinner model with an edge-to-edge display of ANY res. I only ever wore one watch, a rare digital Casio (no, it's not an oxymoron, you find me something that looks like the W-50U on today's market).
My messed-up parents forced me to give this watch back to the boy who gave it to me years ago, and I've searched (with cash at the readies) for something similar, even the same one, ever since. Still no watch. Seriously, if I'd seen it on somebody's wrist, I'd have bought it from them for some ridiculous inflated price.
This, dammit. I would pay good money for such a thing if it also contained a powerful rechargable lithium polymer battery and two or more USB ports (for power, not data).
I've been throwing the proverbial poke balls at Jeremiah since he turned up and made my thread more interesting once! Hard to catch, that one. Easy to summon, if he wants to be, but hard to catch.;-)
He had the candy analogy forced on him - imagine if somebody had mentioned this fictional machine that copies books, records, and pictures losslessly 100 years ago - you'd have said something similar about paper being consumable.
He merely turned the useless baby / candy analogy on it's head, and put it literal terms (unlimited flawless copies). It is you who missed the point, not your parent post.
Instead of just admitting "Humans are versatile and intelligent, we don't NEED to be trapped into routines dictated by the stellar routines in our tiny corner of the galaxy, technology enriches our lives, I agree" you choose to pick holes in all my little personal motivators from fiction (Which leads humanity forward, historically) and the fact that I don't care whether your sun is up and still lead a successful, social and fulfilling life, perhaps because you feel so uncomfortable with change that reinforces the fact that you are in fact, a useless troll who will never achieve anything but putting down others who do want to make positive change.
I had to look after I saw this comment... AND NOW MY EYES ARE BLEEDING! Do not, under any circumstances, visit that site. Or if you must, use Links or Lynx. Don't say you weren't warned...
Slashdot Mirror
"Slashdot is becoming ever the shill site since took over"
Surely that's just the universal, elitist meme talking, like no-one who's here now is as cool as the original crowd, etc.?
Well sorry for not being cool enough. Blame the Roman Catholic Comprehensive school I went to.
Actually, I was right on every count! You even got modded up, too! One of my friends probably saw it and amused him / her self with their mod points. Either that, or I was right.
You will get Insightful mods, because it's a good point,and I'll get Flamebait mods because every subsequent mod who sees my comment will see your modded-up comment, and your UID, and mod it up without reading it.
THIS comment, however, will probably get "Informative" mods, but only from those who check the links! ;-)
It is actually SFW. I stake my UID on it.
Locomotive Software called. They want their code back...
Wow, I'm scared to fire up my console now. GUIs only from now on for me - I had no idea that I was invoking the devil with my black backround and myriad switches and parameters passed!
Having been a "builder" from a very young age, I can identify with being considered "heathen" for being able connect things that other people had no idea could work together (yet obviously could work together - for example I've used a decent amp and speakers with whatever source was playing since I left home, but using the AUX input with my NICAM video recorder was blasphemy to my parents - and connecting the computer (Amstrad CPC464) to the speakers must have been like summoning demons - because they put a stop to that quickly - and no, it wasn't loud either.)
This perception of me as "hacker" carried on through school and college. Despite me having more integrity than anyone else around me at the time, and an innate sense of "right" and "wrong" and natural justice, I found myself distrusted because people couldn't understand how I did the things I did with so little (and such a crap background. Computer books were NOT on any shopping lists. I had the CPC464 manual, and POKE.)
From your "source":-
|| "The following OEM versions of Windows software are eligible"
Hmmm. Seems like my ruined Vista machine is stuck where it is, since I went out and paid my £50 for a retail copy, like everyone else who wants to UPGRADE from Vista right now in the UK HAS TO, because buying a HDD is pointless (1TB onboard) and doing so doesn't make me a new machine (so is it even legal?)
Thanks, Targus, for helping Microsoft re-secure domination again next time round. After all, a heavy brick-like screen with portable gaming specs (Radeon 4870, 1Gb) can't cost that much to make if EVERYONE wants one.
You could have it running Windows 7-esque Aero GUI when connected the KB and monitor, (come on M$, your best GUI yet and you ditch it after one, the most successful ever, release?) and running Metro and switching to Intel low-power graphics on the road.
And a small ps, Why can't I buy Win7 Retail in the UK now? Wouldn't you (M$) rather just take my £50 that crippled my rig with Win8 "Pro" (don't make laugh) and give me a key for my 7? I don't need disks...
This is extremely informative, thank you, and sorry for not digging hard enough!
I thought that this comment was sarcasm until I looked into the "Shareware CD-ROM archive". For the Computer Gaming World stuff, there's no way to even get an IDEA of what MIGHT be on each disc without actually downloading the 600MB+ ISO's in blind faith and hoping for the best.
All the "metadata" just points to more "metadata", which points to the previously mentioned "metadata". All in XML, just to add to the annoyance.
Credit where credit's due: that's *Microsoft* Solitaire he's referring to. ;-)
Laptop + "mobile devices" = problem solved.
This wasn't about PNG's, nor "my internets is crap" because the two contradict each other - and the obvious solution, if you weren't trolling, is shown above. ;-)
Sorry to correct you, but the GP isn't "seeing things that aren't there" - GP is NOT seeing things that ARE there!
Why add "NT" to anything at all, ever? Microsoft did that, and got us all bogged down on a more reliable, but just as evil, proprietory kernel which we'd have ditched for something better* sometime between Windows 98 and Windows ME (NT4 SP4 had real-time audio!) if Win2k and XP had not come along...
*had the barriers to entry not been so high at the time - ie proprietory AAA game support!)
PS - in response to the inevitable future post by an AC:
| "NT SP4 had real-time audio!"
[citation needed]
webmistressrachel sid=3577793 pid=inthefuture
Read the Unreal Tournament documentation dumbass... ;-)
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Close, but way too thick. Why can't we make watches with thin screens like Casio did in the bloomin' 80's?? It's not like that stubby G-Shock crap actually makes anything stronger, it's still a plastic case with a delicate LCD screen...
I also found that article subsquently, but thought I'd be spamming if I wrote a second reply to my own post. I also found that one on eBay, with a Buy it Now of 399 and starting bid of 100, and it isn't even functioning properly (no light, no alarm).
There just aren't any other plain, square, flat-ish, digital watches with nice edge-to-displays and multiple alarms and timers around, either that or I'm not looking hard enough. The product in the article is really thick and will probably catch on everything I walk past, and cheap plastic watches now have all this stubby masculine G-Shock designs sticking out and making the watch stubby. Like I said, I challenge anyone to find me a similar design to the W-50U. It's silly, it's like there was a conspiracy to make watches thicker and bulkier from that point onward.
W-50U. Mine was black plastic :(
Great concept, I'm waiting for a thinner model with an edge-to-edge display of ANY res. I only ever wore one watch, a rare digital Casio (no, it's not an oxymoron, you find me something that looks like the W-50U on today's market).
My messed-up parents forced me to give this watch back to the boy who gave it to me years ago, and I've searched (with cash at the readies) for something similar, even the same one, ever since. Still no watch. Seriously, if I'd seen it on somebody's wrist, I'd have bought it from them for some ridiculous inflated price.
This, dammit. I would pay good money for such a thing if it also contained a powerful rechargable lithium polymer battery and two or more USB ports (for power, not data).
I was given one of these recently:
http://www.siibusinessproducts.com/eu/english/products/sp582e.html
It's irrelevant now, but it is a good example of a third-party creating new ways to work with equipment we already have. Bring on the Bracer dock...
That's beautiful. Thank you.
I've been throwing the proverbial poke balls at Jeremiah since he turned up and made my thread more interesting once! Hard to catch, that one. Easy to summon, if he wants to be, but hard to catch. ;-)
His name reminds me of someone, too... :-p
He had the candy analogy forced on him - imagine if somebody had mentioned this fictional machine that copies books, records, and pictures losslessly 100 years ago - you'd have said something similar about paper being consumable.
He merely turned the useless baby / candy analogy on it's head, and put it literal terms (unlimited flawless copies). It is you who missed the point, not your parent post.
I can't believe I got modded "Insightful" for this. Informative? Interesting? Underrated maybe? But not Insightful!
ps no Karma Bonus used, so no Overrated, please, it's a relevant observation...
Instead of just admitting "Humans are versatile and intelligent, we don't NEED to be trapped into routines dictated by the stellar routines in our tiny corner of the galaxy, technology enriches our lives, I agree" you choose to pick holes in all my little personal motivators from fiction (Which leads humanity forward, historically) and the fact that I don't care whether your sun is up and still lead a successful, social and fulfilling life, perhaps because you feel so uncomfortable with change that reinforces the fact that you are in fact, a useless troll who will never achieve anything but putting down others who do want to make positive change.
tl;dr: Troll bitten.
I had to look after I saw this comment... AND NOW MY EYES ARE BLEEDING! Do not, under any circumstances, visit that site. Or if you must, use Links or Lynx. Don't say you weren't warned...