In many cases thats the fastest transfer you can get with a modem, even 56k. Before I went broadband, I couldn't get any higher than that with a modem due to the crappy phone lines here.
MPlayer only supports RealMedia version 1, which no one uses. So their Real support is pretty much useless, and no, you can't watch Real streams with it.
And another thing... Windows 95 did have preemptive multitaskingand was fairly easy to use, whereas the Powermac was a bit of a pain to use at that time, with a lot of leftover stuff from the 68k -> PPC migration
Bah, Windows 95's process management was a bad joke. Its memory protection was likewise a clumsy hack. So, technically it had these things but the end result was hardly any better than MacOS. Even today Windows XP's process management is a far cry from the power of a Unix system (which now includes the Mac OS).
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Whereas is took me about four hours. They stuck me on hold and left me there.
Performance is not that bad nowadays.. please try again.
Well, I'm convinced!
Every java app I have ever used has been ungodly slow compared to any native app that does the same thing. Your counterargument notwithstanding, you're going to have to show some actual examples of java having good performance before you'll change anyone's mind.
I see this as proof that the USPTO doesn't bother checking for prior art at all. How the hell could they possibly have missed the many examples if they had? Shit, even ntfs has been doing that for years.
Solaris, BSD and Linux are all very usable. Millions of people use them every day. Just because you don't see secretaries typing away in vi doesn't mean anything. 'Useable' is a very subjective term that really boils down to what you want to do with it, and these three are all excellent server platforms.
Linux and BSD in particular would be good examples for the prosecution's purposes, because while they do package software with the os, they allow you to choose exactly which software packages you want. This is essentially what I think the case boils down to, letting people remove parts of Windows that they don't want. Ballmer claimed that they would have to create millions of versions of Windows to accomodate everyone but he doesn't get it; let people choose what they install, bonehead!
Sorry I don't think "totally worthless" is an ambiguous enough statement for me to have misinterpreted it. If you really meant you personally didn't like it, you did a pretty terrible job of saying so.
What happened was absolutely normal and totally predictable. Anyone who was surprised by it is willfully ignorant of history and deserves what they got. Go read about what happened when airplanes first became economically viable.
And I thought I was one of the only ones who felt this way. This is actually the biggest reason why I miss Napster. I listen to a lot of Japanese music and when I heard a really cool song I wanted to download it, because theres no way I'll find it sold locally and getting it shipped from overseas is iffy.
on the 'net, not only are we paying for access, we're also independently paying for content. it would be like paying CNN and MTV cheques each month on top of the basic cable service.
...you mean like Premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime?
And what justification do you have in saying that? Is it really? Or are you comparing it to x86 hardware, apples and oranges (no pun intended). Macs run on PowerPC chips, making them more expensive simply because theres a smaller market for PowerPC. Mac hardware is more expensive than x86 hardware, but unless you can put together a cheaper PowerPC system on your own, it is not overpriced.
Yes they resolved all that in the Final Disclosure story arc last season. After that the show just kinda wandered around without a purpose and got really silly. They should have ended a couple of seasons ago IMO.
I'm running 0.9.8 on a 1Ghz linux system with 256 megs of ram, and it takes just over 1 second for a new window to open, and tabs are instantaneous. I think these slow response times are just a matter of people trying to run it on underpowered hardware.
Well the thing is, under Linux this would be handled by the window manager. Window focus is highly configurable, and if you don't like how it's handled you can change it. You can specifically set whether a child window can grab focus or not. It's not really a user-friendliness issue, just a misconfiguration issue. As with most problems people have with Linux, it's not really a problem with Linux itself, just a problem with the default configuration.
Yes, half-life supports OpenGL, and runs great under wine with only a few tweaks. The main menu looks like crap, probably because it uses DirectDraw or something like that, but the game itself actually runs faster under Linux with Wine than it does natively under Windows.
LucasArts does, undeniably, hold the crown for best adventure games ever. (Grim Fandango is, IMNSHO, the best adventure game ever made) But the Space Quest series were pretty damn funny and well made, not to mention the first to actually use talking characters. Until we see Monkey Island 5 hitting the shelves (please please pleeeeeaaase) this is great news.
Don't even think about playing the DOS SQ games in Windows--it ain't gonna happen. Even SQ6, which ran under win95, doesn't seem to run properly under anything newer. Recently when I was on a nostalgia kick I just built a really cheap machine and loaded dos 6.22 on it. Even then I had to slow the cpu down before I could play them. I played all the way through SQ4 and SQ6 in a weekend:) I think I played through Day of the Tentacle in about five hours, that's my personal record.
Basically, you want something like LucasArts' engine for Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island. That is really the best way to do a 3d engine and still keep the adventure game feel.
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There is a huge difference. Funimation goes out of their way to make DBZ stupid.
this site has a very complete listing of all the changes made for the American version.
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In many cases thats the fastest transfer you can get with a modem, even 56k. Before I went broadband, I couldn't get any higher than that with a modem due to the crappy phone lines here.
MPlayer only supports RealMedia version 1, which no one uses. So their Real support is pretty much useless, and no, you can't watch Real streams with it.
Bah, Windows 95's process management was a bad joke. Its memory protection was likewise a clumsy hack. So, technically it had these things but the end result was hardly any better than MacOS. Even today Windows XP's process management is a far cry from the power of a Unix system (which now includes the Mac OS).
Whereas is took me about four hours. They stuck me on hold and left me there.
Well, I'm convinced!
Every java app I have ever used has been ungodly slow compared to any native app that does the same thing. Your counterargument notwithstanding, you're going to have to show some actual examples of java having good performance before you'll change anyone's mind.
I see this as proof that the USPTO doesn't bother checking for prior art at all. How the hell could they possibly have missed the many examples if they had? Shit, even ntfs has been doing that for years.
Linux and BSD in particular would be good examples for the prosecution's purposes, because while they do package software with the os, they allow you to choose exactly which software packages you want. This is essentially what I think the case boils down to, letting people remove parts of Windows that they don't want. Ballmer claimed that they would have to create millions of versions of Windows to accomodate everyone but he doesn't get it; let people choose what they install, bonehead!
Sorry I don't think "totally worthless" is an ambiguous enough statement for me to have misinterpreted it. If you really meant you personally didn't like it, you did a pretty terrible job of saying so.
What the entire rant was getting at was the fact that if he started charging for that website, those 10 million page views would disappear.
What happened was absolutely normal and totally predictable. Anyone who was surprised by it is willfully ignorant of history and deserves what they got. Go read about what happened when airplanes first became economically viable.
I am wiping a tear from my eye as I type this. Thanks for the laugh.
Why, because Fred uses proper english? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it sucks.
And I thought I was one of the only ones who felt this way. This is actually the biggest reason why I miss Napster. I listen to a lot of Japanese music and when I heard a really cool song I wanted to download it, because theres no way I'll find it sold locally and getting it shipped from overseas is iffy.
And what justification do you have in saying that? Is it really? Or are you comparing it to x86 hardware, apples and oranges (no pun intended). Macs run on PowerPC chips, making them more expensive simply because theres a smaller market for PowerPC. Mac hardware is more expensive than x86 hardware, but unless you can put together a cheaper PowerPC system on your own, it is not overpriced.
Yes they resolved all that in the Final Disclosure story arc last season. After that the show just kinda wandered around without a purpose and got really silly. They should have ended a couple of seasons ago IMO.
I'm running 0.9.8 on a 1Ghz linux system with 256 megs of ram, and it takes just over 1 second for a new window to open, and tabs are instantaneous. I think these slow response times are just a matter of people trying to run it on underpowered hardware.
*cough*windowsxp*cough*
Err, you got the name right but Sealand is built on the remains of a WWII antiaircraft station just outside the borders of England, not an oil rig.
Well the thing is, under Linux this would be handled by the window manager. Window focus is highly configurable, and if you don't like how it's handled you can change it. You can specifically set whether a child window can grab focus or not. It's not really a user-friendliness issue, just a misconfiguration issue. As with most problems people have with Linux, it's not really a problem with Linux itself, just a problem with the default configuration.
Yes, half-life supports OpenGL, and runs great under wine with only a few tweaks. The main menu looks like crap, probably because it uses DirectDraw or something like that, but the game itself actually runs faster under Linux with Wine than it does natively under Windows.
LucasArts does, undeniably, hold the crown for best adventure games ever. (Grim Fandango is, IMNSHO, the best adventure game ever made) But the Space Quest series were pretty damn funny and well made, not to mention the first to actually use talking characters. Until we see Monkey Island 5 hitting the shelves (please please pleeeeeaaase) this is great news.
Don't even think about playing the DOS SQ games in Windows--it ain't gonna happen. Even SQ6, which ran under win95, doesn't seem to run properly under anything newer. Recently when I was on a nostalgia kick I just built a really cheap machine and loaded dos 6.22 on it. Even then I had to slow the cpu down before I could play them. I played all the way through SQ4 and SQ6 in a weekend :) I think I played through Day of the Tentacle in about five hours, that's my personal record.
Basically, you want something like LucasArts' engine for Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island. That is really the best way to do a 3d engine and still keep the adventure game feel.
There is a huge difference. Funimation goes out of their way to make DBZ stupid. this site has a very complete listing of all the changes made for the American version.