"why not buy/build a regular PC?" VERY SIMPLE ANSWER - A REGULAR PC DOES NOT PLAY X-BOX GAMES.
And, after the release of X-Box Live, NEITHER DOES A MODDED X-BOX! So the question remains, if you modchip it and lock yourself out of all the cool online games, why bother with an X-Box at all? Is single-player DOA Beach Volleyball really *that* cool?
They do pay whopping big (by normal standards) fines. The problem is that MS has something like $4 billion in the bank, so even the harshest fines don't faze them.
Personally, I think that taking Microsoft's money isn't punishment enough, future fines should have to be paid in patents. If the feds levy a $5 million fine on MS next year, they should have to go through their patent portfolio and release $5 million worth of IP to the public domain.
I have only bought one CD since the Metallica/Napster debacle, and the RIAA is still there. The problem is that you and I aren't their cash source anymore, it's the #^%&%^ middle-school kids dropping their allowance on a new Britney Spears CD every week.
2.1) Spend months pestering the emulator dev team to fix that one bug that keeps game X from playing. 2.2) Install a different emulator, that plays game X, but breaks game Y and Z. Repeat this step until you get sick of emulation. 2.3) Yell "ah, fuck it!", delete your pirate ROMs, and go buy a real Nintendo on eBay.
Not really. I have a Flex-ATX form factor system (size of a large toaster), and seems just as fast as any other system with the same memory/chipset/CPU combination. As long as you get a mini-system with a standard AMD/Intel CPU (not a Via C3) it will be just as fast. Find one with an AGP slot, since onboard video tends to be ssslllloooowww.
There is no direct PDF reader for the Newton. I have a PyObjC script on my Mac (which should be converted to ObjC or Squeak) that converts from PDFs to JPEGs. The Newton asks the Mac for a conversion, gets a web page filled with the images, which is savable by Newt's Cape as an ebook for later zooming and annotation.
Eeek! That's way more work than I was going to put into this. I was hoping you just had a script that used something like pdf2txt to turn the PDF into a NewtonWorks document. Saving pictures of text seems like a roundabout way to do things.
For me, it was a simple matter of downloading the PDFs of the schedules and putting them on my PDA, which is usually a Newton 2100, but also a Jornada 720 (for research).
What do you use to read.pdf files on the Newton?
Re:We shall need independently certified wealth
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The time frame is unclear, but eventually nanotechnology will allow exact copies of more or less anything. This will make cash, gold and many other current measures of wealth nearly worthless.
You're more right than you know. It makes the very *concept* of wealth nearly worthless. If nearly anyone can turn nearly anything into nearly anything else, then they have all the "wealth" they need! Pervasive nanotech could enable a "Star Trek" style economy.
Somehow, institutions will need to be established to keep track of everyone's net worth. What happens when crackers manage successful attacks on these? Shudder.
Why shudder? As long as I have technology to turn garbage into useful stuff at virtually no cost, what should I care what the system says my wealth is? If (when?) nanotech advances to the level where you can copy anything, traditional definitions of wealth will be as meaningless as medieval peerage systems are today.
Not all of us/.ers are electrical engineers, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here who doesn't know the difference between "4000 hours contiuous ripple current" and 6 months of what the caps on my motherboard are subjected to!
P.S. As I will no longer be able to recieve normal mail, please address all further correspondence on this subject to: Prisoner 32565 Cell Block 3, Camp X-Ray Guantanamo, Cuba
I doubt it's a limitation of the format. My guess its that the difference has more to do with how much money Apple is willing to throw at graphic artists to get those great icons.
This is for MPlayer 0.90rc3-3.2.1. Note that this listing doesn't count the 74 Windows.dlls and directshow filters that MPlayer can also load. You could probably trim off some of that by building it without the GUI, and without some of the more useless video codecs, but it would still require a lot of libraries. Still, I don't even want to *think* about statically linking all of that!
(insert some random less-compressable stuff here to defeat the lameness filter. All this thing does is piss off legitimate users. The crapflooders have all gone home, you can turn off the gzip-nazi filter now, Taco!!)
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Only the little 1-level demo versions were shareware. You still had to buy the full game (either mail-oder the full version disks, or buy them in a store). The trend isn't dead, either; Q3A and RtCW still have free demo versions available.
Pagemaker/InDesign/Quark, games and the NHL radio streams (WMA version the Crossover plugin doesn't handle) are the only thing I keep Windows installed on that other partition.
I can't help you with the page layout software, but try the latest version of MPlayer for the WMA streams. It plays every format I throw at it, including WMA 9.
I thought a Parsec was a unit for measuring distance, not speed. That line has always bugged me.:)
Me too. I saw a TV interview with George Lucas where someone asked him about it, and his (lame) explanation was that the "Kessel run" involves picking up cargo from several other freighters *while all the ships are moving*. So, the faster the Millenium Falcon can catch up to the next freighter to make a pickup, the less distance is required to make the run. It makes as much sense as any other explanation (other than "It sounded cool, so we put it in the script")
I'm surprised you college lets you turn in hand-written assignemtns. All of my professors insist on having their papers typed. (I would anyway, since my handwriting is illegible)
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"why not buy/build a regular PC?" VERY SIMPLE ANSWER - A REGULAR PC DOES NOT PLAY X-BOX GAMES.
And, after the release of X-Box Live, NEITHER DOES A MODDED X-BOX! So the question remains, if you modchip it and lock yourself out of all the cool online games, why bother with an X-Box at all? Is single-player DOA Beach Volleyball really *that* cool?
He missed a closing parenthesis in the first sentence. ;)
Oh good, there's a compiler in the crowd tonight!
They do pay whopping big (by normal standards) fines. The problem is that MS has something like $4 billion in the bank, so even the harshest fines don't faze them.
Personally, I think that taking Microsoft's money isn't punishment enough, future fines should have to be paid in patents. If the feds levy a $5 million fine on MS next year, they should have to go through their patent portfolio and release $5 million worth of IP to the public domain.
I highly doubt Billy-Bob Flatbush from Podunk, TN is gonna be in a terrorist ring.
Have we forgotten Oklahoma City already? Average-looking white Americans *can* in fact be terrorists!
I have only bought one CD since the Metallica/Napster debacle, and the RIAA is still there. The problem is that you and I aren't their cash source anymore, it's the #^%&%^ middle-school kids dropping their allowance on a new Britney Spears CD every week.
1. Read the GPL (all of it, not just the self-aggrandizing preamble)
2. Read the BSD license
3. Read the article
4. Answer your own question
The "build more lanes" approach *hasn't worked* for roads. Why should we think it will work for bandwidth?
I don't know, but within 5 minutes of it's publication, it will be the hottest list of addresses to spam.
2.1) Spend months pestering the emulator dev team to fix that one bug that keeps game X from playing.
2.2) Install a different emulator, that plays game X, but breaks game Y and Z. Repeat this step until you get sick of emulation.
2.3) Yell "ah, fuck it!", delete your pirate ROMs, and go buy a real Nintendo on eBay.
Thos effing smiley-faced proxy mines RULED!
Aaah, what I wouldn't give for a good game of Chaos Q2 right now...
Not really.
I have a Flex-ATX form factor system (size of a large toaster), and seems just as fast as any other system with the same memory/chipset/CPU combination. As long as you get a mini-system with a standard AMD/Intel CPU (not a Via C3) it will be just as fast. Find one with an AGP slot, since onboard video tends to be ssslllloooowww.
There is no direct PDF reader for the Newton. I have a PyObjC script on my Mac (which should be converted to ObjC or Squeak) that converts from PDFs to JPEGs. The Newton asks the Mac for a conversion, gets a web page filled with the images, which is savable by Newt's Cape as an ebook for later zooming and annotation.
Eeek! That's way more work than I was going to put into this. I was hoping you just had a script that used something like pdf2txt to turn the PDF into a NewtonWorks document. Saving pictures of text seems like a roundabout way to do things.
For me, it was a simple matter of downloading the PDFs of the schedules and putting them on my PDA, which is usually a Newton 2100, but also a Jornada 720 (for research).
.pdf files on the Newton?
What do you use to read
The time frame is unclear, but eventually nanotechnology will allow exact copies of more or less anything. This will make cash, gold and many other current measures of wealth nearly worthless.
You're more right than you know. It makes the very *concept* of wealth nearly worthless. If nearly anyone can turn nearly anything into nearly anything else, then they have all the "wealth" they need! Pervasive nanotech could enable a "Star Trek" style economy.
Somehow, institutions will need to be established to keep track of everyone's net worth. What happens when crackers manage successful attacks on these? Shudder.
Why shudder? As long as I have technology to turn garbage into useful stuff at virtually no cost, what should I care what the system says my wealth is? If (when?) nanotech advances to the level where you can copy anything, traditional definitions of wealth will be as meaningless as medieval peerage systems are today.
It was a joke?
/.ers are electrical engineers, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here who doesn't know the difference between "4000 hours contiuous ripple current" and 6 months of what the caps on my motherboard are subjected to!
Not all of us
P.S.
As I will no longer be able to recieve normal mail, please address all further correspondence on this subject to:
Prisoner 32565
Cell Block 3, Camp X-Ray
Guantanamo, Cuba
try "xterm -fn micro", resize to full-screen, and watch GitS in all it's high-res ASCII glory.
I doubt it's a limitation of the format. My guess its that the difference has more to do with how much money Apple is willing to throw at graphic artists to get those great icons.
This is for MPlayer 0.90rc3-3.2.1. Note that this listing doesn't count the 74 Windows
(insert some random less-compressable stuff here to defeat the lameness filter. All this thing does is piss off legitimate users. The crapflooders have all gone home, you can turn off the gzip-nazi filter now, Taco!!)
Only the little 1-level demo versions were shareware. You still had to buy the full game (either mail-oder the full version disks, or buy them in a store). The trend isn't dead, either; Q3A and RtCW still have free demo versions available.
Pagemaker/InDesign/Quark, games and the NHL radio streams (WMA version the Crossover plugin doesn't handle) are the only thing I keep Windows installed on that other partition.
I can't help you with the page layout software, but try the latest version of MPlayer for the WMA streams. It plays every format I throw at it, including WMA 9.
I thought a Parsec was a unit for measuring distance, not speed. That line has always bugged me. :)
Me too. I saw a TV interview with George Lucas where someone asked him about it, and his (lame) explanation was that the "Kessel run" involves picking up cargo from several other freighters *while all the ships are moving*. So, the faster the Millenium Falcon can catch up to the next freighter to make a pickup, the less distance is required to make the run. It makes as much sense as any other explanation (other than "It sounded cool, so we put it in the script")
Seems the same explanation that makes up for the succes of the polaroid camera. ...and the internet.
It's simple, really.
1: Get Dubya to call Kazaa a terrorist organization
2: Have the US military bomb them into oblivion
3: ???
4: Profit!! for the ??AA
I'm surprised you college lets you turn in hand-written assignemtns. All of my professors insist on having their papers typed. (I would anyway, since my handwriting is illegible)