Yeah, Blizzard games are pretty tight as far as release goes, which is why I've never had an issue with buying them on the day of release. As a consumer, its not my problem if the company can't get their shit together and release a working product, except that I would piss away a decent chunk of change by doing so. There are plenty of apps which work fine out of the gate, so I'm certainly not going to break out the violins for a company that got in over their heads.
On a side note, I won't be buying any more Blizzard games, or any other games which require the CD to be in the drive. Diablo II instaled fine but just kept bitching about the CD being in the drive when I tried to run it, even when I switched the 8x in that computer for a newer 32x. I finally had to borrow my friend's 24x just to get the damned game to start. Eventually I found a CD crack, but I can't play online when I use it. I'll be damned if I'm going to give money to these friggin idiots who create games that can only be enjoyed off the bat by pirates who easily circumvent the protections that fuck the legitamate users. To any game developers who might be reading: what is the point of these stupid protection schemes which don't work and have never worked, other than to piss those of us off who actually want to pay for what we use and not require installing files created by some anonymous cracker? I have over 600 CDs, so it really sucks to have to go dig up a friggin CD just to play a quick game of Unreal Tournament before work. I just don't get it.
That would actually make a pretty good Slashdot question:
How do you make your Windows box so unstable?
I have my issues with Windows, but my two Windows machines are only rebooted every two to three weeks whenever I do something really abusive, the power flickers or just feel like doing it for shits and grins, and god knows I beat the hell out of them by running a dozen different applications at once while installing and uninstalling apps left and right. It does damn near everything that I need an OS to do, and if the explorer shell allowed more customization rather than requiring a buggy substitute like LiteStep, the OS had scripting functionality on the order of the bash shell and support for real symbolic links rather than those shitty shortcuts, I'd probably migrate to borderline true believer. But then I have no time to spend on zealotry to my tools; I'm too damned busy using them. There are features of other OSes that I like (well, except MacOS; the year I spent as a typesetter working on Macs, or more accurately, clearing bomb icon windows and rebooting Macs, has caused me to vow to never use an Apple product again), but Windows just happens to have the greatest combination of features and software at this time for my needs.
I only wish. The Illuminati seem to have some semblance of competance. I often worry that if Laura decides to sleep in rather than get up and tie George's shoes that we'll have Dick Cheney as a president before the next presidential selections actually take place. Not that anything will change, really, but these meaningless events that the media likes to spend hours harping on always seem to take place during The Simpsons.
Hey! Don't start talking trash about the invisible beings in the sky who are responsible for the way things are! The heads of Scientology will have your ass removed!
Oh wait, were you talking about another religion? My bad, I always get my mythical beings mixed up. If only one of the damn things would show themselves already so we don't have to keep track of so many...
Actually, I heard it was the Ranger, when they shredded it in '93. Our ship was in the yards with them at the time and heard that one, but I always thought it was just a sea story. Considering all of the cool machine shop gear in good condition that we swiped from their distro boxes on the pier, it may not have been BS after all.:)
It's not that hard to find evidence of corecion and exploitationin the porn industry, unless of course, you don't want to see any
As well as in the real estate industry, politics and law enforcement. Exploitation isn't a symptom of pornography, its a symptom of humanity. Pornography just makes a great target due to the bizarre irony in our culture that everyone is either having sex or wanting to have sex, yet sex is taboo. Christ, even kids who haven't learned a damn thing about the world start getting horny and staring at fine members of the opposite sex, or same sex for some. That's the curse we bear for being human. In the words of George Carlin, "There are far worse things that you can to do another person than giving them an orgasm."
To those of you unfortunate enough to grow up in a climate of repression and hate: don't worry, sex won't destroy the world, burn down the rain forests and upset Baby Jeebus(tm); it'll just make you a bit happier and a bit sleepier if you just have the courage to let it.
For all of you engineer geeks looking to do this kind of cool stuff, you might want to check out the Underwriters Laboratories (yeah, the UL on the back of damn near every bloody device that uses electricity:)). You know those videos you see of a robotic arm slamming a refridgerator door over and over, or dudes in lab coats and goggles watching a laser, or even a building getting torched to test the sprinklers? Probably taken from the UL. Beats working for a government agency anyhow.;)
So he's a dumbass due to scale? I happen to agree with him; I want every medical advance possible to prolong my life as much as possible. I happen to enjoy life, and I can't even remotely fathom having time enough to do and experience everything that there is to do now within the next 1,000 years, nevertheless all of the cool shit yet to come. I think about all of the amazing stuff that has happened over the past couple thousand years and feel only sorrow that I won't get to live through the next few thousand. I certainly wouldn't demand that a long lifespan should be forced upon everyone, but I would ask that others not dictate my lifespan as well.
Its OK, RMS and the Slashbots are on their way over to detain the bastard; we won't having any of that subversive nonsense here! If he dares to defend the Antichrist(TM), we will cast him into eternal damnation with a few commands entered into a Collective-approved, properly licensed CLI.
You poor MicroWhore. At least if I have an opinion I'll post it with my name, even if it happens to be against this slashdot "conspiracy" you guys believe in. Hell, I gain points, and I lose 'em.. big deal, I can always get another account if I truly get screwed.
Your name is Splat? Dude, smack your parents for me. You bitch because he posts anonymously and then say big deal what people think because you can just change the name that you use on here. Make up your fucking mind. Bloody facist; does my opinion now mean more because I tacked the name "Deosyne" to it? How about if I use my real name, Shawn? Grow up, Slashbot; you'll get a lot from the world by taking people's opinions at face value rather than by disregarding someone's ideas because they don't conform to your standards.
Heh, easily one of the best episodes, just for the sake of watching the Iron Chef who was competing screaming, "He is not a real chef!" in a bloody rage at the dude for jumping up on his cutting board. They really do take that shit seriously. That said, I don't know about that movie; from the description, it sounds like its going to be a goofball flick using a pop culture icon as a backdrop to a lame story, like Ready To Rumble or Detroit Rock City.
But I reserve the right to tell my computers not to talk to yours.
And to tell all of your customers computers not to talk to them as well. Unless, of course, you are some insanely rich guy that has a pipe directly into a backbone and doesn't pay for it by taking money from other people in exchange for Internet access, in which case I revoke my last statement. Ain't it great being an end user in these techie pissing contests; you just never know what the fuck you'll be able to access because the people that you pay for service have a personal agenda.
I hate spammers more than anyone I know, and would love to execute every one of them personally, but the RBL is just a tool for ISPs to screw their customer base as a means of making a statement. Its using a shotgun to treat an parasite; sure, the parasite's dead, but the patient is severely fucked as well. Being a tech support puke for an ISP myself, the people I feel most sorry for are the support folk at the ISPs who are RBL members once this shit hits the mainstream press, considering the fit that customers will throw just because their access to some sites is slower than others. When they find that they're being cut off from huge numbers of websites because MAPS decided to start playing dick size games with web hosting services... *shudder* The end and the means, blah, blah, blah.
Nope, to me it demonstrates that either a)You are the owner's kid, or b)That you are one badass businessman to become CEO of a successful company in the fascist business world with spiked purple hair. That's the main reason I haven't cut my hair short; its one hell of a litmus test, as any workplace that is so uptight as to not hire me for a technical position based on my personal appearance is not an environment that I want to be involved with. Of course, in this instance his being CEO wouldn't mean much, what with the other umpteen CEOs around.:)
I always love these analogies, I really do. I think its because so many will nod their heads and say, "well yeah, that's true," even though its completely irrelevant. Gee, you've only got herpes, sir; old Bob next door has cancer, so what are you bitching about? Shit; I was a janitor for a year but had to quit after I fucked my back; every day as I sit in my shitty cube and talk to people who have no clue as to what they are dealing with supporting a buggy product put out by a company about as informative as the CIA, I miss being a janitor. Before that, I was a mechanic in the Navy, where 16 hour days were the standard, I was effectivity a piece of property and something was ALWAYS broken. But I've got a family now, so I grind away, no damn time for happiness yet because I've got to buy bread and milk. I definitely have no regrets because I love my wife and daughter dearly, but the thought that some schmuck is heaving rocks in a coal mine somewhere just doesn't do a hell of a lot to make my job any better. But thanks for the story, regardless; I needed a smile.
Java software engineers and QA engineers? Did you even read the fucking article? You have apparently never worked tech support in a call center; this isn't something that you do as an aspiration, its what you do because its the best paying job that you can get without a college degree or an assload of certs in the tech industry. Every fucking day I'd love to just say fuck it and never go into work, because it sucks the high, hard one, but what else am I going to do? Java software engineer?!? Get the fuck out of here; if I qualified for that position, I'd be long gone from call center support.
This is the McDonald's of the tech industry; its the place where those of us who can't afford to go to or haven't yet completed a college degree go to work because we're too fucking stupid to get over the computer addiction and find a halfway decent job outside of the industry. But fate cursed my stupid ass to be a computer geek instead so I deal with the whiny dickheads who drop three grand on a piece of equipment with more options than a DC-10 that they know jack shit about and expect to work like HAL 9000 while I beg, scrimp and steal any little piece of info from those on high that might help me and my fellow techs solve the myriad mysterious issues that always crop up with no reasonably obtained solutions.
That article was so right on that I damn near started crying when I saw my life written out in black and white like that. So I continue to go, day after shitty day, waiting for the day that my wife gets her degree so that she can go to work and make good money while I go to school and take care of my daughter. No offense to you, TWR, as you apparently aren't aware of just who is staffing the call centers, but seeing your disdain towards call center techs not being to find work and then saying how easy it is to find a job as an engineer was just patently ridiculous. Not all techies are six figure programmers; some of us are still making $20,000 a year doing support work and hoping for something better before we burn out.
Heh, I know you're just trolling, so its probably on purpose, but I couldn't help but get a chuckle from seeing the phrase, "rage with an identidy you coward," from someone going by the name "barneyfoo." Thanks for the chuckle; troll on, as you keep the bites chomping well.
Goddamn, I'm glad I took a second to actually think about that for a second, as I was about to blow it off. That is actually pretty fucking brilliant; if you can convince the developers of lynx, Mozilla and other browsers to implement this functionality, perhaps as a somewhat obscure switch in the preferences with a keyboard shortcut to make it convenient for those who would actually use it, then there would be a completely open list of domain names to choose from that wouldn't be flooded by commercial interests for quite a long while due to its obscure nature. Hopefully, by the time it does happen, we will have found a better method. Gonna have to get IPv6 off its ass to make it work, though. Ah well, a pipe dream perhaps, but so was the Internet at one point, so who knows?;)
Startin Up a Posse by Anthrax, off of Attack of the Killer Bees. Great band, great song, great album, although I would highly recommend checking out the album Spreading the Disease as well. Actually, any old Anthrax is great; their new stuff with the new lead singer is decent, but it sounds a bit forced, while classic Anthrax is just metal thrashin' fun.:)
I've been seeing a LOT of posts that support Gopher because of the lack of support for images and whatnot, but that seems rather silly to me. What exactly is it that keeps an HTTP page from presenting just text? I've been on many different websites that were text only, such as mailing list digests. So what exactly does Gopher provide that makes it superior in this regard? The comments here are highly misdirected, as it isn't in a matter of technology but of design that the problem lies. The only way that switching to Gopher would solve that problem is if Gopher replaced the entire Internet. To be honest, I would rather just let the "Lookee! Its my puppy!" pages remain and have the option of placing diagrams, links and other useful tools within a document.
Yech, I can only imagine what that would be like; was horrible enough the one time I used a small piece of masking tape to hold together a J that was unraveling. Blech!
Cruise over to Dimensional Media's website and check out the HyperCube 3D monitor in the R&D tab (no pics, unfortunately). The best quote from the description: "can add a tactile force feedback interface." You will actually be able to roughly feel the object as well! The applications for this kind of tech are endless, from surgery to 3D modeling to CAD to entertainment (gotta feed the pornhounds), etc. I'd say this isn't even possible yet, except for the fact that hundreds have seen it in person at Comdex. Love to know what their products go for, even though I'll never actually be able to afford them. I just can't help but imagine what computing will be like in 20 years (maybe even sooner!) when these babies are commonplace and operating systems are designed in 3D; you'll grab a file and drop it in a folder, literally!:)
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Yeah, Blizzard games are pretty tight as far as release goes, which is why I've never had an issue with buying them on the day of release. As a consumer, its not my problem if the company can't get their shit together and release a working product, except that I would piss away a decent chunk of change by doing so. There are plenty of apps which work fine out of the gate, so I'm certainly not going to break out the violins for a company that got in over their heads.
On a side note, I won't be buying any more Blizzard games, or any other games which require the CD to be in the drive. Diablo II instaled fine but just kept bitching about the CD being in the drive when I tried to run it, even when I switched the 8x in that computer for a newer 32x. I finally had to borrow my friend's 24x just to get the damned game to start. Eventually I found a CD crack, but I can't play online when I use it. I'll be damned if I'm going to give money to these friggin idiots who create games that can only be enjoyed off the bat by pirates who easily circumvent the protections that fuck the legitamate users. To any game developers who might be reading: what is the point of these stupid protection schemes which don't work and have never worked, other than to piss those of us off who actually want to pay for what we use and not require installing files created by some anonymous cracker? I have over 600 CDs, so it really sucks to have to go dig up a friggin CD just to play a quick game of Unreal Tournament before work. I just don't get it.
Deosyne
That would actually make a pretty good Slashdot question:
How do you make your Windows box so unstable?
I have my issues with Windows, but my two Windows machines are only rebooted every two to three weeks whenever I do something really abusive, the power flickers or just feel like doing it for shits and grins, and god knows I beat the hell out of them by running a dozen different applications at once while installing and uninstalling apps left and right. It does damn near everything that I need an OS to do, and if the explorer shell allowed more customization rather than requiring a buggy substitute like LiteStep, the OS had scripting functionality on the order of the bash shell and support for real symbolic links rather than those shitty shortcuts, I'd probably migrate to borderline true believer. But then I have no time to spend on zealotry to my tools; I'm too damned busy using them. There are features of other OSes that I like (well, except MacOS; the year I spent as a typesetter working on Macs, or more accurately, clearing bomb icon windows and rebooting Macs, has caused me to vow to never use an Apple product again), but Windows just happens to have the greatest combination of features and software at this time for my needs.
Deosyne
I only wish. The Illuminati seem to have some semblance of competance. I often worry that if Laura decides to sleep in rather than get up and tie George's shoes that we'll have Dick Cheney as a president before the next presidential selections actually take place. Not that anything will change, really, but these meaningless events that the media likes to spend hours harping on always seem to take place during The Simpsons.
Deosyne
Hey! Don't start talking trash about the invisible beings in the sky who are responsible for the way things are! The heads of Scientology will have your ass removed!
Oh wait, were you talking about another religion? My bad, I always get my mythical beings mixed up. If only one of the damn things would show themselves already so we don't have to keep track of so many...
Deosyne
Actually, I heard it was the Ranger, when they shredded it in '93. Our ship was in the yards with them at the time and heard that one, but I always thought it was just a sea story. Considering all of the cool machine shop gear in good condition that we swiped from their distro boxes on the pier, it may not have been BS after all. :)
Deosyne
It's not that hard to find evidence of corecion and exploitationin the porn industry, unless of course, you don't want to see any
As well as in the real estate industry, politics and law enforcement. Exploitation isn't a symptom of pornography, its a symptom of humanity. Pornography just makes a great target due to the bizarre irony in our culture that everyone is either having sex or wanting to have sex, yet sex is taboo. Christ, even kids who haven't learned a damn thing about the world start getting horny and staring at fine members of the opposite sex, or same sex for some. That's the curse we bear for being human. In the words of George Carlin, "There are far worse things that you can to do another person than giving them an orgasm."
To those of you unfortunate enough to grow up in a climate of repression and hate: don't worry, sex won't destroy the world, burn down the rain forests and upset Baby Jeebus(tm); it'll just make you a bit happier and a bit sleepier if you just have the courage to let it.
Deosyne
For all of you engineer geeks looking to do this kind of cool stuff, you might want to check out the Underwriters Laboratories (yeah, the UL on the back of damn near every bloody device that uses electricity :)). You know those videos you see of a robotic arm slamming a refridgerator door over and over, or dudes in lab coats and goggles watching a laser, or even a building getting torched to test the sprinklers? Probably taken from the UL. Beats working for a government agency anyhow. ;)
Deosyne
And yet delightfully accurate. Thanks for the chuckle, AC.
Deosyne
So he's a dumbass due to scale? I happen to agree with him; I want every medical advance possible to prolong my life as much as possible. I happen to enjoy life, and I can't even remotely fathom having time enough to do and experience everything that there is to do now within the next 1,000 years, nevertheless all of the cool shit yet to come. I think about all of the amazing stuff that has happened over the past couple thousand years and feel only sorrow that I won't get to live through the next few thousand. I certainly wouldn't demand that a long lifespan should be forced upon everyone, but I would ask that others not dictate my lifespan as well.
Deosyne
Its OK, RMS and the Slashbots are on their way over to detain the bastard; we won't having any of that subversive nonsense here! If he dares to defend the Antichrist(TM), we will cast him into eternal damnation with a few commands entered into a Collective-approved, properly licensed CLI.
Deosyne
Damn, what's it feel like to be over 200 years old?
Deosyne
You poor MicroWhore. At least if I have an opinion I'll post it with my name, even if it happens to be against this slashdot "conspiracy" you guys believe in. Hell, I gain points, and I lose 'em.. big deal, I can always get another account if I truly get screwed.
Your name is Splat? Dude, smack your parents for me. You bitch because he posts anonymously and then say big deal what people think because you can just change the name that you use on here. Make up your fucking mind. Bloody facist; does my opinion now mean more because I tacked the name "Deosyne" to it? How about if I use my real name, Shawn? Grow up, Slashbot; you'll get a lot from the world by taking people's opinions at face value rather than by disregarding someone's ideas because they don't conform to your standards.
Deosyne
Heh, easily one of the best episodes, just for the sake of watching the Iron Chef who was competing screaming, "He is not a real chef!" in a bloody rage at the dude for jumping up on his cutting board. They really do take that shit seriously. That said, I don't know about that movie; from the description, it sounds like its going to be a goofball flick using a pop culture icon as a backdrop to a lame story, like Ready To Rumble or Detroit Rock City.
Deosyne
Yeah, it was the Numb Thumb Club; god damn my pathetic ass to the fiery pits of the lowest plane of hell for knowing that after all this time.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
But I reserve the right to tell my computers not to talk to yours.
And to tell all of your customers computers not to talk to them as well. Unless, of course, you are some insanely rich guy that has a pipe directly into a backbone and doesn't pay for it by taking money from other people in exchange for Internet access, in which case I revoke my last statement. Ain't it great being an end user in these techie pissing contests; you just never know what the fuck you'll be able to access because the people that you pay for service have a personal agenda.
I hate spammers more than anyone I know, and would love to execute every one of them personally, but the RBL is just a tool for ISPs to screw their customer base as a means of making a statement. Its using a shotgun to treat an parasite; sure, the parasite's dead, but the patient is severely fucked as well. Being a tech support puke for an ISP myself, the people I feel most sorry for are the support folk at the ISPs who are RBL members once this shit hits the mainstream press, considering the fit that customers will throw just because their access to some sites is slower than others. When they find that they're being cut off from huge numbers of websites because MAPS decided to start playing dick size games with web hosting services... *shudder* The end and the means, blah, blah, blah.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Bwahaha! A refreshing bit of irony in a sea of zealotry; thank you, my friend.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Nope, to me it demonstrates that either a)You are the owner's kid, or b)That you are one badass businessman to become CEO of a successful company in the fascist business world with spiked purple hair. That's the main reason I haven't cut my hair short; its one hell of a litmus test, as any workplace that is so uptight as to not hire me for a technical position based on my personal appearance is not an environment that I want to be involved with. Of course, in this instance his being CEO wouldn't mean much, what with the other umpteen CEOs around. :)
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
I always love these analogies, I really do. I think its because so many will nod their heads and say, "well yeah, that's true," even though its completely irrelevant. Gee, you've only got herpes, sir; old Bob next door has cancer, so what are you bitching about? Shit; I was a janitor for a year but had to quit after I fucked my back; every day as I sit in my shitty cube and talk to people who have no clue as to what they are dealing with supporting a buggy product put out by a company about as informative as the CIA, I miss being a janitor. Before that, I was a mechanic in the Navy, where 16 hour days were the standard, I was effectivity a piece of property and something was ALWAYS broken. But I've got a family now, so I grind away, no damn time for happiness yet because I've got to buy bread and milk. I definitely have no regrets because I love my wife and daughter dearly, but the thought that some schmuck is heaving rocks in a coal mine somewhere just doesn't do a hell of a lot to make my job any better. But thanks for the story, regardless; I needed a smile.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Java software engineers and QA engineers? Did you even read the fucking article? You have apparently never worked tech support in a call center; this isn't something that you do as an aspiration, its what you do because its the best paying job that you can get without a college degree or an assload of certs in the tech industry. Every fucking day I'd love to just say fuck it and never go into work, because it sucks the high, hard one, but what else am I going to do? Java software engineer?!? Get the fuck out of here; if I qualified for that position, I'd be long gone from call center support.
This is the McDonald's of the tech industry; its the place where those of us who can't afford to go to or haven't yet completed a college degree go to work because we're too fucking stupid to get over the computer addiction and find a halfway decent job outside of the industry. But fate cursed my stupid ass to be a computer geek instead so I deal with the whiny dickheads who drop three grand on a piece of equipment with more options than a DC-10 that they know jack shit about and expect to work like HAL 9000 while I beg, scrimp and steal any little piece of info from those on high that might help me and my fellow techs solve the myriad mysterious issues that always crop up with no reasonably obtained solutions.
That article was so right on that I damn near started crying when I saw my life written out in black and white like that. So I continue to go, day after shitty day, waiting for the day that my wife gets her degree so that she can go to work and make good money while I go to school and take care of my daughter. No offense to you, TWR, as you apparently aren't aware of just who is staffing the call centers, but seeing your disdain towards call center techs not being to find work and then saying how easy it is to find a job as an engineer was just patently ridiculous. Not all techies are six figure programmers; some of us are still making $20,000 a year doing support work and hoping for something better before we burn out.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Heh, I know you're just trolling, so its probably on purpose, but I couldn't help but get a chuckle from seeing the phrase, "rage with an identidy you coward," from someone going by the name "barneyfoo." Thanks for the chuckle; troll on, as you keep the bites chomping well.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Goddamn, I'm glad I took a second to actually think about that for a second, as I was about to blow it off. That is actually pretty fucking brilliant; if you can convince the developers of lynx, Mozilla and other browsers to implement this functionality, perhaps as a somewhat obscure switch in the preferences with a keyboard shortcut to make it convenient for those who would actually use it, then there would be a completely open list of domain names to choose from that wouldn't be flooded by commercial interests for quite a long while due to its obscure nature. Hopefully, by the time it does happen, we will have found a better method. Gonna have to get IPv6 off its ass to make it work, though. Ah well, a pipe dream perhaps, but so was the Internet at one point, so who knows? ;)
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Startin Up a Posse by Anthrax, off of Attack of the Killer Bees. Great band, great song, great album, although I would highly recommend checking out the album Spreading the Disease as well. Actually, any old Anthrax is great; their new stuff with the new lead singer is decent, but it sounds a bit forced, while classic Anthrax is just metal thrashin' fun. :)
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
I've been seeing a LOT of posts that support Gopher because of the lack of support for images and whatnot, but that seems rather silly to me. What exactly is it that keeps an HTTP page from presenting just text? I've been on many different websites that were text only, such as mailing list digests. So what exactly does Gopher provide that makes it superior in this regard? The comments here are highly misdirected, as it isn't in a matter of technology but of design that the problem lies. The only way that switching to Gopher would solve that problem is if Gopher replaced the entire Internet. To be honest, I would rather just let the "Lookee! Its my puppy!" pages remain and have the option of placing diagrams, links and other useful tools within a document.
Deo
Terradot.org: Growing Awareness
Yech, I can only imagine what that would be like; was horrible enough the one time I used a small piece of masking tape to hold together a J that was unraveling. Blech!
Deo
Cruise over to Dimensional Media's website and check out the HyperCube 3D monitor in the R&D tab (no pics, unfortunately). The best quote from the description: "can add a tactile force feedback interface." You will actually be able to roughly feel the object as well! The applications for this kind of tech are endless, from surgery to 3D modeling to CAD to entertainment (gotta feed the pornhounds), etc. I'd say this isn't even possible yet, except for the fact that hundreds have seen it in person at Comdex. Love to know what their products go for, even though I'll never actually be able to afford them. I just can't help but imagine what computing will be like in 20 years (maybe even sooner!) when these babies are commonplace and operating systems are designed in 3D; you'll grab a file and drop it in a folder, literally! :)
Deo