I get the impression that sending a text is way more expensive in the US than elsewhere so hasn't really taken off the way it has elsewhere? I get 1,000 a month 'free' in my monthly payment. Most people I know are on unlimited. It's certainly not uncommon for people to get through 5,000+ a month. I really don't see the problem. It's cheap, simple and works. Sure you can use WhatsApp etc (free for how long?) but most people I know don't have it and won't installit because, well, they like SMS for reasons given.
WTF, just WTF. The extreme right are getting to be one of the major nutjob groups on the planet. They make the other nutjobs around the world seem almost sensible in comparison.
I guess for some people the world just never moved on from the 1950s
We just take our cue from all those Irish people who still live in the 1920's and think it's just fine hating each other for backing the wrong religion team.
Hardly news, it's been reported many times over the last few years that research indicates our overly sterile environment is causing problems with alergies, asthsma etc. Heck, even our grandparanents knew this with old wives tales about eating dirt to make you healthy. A collegue from India tells me they have a ceremony involving putting some mud or something in a babies mouth to encourage a healthy defence mechanism.
OTOH, I buy lots more music now, a mix of CDs and downloaded tracks from Amazon - mainly the latter unless the CD offers something special. I listen to a radio show in the UK (6 Music) and buy Mojo Magazine which expose me to lots of ideas for new bands to check out.
I used to hammer Napster back in the day but that was mainly to download rare stuff you simply couldn't buy period or was unavailable in my country.
I have sometimes treated downloads as try before you buy - for instance I d/l all of the West Wing before buying it on DVD. Ditto for BSG and other shows. TBH, I probably buy more than I should given my lack of 'me time' as I have about 150 DVDs in the 'to be watched' pile.
Seemed pretty bizarre to me too. He got the PS3 bit wrong but flamebait? Don't think so. There seems to be a number of users who regularly get knocked back on quite reasonable posts. I'm starting to suspect an organised group of users down modding people whose politics they disagree with or something.
Sony are infamous for being crap and dev support. A friend who has worked on a number of game projects says that they hate dealing with Sony. When they hit an issue developing for Xbox, they email MS and get a reply, often with a code snippet/workaround and by the end of day, On the other hand, they have to chase Sony over and over and eventually, weeks later get an email saying 'Look in the documentation'.
A friend who has worked for several lawyer firms says they never buy more than one copy of anything and often swap software with other firms. He thought it pretty much standard legal firm behaviour from what his collegues had said.
I'm no fan boy and a Windows user but I can't really see what the big deal is. The only thing I'm careful about is always ripping with another tool then just dropping the files onto iTunes to upload to my iPod. I use it mainly for MP3s and podcasts plus the apps. I don't rent/buy videos much.
For me, it just works. It's easy to use and does exactly what I want. I have it set up to only sync what I want. Sure it has a bunch o junk it installs which I don't really use but big deal, it's not like most PCs are hard up for space and as others have noted, Adobe etc are just as bad.
My only gripe I could care about is having to upgrade iTunes to upgrade my iPod - that just seems nonsense to me.
Totally agree. They have an increasing number of tech savvy/politically aware customers *actively* turning their back on them in their buying choices. Sooner or later, that's going to bite,
I had a 286 in my ST. Can't recall what the thing was called but it ran DOS nicely. I used it for running Dbase III+ for a collage project. Worked well. Most of my Atari's from the ST onwards were fairly tricked out, extra RAM, extra CPUs, FPUs and on the Falcon, a doohicky that let you boost the screen res to something rather more impressive. I think I ran it at 1280x1024 in the end after finding the monitor struggled beyond that. It amazes me that almost 20 years on most people run their PCs at less than that.
I think my favourite was the Mega STe though. Silly money for what it was but I loved the seperate keyboard and TT style case and the 1.44 floppy/built in HD. Luxury!
Likewise at the end ST's were only being used in recording studios.
They were used quite a lot in DTP too at places that couldn't afford Macs. You could buy a bundle of Mega ST/Laser printer and DTP software for GBP2,500 which a fair few firms went for.
>Faster CPU? The Atari 800 was also based on an MOS 6502, so not sure what you are talking about there.
The 6502 was available in different speeds. The Atari's one was clocked significantly higher than the C64. The 800 ran at 1.8Mhz, not sure about the 64.
>Actually, he is correct. The C-64 did have "graphics support hardware" beyond offering a bitmap that programmer could directly manipulate. The GP is only mistaken in that he characterized the hardware as being like a "graphics card". The specialized C64 graphics hardware supported 8 sprites. It was a very handy thing.
Atari 800 had sprites in 78/79 although not as flexible.
>You could also consider the reprogrammable character set as such graphics hardware that sped up games.
Various VIC-20 and C-64 games used this technique to good effect.
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Clearly I was *totally* wrong so thanks for that. I'm now wondering where all the people I've seen on here complaining about the cost actually live!
I get the impression that sending a text is way more expensive in the US than elsewhere so hasn't really taken off the way it has elsewhere? I get 1,000 a month 'free' in my monthly payment. Most people I know are on unlimited. It's certainly not uncommon for people to get through 5,000+ a month. I really don't see the problem. It's cheap, simple and works. Sure you can use WhatsApp etc (free for how long?) but most people I know don't have it and won't installit because, well, they like SMS for reasons given.
Thing is, I can genuinely imagine them thinking this is worth a try.
WTF, just WTF. The extreme right are getting to be one of the major nutjob groups on the planet. They make the other nutjobs around the world seem almost sensible in comparison.
We just take our cue from all those Irish people who still live in the 1920's and think it's just fine hating each other for backing the wrong religion team.
Hardly news, it's been reported many times over the last few years that research indicates our overly sterile environment is causing problems with alergies, asthsma etc. Heck, even our grandparanents knew this with old wives tales about eating dirt to make you healthy. A collegue from India tells me they have a ceremony involving putting some mud or something in a babies mouth to encourage a healthy defence mechanism.
OTOH, I buy lots more music now, a mix of CDs and downloaded tracks from Amazon - mainly the latter unless the CD offers something special. I listen to a radio show in the UK (6 Music) and buy Mojo Magazine which expose me to lots of ideas for new bands to check out.
I used to hammer Napster back in the day but that was mainly to download rare stuff you simply couldn't buy period or was unavailable in my country.
I have sometimes treated downloads as try before you buy - for instance I d/l all of the West Wing before buying it on DVD. Ditto for BSG and other shows. TBH, I probably buy more than I should given my lack of 'me time' as I have about 150 DVDs in the 'to be watched' pile.
Windows Home Server (V1) - mix and match to your hearts content and all the addins you can eat for adding features.
Seemed pretty bizarre to me too. He got the PS3 bit wrong but flamebait? Don't think so. There seems to be a number of users who regularly get knocked back on quite reasonable posts. I'm starting to suspect an organised group of users down modding people whose politics they disagree with or something.
Sony are infamous for being crap and dev support. A friend who has worked on a number of game projects says that they hate dealing with Sony. When they hit an issue developing for Xbox, they email MS and get a reply, often with a code snippet/workaround and by the end of day, On the other hand, they have to chase Sony over and over and eventually, weeks later get an email saying 'Look in the documentation'.
A friend who has worked for several lawyer firms says they never buy more than one copy of anything and often swap software with other firms. He thought it pretty much standard legal firm behaviour from what his collegues had said.
Price? They're all a lot cheaper than a gaming grade PC rig and the gaming experience isn't *that* much less for 95% of people.
Yeah but it's a cool shape - it's exactly like that chip maker firm. Oh hang on...
I'm no fan boy and a Windows user but I can't really see what the big deal is. The only thing I'm careful about is always ripping with another tool then just dropping the files onto iTunes to upload to my iPod. I use it mainly for MP3s and podcasts plus the apps. I don't rent/buy videos much.
For me, it just works. It's easy to use and does exactly what I want. I have it set up to only sync what I want. Sure it has a bunch o junk it installs which I don't really use but big deal, it's not like most PCs are hard up for space and as others have noted, Adobe etc are just as bad.
My only gripe I could care about is having to upgrade iTunes to upgrade my iPod - that just seems nonsense to me.
We have bigger waves in Texas!
That's the bit that often fails with the euphamistic phrase 'collateral damage'
If Baboons can read and learn, there's hope yet for climate deniers, creationists and possibly even most of the Republican party.
>It's not a serious religion
As opposed to the ones that *really* make sense?
Totally agree. They have an increasing number of tech savvy/politically aware customers *actively* turning their back on them in their buying choices. Sooner or later, that's going to bite,
I had a 286 in my ST. Can't recall what the thing was called but it ran DOS nicely. I used it for running Dbase III+ for a collage project. Worked well. Most of my Atari's from the ST onwards were fairly tricked out, extra RAM, extra CPUs, FPUs and on the Falcon, a doohicky that let you boost the screen res to something rather more impressive. I think I ran it at 1280x1024 in the end after finding the monitor struggled beyond that. It amazes me that almost 20 years on most people run their PCs at less than that.
I think my favourite was the Mega STe though. Silly money for what it was but I loved the seperate keyboard and TT style case and the 1.44 floppy/built in HD. Luxury!
Fair points I can't really argue with :-)
They were used quite a lot in DTP too at places that couldn't afford Macs. You could buy a bundle of Mega ST/Laser printer and DTP software for GBP2,500 which a fair few firms went for.
>Faster CPU? The Atari 800 was also based on an MOS 6502, so not sure what you are talking about there.
The 6502 was available in different speeds. The Atari's one was clocked significantly higher than the C64. The 800 ran at 1.8Mhz, not sure about the 64.
>Actually, he is correct. The C-64 did have "graphics support hardware" beyond offering a bitmap that programmer could directly manipulate. The GP is only mistaken in that he characterized the hardware as being like a "graphics card". The specialized C64 graphics hardware supported 8 sprites. It was a very handy thing.
Atari 800 had sprites in 78/79 although not as flexible.
>You could also consider the reprogrammable character set as such graphics hardware that sped up games.
Various VIC-20 and C-64 games used this technique to good effect.
Atari 800 also had that.