So I'm not sure what the story was. I don't think Atari did either.
LOL. Probably true that:-)
Oh yeah, and the technically-brilliant-for-its-time Lynx was a flop as well, even though it should have done well.
The Lynx should have been smaller with a bigger BW reflective screen. The Lynx hardware itself was quite innovative, but its "huge" size and hunger for batteries made it a poor portable. The Game Gear was similarly troubled but Sega somehow managed to attract buyers though.
A pal of mine had an Atari XEGS. It looked awesome and futuristic, but was a bit of an oddball considering Atari already had the cheaper 2600 and superior 7800 out on the market. Apparently one could convert the XEGS to an XL so I suspect Atari just wanted to cash in on XL games that wouldn't run on a 7800 without a rewrite.
A limit on TCP connections is actually a bit of a good thing as many home routers crap out if you open too many. Hopefully it's less of a problem today then when I bought my router 3-4 years back.
Oh, yes, that's far more user-friendly! Whenever someone would click the right mouse button in Windows, let's make them hold a button on the keyboard while left-clicking.
There's a button on the Windows keyboard for right clicking. Never use it personally but no right left or right clicking is required. IMO Ctrl, shift and alt + three buttons on the mouse is just right, however if you want just a single button on the mouse you don't have to replace your PC with a Mac or vice versa - just the mouse.
Is the freemarket the reason Canadians have the come to the US for surgeries [nejm.org]?
I read a several years old study on that. It concluded that the number of Canadians that got health care in the US was quite small and the majority simply was in the US at the time of need. If you go by anecdotes you'll find cases of people coming to and leaving the US for health care so one can't draw conclusions from a handful of cases, otherwise people would still practice homeopathy... oh wait:-)
Don't sue your potential customers. It's not a good way to improve your public relations.
Red Hat is an American company, right? If this suit goes through Swizz is perhaps more likely to pick a European Linux distro, thus America will lose trade and American jobs are lost. Go Red Hat!
Uhh, you might want to look into the meaning of this word "rely." And then after that consider dropping the condescending uhhs.
Still wrong though, there are apps that expose functionality solely through right clicks (so rare yes but certainly possible) and "uhh" is not "condescending" but rather the reverse:-)
Well I agree HP makes nice printers, I just don't see how they make them so hard to install on the Windows platform. Usally you have use there automatic Printer driver installer which takes 2 hours to run, it tries to find the printer N times every time failing and then the 1 time it finds the printer is connected the install freezes.
I helped a guy with an HP printer and it seems they install crap to check the ink status and give you "helpful" messages about it. I recommend installing the drivers through the add printer interface, that way you avoid the extra bloatware.
I had an older version of Word and I wanted to make an A3 document - but my printer only supported A4. I was forced to find a machine with an A3 printer and create an A3 document there then take that back to my machine.... Fortunately Office 2007 has at least fixed that idiotic issue.
Or get her an operating system that doesn't allow programmers to rely on a distinction between right- and left-click and, yes, I'm talking about OS X.
Uhh, OS X does allow for right clicks and you can also use a single button mouse on Windows/Linux if the second button troubles you. Few programs require use of the second button and for those that do there's a button on a keyboard for it.
Of course this doesn't apply only to video games, but also movies, music, etc. We remember the good and throw out most of the bad.
I've never felt that new music is worse than old music. Old music is stuff I've heard so many times that I no longer get that feeling when you hear a good tune for the first time, so new music will always be better than old music:-)
I played Mario World the other day and to my surprise I found it somewhat "complicated" (You have little Mario, Cape Mario, Spinning Mario, etc.). Once upon a time I could play it to 96 stars in my sleep but today Nostalgia was the only thing that kept me playing (had to get to an old favorite level).
Donkey Kong Land OTOH is still great fun though, more so than New Super Mario so perhaps I just hate plumbers, IOW 2D platformers are not dead to me - even if that's the nostalgia talking:-)
It did look a better, but was slow enough to make you want to switch to software rendering immediately.
Never owned a Virge but I remember getting X-wing Alliance to run in OpenGL mode on my ATI 3D Charger. It was the first and only time I ran anything 3D on that card. It's a tad ironic that the first popular 3D card, the Voodoo, sacrificed image quality for speed but since it ran the games with a fluid framerate it looked better anyhow.
The name "Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 PRO" did sound rather impressive on paper.
Heh. 3D 2000 Pro. I got this image of the marketing department "we need to convey that the card is more than just 3D, but futuristic and professional too!"
If Amazon wants us to direct our ire towards the publishers, then they should have come clean about these flags before selling the Kindle. Except, wait... then it would have flopped, and hard. Instead, they pulled a bait and switch fraud on their customers.
Come to think of it I'm talking about Don Rosa. I got the Carl Barks's stories before I could read properly and I remember reading them over and over. My favorite was the story where they are shipwrecked on that island with a loony and a giant squid. I still have those books... must be 40-50 years old by now. Hmm, perhaps I should find some kid to give them to.
Until I can get affordable reprints of Carl Barks's Scrooge McDuck in the United States (or anywhere else), or until they start making something that rises to that level of quality, who cares about American comics?
Got that collection for xmas a few years back. Highly recommend it. There's also a supplement volume but those stories are not up to the quality of the originals. Another good one is the "gone by the wind" parody; sadly I've lost my copy and no longer recall the actual title.
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So I'm not sure what the story was. I don't think Atari did either.
LOL. Probably true that :-)
Oh yeah, and the technically-brilliant-for-its-time Lynx was a flop as well, even though it should have done well.
The Lynx should have been smaller with a bigger BW reflective screen. The Lynx hardware itself was quite innovative, but its "huge" size and hunger for batteries made it a poor portable. The Game Gear was similarly troubled but Sega somehow managed to attract buyers though.
Had way too many pirated games for it.
A pal of mine had an Atari XEGS. It looked awesome and futuristic, but was a bit of an oddball considering Atari already had the cheaper 2600 and superior 7800 out on the market. Apparently one could convert the XEGS to an XL so I suspect Atari just wanted to cash in on XL games that wouldn't run on a 7800 without a rewrite.
IME I've had better luck searching from the command prompt. Not tried Search 4.0 yet either though.
A limit on TCP connections is actually a bit of a good thing as many home routers crap out if you open too many. Hopefully it's less of a problem today then when I bought my router 3-4 years back.
Oh, yes, that's far more user-friendly! Whenever someone would click the right mouse button in Windows, let's make them hold a button on the keyboard while left-clicking.
There's a button on the Windows keyboard for right clicking. Never use it personally but no right left or right clicking is required. IMO Ctrl, shift and alt + three buttons on the mouse is just right, however if you want just a single button on the mouse you don't have to replace your PC with a Mac or vice versa - just the mouse.
Is the freemarket the reason Canadians have the come to the US for surgeries [nejm.org]?
I read a several years old study on that. It concluded that the number of Canadians that got health care in the US was quite small and the majority simply was in the US at the time of need. If you go by anecdotes you'll find cases of people coming to and leaving the US for health care so one can't draw conclusions from a handful of cases, otherwise people would still practice homeopathy... oh wait :-)
And that half happens to be the 51% that are being paid for by the 49%.
From what I've heard those 49% are already paying more health care tax than us evil socialist Europeans HA HA HA *Twirls mustache*
You are obviously are a bitter, hateful person, with misdirected resentment. I pity you.
No actually I was just trolling. Oh wait.
Jealous much?
Hey, I'm not the one suing here! :-)
Don't sue your potential customers. It's not a good way to improve your public relations.
Red Hat is an American company, right? If this suit goes through Swizz is perhaps more likely to pick a European Linux distro, thus America will lose trade and American jobs are lost. Go Red Hat!
Just be aware that Switzerland is NOT an EU member, so only Swiss laws does apply.
Don't be too sure of that; they are part of the Schengen and have various other treaties with the EU.
Uhh, you might want to look into the meaning of this word "rely." And then after that consider dropping the condescending uhhs.
Still wrong though, there are apps that expose functionality solely through right clicks (so rare yes but certainly possible) and "uhh" is not "condescending" but rather the reverse :-)
Well I agree HP makes nice printers, I just don't see how they make them so hard to install on the Windows platform. Usally you have use there automatic Printer driver installer which takes 2 hours to run, it tries to find the printer N times every time failing and then the 1 time it finds the printer is connected the install freezes.
I helped a guy with an HP printer and it seems they install crap to check the ink status and give you "helpful" messages about it. I recommend installing the drivers through the add printer interface, that way you avoid the extra bloatware.
I had an older version of Word and I wanted to make an A3 document - but my printer only supported A4. I was forced to find a machine with an A3 printer and create an A3 document there then take that back to my machine.... Fortunately Office 2007 has at least fixed that idiotic issue.
Or get her an operating system that doesn't allow programmers to rely on a distinction between right- and left-click and, yes, I'm talking about OS X.
Uhh, OS X does allow for right clicks and you can also use a single button mouse on Windows/Linux if the second button troubles you. Few programs require use of the second button and for those that do there's a button on a keyboard for it.
Of course this doesn't apply only to video games, but also movies, music, etc. We remember the good and throw out most of the bad.
I've never felt that new music is worse than old music. Old music is stuff I've heard so many times that I no longer get that feeling when you hear a good tune for the first time, so new music will always be better than old music :-)
One word: nostalgia.
I played Mario World the other day and to my surprise I found it somewhat "complicated" (You have little Mario, Cape Mario, Spinning Mario, etc.). Once upon a time I could play it to 96 stars in my sleep but today Nostalgia was the only thing that kept me playing (had to get to an old favorite level).
:-)
Donkey Kong Land OTOH is still great fun though, more so than New Super Mario so perhaps I just hate plumbers, IOW 2D platformers are not dead to me - even if that's the nostalgia talking
It did look a better, but was slow enough to make you want to switch to software rendering immediately.
Never owned a Virge but I remember getting X-wing Alliance to run in OpenGL mode on my ATI 3D Charger. It was the first and only time I ran anything 3D on that card. It's a tad ironic that the first popular 3D card, the Voodoo, sacrificed image quality for speed but since it ran the games with a fluid framerate it looked better anyhow.
The name "Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 PRO" did sound rather impressive on paper.
Heh. 3D 2000 Pro. I got this image of the marketing department "we need to convey that the card is more than just 3D, but futuristic and professional too!"
If Amazon wants us to direct our ire towards the publishers, then they should have come clean about these flags before selling the Kindle. Except, wait... then it would have flopped, and hard. Instead, they pulled a bait and switch fraud on their customers.
I don't own a Kindle but I distinctly recall this issue being reported on before. In fact... on this site: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/0127236
Explain one man being hit seven times with lightning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
Poor bastard. After the fourth! time he began carrying a pitcher of water with him... I find it hard not to be amused.
Those Sinclair machines of the eighties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
Does not fold, but is small light and battery powered. Probably more PDA like though.
Most of the PC using world doesn't know/care about macs. Hell, most doesn't know about Windows :-)
The UI should never freeze for any reason.
Sadly, IE8 still has this problem. Anyone know for Chrome?
Come to think of it I'm talking about Don Rosa. I got the Carl Barks's stories before I could read properly and I remember reading them over and over. My favorite was the story where they are shipwrecked on that island with a loony and a giant squid. I still have those books... must be 40-50 years old by now. Hmm, perhaps I should find some kid to give them to.
Until I can get affordable reprints of Carl Barks's Scrooge McDuck in the United States (or anywhere else), or until they start making something that rises to that level of quality, who cares about American comics?
Got that collection for xmas a few years back. Highly recommend it. There's also a supplement volume but those stories are not up to the quality of the originals. Another good one is the "gone by the wind" parody; sadly I've lost my copy and no longer recall the actual title.