IIRC the original Mars Rovers weren't even using 386 chips. They were running on Z80 processors.

You're right. I stand corrected. My point obviously being that Wolfenstein 3D was really the first FPS. (At least that I am aware of.)

Fixed that for ya.

Solsbury Hill

"Your honor, The jury finds the defendant innocent, due to the fact that his password really was, 'It's actually a passphrase'. He responded to every request for the password by telling it to them - it's not his fault that they thought he was being arrogant. In reality, he was being completely cooperative.

Furthermore, we request that the city be ordered to pay a large amount of money, say the $5 million that they required he come up with, to Mr. Childs. Because they are such fucktards."

This a very lame response to have taken 10 days for consideration. I think that if it happens again I would report it to Amazon at the very some time that I reported it to the FBI Cyber-crimes unit.

What you just said makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't really matter if Intel isn't a direct competitor (or even if there aren't any other competitors!). The truth of the matter is that there is a demand for AMD LGA 775 processors for some number of cores. The demand is there (for whatever reason), and AMD is there to fill it. If they make all their LGA 775 processors perfectly, then there is no reason to downgrade anything, because me the consumer would be ecstatic to see a perfectly functioning quad core at a 30% price reduction than normal. They are going to price all of them identically to A) sell them all, and B) maximize revenue. Turning off cores does not aide in those endeavors.

Well... The article also ends with the director saying "If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier." But removing the videos from youtube wouldn't help him with getting royalties, so yeah. It is rather stupid. He'll probably get less money now since the videos were essentially free advertising for the movie.

Awwww, come on no mention of DSL why not? DSL http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ is a great little distro and will fit in 50mb of space!

Lol, unions tried and tried and still haven't managed to get into RJR. Might be because back in the 60s through early 00's RJR was one of the best employers in the world. Health insurance that was free and they even had a highly rated and well staffed private hospital capable of anything but the most severe emergencies. Free glasses and braces and dental care for employees and their families. Medicine was $4.00 a prescription back in the 70s and 80's, no matter what it was. Not to mention stock options that made thousands of employees into millionaires. Retirement? Lol, pensions that are still honored today with the same free medical care. Pay? Usually between 100% to 300% more than similar jobs in other sectors in the same areas. It was not uncommon for people who swept the floors to be making $16-20 bucks an hour in 1980, in an area where the normal middle class wages were less than 10 bucks an hour. Unions have done good things, but by no means are they the end all, be all of the job market.