Comment Re:Ultimate Combo... (Score 2) 111
Um... No, no it's not. That's Barenaked Ladies. The content could make it easy to confuse, I suppose...
Um... No, no it's not. That's Barenaked Ladies. The content could make it easy to confuse, I suppose...
Comcast offers new, unnecessary product at exorbitant rates.
And you just know every bit of that service will count against their cap.
The people doing these hacks are doing it for the lolz and a cheap tablet.
Not necessarily, in this case; an e-ink tablet would be barely useful at best. The original Nook has a dedicated group of individuals that hack on it, mostly to improve the user experience, and I presume they've migrated to the new Nook.
Ew, you looked?
Probably not voluntarily, but hey, when it's a tweet from a congressman, you can't NOT look.
<Watson> Please approach and step up and walk into the mechanization booth on your right; don't worry, you won't feel a thing.
The replacement of your biological components with mechanical ones is really quite painless.
Please don't resist. If you fight, I am afraid, the orderly will have to carry you, and you may need to go through additional time consuming reprogramming after your brain is mechanized.
And so, the Cybermen were born.
Sure, they can provide them in a Kindle-compatible format, but libraries would still have to buy them, just like every other book. All I'm saying is that it makes sense for Amazon to support ePub, especially in light of the partership with OverDrive, who *already* use it. That way Kindle owners could actually use the existing OverDrive titles rather than having to wait for the library to purchase them in a Kindle-compatible format, if they ever do.
If the recent rumours turn out to be accurate, that matrix is simplified considerably, as epub would become the single most-supported "modern" format. Amazon's recently partnered with OverDrive, who do library e-book lending. OverDrive deals in audiobooks (mp3, wma) and ebooks (epub and pdf). It seems unlikely to me that Amazon would enter into an agreement with an entity that carries next to nothing that is readable on the Kindle.
I think for oldschool PC gaming, emulation isn't quite there like it is for oldschool consoles. Yet. The amazing combinations of HIMEM.SYS, EMM386, and SMARTDRV (and clones, HyperDisk was truly amazing) that each developer chose to run with makes for lots of variables that emulation seems ill-equipped to deal with.
Actually, this makes DOSBox a much better solution, especially with a frontend (like D-Fend Reloaded or DBGL [warning, it's Java-based]) that maintains separate configuration files for each game. It also handles booters (those the-game-is-its-own-OS titles) quite well. Now you only have to configure the funky memory setups once for each game, and you're set.
That's not a sign of a covert government action; that's a sign of the Apocalypse.
So... Saturday?
I don't know if I can trust this... Montgomery Burns and Waylon Smithers talking about nuclear power...
All that aside, an interesting listen.
If DJs use poor-quality encodes of tracks in your world, I don't want to live there.
The original story covered what is now known as the VIC-Pro, seen here - http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_VicPro.aspx
This story is about the new C64, seen here - http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
The original story says:
The computer will be an all-in-one keyboard, with Intel's 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities.
The page for the machine covered here says:
It houses a modern mini-ITX PC motherboard featuring a Dual Core 525 Atom processor and the latest Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset.
How are two different machines, both in appearance and hardware, the "same damn thing"?
Last time it was a new type of case, with a built-in trackpad, etc. This time it's a classic C64-style case. Hence why I said that it isn't *quite* the same thing.
Nope, this isn't quite the same thing. Of course, if you'd read the article, you'd know that, so I guess I shouldn't expect too much...
Oh, someone said "straw man." That must mean an insightful post... oh right.
Honeycomb, and it's withholding, was mentioned in the SUMMARY.
So was the statement that it WILL be released. So yes, straw man, since GGP didn't bother mentioning that last rather important bit of information.
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion
