Posts by Big Bear 211 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2008
Blast them with UV rays! That's what Capt Kirk did to the ones he encountered on Deneva on stardate 3287.2... that's probably why their spawning grounds are in dark dank parts of the oceans, systematically cleansed of vertebrate life.
Oh woe is mankind, for Steve Irwin is gone, protector of us from seaborne invasions!
The Vaio TZ comes with an optical drive:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2007/05/31/Sony-VAIO-VGN-TZ1MN/p3
As does its replacement, the Vaio TT. I guess that is one reason why the fully featured ultraportables are so darn expensive - putting in that optical drive uses up about half the available volume inside so everything else needs to be designed to use minute components which drives up the price, etc. Taking out that drive but keeping the rest of the features gives you the Toshiba Portege 500 which is only 755g so that is what a completely stripped down ultraportable can really get down to in size!
Going by the Wiki entry it classes Pong as first generation, along with the Magnavox Odyssey, but that's a long, long time ago!
1 - Magnavox, Atari Pong
2 - Fairchild VES, Atari 2600
3 - NES
4 - Sega Mega Drive, SNES
5 - Jaguar, PS, N64
6 - PS2, XBox
7 - PS3, XBox360, Wii
1- I thought I'd ignore all those random in-between consoles I kept seeing in Hong Kong then remembered wistfully when back in old Blighty! It brings a tear to my eye that my N64 doesn't work anymore and I can't play Goldeneye or Zelda: Ocarina Of Time on it... I might spend tonight trying to get it working again!
3- True! Forgot about them, though if I remember correctly they were actually meant to be quite decent. Shame on me considering I even have a Microsoft Sidewinder gaming mouse, but then again despite its Halo stylings I use the Asus gaming mouse instead now...
Getting my coat so I can get home to play Saria's Song to the Goron King again!
I can't agree with Art of Shadow more... just look at the new Asus N10 compared to the Asus Eee S101. Both 10 inch toys priced about the same (£400) but the N10 adds up to 320GB storage and a dual GPU (Intel 950 and nVidia 9300), though it is slightly larger/heavier than the S101. Battery life on the 9300 is about 3 hours as well so not too shabby all told, but with this out suddenly the high end part of the market is all about Asus competing with Asus Eee! If I were a non-exec director I would want to be questioning the overall strategy of the firm rather closely... Then again, in a few short years Asus has established itself as more than a mobo maker and brought out a huge range of machines covering the full spectrum of user wishlists, and has even got the C90, the first notebook designed to be upgradeable as well as start the entire netbook industry.
I was close to getting the 701, but then the 901 came out and I thought about getting that, and the 1000, but then the price was a bit much for something my 4 year old, previously mothballed, Vaio TR5 could do (second machine for holidays/travels). If I got a small machine now I'd consider either a £200 one or the N10 so I could frag on the move!
All these machines are very similar spec-wise, and if at the end of the day all the differences are between HDD/SSD and screen size then people will just go for the cheapest as 8.9 vs 10 inch is not a huge difference, but £400 vs £200 is, especially with the impending credit crunch during the quarter.
A civil discourse I can take part in - these have far too commonly descended into flame wars!
I was taking AC's line as including the end part:
"Mactards keep buying this... overpriced crap and when problem occur pretend it does not exist and as, Wade says, silence anyone who does complain."
Which I took to be regarding the company "silencing anyone", not the users, especially looking at Wade's post that he references which is exclusively about the company:
"Apple's solution to problems - Pretend it never exists, silence anyone who says it does exists..."
I don't deny that it is the Mac users that are noticing this problem and it is a good sign that at least some users are not blindly buying into the marketing and hype surrounding the products. However, with 4/5 of the top Mac sites complaining about these problems, you would think that the great and good Apple Inc. would maybe sit up and take notice, and at least acknowledge a problem? I would be pretty miffed if I'd spanked upwards of 2 grand on a machine that is being sold as a premium product and something like this doesn't even get recognised as a problem by the company, especially as it like to market itself as the Rolex of personal computing!
Thomas, I agree 'Mactards' are the people who acquire Macs, but in terms of AC's and Wade's earlier post, it is generally accepted that Apple have a record of deleting some threads in their official forums that are indicative of problems with their products, and that it is difficult to get them as a corporate entity to admit fault with anything they produce. They are by no means the only company to do this (I believe Dell and Google "Do No Evil... Or Deny All Evil" are prime examples) but in this case it is relevant as the product in question is a late edition Air, and even though at least one thread in the official Apple forum is still alive, that thread is signposted as "This question is not answered". This marks the official Apple response as the golden sound of silence, which is at odds with a no-argument replacement of faulty screened machines instore, hinting that the powers-who-must-be-obeyed have told the staff of the problem and told them to replace machines showing it, solving the problem without ever admitting guilt or even awareness of the problem.
I'm sorry to say that it looks like Apple are just behaving as all large corporate pirates alike...
Does this mean we can put a cap on the Web 2.0 world of fat bloat in web pages? I personally have no interest in any streamed video/flash/shockwave/sticks-rubbed-together advertising interrupting my reading of internet articles, and pay per usage means this 2 MB file which is forced upon us will cost me a little more. Will there be a way to stop websites doing this so it becomes mandatory to load only the bare bones of the page and to have the user click on and OK which parts to download?
And yes, I realise this is like NoScript on ultimate paranoia mode... but I'm talking about the web server not even pushing the files out rather than the end user allowing the browser to run the file which has been pushed out.
Paranoid? Not me! I know they're watching me right now... (whup whup whup)
"We'll get to that just as soon as we've sorted out Spectrum vs C=64..."
Lessee... one's a beige and grey box, the other a slick, shiny, pretty looking thing. Not dissimilar to today's war?! Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
By the way, notice that the "scrabble" style keyboard that Apple and Sony are being lauded about was actually done on the ZX of 1982? I expect the Macbook Air to introduce rubber keys...
Where's the pic of Sir Clive SInclair with a halo?
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