does this seem familiar?

[BouncyCaitian]

http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/cluebat.jpg

[tonyg]

Need a bigger bat.

BTW, Quick Anime Quiz: Name the series the picture was taken from.

[Phoenix]

Teddy Roosevelt?

[spyone]

That picture will not display in the newest version of IE supported by my OS.

Similarly, the newest version of Flash and Quicktime no longer supports my OS. So, no X-Men trailers for me.

All because I insist that the OS that came on this thing when I bought it works fine for me, and I don't see any reason to pay money for another. I suppose at some point inconvenience will outweigh frugality (though at the moment I am still pulling for people shunning unnessicarily fancy image formats in the interest of downward compatability).

[Tobian]

Yes, one day Pong will just no longer hold an interest, and you'll have to move on to Pac Man or something ?
IE> Is generally regarded as shit anyway: Can't you install Firefox?

Yep and sometimes I need a bigger bat than that

[tonyg]

I reccomend Firefox. It's free, more secure, and has more features than IE. THere are a few pages that it might have problems with, but in most cases it works better than IE.

[Liquidator Queeg]

That picture will not display in the newest version of IE supported by my OS.

Probably a dumb question, but did you try copying the link and pasting into the address bar? Worked for me when the direct link didn't -- I use Firefox.

To the topic at hand:

Yes, the club is very familiar to this GM. *whump* But the BESM character is not -- I despise anime of all forms.

LQ

[spyone]

I tried copy-and-paste, just to be sure. I still get a 404 error with a little box that says

This page, while usable, will not render correctly in IE6. IE7, and all other browsers that support pngs, render it correctly.

For those curious just how much of a dinosaur I am, I am running Windows98 on a 550mhz Pentium (II?) with 128 megs of RAM.
And I'm serious when I say it does everything I want it to. Well, it there are a few keen looking games out there that want more RAM or more speed, but mostly they also want something better than a standard SVGA graphics card: they want a graphics card that will cost me more than my PS2 did.
I flatly draw the line at paying more for computer upgrades than I have ever spent on a car (which is why I'll not be getting a PS3 anywhere close to launch).

So, I content myself with games I bought used or at the dollar store, (I'm not kidding: Capitalism Plus for $1.) or that I could download for free (from legal sites: my piracy days ended before I could be charged as an adult. )


Back on topic: so, what am I missing? Any chance somebody could turn that into a JPeG and post it? (Or email it to me?)

[UFC465537]

I tried copy-and-paste, just to be sure. I still get a 404 error with a little box that says

For those curious just how much of a dinosaur I am, I am running Windows98 on a 550mhz Pentium (II?) with 128 megs of RAM.
And I'm serious when I say it does everything I want it to. Well, it there are a few keen looking games out there that want more RAM or more speed, but mostly they also want something better than a standard SVGA graphics card: they want a graphics card that will cost me more than my PS2 did.
I flatly draw the line at paying more for computer upgrades than I have ever spent on a car (which is why I'll not be getting a PS3 anywhere close to launch).

So, I content myself with games I bought used or at the dollar store, (I'm not kidding: Capitalism Plus for $1.) or that I could download for free (from legal sites: my piracy days ended before I could be charged as an adult. )


Back on topic: so, what am I missing? Any chance somebody could turn that into a JPeG and post it? (Or email it to me?)

I had the same issue with IE, I wound up blowing the dust off my Netscape 4.75 icon and it came up.

[tonyg]

Any chance somebody could turn that into a JPeG and post it? (Or email it to me?)

Please don't bother tryin' to find her
She's not there

Well let me tell you 'bout the way she looked
The way she'd act and the colour of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there



I got a 404 error too, and I was able to see the imagine before. I knw the series the image was from, maybe I can dig up a suitable replacement for BouncyCaitian's orginal picture.

It seems the problem likes not it yoy broswer, but in thier html.

[tonyg]

spyone,

This is about as close to BouncyCaitian's orginal as I could find. Let me know if you can see it.




Here is another image from the same series, but with better resoulution that the above.

[Tobian]

All I can say is.. you clearly don't expect a lot from a computer! If I tried to open some of my 3D models with that computer, I think the CPU would get out of the tower and kick my arse just for trying

[First of Two]

When link to pic not work, try link to page or gallery.

http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/

[tonyg]

All I can say is.. you clearly don't expect a lot from a computer! If I tried to open some of my 3D models with that computer, I think the CPU would get out of the tower and kick my arse just for trying

I think that you are being a little unfair here. Just whast people consider "not a lot" varies from person to person. Not everyone is using their computer the same way. For the bulk of computer and internet stuff, Win98, 550MHZ and 128MRam will cover it. In my experience that covers the needs of around 80% of the peopl out there with PCs.

Those doing video editing, high end games, and such need more, but most of the people I talk to don't to that kind of stuff.

[Tobian]

I was mostly joking here, however, unfortunatelly the world moves on at a very rapid pace. Assuming that you don't upgrade anything: you use the same text editing software you always used, you only play the same games, or one's which match your current specs, you will be fine.. However the internet is a constantly moving goalpost standard too. I suspect that Firefox might not fully support a windows 95 environmen, and IE can't be upgraded as it's tied to the OS, so more and more pages become dark. There's also the huge problem of viruses, Trojans, and OS holes which are never going to be fixed, because MS has ditched the software now! You may think that you're computer isn't at much risk, but sadly hackers just love old machines and machines which don't or can't be updated because they are the easiest to use as bots. It's not as safe as you might think, and that spec of machine is still more than fast enough to be a spam bot ! :S