In an enviroment where most games reviewers mark from 9 to 10 so the advertisers don't leave, you've got to worry about a 2.
There are the occasional remakes that are entirely unworthy of being associated with their heritage (half of the N-Gage lineup, it would seem). Golden Axe is such a remake. It's so atrociously bad, it disgusts me perhaps more than any game I've ever played
Ouch. There's a GameFAQs review which is pretty lukewarm too.
Overall: Golden Axe is a great series , but if sega is going to remake versions of their old games....please stick to the old mold and stay true to the gameplay, but it hasn't happened here. If your a fan of the old series...get it! just for your collection, otherwise steer clear.
Because Office XP was so awful, we've stuck with Office 2000. We've just started receiving.doc files that Office 2000 can't open, but the latest release of Open Office can. Now, if anyone receives one of these latest Office files from outside, I just install OO. Everyone gets to keep their preferred version of MS Office while being exposed to Open Office in small doses.
I thought they transferred heat to the outside world fairly efficiently. Mine certainly gets quite warm to the touch after it's been connected to my PC for a few hours. A couple of small (USB-powered?) fans pointing at the array would soon sort out that heat.
Does it still work with a dead battery?
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If you provide an iPod with power from outside will it still run as normal even with a dead battery? If so, there are going to be some cool-looking firewire HDD arrays in the future.
Point two is valid, but this is a deposit held in trust. While it might well attract its share of leeches, either you remove your cabling and get your deposit back or you don't remove your cabling and you don't get your deposit back. Whether or not the owner decides to remove cabling you didn't remove is a separate issue.
Surely it would be better to find a way to use this cable anyway...?
Because of this law, Circuit City would have to disallow their customers from trying out in the store the very products they sell, stop their salespeople from demostrating their own products, and disable their own security cameras.
No, they'd just have to stop showing movies in-store. No big loss.
You almost described the concert scene in Macross Plus.
I'm personally very interested in computer generated artists. I have a CD single of each of Sharon Apple and Kyoko Date -- both sung by a human voice and generally ficticious as far as being a Virtual Idol is concerned, but none the less interesting as projects go. I also enjoy Idoru by William Gibson, in which the central character is an AI performer. Much as computer generated art has been, historically, underwhelming it is only a matter of time before it equals then surpasses human creativity. (Of course, that's a simplistic phrasing -- since a computer is made by humans, it's work is no less made by humans than a painting where the paint is applied using a brush.)
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.
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They probably are talking about campaigns that you've never seen, because they were never used.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that read the story that way. It's not so much recycling as it is retasking -- the ads were never used a first time. And I see no indication that they'll revive the same ad for multiple clients either.
There's an awful lot of waste in this world, it's nice to see someone trawling through the cutting room floor with an open mind.
As a kid you'll play every crappy game just like you'll watch every crappy sitcom. As your experience grows and you're exposed to more and more good stuff you start to reject the bottom of the barrel.
Also, you learn what the warning signs of crap are and you don't even give it a chance.
I've still got the.wav files from the half-dozen tracks I created using a PSX music game (Fluid). I'd rather do something funky like Ogg them than just post the mp3s somewhere new. Anyone know a good site that's Ogg Vorbis friendly?
Either Wipeout 2097 or Wip3out has a widescreen option where it compresses the picture horizontally, expecting you to use the TV's stretch feature to expand it back to 16:9. It's just normal analogue though.
My recommendation, buy the rig anyway, it sounds cool and exactly what game developers will be supporting more and more. I'm sure that if you're producing you own signal in the form of PC and games stuff you'll find many more interesting things to display than if you just rely on broadcast TV.
When I was 15, I damn sure knew my right from my wrong, anyone who does not is just completely ignorant, or has absentee parents.
And it's this unshakable belief that lies behind trials of minors as adults and the death penalty in the US. I put it to you that when you were 15 you didn't understand the implications of your actions or have a fully developed moral compass, not matter how sure you are/were that you did. No doubt you knew the basics, "shoplifting is stealing" kind of stuff, but I'm sure you were blissfully unaware of the subtlies of copyright law, amongst other things.
I have the iTrip FM transmitter for my iPod, broadcasting in a 5m radius on 106FM. It's primarily for cars, but I'm trying to get hold of a cable-free set of low-profile FM headphones. TDK have a nice MP3 player/FM radio that's the right sort of thing called the MOJO 1, but they don't sell them in Australia and the on-line store has been out of stock for a month. Anyone got any other suggestions -- it only has to be an FM radio.
Once I get the headphones sorted ouf I'm thinking of getting some t-shirts printed.
What's it like in the black and white world you live in? There's a reason that minors are minors and aren't treated like adults -- they don't understand that what they're doing is wrong. (Ignoring the fact that when it comes to copyright legally wrong and morally wrong are a long way apart at times.) When you toss in technology that many adults don't understand, the concept of a legal minor can be extended to anyone, say, with a VCR that blinks 12:00.
Do you honestly expect that someone who thinks the Web is the same thing as the Internet can tell the difference between the legality of MP3.com and Kazaa? The only difference to them is that they've never heard of the artists on MP3.com and they recognise all the artists on Kazaa.
Spamcop is a colaberative blacklist. If a Spamcop user (possibly several for checking) reports an email as spam, any further messages that appear to be from the same source get dumped in the "probably spam" pile for a while. To get off the Spamcop blacklist you simply have to not send spam for a short period (I forget how long). Yes, this means if *no one* reports Spam via Spamcop, it soon becomes an empty blacklist or if heaps of people report legitimate mail it gets trapped as spam. Such is life.
The email service itself lets you decide which techniques and/or lists you wish to use to filter your mail: Spam Assassin scores, Blacklists (you can even use Spamcop's email service but not their own blacklist), or simply by country.
I currently have a SpamCop account, it's my primary address (though I also use Spam Gourmet's aliasing service). Does anyone know if I should start looking for a new email address?
Actually, from what I've read, the DR-DOS case has merit. I believe code was identified in Windows 3.x that only served to stop Windows from running on DR-DOS, with no justification.
I thought ad-hoc was a good thing. Sure, businesses who want things to be simple and predictable might consider ad-hoc to be unworkable, but there's heaps of "little people" out there without big budgets that benefit from co-operative networks that can be assembled as needed by everyone pitching in their bit.
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Because Office XP was so awful, we've stuck with Office 2000. We've just started receiving .doc files that Office 2000 can't open, but the latest release of Open Office can. Now, if anyone receives one of these latest Office files from outside, I just install OO. Everyone gets to keep their preferred version of MS Office while being exposed to Open Office in small doses.
I thought they transferred heat to the outside world fairly efficiently. Mine certainly gets quite warm to the touch after it's been connected to my PC for a few hours. A couple of small (USB-powered?) fans pointing at the array would soon sort out that heat.
Anyone got an Ogg Vorbis .torrent yet?
If you provide an iPod with power from outside will it still run as normal even with a dead battery? If so, there are going to be some cool-looking firewire HDD arrays in the future.
Aren't power cables just like UTP -- as in they're unsheilded twisted pairs? Interference would be addressed similarly, surely.
Point two is valid, but this is a deposit held in trust. While it might well attract its share of leeches, either you remove your cabling and get your deposit back or you don't remove your cabling and you don't get your deposit back. Whether or not the owner decides to remove cabling you didn't remove is a separate issue. Surely it would be better to find a way to use this cable anyway...?
It's from Douglas Adams, one of the Dirk Gently novels -- Either Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency or Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul.
I'm personally very interested in computer generated artists. I have a CD single of each of Sharon Apple and Kyoko Date -- both sung by a human voice and generally ficticious as far as being a Virtual Idol is concerned, but none the less interesting as projects go. I also enjoy Idoru by William Gibson, in which the central character is an AI performer. Much as computer generated art has been, historically, underwhelming it is only a matter of time before it equals then surpasses human creativity. (Of course, that's a simplistic phrasing -- since a computer is made by humans, it's work is no less made by humans than a painting where the paint is applied using a brush.)
There's an awful lot of waste in this world, it's nice to see someone trawling through the cutting room floor with an open mind.
Also, you learn what the warning signs of crap are and you don't even give it a chance.
And for the same reasons, Space Channel 5 will disappear into a memory hole.
I've still got the .wav files from the half-dozen tracks I created using a PSX music game (Fluid). I'd rather do something funky like Ogg them than just post the mp3s somewhere new. Anyone know a good site that's Ogg Vorbis friendly?
My recommendation, buy the rig anyway, it sounds cool and exactly what game developers will be supporting more and more. I'm sure that if you're producing you own signal in the form of PC and games stuff you'll find many more interesting things to display than if you just rely on broadcast TV.
Once I get the headphones sorted ouf I'm thinking of getting some t-shirts printed.
What's it like in the black and white world you live in? There's a reason that minors are minors and aren't treated like adults -- they don't understand that what they're doing is wrong. (Ignoring the fact that when it comes to copyright legally wrong and morally wrong are a long way apart at times.) When you toss in technology that many adults don't understand, the concept of a legal minor can be extended to anyone, say, with a VCR that blinks 12:00.
Do you honestly expect that someone who thinks the Web is the same thing as the Internet can tell the difference between the legality of MP3.com and Kazaa? The only difference to them is that they've never heard of the artists on MP3.com and they recognise all the artists on Kazaa.
The email service itself lets you decide which techniques and/or lists you wish to use to filter your mail: Spam Assassin scores, Blacklists (you can even use Spamcop's email service but not their own blacklist), or simply by country.
I currently have a SpamCop account, it's my primary address (though I also use Spam Gourmet's aliasing service). Does anyone know if I should start looking for a new email address?
I thought ad-hoc was a good thing. Sure, businesses who want things to be simple and predictable might consider ad-hoc to be unworkable, but there's heaps of "little people" out there without big budgets that benefit from co-operative networks that can be assembled as needed by everyone pitching in their bit.