It probably comes with a longer clip. My Spectra 333 kit did, though a motherboard heatsink thing meant that it didn't get clipped on exactly as recommended.
I would have modded you down, but I didn't think that that would properly convey my reaction to this statement, which is : fuck you.
Good answer. Aside from overclocking, this device (much like similar ones available from Evergreen Technologies and Powerleap) will allow people to continue upgrading a PC that had previously maxxed-out its CPU upgrade options, thus reducing waste and generally being a good thing. And you want to label these people as liars and thieves. You just gained another foe.
If they make the screen 320x240 (rather than 300x200) just think of all the old crap that would be trivial to port. I bet the talentless games company executives are salavating at the idea of using cheaper factory-floor labour to convert old IP rather than the higher-paid and annoying talented designers.
Guided arrows don't pierce, a Rogue merc with +3 to all/Amazon skills doesn't do the lightning thing anymore, Necro's Skeletons appear to max out at 7 (I had 15). These were not godly characters, they struggled through the game with periodic help from friend's characters.
I think the timing points to something sus. Two main Blizzard people bail only days before a public beta is released? Not the world's best portent.
Meanwhile, I've patched one of my PCs and I must say I'm fairly dissapointed. Not only have they seriously nerfed my only two characters that actually made it through to the end of the game, but characters that were part way through Hell difficulty are now struggling in Nightmare. There are critters in Act V Nightmare that hit as hard as the next version up of them did in Act II Hell.
(I also hit two annoying bugs after only about an hour and a half of play.)
I'm going to revert and wait for a non-beta, or power up Neverwinter Nights again. I believe there was an expansion for it recently...
Is this the "Australian" group that's been blackmailing Microsoft that I've been hearing about for a few days now? With an email address ending in.de? No wonder I was so damn confused. Thank you.
Before that classics were released in "sets" of maybe four or five. Now we're seeing collections of 20 to 40. Mind you, most of the titles listed have beenmadeavailable in recent compilations
The myth is that Ostriches bury their own head in the sand so as to avoid a problem. In this context an Ostrich would still be using Windows. You're talking about the much more generic "best kept secret" cliche, which I don't think has an animal example, except perhaps the Tawny Frogmouth which is a real bastard to spot when it's sitting perfectly still on an old log.
That said, I don't think anyone has any moral problem with pirating NES roms since, frankly, you can't get the games anymore.
This is a bad example of moral issues surrounding ROMs, but a very good example of what big business has done to revoke the legitimacy of the secondary market. You can still buy a huge range of video games since the beginning of video games, you just can't buy them new -- or at least, not new in their original form. Looking purely at console games, four years ago I owned nothing better than a dozen PSX games. Now I have a collection of nearly 1,000 original carts, cards,, disks, discs and tapes. In the last few years I've purchased games for the: Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision, Colecovision, Sega Master System, NES, Sega Mega Drive, SNES, Sega Mega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, N64, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Sega Game Gear, Dreamcast and Playstation 2. Some new, most secondhand.
Most people use emulation, ROMs and retro-gaming as equivalent terms. They're not. I enjoy retro gaming yet I hardly ever touch an emulator. I have more to do with emulators when I'm playing stuff like the Activision Anthology for the PS2, or a Namco Museum on the PSX, or even Sonic Jam on the Saturn than when I'm playing, say, Parker Brothers' Amidar for the Atari 2600 (on a 7800).
So, do I have a moral problem with ROMs -- not really. But I do have an aesthetics problem with ROMs -- I prefer the feel of a real cart.
I notice you don't mention caches in that list. Caches have been under inadvertant attack on and off around the world because most of the people that make the laws don't understand what they are. Face it, copyright no longer does what was intended (how can retrospectively increasing the life of copyright encourage dead artists to create?) and it now has related laws that question the legality of every day occurances. You know that anti-shock buffer in your discman -- it's probably illegal under one law or another. And if it's probably or possibly illegal under some obscure interpretation of some dubious law then you know the only ones able to benefit from it are deap-pocketed big business (and their lawyers).
This story is confusing because the issue it about two separate things. "...$5.27 million for breach of contract and patent infringement..." The patent issue is one of user interface design. The breach of contract is about reverse engineering, though the, umm, defendant(?) denies having done any. While the case is worrisome, the article doesn't separate the two issues enough to be useful.
Of course, these click-through licences that give no real opportunity for negotiation really should be thrown out wholesale. If it wasn't for copyright being unable to cope with the mechanics of computing (installation, caches, etc) they'd be completely irrelivant. Problem is, technically, without some further contract you're not legally allowed to install any software you buy because it would be an unauthorised copy. What a damn mess.
All the Electronics Boutiques around here still have N64 carts for sale, many still have a bunch of new ones and all of them still have secondhand ones. Cartridges didn't stop being produced that long ago.
I order new computers when we have new positions or old ones fail. I upgrade computers when I have an option to make a signifcant performance (or function) increase without hitting one or more other bottlenecks too hard (RAM mostly, CPU possibly, video card theoretically). If the economy slows and no new positions are created, then PC spending slows approriately. If the economy picks up and new positions are created, new PCs are purchased. Why is this enough of a surprise to justify an article?
I too don't have the requisite ID to rent at my local DVD specialist store. Fortunately I have the money to buy. Now they just need to get their act together and get in the stuff I ordered ages ago...
Absolutely. We're in the middle of enrolment at the moment and our bandwidth was utterly consumed on the first day. Turned out we had a set of images in the enrolment system that totalled about 150k when they should have totalled 10k. We used to have no images at all in the system, but it lacked a clear visual message telling students that they hadn't actually completed the process. One quick optimise and bandwidth consumption returned to something more normal.
Not that portable gaming is of a lower quality, but the lower expectations can allow for some low-budget, innovative titles. Apart from the Activision Anthology for the PS2, my last dozen mainstream retail video games purchases were all for the GBA. (Additionally I've purchased three "new" -- previously unreleased prototypes of -- Atari 2600 games) This is mostly because the limited development environment (more or less) forces the designers to include decent gameplay, or they have nothing.
Another addition to my collection...
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Of high tech, useless watches. Don't get me wrong, they're funky, but they're more like art than any sort of useful tool. I have:
A bunch of Swatch Access watches with contactless smartcard technology in them, and not a single compatible service in the state (possibly now the country).
A Swatch pager watch not compatible with any Australian services.
A Casio GPS watch that has a hard time talking to satellites anywhere I'm likely to be (I'm a city boy).
An old Casio watch that shows the positions of the planets on a cute little display.
Again, a Casio digital camera watch with a picture only slightly "better" than a Gamboy camera.
And I don't wear any of them, I just look at my mobile phone for the time.
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It probably comes with a longer clip. My Spectra 333 kit did, though a motherboard heatsink thing meant that it didn't get clipped on exactly as recommended.
And not a single one is interested in the product/service/scam being offered in the spam.
Does anyone know if the technique in the Plexor drive is Sanyo's HD-Burn? As others have pointed out, we don't need yet another "standard".
If they make the screen 320x240 (rather than 300x200) just think of all the old crap that would be trivial to port. I bet the talentless games company executives are salavating at the idea of using cheaper factory-floor labour to convert old IP rather than the higher-paid and annoying talented designers.
Meanwhile, I've patched one of my PCs and I must say I'm fairly dissapointed. Not only have they seriously nerfed my only two characters that actually made it through to the end of the game, but characters that were part way through Hell difficulty are now struggling in Nightmare. There are critters in Act V Nightmare that hit as hard as the next version up of them did in Act II Hell.
(I also hit two annoying bugs after only about an hour and a half of play.)
I'm going to revert and wait for a non-beta, or power up Neverwinter Nights again. I believe there was an expansion for it recently...
Is this the "Australian" group that's been blackmailing Microsoft that I've been hearing about for a few days now? With an email address ending in .de? No wonder I was so damn confused. Thank you.
From memory, MailScanner (ours uses the F-Secure engine) looks inside zip files. No biggy.
Before that classics were released in "sets" of maybe four or five. Now we're seeing collections of 20 to 40. Mind you, most of the titles listed have been made available in recent compilations
The AtariAge 8-bit forum.
You're talking about girls that are snapping a hairstyle in a magazine and sending it to their friends via the 3G mobile network.
I have quite a treasure here in this Horadric Cube for anyone that can get Kain on the list...
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Stay a while and listen...
The myth is that Ostriches bury their own head in the sand so as to avoid a problem. In this context an Ostrich would still be using Windows. You're talking about the much more generic "best kept secret" cliche, which I don't think has an animal example, except perhaps the Tawny Frogmouth which is a real bastard to spot when it's sitting perfectly still on an old log.
Most people use emulation, ROMs and retro-gaming as equivalent terms. They're not. I enjoy retro gaming yet I hardly ever touch an emulator. I have more to do with emulators when I'm playing stuff like the Activision Anthology for the PS2, or a Namco Museum on the PSX, or even Sonic Jam on the Saturn than when I'm playing, say, Parker Brothers' Amidar for the Atari 2600 (on a 7800).
So, do I have a moral problem with ROMs -- not really. But I do have an aesthetics problem with ROMs -- I prefer the feel of a real cart.
I notice you don't mention caches in that list. Caches have been under inadvertant attack on and off around the world because most of the people that make the laws don't understand what they are. Face it, copyright no longer does what was intended (how can retrospectively increasing the life of copyright encourage dead artists to create?) and it now has related laws that question the legality of every day occurances. You know that anti-shock buffer in your discman -- it's probably illegal under one law or another. And if it's probably or possibly illegal under some obscure interpretation of some dubious law then you know the only ones able to benefit from it are deap-pocketed big business (and their lawyers).
Of course, these click-through licences that give no real opportunity for negotiation really should be thrown out wholesale. If it wasn't for copyright being unable to cope with the mechanics of computing (installation, caches, etc) they'd be completely irrelivant. Problem is, technically, without some further contract you're not legally allowed to install any software you buy because it would be an unauthorised copy. What a damn mess.
What the hell am I thinking? Cartridges are still being produced in huge numbers. GBA. Doi!
I order new computers when we have new positions or old ones fail. I upgrade computers when I have an option to make a signifcant performance (or function) increase without hitting one or more other bottlenecks too hard (RAM mostly, CPU possibly, video card theoretically). If the economy slows and no new positions are created, then PC spending slows approriately. If the economy picks up and new positions are created, new PCs are purchased. Why is this enough of a surprise to justify an article?
I too don't have the requisite ID to rent at my local DVD specialist store. Fortunately I have the money to buy. Now they just need to get their act together and get in the stuff I ordered ages ago...
Absolutely. We're in the middle of enrolment at the moment and our bandwidth was utterly consumed on the first day. Turned out we had a set of images in the enrolment system that totalled about 150k when they should have totalled 10k. We used to have no images at all in the system, but it lacked a clear visual message telling students that they hadn't actually completed the process. One quick optimise and bandwidth consumption returned to something more normal.
Not that portable gaming is of a lower quality, but the lower expectations can allow for some low-budget, innovative titles. Apart from the Activision Anthology for the PS2, my last dozen mainstream retail video games purchases were all for the GBA. (Additionally I've purchased three "new" -- previously unreleased prototypes of -- Atari 2600 games) This is mostly because the limited development environment (more or less) forces the designers to include decent gameplay, or they have nothing.
- A bunch of Swatch Access watches with contactless smartcard technology in them, and not a single compatible service in the state (possibly now the country).
- A Swatch pager watch not compatible with any Australian services.
- A Casio GPS watch that has a hard time talking to satellites anywhere I'm likely to be (I'm a city boy).
- An old Casio watch that shows the positions of the planets on a cute little display.
- Again, a Casio digital camera watch with a picture only slightly "better" than a Gamboy camera.
And I don't wear any of them, I just look at my mobile phone for the time.