Hmmm, spend 7 hours downloading the movie which I then have to finish watching within 24 hours of starting it, or drive to the video store 2 minutes away, rent it, watch it at my convienice and as much as I want over the next 5 days.
Factor in, sitting at the computer to watch it, or putting the dvd on the 61" tv with the full surround system.
In fact, I recall about a year or two ago when I got my Dragon's Lair machine, that there were pieces available on eBay fetching extrodinary amounts.
IIRC, a board went for like $450, and side decals went for $250.
As to the OP of this thread who mentioned serial numbers, there ARE instances where the game collectors will go nuts over the 00001 machines. Somewhere on the net is a page that was put together when the very first Tempest was discovered by a collector.
There's information and pictures about that Tempest here, discovered by Brad Martinson. Some of it looks like it may have been a prototype machine or something.
It's getting really annoying to keep seeing people claim "PHP is faster" without any substance to back it up. Quite being a "Me Too!" Lemming (tm) and just reciting "It's faster." Faster in what regards? And compared specifically to what?
I'll use Perl here, as it is my personal preference for language of choice. I'm using Perl in only the web context here, as that is the scope of the discussion.
As a language itself, Perl is just as fast as PHP, if not faster. As far as the process goes, yes CGI has a larger overhead and slighty longer time to initiate, but the once the processes are going the actual script execution time is no longer for a Perl script.
Plus, if someone is actually a programmer, as opposed to a kiddie that's been programming for 2 weeks and thinks they know Perl (or whatever language for that matter), they can actually program properly and create programs that execute fast enough, and effieciently enough, that the slight ding caused by the CGI overhead is negligable.
And don't forget to compare apples to apples. PHP against mod_perl is the proper comparison, not PHP vs Perl via CGI. People forget [or don't know...] that PHP is mod_php and compiled into the server (usually). PHP can be run as a CGI process, but doesn't (well, on NT it may). With mod_perl running and maintaining persistant database connections, PHP is not faster. And compare a well programmed mod_perl script to a poorly written PHP scripts and, well... you get my point.
PHP may be "easier to learn" but that's because it's Perl with training wheels. People that aren't adept enough to properly comprehend Perl, LOVE that they can go to PHP instead. But PHP is quite like Perl, but a subset of it. So claiming it's harder then PHP seems silly to me, as they are both fairly similar in terms of the language.
Bottom line, PHP is a good web language. Perl is a more robust general language. Scripts done properly will run fast and effiecent. Blanket calls of "PHP is better/faster" are unwarrented. It all depends on what is needed for the job, and using the proper tool.
Hell, perl.com uses PHP for some areas of the site. It's all about what is right for a situation.
before you get completely bored with the lame Atari 2600 version and go searching for an arcade with a good collection of the classics.
Strangely enough, that's what I did, only the collection of classics is in my back room. Tapper (Bud version), Marble Madness, Galaga, Q*Bert, Tron, Jungle King, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Arkanoid, Mortal Kombat (don't ask...), Joust, Pac Man, and Dragon's Lair. Plus High Speed and Pinbot, for pinballs:) Room for two more (Spy Hunter and Tempest) then we need to get a bigger house:):)
Heh, I always find it perverse fun to have people over and watch them get excited because they scored X amount of points in a game, then I'll play against them and score three times that on the first ball.
Yeah yeah, plenty of practice since they're my machines, but still:)
This is a cool hack! I'm actually surprised it took someone this long to do it, as the P2K machines are heavily computer based. I would have thought this would have been done a while ago, though I suppose most people aren't up for experimenting with a $3,000+ machine.
Williams, who also owned the Bally name, made the greatest machines. Sega, Data East, Gottlieb, etc machines just don't have the right feel to them. I love the Williams/Bally line (I own High Speed and Pin*Bot, both from 1986, and I really want an Attack From Mars machine).
A lot of people were not impressed with the P2K set up. I played Revenge From Mars twice and I enjoyed it a lot! I don't know if it is something that I would get sick of, but I did find it fun. I think Williams did an commendable job of integrating the video display onto the playfield.
As for getting together to build another game, that would be quite noble, but I don't know how attainable. Obviously,/. has many users that would be quite capable of designing the video aspect of the game, but to engineer and produce a playfield and the "toys" would require a lot of material, production costs, and people with specialized knowledge in designing pinball playfields (which is a unique talent).
I know of one guy locally who DOES design machines for fun, and he has been featured on the Phoenix news stations for different things he's done. Maybe one of these days I'll ask him about what he feels the feesability of a P2K game is. =)
I still have issue with trying to read books online. I mean, I think it's great that they're making them available for free, but to me it's just too damn irritating to read a book via my monitor.
I haven't tried any handheld book devices, and i'm curious to see how they are, but for now I much prefer the good old fashioned dead tree books.
Ok, an eclipse would be very cool to see on xmas. Since we aren't getting any snow here in Phoenix, AZ (that's a Very Good Thing (tm)) an eclipse I would like.
OBwarm-weather-rub-it-in: Xmas time. Was 72 F yesterday here in the valley. Life is good. Got too drunk last nite (that wasn't weather related though...that was martini induced), so the headache ain't too hot, but otherwiase...
So does this mean that when my Time magazine subscription arrives, an obnoxious voice is gonna yell "YOU'VE GOT MAIL" from my mailbox? I reeeaaaaaaaaalllllllly hope not =)
Wrong. Debit cards that sport the Visa or MC logo have the exact same protection as do "regular" credit cards.
Why do people use them? Because it's a hell of a lot better to give someone your card to pay $9.00 for something, and only spend that $9, then to take a $20 out at the ATM every time, and blow it simply for the fact that there's extra cash in your pocket.
Plus, it's a great way to track where you've been spending your money, since you get an itemized statement every month. You don't get that with cash.
My bank immediatly put a freeze on the charge I was disputing, and within 2 weeks, reversed the charge, just like any credit card compnay would do.
I'm in the Southwest, but I'm in Phoenix...not one of the cities scheduled for initial implementation.
This is good news, as I'm really not in the mood to pay $1000 installation and $1000 a month for bandwidth, when my DSL is serving me just fine.
I do think, however, that within a few years we'll be reminicing about the good ole days when we connected to the net via standard phone lines (hell, I still joke about the days of 300 baud modem surfing... of course, that was til I got an MPE 1000c on my Atari 800. That sucker went to a whopping 450 baud!!!)
The question is, would this type of technology have a price decrease rapidly, or would it remain pretty high for years to come? Businesses would be fine with $1000 a month, for some high speed connections, but that's pretty damn ridiculous for residential, no?
It's because Macs have pretty interfaces. They LOOK nice. That's all that matters on the big screen.
Yeah I especially love the pretty one in Officespace where Peter is waiting forever for his pretty interface mac to shut down so that he can sneak out, and when it's done, it dumps to a c:> prompt..... oh wait, it doesn't matter on the big screen =)
If this was a guy that beat you up every day, was the biggest jerk in the world
Pretty close. Didn't beat me up (ever) but was quite the asshole to me. We hung out in the same group of friends, but that was about as far as our association went.
so why are you so satisfied that your life is so much better that you can call him a loser?
Well maybe it's because in school he felt he was so much better than I...that I was pathetic, and now I've made quite a nice life for myself, and he's still working for CD's, and (I've come to find out after seeing another former classmate)living in his mom's house at the age of 30+. I don't give a shit how happy he thinks he is, that's pathetic. And the fact that all through school he felt he was so superior to me, makes me laugh.
Oh, and I worked in music stores for over 7 years. Crappy job, crappy money, crappy life. Others may enjoy it, I don't. Just because someone works in a record store in and of itself doesn't make them a loser...its this guys whole package. Hindsite, I didn't explain all that in my orig post. Oh well.
What would happen if some guy with the silicon eye implates stares at some chick's silicon brest implants? Gotta be careful... don't want him going off on his own and, um, making himself go blind all over again! =)
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I don't recall seeing Smith make references to the old Kroft shows before, and I'd have to say that I loved the two references to Land of the Lost.
I didn't notice many people laughing at them, so I was kind of thinking they may have been more obscure.
Chris Rock's character's name was Chaka (LoL's little monkey boy that hung out with the lost family)
Will Ferrell's character's name was Marshell Willenholley (LoL's lost family. I was in hysterics when I heard that one)
Loved the movie! Was exactly what I expected it to be, and was lots of laughs. Can't wait for the DVD.
Hmmm, spend 7 hours downloading the movie which I then have to finish watching within 24 hours of starting it, or drive to the video store 2 minutes away, rent it, watch it at my convienice and as much as I want over the next 5 days.
Factor in, sitting at the computer to watch it, or putting the dvd on the 61" tv with the full surround system.
<sarcasm>Hmmm that's a tough one.</sarcasm>
mental note to self.... check no Score +1 when making idiotic comments for the hell of it
These will come with Windows CE officially Great, can't wait til I have to piss really bad an can't unzip my pants due to a BSOD =)
In fact, I recall about a year or two ago when I got my Dragon's Lair machine, that there were pieces available on eBay fetching extrodinary amounts.
IIRC, a board went for like $450, and side decals went for $250.
As to the OP of this thread who mentioned serial numbers, there ARE instances where the game collectors will go nuts over the 00001 machines. Somewhere on the net is a page that was put together when the very first Tempest was discovered by a collector.
There's information and pictures about that Tempest here, discovered by Brad Martinson. Some of it looks like it may have been a prototype machine or something.
Next up, the Air Force, for their "Aim High" slogon.
This should be target for AOL, because 1) the word AIM is in there, and 2) they are apparently high if they think they own the English word aim.
It's getting really annoying to keep seeing people claim "PHP is faster" without any substance to back it up. Quite being a "Me Too!" Lemming (tm) and just reciting "It's faster." Faster in what regards? And compared specifically to what?
I'll use Perl here, as it is my personal preference for language of choice. I'm using Perl in only the web context here, as that is the scope of the discussion.
As a language itself, Perl is just as fast as PHP, if not faster. As far as the process goes, yes CGI has a larger overhead and slighty longer time to initiate, but the once the processes are going the actual script execution time is no longer for a Perl script.
Plus, if someone is actually a programmer, as opposed to a kiddie that's been programming for 2 weeks and thinks they know Perl (or whatever language for that matter), they can actually program properly and create programs that execute fast enough, and effieciently enough, that the slight ding caused by the CGI overhead is negligable.
And don't forget to compare apples to apples. PHP against mod_perl is the proper comparison, not PHP vs Perl via CGI. People forget [or don't know...] that PHP is mod_php and compiled into the server (usually). PHP can be run as a CGI process, but doesn't (well, on NT it may). With mod_perl running and maintaining persistant database connections, PHP is not faster. And compare a well programmed mod_perl script to a poorly written PHP scripts and, well... you get my point.
PHP may be "easier to learn" but that's because it's Perl with training wheels. People that aren't adept enough to properly comprehend Perl, LOVE that they can go to PHP instead. But PHP is quite like Perl, but a subset of it. So claiming it's harder then PHP seems silly to me, as they are both fairly similar in terms of the language.
Bottom line, PHP is a good web language. Perl is a more robust general language. Scripts done properly will run fast and effiecent. Blanket calls of "PHP is better/faster" are unwarrented. It all depends on what is needed for the job, and using the proper tool.
Hell, perl.com uses PHP for some areas of the site. It's all about what is right for a situation.
Heh, "Sex Inside" posters will probably do wonders for attracting customers into retail outlets. :)
If I was in Indianapolis, I'd be outraged. There need to be laws protecting my kids from the horrors of dot-munching little yellow dudes.
And don't get me started on the alien shooting...
Strangely enough, that's what I did, only the collection of classics is in my back room. Tapper (Bud version), Marble Madness, Galaga, Q*Bert, Tron, Jungle King, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Arkanoid, Mortal Kombat (don't ask...), Joust, Pac Man, and Dragon's Lair. Plus High Speed and Pinbot, for pinballs :) Room for two more (Spy Hunter and Tempest) then we need to get a bigger house :) :)
They should wait until that idiot that wants to spend $20 Million goes up there, then plunge it down. $20 million....
Heh, I always find it perverse fun to have people over and watch them get excited because they scored X amount of points in a game, then I'll play against them and score three times that on the first ball.
:)
Yeah yeah, plenty of practice since they're my machines, but still
/me posts whilst humming Pinball Wizard
This is a cool hack! I'm actually surprised it took someone this long to do it, as the P2K machines are heavily computer based. I would have thought this would have been done a while ago, though I suppose most people aren't up for experimenting with a $3,000+ machine.
/. has many users that would be quite capable of designing the video aspect of the game, but to engineer and produce a playfield and the "toys" would require a lot of material, production costs, and people with specialized knowledge in designing pinball playfields (which is a unique talent).
:)
Williams, who also owned the Bally name, made the greatest machines. Sega, Data East, Gottlieb, etc machines just don't have the right feel to them. I love the Williams/Bally line (I own High Speed and Pin*Bot, both from 1986, and I really want an Attack From Mars machine).
A lot of people were not impressed with the P2K set up. I played Revenge From Mars twice and I enjoyed it a lot! I don't know if it is something that I would get sick of, but I did find it fun. I think Williams did an commendable job of integrating the video display onto the playfield.
As for getting together to build another game, that would be quite noble, but I don't know how attainable. Obviously,
I know of one guy locally who DOES design machines for fun, and he has been featured on the Phoenix news stations for different things he's done. Maybe one of these days I'll ask him about what he feels the feesability of a P2K game is. =)
Great hack though!
I still have issue with trying to read books online. I mean, I think it's great that they're making them available for free, but to me it's just too damn irritating to read a book via my monitor.
I haven't tried any handheld book devices, and i'm curious to see how they are, but for now I much prefer the good old fashioned dead tree books.
Of course, they'll have the most success if they find an asteroid belt that is sorta shaped like a picnic basket... =)
That's a new one!! *g*
Ok, an eclipse would be very cool to see on xmas. Since we aren't getting any snow here in Phoenix, AZ (that's a Very Good Thing (tm)) an eclipse I would like.
OBwarm-weather-rub-it-in: Xmas time. Was 72 F yesterday here in the valley. Life is good. Got too drunk last nite (that wasn't weather related though...that was martini induced), so the headache ain't too hot, but otherwiase...
Happy Holidays! =)
I did some research, and was able to dig out his first message. It wasn't "qwertyuiop" as he thought, it was in fact:
Hello, my name is David Rhodes.
A year ago, I was in debt. The bills were piling up and I......
=)
[rememeber that annoying mail? For those that don't know, the joke is that that was one of the original Make Money Fast emails]
So does this mean that when my Time magazine subscription arrives, an obnoxious voice is gonna yell "YOU'VE GOT MAIL" from my mailbox? I reeeaaaaaaaaalllllllly hope not =)
Wrong. Debit cards that sport the Visa or MC logo have the exact same protection as do "regular" credit cards.
Why do people use them? Because it's a hell of a lot better to give someone your card to pay $9.00 for something, and only spend that $9, then to take a $20 out at the ATM every time, and blow it simply for the fact that there's extra cash in your pocket.
Plus, it's a great way to track where you've been spending your money, since you get an itemized statement every month. You don't get that with cash.
My bank immediatly put a freeze on the charge I was disputing, and within 2 weeks, reversed the charge, just like any credit card compnay would do.
>> Perhaps the way I perceive blue in my mind looks just like the red that you perceive in your mind
This theory would help explain the clothing old men wear when golfing. =)
I'm in the Southwest, but I'm in Phoenix...not one of the cities scheduled for initial implementation.
This is good news, as I'm really not in the mood to pay $1000 installation and $1000 a month for bandwidth, when my DSL is serving me just fine.
I do think, however, that within a few years we'll be reminicing about the good ole days when we connected to the net via standard phone lines (hell, I still joke about the days of 300 baud modem surfing... of course, that was til I got an MPE 1000c on my Atari 800. That sucker went to a whopping 450 baud!!!)
The question is, would this type of technology have a price decrease rapidly, or would it remain pretty high for years to come? Businesses would be fine with $1000 a month, for some high speed connections, but that's pretty damn ridiculous for residential, no?
Yeah I especially love the pretty one in Officespace where Peter is waiting forever for his pretty interface mac to shut down so that he can sneak out, and when it's done, it dumps to a c:> prompt..... oh wait, it doesn't matter on the big screen =)
If this was a guy that beat you up every day, was the biggest jerk in the world
Pretty close. Didn't beat me up (ever) but was quite the asshole to me. We hung out in the same group of friends, but that was about as far as our association went.
so why are you so satisfied that your life is so much better that you can call him a loser?
Well maybe it's because in school he felt he was so much better than I...that I was pathetic, and now I've made quite a nice life for myself, and he's still working for CD's, and (I've come to find out after seeing another former classmate)living in his mom's house at the age of 30+. I don't give a shit how happy he thinks he is, that's pathetic. And the fact that all through school he felt he was so superior to me, makes me laugh.
Oh, and I worked in music stores for over 7 years. Crappy job, crappy money, crappy life. Others may enjoy it, I don't. Just because someone works in a record store in and of itself doesn't make them a loser...its this guys whole package. Hindsite, I didn't explain all that in my orig post. Oh well.
What would happen if some guy with the silicon eye implates stares at some chick's silicon brest implants? Gotta be careful... don't want him going off on his own and, um, making himself go blind all over again! =)