The NES and the Sega Master system were of the same generation. The SNES and the Genesis/Megadrive were the next generation. It's really no surprise that the Megadrive was faster than the NES since Nintendo's 16bit console wasn't released at the same time as the Megadrive...
There have been joysticks available since the dark ages. And most of the games I remember from those days were of the "shake joystick violently and press the trigger over and over again"-type...
Not really a lot of games. Besides, there are still a lot of games that would benefit from mouse support that don't have it, that's what annoys me. Whenever I played Goldeneye on the N64 I would think to myself, "why is there not a mouse + keyboard option for this fucking game?"...
What first personal computers didn't have joysticks? The Altair? My Spectravideo SVI-328 had two joysticks, and the SVI-318 had a built-in joystick in the keyboard, these machines are from the early 80's...
And as far as I'm concerned it's a lot more efficient to use mouselook + keyboard for FPS games, and a hell of a lot more intuitive than joypads. You move the mouse to rotate yourself, walk in different directions with ASWD, the mouse buttons are for shooting/changing weapons and the keys on the keyboard next to ASWD are used for other actions...
if the keyboard+mouse are so great why does every PC magazine have ads for Pc gamepads that look suspiciously like Dual Shocks.
Or it could be that there have been these ads in PC magazines since the dark ages and I have yet to actually meet someone who owns one of these damn gamepads... And just how many of the top CS/Q3A/UT2K3 players use a gamepad?
Actually, IIRC most CPUs have embedded microcode and I also seem to remember an old 486 I had once that somehow decided to slowly make itself go slower (I doubt this had anything to do with the microcode though, more like hardware failure...)/Mikael
Actually, he's not a taliban, he's the leader of the Alqaeda(al-qeada/al-qaida/alqaida/whatever) network, so it would be alqaeda.org (or.net since it's a "terrorist network")
Or perhaps today people at least have enough sense not to think dying for a stupid cause (patriotism) is worth anything. Or perhaps they don't like the thought of killing other people. Or they may simply prefer to have a bit more control over their own life, not having some guy with more metal on his shoulders than themselves wake them up at three in the morning just to "harden" them and all that...
/Mikael (who managed to avoid the Swedish army thanks to being deemed mentally unstable.)
It's true that if everyone used lots of electricity the price would go up, however the same is true for everything, it's just nice to not have to worry about the price of electricity and water since it's a flat fee...
I'm getting a GCN because it has better games, I don't care about it not being able to play DVDs. And about M$ having lots of money, well so does Nintendo...
yes, but the other clusters aren't exactly run-of-the-mill Linux clusters put strung together with shoestrings, they are for example Alpha clusters running OpenVMS or Tru64...
And the news only ever shows them wading in and cracking skulls; never shows them taking abuse, hurled rocks, and so on. You obviously missed the coverage of the Gothenburg anti-EU protests, it was all about the evil demonstrators throwing rocks at police and the police just had to shoot a demonstrator and a couple of photographers... (of course, since then it has been determined that video tapes of the shooting had been tampered with to show make it seem like there were more rioters around than the one that got shot (plus the photographers...)
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The NES and the Sega Master system were of the same generation.
The SNES and the Genesis/Megadrive were the next generation.
It's really no surprise that the Megadrive was faster than the NES since Nintendo's 16bit console wasn't released at the same time as the Megadrive...
There have been joysticks available since the dark ages. And most of the games I remember from those days were of the "shake joystick violently and press the trigger over and over again"-type...
Not really a lot of games. Besides, there are still a lot of games that would benefit from mouse support that don't have it, that's what annoys me. Whenever I played Goldeneye on the N64 I would think to myself, "why is there not a mouse + keyboard option for this fucking game?"...
And as far as I'm concerned it's a lot more efficient to use mouselook + keyboard for FPS games, and a hell of a lot more intuitive than joypads. You move the mouse to rotate yourself, walk in different directions with ASWD, the mouse buttons are for shooting/changing weapons and the keys on the keyboard next to ASWD are used for other actions...
Or it could be that there have been these ads in PC magazines since the dark ages and I have yet to actually meet someone who owns one of these damn gamepads... And just how many of the top CS/Q3A/UT2K3 players use a gamepad?
Ok, now count the games for those consoles that actually allow you to use the mouse...
As someone born in 1982 I can proudly say: /Mikael
Who gives a fuck? I'm still going nowhere and I have enough money to buy beer so I don't care...
If this is true then perhaps there might be some merit to his claims of his crypto being as fantastic as he claims, but only some...
/Mikael
IRIX has this nasty tendency to have lots of unimportant stuff running... /Mikael
Actually, IIRC most CPUs have embedded microcode and I also seem to remember an old 486 I had once that somehow decided to slowly make itself go slower (I doubt this had anything to do with the microcode though, more like hardware failure...) /Mikael
The 13w3 connector isn't just a Sun thing, SGI uses/used it as well... /Mikael
Actually, he's not a taliban, he's the leader of the Alqaeda(al-qeada/al-qaida/alqaida/whatever) network, so it would be alqaeda.org (or .net since it's a "terrorist network")
/Mikael
not certified insane, just not mentally stable enough to serve in the army. btw, I consider this to be a Good Thing(tm)...
/Mikael
Or perhaps today people at least have enough sense not to think dying for a stupid cause (patriotism) is worth anything. Or perhaps they don't like the thought of killing other people. Or they may simply prefer to have a bit more control over their own life, not having some guy with more metal on his shoulders than themselves wake them up at three in the morning just to "harden" them and all that...
/Mikael (who managed to avoid the Swedish army thanks to being deemed mentally unstable.)
It's true that if everyone used lots of electricity the price would go up, however the same is true for everything, it's just nice to not have to worry about the price of electricity and water since it's a flat fee...
/Mikael
I have a flat electricity bill, I pay $8/month, I have lots crap running at the same time, all the time, no complaints yet...
/Mikael
I'm getting a GCN because it has better games, I don't care about it not being able to play DVDs.
And about M$ having lots of money, well so does Nintendo...
/Mikael
yes, but the other clusters aren't exactly run-of-the-mill Linux clusters put strung together with shoestrings, they are for example Alpha clusters running OpenVMS or Tru64...
/Mikael
Actually, they made Salvia Divinorum illegal quite recently...
May I suggest Datura? (aka "Locoweed")
/Mikael
...or crack farm..
You can grow crack?! wow! That's news to me...
/Mikael
Strange, my AST Bravo 4/33 is a desktop machine, must be the 's' at the end...
/Mikael
And the news only ever shows them wading in and cracking skulls; never shows them taking abuse, hurled rocks, and so on.
You obviously missed the coverage of the Gothenburg anti-EU protests, it was all about the evil demonstrators throwing rocks at police and the police just had to shoot a demonstrator and a couple of photographers... (of course, since then it has been determined that video tapes of the shooting had been tampered with to show make it seem like there were more rioters around than the one that got shot (plus the photographers...)
/Mikael
I don't know what would eat them, but in Predator II there is a alien "skeleton" in the spaceship...
/Mikael
Hey! Keep your hands of scooby!
/Mikael