Eh, the z80 in the genesis wasn't really for sound. There were a handful of games (3 or 4 if I recall) that did use it, but it was mostly there for the Master System compatibility. And the Game Gear used a z80 as well.
Come on. Everyone figured out this was fake a week ago.
Does anyone actually check out stories before they're posted? Or is this one of those things where you write a story, and then later post a small retraction on the 4th page.
Well, I used to work for gamecenter, just preface.
I never really cared much for their content, I mean, I don't much care for articles about games, reviews, etc. I have other sites that I feel are more in tune with my thought process. But the one thing that Gamecenter had was more hardcore articles. I mean, they have articles on how to overclock your computer, how to overclock your video card, etc. When I worked there I did a ton of testing on Voodoo 2 overclocking. How far could I get each card before it started to fuck up.
Well, Gamecenter will certainly be missed. I hope everyone I knew who still worked there has other options and places to go.
Actually, carpet padding works quite well. It certainly does not attract dust, and is far cheaper than dynamat. Of course, when you add this, you're just adding insulation which means more heat buildup, which means more fans... Of course, it is fairly easy to find an equalibrium. On my spare computer here, i can't even tell if it's running, that's how quiet it is. Of course, I mounted the drives with padding on the sides, and used a shoebox lined with carpet padding to cover the power supply fan to dampen the noise. It's really very nice, works well, just make sure you have enough ventilation.
Please, try not to judge a box before the hardware even exists. And as far as the "not running existing software" why is that a problem? When I bought my DC I knew that it didn't run any existing software, but that's ok, because they make software for it. And, of course, it will certainly not be as buggy as some desktop systems. Those are usually caused by faulty drivers, and any one of a billion different configurations. Because an X-Box would have ONE specific set of hardware, everything can be designed specifically for it. It is not necessary to build a whole lot of expandibility or other such into it.
Are you mentally deficient? I don't mean to insult you, but, it's not like you can run anything but Nintendo's OS on the NES, or SNES. Same way that Apple won't get in trouble by not letting other people make os's for their hardware, because, it is THEIR hardware, it's proprietary. They can do what they like.
Marconi did not invent the radio, Tesla did. Tesla proved to the patent board that he, infact, had created the radio, but i believe he still conceded the patents to Marconi anyways.
sleep deprivation, in extreme cases, can cause hallucinations, even long after you have slept again. It is also possible that it can change your personality. Such as one radio DJ who stayed awake for 16 (i think) days. He began hallucinating, even after he had begun sleeping again. His wife said he had "changed" he had become more withdrawn. They were divorced about 3 months later. I'd say sleep is a dangerous drug
Yes, they do give you 400 dollars store credit but the thing is when you go home and cancel, they charge you a 50 dopllar cancellation fee. So you only really effectively make 350. The process is, go sign up, buy stuff, go home, cancel, keep stuff, pay 50 dollar cancel fee. Yes it does work, i have done it before, and several of my friends have also done it
Gas based life forms don't exist because of how hard it is to bind to most gases. Especially the "Noble" gases. Carbon based life forms are abundant because of how easy it is to bind with carbon. it can bond to 4 other atoms, or double bond to two, or double bond to one, and bond to two other atoms. Some theorize that because silicon has similar properties to carbon (carbon is above silicon on the periodic table), that there may be silicon based life out there. I'd believe it.
This version was written by a good friend of mine. Trust it. The reasons for not opening the source are easy. Allowing people to see the protocol would allow them to do stupid things like telling the Napster server they have 5 billion mp3's ready for download. Which is just stupid. Quake3 isn't open source, do you trust it? (I know the example isn't the same, id is a reputable company, Ignitor is just a guy) but hey, not everything is, or should be open source. When it allows people to cheat the system, there's no reason to release the source. Take a break man. There's no source code to oranges, but do you eat them?
Yes, i think it is too hard for me. I know two languages, but i just don't want to take the time (like i had the time) to learn both. It's much easier to learn just one. I mean, i'm a competent typer, i type fairly fast (well, fast enough for me, i've never benchmarked myself or anything) but i'm pretty fast i'd wager, and there's no reason to switch to something different, even if it is faster, or easier. I'm plenty fast as it is, and i don't really find any problems with qwerty.
It's relatively easy just to build your own, i did this to an old AT keyboard. I just took a screwdriver and followed the keymap on: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~scs/dv.html from there (in win95) i just set it to dvorak, and i was on my way. I only used it like this for a week, because i was painfully slow on it (because i had never used it before), and i switched back because the rest of the world is QWERTY. I have to go to school and use their keyboards, my dad, my sister, my grandparents, my friends, they're all qwerty. There's no sense in having to learn/know 2 different keyboard layouts. It's much easier to use 1.
It will respond to pings only with this disc loaded. Game developers can choose whether or not to respond. Some web sites and other internet activities (like irc) require that you respond to icmp pings. So, I suspect that most game developers won't respond to pings or do much of anything else.
Sega would have no comment on it because the OS resides on the disc. So whatever game was running while he scanned would have those ports open. So it's entirely open to the developer as to what is being used.
I've worked at C|Net (well, it was in the gamecenter division, but basically the same thing), people there USE linux, and understand how it works, and all i can see is the future getting brighter for linux because of the support of such mainstream, and popular companies like C|Net
FAT32 can address up to 2 terabytes i beleive, and NTFS can go up to like 2 or 3 zetabytes (or something like that) some absurdly large number, so i don't see it being a problem. if i recall correctly, ext2 can only address up to 1 terabyte...
Bigger is better, especially when it comes to heat. A larger case will always be cooler than a smaller one, equally equipped oh, and people, remember to have some fans REMOVING air. When air is compressed it heats up
Plastic is an excellent insulator which is why they use it on wires and other such stuff. I don't think using plastic could cause you any harm anyways, like a thread a long time ago about plastic cases, your case is certainly not RF proofed. There are holes all over cases, the plastic drive slot holders, and other such things. A plastic case will not have problems with rf anymore than a metal case would. The only possible thing i could think of that could be a problem is the heat buildup since plastic is a good insulator. But this guy seems to be alright with the fans he has. I've actually thought of doing something similar. But I never got around to it. That and i don't have the moey. But for those of you that are interested, i thought of annodizing my case, here's a page that tells you how to annodize at home: http://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/paintguns/anodize.shtml
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Eh, the z80 in the genesis wasn't really for sound. There were a handful of games (3 or 4 if I recall) that did use it, but it was mostly there for the Master System compatibility.
And the Game Gear used a z80 as well.
Come on. Everyone figured out this was fake a week ago.
Does anyone actually check out stories before they're posted? Or is this one of those things where you write a story, and then later post a small retraction on the 4th page.
Well, I used to work for gamecenter, just preface.
I never really cared much for their content, I mean, I don't much care for articles about games, reviews, etc. I have other sites that I feel are more in tune with my thought process. But the one thing that Gamecenter had was more hardcore articles. I mean, they have articles on how to overclock your computer, how to overclock your video card, etc. When I worked there I did a ton of testing on Voodoo 2 overclocking. How far could I get each card before it started to fuck up.
Well, Gamecenter will certainly be missed. I hope everyone I knew who still worked there has other options and places to go.
-Serfer
Actually, voltage has been going down... not up
EG, my celeron runs at 2 volts, newer p3's and such run about 1.3 volts
Actually, carpet padding works quite well.
It certainly does not attract dust, and is far cheaper than dynamat. Of course, when you add this, you're just adding insulation which means more heat buildup, which means more fans...
Of course, it is fairly easy to find an equalibrium. On my spare computer here, i can't even tell if it's running, that's how quiet it is.
Of course, I mounted the drives with padding on the sides, and used a shoebox lined with carpet padding to cover the power supply fan to dampen the noise.
It's really very nice, works well, just make sure you have enough ventilation.
Please, try not to judge a box before the hardware even exists.
And as far as the "not running existing software" why is that a problem? When I bought my DC I knew that it didn't run any existing software, but that's ok, because they make software for it.
And, of course, it will certainly not be as buggy as some desktop systems. Those are usually caused by faulty drivers, and any one of a billion different configurations.
Because an X-Box would have ONE specific set of hardware, everything can be designed specifically for it. It is not necessary to build a whole lot of expandibility or other such into it.
Are you mentally deficient?
I don't mean to insult you, but, it's not like you can run anything but Nintendo's OS on the NES, or SNES.
Same way that Apple won't get in trouble by not letting other people make os's for their hardware, because, it is THEIR hardware, it's proprietary. They can do what they like.
Marconi did not invent the radio, Tesla did.
Tesla proved to the patent board that he, infact, had created the radio, but i believe he still conceded the patents to Marconi anyways.
sleep deprivation, in extreme cases, can cause hallucinations, even long after you have slept again. It is also possible that it can change your personality. Such as one radio DJ who stayed awake for 16 (i think) days. He began hallucinating, even after he had begun sleeping again. His wife said he had "changed" he had become more withdrawn. They were divorced about 3 months later.
I'd say sleep is a dangerous drug
-Serfer
Yes, they do give you 400 dollars store credit but the thing is when you go home and cancel, they charge you a 50 dopllar cancellation fee. So you only really effectively make 350.
The process is, go sign up, buy stuff, go home, cancel, keep stuff, pay 50 dollar cancel fee.
Yes it does work, i have done it before, and several of my friends have also done it
Gas based life forms don't exist because of how hard it is to bind to most gases. Especially the "Noble" gases. Carbon based life forms are abundant because of how easy it is to bind with carbon. it can bond to 4 other atoms, or double bond to two, or double bond to one, and bond to two other atoms.
Some theorize that because silicon has similar properties to carbon (carbon is above silicon on the periodic table), that there may be silicon based life out there. I'd believe it.
Like the title says, 3DFX already did it.
CAT5 is UTP, unshielded twisted pair.
See, unshielded, as in, no shielding
This version was written by a good friend of mine. Trust it. The reasons for not opening the source are easy. Allowing people to see the protocol would allow them to do stupid things like telling the Napster server they have 5 billion mp3's ready for download. Which is just stupid.
Quake3 isn't open source, do you trust it? (I know the example isn't the same, id is a reputable company, Ignitor is just a guy) but hey, not everything is, or should be open source. When it allows people to cheat the system, there's no reason to release the source.
Take a break man. There's no source code to oranges, but do you eat them?
Yes, i think it is too hard for me. I know two languages, but i just don't want to take the time (like i had the time) to learn both. It's much easier to learn just one. I mean, i'm a competent typer, i type fairly fast (well, fast enough for me, i've never benchmarked myself or anything) but i'm pretty fast i'd wager, and there's no reason to switch to something different, even if it is faster, or easier. I'm plenty fast as it is, and i don't really find any problems with qwerty.
It's relatively easy just to build your own, i did this to an old AT keyboard. I just took a screwdriver and followed the keymap on: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~scs/dv.html from there (in win95) i just set it to dvorak, and i was on my way. I only used it like this for a week, because i was painfully slow on it (because i had never used it before), and i switched back because the rest of the world is QWERTY. I have to go to school and use their keyboards, my dad, my sister, my grandparents, my friends, they're all qwerty. There's no sense in having to learn/know 2 different keyboard layouts. It's much easier to use 1.
It will respond to pings only with this disc loaded. Game developers can choose whether or not to respond. Some web sites and other internet activities (like irc) require that you respond to icmp pings. So, I suspect that most game developers won't respond to pings or do much of anything else.
Sega would have no comment on it because the OS resides on the disc. So whatever game was running while he scanned would have those ports open. So it's entirely open to the developer as to what is being used.
I've worked at C|Net (well, it was in the gamecenter division, but basically the same thing), people there USE linux, and understand how it works, and all i can see is the future getting brighter for linux because of the support of such mainstream, and popular companies like C|Net
FAT32 can address up to 2 terabytes i beleive, and NTFS can go up to like 2 or 3 zetabytes (or something like that) some absurdly large number, so i don't see it being a problem. if i recall correctly, ext2 can only address up to 1 terabyte...
Was it an Addtronics? They make excellent cases as well. They're too expensive for me, but they're really nice
Bigger is better, especially when it comes to heat.
A larger case will always be cooler than a smaller one, equally equipped
oh, and people, remember to have some fans REMOVING air. When air is compressed it heats up
Plastic is an excellent insulator which is why they use it on wires and other such stuff. I don't think using plastic could cause you any harm anyways, like a thread a long time ago about plastic cases, your case is certainly not RF proofed. There are holes all over cases, the plastic drive slot holders, and other such things. A plastic case will not have problems with rf anymore than a metal case would. The only possible thing i could think of that could be a problem is the heat buildup since plastic is a good insulator. But this guy seems to be alright with the fans he has. I've actually thought of doing something similar. But I never got around to it. That and i don't have the moey. But for those of you that are interested, i thought of annodizing my case, here's a page that tells you how to annodize at home: http://www.warpig .com/paintball/technical/paintguns/anodize.shtml
The USPS isn't run by the government (at least, not anymore). I think they became independant in 1982 or sometime around there
you're forgetting that PU is an EXTREMELY dense element. 72 pounds of it is hardly anything