Popular Science ran an article with a nice interview with the guy who ran Skunkworks. He had mentioned that they had a design for a stealth submarine and the Navy wasn't interested because of the expense. He then joked that they had a design for an aircraft carrier and they surely wouldn't be interested in that. It ran several years ago, take a look in your archives...
Well, if it helps any to you Ipod jonesin' Windows folks out there, you might want to keep an eye on XPlay by MediaFour. It's a Windows Ipod package... Here's the link:
ever hear of the turbografx 16? as i remember, it was made of two 8 bit processors running in parallel and they called it 16 bit. it wasn't really 16 bit, but a nifty variant of 8 bit...
correct me if i'm wrong on that one. shady memories... =)
Just thought you might like to see this old article i wrote here about this same situation... here is the old slashdot article where i asked Is There Still A Need For Glide?
hey, i'm always up for software that comes with a nice thick book filled with good documentation... that often can make the sale for me, not a stack of cdroms... =)
unfortunately, if it is a hardware defect it will take longer for them to find out about it if units aren't sent into repair. most companies want people to send their units in for repair because they start to build a database of known issues which can be used to resolve the problem in future manufacturing runs... items returned to the store often don't get the same treatment. this leads to people complaining about problems, and the company that produced the product can't research the problem and fix it until many, many people are experiencing it...
smoking around most electronic stuff isn't a good idea... on a similar note, peeing on stuff isn't either. a friend of mine pissed on another of my friend's n64's when he was drunk. fortunately it wasn't plugged in or he'd probably not survived to sobreity. after cleaning the thing off, it still worked. amazing what some stuff can go through. i remember reading an article jerry pournelle wrote several years ago about an old nec monitor he had that sat out on his porch and got rained on. he cleaned it off the day after and the thing still worked fine...
also, take a look at the electric in your place. computer equipment is very sensitive to poorly grounded systems. perhaps you have too much running on a circuit that is too small and it is causing problems. surges are also a possibility, not just from your electric outlets, but from phone lines (to modems), cable tv and satelite lines (going outside), etc... you could easily induct a current that could zap stuff... worth taking a look at anyway...
as i remember there was a defect with the first run of the sonic game for the dreamcast. sega reissued the fixed discs and everything was fine (at great cost to sega i'm sure). maybe the manufacturing process of the discs new disc type (the 3 inch pseudo-dvd thingy) they are using may be an issue and the quality isn't up to 100% yet. anyone notice if the drive was accessing when it crashed? just a thought...
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Popular Science ran an article with a nice interview with the guy who ran Skunkworks. He had mentioned that they had a design for a stealth submarine and the Navy wasn't interested because of the expense. He then joked that they had a design for an aircraft carrier and they surely wouldn't be interested in that. It ran several years ago, take a look in your archives...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Stephen Satchell's?
We could probably turn Microsoft into a goody-goody company like the Sierra Club in a month or two!
aren't we cool? us low number people are really 1337 huh? j/k =)
Of course there's also the Tandy CoCo... =)
Sorry, but I think DJ Boy is the most racist videogame ever made...
You like canned foods? How about Potted Meat Food Product? Take a look at our review of this delicacy at monkeysvsrobots.com.
it's nitpicking... but i think you meant the riaa... the mpaa doesn't have anything to do with the music industry...
Gee... The last time someone made a linux game console it ended badly... remember the indrema?
you think that's crazy... check out the gameboy sewing machine...
ummm... not so... =)
in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. -Tom Waits
It seemed odd that Zilog appeared to have much of the 8-bit world..
yeah, just take a look at the gameboy...
Well, if it helps any to you Ipod jonesin' Windows folks out there, you might want to keep an eye on XPlay by MediaFour. It's a Windows Ipod package... Here's the link:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/xpod/
Just thought you might want to keep an eye on XPlay by MediaFour. It's a Windows Ipod package... Here's the link:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/xpod/
ever hear of the turbografx 16? as i remember, it was made of two 8 bit processors running in parallel and they called it 16 bit. it wasn't really 16 bit, but a nifty variant of 8 bit...
correct me if i'm wrong on that one. shady memories... =)
yeah, version 1.3 at that!!
Hey if you want to find out more about the Tick comics, check out our review of the Tick Omnibus 1.
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After reading, you really should go buy a copy!
better find a cave to hind in... of course, if the riaa get's there way, you'll be smoked out by the us government, you evildoer.
Just thought you might like to see this old article i wrote here about this same situation... here is the old slashdot article where i asked Is There Still A Need For Glide?
oooh? so, what's your email address? i've got something to send you. hehe
the jaguar port was probably one of the best ones at the time due to the programmers good use of the jaguars graphics abilities...
hey, i'm always up for software that comes with a nice thick book filled with good documentation... that often can make the sale for me, not a stack of cdroms... =)
unfortunately, if it is a hardware defect it will take longer for them to find out about it if units aren't sent into repair. most companies want people to send their units in for repair because they start to build a database of known issues which can be used to resolve the problem in future manufacturing runs... items returned to the store often don't get the same treatment. this leads to people complaining about problems, and the company that produced the product can't research the problem and fix it until many, many people are experiencing it...
smoking around most electronic stuff isn't a good idea... on a similar note, peeing on stuff isn't either. a friend of mine pissed on another of my friend's n64's when he was drunk. fortunately it wasn't plugged in or he'd probably not survived to sobreity. after cleaning the thing off, it still worked. amazing what some stuff can go through. i remember reading an article jerry pournelle wrote several years ago about an old nec monitor he had that sat out on his porch and got rained on. he cleaned it off the day after and the thing still worked fine...
also, take a look at the electric in your place. computer equipment is very sensitive to poorly grounded systems. perhaps you have too much running on a circuit that is too small and it is causing problems. surges are also a possibility, not just from your electric outlets, but from phone lines (to modems), cable tv and satelite lines (going outside), etc... you could easily induct a current that could zap stuff... worth taking a look at anyway...
as i remember there was a defect with the first run of the sonic game for the dreamcast. sega reissued the fixed discs and everything was fine (at great cost to sega i'm sure). maybe the manufacturing process of the discs new disc type (the 3 inch pseudo-dvd thingy) they are using may be an issue and the quality isn't up to 100% yet. anyone notice if the drive was accessing when it crashed? just a thought...