GameHippo does a poor job of responding to game owners' requests and tends to retain out-of-date software even when told there are more recent releases available. I put them on the 'I give up' list long ago.
You're right about the trollish user comments, though.
In my opinion Paul Chinn's idea to port Q*bert to Gameboy was unquestionably insightful.
Interesting that he had a hand in the Majesco GBC port and then went and reverse-engineered / developed another version (albeit lacking sound at the moment). There was a version of QBert for the original Game Boy system, too, though I don't recall which company produced it. Most interesting is that the original GB version places the entire play area on the screen at once, whereas the latter two GBC versions scroll a larger play area on the screen. It's unfortunate none of the three fit all the pieces together (sound, color, fixed-screen action).
According to that page, I was born / applied to my SSN in Maryland...I've never been to Maryland. I think that info is faulty.
Depends on when you were assigned your card:
"Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country, and the area number represented the state in which the card was issued. Since 1972, when the SSA began assigning numbers and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number is assigned based on the zip code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. A word of warning: the applicant's mailing address may not be the same as his or her place of residence. Therefore, the area number does not necessarily represent the applicant's state of residence either prior to 1972, or since."
[OpenNIC]'s nifty, like www.yournamehere.geek. Or even create your own TLD altog[e]ther... I am having a tough time getting any local govt to listen to... alternate IT.
And yet your personal/. link is a.net - so nifty you're trying to talk local governments into adopting it, not nifty enough to use yourself.
What to make of this, I don't know.
Outpost is the name of the Sierra game. I bought the strategy guide for the game. What a waste.
Feh. I purchased not only the strategy guide but a SCSI card and an external CDROM drive, too, just to play the game. That was the last game title I ever purchased without reading multiple reviews.
There aren't enough foul words to describe the gameplay of Outpost. Or the folly of my youth in having to have it.
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appearently...
Confucius: Man who italicizes word its spelling should respect lest moderators invite all to see folly.
so you'd think it humorous if you didn't make the decision to not think it humorous.
Sure would. It's not a decision, it's recognition of a thing for what it is. Lacking that, I'm sure any number of forced attempts at humor would elicit a laugh rather than a groan.
Oh, and I was impressed at the simultaneity of remarks above. HAND
Wrong image. He's thinking of the image where there are soldiers walking up a set of stairs.
RTFAWC:
"One of these is an optical illusion that shows water going uphill and round and round the four sides of a square perpetually," [Dyson] says.
The WC is for 'With Care' - the BBC write-up mentions the marching soldiers in an aside. Dyson himself mentions no such work directly (as quoted).
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Yes, that's the one. The BBC piece actually links to another representation of the same. Their link is in the righthand sidebar adjacent to the article - not hard to miss.
btw screw you apple and microsoft for not providing media players for linux
Screw them indeed for not attempting to fit with everyone's pet OS. Screw them for putting their own interests first. Screw them to hell. Screw 'em. Screw 'em. Screw 'em.
Because most modern movies are recorded in Cinemascope, which is not 16:9, but 2.35:1.
The underlying suggestion being that movies should all be shot to the same aspect ratio? What on earth do you think we're halfway to? One binding aspect ratio for all visual media? Nonsense.
Considering the back-catalog of film and television production and the range of screen dimensions they cover... well, let's just say I still don't see a "halfway" to *anything* in this.
Moderation boxes glitch and redraw all over the window when scrolling, or IE doesn't finish loading the page at all. Anyone else seen that?
Yes. It's one reason why I stopped using MSIE 5.x on my Win98 machine. I've since stopped moderating, so I guess I can go back to MSIE.
From what I recall from past discussion (this topic has been raised before many times in/. threads), MSIE is bound by certain versions of Windows to some rather confining limits when working with form elements. Too many form elements within a document, and the oddball behavior ("Web smear") shows its face.
Never really encountered it outside of moderating lengthy topics on/. though, and only on Windows 98 - think it really only bites 95, 98, and ME (not XP or 2000+).
Brokedown Palace is an awesome movie. Without revealing much, two girls go to Thailand for their high school graduation, only to be arrested for smuggling drugs.
Why not see the better film belonging to this mini-genre: Midnight Express.
I don't think any movie that garnered release
as a member of the Criterion Collection could be called generally underappreciated. Of all Verhoeven's films, I think there are plenty other titles that deserve greater appreciation than Robocop, which seems to have caught its share of attention.
For exmaple, Netscape 4.x wouldn't see the contents of a print stylesheet referenced in this way:
<style type="text/css"> @import "/styles/print.css" print; </style>
Yeah, neither would MSIE 5.x for the Wintel platform. From how many browsers were you attempting to hide the CSS rules again?;)
Slashdot Mirror
You should really read AP newsfeeds more often, they debunked this myth on the 27th of June (as carried by CNN).
If they ever grew tired with it, they would simply let the market decide. I can almost see it now:
"ORACLE CORP. MIB - FREE SHIP W/ BIN - LQQK!!!"
(For the eBay fanatics, that is a full 45-character auction listing.)
GameHippo does a poor job of responding to game owners' requests and tends to retain out-of-date software even when told there are more recent releases available. I put them on the 'I give up' list long ago.
You're right about the trollish user comments, though.
Interesting that he had a hand in the Majesco GBC port and then went and reverse-engineered / developed another version (albeit lacking sound at the moment). There was a version of QBert for the original Game Boy system, too, though I don't recall which company produced it. Most interesting is that the original GB version places the entire play area on the screen at once, whereas the latter two GBC versions scroll a larger play area on the screen. It's unfortunate none of the three fit all the pieces together (sound, color, fixed-screen action).
Depends on when you were assigned your card:
"Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country, and the area number represented the state in which the card was issued. Since 1972, when the SSA began assigning numbers and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number is assigned based on the zip code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. A word of warning: the applicant's mailing address may not be the same as his or her place of residence. Therefore, the area number does not necessarily represent the applicant's state of residence either prior to 1972, or since."
Source: Genealogy.com
And yet your personal /. link is a .net - so nifty you're trying to talk local governments into adopting it, not nifty enough to use yourself.
What to make of this, I don't know.
Feh. I purchased not only the strategy guide but a SCSI card and an external CDROM drive, too, just to play the game. That was the last game title I ever purchased without reading multiple reviews.
There aren't enough foul words to describe the gameplay of Outpost. Or the folly of my youth in having to have it.
Confucius: Man who italicizes word its spelling should respect lest moderators invite all to see folly.
Sure would. It's not a decision, it's recognition of a thing for what it is. Lacking that, I'm sure any number of forced attempts at humor would elicit a laugh rather than a groan.
Oh, and I was impressed at the simultaneity of remarks above. HAND
I don't know what to make of the fact that two /.ers manage the same sentiment (you and this fellow) within the same minute and three message IDs.
I'd think it humorous if it weren't the usual knee-jerk, literal-minded "ha-ha, me make funny" response. *sigh*
Ummm... release date November 4, 2003. You can't wait another five months?
RTFAWC:
The WC is for 'With Care' - the BBC write-up mentions the marching soldiers in an aside. Dyson himself mentions no such work directly (as quoted).
Yes, that's the one. The BBC piece actually links to another representation of the same. Their link is in the righthand sidebar adjacent to the article - not hard to miss.
I try not to comment on grammar, but the proper term, from Greek, is hoi polloi.
Isn't your Paper & Paychecks reference directly lifted from an old What's New with Phil & Dixie? comic strip [that ran in Dragon magazine] ... ?
Screw them indeed for not attempting to fit with everyone's pet OS. Screw them for putting their own interests first. Screw them to hell. Screw 'em. Screw 'em. Screw 'em.
Whatever.
Go purchase CrossOver or something.
Twice, even.
The underlying suggestion being that movies should all be shot to the same aspect ratio? What on earth do you think we're halfway to? One binding aspect ratio for all visual media? Nonsense.
Considering the back-catalog of film and television production and the range of screen dimensions they cover ... well, let's just say I still don't see a "halfway" to *anything* in this.
Yes. It's one reason why I stopped using MSIE 5.x on my Win98 machine. I've since stopped moderating, so I guess I can go back to MSIE.
From what I recall from past discussion (this topic has been raised before many times in /. threads), MSIE is bound by certain versions of Windows to some rather confining limits when working with form elements. Too many form elements within a document, and the oddball behavior ("Web smear") shows its face.
Never really encountered it outside of moderating lengthy topics on /. though, and only on Windows 98 - think it really only bites 95, 98, and ME (not XP or 2000+).
Amen, brother. Pass the plate.
The All NetBSD Packages document (long) states 3706 packages ... numbers, numbers, everywhere!
Now available on DVD from davidlynch.com for $40. Oh, well, perhaps video pricing is the true sign of a film's underappreciation?
Why not see the better film belonging to this mini-genre: Midnight Express.
I don't think any movie that garnered release as a member of the Criterion Collection could be called generally underappreciated. Of all Verhoeven's films, I think there are plenty other titles that deserve greater appreciation than Robocop, which seems to have caught its share of attention.
Yeah, neither would MSIE 5.x for the Wintel platform. From how many browsers were you attempting to hide the CSS rules again? ;)