You have Digger?! My God, man -- talk about a blast from the past! I used to play that ten years ago! I figured it was all but lost. (I used to play J-Bird too, but Digger was my favourite.)
If you have a copy lying around, can you please email it to me?
Thanks muchly!!
(Now all I have to do is figure out how the hell to slow it down, considering that I was playing it on my 8MHz XT back then...)
Excellent point. What about sentimental value? What if that was a brick from the rural farmhouse someone was born in which no longer exists? Methinks the DEA went waaaaay over the line there.
Plus, in order to make a brick, it has to be baked in a kiln at >1,000C. This would surely change any drugs hidden in a pocket inside the brick, on a molecular level. If not, then surely you'd end up with one big solidified chunk of drug on the inside?
I mean, isn't it enough to chip off a small amount of the exterior of the brick and analyze it (GC/MS, maybe?) to make sure it's really a normal brick?
I find it hard to believe that a passive receiver can cause more problems than an active 802.11b transmitter.
You probably aren't an RF engineer (neither am I), but I figured I'd clean this up. In order to receive a signal, you must transmit it. To be precise, if you've got a radio station transmitting at 107.9MHz, your radio must generate a 107.9MHz signal inside it, align that with the phase of the incoming signal, and subtract one from the other. It's left with the raw modulation, which is what you want to end up with.
Therefore, leaky electronics can and will spew RF even (especially!) if it's only a receiver.
I never have figured out what American's refer to as Component Video (is it RGB, or S-Video?), but according to this the Dreamcast has RGB, S-Video and Composite outs, which covers both of those.
Argh. RGB is not the same. Over there, I think the SCART cable has RGB pins on it which the TV can use. SCART totally doesn't exist in North America or Japan. On higher-end TVs, there are the normal composite (single RCA connector) input, S-video (single mini-DIN connector) input, and component (three RCA connectors) input which supply Y (luminance), Cb (Blue chrominance), and Cr (Red chrominance) signals completely separate for better colour purity and reproduction.
I'm not familiar with the PS2, but the quality of output from my DC on RF is pretty impressive - not got a scart cable yet. I have a normal 25" TV, and a cheap DVD player, which obviously makes my opinion worthless, but there you go.
Eww, RF. Just wait until you pick up the SCART cable. You think it looks good now? You're in for a VERY pleasant surprise...
The Sega Dreamcast does output component (RGB) video signals that can drive an SVGA monitor at up to 800x600.
You can't connect that to a TV. (Maybe you can in Europe over a SCART connection, but I don't have experience with that because I'm on the other side of the drink.)
By the way, the PS2's component outputs are switchable between Y-Cb/Pb-Cr/Pr and R-G-B in the unit's configuration menu.
The picture quality of my Dreamcast is somewhat sharper on my 21" trinitron than it is on my WEGA. I'm fairly certain that the XBR model you have has about a.7mm to.9mm dot pitch, is significantly worse than a PC monitor (.2mm to.3mm). Sorry to break the bad news.
Uhh, Trinitron monitors don't have any dot pitch, period. They have stripe pitch, which is the spacing of two vertical stripes of the aperture grille.
You're absolutely right -- monitors have a MUCH finer dot pitch than a TV, because you're usually 24 to 36 inches away from the monitor. I (and I'll go out on a limb here: Most people) don't usually sit any closer to their TVs than about 5-7 feet or so, therefore the stripe/dot pitch is pretty much irrelevant.
Yes it has component out. Mine is hooked up to the tv using S-video connectors, and in work my monitor
Component video out isn't S-video. S-video has the chrominance and luminance separated, but the chrominance for all three colours is still on one wire. Component video connections have three completely separate video wires: Y, Cb/Pb, and Cr/Pr.
If your PS2 looks as good playing DVDs as your *ahem* Sony "reference-grade" model then either your Sony is a stinking pile of crap, or your DVDs have been burned from their VHS equivalents.
I didn't say it was as good -- I said it was nearly as good. I can still tell the difference, but for C$449, it's a really decent DVD player.
If you can't see the difference in quality then you sir are a fool for buying high-end equipment when your eyesight/perception is too low to use it.
Sony makes pretty decent stuff -- that's why they're the number one (IIRC) manufacturer of broadcast-quality equipment. You'd be hard-pressed to find a newsroom or TV station that doesn't have a LOT of Sony equipment in it.
Not that I would ever class sony kit as high-end".
If I wanted obscenely high-end stuff, I'd get Loewe, B&O, or NAD. Unfortunately, my budget doesn't permit it, so I've gone with a pretty-damed-good TV because I'm picky about video quality -- and the PS2 meets my expectations nicely. That's the point I was trying to make.
Actually, the opening video to Midnight Club is being rendered on-the-fly. How do I know? No anti-aliasing; it's the exact same quality as when you're actually playing it.
Riiiiight. Take a peek at a 36" XBR Wega with a decent signal going into it (like one of the Sony demonstration DVDs with super-low compression to really show off what the TV can do). As far as I'm concerned, with the right stuff going into it, it's a 36" monitor. Obviously, no TV will make standard cable TV look any better than it already is...
you'll find that the PS2 is nothing more than a upgraded PS1 with a crappy dvd player
Oh, puh-leeze. The graphics of the PS2 are so far ahead of the PS1 that there's no comparison. Take a peek at the opening video for Tekken Tag Team. Then look at it twice more, and look at the detail... hair, lips, water, lens flare, etc.
Does the Dreamcast have component video out? I don't think so. My PS2 is hooked up to my 36" XBR Wega via the component inputs, and the DVDs and games look absolutely stunning. I have a Sony DVP-S7000 reference-grade ($1,500) DVD player, and it's nearly as good as that.
Speak not from whence you know not. Look at the unit on quality equipment, and there's no going back.
Get your mind out of the gutter -- not THAT "playing doctor".
Lie back on my couch, look at all my (nonexistant) psychology diplomas, and tell me the first thing that you think of when you wake up in the morning. The odds are >90% that it's one of the following:
Cool, today I'll get to work on that project my boss is letting me tinker with.
Fuck. More goddamned work.
If you truly enjoy what you're doing at work, then you're not working -- you're doing what you enjoy, and you happen to receive a paycheck! Bonus!
If, however, you hate what you consider to be a papershuffling, nonenjoyable, piece-of-shit job, then cut your losses, if any, and bail. It's quite simply not physically or mentally healthy to continue doing something you loathe.
I created a Hotmail account, just for shits and giggles, which was:
isufdsuhyfiwuh@hotmail.com
(Please note, three nonsequential characters were changed in what's above so my test doesn't get all shot to hell. The length of the address is the same.)
In the last 30 days, I have sent no mail from the account, not listed/used it ANYWHERE, and thus obviously haven't received any email... other than THREE spams.
If Hotmail isn't selling account data to spammers, I have absolutely no clue how I got those spams.
In Canada I understand this to be untrue - ANYTHING with an address and put in a PostOffice Box MUST be delivered - no matter what it is. Im almost certain its federal law. This is why you can send mail without a stamp - it still gets delivered.
You're full of shit. I live in Toronto, and occasionally I've forgotten to put a stamp on an envelope. I get it back in my mailbox a day or so later with a big "Return To Sender" sticker on it with a transparent backing material. There's text on the label saying to put more/proper postage on the letter, peel the big sticker off (leaving the clear backing layer on the envelope), and remail it.
However, if you put YOUR address in the main "to" area, and THEIR address in the "from" area, put no postage on it, and drop it in a mailbox, it MIGHT get there, complete with the "Return To Sender" sticker, if the post office doesn't catch on. They sometimes assume that it mistakenly got that far in the system without a stamp, and promptly send it "back".
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You have Digger?! My God, man -- talk about a blast from the past! I used to play that ten years ago! I figured it was all but lost. (I used to play J-Bird too, but Digger was my favourite.)
If you have a copy lying around, can you please email it to me?
Thanks muchly!!
(Now all I have to do is figure out how the hell to slow it down, considering that I was playing it on my 8MHz XT back then...)
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This link was mentionted during Rob's recent tirade on junk mail and mailing back the offending letters.
I know.
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Excellent point. What about sentimental value? What if that was a brick from the rural farmhouse someone was born in which no longer exists? Methinks the DEA went waaaaay over the line there.
Plus, in order to make a brick, it has to be baked in a kiln at >1,000C. This would surely change any drugs hidden in a pocket inside the brick, on a molecular level. If not, then surely you'd end up with one big solidified chunk of drug on the inside?
I mean, isn't it enough to chip off a small amount of the exterior of the brick and analyze it (GC/MS, maybe?) to make sure it's really a normal brick?
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Oh, Wes... I know you want me to do you, but I thought we already went over this. I'm simply not into well-used assholes such as yours, okay?
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Fuck you too, Wes.
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I actually just submitted that as a story, and guess what?
2001-01-27 22:16:14 Pushing the Postal Envelope (articles,humor) (accepted)
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For more information, please see the Stormix-users mailing list. Scroll down a bunch to get to the bankruptcy threads.
You might find this message thread particularly interesting...
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SubtleNuance != Fuck dollars - fuck industry!!!!!
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Linus is killing Linux just as horribly as I'm killing Slashdot.
So Linux is 6 feet^H^H^H^Hmiles under, huh?
Shit... and here I was thinking that I had a future as a Linux sysadmin...
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Someone has patented crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Okay, when I started reading this, I was chuckling because of the poster's apparent creativity.
United States Patent 6,004,596 Sealed crustless sandwich>
Okay, now I'm scared. Apparently the patent is quite real indeed.
A sad day for PB&J-loving kids everywhere.
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Linux rocks.
solves the problems of the user with insightful advice (did you reboot your computer today?.
You just proved my point -- and contradicted yourself -- quite nicely.
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I find it hard to believe that a passive receiver can cause more problems than an active 802.11b transmitter.
You probably aren't an RF engineer (neither am I), but I figured I'd clean this up. In order to receive a signal, you must transmit it. To be precise, if you've got a radio station transmitting at 107.9MHz, your radio must generate a 107.9MHz signal inside it, align that with the phase of the incoming signal, and subtract one from the other. It's left with the raw modulation, which is what you want to end up with.
Therefore, leaky electronics can and will spew RF even (especially!) if it's only a receiver.
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Let's just hope they give the flight controlls an IP.
;)
They don't need an IP. The smart money says the only two words you'll need to know are "public" and "private".
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I never have figured out what American's refer to as Component Video (is it RGB, or S-Video?), but according to this the Dreamcast has RGB, S-Video and Composite outs, which covers both of those.
Argh. RGB is not the same. Over there, I think the SCART cable has RGB pins on it which the TV can use. SCART totally doesn't exist in North America or Japan. On higher-end TVs, there are the normal composite (single RCA connector) input, S-video (single mini-DIN connector) input, and component (three RCA connectors) input which supply Y (luminance), Cb (Blue chrominance), and Cr (Red chrominance) signals completely separate for better colour purity and reproduction.
I'm not familiar with the PS2, but the quality of output from my DC on RF is pretty impressive - not got a scart cable yet. I have a normal 25" TV, and a cheap DVD player, which obviously makes my opinion worthless, but there you go.
Eww, RF. Just wait until you pick up the SCART cable. You think it looks good now? You're in for a VERY pleasant surprise...
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The Sega Dreamcast does output component (RGB) video signals that can drive an SVGA monitor at up to 800x600.
.7mm to .9mm dot pitch, is significantly worse than a PC monitor (.2mm to .3mm). Sorry to break the bad news.
You can't connect that to a TV. (Maybe you can in Europe over a SCART connection, but I don't have experience with that because I'm on the other side of the drink.)
By the way, the PS2's component outputs are switchable between Y-Cb/Pb-Cr/Pr and R-G-B in the unit's configuration menu.
The picture quality of my Dreamcast is somewhat sharper on my 21" trinitron than it is on my WEGA. I'm fairly certain that the XBR model you have has about a
Uhh, Trinitron monitors don't have any dot pitch, period. They have stripe pitch, which is the spacing of two vertical stripes of the aperture grille.
You're absolutely right -- monitors have a MUCH finer dot pitch than a TV, because you're usually 24 to 36 inches away from the monitor. I (and I'll go out on a limb here: Most people) don't usually sit any closer to their TVs than about 5-7 feet or so, therefore the stripe/dot pitch is pretty much irrelevant.
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Yes it has component out. Mine is hooked up to the tv using S-video connectors, and in work my monitor
Component video out isn't S-video. S-video has the chrominance and luminance separated, but the chrominance for all three colours is still on one wire. Component video connections have three completely separate video wires: Y, Cb/Pb, and Cr/Pr.
If your PS2 looks as good playing DVDs as your *ahem* Sony "reference-grade" model then either your Sony is a stinking pile of crap, or your DVDs have been burned from their VHS equivalents.
I didn't say it was as good -- I said it was nearly as good. I can still tell the difference, but for C$449, it's a really decent DVD player.
If you can't see the difference in quality then you sir are a fool for buying high-end equipment when your eyesight/perception is too low to use it.
Sony makes pretty decent stuff -- that's why they're the number one (IIRC) manufacturer of broadcast-quality equipment. You'd be hard-pressed to find a newsroom or TV station that doesn't have a LOT of Sony equipment in it.
Not that I would ever class sony kit as high-end".
If I wanted obscenely high-end stuff, I'd get Loewe, B&O, or NAD. Unfortunately, my budget doesn't permit it, so I've gone with a pretty-damed-good TV because I'm picky about video quality -- and the PS2 meets my expectations nicely. That's the point I was trying to make.
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Would you like me to scan the side of the box it came in? It's pronounced Vega, and the box has a double-V on the front; half black, half blue.
Sony FD Trinitron Wega
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Actually, the opening video to Midnight Club is being rendered on-the-fly. How do I know? No anti-aliasing; it's the exact same quality as when you're actually playing it.
It still looks some schweet.
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19 in monitor looks better than any tv set
Riiiiight. Take a peek at a 36" XBR Wega with a decent signal going into it (like one of the Sony demonstration DVDs with super-low compression to really show off what the TV can do). As far as I'm concerned, with the right stuff going into it, it's a 36" monitor. Obviously, no TV will make standard cable TV look any better than it already is...
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Yes, I know it's prerendered. But it's still fucking awesome nevertheless.
Plus, at least the controller is somewhat sane...
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you'll find that the PS2 is nothing more than a upgraded PS1 with a crappy dvd player
Oh, puh-leeze. The graphics of the PS2 are so far ahead of the PS1 that there's no comparison. Take a peek at the opening video for Tekken Tag Team. Then look at it twice more, and look at the detail... hair, lips, water, lens flare, etc.
Does the Dreamcast have component video out? I don't think so. My PS2 is hooked up to my 36" XBR Wega via the component inputs, and the DVDs and games look absolutely stunning. I have a Sony DVP-S7000 reference-grade ($1,500) DVD player, and it's nearly as good as that.
Speak not from whence you know not. Look at the unit on quality equipment, and there's no going back.
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but I'd tend to rather go the other way (thanks again Ant)
Actually, I submitted this one a while back:
2000-12-05 20:45:50 Hardcore Programmer's Power Case (articles,quickies) (rejected)
Thanks, Rob.
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Lie back on my couch, look at all my (nonexistant) psychology diplomas, and tell me the first thing that you think of when you wake up in the morning. The odds are >90% that it's one of the following:
- Cool, today I'll get to work on that project my boss is letting me tinker with.
- Fuck. More goddamned work.
If you truly enjoy what you're doing at work, then you're not working -- you're doing what you enjoy, and you happen to receive a paycheck! Bonus!If, however, you hate what you consider to be a papershuffling, nonenjoyable, piece-of-shit job, then cut your losses, if any, and bail. It's quite simply not physically or mentally healthy to continue doing something you loathe.
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I created a Hotmail account, just for shits and giggles, which was:
isufdsuhyfiwuh@hotmail.com
(Please note, three nonsequential characters were changed in what's above so my test doesn't get all shot to hell. The length of the address is the same.)
In the last 30 days, I have sent no mail from the account, not listed/used it ANYWHERE, and thus obviously haven't received any email... other than THREE spams.
If Hotmail isn't selling account data to spammers, I have absolutely no clue how I got those spams.
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In Canada I understand this to be untrue - ANYTHING with an address and put in a PostOffice Box MUST be delivered - no matter what it is. Im almost certain its federal law. This is why you can send mail without a stamp - it still gets delivered.
You're full of shit. I live in Toronto, and occasionally I've forgotten to put a stamp on an envelope. I get it back in my mailbox a day or so later with a big "Return To Sender" sticker on it with a transparent backing material. There's text on the label saying to put more/proper postage on the letter, peel the big sticker off (leaving the clear backing layer on the envelope), and remail it.
However, if you put YOUR address in the main "to" area, and THEIR address in the "from" area, put no postage on it, and drop it in a mailbox, it MIGHT get there, complete with the "Return To Sender" sticker, if the post office doesn't catch on. They sometimes assume that it mistakenly got that far in the system without a stamp, and promptly send it "back".
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