In one of the Madden games in the mid-90s (can't remember which -- think it was '96) I was able to block every field goal / extra point by picking a certain play in the 3-4 defensive set which would, for some reason, cause one of the linemen to directly plow through the line at the kicker...
They corrected that in the next Madden but then a new glitch was found in the onside kicking where you could recover your own onside kick about 80% of the time...
John Dvorak over at ABC News is starting to question if it's time to kill Word With Viable options like Open Office.org available for Windows as well as AbiWord and others. Since they are both using XML as a way to create the documents. Or perhaps dropping a separate application altogether and going with something like X Forms to create a browser based office suite.
I'm really confused. Is this summary in English?
First of all, the article doesn't actually mention openoffice.org or AbiWord at all.
However, I can't figure out if the person writing the summary was trying to say that or not, because the word "With" is capitalized, but there's no period after "...kill Word[.]"
The rest of the summary doesn't contain a single valid sentence.
I'm not trying to nitpick about grammar here -- I'd honestly like to know what the person writing the summary was trying to say, because it really has nothing to do with the article whatsoever.
All those music corporations are guilty of price fixing. They kept charging $15 dollars a CD even though the cost of the media kept falling. They could not have all done this on their own, they must have illegally acted in concert to keep prices high. Someone should start a class action lawsuit.
You're wrong. Select was most definitely not a part of the code. Get an emulator and check it out. If you want to do one player mode it's Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.
Imagine if you could control video games with just your hand movements, without having to hold a controller?
The video game industry would never be the same again.
Verizon customer support sucks. They are very prone to making billing "errors" (always in their favor, of course) and you have to jump through about a million hoops to get them fixed.
My girlfriend had a charge that shouldn't have been on her bill. Called Verizon CS - they admitted it was their error and said they would credit the next bill. Next bill came - no credit. Called again - they said oops, we made a mistake again and would put a credit on the next bill again.
Next bill came - still no credit. Called and they said they had no record of any previous phone calls and no knowledge that she was supposed to have been issued any credit whatsoever, but this time they would REALLY give a credit. This time she got the person's name that she spoke to.
Next bill came - still no credit. By now she's getting hit with extra fees for not paying the previous "error" amount owed. Called and they again denied knowledge that she was owed a credit. When she gave the name of the person she spoke to was told that they didn't have anyone by that name there but since they have a large # of call centers it could be someone from another call center.
She ended up paying the bill out of sheer frustration, then switching to T-Mobile as soon as the contract was up. I plan on switching to them as soon as my own contract with Verizon is up.
People who are saying there is no market for these things are people that take their extra space for granted. I live in a very small one bedroom apartment. I have no room to have multiple desktop machines. However, being a computer geek, having more than one computer is an absolute necessity. Given the choice between having 1 desktop or 4-5 laptops in the same amount of space, I'll take the 4-5 laptops.
A laptop like this is ideal for me - I can finally have a relatively high powered machine and actually play some of the newer games out there instead of having to find the games that are 3 years old because that's the most my laptops can handle...
Look at America! Are people are some of the least education in the modern world. People laugh at how simple our education is. How is that possible if we have the largest free library system in the world? Because we don't care to learn.
You've proven your own point quite well here. "Are people are..."
I'll talk on the phone in the car while I'm driving, but I tell people "hold on" when I need to do anything requiring full concentration (change lanes, turn, etc)...
The housing situation is bad enough in Rhode Island without adding another 20k people to the mix. It's nearly impossible to find any place to live that's not ridiculously expensive in this state...
What's really sad is that it's been over 12 hours since this article was posted, your comment was at the top of the page on the "list highest rated comments first" mode, and yet the typos have not been fixed yet...
have you tried any ABX tests using the LAME encoder? I've done some of my own, and I have pretty sensitive hearing for this stuff, and I have been unable to ABX any samples encoded with lame --alt-preset standard. Although, this testing was done with a $100 pair of headphones, so perhaps your equipment is better than mine - I'd be curious if you could try a test using lame --alt-preset standard and see if you can hear a difference in an ABX test.
Not bad for a white guy, but there are some asian kids at my local arcade that put this guy to shame. There's some mode you can select where one player has to dance across both sets of pads, and it's just insane...
The other problem with this type of copy protection is that you can't make backups of the CD in case you lose the original.
I'm a very disorganized person, so I usually make backup copies of ALL my cd's that I use regularly, storing the originals all in one location where I can refer back to them if I ever need them.
However, with recent games that have been released, this is impossible because I can't burn copies. Almost makes me want to just go out and get the "warez" version instead of buying a legitimate copy.
I usually buy legit copies of games, but probably won't any more if they include this sort of copy protection.
If he/she was referring to one of the Malaysian VCD sites, then the movie wasn't stolen at all, since the studios authorize those VCD copies and they're perfectly legit.
Oh yeah, you da man. Insult that slashdot user! Justify all the idiot slashdot poster stereotypes! I worship you like a god!
If you watch a Super35 film dual-composed in this matter, you will notice additional information at the left and right sides on the letterboxed format exhibition, or additional information at the top and bottom sides on the 4:3 format exhibition.
Damn you! Now I'm going to have to buy *three* copies of this DVD instead of two. (4:3 theatrical, 16:9 theatrical, and the November "extra footage" release...)
But inflation measures the overall valuation of a dollar so that prices of things can be compared through different times. $5.50 in 1982 is still $10 in 2002 even if computer prices have not exactly followed suit. So a Sinclair really was about $280 in today's dollars at its inception.
Besides, you weren't using the Sinclair's price in 1982 to calculate your inflation rate - you used the price of a car, which has nothing to do with anything. I might as well calculate "inflation" by using just the price of a pound of oranges.
I agree that the Netscape 4.x people make no sense. One of the people who works next to me in tech support refuses to use Mozilla and stays with Netscape 4.x even though I've installed Mozilla on his machine for him and imported all his netscape stuff! I also showed him how he can set up Mozilla to block popups, etc, so you'd think that people would see the obvious, especially those working in the computer industry...
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I've played both. I like Madden better.
In one of the Madden games in the mid-90s (can't remember which -- think it was '96) I was able to block every field goal / extra point by picking a certain play in the 3-4 defensive set which would, for some reason, cause one of the linemen to directly plow through the line at the kicker...
They corrected that in the next Madden but then a new glitch was found in the onside kicking where you could recover your own onside kick about 80% of the time...
John Dvorak over at ABC News is starting to question if it's time to kill Word With Viable options like Open Office.org available for Windows as well as AbiWord and others. Since they are both using XML as a way to create the documents. Or perhaps dropping a separate application altogether and going with something like X Forms to create a browser based office suite.
I'm really confused. Is this summary in English?
First of all, the article doesn't actually mention openoffice.org or AbiWord at all.
However, I can't figure out if the person writing the summary was trying to say that or not, because the word "With" is capitalized, but there's no period after "...kill Word[.]"
The rest of the summary doesn't contain a single valid sentence.
I'm not trying to nitpick about grammar here -- I'd honestly like to know what the person writing the summary was trying to say, because it really has nothing to do with the article whatsoever.
All those music corporations are guilty of price fixing. They kept charging $15 dollars a CD even though the cost of the media kept falling. They could not have all done this on their own, they must have illegally acted in concert to keep prices high. Someone should start a class action lawsuit.
Umm, you do know that this already happened, right?
You're wrong. Select was most definitely not a part of the code. Get an emulator and check it out. If you want to do one player mode it's Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.
Imagine if you could control video games with just your hand movements, without having to hold a controller? The video game industry would never be the same again.
Verizon customer support sucks. They are very prone to making billing "errors" (always in their favor, of course) and you have to jump through about a million hoops to get them fixed.
My girlfriend had a charge that shouldn't have been on her bill. Called Verizon CS - they admitted it was their error and said they would credit the next bill. Next bill came - no credit. Called again - they said oops, we made a mistake again and would put a credit on the next bill again.
Next bill came - still no credit. Called and they said they had no record of any previous phone calls and no knowledge that she was supposed to have been issued any credit whatsoever, but this time they would REALLY give a credit. This time she got the person's name that she spoke to.
Next bill came - still no credit. By now she's getting hit with extra fees for not paying the previous "error" amount owed. Called and they again denied knowledge that she was owed a credit. When she gave the name of the person she spoke to was told that they didn't have anyone by that name there but since they have a large # of call centers it could be someone from another call center.
She ended up paying the bill out of sheer frustration, then switching to T-Mobile as soon as the contract was up. I plan on switching to them as soon as my own contract with Verizon is up.
People who are saying there is no market for these things are people that take their extra space for granted. I live in a very small one bedroom apartment. I have no room to have multiple desktop machines. However, being a computer geek, having more than one computer is an absolute necessity. Given the choice between having 1 desktop or 4-5 laptops in the same amount of space, I'll take the 4-5 laptops.
A laptop like this is ideal for me - I can finally have a relatively high powered machine and actually play some of the newer games out there instead of having to find the games that are 3 years old because that's the most my laptops can handle...
What about games like Snood?
Look at America! Are people are some of the least education in the modern world. People laugh at how simple our education is. How is that possible if we have the largest free library system in the world? Because we don't care to learn.
You've proven your own point quite well here. "Are people are..."
I'd be thrilled to be making $30-$40k a year right now.
I'll talk on the phone in the car while I'm driving, but I tell people "hold on" when I need to do anything requiring full concentration (change lanes, turn, etc)...
The only people that get "factored in" are the Neilsen families:
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/FAQ/ratings.html#How do you figure out the ratings?
The housing situation is bad enough in Rhode Island without adding another 20k people to the mix. It's nearly impossible to find any place to live that's not ridiculously expensive in this state...
What's really sad is that it's been over 12 hours since this article was posted, your comment was at the top of the page on the "list highest rated comments first" mode, and yet the typos have not been fixed yet...
have you tried any ABX tests using the LAME encoder? I've done some of my own, and I have pretty sensitive hearing for this stuff, and I have been unable to ABX any samples encoded with lame --alt-preset standard. Although, this testing was done with a $100 pair of headphones, so perhaps your equipment is better than mine - I'd be curious if you could try a test using lame --alt-preset standard and see if you can hear a difference in an ABX test.
Not bad for a white guy, but there are some asian kids at my local arcade that put this guy to shame. There's some mode you can select where one player has to dance across both sets of pads, and it's just insane...
Did you forget about the part where Personal Telco was there first? Why should it be their responsibility to change frequencies?
Hopefully people will be able to compromise and wait until January to see the films.
Why not just wait until January to have the boycott?
The other problem with this type of copy protection is that you can't make backups of the CD in case you lose the original.
I'm a very disorganized person, so I usually make backup copies of ALL my cd's that I use regularly, storing the originals all in one location where I can refer back to them if I ever need them.
However, with recent games that have been released, this is impossible because I can't burn copies. Almost makes me want to just go out and get the "warez" version instead of buying a legitimate copy.
I usually buy legit copies of games, but probably won't any more if they include this sort of copy protection.
If he/she was referring to one of the Malaysian VCD sites, then the movie wasn't stolen at all, since the studios authorize those VCD copies and they're perfectly legit.
Oh yeah, you da man. Insult that slashdot user! Justify all the idiot slashdot poster stereotypes! I worship you like a god!
If you watch a Super35 film dual-composed in this matter, you will notice additional information at the left and right sides on the letterboxed format exhibition, or additional information at the top and bottom sides on the 4:3 format exhibition. Damn you! Now I'm going to have to buy *three* copies of this DVD instead of two. (4:3 theatrical, 16:9 theatrical, and the November "extra footage" release...)
The punk's eyes widened as he realized there was no way to save the queen in his position.
Wow, you got to play with queens? By the time I got into chess, queens had already been banned from tournament play for being "too powerful".
But inflation measures the overall valuation of a dollar so that prices of things can be compared through different times. $5.50 in 1982 is still $10 in 2002 even if computer prices have not exactly followed suit. So a Sinclair really was about $280 in today's dollars at its inception.
Besides, you weren't using the Sinclair's price in 1982 to calculate your inflation rate - you used the price of a car, which has nothing to do with anything. I might as well calculate "inflation" by using just the price of a pound of oranges.
I agree that the Netscape 4.x people make no sense. One of the people who works next to me in tech support refuses to use Mozilla and stays with Netscape 4.x even though I've installed Mozilla on his machine for him and imported all his netscape stuff! I also showed him how he can set up Mozilla to block popups, etc, so you'd think that people would see the obvious, especially those working in the computer industry...