I saw an HP logic analyzer with 128 pens back in the 90's. Makes hacking a DirectTV system to give you all channels all the time. Since you dont touch the little credit card which is owned by your provider, its totally legal.
At least recycling does not invovle filling a landfill. Useing new growth for pulp means the old paper was probably thrown away, into a landfill. Landfills really are bad in one way, NO ONE wants them in their county. It is almost impossible to open one now.
Tell that to the scores of rabbits and squirrels I have legally taken with my.22 pistol. Or the 3 deer I have harvested with my.357 revolver. The longest was at 75 yards, in thick brush. All of the deer took less than 5 steps before expiring.
Handguns are quite effective on CXP2 game within 100 yards. And most everything in North America is CXP2. CXP3 game should not be tried with (most) handguns, because most likely you will die. If you can handle the recoil of.45-70 or.308 from a revolver, go for it.
Now a 9mm, 40S&W, 45ACP handgun is not a hunting handgun. They are defensive guns. They do not drop CXP2 game in their tracks. Thay are meant to stop CXP2 game. Since humans fall in the CXP2 size class, you could say the primary use is to stop a human. That use could be good or bad, depending on the user. If you hunt CXP1 game, these are fine hunting weapons though.
ANY gun, from resivoir pump airguns to high power.50 BMG can kill effectivly, its all about bullet placement.
If you want to complain about something, ask why a varmint grade bullet is used as the primary weapon of the US. the.223 Remington/5.56 NATO ( I know the actual bullet is not the same, but very very close ) was designed to drop prairie dogs (CXP1). It does not drop humans, but stops them, and does it with very very nasty maiming wounds.
Gen 1 - Magnavox Odyssey (Pong) 1971 Gen 2 - Atari 2600 1977 Gen 3 - Nintendo 1985 Gen 4 - Super Nintendo/Sega/PS1(stillborn) 1993 Gen 5 - PSX 1995 Gen 6 - Xbox/PS2 2000 Gen 7 - Xbox360/PS3
PC Gens
Gen 1 - Apple II 1977 Gen 2 - IBM PC EGA/C64 1983 Gen 3 - IBM PC VGA 1987 Gen 4 - Clone PC VGA/SoundBlaster/CD 1990 Gen 5 - Clone PC Voodoo 1996
PC's have gotten much faster since 1996, but nothing truely NEW has come about since then. The same can be said of consoles since 1995, faster, evolutionary, but nothing revolutionary.
I was actually thinking that the market of today resembles the market of the mid 80's. Games came in a few varieties. C64/PC/NES. Modern games are PC/Xbox/PS2. Back in the 80's the C64 RULED and the NES came along and killed it. But the PC survived. Heck my PC can play games from every console/PC on that list, except for the last gen, as the emulators aren't done/fast enough yet.
The Xbox360 and PS3 could become what the C64 was, if the companies play their cards right.
Quake II is number 30 on that list. Not bad for a FPS that is 8 years old (1997). Still looks pretty good for its age. I play it on an AthlonXP clocked at 219x11, Nvidia 5900XT, 1600x1200 rez at 160fps!! My original box was a AMD K6-2 at 83x3.5 with Voodoo II power, 640x480 at 40 fps.
Do PS1 games get a performance increase on new hardware?
The new ps3 and xbox360 might approach what the C64 was, IF they open development up and give it a KB, mouse, and a DVI output. Maybe IBM has a trick up their sleeve, would be cool if they released the IBM PS/3 that just happened to play xbox360 and ps3 games, and ran linux.
Thinking about it, the numpad/inverted T layout was designed pre mouse. It's currently nice for lefty mousers. Righties could use a Model M with the numpad/inverted T moved the left side of the keyboard.
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I have used IBM PC XT/AT/PS2 style keyboards since they came out in the early 80's. I learned to overclock on a 80286 in 1986. I built my 386 out of Computer Shopper. I like to think my hardware is pretty up to date, as an avid gamer.
Yet every PC I have with a XT/AT/PS2/USB/NuBus/Serial keyboard port boasts a IBM Model M. Amazing that a keyboard manufactured on 8-20-1986 is still my favorite.
Best Keyboard Ever.
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You mean like one of the 15 IBM Model M's that I have and will only give up when it is pried from my cold dead fingers? Then ones that have survived many bouts with beer, soda, coffee, ashtrays, and other unfriendly substances.
I still want a Model M with the function keys on the left, that might be weird.
What I was trying to say is that a modern player placed in a 1920's batting box with no helmet, no arm protection, and a bat from the era would be no more or less dominant than that player is today.
I am a die hard Cards fan, and will be till the day I die.
I believe Canseco is telling the truth for the most part. As in steriods, HGH, AMP's and other drugs are a problem. He's probably exaggerating a bit on the whom's and when's, but thats not really the point. There is a problem with baseball and it needs fixed.
I disagree that a modern player will dominate a player from the 20's and such. There have been a few MAJOR changes that everyone seems to forget.
1 - Batting Helmets 2 - Arm Protection 3 - Mound Lowered 4 - Smaller Parks (debatable)
Remove all the armor and raise the mound back up, how many home runs does a modern slugger hit? Put armor on Musial, Hornsby, Ruth, Williams, or any of the old greats and drop them in a modern park with a lowered mound, and they will do better.
Most likely a great from the past will be a great in modern times, and vice-versa. Bob Gibson would have owned Ruth and such. He put fear into guys WITH batting helmets.
Baseball needs to be cleaned up.
For those who don't know the game, it's really a lot like cricket in many ways.
I used to work for a company that developed a settop box/atm over T1 solution. It was basically an on demand movie system providing video content at 1.5 Mbps. This was 1995-97. I'm sure that by now the engineers I worked with can cram DVD grade video over 768 Kbps, with HDTV in the 1.5 Mbps.
Alcatel funded this project, and had a test system of about 30k subscribers in the DC area, and a few buildings in Singapore outfitted with it. Tested and working in 1997, just too expensive.
They are just waiting for cheap bandwidth to roll it out.
I noticed that I've seen most of these arguments before, back in the day.
PC-C64-Nintendo or PC-Amiga or PC-Mac
hmm, why is the PC still in the argument? Cause I can now play all of my old C64-Nintendo-Amiga games on it. I know when the Super Nintendo was big, I wanted to buy a game for it. Rented every game at the vid store, beat em all rather quickly, they did not seem to have a challenge. Off to the computerstore at the mall, and there was a shelf with all the SNES games, and a shelf of Tie-Fighter with a Gravis Joystick. I sold my SNES to the store 2 weeks later for the TF expansion.
Here is a link to the Lightning Strike plugin to allow you to view the differences yourself. Its a Netscape/MSWin only plugin (sorry) but they have a nice comparison you can see for yourself. You can save the image as a compressed wavelet or a bmp file. You can then manipulate the bmp however you want to see how close you can get. When I was compressing I was really interested in lossless only, so a JPG could get down to 50k and look good, but lossy. I haven't found a plugin for other OS's, but there is plenty of info/source algorithms out there. There is probably enough info to write a lib to display wavelet compressed images.
I'm really not blowing smoke about this, the compression is amazing. If you can't get the plugin to work I could send you the resultant BMP so you could play with it.
The image was very complex, and set up in a way that normal compression shows artifacts quickly. It was not meant to show the weakness of JPG, but the strength of wavelet. Whenever I did try to compress the image to less than about 800k the resulting image would produce artifacts. I am no expert in all the finer details, but any artifacts are murder when it comes to compressed video. The 10k wavelet image had no artifacts. It is very easy to see artifacts in DVD video once you see them for the first time. Look at the costumes in Oklahoma or the sky in Total Recall. Or try any scene where something moves very fast. Artifact city on DVD. I'm not knocking DVD, it's way better than tape, but it does have limits that are easy to notice. When you compress a DVD you have an absolute limit on bitrate. I guess a better example would have been to compress it to 10k wavelet from the TIFF and then to recreate the TIFF and then to compare the two TIFF's for differences.
Using wavelet compression to bring the bitrate of audio and video down the 700kbps synchronous is amazing. A movie compressed using wavelet was about 1.25 gig/hour compared to 8-9(?)gig for DVD, and DVD can't do HDTV quality!
I worked for a company building set top boxes that used wavelet. They were able to compress HDTV quality, synchronous video down to 750 kilobit. A proprietary ALTERA chip was used to encode and decode the video realtime. The decoder chip is like $40 US, so an decoder should be about $150. The encoder was about $300 per chip. ALTERA makes a engineering sample ISA board you can run that is wonderful. ALTERA is very good at practically giving away engr samples. I remember the engineers saying the the ALTERA chip was really a 68040 class processor running at 40 MHz, so a modern processor should be able to keep up.
I remember looking at 1MB TIFF file that was a picture of a models face. Lots of colorful makeup, colored background, and wispy hair. I could get a decent JPG to 800k, but wavelet looked as good as the original at 10k. These guys aren't lying when they make their quality claims.
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I had it on my 286. It came from Z-Soft (I think) and was included with the MS Mouse. It's a freaking demo app for a mouse!!!! No windows needed.
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Makes hacking a DirectTV system to give you all channels all the time EASY.
I saw an HP logic analyzer with 128 pens back in the 90's. Makes hacking a DirectTV system to give you all channels all the time. Since you dont touch the little credit card which is owned by your provider, its totally legal.
At least recycling does not invovle filling a landfill. Useing new growth for pulp means the old paper was probably thrown away, into a landfill. Landfills really are bad in one way, NO ONE wants them in their county. It is almost impossible to open one now.
As long as it was made before 1986.
.378 Weatherby owie. .300 Weatherby 3 times before the flinch sets in. I'll bet the .378 wakes you up.
I can only fire my brothers
Tell that to the scores of rabbits and squirrels I have legally taken with my .22 pistol. Or the 3 deer I have harvested with my .357 revolver. The longest was at 75 yards, in thick brush. All of the deer took less than 5 steps before expiring.
.45-70 or .308 from a revolver, go for it.
.50 BMG can kill effectivly, its all about bullet placement.
.223 Remington/5.56 NATO ( I know the actual bullet is not the same, but very very close ) was designed to drop prairie dogs (CXP1). It does not drop humans, but stops them, and does it with very very nasty maiming wounds.
Handguns are quite effective on CXP2 game within 100 yards. And most everything in North America is CXP2. CXP3 game should not be tried with (most) handguns, because most likely you will die. If you can handle the recoil of
Now a 9mm, 40S&W, 45ACP handgun is not a hunting handgun. They are defensive guns. They do not drop CXP2 game in their tracks. Thay are meant to stop CXP2 game. Since humans fall in the CXP2 size class, you could say the primary use is to stop a human. That use could be good or bad, depending on the user. If you hunt CXP1 game, these are fine hunting weapons though.
ANY gun, from resivoir pump airguns to high power
If you want to complain about something, ask why a varmint grade bullet is used as the primary weapon of the US. the
A $1000 lcd projector will give you a giganto widescreen on your computer.
You know that intel still sells the 80386 computer, for like 5 bucks in quantity? Not bad for a computer that was originally like 12 grand.
Forgot this, all PC's since the early 80's have been able to network in some manner. Midi for the C64, Ethernet for the PC.
All PC's have been able to use modems since they came into existance.
Console Gens
Gen 1 - Magnavox Odyssey (Pong) 1971
Gen 2 - Atari 2600 1977
Gen 3 - Nintendo 1985
Gen 4 - Super Nintendo/Sega/PS1(stillborn) 1993
Gen 5 - PSX 1995
Gen 6 - Xbox/PS2 2000
Gen 7 - Xbox360/PS3
PC Gens
Gen 1 - Apple II 1977
Gen 2 - IBM PC EGA/C64 1983
Gen 3 - IBM PC VGA 1987
Gen 4 - Clone PC VGA/SoundBlaster/CD 1990
Gen 5 - Clone PC Voodoo 1996
PC's have gotten much faster since 1996, but nothing truely NEW has come about since then. The same can be said of consoles since 1995, faster, evolutionary, but nothing revolutionary.
I was actually thinking that the market of today resembles the market of the mid 80's. Games came in a few varieties. C64/PC/NES. Modern games are PC/Xbox/PS2. Back in the 80's the C64 RULED and the NES came along and killed it. But the PC survived. Heck my PC can play games from every console/PC on that list, except for the last gen, as the emulators aren't done/fast enough yet.
The Xbox360 and PS3 could become what the C64 was, if the companies play their cards right.
Sounds good to me.
Quake II is number 30 on that list. Not bad for a FPS that is 8 years old (1997). Still looks pretty good for its age. I play it on an AthlonXP clocked at 219x11, Nvidia 5900XT, 1600x1200 rez at 160fps!!
My original box was a AMD K6-2 at 83x3.5 with Voodoo II power, 640x480 at 40 fps.
Do PS1 games get a performance increase on new hardware?
The new ps3 and xbox360 might approach what the C64 was, IF they open development up and give it a KB, mouse, and a DVI output. Maybe IBM has a trick up their sleeve, would be cool if they released the IBM PS/3 that just happened to play xbox360 and ps3 games, and ran linux.
Now that would kill everything else.
Thinking about it, the numpad/inverted T layout was designed pre mouse. It's currently nice for lefty mousers. Righties could use a Model M with the numpad/inverted T moved the left side of the keyboard.
I have used IBM PC XT/AT/PS2 style keyboards since they came out in the early 80's. I learned to overclock on a 80286 in 1986. I built my 386 out of Computer Shopper. I like to think my hardware is pretty up to date, as an avid gamer.
Yet every PC I have with a XT/AT/PS2/USB/NuBus/Serial keyboard port boasts a IBM Model M. Amazing that a keyboard manufactured on 8-20-1986 is still my favorite.
Best Keyboard Ever.
You mean like one of the 15 IBM Model M's that I have and will only give up when it is pried from my cold dead fingers? Then ones that have survived many bouts with beer, soda, coffee, ashtrays, and other unfriendly substances.
I still want a Model M with the function keys on the left, that might be weird.
What I was trying to say is that a modern player placed in a 1920's batting box with no helmet, no arm protection, and a bat from the era would be no more or less dominant than that player is today.
I am a die hard Cards fan, and will be till the day I die.
I believe Canseco is telling the truth for the most part. As in steriods, HGH, AMP's and other drugs are a problem. He's probably exaggerating a bit on the whom's and when's, but thats not really the point. There is a problem with baseball and it needs fixed.
I disagree that a modern player will dominate a player from the 20's and such. There have been a few MAJOR changes that everyone seems to forget.
1 - Batting Helmets
2 - Arm Protection
3 - Mound Lowered
4 - Smaller Parks (debatable)
Remove all the armor and raise the mound back up, how many home runs does a modern slugger hit? Put armor on Musial, Hornsby, Ruth, Williams, or any of the old greats and drop them in a modern park with a lowered mound, and they will do better.
Most likely a great from the past will be a great in modern times, and vice-versa. Bob Gibson would have owned Ruth and such. He put fear into guys WITH batting helmets.
Baseball needs to be cleaned up.
For those who don't know the game, it's really a lot like cricket in many ways.
I used to work for a company that developed a settop box/atm over T1 solution. It was basically an on demand movie system providing video content at 1.5 Mbps. This was 1995-97. I'm sure that by now the engineers I worked with can cram DVD grade video over 768 Kbps, with HDTV in the 1.5 Mbps.
Alcatel funded this project, and had a test system of about 30k subscribers in the DC area, and a few buildings in Singapore outfitted with it. Tested and working in 1997, just too expensive.
They are just waiting for cheap bandwidth to roll it out.
I noticed that I've seen most of these arguments before, back in the day.
PC-C64-Nintendo
or
PC-Amiga
or
PC-Mac
hmm, why is the PC still in the argument? Cause I can now play all of my old C64-Nintendo-Amiga games on it. I know when the Super Nintendo was big, I wanted to buy a game for it. Rented every game at the vid store, beat em all rather quickly, they did not seem to have a challenge. Off to the computerstore at the mall, and there was a shelf with all the SNES games, and a shelf of Tie-Fighter with a Gravis Joystick. I sold my SNES to the store 2 weeks later for the TF expansion.
Damn, thought I was cool with my TurboColor Station.
I'm really not blowing smoke about this, the compression is amazing. If you can't get the plugin to work I could send you the resultant BMP so you could play with it.
The image was very complex, and set up in a way that normal compression shows artifacts quickly. It was not meant to show the weakness of JPG, but the strength of wavelet. Whenever I did try to compress the image to less than about 800k the resulting image would produce artifacts. I am no expert in all the finer details, but any artifacts are murder when it comes to compressed video. The 10k wavelet image had no artifacts. It is very easy to see artifacts in DVD video once you see them for the first time. Look at the costumes in Oklahoma or the sky in Total Recall. Or try any scene where something moves very fast. Artifact city on DVD. I'm not knocking DVD, it's way better than tape, but it does have limits that are easy to notice. When you compress a DVD you have an absolute limit on bitrate. I guess a better example would have been to compress it to 10k wavelet from the TIFF and then to recreate the TIFF and then to compare the two TIFF's for differences.
Using wavelet compression to bring the bitrate of audio and video down the 700kbps synchronous is amazing. A movie compressed using wavelet was about 1.25 gig/hour compared to 8-9(?)gig for DVD, and DVD can't do HDTV quality!
I remember looking at 1MB TIFF file that was a picture of a models face. Lots of colorful makeup, colored background, and wispy hair. I could get a decent JPG to 800k, but wavelet looked as good as the original at 10k. These guys aren't lying when they make their quality claims.