While it's nice to talk about all the cool things that can be done, they can't be done unless those who can do them actually want to do them. I have heard that the reason New Orleans didn't have redundant levees is purely political. Each levee has a separate managing board, and this situation is apparently part of the Louisana constitution. Nobody on the boards wants consolidation because they'd lose their cushy government position, and even then, it would still have to go to the voting booths in each parish.
The only shortcut I can see is for someone in DC to declare them an issue of "interstate commerce" (with some sort of excuse like that they are along navigable waterays) and take over management at a federal level.
All the science in the world won't help if fat-cat local government doesn't want things to change from the status quo.
I've got dozens of lines of ipfw firewall rules of which most block port 25 from China and Korea. My spam went down a lot when I did that. While there is some nation mixing of small IP blocks, APNIC is much better than their European or South American counterparts about allocating large blocks to the same country. It was a lot of work to build that list, but it was well worth it.
I'm not too worried about being hammered with 'sploits as TFA talks about, because I run Apache, but not PHP. And I run it on a non-x86 box. I might want to see what kind of crap is going on, but what matters most to me is the lack of spam.
So what about the Vectrex? This was a home gaming console that sold for a reasonable amount of money in the early eighties that used a vector display. And yes, if you tap a Vectrex' PCB in the correct places you can play Minestorm on an o-scope.
1. They're still rare as hell, which doesn't invalidate any of my arguments.
2. The Vectrex came quite late in the era, which also means nothing to the argument.
3. Now you're just trolling. I never commented on the validity of old computer games like spacewar. I just said his important contribution was that he was the first to make games that worked with common raster television sets that people already had. No matter what you may think, this is an important development. This is what made them home video games, and more importantly, this is what made them commercially viable.
What Ralph Baer invented wasn't games that would play on a CRT, or even on a computer (all of his earlier games were built out of discrete electronics). What he invented was games that would play on a regular television set.
Spacewar played on an oscilloscope, and to this day, very few households have oscilloscopes.
The list starts with the first egg in a game, the Warren Robinett room in Adventure.
Actually, two Channel F games had easter eggs in them before Adventure. But since almost nobody had the Channel F, they weren't discovered for years.
The Dot was definitely the first known easter egg, though. It was especially important that it was just easy enough to find (if you noticed the screen flickering when it shouldn't have been) that it could be found without disassembling the game code.
C'mon, there are plenty of other resources out there with content other than the five game sites in your bookmark list.
Have you ever bothered to submit one? There's this little link over there on the left side of your window that says "Submit Story". If you had even tried once and nobody accepted the story, then maybe you'd have an excuse to whine about it.
The difference is that until recently most famiclones have had Famicom cartridge slots, and all either had (usually pirate) games built in, or supplied on a cartridge, and they all used a DB-9 variant of the controller port.
This console and another one (the Yoby?) are the newest generation which are (for lack of a better word) "nesclones". Not only do they take genuine USA version NES carts, they also have genuine USA NES-style controller ports. This one is especially notable because of the case design. It's actually better than Nintendo's own redesign.
And there really isn't anything Nintendo can do about it. It doesn't violate any patents (they've expired), it doesn't violate any copyrights (the only copyrightable data in the NES console was in the lockout chip), and it doesn't seem to violate any trademarks (though the design is definitely an homage).
But for now, I'll stick with my SNES Tri-Star adapter. The only thing I don't get with it is genuine NES control ports, and I really should build an adapter so I can play Arkanoid properly.
I just left NASA TV running on my laptop while I slept. Every now and then I'd wake up and hear what was going on, and at some point, I could tell they weren't going to land, so I turned off the stream and went back to sleep.
I kind of wanted to see if I could see something of it as it re-entered. Here in Texas, it would probably already have passed the glowing heat shield stage before it was in view, but I wanted to try.
That's why I wish there were a scroll mouse with the scroll wheel on the left side under my thumb. Trying to manipulate the scroll wheel with my middle finger is most definitely not comfortable.
Sometimes when I'm doing a lot of scrolling and no pointer movement (like reading a long web page), I'll turn the mouse on its side and turn the wheel with my thumb.
Is this the same spirit of cooperation that caused Sony to refuse to put any music under its label into the Japanese iTunes store, and is also the primary reason there isn't yet an iTunes store for Australia?
Just checking.
One thing's for sure... if you tried to run OS X on a PS3, you'd find out why Apple decided not to come out with a Cell-based computer. The PPC implementation isn't all that hot, and the other cores won't help because they don't run PPC code.
I was only in high school at the time, but I remember drooling over that article. Again I drooled over the Jan (?) '84 Byte Magazine, and when there was a demo of the Mac a couple of months later at my university. I got one as soon as I could, a year later, and have been using Macs ever since. I leapfrogged the PC completely.
I got a link to this yesterday, and my main question was what the CPU speed was. It would be nice to have full-speed SNES emulation, which the 200MHz Dreamcast is not quite capable of. If it takes throwing part of the emulator (like the sound emulation) onto the other CPU, then great, as long as someone does it.
1 quarter (that's 1/4 of a year) with less profits is not plummeting.
How much of that is due to the R&D budget for Revolution?
Anyhow, I gotta admit that I haven't turned my GC on in over a year. I haven't had much time for console games in the past year, but I did find time for Katamari Damacy, and I've got at least one PS2 game that I want to play in the near future.
When I was at Best Buy the other day, I noticed that the new Zelda is in pre-order now. I didn't see any kind of pre-order bonus like the N64 Zelda games disc that came with WindWaker, though.
Basicly, it's about time Cisco implimented some form of DEP protection offered by current Intel and AMD processors + software, to prevent this from being an issue.
That's a nice thought, but most IOS platforms run on PowerPC, so what Intel and AMD have is rather irrelevant. (Not that PPC doesn't have something similar, of course.)
So I pull out of my driveway into the street, then the guys on the radio say "We're switching over to the shuttle coverage, it lifts off in one minute". I turned right around, went back inside the house, turned on the radio, then turned on the TV, all the while annoyed that I didn't realize it was a morning launch. By the time the TV warmed up, it was T+7 seconds. So I watched the ascent on TV (crystal clear digital television, by the way) while listening to the radio. Once it was part way up I switched to the TV audio.
Of course the ET sep on the TankCam[tm] was the best part.
Then later I got to see a replay of the launch, and noticed that you could see 39A from the TankCam[tm] shortly after liftoff. I knew what it looked like thanks to Google Maps.
When there's a subdirectory in the ~/Sites directory on OS X (say, the "images" directory), if I don't include a trailing slash ("http://site/images"), Mozilla says "www.*.com could not be found", but when I add the trailing slash ("http://site/images/") it works. WTF?
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The only shortcut I can see is for someone in DC to declare them an issue of "interstate commerce" (with some sort of excuse like that they are along navigable waterays) and take over management at a federal level.
All the science in the world won't help if fat-cat local government doesn't want things to change from the status quo.
I'm not too worried about being hammered with 'sploits as TFA talks about, because I run Apache, but not PHP. And I run it on a non-x86 box. I might want to see what kind of crap is going on, but what matters most to me is the lack of spam.
I don't think the problem here was children getting measles. Is measles one of the diseases that needs a booster shot at some point?
Then again, was it older or younger employees catching this? I could see Microsoft being full of 20-somethings.
1. They're still rare as hell, which doesn't invalidate any of my arguments.
2. The Vectrex came quite late in the era, which also means nothing to the argument.
3. Now you're just trolling. I never commented on the validity of old computer games like spacewar. I just said his important contribution was that he was the first to make games that worked with common raster television sets that people already had. No matter what you may think, this is an important development. This is what made them home video games, and more importantly, this is what made them commercially viable.
Spacewar played on an oscilloscope, and to this day, very few households have oscilloscopes.
Actually, two Channel F games had easter eggs in them before Adventure. But since almost nobody had the Channel F, they weren't discovered for years.
The Dot was definitely the first known easter egg, though. It was especially important that it was just easy enough to find (if you noticed the screen flickering when it shouldn't have been) that it could be found without disassembling the game code.
Have you ever bothered to submit one? There's this little link over there on the left side of your window that says "Submit Story". If you had even tried once and nobody accepted the story, then maybe you'd have an excuse to whine about it.
This console and another one (the Yoby?) are the newest generation which are (for lack of a better word) "nesclones". Not only do they take genuine USA version NES carts, they also have genuine USA NES-style controller ports. This one is especially notable because of the case design. It's actually better than Nintendo's own redesign.
And there really isn't anything Nintendo can do about it. It doesn't violate any patents (they've expired), it doesn't violate any copyrights (the only copyrightable data in the NES console was in the lockout chip), and it doesn't seem to violate any trademarks (though the design is definitely an homage).
But for now, I'll stick with my SNES Tri-Star adapter. The only thing I don't get with it is genuine NES control ports, and I really should build an adapter so I can play Arkanoid properly.
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And only if it's beowulf cluster of redundant, inexpensive bowls of hot grits.
I kind of wanted to see if I could see something of it as it re-entered. Here in Texas, it would probably already have passed the glowing heat shield stage before it was in view, but I wanted to try.
You forgot the part about the iTunes Music Store Japan/Australia debacle.
Sometimes when I'm doing a lot of scrolling and no pointer movement (like reading a long web page), I'll turn the mouse on its side and turn the wheel with my thumb.
Just checking.
One thing's for sure... if you tried to run OS X on a PS3, you'd find out why Apple decided not to come out with a Cell-based computer. The PPC implementation isn't all that hot, and the other cores won't help because they don't run PPC code.
(and don't forget Buck Henry)
Can I get paid a bonus for every bug I fix? (I'm gonna write myself a vacation to Hawaii!)
I was only in high school at the time, but I remember drooling over that article. Again I drooled over the Jan (?) '84 Byte Magazine, and when there was a demo of the Mac a couple of months later at my university. I got one as soon as I could, a year later, and have been using Macs ever since. I leapfrogged the PC completely.
I got a link to this yesterday, and my main question was what the CPU speed was. It would be nice to have full-speed SNES emulation, which the 200MHz Dreamcast is not quite capable of. If it takes throwing part of the emulator (like the sound emulation) onto the other CPU, then great, as long as someone does it.
How much of that is due to the R&D budget for Revolution?
Anyhow, I gotta admit that I haven't turned my GC on in over a year. I haven't had much time for console games in the past year, but I did find time for Katamari Damacy, and I've got at least one PS2 game that I want to play in the near future.
When I was at Best Buy the other day, I noticed that the new Zelda is in pre-order now. I didn't see any kind of pre-order bonus like the N64 Zelda games disc that came with WindWaker, though.
That's a nice thought, but most IOS platforms run on PowerPC, so what Intel and AMD have is rather irrelevant. (Not that PPC doesn't have something similar, of course.)
Of course the ET sep on the TankCam[tm] was the best part.
Then later I got to see a replay of the launch, and noticed that you could see 39A from the TankCam[tm] shortly after liftoff. I knew what it looked like thanks to Google Maps.
When there's a subdirectory in the ~/Sites directory on OS X (say, the "images" directory), if I don't include a trailing slash ("http://site/images"), Mozilla says "www.*.com could not be found", but when I add the trailing slash ("http://site/images/") it works. WTF?
I noticed the Japan maps last week (or was it two weeks ago?). I was wondering how long until someone mentioned it on Slashdot.
I'm just curious what the next country will be. I had a feeling Japan was next in line, but I'm not sure what would come next. Australia, maybe?
It's all a cover-up, I tell you! Everybody knows the moon is made of green cheese!
I'm more worried about where they hid the "H" than about the "C" and "A".