All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
My brain stores exactly 78 Terabytes of information.
10Kb of which is actually usefull.
It's amazing the stuff my brain keeps, like I can remember every stinking extra life mushroom in Super Mario Brothers. I can remember every single line to every Monty Python movie, every Mel Brooks movie, and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I know all the cheat codes for Doom (IDDQD, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD, etc.), and the Konami code (up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,select, start), and the ever popular Blood code for Genesis Mortal Kombat (ABACABB). And speaking of Mortal Kombat, I know every single fatality in MK 1,2 and 3 (never bothered to play 4). I know about 900,000 jokes (mostly dirty). I can sing every Wierd Al song, and recogonize within 4 seconds any Pink Floyd song that comes along. I can identify within 2 years any Volkswagon Beetle, Corvette or Porche 911. I know how to program the computer to say "Hello World" in 900 languages.
And I -THINK- My son's birthday is 11/7... have to call my wife on that one.
Elephants have a bigger brain than einstien, but yet, they didn't come up with the theory of relativity (crock of crap).
Then again who knows what an elephant is thinking. I mean, sure, they're all pretending to be naturally placid creatures... whose natural habitat is the Circus... but what if, what if Elephants have already figured out the Theory of Everything? They are just biding their time to get back at us for all the stupid elephant things we have done in the past. (Baby Elephant Walk, Dumbo, The Elephant Man, Gary Larson)
I bet they have trunk mounted particle beam weapons as we speak. And flying cars. Big cars. Lord save us if we ever see a squadron of flying elephants....
There are black helicopters hovering RIGHT NOW somewhere in California. The DEATH CAMPS all around America are preparing for the NWO.
WE WILL EXTERMINATE MICROSOFT, TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A STRONGER UNITY
The fastest way to create a bond amoung the lower people is to foster a common hatred. The middle and lower classes already have a hatred for the rich. Microsoft == Rich, everyone knows that. They want us to ally ourselves with our champions, AOL-Netscape-Sun, so that they may lead us into a new era!
We must STOP THIS MADNESS!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!
They have decided that the world has 60 million too many people!! You know who these people are: Jaques Cousteau, Ted Turner and Henry Kissenger!
They want to KILL 60 million people to fit their plan for america!!!
I swear! WITH BLACK HELICOPTERS!!! Look in the SKY!! CAN'T YOU SEE THEM??? Its the NWO! And I don't mean wrestling!!!!
Just how do they plan on prosecuting anyone for Spam when this company has not incurred any damages for the spam, the user or the owner of the original server did...
The trouble is that we have a for profit business controlling something that was set up to be a non-profit organization. The lines have been blurred, especially since Network Solutions hijacked 'www.internic.net'.
Its about time we open up the whois database and let the world run it's own nameservers, instead of just "Network Solutions"
Build a bigger hard drive and the world will build bigger files. Soon we'll all be complaining about how our new 1.2 TB drive is all filled up and there's nothing we want to delete.
*begin nostalgic music
I remember when I got my first 150 meg hard drive. Almost 4x larger than my 40 megger. "I'll never fill that up! " I foolishly said as I pulled it from the box, carelessly tossing aside the $500 invoice. That hard drive is still running today in that old 386... ESDI was the great new technoligy NEC had said....
*end nostalgic music
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Actually,
For workstations in the corporate environment I prefer NT workstations to anything else availible. It's easier to hire some Joe Schmoe off the street who knows his way around the NT interface than it is to find someone who knows one of the 30 different X windows interfaces we have out there.
I say, Unix for backoffice, NT for workstations. Lock them down and chain the users to their desks. Choice is bad. Conformity is good! Resistance is Futile! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTER...
Linux was at Fall Comdex '96 (Las Vegas)... you just had to look hard enough. I remember back then walking by some company trying to sell a set top web surfing box running netscape and going, "Hey isn't that thing running linux?" To which the engineer's eyes lit up like a 4 year old at Christmas and he started to show me how he rigged everything to run from a EPROM setup and how it was timed to work with the TV and everything.
This is the same old story which has been rehashed over and over and over again.
"OH NO! Big bad MUSIC industry won't let us have MP3!"
Just how are they going to stop music from being pirated? I say if they figure that one out, they deserve a big hand, since the Computer Industry has miserably failed at stopping software piracy.
Wow, I'm impressed that your PowerMac G3/400 can run a game intended for a 33Mhz system.
TV's resolution is a bit higher than 320x240, as a point you should remember that the playstation games are designed to be used with a TV and not a computer monitor. The games are fine tuned to look good on a TV, and sometimes they blur images just so they look good on a TV.
It's like using any emulator on your PC, the games seem to look better if they are on a TV simply because thats what they were designed to work with. Heck, Look at zSnes, a popular Super Nintendo Emulator, it has a mode where it blurs the pixels for you, otherwise the games look too crisp. I doubt the Virtual Game Thingy has a blurred mode since it would take precious CPU time...
But hey, if emulating playstation games on your Macintosh makes you happy, by all means, go right ahead, nobody's gonna stop you. But it is not, by any measure, a Macintosh "First", and given the games list on that website, niether is it a Macintosh "Best".
I'd be interested in comparing the performance/price for emulator on PC vs. Macintosh, my current PC costs about $900 to build and with it's 3dfx voodoo2 card emulates the Playstation pretty nicely, though I only loaded one game, just to see if I could. I much prefer playing Gran Turismo on my real playstation using the Dual Shock controller....
The reality of it is, the emulator is NOT perfect, according to their own website. It will not play all the games on the market, on top of which you have to own a playstation to begin with, and legally you can't use the playstation AND the emulator at the same time.
What I see happening is a lot of illegal downloads of the playstation BIOS rom, coupled with illegal downloads of the Emulator itself. Possibly a lawsuit against the company for making the emulator isn't far behind... although since I am not a lawyer I don't fully understand copyright law, and how it would apply.
PSEmu, unlike this project, was run by a guy in his spare time, more or less just to see if he could do it. No one makes any money off of it and it never once has claimed to be anything other than a pet project by some college student.
As far as your comments about using VPC emulation I'm very happy you've found something you can use. Though if you're using a SCSI CD-Rom you're using hardware technology that's much older than a decade. I guess it never hurts to have old standards huh?
Oh, and none of the games I've ever played take 5 minutes to load up. Gran Turismo (a game that the emulator claims to run) only takes about 20 seconds on my playstation to load. I would like to find out how long it would actually take to load on this emulator, and how well it plays. Is it really going to be worth the loss in framerate due to the emulation? Or the fact that most monitors aren't nearly the size of a TV? (You can spend $1300 on a 21" monitor or the same on a 56" TV, and yes resolution is better on a montior, but we're talking a GAME console here)
As far as AppleInsider is concerned, the Connectix PlayStation emulator for Macintosh G3 systems is no longer just a rumor. According to extremely reliable sources, the emulator will formally be announced tomorrow morning at Steve Jobs' keynote address and will go by the name Connectix Virtual Game Station. "For $49.95 Macintosh G3 owners can run any Sony PlayStation game right out of the box, with no additional hardware, just the emulator!"
$50? For an emulator where the actual Sony Playstation is only about $99 USD depending on where you buy it?
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And what did the romans ever do for us?!
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
My brain stores exactly 78 Terabytes of information.
, start), and the ever popular Blood code for Genesis Mortal Kombat (ABACABB). And speaking of Mortal Kombat, I know every single fatality in MK 1,2 and 3 (never bothered to play 4). I know about 900,000 jokes (mostly dirty). I can sing every Wierd Al song, and recogonize within 4 seconds any Pink Floyd song that comes along. I can identify within 2 years any Volkswagon Beetle, Corvette or Porche 911. I know how to program the computer to say "Hello World" in 900 languages.
... have to call my wife on that one.
10Kb of which is actually usefull.
It's amazing the stuff my brain keeps, like I can remember every stinking extra life mushroom in Super Mario Brothers. I can remember every single line to every Monty Python movie, every Mel Brooks movie, and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I know all the cheat codes for Doom (IDDQD, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD, etc.), and the Konami code (up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,select
And I -THINK- My son's birthday is 11/7
Elephants have a bigger brain than einstien, but yet, they didn't come up with the theory of relativity (crock of crap).
Then again who knows what an elephant is thinking. I mean, sure, they're all pretending to be naturally placid creatures... whose natural habitat is the Circus... but what if, what if Elephants have already figured out the Theory of Everything? They are just biding their time to get back at us for all the stupid elephant things we have done in the past. (Baby Elephant Walk, Dumbo, The Elephant Man, Gary Larson)
I bet they have trunk mounted particle beam weapons as we speak. And flying cars. Big cars. Lord save us if we ever see a squadron of flying elephants....
Now you SEE!
Anthony Octavius Lepidus == A O L == AOL the Conspirators!!! And SUN is Several Ugly Nutkickers... and you don't even want to know about Netscape...
I can hear them now.
There are black helicopters hovering RIGHT NOW somewhere in California. The DEATH CAMPS all around America are preparing for the NWO.
WE WILL EXTERMINATE MICROSOFT, TO PAVE THE WAY FOR A STRONGER UNITY
The fastest way to create a bond amoung the lower people is to foster a common hatred. The middle and lower classes already have a hatred for the rich. Microsoft == Rich, everyone knows that. They want us to ally ourselves with our champions, AOL-Netscape-Sun, so that they may lead us into a new era!
We must STOP THIS MADNESS!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!!
They have decided that the world has 60 million too many people!! You know who these people are:
Jaques Cousteau, Ted Turner and Henry Kissenger!
They want to KILL 60 million people to fit their plan for america!!!
I swear! WITH BLACK HELICOPTERS!!! Look in the SKY!! CAN'T YOU SEE THEM??? Its the NWO! And I don't mean wrestling!!!!
-- user logs off to take medication now
I know you can't SMP Amd processors, that is why I took the time to reply to my own message, correcting myself.
I still say it makes sense.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is the only reason why my PC at home now has 64 megs of ram instead of 32. ;)
A more accurate comparison is this:
2 P2-300s = ~$250
1 P2-400 = ~$200
*brain farted*
Seems to me, if this kind of stuff catches on...
2 K6-2 300s = ~$100
1 P2 400 = ~$200
But now to make the motherboards cheaper...
Just how do they plan on prosecuting anyone for Spam when this company has not incurred any damages for the spam, the user or the owner of the original server did...
Or rather, they shouldn't...
... crash and burn!
The trouble is that we have a for profit business controlling something that was set up to be a non-profit organization. The lines have been blurred, especially since Network Solutions hijacked 'www.internic.net'.
Its about time we open up the whois database and let the world run it's own nameservers, instead of just "Network Solutions"
NSOL - 68 1/4 down 3 5/16ths
I suppose next we'll be handing out chastity belts to the computers so we can't download pr0n.
Competition amoung chipsets is good.
Standardization of drivers is also good.
But when will we have "Direct X Windows"?
Build a bigger hard drive and the world will build bigger files. Soon we'll all be complaining about how our new 1.2 TB drive is all filled up and there's nothing we want to delete.
*begin nostalgic music
I remember when I got my first 150 meg hard drive. Almost 4x larger than my 40 megger. "I'll never fill that up! " I foolishly said as I pulled it from the box, carelessly tossing aside the $500 invoice. That hard drive is still running today in that old 386... ESDI was the great new technoligy NEC had said....
*end nostalgic music
Actually,
For workstations in the corporate environment I prefer NT workstations to anything else availible. It's easier to hire some Joe Schmoe off the street who knows his way around the NT interface than it is to find someone who knows one of the 30 different X windows interfaces we have out there.
I say, Unix for backoffice, NT for workstations. Lock them down and chain the users to their desks. Choice is bad. Conformity is good! Resistance is Futile! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTER...
Oh... sorry...
And C3PO is just a gold Cyberman.
Linux was at Fall Comdex '96 (Las Vegas)... you just had to look hard enough. I remember back then walking by some company trying to sell a set top web surfing box running netscape and going, "Hey isn't that thing running linux?" To which the engineer's eyes lit up like a 4 year old at Christmas and he started to show me how he rigged everything to run from a EPROM setup and how it was timed to work with the TV and everything.
It was pretty cool. That and the Infomagic booth.
Viva Las Vegas
When is the Emulator Coming out for this one? ;)
This is just another ploy by Intel to get people to stop using their processors altogether and switch to AMD. What more reasons do we need?
K7 = Faster + Better - CPUIDS
K6 = Almost as Fast + lots cheaper - CPUIDS
INTEL = Intel Knows Totally, Everyones Lives
Go AMD!
This is the same old story which has been rehashed over and over and over again.
"OH NO! Big bad MUSIC industry won't let us have MP3!"
Just how are they going to stop music from being pirated? I say if they figure that one out, they deserve a big hand, since the Computer Industry has miserably failed at stopping software piracy.
Wow, I'm impressed that your PowerMac G3/400 can run a game intended for a 33Mhz system.
TV's resolution is a bit higher than 320x240, as a point you should remember that the playstation games are designed to be used with a TV and not a computer monitor. The games are fine tuned to look good on a TV, and sometimes they blur images just so they look good on a TV.
It's like using any emulator on your PC, the games seem to look better if they are on a TV simply because thats what they were designed to work with. Heck, Look at zSnes, a popular Super Nintendo Emulator, it has a mode where it blurs the pixels for you, otherwise the games look too crisp. I doubt the Virtual Game Thingy has a blurred mode since it would take precious CPU time...
But hey, if emulating playstation games on your Macintosh makes you happy, by all means, go right ahead, nobody's gonna stop you. But it is not, by any measure, a Macintosh "First", and given the games list on that website, niether is it a Macintosh "Best".
I'd be interested in comparing the performance/price for emulator on PC vs. Macintosh, my current PC costs about $900 to build and with it's 3dfx voodoo2 card emulates the Playstation pretty nicely, though I only loaded one game, just to see if I could. I much prefer playing Gran Turismo on my real playstation using the Dual Shock controller....
The reality of it is, the emulator is NOT perfect, according to their own website. It will not play all the games on the market, on top of which you have to own a playstation to begin with, and legally you can't use the playstation AND the emulator at the same time.
What I see happening is a lot of illegal downloads of the playstation BIOS rom, coupled with illegal downloads of the Emulator itself. Possibly a lawsuit against the company for making the emulator isn't far behind... although since I am not a lawyer I don't fully understand copyright law, and how it would apply.
PSEmu, unlike this project, was run by a guy in his spare time, more or less just to see if he could do it. No one makes any money off of it and it never once has claimed to be anything other than a pet project by some college student.
As far as your comments about using VPC emulation I'm very happy you've found something you can use.
Though if you're using a SCSI CD-Rom you're using hardware technology that's much older than a decade. I guess it never hurts to have old standards huh?
Oh, and none of the games I've ever played take 5 minutes to load up. Gran Turismo (a game that the emulator claims to run) only takes about 20 seconds on my playstation to load. I would like to find out how long it would actually take to load on this emulator, and how well it plays. Is it really going to be worth the loss in framerate due to the emulation? Or the fact that most monitors aren't nearly the size of a TV? (You can spend $1300 on a 21" monitor or the same on a 56" TV, and yes resolution is better on a montior, but we're talking a GAME console here)
$50? For an emulator where the actual Sony Playstation is only about $99 USD depending on where you buy it?
This is a whole new degree of lameness.