At first, I thought this article was about the ISP @home folding (ie - going out of business). I thought to myself "didn't that happen already? What a redundant story this is" lol.
Oh what I wouldn't give for every issue of Electronic Games Magazine. The publication was the magazine to read from 1981-85. It offered reviews, strategy guides, and more, for arcade and home games in the golden age of video gaming.
Here is a Website with all of the magazines covers, and blurbs about each issue.
Today, issues of Electronic Games are coveted, and fetch a pretty decent penny on Ebay.
Loomis
reminds me of Ripley's
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The Ripley's museums have those silly graveyards inside, and Ripley's also has those Haunted Adventure places. Somewhat similar.
Back in the late 60's / early 60's Mattel struggled and then succeeded in developing a quick-charging small electric toy car. Although you couldn't steer these (ie - not remote controlled / ran on Hot Wheels track), Sizzlers were the first in the "quick charge run for a few minutes on battery power" category of small toy cars.
$1599.00 US. This includes 256mb or ram. "Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional are pre-installed."
Although not completely organic (for harmful chemicals were used to make the internals, unlike say organic milk, in which cows eat pesticide-free food, free roam, receive no injections, etc...), this is still a step in the right direction. And the price is reasonable IMO.
I would imagine that this just might be the ticket--a major stepping stone toward widespread Linux acceptance. Surely it won't be long before there is a Linux AOL client that will be ported over to all sorts of Linux platforms, if the one discussed doesn't technically run on different flavors of Linux upon release.
There is often a lot of complaining around here, and I would just like to step forward for a moment and thank Slashdot and Janis Ian for this informative exchange. It has been very educational and interesting.
It's too bad I missed the peroid when one could post questions to Ms. Ian. I would have liked to been able to ask her opinion of the success of Ani DiFranco's independant record label, Righteous Babe.
Isn't it amazing that these two games are still up and running? I can't possibly imagine how both Electronis Arts and Codemasters still get subscribers.
I believe that all electronic devices sold in the USA automatically carry a one-year manufacturer's warranty, no exceptions. (Is this law BTW?)
Given this one-year manufacturer's warranty, I am actually surprised that some hard drive manufacturers were still offering longer warranties. I am surprised they didn't convert warranties to one-year ones a long time ago, or simply have one-year ones from the start.
Include the song title and then put something like "indie: like Tool" or "produced by Tool's producer" etc.. in parenthesis in the title. Then release the songs out on a bunch of gnutella and opennap winmx networks.
I've seen people do this with good success. The band Sheavy, for example, mentioned "Black Sabbath-like indie band" in a track title, and got a *lot* of downloads.
Stern is an interesting company by the way. Stern stopped producing pinball machines in the early eighties, whereupon the company sat dormant for almost two decades. Only recently did they resume pinball production once again. A pinball phoenix if you will.
Here is a great links for anyone interested in pinball:
Excuse me if I'm totally off base here, as I know nothing about logging. This machine seems to be more friendly to the environment, and that's its selling point or whatnot. But isn't logging like destroying the habitat anyhow, thus making this machine's eco-friendliness moot?
So is the point to hit the target or to blind the people who see it? Or both? What if the engineers look at it, will they go blind? Is this a masterbation weapon?:)
This is pretty neat. As someone mentioned, the possibilities this technology presents to online gaming is pretty cool. Back in the days of online games such as Sierra's The Realm and Origin's Ultima Online, players would "decorate" their virtual land and/or home by placing items, food, trash, etc... in patters on the ground in order to personalize the area. With this new technology a lot more personalization of play areas could be done. The ability to truly and continually decorate one's area would add incentive to play X game. Very cool.
Not the type of story I like to see on/. Domesticated rats are intelligent animals that make *great* pets. I understand that these particular animals needed to be killed, but it's a shame, and that shame is not the focus of this story; rather it is the gps. Technology is not more important than life--any life.
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At first, I thought this article was about the ISP @home folding (ie - going out of business). I thought to myself "didn't that happen already? What a redundant story this is" lol.
Loomis
Oh what I wouldn't give for every issue of Electronic Games Magazine. The publication was the magazine to read from 1981-85. It offered reviews, strategy guides, and more, for arcade and home games in the golden age of video gaming. Here is a Website with all of the magazines covers, and blurbs about each issue. Today, issues of Electronic Games are coveted, and fetch a pretty decent penny on Ebay. Loomis
The Ripley's museums have those silly graveyards inside, and Ripley's also has those Haunted Adventure places. Somewhat similar.
Loomis
Here
Also has a brief blurb in German
Loomis
This item was found in the summer of 2000.
This article is very very vague. It states that the creature died when it was just 3 years old; I wonder why. The article doesn't say.
Loomis
Should read "late 60's / early 70's". My mistake.
Thanks,
Loomis
Back in the late 60's / early 60's Mattel struggled and then succeeded in developing a quick-charging small electric toy car. Although you couldn't steer these (ie - not remote controlled / ran on Hot Wheels track), Sizzlers were the first in the "quick charge run for a few minutes on battery power" category of small toy cars.
Loomis
$1599.00 US. This includes 256mb or ram. "Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional are pre-installed."
Although not completely organic (for harmful chemicals were used to make the internals, unlike say organic milk, in which cows eat pesticide-free food, free roam, receive no injections, etc...), this is still a step in the right direction. And the price is reasonable IMO.
Loomis
I would imagine that this just might be the ticket--a major stepping stone toward widespread Linux acceptance. Surely it won't be long before there is a Linux AOL client that will be ported over to all sorts of Linux platforms, if the one discussed doesn't technically run on different flavors of Linux upon release.
Progress!
Loomis
There is often a lot of complaining around here, and I would just like to step forward for a moment and thank Slashdot and Janis Ian for this informative exchange. It has been very educational and interesting.
It's too bad I missed the peroid when one could post questions to Ms. Ian. I would have liked to been able to ask her opinion of the success of Ani DiFranco's independant record label, Righteous Babe.
Thanks again,
Loomis
Isn't it amazing that these two games are still up and running? I can't possibly imagine how both Electronis Arts and Codemasters still get subscribers.
Loomis
I believe that all electronic devices sold in the USA automatically carry a one-year manufacturer's warranty, no exceptions. (Is this law BTW?)
Given this one-year manufacturer's warranty, I am actually surprised that some hard drive manufacturers were still offering longer warranties. I am surprised they didn't convert warranties to one-year ones a long time ago, or simply have one-year ones from the start.
Loomis
HA HA HA
So I wonder if the poster has ever seen the Desktop Hacks at Applefritter, which include the Shop Vac Mac and the Lego Mac?
Loomis
Take a couple tracks and make them into mp3's.
Include the song title and then put something like "indie: like Tool" or "produced by Tool's producer" etc.. in parenthesis in the title. Then release the songs out on a bunch of gnutella and opennap winmx networks.
I've seen people do this with good success. The band Sheavy, for example, mentioned "Black Sabbath-like indie band" in a track title, and got a *lot* of downloads.
Loomis
And whats really cool is that they networked the old pinball machines together so that you can play head to head.
hee hee
Am I missing something here? My friend uses his Zaurus with a wireless card and is on the internet on it every day. He easily locates access points.
Is the news here that Sharp is providing internet access? Confused as to the news here.
Loomis
Stern is an interesting company by the way. Stern stopped producing pinball machines in the early eighties, whereupon the company sat dormant for almost two decades. Only recently did they resume pinball production once again. A pinball phoenix if you will.
Here is a great links for anyone interested in pinball:
The Internet Pinball Database.
Loomis
Excuse me if I'm totally off base here, as I know nothing about logging. This machine seems to be more friendly to the environment, and that's its selling point or whatnot. But isn't logging like destroying the habitat anyhow, thus making this machine's eco-friendliness moot?
Loomis
Small correction. A perfect human ear can hear up to 20,000hz or so.
Loomis
So is the point to hit the target or to blind the people who see it? Or both? What if the engineers look at it, will they go blind? Is this a masterbation weapon? :)
Loomis
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:UaTCrUMQitYC: www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:UaTCrUMQitYC: www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Loomis
This is pretty neat. As someone mentioned, the possibilities this technology presents to online gaming is pretty cool. Back in the days of online games such as Sierra's The Realm and Origin's Ultima Online, players would "decorate" their virtual land and/or home by placing items, food, trash, etc... in patters on the ground in order to personalize the area. With this new technology a lot more personalization of play areas could be done. The ability to truly and continually decorate one's area would add incentive to play X game. Very cool.
Loomis
Not the type of story I like to see on /. Domesticated rats are intelligent animals that make *great* pets. I understand that these particular animals needed to be killed, but it's a shame, and that shame is not the focus of this story; rather it is the gps. Technology is not more important than life--any life.
loomis