You didn't even have to be able to read to be able to beat FF7. (Don't snear, I know a kid who couldn't read when he beat FF7.)
Oh well
I wonder if all that chars in FFX will still get Quad Attack items? Eh? hehe.
For alot of Final Fantasy players who got into the series on the Playstation, this game may very well be the first time that they die in a Squaresoft FF game!!! LOL! (minus those optional 'uber-bosses' that Square shoves into some games, bleh, wimpy ass way to make a 'challenge' if you ask me. Making them optional, pleh.)
"We are wallowing in digital cameras and camcorders and MP3 players that get harder to use, not easier. The thing that will connect us to our gadgets needs to be a digital hub, a computer designed to simplify our lives. This, Jobs says, is what Apple was meant to do-and it's what no one else in the PC world is doing."
Partialy true I guess.
I have a full tower case and I have had a BITCH of a time finding some DECENT front mount USB ports for it. (A kit that fits 6+ in one 5.25" drive bay without me needing to cut something out by hand.)
Ended up having to go with an external hub.:( Great, WTF am I supposed to do NOW with these gazzilion drive bays I have? Bleh.
Still though, the computer is NOT the problem.
Every friggin digital camera manufacturer having to use a SLIGHTLY different mini-USB cord _ARE_ part of the problem.
Piss poor unsupported wireless device connectivity standards are part of the problem. There is NO reason that Damn Near Every consumer keyboard made for awhile now shouldn't have had a built-in wireless transmitter and some rechargable batteries. A docking station for nighttime to recharge the batteries would also have been nice but not neccisary. (mine as well use regular cells though if your not going to have a docking station for easy convenience).
My PC cost ~$500. Back in 1q01. (January of 01 to be more precise).
I could likely get it now for ~$400.
Flip switch, it turns on, enter PW, it goes to desktop with my apps lined up, I click an app, app runs. Run application run.
I am done, I hit the power button and it turns off. Win2K has an auto-ShutDownTheRightDamnWay feature when you hit the power button.
Unforutnatly some piece of hardware doesn't like hibernate mode or else I'd just hit the power button again and it'd go right back to my desktop. (I know what it is, just gotta getup off my ass and install the driver for it. Not using that piece of HW so I haven't bothered yet.;) )
It works.
Tada.
Simple. As. Pie.
Ok so its 2 and a half feet tall and made outa beiege steel.
But damnit;
/I LIKE BEIEGE STEEL/.
Fuck
I _LOVE_ Beiege Steel.
I can fucking _STAND_ on my computer. It can support over TWO HUNDRED damn pounds. IT IS A REAL MANS FRIGGIN TOY.
It also doubles as a Space Heater. (Man I love AMD. My hands used to get numb in the winter, now they don't.:) )
The 18" Graphics Tablet _COULD_ stand to be wireless though. Heh. Or at least USB compliant. Oh well it cost an arm and a leg as it was, USB support would've cost me even more back then, bleh. (2 or 3 years ago when I first got it.)
My SCSI scanner is larger then these new apple things though. Of course my SCSI scanner also weight ~8lbs (bare minimum, Afga Duoscan T1200) and Win2k seems to hate ANY SCSI card I put in it so hey, heh. Things could get simplier I guess.
Once again
I WANT A DECENT WIRELESS STANDARD DAMNIT!!! Cheap. Easy to impliment. Secure. Perferably *with a variable range selector*. You know. Say 5ft-7.5ft for my scanner and printer, 15-20ft for my keyboard, etc.
I just wanna walk up to my computer and have my Digicams memory card appear on my list of drives.
"But you're still not going to be able to search it just because you have a TV card in your comp. There is going to have to be some kind of program that can connect to and interpret the data."
Any decent file sharing application.
If its worth watching its on there.:) Granted not streaming on demand, but at least its commerical free.:)
Sounds better then the dog sh*t the RIAA is crapping out these days.
Tada.
Problem solved.
Though there is still that issue of the RIAA charging a fee for blank CDR media.
I'd like to see how long they live soly off of funds from that though. Heh.
(or alternativly use a Memory Stick reading device and just pump all of your sound outa that. Heh, alot more expensive, but the RIAA gets NONE of the profits then. Unless of course they start charging a fee for those too. . . . )
The technology has been around for awhile, it has just been that nobody has bothered to make a big ballyhoo about it.
Mabye if we just all kept quite 'the enforcers' would forget about it all? Pleeease? Mabye?
:(
Seriously though, I don't WANT to be limited in what I do on the net. Hell, it is _MY_ monitor and _I_ am paying for the damn line, why the hell should I be limited in what shows on -MY- screen? They are my own damn eyeballs, and they'll look at whatever bits and bytes they damn well please thank you so very much!
Besides, anything that becomes too illegal without appropriate parallel mass social repugnence of it (child porn is about the last major example left) is just going to run and hide 'underground' anyways, likely easier to get then it was before.
The Office Thing I am speaking of is the. . . residue. . . of a piss poor done Network install of Office.
It has to go through its Copying Files thing for each new user that uses it on that terminal. It also latchs onto alot of system level things (ah, of course. . . ) such as GIF files, unless something else has gotten there first.
This is why I don't run ANY office product on any of my computers. I was running Works4.5 for awhile, but now I use either Netscape Messanger for my spell checker (I have the dictionary tricked out to hell with tech terms.:) ) or just pray that I didn't flub to many things up. (not likely, my spelling is horrid.)
Maya is not appropriate for everything. Nor for everybodies pocketbooks.
*COUGH* $7500 *COUGH*
Granted they have a very acceptable Academic Licencing program (cheaper then 3DSM).
Many of us consider Maya's interface to be Dog Shit though.
Me, personaly.
You can pry my Autocad derived GUI w/integrated CLI interface from my old dead hands.
It ain't about the killer app man, its about the SELECTION of apps.
Lets say Photoshop+Imageready gets ported over.
Nice first step. I still have a host of customized GIF animation utilities that I use that are not over there. While for GIF animations I could probebly find another set of optimizers (Adobe's SUCK. Horribly. Imageready took over half an hour to load a 20meg GIF file once, yeeuck), it does demonstrate my point that you need a/host/ of applications competing for the user space.
That way people can find one that suits them.
Some people like Painter 6. Some people suffer physical pain when using Painter 6. I literaly get ill when I try to use it. The program is that much opposite of my mental mindset. Alot of hardcode artists love it though. For the logical type though, Photoshop owns. I knew where all the tools where the first time I started it up, because they are where they are supposed to be! Now that is just me, but if you want to attract both crowds, both programs need to be ported over.
Bah, what should happen is that we all go around beating up the popular people since they are obviously the dickheads who picked on us all in school.:)
"Why should I want to run WINDOWS? At home I have several Linux machines and some Solaris Machines sitting around doing everything I want to do. "
Graphic design, 3d modeling, animation, etc.
Yah yah yah you can POVRay it.
If you can type out the friggin scene mathmaticaly.
For those of us who can't act as a stunt double in Rainman though. . . . GUI modelers come in handy./ADVANCED/ GUI modelers. Rhino3d is considered primitive in the Windows world as far as feature sets go (its UI is unmatched by anybody else's out there though) but even it is still heads and tails above anything affordable on the free *nixs.
This being why people perfer to disable Microsoft FUD features such as Active Directory.
I have successfuly ran my Win2K box with ~1kB of free space avaliable. (HD sector size was a bit above that, heh, can't get any fuller then that.:) )
It ran just fine. To my friend's and my surprise.
Now as for Windows not deleting temporary files or Temporary internet files when it should. . . . (ugh, 5Gigs of Temporary internet files, bleh! Set at 400megs or so. Better then in Win98 though, it'd crash the machine if you hit "delete temporary internet files." hehe.)
I actualy do alot of Win2K at once. I can keep Photoshop open at all times (I was using a 9x machine the other day and was violently reminded of how damn ass slow 9x gets if you try and keep numerious large applications open at once. ^_^ ) along with Rhino3d and a host of other applications (30 browser windows, etc)
Of course it does still have some obvious problems.
It/STILL/ insists on, at seemingly compleatly random times, spinning up the CD-ROM drive and deciding what is in it. (uuh, okaaay. . . . Sitting in the middle of a game run soly from my HD and the computer just THEN decides to pause/EVERYTHING/ and check out whats in the CD-ROM drive. . . . )
Some programs designed for DirectX 3 crash under DirectX 6/7/8/whatevermicrosoftshovedontheharddrivelast.
Odd glitchs happen all the time. For awhile my Win2k box insisted on just 'kinda' obeying the control-c and control-v commands. (Copy and Paste). Control-X worked most of the time, but not always. Oh joy.
I have seen machines try to 'finish installing office' when you try and open a GIF file. Talk about odd.
When leaving the theater the one thing on my mind was "Oh man, I wonder how long the Directors Cut is going to be!"
Heh.
How much do you want to bet that after all three movies have been released that they will go about and release a newer 'more uncut' version of each movie ala Star Wars (just alot more extra footage.:) )
Oh well, even if it is an obvious scam to make more money, I'd still buy them, hehe.
Seriously though, for about the price of the latest greatest consol + some games + controlers + memory cards you can get yourself a decent 1ghz PC. (~$500)
Hell at that price I bought two.
Grab a TV out card from someplace if you must (eew) though there are other better ways to go about it, heh. Those other ways tend to be more expensive though.:(
Anyways, plug it in and run. Heh.
Actualy for MAME as long as you don't want to run the newer, uh, less moraly justifiable games, a 266mhz machine or so is more then enough. Defintly go with Intel for the FPU (AMD's floating point capibilities sucked back then) but shoot, my PII266mhz w/64megs of RAM could run most NeoGeo games at all speed (using NeoRageX for that feat of course.:) ) and any MAME game that wasn't newer then 1995 or so.
A PII266mhz will cost you what in the papers now? $250 or so?
Ah, here is a video card with S-VIDEO out
MX400 Pro-TC64S
Geforce2MX, so you can play some games at 800x600 as well.
Only $75
Heres one up
PowerColor PowerGene Ti GeForce2 (TV Out) 64MB DDR AGP
Only $105.00
The PowerColor nVidia TNT2 Sniper2 (TV Out) 32MB AGP is only $54 but I don't know if it has S-Video or not.
(nor am I sure about the rest of them, but they are newer and therefore much more likely to have it)
All prices from http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant. mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=VC (no idea if they are good or not, but they were the first result on my google search.:) )
So, hmm.
~$250 for a computer that can run MAME. Add $20 for a LiteON DVD drive. $270.
+ $100 for a Video Card that can do what you want it too. Add $5 for a splitter cable to get the sound from your computer to your computer, though some TV-OUT products come with one, and you have a grand total of $355 for a TV-OUT MAME machine.
With a second PC disk drive you can (apparently) read your Amiga disks on your PC and create an Image file from them which can then be loaded into an Amiga emulator (http://www.zophar.net/amiga.html)
Complex 3d scenes + animations != suitable for perl scripts.:)
Sure some people can nativly write POVRay code to render any scene that they can possibly imagine.
Some people can also effortlessly play Baroque music after hearing it just one time.
I can not do either.
I do not like GUIs for most things, and in fact one of the things that I love so much about Rhino3D (as do many other users after they make the initial 'adjustment' ) is that it has a CLI integrated into it for entering commands into.
But the fact is that in order to do my job I _NEED_ a 4 viewport 3D modeler with an Autocad derived interface.
I'd rather do without Bryce truth be told, numerious free alternatives have attempted to pop up, and Terragen was coming along nicely as Pay if Your Commerical Ware, but it has seemed to stop development (I haven't checked it out for 4 or 5 months, but it was inactive for over two years).
Until some nice highly developed tools come along the fact is that alot of people are going to keep on giving MS their money.
I am _NOT_ happy with Windows. I recently lost a bit of work (yah I save often, but still time between saves is creative time when you are doing artwork, and creativity is hard to redo even when you do have a recent save) dispite the fact that I am using a Win2K machine with "Everything Patched to Hell(tm)".
The lab I am in right now has in the last 4 years ungone the following upgrade proccess:
Win95>Win98>WinME>Win2KPro.
That is alot of money for Microsoft right there. Huge lab.
In fact with the most recent upgrade to Win2K Pro all of the applications but for IE, Netscape, Microsoft Visual Studio, and MS Office, have been taken off of the system.
I'm still trying to figure out why they are running Windows myself. . . . musta cost a fortune to upgrade the lab. . .
It would have been a perfect situation for Linux to step in and say "Hey, educational institution, you wanna save a/ton/ of money? Here ya go! Take this CDR I burned for you, install the software on all of your computers. Enjoy."
Ok so it would have had to been a decision on the part of the lab maintainers themselves, but still, the idea is that if Linux just made a bit of an effort to show how appealing it is by putting just a few features up front, and mabye one or two in big bold print, then alot of money could have been redirected from Microsoft's coffers to someplace else.
I though that the entire Excite@Home thing proved that the first mile of service was quickly becoming the most expensive one.
Work needs to be done to reduce the price of traffic over the internet backbones.
Hell ATT@Home had a potential 40mbp/s line running to my house (heck, one time I got 2MBp/s. Yes thats MegaBits per second) but eventualy the price of providing that much bandwidth to their users cause the current scenario of bandwidth now being capped.
What good would a 10mbp/s line do me when I am capped at 1.5mbp/s?
Since I didn't want to go and check out whether or not it was ' or " (only time I use customary is when describing floppy disk sizes, heh) I gambled on ' and obviously lost.:)
More users == more HW support (or at least cooperation) and more games.
Now I don't know about you, but more games. . . . ^_^
Not to mention productivity applications. It'd be sweet to see, say, 3DSM or Rhino3d ported to Linux.
Of course somebody could just write a proffesional level 3d modeler for Linux, but. . . . That would take an entire team of people working their butts off for many years in a row for a product that would be used by a small percent of a decent precent of the computer using community.
The main features I have listed are just mainly things that would cut through the MS FUD and/LOOK/ good. Hell most of them aren't even all that complicated. The main idea is to make it/appear/ that features which have existed for along time in Linux are really New Nifty Things.
Yes it itself is FUD, but it at least it would encourage people to switch to an OS that doesn't suck.
Hell I'm -stuck- on windows dispite moral issues with the way MS conducts business. I am stuck on it because I do 3d modeling and animation and that comes first before any ethical issues about where my software comes from. Sorry to say it, but most of the world is that way too.
Sure I could switch to Linux. Sure it'd be more stable and more robust and likely a good deal quicker.
But hell.
WTF would I do with it? I don't type very many documents, I don't do lots of networking stuff, umm. . . . . heh.
Rhino3d 3DSM and even some (yuck) Bryce.
Those programs _MAY_ come to Linux, but only if the Linux user base increases by enough to make it worth the developers while. If the Linux community does go about (and succeed in) attracting those developers to their platform, they will have gained a very valuable ally.
Now excuse me I have to go start up a product spanning across Rhino3d, Photoshop (yah yah I know, but damnit, it makes stuff easy to do,/REALLY/ easy. Great UI, and when I am creating something, the UI matters. check out my other rants to see me go pro-CLI.:) ) and Bryce.
The main issue with this is that alot of companies just to be shitty and ensure that if a market ever became viable again they could make lots of money off of it (Look at LoTRs.:) ) they would keep on annualy just before the expiration period ran out, 're-releasing' a product.
In other words a 10 copy 'very very very very -very- limited' production set. ^_^
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How surprising.
You didn't even have to be able to read to be able to beat FF7. (Don't snear, I know a kid who couldn't read when he beat FF7.)
Oh well
I wonder if all that chars in FFX will still get Quad Attack items? Eh? hehe.
For alot of Final Fantasy players who got into the series on the Playstation, this game may very well be the first time that they die in a Squaresoft FF game!!! LOL! (minus those optional 'uber-bosses' that Square shoves into some games, bleh, wimpy ass way to make a 'challenge' if you ask me. Making them optional, pleh.)
"We are wallowing in digital cameras and camcorders and MP3 players that get harder to use, not easier. The thing that will connect us to our gadgets needs to be a digital hub, a computer designed to simplify our lives. This, Jobs says, is what Apple was meant to do-and it's what no one else in the PC world is doing."
:( Great, WTF am I supposed to do NOW with these gazzilion drive bays I have? Bleh.
;) )
:) )
Partialy true I guess.
I have a full tower case and I have had a BITCH of a time finding some DECENT front mount USB ports for it. (A kit that fits 6+ in one 5.25" drive bay without me needing to cut something out by hand.)
Ended up having to go with an external hub.
Still though, the computer is NOT the problem.
Every friggin digital camera manufacturer having to use a SLIGHTLY different mini-USB cord _ARE_ part of the problem.
Piss poor unsupported wireless device connectivity standards are part of the problem. There is NO reason that Damn Near Every consumer keyboard made for awhile now shouldn't have had a built-in wireless transmitter and some rechargable batteries. A docking station for nighttime to recharge the batteries would also have been nice but not neccisary. (mine as well use regular cells though if your not going to have a docking station for easy convenience).
My PC cost ~$500. Back in 1q01. (January of 01 to be more precise).
I could likely get it now for ~$400.
Flip switch, it turns on, enter PW, it goes to desktop with my apps lined up, I click an app, app runs. Run application run.
I am done, I hit the power button and it turns off. Win2K has an auto-ShutDownTheRightDamnWay feature when you hit the power button.
Unforutnatly some piece of hardware doesn't like hibernate mode or else I'd just hit the power button again and it'd go right back to my desktop. (I know what it is, just gotta getup off my ass and install the driver for it. Not using that piece of HW so I haven't bothered yet.
It works.
Tada.
Simple. As. Pie.
Ok so its 2 and a half feet tall and made outa beiege steel.
But damnit;
/I LIKE BEIEGE STEEL/.
Fuck
I _LOVE_ Beiege Steel.
I can fucking _STAND_ on my computer. It can support over TWO HUNDRED damn pounds. IT IS A REAL MANS FRIGGIN TOY.
It also doubles as a Space Heater. (Man I love AMD. My hands used to get numb in the winter, now they don't.
The 18" Graphics Tablet _COULD_ stand to be wireless though. Heh. Or at least USB compliant. Oh well it cost an arm and a leg as it was, USB support would've cost me even more back then, bleh. (2 or 3 years ago when I first got it.)
My SCSI scanner is larger then these new apple things though. Of course my SCSI scanner also weight ~8lbs (bare minimum, Afga Duoscan T1200) and Win2k seems to hate ANY SCSI card I put in it so hey, heh. Things could get simplier I guess.
Once again
I WANT A DECENT WIRELESS STANDARD DAMNIT!!! Cheap. Easy to impliment. Secure. Perferably *with a variable range selector*. You know. Say 5ft-7.5ft for my scanner and printer, 15-20ft for my keyboard, etc.
I just wanna walk up to my computer and have my Digicams memory card appear on my list of drives.
That'd be keen. That'd Command all Keen.
"But you're still not going to be able to search it just because you have a TV card in your comp. There is going to have to be some kind of program that can connect to and interpret the data."
:) Granted not streaming on demand, but at least its commerical free. :)
Any decent file sharing application.
If its worth watching its on there.
Does nobody else remember This
3 20 5&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/203
AskSlashdot posting?
Results: Inconclusive. More likely impossible. Unless you like the idea of 1/4th resolution Greyscale 4FPS video.
Nah;
:)
Google will add a "TV" tab.
Oh if its setup at all even half correct it _SHOULD_ automaticaly download the componets from the network.
:)
Just a pain in the ass though, each machine has to do it for each user when they first startup office on that one machine.
Get some network admins who know at least a little bit of their supposed trade though, Office _SHOULD_ work, just not all that nicely.
Beyond 2000, that steady beacon of accurate predictions and foretellings said that I would have this from TCI cable by the year 2000.
Man I can't wait until the year 2000 comes, we'll have so much nifty stuff by then!
Classical music.
Dirt Cheap / Free.
Sounds better then the dog sh*t the RIAA is crapping out these days.
Tada.
Problem solved.
Though there is still that issue of the RIAA charging a fee for blank CDR media.
I'd like to see how long they live soly off of funds from that though. Heh.
(or alternativly use a Memory Stick reading device and just pump all of your sound outa that. Heh, alot more expensive, but the RIAA gets NONE of the profits then. Unless of course they start charging a fee for those too. . . . )
The technology has been around for awhile, it has just been that nobody has bothered to make a big ballyhoo about it.
Mabye if we just all kept quite 'the enforcers' would forget about it all? Pleeease? Mabye?
:(
Seriously though, I don't WANT to be limited in what I do on the net. Hell, it is _MY_ monitor and _I_ am paying for the damn line, why the hell should I be limited in what shows on -MY- screen? They are my own damn eyeballs, and they'll look at whatever bits and bytes they damn well please thank you so very much!
Besides, anything that becomes too illegal without appropriate parallel mass social repugnence of it (child porn is about the last major example left) is just going to run and hide 'underground' anyways, likely easier to get then it was before.
The Office Thing I am speaking of is the. . . residue. . . of a piss poor done Network install of Office.
:) ) or just pray that I didn't flub to many things up. (not likely, my spelling is horrid.)
It has to go through its Copying Files thing for each new user that uses it on that terminal. It also latchs onto alot of system level things (ah, of course. . . ) such as GIF files, unless something else has gotten there first.
This is why I don't run ANY office product on any of my computers. I was running Works4.5 for awhile, but now I use either Netscape Messanger for my spell checker (I have the dictionary tricked out to hell with tech terms.
Maya is not appropriate for everything. Nor for everybodies pocketbooks.
/host/ of applications competing for the user space.
:)
*COUGH* $7500 *COUGH*
Granted they have a very acceptable Academic Licencing program (cheaper then 3DSM).
Many of us consider Maya's interface to be Dog Shit though.
Me, personaly.
You can pry my Autocad derived GUI w/integrated CLI interface from my old dead hands.
It ain't about the killer app man, its about the SELECTION of apps.
Lets say Photoshop+Imageready gets ported over.
Nice first step. I still have a host of customized GIF animation utilities that I use that are not over there. While for GIF animations I could probebly find another set of optimizers (Adobe's SUCK. Horribly. Imageready took over half an hour to load a 20meg GIF file once, yeeuck), it does demonstrate my point that you need a
That way people can find one that suits them.
Some people like Painter 6. Some people suffer physical pain when using Painter 6. I literaly get ill when I try to use it. The program is that much opposite of my mental mindset. Alot of hardcode artists love it though. For the logical type though, Photoshop owns. I knew where all the tools where the first time I started it up, because they are where they are supposed to be! Now that is just me, but if you want to attract both crowds, both programs need to be ported over.
Or;
Run under Lindows.
Bah, what should happen is that we all go around beating up the popular people since they are obviously the dickheads who picked on us all in school. :)
Oh wait. . . .
"Why should I want to run WINDOWS? At home I have several Linux machines and some Solaris Machines sitting around doing everything I want to do. "
/ADVANCED/ GUI modelers. Rhino3d is considered primitive in the Windows world as far as feature sets go (its UI is unmatched by anybody else's out there though) but even it is still heads and tails above anything affordable on the free *nixs.
Graphic design, 3d modeling, animation, etc.
Yah yah yah you can POVRay it.
If you can type out the friggin scene mathmaticaly.
For those of us who can't act as a stunt double in Rainman though. . . . GUI modelers come in handy.
(Or at least anything advertised much.)
This being why people perfer to disable Microsoft FUD features such as Active Directory.
:) )
/STILL/ insists on, at seemingly compleatly random times, spinning up the CD-ROM drive and deciding what is in it. (uuh, okaaay. . . . Sitting in the middle of a game run soly from my HD and the computer just THEN decides to pause /EVERYTHING/ and check out whats in the CD-ROM drive. . . . )
I have successfuly ran my Win2K box with ~1kB of free space avaliable. (HD sector size was a bit above that, heh, can't get any fuller then that.
It ran just fine. To my friend's and my surprise.
Now as for Windows not deleting temporary files or Temporary internet files when it should. . . . (ugh, 5Gigs of Temporary internet files, bleh! Set at 400megs or so. Better then in Win98 though, it'd crash the machine if you hit "delete temporary internet files." hehe.)
I actualy do alot of Win2K at once. I can keep Photoshop open at all times (I was using a 9x machine the other day and was violently reminded of how damn ass slow 9x gets if you try and keep numerious large applications open at once. ^_^ ) along with Rhino3d and a host of other applications (30 browser windows, etc)
Of course it does still have some obvious problems.
It
Dude
Windows ain't even 99.9% compatible with Windows.
98.9% MABYE. On a good day. A really good day.
Some programs designed for DirectX 3 crash under DirectX 6/7/8/whatevermicrosoftshovedontheharddrivelast.
Odd glitchs happen all the time. For awhile my Win2k box insisted on just 'kinda' obeying the control-c and control-v commands. (Copy and Paste). Control-X worked most of the time, but not always. Oh joy.
I have seen machines try to 'finish installing office' when you try and open a GIF file. Talk about odd.
When leaving the theater the one thing on my mind was "Oh man, I wonder how long the Directors Cut is going to be!"
:) )
Heh.
How much do you want to bet that after all three movies have been released that they will go about and release a newer 'more uncut' version of each movie ala Star Wars (just alot more extra footage.
Oh well, even if it is an obvious scam to make more money, I'd still buy them, hehe.
Its called a PC. :)
:(
:) ) and any MAME game that wasn't newer then 1995 or so.
. mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=VC (no idea if they are good or not, but they were the first result on my google search. :) )
Seriously though, for about the price of the latest greatest consol + some games + controlers + memory cards you can get yourself a decent 1ghz PC. (~$500)
Hell at that price I bought two.
Grab a TV out card from someplace if you must (eew) though there are other better ways to go about it, heh. Those other ways tend to be more expensive though.
Anyways, plug it in and run. Heh.
Actualy for MAME as long as you don't want to run the newer, uh, less moraly justifiable games, a 266mhz machine or so is more then enough. Defintly go with Intel for the FPU (AMD's floating point capibilities sucked back then) but shoot, my PII266mhz w/64megs of RAM could run most NeoGeo games at all speed (using NeoRageX for that feat of course.
A PII266mhz will cost you what in the papers now? $250 or so?
Ah, here is a video card with S-VIDEO out
MX400 Pro-TC64S
Geforce2MX, so you can play some games at 800x600 as well.
Only $75
Heres one up
PowerColor PowerGene Ti GeForce2 (TV Out) 64MB DDR AGP
Only $105.00
The PowerColor nVidia TNT2 Sniper2 (TV Out) 32MB AGP is only $54 but I don't know if it has S-Video or not.
(nor am I sure about the rest of them, but they are newer and therefore much more likely to have it)
All prices from http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant
So, hmm.
~$250 for a computer that can run MAME. Add $20 for a LiteON DVD drive. $270.
+ $100 for a Video Card that can do what you want it too. Add $5 for a splitter cable to get the sound from your computer to your computer, though some TV-OUT products come with one, and you have a grand total of $355 for a TV-OUT MAME machine.
w00t.
Alright, correction,
3
its Star CONTROL.
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/
The interview is at:
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/faq/#4
www.ebay.com buy an Amiga. :)
Or
http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/
:)
With a second PC disk drive you can (apparently) read your Amiga disks on your PC and create an Image file from them which can then be loaded into an Amiga emulator (http://www.zophar.net/amiga.html)
Complex 3d scenes + animations != suitable for perl scripts. :)
/ton/ of money? Here ya go! Take this CDR I burned for you, install the software on all of your computers. Enjoy."
Sure some people can nativly write POVRay code to render any scene that they can possibly imagine.
Some people can also effortlessly play Baroque music after hearing it just one time.
I can not do either.
I do not like GUIs for most things, and in fact one of the things that I love so much about Rhino3D (as do many other users after they make the initial 'adjustment' ) is that it has a CLI integrated into it for entering commands into.
But the fact is that in order to do my job I _NEED_ a 4 viewport 3D modeler with an Autocad derived interface.
I'd rather do without Bryce truth be told, numerious free alternatives have attempted to pop up, and Terragen was coming along nicely as Pay if Your Commerical Ware, but it has seemed to stop development (I haven't checked it out for 4 or 5 months, but it was inactive for over two years).
Until some nice highly developed tools come along the fact is that alot of people are going to keep on giving MS their money.
I am _NOT_ happy with Windows. I recently lost a bit of work (yah I save often, but still time between saves is creative time when you are doing artwork, and creativity is hard to redo even when you do have a recent save) dispite the fact that I am using a Win2K machine with "Everything Patched to Hell(tm)".
The lab I am in right now has in the last 4 years ungone the following upgrade proccess:
Win95>Win98>WinME>Win2KPro.
That is alot of money for Microsoft right there. Huge lab.
In fact with the most recent upgrade to Win2K Pro all of the applications but for IE, Netscape, Microsoft Visual Studio, and MS Office, have been taken off of the system.
I'm still trying to figure out why they are running Windows myself. . . . musta cost a fortune to upgrade the lab. . .
It would have been a perfect situation for Linux to step in and say "Hey, educational institution, you wanna save a
Ok so it would have had to been a decision on the part of the lab maintainers themselves, but still, the idea is that if Linux just made a bit of an effort to show how appealing it is by putting just a few features up front, and mabye one or two in big bold print, then alot of money could have been redirected from Microsoft's coffers to someplace else.
DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH!!!
MegaBYTES per second MegaBYTES.
I once got a 2MegaBYTES per second download.
I though that the entire Excite@Home thing proved that the first mile of service was quickly becoming the most expensive one.
Work needs to be done to reduce the price of traffic over the internet backbones.
Hell ATT@Home had a potential 40mbp/s line running to my house (heck, one time I got 2MBp/s. Yes thats MegaBits per second) but eventualy the price of providing that much bandwidth to their users cause the current scenario of bandwidth now being capped.
What good would a 10mbp/s line do me when I am capped at 1.5mbp/s?
::sighs::
Issues with " followed by a ".
:)
Since I didn't want to go and check out whether or not it was ' or " (only time I use customary is when describing floppy disk sizes, heh) I gambled on ' and obviously lost.
More users == more HW support (or at least cooperation) and more games.
/LOOK/ good. Hell most of them aren't even all that complicated. The main idea is to make it /appear/ that features which have existed for along time in Linux are really New Nifty Things.
/REALLY/ easy. Great UI, and when I am creating something, the UI matters. check out my other rants to see me go pro-CLI. :) ) and Bryce.
Now I don't know about you, but more games. . . . ^_^
Not to mention productivity applications. It'd be sweet to see, say, 3DSM or Rhino3d ported to Linux.
Of course somebody could just write a proffesional level 3d modeler for Linux, but. . . . That would take an entire team of people working their butts off for many years in a row for a product that would be used by a small percent of a decent precent of the computer using community.
The main features I have listed are just mainly things that would cut through the MS FUD and
Yes it itself is FUD, but it at least it would encourage people to switch to an OS that doesn't suck.
Hell I'm -stuck- on windows dispite moral issues with the way MS conducts business. I am stuck on it because I do 3d modeling and animation and that comes first before any ethical issues about where my software comes from. Sorry to say it, but most of the world is that way too.
Sure I could switch to Linux. Sure it'd be more stable and more robust and likely a good deal quicker.
But hell.
WTF would I do with it? I don't type very many documents, I don't do lots of networking stuff, umm. . . . . heh.
Rhino3d 3DSM and even some (yuck) Bryce.
Those programs _MAY_ come to Linux, but only if the Linux user base increases by enough to make it worth the developers while. If the Linux community does go about (and succeed in) attracting those developers to their platform, they will have gained a very valuable ally.
Now excuse me I have to go start up a product spanning across Rhino3d, Photoshop (yah yah I know, but damnit, it makes stuff easy to do,
Call me when those apps are ported.
The main issue with this is that alot of companies just to be shitty and ensure that if a market ever became viable again they could make lots of money off of it (Look at LoTRs. :) ) they would keep on annualy just before the expiration period ran out, 're-releasing' a product.
In other words a 10 copy 'very very very very -very- limited' production set. ^_^