At least according to a race sim maniac like me, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" would be a good candidate for a more up to date version of the worst games ever list. Wikipedia has some nice words about this quite extraordinary game.
As some have already pointed out, this is only for consumers in the United States.
What I really would like to know (well, I would also like to know if other regions have the same fault) is that is it impossible for non-US people like me to get a replaced disc. I am not living in US but I have some US R1 discs that are in the list of faulty discs. Well, at least one, This is Spinal Tap!:)
I have a very low opinion of anybody who could spend twenty years of experience in the IT industry without using more than one OS.
And I have a very low opinion of anybody who obiviously hasn't read the article but thinks he is qualified enough anyway to make a comment like this. If you had RTFA, you might have noticed something about Mac and even OS/2.
they're not THAT expensive, and its probably not worth the effort at all to try and duplicate all that functionality.
But how useful is TiVo for those of us who are not living in the US?
I've been looking at Freevo after I had problems getting working MythTV-binaries. But now I think that my TV-card is broken and I would be happy to buy a TiVo. But I guess it is quite handicapped here in Finland...
fortunately we still have something that reminds of citizen rights, this side of the pond.
Yeah, but think about the unfortunate ones living on the other side of the pond, in America...
I am serious.
Really!
Will there be CDs in the future?
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I don't know about that 3 percents, but I am certainly buying less music. It is not very easy to find new interesting artists when all the new music you can hear is some playlist pop.
And then when you find an interesting CD in the store, there is always the suspicion that is it a CD after all. Last week I was at a store, found an interesting title (well the new best of Led Zeppelin or something). I tried to find any indication of any copy protection method used on the CD and did not find any. But I also could not find any indication that it is NOT copy protected. And the shopgirls were too busy handling other customes, so I wasn't going to stand in queue for five minutes just to ask "I this CD?"
That day the music industry did not get that CD sold just because the potential customer was so suspicious about their product. I hope that in the future the customer can rely on getting a quality product, but it is up to the music industry to stop this madness.
For example, the latest System of a Down CD did not have a cover booklet, but rather had embedded the pictures, lyrics and credits on the CD itself, only to be unlocked by an application downloadable from their website.
And guess how well this works if you don't have a system which meets the system requirements? I have a Linux system and it seems that I have no way of accessing the information on this CD. Nice idea though, even though the implementation sucks.
And by the way, I did not steal this album, I bought it. I had somehow always thought that SOAD is one of those typical nu-metal crap bands, but I had heard so much praise about Toxicity. So... I downloaded Toxicity mp3:s... And I was blown away! Next time I went to a record shop, I bought the three SOAD CDs. I would have never done that without those nasty pirated mp3:s that are the worst thing that ever happened to mankind and propably causes famine in Africa because RIAA did not get money (until I bought the CD:s of course)..
That's added value. The CD itself has more information and value than the collection of the same songs on mp3.
To me that is not added value. I cannot view the pictures and lyrics and whatever they have put on that CD just because I dont use Windows. I am left with a normal music CD (I guess it is *not* "copy-protected") with no inlay card. But I am not too pissed, the music kicks ass:)
It's an obvious point to make but the games back in the day (text adventures etc) had such great gameplay that you could sit there for hours learning all the foibles tricks..
You are in a dark cavern. In the south there is a huge two headed troll blocking the exit. The troll says "It costs 10 gold coins to pass". Possible exits are north.
> give money to troll
I don't understand.
> give 10 coins to troll
I don't understand.
> give money to troll
I don't understand.
> pay troll
I don't understand.
> F**K!!! &/#/&#&""!!!!!!!!!!!
Troll attacks you. He hits you. You are dead. Game over.
Well, seriously. I might be a dinosaur, but do the latest games really offer something new that you really have to buy them and then upgrade your computer to be able to play them? Grand Prix Legends, besides having a cool three letter abbreviation, was released in 1998 and still has a huge following. GPL-community races online, makes graphical updates, creates new tracks... For four years, GPL has basically been the only game I have played.
I mean, if you really need to buy many games a year, should you consider buying only good games instead of disposable crap?:)
Well, now I guess it would be clever not to mention all the upgrades I have made for my PC just for GPL...
Back in the dark ages when PC games were mostly DOS-games, IBM released a quite unique game called Quest for Fame. It included a thingy called VPick, a virtual pick connected to the parallel port which you used to strum against any surface following the rhythm of the song. The game was some sort of adventure. You started in a garage band and the ultimate objective was to get on stage on a stadium gig with Aerosmith.
Many things could go wrong on your quest for fame. I still have nightmares about that one gig when I was still in that garage band. Some motorbike guys come the club where we are playing and demanded us to play Steppenwolf. Well, of course we hadn't practiced any Steppenwolf songs...:-)
Great game. The system requirements at the back of the box say "Windows 3.1 or higher". I wonder if it would work under WINE.:)
There is not very much infor about this game in the web. The best I could find was
this. It seems that this was
also released for Playstation. I think there was supposed to be more PC-games based on the VPick, but I've never heard about any.
The way you have spam protected your email-address works only for certain keyboard layouts. For example, I have finnish keyboard layout and left-shifting '/' gives me '&' instead of the inteded '.' in the US keyboard layout...
I really don't understand the fuss about 64-bit chips. Or even 32-bit chips. Shouldn't 16-bit chips be enough because as we all know 64k should be enough for everybody.
Otto Schily, the German Federal Minister of the Interior, announced last Monday a deal with IBM to promote, for the pubic sector, hardware and software products that support Linux.
I wonder what kind of hardware and software are used in the pubic sector.
An Open Source company Snort-Omicron today announced the the version 6.1 of their WWW-browser Eternal Imploder which contains the brand new Smart Ass-tags technology. The Smart Ass-tags insert hyperlinks into web-pages so that users can get more nasty jokes about the subject of the web page. The beta-version of EI 6.1 only contains material on certain quite big Redmond-based software house but the final release version has lots more interesting stuff Snort-Omicron finds relevant.
Web-page authors may turn of the Smart Ass-tags feature on their web-pages by using a meta-tag. For security reasons the meta-tag changes daily and license program for the daily meta-tags will be announced soon (you know, they have to make money somehow...)
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At least according to a race sim maniac like me, "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" would be a good candidate for a more up to date version of the worst games ever list. Wikipedia has some nice words about this quite extraordinary game.
As some have already pointed out, this is only for consumers in the United States. What I really would like to know (well, I would also like to know if other regions have the same fault) is that is it impossible for non-US people like me to get a replaced disc. I am not living in US but I have some US R1 discs that are in the list of faulty discs. Well, at least one, This is Spinal Tap! :)
"I was surfing in the net. And then, like, bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep! And then, like, half of the web page was gone. And I was, like, Huh?"
Could the significant findings be weapons of mass destruction? You never know what those Martians have been planning.
Actually, I think he is a mormon. :-P
Are you sure the French goverment says "goodbye email", wouldn't that be against their language policy?
And I have a very low opinion of anybody who obiviously hasn't read the article but thinks he is qualified enough anyway to make a comment like this. If you had RTFA, you might have noticed something about Mac and even OS/2.
But how useful is TiVo for those of us who are not living in the US?
I've been looking at Freevo after I had problems getting working MythTV-binaries. But now I think that my TV-card is broken and I would be happy to buy a TiVo. But I guess it is quite handicapped here in Finland...
And I am surprised that you didn't read the article before commenting on it...
Yeah, but think about the unfortunate ones living on the other side of the pond, in America...
I am serious.
Really!
And then when you find an interesting CD in the store, there is always the suspicion that is it a CD after all. Last week I was at a store, found an interesting title (well the new best of Led Zeppelin or something). I tried to find any indication of any copy protection method used on the CD and did not find any. But I also could not find any indication that it is NOT copy protected. And the shopgirls were too busy handling other customes, so I wasn't going to stand in queue for five minutes just to ask "I this CD?"
That day the music industry did not get that CD sold just because the potential customer was so suspicious about their product. I hope that in the future the customer can rely on getting a quality product, but it is up to the music industry to stop this madness.
And guess how well this works if you don't have a system which meets the system requirements? I have a Linux system and it seems that I have no way of accessing the information on this CD. Nice idea though, even though the implementation sucks.
And by the way, I did not steal this album, I bought it. I had somehow always thought that SOAD is one of those typical nu-metal crap bands, but I had heard so much praise about Toxicity. So... I downloaded Toxicity mp3:s... And I was blown away! Next time I went to a record shop, I bought the three SOAD CDs. I would have never done that without those nasty pirated mp3:s that are the worst thing that ever happened to mankind and propably causes famine in Africa because RIAA did not get money (until I bought the CD:s of course)..
To me that is not added value. I cannot view the pictures and lyrics and whatever they have put on that CD just because I dont use Windows. I am left with a normal music CD (I guess it is *not* "copy-protected") with no inlay card. But I am not too pissed, the music kicks ass :)
If I combine this with the thing that the clever Irish teenager invented, XWEBS, does it mean that I can surf 40 times faster?
Anyway, it is a good thing that Wizard is not a registered trademark of Microsoft.
You are in a dark cavern. In the south there is a huge two headed troll blocking the exit. The troll says "It costs 10 gold coins to pass". Possible exits are north.
> give money to troll
I don't understand.
> give 10 coins to troll
I don't understand.
> give money to troll
I don't understand.
> pay troll
I don't understand.
> F**K!!! &/#/&#&""!!!!!!!!!!!
Troll attacks you. He hits you. You are dead. Game over.
Oh, the nostalgia...
With Grand Prix Legends I dont want to play games released last year.
Well, seriously. I might be a dinosaur, but do the latest games really offer something new that you really have to buy them and then upgrade your computer to be able to play them? Grand Prix Legends, besides having a cool three letter abbreviation, was released in 1998 and still has a huge following. GPL-community races online, makes graphical updates, creates new tracks... For four years, GPL has basically been the only game I have played.
I mean, if you really need to buy many games a year, should you consider buying only good games instead of disposable crap? :)
Well, now I guess it would be clever not to mention all the upgrades I have made for my PC just for GPL...
Does this idea against "computer viral epidemics" kill all GPL'd software?
Many things could go wrong on your quest for fame. I still have nightmares about that one gig when I was still in that garage band. Some motorbike guys come the club where we are playing and demanded us to play Steppenwolf. Well, of course we hadn't practiced any Steppenwolf songs... :-)
Great game. The system requirements at the back of the box say "Windows 3.1 or higher". I wonder if it would work under WINE. :)
There is not very much infor about this game in the web. The best I could find was this. It seems that this was also released for Playstation. I think there was supposed to be more PC-games based on the VPick, but I've never heard about any.
The way you have spam protected your email-address works only for certain keyboard layouts. For example, I have finnish keyboard layout and left-shifting '/' gives me '&' instead of the inteded '.' in the US keyboard layout...
I really don't understand the fuss about 64-bit chips. Or even 32-bit chips. Shouldn't 16-bit chips be enough because as we all know 64k should be enough for everybody.
Yeah. Now the CDs are already broken before shipping.
A quote from the article:
I wonder what kind of hardware and software are used in the pubic sector.
An Open Source company Snort-Omicron today announced the the version 6.1 of their WWW-browser Eternal Imploder which contains the brand new Smart Ass-tags technology. The Smart Ass-tags insert hyperlinks into web-pages so that users can get more nasty jokes about the subject of the web page. The beta-version of EI 6.1 only contains material on certain quite big Redmond-based software house but the final release version has lots more interesting stuff Snort-Omicron finds relevant.
Web-page authors may turn of the Smart Ass-tags feature on their web-pages by using a meta-tag. For security reasons the meta-tag changes daily and license program for the daily meta-tags will be announced soon (you know, they have to make money somehow...)
Well, maybe he runs Windows on his laptops?