I was picturing some kind of Mortal Kombat 2 deal, myself. Rip their bodies to peices and just preserve their faces with a bit of dangling entrails. But it would have to look realistic enough to make the 12 year old girls have nightmares akin to them being locked in a small room with Frank Zappa and Marilyn Manson.
Oh, then you never got to the coolest animation in FF8; there was this summon called Eden that took at LEAST 8 minutes to hit. It was damn cool the first time around, and progressivly more pernicious every time after that.
FF7 had some long f'ing summons. Remember Knights of the Round? Not only did you have to go through the trouble of breeding a gold chocobo (which, I might add, was actually enjoyable with the whole racing minigame... FF7 is definitly the best of the last three), but then you had to sit through a five minute animation! But, if your levels were high enough, it would inflict up to the max (9999 HP) damage per hit (and there were 13 or so hits). The only bad part is how much MP it drained... so just carry a bunch of elixers, cast double or some such on your summoner, and have everyone else support him. KoTR was also the only way to take down those Ruby and Emerald WEAPONs (granted, you still needed to be at level 99). But anyway...
FF9 did away with the long summons and only played them for the first time you cast, and then randomly after like that. It's a smart idea, but then again, there was nothing much memorable about the FF9 summons anyway (or the game, for that matter). But I don't really like this system either, because maybe I'd want to watch the animations a few more times before bidding them adeu. I'd be in favor of a system where you can skip through it by pressing a button. Besides, an advantage of long summons during difficult boss fights is that you have all that extra time to articulate your attack and better plan your strategy. So really, it's a mixed blessing.
Ah fuck it, it's eye candy, and eye candy is good. I'll trade a few hundred MP and minutes of my life to be dazzled by pretty colours.
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Indeed. The first Phantasmagoria was much more violent than the second (though the second was a better game). However the thing that drew me to the point of gagging in the first one was the little FMV you saw when you looked in the mirror in the dining room (on the 7th or 6th disc I believe). That seriously disturbed me (for those who have not seen it, it involved a guy strapping his wife to a wooden platform which held her mouth open, at which point he put a funnel in her mouth and kept force-feeding her various raw, bloody body parts until she sufficated). Yeah, it was sickening, but I'd rather be forced to test my gag reflex than be censored.
There's this Thinkgeek add on the top of my page now that reads something like: "CDs, great for... pirated software (don't worry, we won't tell)." I always knew they were up to no good.
Uhm.... as I said there is a big difference between basic (the language) and the bs stamp (an actual board, with sevral chips and lots of supporting components). With PICs, you can program the chips in basic, but you must compile it first, which even the average windows luser can do. Not to mention that the Stamp costs (retail) around $50 more than a single chip. Plus there are the other advantages of a single chip (low power consumption, less points of failure, smaller boards), and they can still be reprogrammed if need be over a three-wire serial interface (Vss, Vdd, signal). The 16K ram size was just one of the variations. If you look on microchip.com you'll see that there is a wide variety down to 1K if you only needed that much...
Ugh. Forget it... no offense, but you are clearly not knowledgable about this type of thing. I just think a 8 (or 16) pin PLCC or S mount chip and a resonator is preferable to a 2"x4" board (see reasons above).
Uses a basic stamp for interfacing? What a piece of shit (not to be base or anything). I'm sorry but any product that needs a eeprom dedicated to interpriting serial BASIC code is not something I would buy (not to mention it is slow as hell).
If they needed to use basic, they should be using something like the PicBASIC Compiler, which will optimize the equivalent code and compile it into hex (so there's no need for a basic interpriter on the board). It still boggels the mind as to why they would use a basic stamp when something like picbasic (or just learn pic asm! It's not hard!) on one of the new higher end PIC Micros (like the 17Fx series... here) with 16K of flash memory. BS Stamps use one of these themselves (though I think they use the older 16F84), but the code is stored onboard as BASIC and then interprited through a seperate serial line and micro controller.
Huh? I have computer in my trunk with a 40 GB hard drive. Right now it's at around 75% capacity, and has ~4000 songs (in the days of napster, I was the uber-leech... though I must say I've bought atleast 50 CDs from stuff I've downloaded... but that's another story).
Personally, I wish the PR droids would stop assuming everyone in the world used 128 kb/s encoding for their music. I prefer to use 192 kb/s when encoding, and usually don't download anything but. Really, 128 kb/s sounds like absolute shit over any decent sound system. I suppose if you're just listening with "ear buds" or some crappy $10 headphones, it doesn't make a difference. The 10 GB "embedded" drive in this device says 3000? Assuming that is at 128 kb/s (could be less), that's 2000 -- not 3000. When you have a decent album collection, 2000 is not much of anything.
In retrospect... nah, there's no way that "3000" figure could even be 128 kb/s for a 10 GB drive... it must be something lower like 96 kb/s (which means only 1500 songs at 192 kb/s). Still better than carrying around a CD player, but if you're using this in your car, just roll your own damn mp3 player. It impresses the chicks.
...too bad that doesn't make a fun game. I swear I spent more time with my hands off the controller, watching a cutscene of some sort, than actually _playing_ the damn game. It's all beautifully done, but there's just too much inactivity for what is supposed to be an action game.
The action that it does have is superb, and the storyline is definitly the best in the series. But overall, it just wasn't as satisfying and FUN as the original MGS (for PS1). I don't really have any incentive or urge to play it over again.
Maybe I was just expecting too much, but I must say that I'm dissapointed. If I had to give it a rating, it would be 8.5/10. Oh well. Back to Grand Theft Auto III.
But then again, it will result in some interesting technological develpments, so I can think of things that could be worse wastes of taxes.
Yeah. Too bad that any interesting technology would probably not be released to the public domain in the name (rather, under the guise) of national security. We can wave the FIA (Freedom of Information Act) in their face, but "our" government seems to have no problem overturning other legislation under the guise of national security; I doubt this will be any different.
Number of people lining up to see the X-Box demo: 0
Well, there may be reason for that -- the same reason as for those "malfunctioning" units. In my local EB, the X-Box kiosk was places within a few yards of the register. It got to the point where they couldn't tell who was on line and who was just waiting for their turn on Xbox, so they just turned the thing off. They now refer to it as "black box".
...would prosocute the kernel developers as a result of full disclosure? I thought the DMCA's "circumvention" clauses only apply to the company/entity that made the product which is being exploited? I seriously doubt anyone on the kernel development team would satrt a lawsuit.
Alan has done some great work. But he really needs to step off of his soap box for a few minutes.
Up until recently I've never had a problem with PayPal. However, that's because I never came near the $1000 limit for "unverified" users.
I recently bought a high-priced item over eBay and wanted to pay for it through PayPal. Unfortunaly, the item's cost was $20 over my "unverified" user limit. In order to continue getting use of my account, I must give them a bank account number? Are they insane?
I ended up just sending the guy a postal money order. I was willing to verify a home address, but a checking/bank account is going too far. I guess I'll just sign up for another account...
Agreed. However, you'd never hear that from eBay. They seem to like to hawk their own service, Billpoint, which I've never used, but looks similar to PayPal.
MacIntalk is older than that, and quite franky, it rocks. Man or Astroman (one of the greatest bands ever -- especially live) use it as their lead singer. Fred really can sing.
In other news, "Man or Astroman wants all the party people.. to say.... yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh"
And by the way, the voice on "Fitter, Happier" (Radiohead) was actually Thom during an especially intense episode of innebriation >:P
I developed my own mp3 player as well >:P Arise Computer. They're nicely made to fit into the same space as a standard supply (they also have mini versions, if you're making your own box), and cost under $90. Considering that most homebrew dc-dc supplies cost about $50 in parts alone, there's really no point in building your own.
By the way, as of right now, Arise only sells AT supplies. However, I've called them and inquired about an ATX (+3.3V) supply. They will have one out in "early November" for $90. Well worth it.
I have a lot of computers on my network, and I really don't feel like going to each one and changing settings to "impersonate" IE. I also have a box with junkbuster to act as a proxy. Is there any way to change the browser name in the junkbstr.ini? IIRC, junkbuster just blocks the browser name, and sets the http-refer to internet.junkbuster.com.
If you're going many levels deep into complicated bit-fiddling, then I think a small comment could be helpfull. However, other than that, I agree that over-commented code looks like something out of "C for Dummies".
Hey, the lack of support for my Voodoo 3 3000 was just enough motivation for me to put down the money for a GeForce II Ultra. >:)
See, a lack of support can be a good thing...
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Also my favorite level.
I never liked using the flamethrower or molotovs because it was just too easy (and back when I ran this on my 233 MHz Win95 box, it brought the thing down to around 3 FPS). Personally, I liked to place three or so timed mines set to detonate as the band members walked over them, then as they scatter whip out the automatic shotgun and MOW them down. "I can't feel my legs!"
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I was picturing some kind of Mortal Kombat 2 deal, myself. Rip their bodies to peices and just preserve their faces with a bit of dangling entrails. But it would have to look realistic enough to make the 12 year old girls have nightmares akin to them being locked in a small room with Frank Zappa and Marilyn Manson.
Well, I just bound stuff like "gg" and "nice" to keys. It's faster.
Map changes, my friend. Map changes (or as I call them, 10 seconds of eye/wrist relief).
Alexander took what, 2 minutes?
Oh, then you never got to the coolest animation in FF8; there was this summon called Eden that took at LEAST 8 minutes to hit. It was damn cool the first time around, and progressivly more pernicious every time after that.
FF7 had some long f'ing summons. Remember Knights of the Round? Not only did you have to go through the trouble of breeding a gold chocobo (which, I might add, was actually enjoyable with the whole racing minigame... FF7 is definitly the best of the last three), but then you had to sit through a five minute animation! But, if your levels were high enough, it would inflict up to the max (9999 HP) damage per hit (and there were 13 or so hits). The only bad part is how much MP it drained... so just carry a bunch of elixers, cast double or some such on your summoner, and have everyone else support him. KoTR was also the only way to take down those Ruby and Emerald WEAPONs (granted, you still needed to be at level 99). But anyway...
FF9 did away with the long summons and only played them for the first time you cast, and then randomly after like that. It's a smart idea, but then again, there was nothing much memorable about the FF9 summons anyway (or the game, for that matter). But I don't really like this system either, because maybe I'd want to watch the animations a few more times before bidding them adeu. I'd be in favor of a system where you can skip through it by pressing a button. Besides, an advantage of long summons during difficult boss fights is that you have all that extra time to articulate your attack and better plan your strategy. So really, it's a mixed blessing.
Ah fuck it, it's eye candy, and eye candy is good. I'll trade a few hundred MP and minutes of my life to be dazzled by pretty colours.
Indeed. The first Phantasmagoria was much more violent than the second (though the second was a better game). However the thing that drew me to the point of gagging in the first one was the little FMV you saw when you looked in the mirror in the dining room (on the 7th or 6th disc I believe). That seriously disturbed me (for those who have not seen it, it involved a guy strapping his wife to a wooden platform which held her mouth open, at which point he put a funnel in her mouth and kept force-feeding her various raw, bloody body parts until she sufficated). Yeah, it was sickening, but I'd rather be forced to test my gag reflex than be censored.
There's this Thinkgeek add on the top of my page now that reads something like: "CDs, great for ... pirated software (don't worry, we won't tell)." I always knew they were up to no good.
Uhm.... as I said there is a big difference between basic (the language) and the bs stamp (an actual board, with sevral chips and lots of supporting components). With PICs, you can program the chips in basic, but you must compile it first, which even the average windows luser can do. Not to mention that the Stamp costs (retail) around $50 more than a single chip. Plus there are the other advantages of a single chip (low power consumption, less points of failure, smaller boards), and they can still be reprogrammed if need be over a three-wire serial interface (Vss, Vdd, signal). The 16K ram size was just one of the variations. If you look on microchip.com you'll see that there is a wide variety down to 1K if you only needed that much...
Ugh. Forget it... no offense, but you are clearly not knowledgable about this type of thing. I just think a 8 (or 16) pin PLCC or S mount chip and a resonator is preferable to a 2"x4" board (see reasons above).
Uses a basic stamp for interfacing? What a piece of shit (not to be base or anything). I'm sorry but any product that needs a eeprom dedicated to interpriting serial BASIC code is not something I would buy (not to mention it is slow as hell).
If they needed to use basic, they should be using something like the PicBASIC Compiler, which will optimize the equivalent code and compile it into hex (so there's no need for a basic interpriter on the board). It still boggels the mind as to why they would use a basic stamp when something like picbasic (or just learn pic asm! It's not hard!) on one of the new higher end PIC Micros (like the 17Fx series... here) with 16K of flash memory. BS Stamps use one of these themselves (though I think they use the older 16F84), but the code is stored onboard as BASIC and then interprited through a seperate serial line and micro controller.
Other than that, i still think it's just stupid. There's only one good reason to have a computer in your car....
Huh? I have computer in my trunk with a 40 GB hard drive. Right now it's at around 75% capacity, and has ~4000 songs (in the days of napster, I was the uber-leech... though I must say I've bought atleast 50 CDs from stuff I've downloaded... but that's another story).
Personally, I wish the PR droids would stop assuming everyone in the world used 128 kb/s encoding for their music. I prefer to use 192 kb/s when encoding, and usually don't download anything but. Really, 128 kb/s sounds like absolute shit over any decent sound system. I suppose if you're just listening with "ear buds" or some crappy $10 headphones, it doesn't make a difference. The 10 GB "embedded" drive in this device says 3000? Assuming that is at 128 kb/s (could be less), that's 2000 -- not 3000. When you have a decent album collection, 2000 is not much of anything.
In retrospect... nah, there's no way that "3000" figure could even be 128 kb/s for a 10 GB drive... it must be something lower like 96 kb/s (which means only 1500 songs at 192 kb/s). Still better than carrying around a CD player, but if you're using this in your car, just roll your own damn mp3 player. It impresses the chicks.
...too bad that doesn't make a fun game. I swear I spent more time with my hands off the controller, watching a cutscene of some sort, than actually _playing_ the damn game. It's all beautifully done, but there's just too much inactivity for what is supposed to be an action game.
The action that it does have is superb, and the storyline is definitly the best in the series. But overall, it just wasn't as satisfying and FUN as the original MGS (for PS1). I don't really have any incentive or urge to play it over again.
Maybe I was just expecting too much, but I must say that I'm dissapointed. If I had to give it a rating, it would be 8.5/10. Oh well. Back to Grand Theft Auto III.
Especially /usr/bin/fortune. Let's see...
evilpenguin@paladin:~$ fortune
Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
Exactly.
But then again, it will result in some interesting technological develpments, so I can think of things that could be worse wastes of taxes.
Yeah. Too bad that any interesting technology would probably not be released to the public domain in the name (rather, under the guise) of national security. We can wave the FIA (Freedom of Information Act) in their face, but "our" government seems to have no problem overturning other legislation under the guise of national security; I doubt this will be any different.
Number of people lining up to see the X-Box demo: 0
Well, there may be reason for that -- the same reason as for those "malfunctioning" units. In my local EB, the X-Box kiosk was places within a few yards of the register. It got to the point where they couldn't tell who was on line and who was just waiting for their turn on Xbox, so they just turned the thing off. They now refer to it as "black box".
System of a Down worked fine for me too.
Somehow, a SoaD CD with copy protection just seems a little oxymoronic. "They're trying to build a prison for you and me....."
...would prosocute the kernel developers as a result of full disclosure? I thought the DMCA's "circumvention" clauses only apply to the company/entity that made the product which is being exploited? I seriously doubt anyone on the kernel development team would satrt a lawsuit.
Alan has done some great work. But he really needs to step off of his soap box for a few minutes.
Up until recently I've never had a problem with PayPal. However, that's because I never came near the $1000 limit for "unverified" users.
I recently bought a high-priced item over eBay and wanted to pay for it through PayPal. Unfortunaly, the item's cost was $20 over my "unverified" user limit. In order to continue getting use of my account, I must give them a bank account number? Are they insane?
I ended up just sending the guy a postal money order. I was willing to verify a home address, but a checking/bank account is going too far. I guess I'll just sign up for another account...
Agreed. However, you'd never hear that from eBay. They seem to like to hawk their own service, Billpoint, which I've never used, but looks similar to PayPal.
MacIntalk is older than that, and quite franky, it rocks. Man or Astroman (one of the greatest bands ever -- especially live) use it as their lead singer. Fred really can sing.
In other news, "Man or Astroman wants all the party people.. to say.... yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh"
And by the way, the voice on "Fitter, Happier" (Radiohead) was actually Thom during an especially intense episode of innebriation >:P
Maybe chrisd meant here. The page he posted was the mirrored sites AT kernel.org.
I developed my own mp3 player as well >:P
Arise Computer. They're nicely made to fit into the same space as a standard supply (they also have mini versions, if you're making your own box), and cost under $90. Considering that most homebrew dc-dc supplies cost about $50 in parts alone, there's really no point in building your own.
By the way, as of right now, Arise only sells AT supplies. However, I've called them and inquired about an ATX (+3.3V) supply. They will have one out in "early November" for $90. Well worth it.
I have a lot of computers on my network, and I really don't feel like going to each one and changing settings to "impersonate" IE. I also have a box with junkbuster to act as a proxy. Is there any way to change the browser name in the junkbstr.ini? IIRC, junkbuster just blocks the browser name, and sets the http-refer to internet.junkbuster.com.
Anyone out there who's done this?
root@paladin:~$ cd /usr/bin
root@paladin:/usr/bin$ ln -s elvis emacs
I'm sure my shell users will be happy.
Well, within reason, of course.
If you're going many levels deep into complicated bit-fiddling, then I think a small comment could be helpfull. However, other than that, I agree that over-commented code looks like something out of "C for Dummies".
Hey, the lack of support for my Voodoo 3 3000 was just enough motivation for me to put down the money for a GeForce II Ultra. >:)
See, a lack of support can be a good thing...
Also my favorite level.
I never liked using the flamethrower or molotovs because it was just too easy (and back when I ran this on my 233 MHz Win95 box, it brought the thing down to around 3 FPS). Personally, I liked to place three or so timed mines set to detonate as the band members walked over them, then as they scatter whip out the automatic shotgun and MOW them down. "I can't feel my legs!"
Ah... memories...