What this probably means is that the EULAs for all the products in the store will be available to be read before you buy the software. (If not on the outside of the box, that being too wordy for most pieces of packaging.) In other words, if you think you might have a problem with what the EULA is going to say, you'd better spend 15 minutes poring over it at Fry's.
Since opening the case voids the warranty, there'd have to be some external tap to plug the RAM into. The N64 had one becase a) dev versions carried more RAM for debugging etc., and b) because they planned to have the 64DD add-on which would include a RAM expansion. When the 64DD got scrapped in the US, they still released the RAM pack because Factor 5 made Rogue Squadron, and it looked schweet. This worked because it was already easy to add the RAM. I don't have a PS2, so I don't know if it has the same little latched cover, but I doubt it--I've never seen it as a selling point of the system, and considering how a bunch of N64 games vield their improved everything with the RAM pack, you'd think that would be a marketable feature--like force feedback was when the Rumble Pack came out.
That's the proxy bidding system at work. The earliest bidder gets priority on the next highest tier of bids, if they said they'd go up that high. Someone tried to outbid opa-opa, and the system kicked in, letting him overpay more thoroughly for his PS2.:P
I always disagreed with Sega's policy of negative marketing, ever since 'Genesis does... what NintenDon't.' It always backfired before, especially the one where Sega took some ex-SNL guy to that trade show and had him do a 'Weekend Updtae' style bit where he libelled the presidents of other software companies... Bernie Stolar paid for that one with his job.
But really, remember the Saturn ad where they used the N64 as skeet, and said, 'Sorry, Plumber-box, you weren't worth the wait."
How many people still use their Saturn? Yeah, thought so.
The PS2 has FSAA capability, and it doesn't cause too much of a performance hit relatively speaking (Some funky hardware thing...), but Sony didn't make it sufficiently clear in their documentation, about how exactly you implement it, so a lot of early games had a lot of jaggies.
I'm pretty sure one will deal with the Daemon storyline introduced during season three... Maybe the other will shed some light on the origin of Lost Angles and the demise of the twin city, hinted at in Season two (It was Bad Bob or AndrAIa, I think.) Can't be sure, though.
You Americans missed a clever joke in talent Night... back when the episode was made, YTV (ReBoot's canadian carrier and partial funder) used a big orange and yellow robot as one of its mascots... the robot made an appearance in Talent Night with logo attached, but when it was broadcast on ABC, the logo was stripped, and it probably didn't mean anythign to you... still, I got a chortle out of it.
ReBoot willl be continued in TV-movies in early 2001... there will be two moves, but I think they'll only be on YTV in Canada... to bad for you Americaners, but maybe someone'll send you a tape.
When ReBoot was first on Cartoon Network, they only had season 1 and later season 2, which were not the best examples on CGI in the current context, but were very advanced for their time, and were passable as far as plot for saturday morning fare. Your typical cartoon didn't deal at all with people being deleted or nullified. Season three was much better, and bear in mind it was meant to look cartooninsh... They finally worked out the issues with explosions consisting of blue expanding spheres, and used particles to good effect, along with all the other animated-y goodless they could now use with increased processing power, and over a year of lead time.
If you look at other more recent Mainframe fare, you'll find that for intensionally cartoon-ish looking CGI, it's quite good... This doesn't could season 1, 2, or 3 of Beast Wars (Beasties in Canad), but it does include Beast Machines and War Planets, which were both eye candy, again with not too bad writing considering they were cartoons, and that as serializations they sometimes had to refresh the viewer's mind as to what had occured of late. (They also kept artificially inserting cheesy lovey-dovey dialog between Black Arachnia and... whoops, season 2 Beast Machines spoiler.... But I forgive them for that, at least in part because of the decent theme music.)
Action Man seems to be another step up in maturity, with real-ish characters, and however an outlandinsh plot, at least the semblance of intelligent attempts at resolution. Once you get past the Fox Kids-Mandated catch phrase, the show ain't too bad, if you like cartoons, and I assume you do.
Also, remember Mainframe has put out more CGI for broadcast than anyone. They therefore deserve a little respect.
I've been a reboot fan since episode one... 'The Tear' I believe. Always been big on mainframe, and season 3 was the best... But I wish they'd rerendered in anamorphic. That'd have been extra schweet.
Disney figured out pretty quickly that putting the Buena Vista Pictures label on Mononoke would draw kids, who would then be horrified and cause parents to boycott them... so they released it untehr their Miramax imprint.
I don't think mexican wrestling could spice up senate proceedings, on account of mexican wrestling requiring a series of exciting and challenging high spots, while a congressional hearing has none. Besides, they'd all come off as cheap rip-offs of Jeff Jarrett, hitting people with guitars and such.
That's an unnecessary level of sophistication. You could simply use the same process Total Recorder uses, or even simpler just use Total Recorder, and set your audio driver to a dummy program, whose function is to write the raw audio data to disk when you want it to, and pass it out to your primary audio device like nothing had happened. This is the same way the previous Secure Music formats were beaten.
I think it's funny that being offended by the racist joke gets modded as a 0, while a racist joke is modded as a 1. Wait a sec, that's not even remotely funny... My mistake.
I think the worst part of this is if Buena Vista did a good job on the Region 1 version (w/ Japanese), they could strike a deal with Miyazaki to distribute an identical, but Region 2 version in Japan--thus bypapssing the piracy problem. (Who'd buy a hacked region 1 disc when they could get a pure region 2 disc for no shipping?) However, by leaving the Japanese off the Region 1 version, they're making more work for the Japanese disc matering crew, reducing the profits from DVD Distro in PM's country of prime revenue, and annoying the people they expect to sell Miyazaki flix to in the future over here in Region 1.
I can, in fact, imagine a beowulf cluster of 'these muthas' as you so delicately put it. It is my firm belief that a beowulf cluster of sevearl million Cyrix 3s would acheive true intelligence, as eash node would have roughly the processing power of a human neuron. (If you're looking for a science fair project, how about this? Cheap, too!)
First off, I never say "Intel sux! M$ sux! BugBusiness sux!", but I also never get modded up. Second, you're making a small fallacy here: If A is B, then Not-A is not necessarily Not-B. That is, just because, say, Microsoft is bad, doesn't make Amiga good. Badness is not exclusive--Microsoft and Intel may have monopolies on Software and Hardware respectively, but neither has successfully monopolized Badness yet, and I am sure neither is in a hurry to. Third, the "Cyrix Sucks" argument raised in these forums follows directly from performance analysis, and not from an incomplete list of facts. Sure, you could use a Cyrix in your laptop--but why? It's slow! Sure it's x86 compatible--but it performs those ops slowly! Sure it's cheap--but you could get far better for barely more! Sure it's non-intel--but it's atrociously awful in every way that 'slashbots' care about! (ie. Quake 3) You are as free as the rest of us to want a choice and to use what fits your needs. However, the/.'ers out here are saying that Cyrix is an option they will not exercise, because it does not fit their needs.
I don't know how much you have to 'breathe' with it, since I heard about either fluorinert or something similar used in premature infants whose diaphragms were insufficiently muscular to expand and contract their lungs--ie. they couldn't breathe. What they did was fill the lungs with Flourinert (or whatever they used) and oxygenate the layer at the top of the throat. The oxygen permates throughout the fluid and transfers directly through the lungs into the bloodstream. Thus, you don't need to breathe it, you just need to take a lungful and pump oxygen into it, and thus the Abyss couldn't almost have worked--exceot that in the movie they did 'breathe' it.
My primary concern with this is BIOSes like ABit's SoftCPU, which set the FSB etc. through the BIOS... if you replace their BIOS with your own Linux BIOS, how will you be able to overclock? If you have a 133MHz proc on a board that supports 100MHz, you'd better hope it sets it to 133 MHz automatically, or you're just throwing cycles in the air willy-nilly.
Obviously the first priority is to make this entirely user-selective, otherwise it's completely useless--if you don't want the mouse to fly to the top right corner, it shouldn't, regardless of whether you're thinking about sex or not. Once you've made it selective, though, any 'privacy' violation is nullified somewhat, because you'd have to specifically volunteer the information for the computer to get it--now, you might do this unconsciously, but that's back across the control threshold. Also, the degree to which you control a device like this is important--would you move the mouse? Would you give keyboard input? Would you make rundll.exe calls? (I assume the drivers are coming out first for windows?) I don't think any of these could single-handedly spell out a privacy violation, unless a log file was generated and uploaded to IBM--And that's pretty noticeable. I remember a while back a person who couldn't move any part of his body had a wire hooked into his brain so he could communicate with his brain... The mouse was jittery, but it worked, allowing the man to click out messages...
...on an on-screen QWERTY keyboard. I suppose interface wasn't a priority.
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What this probably means is that the EULAs for all the products in the store will be available to be read before you buy the software. (If not on the outside of the box, that being too wordy for most pieces of packaging.) In other words, if you think you might have a problem with what the EULA is going to say, you'd better spend 15 minutes poring over it at Fry's.
Since opening the case voids the warranty, there'd have to be some external tap to plug the RAM into. The N64 had one becase a) dev versions carried more RAM for debugging etc., and b) because they planned to have the 64DD add-on which would include a RAM expansion. When the 64DD got scrapped in the US, they still released the RAM pack because Factor 5 made Rogue Squadron, and it looked schweet. This worked because it was already easy to add the RAM. I don't have a PS2, so I don't know if it has the same little latched cover, but I doubt it--I've never seen it as a selling point of the system, and considering how a bunch of N64 games vield their improved everything with the RAM pack, you'd think that would be a marketable feature--like force feedback was when the Rumble Pack came out.
That's the proxy bidding system at work. The earliest bidder gets priority on the next highest tier of bids, if they said they'd go up that high. Someone tried to outbid opa-opa, and the system kicked in, letting him overpay more thoroughly for his PS2. :P
I always disagreed with Sega's policy of negative marketing, ever since 'Genesis does... what NintenDon't.' It always backfired before, especially the one where Sega took some ex-SNL guy to that trade show and had him do a 'Weekend Updtae' style bit where he libelled the presidents of other software companies... Bernie Stolar paid for that one with his job. But really, remember the Saturn ad where they used the N64 as skeet, and said, 'Sorry, Plumber-box, you weren't worth the wait." How many people still use their Saturn? Yeah, thought so.
Heh... I laugh at that paltry sum... half a billion in marketing for a console is strictly average these days...
The PS2 has FSAA capability, and it doesn't cause too much of a performance hit relatively speaking (Some funky hardware thing...), but Sony didn't make it sufficiently clear in their documentation, about how exactly you implement it, so a lot of early games had a lot of jaggies.
I'm pretty sure one will deal with the Daemon storyline introduced during season three... Maybe the other will shed some light on the origin of Lost Angles and the demise of the twin city, hinted at in Season two (It was Bad Bob or AndrAIa, I think.) Can't be sure, though.
You Americans missed a clever joke in talent Night... back when the episode was made, YTV (ReBoot's canadian carrier and partial funder) used a big orange and yellow robot as one of its mascots... the robot made an appearance in Talent Night with logo attached, but when it was broadcast on ABC, the logo was stripped, and it probably didn't mean anythign to you... still, I got a chortle out of it.
ReBoot willl be continued in TV-movies in early 2001... there will be two moves, but I think they'll only be on YTV in Canada... to bad for you Americaners, but maybe someone'll send you a tape.
When ReBoot was first on Cartoon Network, they only had season 1 and later season 2, which were not the best examples on CGI in the current context, but were very advanced for their time, and were passable as far as plot for saturday morning fare. Your typical cartoon didn't deal at all with people being deleted or nullified. Season three was much better, and bear in mind it was meant to look cartooninsh... They finally worked out the issues with explosions consisting of blue expanding spheres, and used particles to good effect, along with all the other animated-y goodless they could now use with increased processing power, and over a year of lead time.
If you look at other more recent Mainframe fare, you'll find that for intensionally cartoon-ish looking CGI, it's quite good... This doesn't could season 1, 2, or 3 of Beast Wars (Beasties in Canad), but it does include Beast Machines and War Planets, which were both eye candy, again with not too bad writing considering they were cartoons, and that as serializations they sometimes had to refresh the viewer's mind as to what had occured of late. (They also kept artificially inserting cheesy lovey-dovey dialog between Black Arachnia and... whoops, season 2 Beast Machines spoiler.... But I forgive them for that, at least in part because of the decent theme music.)
Action Man seems to be another step up in maturity, with real-ish characters, and however an outlandinsh plot, at least the semblance of intelligent attempts at resolution. Once you get past the Fox Kids-Mandated catch phrase, the show ain't too bad, if you like cartoons, and I assume you do.
Also, remember Mainframe has put out more CGI for broadcast than anyone. They therefore deserve a little respect.
I've been a reboot fan since episode one... 'The Tear' I believe. Always been big on mainframe, and season 3 was the best... But I wish they'd rerendered in anamorphic. That'd have been extra schweet.
Disney figured out pretty quickly that putting the Buena Vista Pictures label on Mononoke would draw kids, who would then be horrified and cause parents to boycott them... so they released it untehr their Miramax imprint.
I don't think mexican wrestling could spice up senate proceedings, on account of mexican wrestling requiring a series of exciting and challenging high spots, while a congressional hearing has none. Besides, they'd all come off as cheap rip-offs of Jeff Jarrett, hitting people with guitars and such.
That's an unnecessary level of sophistication. You could simply use the same process Total Recorder uses, or even simpler just use Total Recorder, and set your audio driver to a dummy program, whose function is to write the raw audio data to disk when you want it to, and pass it out to your primary audio device like nothing had happened. This is the same way the previous Secure Music formats were beaten.
Nice try, but you'll screw up your sound on the scenes Diney edited for Region 1 film distro. Soooo close, and yet so far...
I think it's funny that being offended by the racist joke gets modded as a 0, while a racist joke is modded as a 1. Wait a sec, that's not even remotely funny... My mistake.
I think the worst part of this is if Buena Vista did a good job on the Region 1 version (w/ Japanese), they could strike a deal with Miyazaki to distribute an identical, but Region 2 version in Japan--thus bypapssing the piracy problem. (Who'd buy a hacked region 1 disc when they could get a pure region 2 disc for no shipping?) However, by leaving the Japanese off the Region 1 version, they're making more work for the Japanese disc matering crew, reducing the profits from DVD Distro in PM's country of prime revenue, and annoying the people they expect to sell Miyazaki flix to in the future over here in Region 1.
I can, in fact, imagine a beowulf cluster of 'these muthas' as you so delicately put it. It is my firm belief that a beowulf cluster of sevearl million Cyrix 3s would acheive true intelligence, as eash node would have roughly the processing power of a human neuron. (If you're looking for a science fair project, how about this? Cheap, too!)
First off, I never say "Intel sux! M$ sux! BugBusiness sux!", but I also never get modded up. /.'ers out here are saying that Cyrix is an option they will not exercise, because it does not fit their needs.
Second, you're making a small fallacy here: If A is B, then Not-A is not necessarily Not-B. That is, just because, say, Microsoft is bad, doesn't make Amiga good. Badness is not exclusive--Microsoft and Intel may have monopolies on Software and Hardware respectively, but neither has successfully monopolized Badness yet, and I am sure neither is in a hurry to.
Third, the "Cyrix Sucks" argument raised in these forums follows directly from performance analysis, and not from an incomplete list of facts. Sure, you could use a Cyrix in your laptop--but why? It's slow! Sure it's x86 compatible--but it performs those ops slowly! Sure it's cheap--but you could get far better for barely more! Sure it's non-intel--but it's atrociously awful in every way that 'slashbots' care about! (ie. Quake 3) You are as free as the rest of us to want a choice and to use what fits your needs. However, the
I don't know how much you have to 'breathe' with it, since I heard about either fluorinert or something similar used in premature infants whose diaphragms were insufficiently muscular to expand and contract their lungs--ie. they couldn't breathe. What they did was fill the lungs with Flourinert (or whatever they used) and oxygenate the layer at the top of the throat. The oxygen permates throughout the fluid and transfers directly through the lungs into the bloodstream. Thus, you don't need to breathe it, you just need to take a lungful and pump oxygen into it, and thus the Abyss couldn't almost have worked--exceot that in the movie they did 'breathe' it.
My primary concern with this is BIOSes like ABit's SoftCPU, which set the FSB etc. through the BIOS... if you replace their BIOS with your own Linux BIOS, how will you be able to overclock? If you have a 133MHz proc on a board that supports 100MHz, you'd better hope it sets it to 133 MHz automatically, or you're just throwing cycles in the air willy-nilly.
I remember a while back a person who couldn't move any part of his body had a wire hooked into his brain so he could communicate with his brain... The mouse was jittery, but it worked, allowing the man to click out messages...