"If I recall correctly, Nintendo's foray into video games grew out of their interests in pachinko."
Close. Nintendo started out making playing cards for gambling. They may have made pachinko machines for a while, but cards were their bread and butter for many years.
I guess we now know that OSNews will post anything submitted to them that has to do with an OS. Who's going to be the first to submit "A Look Back: Installing Windows 3.1"?
Nemesis tanked for the same reason that UHF did in 1989... too many other good movies for the fanbase to watch. The Two Towers was still in the theaters, the James Bond flick was playing, and so was Harry Potter. All of these movies have a good "sci-fi geek" following, so people just didn't have enough money or time to see Nemesis. That's how it was for me, I would have rather seen Two Towers multiple times than see Nemesis once.
UHF was going up against Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in the summer of '89. Plus, it's a weird movie. But it deserves more credit than it gets!
SDF isn't just free. There are services which require a monthly payment. DNS services, extended quotas, virtual domains, things like that. It was a short-sighted move on NWLink's part to deal with the problem that way.
That's exactly what I was thinking! There's always more than one way to do things. Hell, if you want to save the result for posterity, pipe it out to a file!
It's really not a whole lot different than when arcades had their heyday. The kids are socializing with the other people playing. Of course, arcade machines didn't let you type insults at each other, so you had to be sort of tactful when you talked to one another, so that's a bit weird, but still, I wouldn't worry about the future of our culture.
Yeah, I'm sure that's why Britain's not a technological superpower anymore. Flag-waving pedestrians. How about this idea? They just didn't have as many good ideas? Plus, they were right smack dab in the middle of World War I and II, leaving their scientists busy thinking of ways to defend their asses full-time, rather than dedicating just a portion of their scientists to war. Come on now, the US isn't going to get all stupid because one town banned Segways on sidewalks. We'll just invent offroad Segways with kick-ass shocks and knobby tires, and come up with a new "extreme sport."
Well, they could sign to a foreign country's label, or a more rational idea would be to just make sure that they don't sign over ownership of their works, just grant the record label the right to publish it for a period of time. Nobody's holding a gun to these peoples' heads. If they feel that the only way to succeed is to sign away their work, then screw them, they should have gotten a smarter lawyer.
There's really no need to worry about your privacy if you pay for your RFID'ed items in cash. That way nothing will be linked to you specifically. I suppose if the police or whoever is tracking you finds a way to link you with your possessions, you'll be in trouble, but then there's the whole concept of borrowing.
I wouldn't get your panties in a bunch, the Man isn't watching our every move.
Ah, I see. She must have meant that she couldn't play forever on the harder levels. She's quite good at the game, I imagine the easier levels are too easy.
I hear that, man. I remember in '98, working at the university computer help desk, playing that game to beat the high scores of my fellow co-workers. That was pretty much the only decent way to kill time when stuck using the Mac.
The best thing about Snood is that if you needed to help someone with their computer, you could go away and come back without worrying about your game. It'd still be there like you left it.
PS: My mom has played over 5000 games of Snood on her unregistered DOS version of the game. She's very hesitant to have me upgrade the folks' PC, because apparently you can't get a version of Snood that'll let you play forever without registering it!
And of course, huge bonuses for making spastic movements and yelling at seemingly random moments. Jake's great, he almost scares you into buying his products! I wonder how long it takes his co-hosts to stop flinching when he yells and waves his hands in their faces.
"And besides, I'm already paying taxes on a lot of my internet commerce."
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa???
I figure $$$$$exyGal must live in a state that has a lot of internet retailers, maybe California or New York. Or else she actually fills in how much she's supposed to pay in use tax each year on the state tax form! (Much like I do;))
When you buy groceries with a check or with a credit/debit card, they have you identified in the same way they would if you were to use a fingerprint scanner.
I imagine they will have alternate forms of payment, to prevent themselves from being hit with an "Americans with Disabilities Act" lawsuit. People without arms or hands would be rightly able to sue the grocery store. I don't see credit card readers or checks being refused in the future.
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You're making no sense... or I'm not enough of a nerd to make heads or tails of what you just posted.
Close. Nintendo started out making playing cards for gambling. They may have made pachinko machines for a while, but cards were their bread and butter for many years.
I guess we now know that OSNews will post anything submitted to them that has to do with an OS. Who's going to be the first to submit "A Look Back: Installing Windows 3.1"?
Nemesis tanked for the same reason that UHF did in 1989... too many other good movies for the fanbase to watch. The Two Towers was still in the theaters, the James Bond flick was playing, and so was Harry Potter. All of these movies have a good "sci-fi geek" following, so people just didn't have enough money or time to see Nemesis. That's how it was for me, I would have rather seen Two Towers multiple times than see Nemesis once.
UHF was going up against Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in the summer of '89. Plus, it's a weird movie. But it deserves more credit than it gets!
SDF isn't just free. There are services which require a monthly payment. DNS services, extended quotas, virtual domains, things like that. It was a short-sighted move on NWLink's part to deal with the problem that way.
He's already found archive.org. Read the post.
That's exactly what I was thinking! There's always more than one way to do things. Hell, if you want to save the result for posterity, pipe it out to a file!
Yeah, that annoyed me too. What do you expect, for a journalist doing human interest stories? Fact checking?
It's really not a whole lot different than when arcades had their heyday. The kids are socializing with the other people playing. Of course, arcade machines didn't let you type insults at each other, so you had to be sort of tactful when you talked to one another, so that's a bit weird, but still, I wouldn't worry about the future of our culture.
I'm getting a 404 on that link.
Yeah, I'm sure that's why Britain's not a technological superpower anymore. Flag-waving pedestrians. How about this idea? They just didn't have as many good ideas? Plus, they were right smack dab in the middle of World War I and II, leaving their scientists busy thinking of ways to defend their asses full-time, rather than dedicating just a portion of their scientists to war. Come on now, the US isn't going to get all stupid because one town banned Segways on sidewalks. We'll just invent offroad Segways with kick-ass shocks and knobby tires, and come up with a new "extreme sport."
Well, they could sign to a foreign country's label, or a more rational idea would be to just make sure that they don't sign over ownership of their works, just grant the record label the right to publish it for a period of time. Nobody's holding a gun to these peoples' heads. If they feel that the only way to succeed is to sign away their work, then screw them, they should have gotten a smarter lawyer.
There's really no need to worry about your privacy if you pay for your RFID'ed items in cash. That way nothing will be linked to you specifically. I suppose if the police or whoever is tracking you finds a way to link you with your possessions, you'll be in trouble, but then there's the whole concept of borrowing.
I wouldn't get your panties in a bunch, the Man isn't watching our every move.
Ah, I see. She must have meant that she couldn't play forever on the harder levels. She's quite good at the game, I imagine the easier levels are too easy.
I hear that, man. I remember in '98, working at the university computer help desk, playing that game to beat the high scores of my fellow co-workers. That was pretty much the only decent way to kill time when stuck using the Mac.
The best thing about Snood is that if you needed to help someone with their computer, you could go away and come back without worrying about your game. It'd still be there like you left it.
PS: My mom has played over 5000 games of Snood on her unregistered DOS version of the game. She's very hesitant to have me upgrade the folks' PC, because apparently you can't get a version of Snood that'll let you play forever without registering it!
And of course, huge bonuses for making spastic movements and yelling at seemingly random moments. Jake's great, he almost scares you into buying his products! I wonder how long it takes his co-hosts to stop flinching when he yells and waves his hands in their faces.
"And besides, I'm already paying taxes on a lot of my internet commerce."
;))
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa???
I figure $$$$$exyGal must live in a state that has a lot of internet retailers, maybe California or New York. Or else she actually fills in how much she's supposed to pay in use tax each year on the state tax form! (Much like I do
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. How much insight is there in "The Family Guy is good"?
With a name like Dolalin Bonewielder, is it any surprise that the author's left "holding his member" as he puts it?
When you buy groceries with a check or with a credit/debit card, they have you identified in the same way they would if you were to use a fingerprint scanner.
I imagine they will have alternate forms of payment, to prevent themselves from being hit with an "Americans with Disabilities Act" lawsuit. People without arms or hands would be rightly able to sue the grocery store. I don't see credit card readers or checks being refused in the future.
Then I guess you're on your way out of a job. According to your logic.
Yeah, I know, it was a joke.
Maybe that's the British spelling of villain.
The new Winamp version is 2.81c. I don't know about version 3, that bastard crashes too much on my computers.