But it is! What you don't understand, is that Microsoft is in a national plot to give americans carpal tunnel syndrome by making them use the over-sized, uncomfortable X-box controllers. The player's hands will be so cramped up, that they will have to get surgery to repair their damaged hands. Of course, Microsoft will have worked out a deal with the RSI surgeons and RSI lawyers, so they will make all the money. Bill Gates will rule the WORLD MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I do find it very odd that Nintendo is just now choosig to go after folks for the flash linker. A few possiblities exist though. 1. Nintendo dosn't like users dumping roms for emulator users and other r0m freaks. 2. Nintendo dosn't like it that many of the dev houses use low cost backup units instead of the kit supplied by NOA/NOJ. This would make a lot of sense, because most gameboy games are developed on the GBX, and many n64 games, such as the whole Turok Series, and part of Perfect Dark were developed on such units. 3. They're settling an old score with Bung. If you recall, Bung software was sued by Nintendo and now none of their warez can be sold in the US.
arrgh! I posted this story yesterday, it got rejected! Mod me down or whatever, but I'm starting to get pissed off about scooping other people only to see the same damn post going up.
Yes, it is a very good idea, and to a certain extent its already here. Just take a look at the Fast Track network. Morpheus, Kazaa et al. give the option for a "super node", which I usually disable because my k6-2 550 ain't what she used to be, that allows search requests to be bounced off of your pc. Dosn't exactly use spare cpu power for anything useful, but it does improve the speed and search accuracy of the network.
I always thought football was the first strategy game. Stop and go play, brainless players going across a board commanded by one guy with sense. The ability to choose and execute different attacks. Football is the real first.
I've been with Netflix for about a year and a half now, and I've been overall pleased with the service. It seems that almost all of my movies have arrived since I've gotten the service, with one being stolen in the mail. Turnaround here in Atlanta is terrible, looking at about a week per disc, but it gives me more time to study. Also, even though economically its worst than renting from blockbuster, I don't have a car and the local block buster is about 20 miles away. The no late fees are great, because you don't have to immediately watch the movie.
If you have finals or want to lend out the movie, there is no need to worry, because there is no late fee. YOu don't have to rush.
There haven't been that many scratched discs either. My Apex has been able to handle almost all the dvds well, except for that copy of ghost in the shell that was cracked.
Also, their anime section is very nice. While it dosn't have some of the titles I want, and they have a lot of incomplete series, its still nice to whet your whistle and far better than the local blockbuster or hollywood video.
funny, because when I signed up, I haven't gotten any wierd emails. My address is wierd, because its my last name, but no spam here. I get the occaisional email from bellsouth. No, I'm not an employee.
yea, really funny you mention that. I was just in a cobol class in winter semester 2001, and we had to do the same thing. We used Microfocus compiler tho, and had to count out spaces as if it were a punch card. However, we would use a large grid 85 spaces wide, because we were constrained by a monitor, rather than the 123 that cobol normally allows.
I do agree, that in game ads do help to add to the realism of the game, as long as they're integrated to the background. Ulitmately, I think this is where advertisements are going, because while we do get to see a product, at the same time, its not as invasive as say pop-up ads or commercials on tv. I still remember the Tommy Hilfiger (farely new) ads from 1080, and the old Pizza hut ad from ninja turtles.
I'm a little curious tho. Supposedly the fasttrack network is encrypted, so does this mean that the IP address is able to be reached? I have never seen any papers on what encryption the network uses, but I just wanna be sure that the IP's are obfuscated.
While I know this may be inconsequential to a lot of people, but what about processor usage? OGG vorbis, while more efficient than MP3 at keeping sound quality for space, is a cpu hog. While most people don't run a p233, at work, thats all we got. OGG vorbis is not a good choice, because it seems to batter my cpu around. THe machine can just barely keep up playing the song. It often skips! Also, when I play it on my 550 at home, its not much better. While I love to use it on my 1600xp athlon, for use on my car player, p133, 32mb ram, it is not such a good choice. Just a rant, not a flame.
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Yes, you do have a valid point, but I am particularly going to pick on your issue about games using the codec. Already this exists in the Rad Game tools MILES sound system. It integrates MP3 decoding into the sound engine to produce nice sounding music in low disc space. It has been seen in the pc realm a few times, but the N64 made a lot of use of it. Because of its small storage space, but fast (for its time) processor and fast bus, the N64 used MP3 decompression for its games. Conkers bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, and I think Resident Evil 2 used it as far as I know.
Well, while I realize that I may be too late to post, here is my 2 cents. First off, you can't have it all. I love the idea of a small pc, but so far, all of the designs have some substandard parts, especially graphics cards.
However, there are some standards that could've worked. In the early 1990's, there was a 486, I have one, that had space for an hdd, floppy drive, and I am going to hack the case to accomodate a thin cdrom. I have already installed a late model AT board in it, wiht a 550mhz amd k6-2, and it uses an odd riser card, thats around 4 inches high to accomodate devices. The riser card sits in the middle of the system, so that devices can sit on either side of the card. It will accomodate up to four slots. Overall, the case is around 5 inches tall. very compact, and very nice. I think with some hacking, a PCI riser card could be made. It has ISA right now.
Umm gee, I don't think so. While this does sound like a good idea in terms of security, this sounds a lot like the SSSCA. Just simply replace "piracy" with "terrorism" and you have your new law.
While this may be a bit off topic, Japans surrender wasn' necessarily due to the Bushido code. It is often said, that the translator relayed the message of complete surrender incorrectly to the Japanease emperor. When given the ultimatum by the Allies, the Japanese government responded with an announcement that it was witholding immediate comment on the ultimatum, pending 'deliberation' by the Imperial government.
The Japanese News agency translated the japanese words 'withlding comment for the time being' to 'deliberately ignore.
They weren't as stubborn as we thought.
While toast for the Mac may be nice, Roxio's windows products leave much to be desired. After Easy CD Creater 4, their software has been buggy crap. I don't see how they've managed to buy out the other companies, but one of my favorites, Cequadrat, makers of the fabulously versatile Winoncd and Packet CD were bought out. While winoncd did have its share of bugs, it was still slim, fast and it was veratile. Packet Cd however, was rock solid and for anyone else using UDF format, was far better than the crappy Adaptec AKA Roxio DireCD. It read disks better, rarely ever crashed, supported up to 1gigs through compression and even packaged a udf driver on the disc automatically so that if would read on any windoze pc. Well, after being bought out by Roxio, it has since dissappeared, being replaced by the crappy DireCD. I was very pissed, because I have been unable to find any of the great Cequadrat products. Damn Roxio!
While the first AD-600A's were nice, the firmware in that particular player is very buggy. Its not really worth your time or effort to go looking for one of these, as they have a tough time with seamless branching, the mp3 playback is buggy and often have lipsync problems. However, if you do happen to buy an Apex player, there is a great scene for it. My favorite site is http://www.dvd-wizards.com/darrenk. He has all of the great firmwares. My current favorite player is the MD-1500, because its firmware is upgradeable via cdrom, and it uses an N6 like firmware that is region free, but also defeats RCE encoding. Also, it this unit does not suffer from the lip sync of seamless branching issues, and has 26 character names on the mp3 files when played. If you do happen to get a 600, its pretty easy and painless to upgrade, usually just by changing out the EPROM. You can go to N6 on most models of GK600b; either way, its better than the A-12 (I think) firmware. Also, they are of course able to switch between NTSC and PAL, and also have Macrovision disabled. Anyway, while it doesn't have the cool geekiness factor of a secret menu, the new hacked firmwares work a whole lot better. They do everything the menu players did, but work even better. I hope this helps you out.
Speaking from a hardware standpoint, HDTV is almost here. I used to work at the local Ratshack in 2000 and early 2001, and while we never had an actual 16/9 HDTV unit, we had a 4/3 35 inch monitor. It was a glory for all the geeks out there, who wanted to maximize their gaming experience, 2048/1536 resolution, quad usb ports, firewire support and of course, because it was a monitor, pro-scanning. Anyway, enough gushing over the hardware....
DirecTV had a special sattelite hookup for the stores, that used a special combination of elliptical dishes and quad LNB. It provided an outstanding picture, and really showed off the technology. Anyway, we never did sell the TV. It was $3500.
BTW, the monitor was made by RCA. Look it up.
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But it is! What you don't understand, is that Microsoft is in a national plot to give americans carpal tunnel syndrome by making them use the over-sized, uncomfortable X-box controllers. The player's hands will be so cramped up, that they will have to get surgery to repair their damaged hands. Of course, Microsoft will have worked out a deal with the RSI surgeons and RSI lawyers, so they will make all the money. Bill Gates will rule the WORLD MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I do find it very odd that Nintendo is just now choosig to go after folks for the flash linker. A few possiblities exist though.
1. Nintendo dosn't like users dumping roms for emulator users and other r0m freaks.
2. Nintendo dosn't like it that many of the dev houses use low cost backup units instead of the kit supplied by NOA/NOJ. This would make a lot of sense, because most gameboy games are developed on the GBX, and many n64 games, such as the whole Turok Series, and part of Perfect Dark were developed on such units.
3. They're settling an old score with Bung. If you recall, Bung software was sued by Nintendo and now none of their warez can be sold in the US.
arrgh! I posted this story yesterday, it got rejected! Mod me down or whatever, but I'm starting to get pissed off about scooping other people only to see the same damn post going up.
Yes, it is a very good idea, and to a certain extent its already here. Just take a look at the Fast Track network. Morpheus, Kazaa et al. give the option for a "super node", which I usually disable because my k6-2 550 ain't what she used to be, that allows search requests to be bounced off of your pc. Dosn't exactly use spare cpu power for anything useful, but it does improve the speed and search accuracy of the network.
Longest game of I spy? Will Bill Cosby and Robert Culp be playing?
I always thought football was the first strategy game. Stop and go play, brainless players going across a board commanded by one guy with sense. The ability to choose and execute different attacks. Football is the real first.
I've been with Netflix for about a year and a half now, and I've been overall pleased with the service. It seems that almost all of my movies have arrived since I've gotten the service, with one being stolen in the mail. Turnaround here in Atlanta is terrible, looking at about a week per disc, but it gives me more time to study. Also, even though economically its worst than renting from blockbuster, I don't have a car and the local block buster is about 20 miles away. The no late fees are great, because you don't have to immediately watch the movie.
If you have finals or want to lend out the movie, there is no need to worry, because there is no late fee. YOu don't have to rush.
There haven't been that many scratched discs either. My Apex has been able to handle almost all the dvds well, except for that copy of ghost in the shell that was cracked.
Also, their anime section is very nice. While it dosn't have some of the titles I want, and they have a lot of incomplete series, its still nice to whet your whistle and far better than the local blockbuster or hollywood video.
funny, because when I signed up, I haven't gotten any wierd emails. My address is wierd, because its my last name, but no spam here. I get the occaisional email from bellsouth. No, I'm not an employee.
yea, really funny you mention that. I was just in a cobol class in winter semester 2001, and we had to do the same thing. We used Microfocus compiler tho, and had to count out spaces as if it were a punch card. However, we would use a large grid 85 spaces wide, because we were constrained by a monitor, rather than the 123 that cobol normally allows.
I do agree, that in game ads do help to add to the realism of the game, as long as they're integrated to the background. Ulitmately, I think this is where advertisements are going, because while we do get to see a product, at the same time, its not as invasive as say pop-up ads or commercials on tv. I still remember the Tommy Hilfiger (farely new) ads from 1080, and the old Pizza hut ad from ninja turtles.
I'm a little curious tho. Supposedly the fasttrack network is encrypted, so does this mean that the IP address is able to be reached? I have never seen any papers on what encryption the network uses, but I just wanna be sure that the IP's are obfuscated.
Now you really can build your own TCP/IP stack, and make it as tall as you want.
While I know this may be inconsequential to a lot of people, but what about processor usage? OGG vorbis, while more efficient than MP3 at keeping sound quality for space, is a cpu hog. While most people don't run a p233, at work, thats all we got. OGG vorbis is not a good choice, because it seems to batter my cpu around. THe machine can just barely keep up playing the song. It often skips! Also, when I play it on my 550 at home, its not much better. While I love to use it on my 1600xp athlon, for use on my car player, p133, 32mb ram, it is not such a good choice. Just a rant, not a flame.
Yes, you do have a valid point, but I am particularly going to pick on your issue about games using the codec. Already this exists in the Rad Game tools MILES sound system. It integrates MP3 decoding into the sound engine to produce nice sounding music in low disc space. It has been seen in the pc realm a few times, but the N64 made a lot of use of it. Because of its small storage space, but fast (for its time) processor and fast bus, the N64 used MP3 decompression for its games. Conkers bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark, and I think Resident Evil 2 used it as far as I know.
Well, while I realize that I may be too late to post, here is my 2 cents. First off, you can't have it all. I love the idea of a small pc, but so far, all of the designs have some substandard parts, especially graphics cards.
However, there are some standards that could've worked. In the early 1990's, there was a 486, I have one, that had space for an hdd, floppy drive, and I am going to hack the case to accomodate a thin cdrom. I have already installed a late model AT board in it, wiht a 550mhz amd k6-2, and it uses an odd riser card, thats around 4 inches high to accomodate devices. The riser card sits in the middle of the system, so that devices can sit on either side of the card. It will accomodate up to four slots. Overall, the case is around 5 inches tall. very compact, and very nice. I think with some hacking, a PCI riser card could be made. It has ISA right now.
Now when Intel launches they're latest bomb, it will really be true!
Umm gee, I don't think so. While this does sound like a good idea in terms of security, this sounds a lot like the SSSCA. Just simply replace "piracy" with "terrorism" and you have your new law.
While this may be a bit off topic, Japans surrender wasn' necessarily due to the Bushido code. It is often said, that the translator relayed the message of complete surrender incorrectly to the Japanease emperor. When given the ultimatum by the Allies, the Japanese government responded with an announcement that it was witholding immediate comment on the ultimatum, pending 'deliberation' by the Imperial government.
The Japanese News agency translated the japanese words 'withlding comment for the time being' to 'deliberately ignore.
They weren't as stubborn as we thought.
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While toast for the Mac may be nice, Roxio's windows products leave much to be desired. After Easy CD Creater 4, their software has been buggy crap. I don't see how they've managed to buy out the other companies, but one of my favorites, Cequadrat, makers of the fabulously versatile Winoncd and Packet CD were bought out. While winoncd did have its share of bugs, it was still slim, fast and it was veratile. Packet Cd however, was rock solid and for anyone else using UDF format, was far better than the crappy Adaptec AKA Roxio DireCD. It read disks better, rarely ever crashed, supported up to 1gigs through compression and even packaged a udf driver on the disc automatically so that if would read on any windoze pc. Well, after being bought out by Roxio, it has since dissappeared, being replaced by the crappy DireCD. I was very pissed, because I have been unable to find any of the great Cequadrat products. Damn Roxio!
While the first AD-600A's were nice, the firmware in that particular player is very buggy. Its not really worth your time or effort to go looking for one of these, as they have a tough time with seamless branching, the mp3 playback is buggy and often have lipsync problems. However, if you do happen to buy an Apex player, there is a great scene for it. My favorite site is http://www.dvd-wizards.com/darrenk. He has all of the great firmwares. My current favorite player is the MD-1500, because its firmware is upgradeable via cdrom, and it uses an N6 like firmware that is region free, but also defeats RCE encoding. Also, it this unit does not suffer from the lip sync of seamless branching issues, and has 26 character names on the mp3 files when played. If you do happen to get a 600, its pretty easy and painless to upgrade, usually just by changing out the EPROM. You can go to N6 on most models of GK600b; either way, its better than the A-12 (I think) firmware. Also, they are of course able to switch between NTSC and PAL, and also have Macrovision disabled. Anyway, while it doesn't have the cool geekiness factor of a secret menu, the new hacked firmwares work a whole lot better. They do everything the menu players did, but work even better. I hope this helps you out.
I'll really be impressed when somebody gets 10mb/s from T-CAS (two cups and a string).
Maybe now Iraq can start its stockpile of PS2s.
Speaking from a hardware standpoint, HDTV is almost here. I used to work at the local Ratshack in 2000 and early 2001, and while we never had an actual 16/9 HDTV unit, we had a 4/3 35 inch monitor. It was a glory for all the geeks out there, who wanted to maximize their gaming experience, 2048/1536 resolution, quad usb ports, firewire support and of course, because it was a monitor, pro-scanning. Anyway, enough gushing over the hardware....
DirecTV had a special sattelite hookup for the stores, that used a special combination of elliptical dishes and quad LNB. It provided an outstanding picture, and really showed off the technology. Anyway, we never did sell the TV. It was $3500.
BTW, the monitor was made by RCA. Look it up.
Why not? Because they haven't violated the DMCA. When worms start cracking DVDs, or eBooks, or traffic warez, then we'll see more worm authors caught.