I really miss the days of Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and most importantly SPACE QUEST. Those games were truly involving and made you enjoy playing them. The writing was also fantastic. I break out those collections now and then, and while the graphics always seem more and more crude, the gameplay is still great!
I prefer to play games on my PC rather than my Xbox or PS2. The reason being that the graphics are usually better and I like the keyboard/mouse combo. My real sticking point is that despite current sound cards being able to dump a Dolby Digital 5.1 stream and interpret a DD5.1 stream from a DVD. Most sound cards cannot encode DTS or DD5.1 in REAL TIME. I have to rely on 4 discrete analog channels instead of 6 positional speakers. When will Creative Labs get their act together?
Every round of ammo is composed of a lead bullet in the front with a metal jacket around the outside of it and to the back. At the base of the round is a slight indent. A clip is a piece of metal that holds all of the rounds by that indent. The M1 had a place where you put the metal clip in the top of the rifle and pushed down with your thumb on the ammunition. You then removed the thin piece of metal (the clip).
Modern rifles/pistols have a magazine which is a big enclosure with a spring and feed mechanism. You place all of the ammunition into the magazine and then place the magazine into the weapon. This is what people usually call "clips." (What you see the guys in the movies do)
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I hope this game is more like the old Space Quest games where you actually had to think about what to do and solve puzzles. Sierra really dropped the ball when they cancelled all of their "Action/adventure games." If the Farscape game is done well in the Diablo style it should still rock.
From what I have seen, the trends of online retailers seems to mimic their brick and mortar counterparts.
What I mean by this is that for high turnover items (moves fast into and off of the virtual shelves in terms of sales volume), like new software, DVDs, PS2 games and CD-R blanks, will be almost identically priced. In fact the real storefront is sometimes cheaper when you take taxes/shipping into account. (note: this doesn't take into account rebates)
For items that aren't as fast to sell like older computer hardware or even new hardware that has a fast obsolescence track, online stores have the advantage for their own savings since it doesn't cost them as much to store the old inventory. In some cases the retail environment will be in such a rush to get rid of the equipment they will drop prices a lot lower than they should, just to clear space. Couple this with the fact that as a full chain of stores they have better bargaining power with the manufacturers and can get lower initial prices.
What this means is that for normal transactions an online store can sell older stuff for cheaper and sustain that price, but when new product lines come out, the physical storefront may or may not have a greater discount, depending on how well they manager their warehouses.
Basically we are in a situation where all of the discounts of online business are lost on the items that we buy the most, and they no longer have a nest egg of excess cash to pay for significant price differences.
And only here....
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And only here will we announce.....A new GAME!!! Super Mario Brothers 3!!!!!
Way back in 7th grade I carried an old Compaq 286 laptop (I think it was an LTE). It had no mouse, a monochrome screen, and pcmcia modem. It was really useful for taking notes since my handwriting was/is atrocious. I believe the software of choice was wordperfect 5.1. While I admit that it was quite beneficial to be able to search through my notes and even format the data for studying, I also used the free time I had to use the modem to dial into various BBSes and play door games. On more than one occasion I was caught when the librarian wanted to know what those "strange tones" were when she picked up the line.
Point being, a 7th grader is just as likely to use the laptop for a game in class instead of proper note taking. In the age of 802.11, it is more likely that there would be more in class chatting via Instant Messenger than legitimate note taking. Of course in-class computing habits will vary with each student so it is very possible that my assumption is completely wrong.
I am glad that the book is out, even if it does suck. Linux needs more native 3d games that support the latest hardware. Wine with a directX layer is a pretty good substitution but I would love to a see a version of Half-Life or the newly released Max Payne as a Linux binary. I would be willing to forego open source code of the games as long as it is stable and well supported. Of course Loki Games sells Linux distributions of popular games, but they are always so far behind the normal distribution that it makes it far less appealing.
I like the show regardless of the seeding of the junkyard and the hosts talking to the teams to fix major technical flaws.
What I REALLY want to see is either A) a team not finish their project (or at least not celebrate when they barely finish it), B) a design totally fail when it is time for the competition.
Once again I have no problem with the seeding of the junkyard with cars and compressors, but it does take away some of the more innovative engineering tasks. Of course if a team had to perform a major overhaul on an engine they would require more than a couple of hours.
The best robot I have seen...
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is Agamemnon by Team Delta. I first read about it in Nuts 'n Volts. Team Delta made this bot with a built in camera and video relay to a VR Helmet and thrustmaster joystick. The weapons consisted of a weed whacker and a pneumatic punch. It is a welcome relief to find that not all bots are made up of that dumb wedge/no weapon idea.
How would one go about protecting a system with this much data on it assuming that all RAID solutions would have been rendered inoperable?(perhaps due to a controller error corrupting the check disk). I am assuming MSFT's data loss is that of the newer accounts that haven't been backed up yet.
This got me thinking, what if you took a CO2 tank from a paintball gun, removed the handle from the slide and made a pneumatic piston for the main chamber. If you used a solenoid and pressure sensor to avoid shattering the gun you could have an "auto-pumper". That would REALLY kick some ass at a squirt gun fight.
I remember back in the days of Windows 3.1 and Netware that we had a bunch of machines that had nothing except a ne2000 network card and floppy. The computer would POST, then the NIC would connect to a Novell bootdisk image (1.44 megs but on a NFS) then the server would create a seperate space for each terminal to use their own version of 3.1.
Point being, would it be possible to do something similar so you wouldn't need a floppy for the Xterminal?
The entire napster idea was great in its original state because of the sheer volume allowed for great redundancy. If I wanted to get a certain song, I could download 3 different instances and when they completed compare the length and fidelity to ensure it sounded as close to a CD as possible.
The new napster could have a sustained volume of the old eventually, the problem is that if I am now going to pay the artists (which is definitely a necessary action), I want the recording to come FROM the artist. I want to make sure that when I pay for my song I get a rip from the master recording or a full digital copy, not someone's 5 year old Sound Blaster value recording an analogue track from a dinged and scratched source CD.
The problem with this model is that all of the sudden you have to distribute these high quality mp3s and in various bitrate/size combinations to satisfy all of the various user types out there. To do this you either need to setup servers or give all versions to the most active users hoping that the music is of the genre that he/she listens to.
In the end the business looks very similar to the original server-based content delivery model that Akamai employs currently.
Does anyone know where the most recent financial statements are available for RedHat? I just went to the SEC and RedHat's investor relations and all I found was this link to the 10-k issued in April.
According to those statements Redhat is still running a major loss and reducing their cash balance. However none of those numbers match RedHat's press release so I have to believe that the SEC doesn't have an updated report on file yet. The major issue I have is that I want to see the impact of the Operating cash flow alone. If the core business is not profitable then they have just been making money by investing in marketable securities.
Is there a way you can reprogram the codes in the IR blaster that comes with the TiVo? Basically I want the ability to use the IR blaster to control non-TV devices, like an X-10 IR bridge.
I am not talking about a universal remote but the adapter that is an alternative to the serial cable to control the DSS Receivers.
Since the TiVo is basically a computer anyways, would it be possible to just remove all of the proprietary software, install Linux, write a driver for the remote and mpeg card, and have an open source interface?
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I really miss the days of Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and most importantly SPACE QUEST. Those games were truly involving and made you enjoy playing them. The writing was also fantastic. I break out those collections now and then, and while the graphics always seem more and more crude, the gameplay is still great!
I prefer to play games on my PC rather than my Xbox or PS2. The reason being that the graphics are usually better and I like the keyboard/mouse combo. My real sticking point is that despite current sound cards being able to dump a Dolby Digital 5.1 stream and interpret a DD5.1 stream from a DVD. Most sound cards cannot encode DTS or DD5.1 in REAL TIME. I have to rely on 4 discrete analog channels instead of 6 positional speakers. When will Creative Labs get their act together?
Every round of ammo is composed of a lead bullet in the front with a metal jacket around the outside of it and to the back. At the base of the round is a slight indent. A clip is a piece of metal that holds all of the rounds by that indent. The M1 had a place where you put the metal clip in the top of the rifle and pushed down with your thumb on the ammunition. You then removed the thin piece of metal (the clip).
Modern rifles/pistols have a magazine which is a big enclosure with a spring and feed mechanism. You place all of the ammunition into the magazine and then place the magazine into the weapon. This is what people usually call "clips." (What you see the guys in the movies do)
I hope this game is more like the old Space Quest games where you actually had to think about what to do and solve puzzles. Sierra really dropped the ball when they cancelled all of their "Action/adventure games." If the Farscape game is done well in the Diablo style it should still rock.
From what I have seen, the trends of online retailers seems to mimic their brick and mortar counterparts.
What I mean by this is that for high turnover items (moves fast into and off of the virtual shelves in terms of sales volume), like new software, DVDs, PS2 games and CD-R blanks, will be almost identically priced. In fact the real storefront is sometimes cheaper when you take taxes/shipping into account. (note: this doesn't take into account rebates)
For items that aren't as fast to sell like older computer hardware or even new hardware that has a fast obsolescence track, online stores have the advantage for their own savings since it doesn't cost them as much to store the old inventory. In some cases the retail environment will be in such a rush to get rid of the equipment they will drop prices a lot lower than they should, just to clear space. Couple this with the fact that as a full chain of stores they have better bargaining power with the manufacturers and can get lower initial prices.
What this means is that for normal transactions an online store can sell older stuff for cheaper and sustain that price, but when new product lines come out, the physical storefront may or may not have a greater discount, depending on how well they manager their warehouses.
Basically we are in a situation where all of the discounts of online business are lost on the items that we buy the most, and they no longer have a nest egg of excess cash to pay for significant price differences.
And only here will we announce.....A new GAME!!! Super Mario Brothers 3!!!!!
(From "The Wizard")
Way back in 7th grade I carried an old Compaq 286 laptop (I think it was an LTE). It had no mouse, a monochrome screen, and pcmcia modem. It was really useful for taking notes since my handwriting was/is atrocious. I believe the software of choice was wordperfect 5.1. While I admit that it was quite beneficial to be able to search through my notes and even format the data for studying, I also used the free time I had to use the modem to dial into various BBSes and play door games. On more than one occasion I was caught when the librarian wanted to know what those "strange tones" were when she picked up the line.
Point being, a 7th grader is just as likely to use the laptop for a game in class instead of proper note taking. In the age of 802.11, it is more likely that there would be more in class chatting via Instant Messenger than legitimate note taking. Of course in-class computing habits will vary with each student so it is very possible that my assumption is completely wrong.
It is an incredible irony that the school's homepage was created in Microsoft FrontPage.
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I am glad that the book is out, even if it does suck. Linux needs more native 3d games that support the latest hardware. Wine with a directX layer is a pretty good substitution but I would love to a see a version of Half-Life or the newly released Max Payne as a Linux binary. I would be willing to forego open source code of the games as long as it is stable and well supported. Of course Loki Games sells Linux distributions of popular games, but they are always so far behind the normal distribution that it makes it far less appealing.
I like the show regardless of the seeding of the junkyard and the hosts talking to the teams to fix major technical flaws.
What I REALLY want to see is either A) a team not finish their project (or at least not celebrate when they barely finish it), B) a design totally fail when it is time for the competition.
Once again I have no problem with the seeding of the junkyard with cars and compressors, but it does take away some of the more innovative engineering tasks. Of course if a team had to perform a major overhaul on an engine they would require more than a couple of hours.
is Agamemnon by Team Delta. I first read about it in Nuts 'n Volts. Team Delta made this bot with a built in camera and video relay to a VR Helmet and thrustmaster joystick. The weapons consisted of a weed whacker and a pneumatic punch. It is a welcome relief to find that not all bots are made up of that dumb wedge/no weapon idea.
In recent news Napster had finalized their 100% filter!
From now on, any file that falls under the wildcard "*.mp3" will be blocked.
Napster was unavailable for comment.
What type of weapons will they carry on away missions?
Lasers?
Phasers?
Guns?
Rocks to throw at each other?
Were phasers even invented in the 22nd century?
How would one go about protecting a system with this much data on it assuming that all RAID solutions would have been rendered inoperable?(perhaps due to a controller error corrupting the check disk).
I am assuming MSFT's data loss is that of the newer accounts that haven't been backed up yet.
This got me thinking, what if you took a CO2 tank from a paintball gun, removed the handle from the slide and made a pneumatic piston for the main chamber. If you used a solenoid and pressure sensor to avoid shattering the gun you could have an "auto-pumper". That would REALLY kick some ass at a squirt gun fight.
Is there a site where this stuff is usually sold? Or is it just if you live in the surrounding area?
I remember back in the days of Windows 3.1 and Netware that we had a bunch of machines that had nothing except a ne2000 network card and floppy. The computer would POST, then the NIC would connect to a Novell bootdisk image (1.44 megs but on a NFS) then the server would create a seperate space for each terminal to use their own version of 3.1.
Point being, would it be possible to do something similar so you wouldn't need a floppy for the Xterminal?
The entire napster idea was great in its original state because of the sheer volume allowed for great redundancy. If I wanted to get a certain song, I could download 3 different instances and when they completed compare the length and fidelity to ensure it sounded as close to a CD as possible.
The new napster could have a sustained volume of the old eventually, the problem is that if I am now going to pay the artists (which is definitely a necessary action), I want the recording to come FROM the artist. I want to make sure that when I pay for my song I get a rip from the master recording or a full digital copy, not someone's 5 year old Sound Blaster value recording an analogue track from a dinged and scratched source CD.
The problem with this model is that all of the sudden you have to distribute these high quality mp3s and in various bitrate/size combinations to satisfy all of the various user types out there. To do this you either need to setup servers or give all versions to the most active users hoping that the music is of the genre that he/she listens to.
In the end the business looks very similar to the original server-based content delivery model that Akamai employs currently.
Does this mean I can't use the MFC example editors to modify the code?
AND you must chop down this tree with....a herring!
That link doesn't seem to contain the most recent data. Perhaps I am not getting the correct filling. Is it not the most recent 10-k or 10-Q report?
Does anyone know where the most recent financial statements are available for RedHat? I just went to the SEC and RedHat's investor relations and all I found was this link to the 10-k issued in April.
According to those statements Redhat is still running a major loss and reducing their cash balance. However none of those numbers match RedHat's press release so I have to believe that the SEC doesn't have an updated report on file yet. The major issue I have is that I want to see the impact of the Operating cash flow alone. If the core business is not profitable then they have just been making money by investing in marketable securities.
Is there a way you can reprogram the codes in the IR blaster that comes with the TiVo? Basically I want the ability to use the IR blaster to control non-TV devices, like an X-10 IR bridge.
I am not talking about a universal remote but the adapter that is an alternative to the serial cable to control the DSS Receivers.
Since the TiVo is basically a computer anyways, would it be possible to just remove all of the proprietary software, install Linux, write a driver for the remote and mpeg card, and have an open source interface?
Tom's Hardware had a Micro ATX demo motherboard, but does a full ATX demo board for nvidia's new chipset exist?
How does this board benchmark against the MSI K7-Master? Is the inverted PCI slot supposed to be a CNR riser?