Hmm... What about games by companies that are completely gone and no legal permission for ROM images can be obtained? With these people setting themselves up as the gatekeepers for MAME, those games would fall through the cracks. One of those games would be one I worked on, and that kind of pisses me off.
Unless they're really an old planetary defence system left over from a previous civilization. (Not quite the Ringworld defence, but who knows what it was designed to stop.)
The technology dredges up a long-simmering legal debate over who owns the desktop. Does the consumer have the right to install software that can manipulate the appearance or delivery of Web pages? Or does the Web publisher have the ultimate say and control over how its content is displayed?
Guess what? I went to the news.com.com page and clicked View/Page Source and read it that way. (Gods, it's ugly HTML!) Then for an encore, I browsed the page with my Clippy-tech voice reader. (The little character will do various animation routines when it hits keywords. Wheee!) It's still reading the feedback comments.
Better come lock me up! I know how things work and how to program; I'm a dangerous fellow!
Spider Robinson's apres-Callahan's Bar stories have The Fount, which is probably close to what you'd want. (Alcohol if you want it, mug washer, roaster, grinder, whipped cream, user preferences, etc.)
I think they've extended that for P2P (pot-to-pot) transfers. See paper by Drs. J. Valdez & Don Key. Tests with torrents, while initially promising, have been disappointing: slow drip rate, and not good to the last drop.
Remember that article last week about the star that was speeding out of the Milky Way at a hell of clip? It's disappeared!.. just some blue lines fading off into space..
Rather than an audio alarm, how about a servo platform that aims a laser pointer where the camera sees something moving? (It would have to avoid locking on to its own laser dot.) That would entertain cats and burglars! (It probably avoids that "laser pointers as a cat toy" patent.) Of course, the bugger would probably sue you.
"Intruder alert, intruder alert" (Bezerk), especially with cheesy voice-synth is good, but Sinistar's "Beware! I live!" followed the "RROAR!" with good bass and volume is perfect. ("Yes officer, it was that guy in the middle with the wet patch on his jeans.")
For people who are looking for a package solution:
LinkSys Wireless-G Internet Video Camera a mere $299.99 CDN in a recent FutureShop ad. (Remember to secure your WiFi net.)
It's sad. During the beta, if they'd been relatively honest and had a message that said "Sorry, but we can only support systems running MS-DOS during the beta testing period. Proceed, but at your own risk", then they'd have had their FUD without being slapped by the court as much. There was no reason to lie with a cryptic BAADFOOD type error.
Who certified the faculty of Biological Engineering so that they can hand out degrees in Biological Engineering? (Do they have pass the academic frown test of their peers or do they just order their own degree from a PO box in New Mexico?)
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No no! MAME would just by what their name is called. It's really 'A-sitting On a Gate': and the tune's my own invention."
Hmm... What about games by companies that are completely gone and no legal permission for ROM images can be obtained? With these people setting themselves up as the gatekeepers for MAME, those games would fall through the cracks. One of those games would be one I worked on, and that kind of pisses me off.
Funny, since Netscape at its peak was worse than Microsoft for shoving their own 'standards' at everyone.
Road rage would be much more entertaining to watch -- from a distance!
Unless they're really an old planetary defence system left over from a previous civilization. (Not quite the Ringworld defence, but who knows what it was designed to stop.)
Better come lock me up! I know how things work and how to program; I'm a dangerous fellow!
"That's Google, he fights for the stockholders."
Spider Robinson's apres-Callahan's Bar stories have The Fount, which is probably close to what you'd want. (Alcohol if you want it, mug washer, roaster, grinder, whipped cream, user preferences, etc.)
I want a cup of the stuff that made the monkey explode. Sugar, no cream, thank you.
I think they've extended that for P2P (pot-to-pot) transfers. See paper by Drs. J. Valdez & Don Key. Tests with torrents, while initially promising, have been disappointing: slow drip rate, and not good to the last drop.
Remember that article last week about the star that was speeding out of the Milky Way at a hell of clip? It's disappeared! .. just some blue lines fading off into space ..
"Ah there we go! Nothing like a good campfire when roughing it in the wilderness."
You were surprised that you observed a heavenly body while at an observatory?
// To save bytes and typing
#include "prison_girlfriend.h"
#include "not_that_prison_rape_is_funny.h"
Bah! Balding moderators on crack...
Rather than an audio alarm, how about a servo platform that aims a laser pointer where the camera sees something moving? (It would have to avoid locking on to its own laser dot.) That would entertain cats and burglars! (It probably avoids that "laser pointers as a cat toy" patent.) Of course, the bugger would probably sue you.
"Intruder alert, intruder alert" (Bezerk), especially with cheesy voice-synth is good, but Sinistar's "Beware! I live!" followed the "RROAR!" with good bass and volume is perfect. ("Yes officer, it was that guy in the middle with the wet patch on his jeans.")
For people who are looking for a package solution: LinkSys Wireless-G Internet Video Camera a mere $299.99 CDN in a recent FutureShop ad. (Remember to secure your WiFi net.)
For a guy of 19, he sure looks like his hair disappearing quickly!
It's sad. During the beta, if they'd been relatively honest and had a message that said "Sorry, but we can only support systems running MS-DOS during the beta testing period. Proceed, but at your own risk", then they'd have had their FUD without being slapped by the court as much. There was no reason to lie with a cryptic BAADFOOD type error.
Windows 3.1 beta didn't refuse to run, it popped up a scary-bad FUD warning message.
Yeah, I've never seen Photoshop look as good!
Who certified the faculty of Biological Engineering so that they can hand out degrees in Biological Engineering? (Do they have pass the academic frown test of their peers or do they just order their own degree from a PO box in New Mexico?)
In cruel moments I think of as Oro from Starlost. :)
e.g. Makes his corpse reverse quantum phase polarity in its grave, one might say.