Sounds right to me, I have trouble with the tilt on most boards nowadays 10 years ago I could slam them around a lot more. Plus it seems that the more action you have going the easier it is to tilt. My wife slams them almost as hard as I do but hers dont seem to tilt, however she usually has less score going. Plus the free game score is raised continually while playing making it more dificult to rack multiple free games. Many boards do not have a specials reward, and if they do its only a extra ball. The problem with pinball is the arcade owners do not want someone playing for 3 or 4 hours on 50 cents. Much easier to make money on a video game that runs 3 minutes and then you need to put in more coin. I guess the big reason I always played the boards was I didnt have an endless supply of coins for the breakout machine. I tried it for my 2 minute 25 cents worth and went straight back to the boards.
I still have a working Atari 400 complete with the crap membrane keyboard. When me 20 year old nephew comes by I like to show him what us old timers had to put up with. Especialy a few old magazines i have that have ads for $350 disk drives and $75 dolar 32k memory chips
I get verisign letters for renewal constantly. I have about 10 domains and it seems verisign starts about 4 months before it expires and sends at least one letter per month and one after it expires. They probably spend 4 bucks a year in postage for each domain they want to renew.
read the case documents the first complaint filed March 22, 2001 items 8 and 9 paetec allowed monsterhut to spam as long as the complaints where below 2%
they both should be put in jail. this isnt a hurray for the isp and boo for the spammer. Its a spammer geting screwed by a spammer
Actually a cd is made up of a plastic disc and the metal layer is deposited using a vacum chamber and a high voltage deposition chamber the metal is then covered with a clear material (laquer) to protect the metal layer from flaking or oxidising. A properly produced cd should be able to withstand much more stresses than one produced incorrectly. When I was in the cd production business I would bend a cd completly in half without it shattering to show a potential customer the quality they would recieve. If I was having trouble with the injection process and the birefringence was off the cd could not be bent without bieng destroyed.
A better produced blank media will kick the ass of a lesser produced blank,however the retail price isnt related to the quality Things like birefringence and reflectivity will definatly make a difference with the sound. Also burn speed makes (or used to back then,over years ago) a big difference When i was in the cd replication business i would test the burned media before i sent it to mastering and i could alway tell the ones recorded at over 1x speed they would usually have a huge bler rate.
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Sounds right to me, I have trouble with the tilt on most boards nowadays 10 years ago I could slam them around a lot more.
Plus it seems that the more action you have going the easier it is to tilt.
My wife slams them almost as hard as I do but hers dont seem to tilt, however she usually has less score going.
Plus the free game score is raised continually while playing making it more dificult to rack multiple free games.
Many boards do not have a specials reward, and if they do its only a extra ball.
The problem with pinball is the arcade owners do not want someone playing for 3 or 4 hours on 50 cents.
Much easier to make money on a video game that runs 3 minutes and then you need to put in more coin.
I guess the big reason I always played the boards was I didnt have an endless supply of coins for the breakout machine. I tried it for my 2 minute 25 cents worth and went straight back to the boards.
I still have a working Atari 400 complete with the crap membrane keyboard.
When me 20 year old nephew comes by I like to show him what us old timers had to put up with.
Especialy a few old magazines i have that have ads for $350 disk drives and $75 dolar 32k memory chips
I get verisign letters for renewal constantly. I have about 10 domains and it seems verisign starts
about 4 months before it expires and sends at least one letter per month and one after it expires. They probably spend 4 bucks a year in postage for each domain they want to renew.
It is way way nastier than my keyboard which is washed in pepsi or mountain dew at least once per week.
read the case documents
the first complaint filed March 22, 2001
items 8 and 9
paetec allowed monsterhut to spam as long as the complaints where below 2%
they both should be put in jail.
this isnt a hurray for the isp and boo for the spammer. Its a spammer geting screwed by a spammer
I cannot belive that someone can be this ignorant to acually feel this way so this must be a joke.
Actually a cd is made up of a plastic disc and the metal layer is deposited using a vacum chamber and a high voltage deposition chamber the metal is then covered with a clear material (laquer) to protect the metal layer from flaking or oxidising.
A properly produced cd should be able to withstand much more stresses than one produced incorrectly.
When I was in the cd production business I would bend a cd completly in half without it shattering to show a potential customer the quality they would recieve.
If I was having trouble with the injection process and the birefringence was off the cd could not be bent without bieng destroyed.
A better produced blank media will kick the ass of a lesser produced blank,however the retail price isnt related to the quality
Things like birefringence and reflectivity will definatly make a difference with the sound.
Also burn speed makes (or used to back then,over years ago) a big difference
When i was in the cd replication business i would test the burned media before i sent it to mastering and i could alway tell the ones recorded at over 1x speed they would usually have a huge bler rate.