Strongly unlikely. Nintendo (More precisely, thier president) is holding a grudge against Square since they 'abandoned' Nintendo to develop for the PSX.
Most of the titles are getting upgrades in form of better graphics, gameplay tweaks, bonuses for linking up with other people who have the game, and who knows what else those wacky devolepers will do. Its quite possible with the US finally having some decent cell phones that they'll start using the cell phone modem adapter.
I've grabbed quite a few roms, but if I can find the game I don't mind buying it at a decent price... Found Metroid 2 for Gameboy for 12 bucks over the weekend. Now thats pretty cool, but if my _only_ way of playing it was dropping $20 at Funcoland well forget that. Emulators let me play games that can't be found anymore. Some people are going to abuse them, but those who will buy the games are going to buy the games and those who won't, won't. I'll buy what is essentially my 3rd copy of Doom, as long as they present me with something I didn't have before, hopefully multiplayer and the levels of the complete set. Oh, and make it Doom 2, if it doesn't have the SSG I don't want it. Right, rambling.
Rehashes yes, but if they add value its all good.
-jeff
Space: Above and Beyond was not shite, I would have to argue. I have a hard time seeing Melrose space... Its not as if the characters are trying to get it on constantly, or attempting to back stab every 5 min. Hell, that name is probably only used by people who've seen it once and feel like discounted because it was made by those silly americans or some such stuff. The plot had a good many more plot lines it could have taken if Fox would have let it go on longer. The only thing that took away was the Red Shirt syndrome where there were new members of the 58th each week and they were dead by the end of the episode. The final ep broke this trend so at least they were aware of it. Space: Above and Beyond was excellent and would have only gotten better with time.
Ick. That sounds really bad... We've got it pretty good here in columbus. For most of the front line staff, we're all students. Therefore since we don't work full time, the burn isn't nearly as bad. Also, the knowledge that you're getting closer to your degree helps.
There are days though. When the callers barely speak english. When the calls are 10 seconds apart and all 6 agents are busy. When its 9:45pm on a friday night and you're seeing floating bottles of beer. When that paycheck looks far too small.
And then there are days when we eat a feast provided by the bosses, or that all 8 agents are in an Age of Empires game, with only one alt-tabbed to take a call.
Someone above said learn or burn, and that is absolutely true.
When I went in to see this friday night, I had no idea I was in for a superhero movie. Man was I astounded. I'm not old skool into comic books, but I read the best thats being made today (The Authority, Planetary & Battle Chasers) and I play White Wolf's Aberrant RPG, which is super heroes and x-files rolled together. This movie was one of the coolest I have seen. I know its a great piece of film-making, but what matters is thats its a great piece of film making about super heroes and comics. Throughout the movie, I kept looking over at my friend gary when major things happened and we had these matching grins on. The guy above wonders why this is on slashdot... This review is on slashdot because comics are something a good many of us have loved and the movie is one of the most enjoyable I have ever seen.
-jeff
ps. To those who've seen it, can you imagine a director's commentary track on the DVD? Ahhhhh...
Its not that I'm surprised that the technology is there... For most any problem, The Technology Is There. But, its cool to see it implimented on a consumer level. This is just a cool story, nothing more. What more would you have? Jon Katz reviewing another RPG and calling it the next revolution? Try that for a silly story.
Oh spare me... You are worried that the game verified with the id server for online play... Puh-lease. It has no way of knowing who you are so privacy is just silly reason. You are still allowed to play plenty, just not on internet server.
Well, I'm not sure about 1 or 3, but I believe NeXT is actually, nExt. The capitolized E (well, really its just stylized differently from the rest) stands for, well E. E as in Ecstacy. Think about it, regarding all the clubs and the crazy drugs, and thats why I think its like that.
Reading the subject on that post makes it sound like Sega is doing big evil things... Here is the catch, they aren't. First of all, video game companies shutting down the rom sites is something old as hell... They'll stop bothering with the Genesis in a couple of years most likely.
But here is the thing, these roms sites that sega is shutting down, I'm 99% sure it is Dreamcast rom sites. See, the encryption recently got broken, so now every kiddie (,1337!!!) wants DC games. And those are whats getting shut down. I'm not sobbing over the those sites being shutdown... And I doubt anyone else who has 2 brain cells to rub together do either.
I'm sorry, but I think SlashStaff need to research the articles that they are going to post, at least a little... I mean the story really gives it a "Sega baaaaaaaaaaaad" vibe right off the bat, but when you get the full explanation, it makes sense. I'm getting sick of badly written slashdot subjects, its like being back in Montesori school and playing Telephone. Bleck.
"I live in Finland but am currently in Singapore, coding the back end for the site of a dot-com startup. You would be amazed how little thought the USA gets here in the daily life. I doubt that many people (normal citizens) would even notice / care if the USA dropped off the Internet."
Look at the irony of what you are saying. You don't even have to ask a US citizen for the answer, you present it already. Notice how you say that the US gets so little thought from day to day? Well, same here. I think in both our cases we're just busy with our own lives and things that have a good chance of affecting us, so even national matters are pretty far from number one... I mean, I worry about school, women, computers, my friends, my recreation way more than I worry about what the national government is saying. And then its just a fact that alot of net traffic does go through the US, so that does make the US matter at least to those w/ interest in the conversation. So really, its just natural for us americans to be so self centered... Life doesn't make us look outside our country that often.
I appreciate what you are saying... The class action law suit mentality is a bad thing. BUT! The 4020i was a freaking hunk of trash. Seriously, I had to work so hard to get burns out of it... And then it died. It was a piece of crap, and I've known about this grumbling for a long time. Its not a hypochondriac imagined thing... Its so reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal! -jeff
Well... I would imagine almost certainly. I mean, there are a ton of geeks there, and not all evil ones. I bet some of those good ones will even be in support of Slashdot. OTOH, this is not the best time or place for them to voice that. Now if you mean the "M$" guys in the way that the person threatening/. , well I doubt it. Sounds like a lawyer type person and its just is unlikely.
Homeworld was developed by Canadian developer Relic, and Sierra was merely the distributor. Although they still pop out a few gems now and again (Swat 3, Gabriel Knight) Sierra's glory days are long gone. They now only try to make mainstream titles, rather than the innovation they created before.
I came to the same conclusion as the above once I had read the article. When I saw the blurb on the main page, I thought that some kids had got caught with the program whike just being normal kids... Hah! 'Tis not so. These people used l0phtcrack to do illegal things. I mean, its not like someone has a grudge and cooked up evidence... These people did illegal things, quite clearly. Not only does this apply to lockpicks and password crackers, but to the old american standby, guns. I can own a gun, that doesn't make it okay for me to hurt someone with it. I gotta admit, I think the head honchos at slashdot need to do a better job with user submitted articles. I know there is a ton of stuff submitted, but if they're going to post something, they should at least read it and proof-read the post for greatest clarity. Reading this article would have changed the 'oooh, the man is killing us' to 'look at what bad things people can do with our cherished tools'. Don't take this as an attack at those tools either, I think they are something that does need to exist. OTOH, they have to be used responsibly and this is a prime example of how they can be mis-handled.
I'll second this. It makes no sense to have a distro for such a small feature. For those crezzy SGI/Intel machines that came out a while back, that makes sense. For a generic x86 box with one special feature... Psshhh... Its called 'how do we get attention'.
Sites without porn/ads?:) Doesn't really happen, because the ones that are simple and straightforward get overwhelmed by those that are that lazy. Warez are fairly ridiculous, just for the fact of all the work you have to do to get the stuff, and its usually a sliced and diced version. I used to be more of a warez puppy, but I've gotten to the point with games that I'll only pick and choose certain ones, and those are usually worth my dollar (or fourty). Back to topic, anyway you've gotta have connections to find a decent warez server, knowing someone who has a genuine connection. Its like dudes. Follow this, you ever had a friend who is craving something smokable? Well, they usually say something like, "I called my dude and blah blah". Ya gotta have a dude to get warez. Thing is that dudes are usually flakey no matter what wareS they distribute. Not worth the hassle either way. As for that 24 hour crap... Come on. Is it okay to steal something as long as you put it back within 24 hours? Its not. Those roms are just as illegal. People may bs around, put signs like that to soothe their conscience and maybe give officials some excuse if they come knocking, but I doubt anyone could fine a written, Real-Life law to corroberate that. Amusing, and it makes you feel better when you get them, but its still illegal.
This lawsuit really bodes well for _everyone_ if you think about it. Okay, nowadays there are an increasing numbers of corporations that see the road to greatest profits through black box devices that no-one can copy. They encourage things like the DMCA that holds everyone back reverse engineer and really make life shitty in general. Well, with this, a judge just ruled that reverse engineering is A-O-K. This is awesome, because it gives a smart lawyer a tool for defending other reverse engineer-ers _and_ destroying anti-RevEng laws. How great is that:). A emulator company may be our saviors, though time will tell if its something as strong as that.
This had to be done. I work, live and goto school at the Ohio State University. I live in the dorms, and damn that program had sprouted up like a freaking weed. I know, I was a person that had been using it (even during summer quarter at home on a 56k modem). During Fall quarter of 99, Resnet was sucking up 1050% of what it was supposed to. I'm going to make the crezzy assumption that a healthy part of that was some type of mp3/warez transfer. It was killing us. So napster was banned from getting through the firewall. I miss it, yes, but I understand why.:\
Okay, bad news for you unfortunatly. They are not planning on releasing binaries, because they want proper sales figures on who is buying what. Here is my (kinda) solution... Borrow a Win32 friends (You do admit publicly that you have friends like this?:)) install CD and use that. Or do a babbages return.
As for playing under linux w/ a TNT/2/Ge... Dunno. NVidia is now funding someone to work on it, but I'd give XFree86 3.9.blah a try. Has anyone done this? I'd love to hear.
I believe so. I don't own one (I'm needing a new hard drive first), but I've played Video CDs (Ahh, Macross: Do you remember Love) on other DVD players. The thing was top of the line, but I'd think that any DVD player would play VCD. There are differences, but they're still Discs that play Mpeg files.
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Columbus Ohio is terrible as well with Sprint PCS (when using different friend's phones). I was lucky enough to choose Verizon. Sooo much better.
If I could mod I would, as it is, I'm just going to second this. I hate misleading titles... it really makes slashdot seem less accountable.
Strongly unlikely. Nintendo (More precisely, thier president) is holding a grudge against Square since they 'abandoned' Nintendo to develop for the PSX.
Most of the titles are getting upgrades in form of better graphics, gameplay tweaks, bonuses for linking up with other people who have the game, and who knows what else those wacky devolepers will do. Its quite possible with the US finally having some decent cell phones that they'll start using the cell phone modem adapter.
I've grabbed quite a few roms, but if I can find the game I don't mind buying it at a decent price... Found Metroid 2 for Gameboy for 12 bucks over the weekend. Now thats pretty cool, but if my _only_ way of playing it was dropping $20 at Funcoland well forget that. Emulators let me play games that can't be found anymore. Some people are going to abuse them, but those who will buy the games are going to buy the games and those who won't, won't. I'll buy what is essentially my 3rd copy of Doom, as long as they present me with something I didn't have before, hopefully multiplayer and the levels of the complete set. Oh, and make it Doom 2, if it doesn't have the SSG I don't want it. Right, rambling.
Rehashes yes, but if they add value its all good.
-jeff
Space: Above and Beyond was not shite, I would have to argue. I have a hard time seeing Melrose space... Its not as if the characters are trying to get it on constantly, or attempting to back stab every 5 min. Hell, that name is probably only used by people who've seen it once and feel like discounted because it was made by those silly americans or some such stuff. The plot had a good many more plot lines it could have taken if Fox would have let it go on longer. The only thing that took away was the Red Shirt syndrome where there were new members of the 58th each week and they were dead by the end of the episode. The final ep broke this trend so at least they were aware of it. Space: Above and Beyond was excellent and would have only gotten better with time.
Ick. That sounds really bad... We've got it pretty good here in columbus. For most of the front line staff, we're all students. Therefore since we don't work full time, the burn isn't nearly as bad. Also, the knowledge that you're getting closer to your degree helps.
There are days though. When the callers barely speak english. When the calls are 10 seconds apart and all 6 agents are busy. When its 9:45pm on a friday night and you're seeing floating bottles of beer. When that paycheck looks far too small.
And then there are days when we eat a feast provided by the bosses, or that all 8 agents are in an Age of Empires game, with only one alt-tabbed to take a call.
Someone above said learn or burn, and that is absolutely true.
When I went in to see this friday night, I had no idea I was in for a superhero movie. Man was I astounded. I'm not old skool into comic books, but I read the best thats being made today (The Authority, Planetary & Battle Chasers) and I play White Wolf's Aberrant RPG, which is super heroes and x-files rolled together. This movie was one of the coolest I have seen. I know its a great piece of film-making, but what matters is thats its a great piece of film making about super heroes and comics. Throughout the movie, I kept looking over at my friend gary when major things happened and we had these matching grins on. The guy above wonders why this is on slashdot... This review is on slashdot because comics are something a good many of us have loved and the movie is one of the most enjoyable I have ever seen.
-jeff
ps. To those who've seen it, can you imagine a director's commentary track on the DVD? Ahhhhh...
Its not that I'm surprised that the technology is there... For most any problem, The Technology Is There. But, its cool to see it implimented on a consumer level. This is just a cool story, nothing more. What more would you have? Jon Katz reviewing another RPG and calling it the next revolution? Try that for a silly story.
Oh spare me... You are worried that the game verified with the id server for online play... Puh-lease. It has no way of knowing who you are so privacy is just silly reason. You are still allowed to play plenty, just not on internet server.
Well, I'm not sure about 1 or 3, but I believe NeXT is actually, nExt. The capitolized E (well, really its just stylized differently from the rest) stands for, well E. E as in Ecstacy. Think about it, regarding all the clubs and the crazy drugs, and thats why I think its like that.
Reading the subject on that post makes it sound like Sega is doing big evil things... Here is the catch, they aren't. First of all, video game companies shutting down the rom sites is something old as hell... They'll stop bothering with the Genesis in a couple of years most likely.
,1337!!!) wants DC games. And those are whats getting shut down. I'm not sobbing over the those sites being shutdown... And I doubt anyone else who has 2 brain cells to rub together do either.
But here is the thing, these roms sites that sega is shutting down, I'm 99% sure it is Dreamcast rom sites. See, the encryption recently got broken, so now every kiddie (
I'm sorry, but I think SlashStaff need to research the articles that they are going to post, at least a little... I mean the story really gives it a "Sega baaaaaaaaaaaad" vibe right off the bat, but when you get the full explanation, it makes sense. I'm getting sick of badly written slashdot subjects, its like being back in Montesori school and playing Telephone. Bleck.
"I live in Finland but am currently in Singapore, coding the back end for the site of a dot-com startup. You would be amazed how little thought the USA gets here in the daily life. I doubt that many people (normal citizens) would even notice / care if the USA dropped off the Internet."
Look at the irony of what you are saying. You don't even have to ask a US citizen for the answer, you present it already. Notice how you say that the US gets so little thought from day to day? Well, same here. I think in both our cases we're just busy with our own lives and things that have a good chance of affecting us, so even national matters are pretty far from number one... I mean, I worry about school, women, computers, my friends, my recreation way more than I worry about what the national government is saying. And then its just a fact that alot of net traffic does go through the US, so that does make the US matter at least to those w/ interest in the conversation. So really, its just natural for us americans to be so self centered... Life doesn't make us look outside our country that often.
Eh, I'll agree with dude.
You'd have to give me a lobodomy to opt out though.
:)
-jeff
I appreciate what you are saying... The class action law suit mentality is a bad thing. BUT! The 4020i was a freaking hunk of trash. Seriously, I had to work so hard to get burns out of it... And then it died. It was a piece of crap, and I've known about this grumbling for a long time. Its not a hypochondriac imagined thing... Its so reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal!
-jeff
Well... I would imagine almost certainly. I mean, there are a ton of geeks there, and not all evil ones. I bet some of those good ones will even be in support of Slashdot. OTOH, this is not the best time or place for them to voice that. Now if you mean the "M$" guys in the way that the person threatening /. , well I doubt it. Sounds like a lawyer type person and its just is unlikely.
Homeworld was developed by Canadian developer Relic, and Sierra was merely the distributor. Although they still pop out a few gems now and again (Swat 3, Gabriel Knight) Sierra's glory days are long gone. They now only try to make mainstream titles, rather than the innovation they created before.
I came to the same conclusion as the above once I had read the article. When I saw the blurb on the main page, I thought that some kids had got caught with the program whike just being normal kids... Hah! 'Tis not so. These people used l0phtcrack to do illegal things. I mean, its not like someone has a grudge and cooked up evidence... These people did illegal things, quite clearly. Not only does this apply to lockpicks and password crackers, but to the old american standby, guns.
I can own a gun, that doesn't make it okay for me to hurt someone with it.
I gotta admit, I think the head honchos at slashdot need to do a better job with user submitted articles. I know there is a ton of stuff submitted, but if they're going to post something, they should at least read it and proof-read the post for greatest clarity. Reading this article would have changed the 'oooh, the man is killing us' to 'look at what bad things people can do with our cherished tools'. Don't take this as an attack at those tools either, I think they are something that does need to exist. OTOH, they have to be used responsibly and this is a prime example of how they can be mis-handled.
I'll second this. It makes no sense to have a distro for such a small feature. For those crezzy SGI/Intel machines that came out a while back, that makes sense. For a generic x86 box with one special feature... Psshhh... Its called 'how do we get attention'.
Sites without porn/ads? :) Doesn't really happen, because the ones that are simple and straightforward get overwhelmed by those that are that lazy. Warez are fairly ridiculous, just for the fact of all the work you have to do to get the stuff, and its usually a sliced and diced version. I used to be more of a warez puppy, but I've gotten to the point with games that I'll only pick and choose certain ones, and those are usually worth my dollar (or fourty).
Back to topic, anyway you've gotta have connections to find a decent warez server, knowing someone who has a genuine connection. Its like dudes. Follow this, you ever had a friend who is craving something smokable? Well, they usually say something like, "I called my dude and blah blah". Ya gotta have a dude to get warez. Thing is that dudes are usually flakey no matter what wareS they distribute. Not worth the hassle either way.
As for that 24 hour crap... Come on. Is it okay to steal something as long as you put it back within 24 hours? Its not. Those roms are just as illegal. People may bs around, put signs like that to soothe their conscience and maybe give officials some excuse if they come knocking, but I doubt anyone could fine a written, Real-Life law to corroberate that. Amusing, and it makes you feel better when you get them, but its still illegal.
This lawsuit really bodes well for _everyone_ if you think about it. Okay, nowadays there are an increasing numbers of corporations that see the road to greatest profits through black box devices that no-one can copy. They encourage things like the DMCA that holds everyone back reverse engineer and really make life shitty in general. Well, with this, a judge just ruled that reverse engineering is A-O-K. This is awesome, because it gives a smart lawyer a tool for defending other reverse engineer-ers _and_ destroying anti-RevEng laws. How great is that :). A emulator company may be our saviors, though time will tell if its something as strong as that.
This had to be done. I work, live and goto school at the Ohio State University. I live in the dorms, and damn that program had sprouted up like a freaking weed. I know, I was a person that had been using it (even during summer quarter at home on a 56k modem). During Fall quarter of 99, Resnet was sucking up 1050% of what it was supposed to. I'm going to make the crezzy assumption that a healthy part of that was some type of mp3/warez transfer. It was killing us. So napster was banned from getting through the firewall. I miss it, yes, but I understand why. :\
Thats just too cool. I figured someone would hack something like this together.
Okay, bad news for you unfortunatly. They are not planning on releasing binaries, because they want proper sales figures on who is buying what. :)) install CD and use that. Or do a babbages return.
Here is my (kinda) solution... Borrow a Win32 friends (You do admit publicly that you have friends like this?
As for playing under linux w/ a TNT/2/Ge... Dunno. NVidia is now funding someone to work on it, but I'd give XFree86 3.9.blah a try. Has anyone done this? I'd love to hear.
I believe so. I don't own one (I'm needing a new hard drive first), but I've played Video CDs (Ahh, Macross: Do you remember Love) on other DVD players. The thing was top of the line, but I'd think that any DVD player would play VCD. There are differences, but they're still Discs that play Mpeg files.
It does.
It plays Mp3's & DVD's, CD are assumed. DVD drives absolutely can play a music CD.
Cool, eh?