I think one of the biggest differences between when you and I were younger and the internet wasn't as big then (when most people had no internet access then) was that a lot of average people weren't using computers as much as they are today.
Well one thing you have to remember is that in most countries a treaty is useless unless the residing party approves it.
In the US congress and the president have to approve it. But then again we already did - with the DMCA. I have no doubt that this will sail through congress.
On a more positive note - as far as politics go most european countries seem far more progressive then us (although sometimes not). Maybe it will get shot down as it flies overhead.
Well its just like the PS2 - when it came out it had relatively crappy games (I'm speaking from experience here actually). Things are starting to pick up.
I plan to get a gamecube - mostly because I played around with super monkeyball and really liked it, but I also like GTA3 and there's really no way in smeg that game is every going to end up on nintendo.
Blows me away. I've got 2000 pro running on a Toshiba Portege 7000CT with 96 megs of ram - it takes like 5 minutes just to boot. Its not pleasent in the least:(.
Well 3do had the same problem as CDTV - as I recall CDTV originally cost like 900$ as I recall - which is above and beyond what ANY game console should ever cost. But I saw it doing quicktime like video on its 1x drive long before quicktime ever came out.
Also the CD32 (I actually had one) was just an A1200 with an Akiko chip - which did chuny to planar conversion in hardware (anyone who knows anything about amiga chipsets knows why this was useful). The drive was propriety and made by sony - although I'm sure it was very similar to scsi - or hacked up in the scsi.device [driver] to look like scsi to the system. It was the same with the CDTV - its dmac (dma controller) had almost everything to do scsi, but not quite. Most SCSI addons usually just finished the job.
Finally:) - the AGA chipset in the cd32 could only do 262,144 colours in ham8 mode - which isn't very useful for games (since realtime images tended to leave nasty artifacts - animations were cool though with ham8). Anyhow - that was out of a pallette of 16.8 million colours. Sprites and other real time graphics were limited to 256 colours in any resolution supported by the amiga. CDTV was OCS based and could only do 32 colours in low res mode, 16 in high res mode and 4096 colours in ham mode - or I think 128 or something in ehb mode (extra half bright, but it may not have had enough vram).
He left out Commodore - who released two consoles. Both of which were somewhat groundbreaking - the CDTV being the first system to have a CD-Rom drive (released in 1989 - designed by former Atari guy who invented pong) and the CD-32 the first 32 bit dedicated console - which actually has a lot in common with the Xbox - being that they were both came from former PC's. At the time I thought they both played great games.
I think too there are people who can do things like that. For instance I can't quit my job, and go off writing books (or playing video games). I think the original poster was correct in saying there is a big difference in spending every waking moment trying to collect qsl cards (ham radio), collecting every item (pso, diablo etc) and leveling up - and just enjoying the game because its fun or using ham radio once in a while because its fun (speaking from experience).
Games try to promote this too - take GT3 on the PS2 for instance. Win every single race in first place and you can win all sorts of fun cars. I have it and frankly it gets repetitive after a while. Its no wonder gameshark type devices are popular with me:). I mean who honestly wants to sit around for 170 real laps (in the endurance mode) and race cars on a TV set?
Funny - I've got a friend who is an airman in the US Air Force (at Langly AFB) where they have a strict policy to use nothing but Windows NT. Does that mean he can leak the source to me?
You're better off then me - ever since the transition my connection has been 300 baud down and I'm not quite sure what up (and I'm not bs'ing you in the slightest).
What about non linear editors? They have been around since the early 90's if not before. They are in essense a system of catagorizing video recordings onto a hard drive.
I'm on ATT. I dunno - my linux router is an old Sparcstation 10 running debian. No matter how many times I try to get a new ip address it rarely works, and when it does its slower then a 300 baud modem (seriously). MTR tells me I'm losing like 99% of all my outgoing packets. Its a 2.4.x kernel - I doubt they could detect that, but they have me wondering.
I wish I was back up - takes forever to get an IP and I'm losing about 95% of all my packets over their gateway. This is in Beaverton Oregon and I'm with ATT Broadband.
Getting through to tech support has been an absolute nightmare:(.
Mellow out man:) - I graduated from college a while back, I just thought it was funny - especially when were talking about excellence in public education.
I live in Beaverton Oregon - with excite@home I used to get upwards of 8 megabits (and I'm not shitting you in the least - it was wonderful). After the transition I had the same DNS problems and connectivity problems. Anyhow to make a very long story short I now get around 500 bytes per second - and I'm not kidding. I couldn't even check my e-mail... I hope ATT gets their act together like - now (that would be nice).
Yeah, but it will be a sore move - I used to be on DSL - Cable is considerably faster - I mean when's the last time you downloaded a file at 400kB per second over DSL? Happens all the time here.
I'm thinking I'll just switch to dialup for a while - I'm so sick of the hassle it takes to install yet another broadband service.
I do this for a living. How hard is it to pull a wall plate off the wall - change it for the 3com part and poof? Take me a couple minutes per plate I think. If you did it properly you should have some slack in the cabeling so that you can pull the assembly out and actually work with it.
Anyhoo - if you want some help I could use the extra money:) - if you live in Portland OR give me a ring:) - if you have that CD-ROM the DMV gives everyone you'll find my number under N7WSB.
Seriously though - I've written my representatives and congressmen (Gordon Smith and David Wu - Oregon). They have never written back to date - and I've written them thoughtful letters for the last 3~4 years. My last letter I'll ever write to them was an angry one which I accused them of selling out to the ATA and I swore I'd never ever ever vote for either of them again - and I won't.
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I think one of the biggest differences between when you and I were younger and the internet wasn't as big then (when most people had no internet access then) was that a lot of average people weren't using computers as much as they are today.
Well one thing you have to remember is that in most countries a treaty is useless unless the residing party approves it.
In the US congress and the president have to approve it. But then again we already did - with the DMCA. I have no doubt that this will sail through congress.
On a more positive note - as far as politics go most european countries seem far more progressive then us (although sometimes not). Maybe it will get shot down as it flies overhead.
Try 480 lines interlaced...
Well its just like the PS2 - when it came out it had relatively crappy games (I'm speaking from experience here actually). Things are starting to pick up.
I plan to get a gamecube - mostly because I played around with super monkeyball and really liked it, but I also like GTA3 and there's really no way in smeg that game is every going to end up on nintendo.
I heard is uses a Z80 as well.
Blows me away. I've got 2000 pro running on a Toshiba Portege 7000CT with 96 megs of ram - it takes like 5 minutes just to boot. Its not pleasent in the least :(.
Well 3do had the same problem as CDTV - as I recall CDTV originally cost like 900$ as I recall - which is above and beyond what ANY game console should ever cost. But I saw it doing quicktime like video on its 1x drive long before quicktime ever came out.
:) - the AGA chipset in the cd32 could only do 262,144 colours in ham8 mode - which isn't very useful for games (since realtime images tended to leave nasty artifacts - animations were cool though with ham8). Anyhow - that was out of a pallette of 16.8 million colours. Sprites and other real time graphics were limited to 256 colours in any resolution supported by the amiga. CDTV was OCS based and could only do 32 colours in low res mode, 16 in high res mode and 4096 colours in ham mode - or I think 128 or something in ehb mode (extra half bright, but it may not have had enough vram).
Also the CD32 (I actually had one) was just an A1200 with an Akiko chip - which did chuny to planar conversion in hardware (anyone who knows anything about amiga chipsets knows why this was useful). The drive was propriety and made by sony - although I'm sure it was very similar to scsi - or hacked up in the scsi.device [driver] to look like scsi to the system. It was the same with the CDTV - its dmac (dma controller) had almost everything to do scsi, but not quite. Most SCSI addons usually just finished the job.
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Which is not a percistant world, but it was still big fun, adventuring with your party of 4, finding cool items and making friends.
He left out Commodore - who released two consoles. Both of which were somewhat groundbreaking - the CDTV being the first system to have a CD-Rom drive (released in 1989 - designed by former Atari guy who invented pong) and the CD-32 the first 32 bit dedicated console - which actually has a lot in common with the Xbox - being that they were both came from former PC's. At the time I thought they both played great games.
I think too there are people who can do things like that. For instance I can't quit my job, and go off writing books (or playing video games). I think the original poster was correct in saying there is a big difference in spending every waking moment trying to collect qsl cards (ham radio), collecting every item (pso, diablo etc) and leveling up - and just enjoying the game because its fun or using ham radio once in a while because its fun (speaking from experience).
:). I mean who honestly wants to sit around for 170 real laps (in the endurance mode) and race cars on a TV set?
Games try to promote this too - take GT3 on the PS2 for instance. Win every single race in first place and you can win all sorts of fun cars. I have it and frankly it gets repetitive after a while. Its no wonder gameshark type devices are popular with me
my mistake - and that comment is sooooo off-topic. No - it was on topic, just misunderstood.
Funny - I've got a friend who is an airman in the US Air Force (at Langly AFB) where they have a strict policy to use nothing but Windows NT. Does that mean he can leak the source to me?
I hope your sshd is not configured to accept telenet connections too :)
Well if you had been reading your e-mail from AT&T you would say that - I at least got 3~4 warnings in the last couple of months.
You're better off then me - ever since the transition my connection has been 300 baud down and I'm not quite sure what up (and I'm not bs'ing you in the slightest).
What about non linear editors? They have been around since the early 90's if not before. They are in essense a system of catagorizing video recordings onto a hard drive.
I'm on ATT. I dunno - my linux router is an old Sparcstation 10 running debian. No matter how many times I try to get a new ip address it rarely works, and when it does its slower then a 300 baud modem (seriously). MTR tells me I'm losing like 99% of all my outgoing packets. Its a 2.4.x kernel - I doubt they could detect that, but they have me wondering.
I wish I was back up - takes forever to get an IP and I'm losing about 95% of all my packets over their gateway. This is in Beaverton Oregon and I'm with ATT Broadband.
:(.
Getting through to tech support has been an absolute nightmare
Mellow out man :) - I graduated from college a while back, I just thought it was funny - especially when were talking about excellence in public education.
and its obviously not helping either. I guess you should move to maine.
I live in Beaverton Oregon - with excite@home I used to get upwards of 8 megabits (and I'm not shitting you in the least - it was wonderful). After the transition I had the same DNS problems and connectivity problems. Anyhow to make a very long story short I now get around 500 bytes per second - and I'm not kidding. I couldn't even check my e-mail... I hope ATT gets their act together like - now (that would be nice).
Yeah, but it will be a sore move - I used to be on DSL - Cable is considerably faster - I mean when's the last time you downloaded a file at 400kB per second over DSL? Happens all the time here.
I'm thinking I'll just switch to dialup for a while - I'm so sick of the hassle it takes to install yet another broadband service.
Wierd - I'm writing you from beyond ATT@home right this very second (its 8 pm here in Oregon).
I do this for a living. How hard is it to pull a wall plate off the wall - change it for the 3com part and poof? Take me a couple minutes per plate I think. If you did it properly you should have some slack in the cabeling so that you can pull the assembly out and actually work with it.
:) - if you live in Portland OR give me a ring :) - if you have that CD-ROM the DMV gives everyone you'll find my number under N7WSB.
Anyhoo - if you want some help I could use the extra money
Except they don't read mail because of anthrax...
Seriously though - I've written my representatives and congressmen (Gordon Smith and David Wu - Oregon). They have never written back to date - and I've written them thoughtful letters for the last 3~4 years. My last letter I'll ever write to them was an angry one which I accused them of selling out to the ATA and I swore I'd never ever ever vote for either of them again - and I won't.