But what about in Japan? Arcades are still huge in japan.
Sure are. I was in Tokyo a year ago, and had a chance to check out an arcade or two. The ones I went to were mainly run by Sega, and it was interesting the kinds of games you'd find there. One game was a "walk the dog" simulator (not kidding), and another one had two keyboards attached to it - yes, it was an arcade version of Typing of the Dead. Quite a fun game, but tricky for an American to type out Japanese words (not in Kanji, naturally).
I use it for my gigs, and I've been quite happy with it.
But when I first got the thing, it has an RJ-45 type jack on the side (unfortunately) for the optional foot pedals. Imagine my potential excitement when I thought that I could possibly hook ethernet into it..
"You've slashdotted the POD again; reset it back to California, VOX, then back to California again."
I have been running this game on a Windows XP box, and discovered that it is nearly unplayable.
Using the mouse / keyboard combination (very "Quake like"), you find that you have to almost always hold down the run button (assigned to "R"). Inverted "T" for movement is WASD. You use the spacebar (or mouse key) to do attacks or open things. Now, the ALT key is used to jump.
I found that on Windows XP, if you hit the ALT key just before the forward (W) key, you get a system beep event, and the screen switches back to the Windows desktop.
I posted a message to Ubi's support site, and got a response that told me that I needed the latest DirectX and video card drivers. I had them, but I installed whatever was the latest anyway.
Same problem. I was then told that I could "fix" the problem by remapping my "ALT" key to something else.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work very well. You DL3D at least seems to have a problem with key combinations of anything that isn't a modifying key (i.e. alt works in combos, but "C" doesn't). I expressed this to the support person that not only would it be very inconvenient to use a key other than the alt (my hand has enough problems, I don't need to twist it out of whack to use some strangely placed key when the ALT is perfectly ergonomic in this case). I never got a response, and no word to fix it.
Haven't touched the game since, and I only wish I could return it for a full refund. I'm never buying another Ubi product.
I wish I could post a link to the exact post on their site, but my company blocks their server.
It is also worth noting that you don't patch to the latest kernel with AS2.1. When RHAS comes out with a version (currently v2.1), it comes with a slightly patched kernel (of course, patches are available over the 'net in accordance with GPL). v2.1 currently comes with 2.4.9, but woah! 2.4.20 is out, right?
RedHat might patch their 2.4.9 kernel to fix serious bugs, but they have only certified against the version that came out of the box.
I've been using AS2.1 for several months now, and I haven't been disappointed. If anything, now my employer "has someone to sue" if the OS doesn't work right. Wasn't that part of the hesitation for larger corporations in adopting Linux?
Back in the early 90's OS/2 had no problems multitasking floopy I/O - I recall formating a few hundred floppies while doing other stuff, with absolutely no degredation in performance of other tasks.
Kind of reminds me of one of the cool points of the Amiga computers back in the day.
The demonstration was showing how the Macintosh and IBM computers could only format one floppy at a time. On an Amiga, you could format four floppies at the same time, and still have full multitasking computing power available.
Well DO consider that Windows 3.1 was only 7MB total in size when installed.. I think my P3-1000 and UltraDMA hard drive can blink faster than the time it takes to load that.
one thing's for sure. It's much better than the 1970's computers running NASA's systems now.
Are you so sure about that? One thing that I can say about "70's computing" is that due to the limitations of the hardware they had at the time, the code is much smaller, much more thought over/looked over, and therefore has a propensity to contain far fewer bugs.
It's like saying that we're better off using Excel 2003 than VisiCalc 1979, even though they both do the same basic job.
I could see how there are cases where you need the extra computing power or speed for certain jobs, and maybe thats all they're doing here?
The article just starts off with the best quote which really sums everything up: "I don't it's ever going to wipe out Microsoft, but it's going to be a fairer universe.".
Nobody could reasonably expect a project like this to have significant impact on a behemoth like Microsoft, but at least other platforms won't get shut out of a developing market. I'm glad Miguel at least has this realistic view.
I've been wondering for the last few years, who still uses OS/2? Forget companies who have legacy software running on it, I mean does anyone actually use it on their personal machine? I mean regularly; enough to validate upgrades.
The bigger question I have, however, is that I never really had a chance to play with OS/2, and I always wanted to see what it was like. Is it even publically (preferably freely) available for a weekend hobbyist like myself who just wants to kick the tires?
I was startled to see the RIM Blackberry PDA / cell phone combination in there.
I have a friend who was one of the beta testers of the device. I personally use a blackberry nearly every day (at least I wear the darn thing on my belt), and not only does the large PDA version of this thing relatively suck compared to Microsoft and Palm PDAs, the cell phone addition is a bit of a joke.
You see, they don't mention the worst part about the device: to use the cell phone, you have to have the ear piece around. It plugs into the top, and is REQUIRED to use the cell phone.
With a regular cell phone (even the Tungsten / TMobile / PDA-phone things), you hear/feel the ring, flip it open and talk. With the Blackberry PDA / phone, you hear/feel the ring, find your ear bud, untangle the wire, plug it into the blackberry, then press buttons.
Ok, you could leave the ear piece plugged in, but you still have the issue of a potentially tangled wire. Ok, you could also be one of those people who always uses ear pieces. I'm just speaking plain practical use.
Don't get me wrong, I think my Blackberry is a great device for keeping a remote handle on my work related email, but the cell phone feature wasn't very well thought out. I wouldn't have really included it on this list.
Yes, this is a beautiful station. The security risk is that it runs under the front steps of City Hall.
When the station was closed (over 50 years ago, if I remember correctly) it was only handling about 140 passengers a day, hardly enough to justify keeping it open.
Unfortunately, the only train that runs through there is the 6 line, and now it seems that all the 6 trains are the new Kawasaki "bright white" cars that were delivered in the last two years. These cars you can't look out the front window (like the old Red Bird's before them) without an annoying mosaic effect (some plastic polarizing filter to prevent you from seeing what the operator is doing), and since the car is internally so bright white, you have a hard time seeing out the window.
(like you would really stand a chance against the Lord of the Sith anyway...)
Yeah, but I was planning on hacking the code and bringing over the BFG10K.. can his powers stop that?
fwwwaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHH BAAM!!
Ok, maybe not, but it'd be cool if you could create characters many times so that you could take suicide attempts to try and get him.. just see what happens each time.
I guess the reason why I say this is because I have no intention of "living" this game. Others might be a little more gung-ho about taking it seriously, but some might just want to explore a little, and not be a peasant.
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The 10022 zip code is midtown manhattan, roughly around the area north of Grand Central Station on the east side of the island. Luckily, this is where my ofice is, unfortunately, I don't have a refrigerator or the desire to lug this stuff back to my apartment on the other side of town.
Dragon's Lair was one of the most pointless, uninvolving and overhyped games in history.
Sure, it wasn't that great as an action game, but as pure entertainment that grabbed your attention, your senses and delivered to you an experience that simply wasn't available in 1983, it WAS a great game. Up to the point that Dragon's Lair came out (and woah! 50 a game?!), games were cool, but not THAT cool. Yeah, it was eye candy, but dammit it was a great experience.
Sure, in comparison to other games today (and even 12 years ago) it isn't that great. It is probably more nostalgic than anything else. I played the Amiga and PC CD-ROM (circa 1993?) versions, and yes, they sucked for the most part. However, I'll probably buy this version simply because this one isn't going to remove scenes to fit on 3.5" floppy disks or a MPEG-filled CD-ROM, but they actually ADDED scenes true to the original game.
I've been playing with Frodo recently, so this is fairly fresh in my mind..
LOAD "$",8 loads the directory from device 8 and then you use a LIST command to view it.
LOAD "*",8[,1] loads the default program on device 8, and if you specify ",1", the file is assumed to be a binary program. You may have to follow this with a RUN command to fire it up.
That was one of the best magazines targetted toward young computer users. If that didn't get the young hacker in you excited about computing, then I don't know what would.
Heck, they even had an article with Joey Ramone one time, and they ported the tune "Slug" to the popular 8-bit machines of the time.
"Lyin' in my bed one summer's night, and everything was alright, then something started crawlin' on me, S-L-U-G"
One point grabbed my attention which reminded me of the old Apple Lisa: filenames.
On the Lisa, your documents had two filenames: one for the computer and one for the user. If you renamed your document (i.e. the icon now reads "List of pr0n sites to visit" instead of "Winnie the Pooh Fan Sites"), as far as the operating system and LisaWrite were concerned, it was still the same file. The example of "cruft" that the author gave was that your "recent documents" list would be inaccurate after the rename. This problem wouldn't have existed under the Lisa's mechanism.
I do have to admit that it has been about 15 years since I've last used a Lisa nonetheless SEEN one, but I do have to say that Lisa's user experience was far better thought out than what we have today. Everything was document oriented, not application oriented like todays Windows and Apple GUIs.
If you stop paying for their products, the RIAA and MPAA won't have money to pay congressmen/women for laws like the DMCA.
Despite the fact that I disagree with you, I'll at least point out that your statement introduces a double egded sword - if by some unbelievable turn of events we could possibly effect the income of the music publisher in question, it would only fuel their argument to the federal powers that be that P2P piracy has run rampant.. and THIS time they'd actually have the numbers to back up their statements!
I hate to think that there isn't much you can do about it.. we can only hope that Philips has some sort of licensing issue with the CD logo, and that it gets exposed wide-scale that BMG is screwing things up. Most consumers don't care. We can only hope that they do.
Great.. maybe now with the cars using less fuel, I'll get less emails from people telling me how I shouldn't buy gasoline from certain companies because they pump oil from the middle east..
I'll agree that Phil was a "lame excuse" for Peter Gabriel when talking about when he replaced Peter as the singer for Genesis in 1976. However, two things:
It was generally approved by the fans that someone from inside the group replaced Peter rather than having some outsider come in and try to act like Peter. I personally prefer 1970-1975 Genesis myself, but then again, the 1976-1980 music isn't all that bad either.
Phil a weak drummer? I disagree. Phil was QUITE a drummer, however, once he started with the lead singer position, he "stopped playing drums", as I like to put it. Once Genesis started going more commercial, their music became the lame 4/4 stuff which doesn't allow for good (interesting) drumming.
Just a rant, and off-topic, but I had to respond to this one..
This reminds me of when I got my @Home cable modem installed in 1998. I told @Home that I was running Windows NT, made sure that the operator knew that, and then scheduled my installation.
Guy comes over, wants to install NIC (but I insisted that I do it myself), and then he turns on the computer waiting for the Plug and Play dialog on Windows. I told him there was no Plug and Play on Windows NT (and if you argue otherwise, yes there/is/, but you've never enabled it and found WHY it isn't enabled by default!). The installer had NO idea about ANYTHING with WinNT.
Needless to say, he left without installing any software (thankfully, since I never installed Internet Explorer on that machine), but he had no idea of the network settings because he assumed DHCP would do all of it (another thing in NT that didn't quite work right in the early days of NT 4.0).
My advice: if you know half your ass about computers, you probably know more about what you're doing than most of the people that install DSL or cable modems for residential consumers. Yes, there ARE smart people out there, but they're usually reserved for the customers that didn't get successful installations the first time around.
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Sure are. I was in Tokyo a year ago, and had a chance to check out an arcade or two. The ones I went to were mainly run by Sega, and it was interesting the kinds of games you'd find there. One game was a "walk the dog" simulator (not kidding), and another one had two keyboards attached to it - yes, it was an arcade version of Typing of the Dead. Quite a fun game, but tricky for an American to type out Japanese words (not in Kanji, naturally).
But when I first got the thing, it has an RJ-45 type jack on the side (unfortunately) for the optional foot pedals. Imagine my potential excitement when I thought that I could possibly hook ethernet into it..
"You've slashdotted the POD again; reset it back to California, VOX, then back to California again."
"Let's feed the Black Page in..."
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Using the mouse / keyboard combination (very "Quake like"), you find that you have to almost always hold down the run button (assigned to "R"). Inverted "T" for movement is WASD. You use the spacebar (or mouse key) to do attacks or open things. Now, the ALT key is used to jump.
I found that on Windows XP, if you hit the ALT key just before the forward (W) key, you get a system beep event, and the screen switches back to the Windows desktop.
I posted a message to Ubi's support site, and got a response that told me that I needed the latest DirectX and video card drivers. I had them, but I installed whatever was the latest anyway.
Same problem. I was then told that I could "fix" the problem by remapping my "ALT" key to something else.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work very well. You DL3D at least seems to have a problem with key combinations of anything that isn't a modifying key (i.e. alt works in combos, but "C" doesn't). I expressed this to the support person that not only would it be very inconvenient to use a key other than the alt (my hand has enough problems, I don't need to twist it out of whack to use some strangely placed key when the ALT is perfectly ergonomic in this case). I never got a response, and no word to fix it.
Haven't touched the game since, and I only wish I could return it for a full refund. I'm never buying another Ubi product.
I wish I could post a link to the exact post on their site, but my company blocks their server.
RedHat might patch their 2.4.9 kernel to fix serious bugs, but they have only certified against the version that came out of the box.
I've been using AS2.1 for several months now, and I haven't been disappointed. If anything, now my employer "has someone to sue" if the OS doesn't work right. Wasn't that part of the hesitation for larger corporations in adopting Linux?
Kind of reminds me of one of the cool points of the Amiga computers back in the day.
The demonstration was showing how the Macintosh and IBM computers could only format one floppy at a time. On an Amiga, you could format four floppies at the same time, and still have full multitasking computing power available.
Those were the days...
Well DO consider that Windows 3.1 was only 7MB total in size when installed.. I think my P3-1000 and UltraDMA hard drive can blink faster than the time it takes to load that.
Are you so sure about that? One thing that I can say about "70's computing" is that due to the limitations of the hardware they had at the time, the code is much smaller, much more thought over/looked over, and therefore has a propensity to contain far fewer bugs.
It's like saying that we're better off using Excel 2003 than VisiCalc 1979, even though they both do the same basic job.
I could see how there are cases where you need the extra computing power or speed for certain jobs, and maybe thats all they're doing here?
Nobody could reasonably expect a project like this to have significant impact on a behemoth like Microsoft, but at least other platforms won't get shut out of a developing market. I'm glad Miguel at least has this realistic view.
The bigger question I have, however, is that I never really had a chance to play with OS/2, and I always wanted to see what it was like. Is it even publically (preferably freely) available for a weekend hobbyist like myself who just wants to kick the tires?
darnnit.
I have a friend who was one of the beta testers of the device. I personally use a blackberry nearly every day (at least I wear the darn thing on my belt), and not only does the large PDA version of this thing relatively suck compared to Microsoft and Palm PDAs, the cell phone addition is a bit of a joke.
You see, they don't mention the worst part about the device: to use the cell phone, you have to have the ear piece around. It plugs into the top, and is REQUIRED to use the cell phone.
With a regular cell phone (even the Tungsten / TMobile / PDA-phone things), you hear/feel the ring, flip it open and talk. With the Blackberry PDA / phone, you hear/feel the ring, find your ear bud, untangle the wire, plug it into the blackberry, then press buttons.
Ok, you could leave the ear piece plugged in, but you still have the issue of a potentially tangled wire. Ok, you could also be one of those people who always uses ear pieces. I'm just speaking plain practical use.
Don't get me wrong, I think my Blackberry is a great device for keeping a remote handle on my work related email, but the cell phone feature wasn't very well thought out. I wouldn't have really included it on this list.
When the station was closed (over 50 years ago, if I remember correctly) it was only handling about 140 passengers a day, hardly enough to justify keeping it open.
Unfortunately, the only train that runs through there is the 6 line, and now it seems that all the 6 trains are the new Kawasaki "bright white" cars that were delivered in the last two years. These cars you can't look out the front window (like the old Red Bird's before them) without an annoying mosaic effect (some plastic polarizing filter to prevent you from seeing what the operator is doing), and since the car is internally so bright white, you have a hard time seeing out the window.
Yeah, but I was planning on hacking the code and bringing over the BFG10K.. can his powers stop that?
fwwwaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHH BAAM!!
Ok, maybe not, but it'd be cool if you could create characters many times so that you could take suicide attempts to try and get him.. just see what happens each time.
I guess the reason why I say this is because I have no intention of "living" this game. Others might be a little more gung-ho about taking it seriously, but some might just want to explore a little, and not be a peasant.
Sounds cool though..
Though I guess we'd have to spray them every once in a while..
Sure, it wasn't that great as an action game, but as pure entertainment that grabbed your attention, your senses and delivered to you an experience that simply wasn't available in 1983, it WAS a great game. Up to the point that Dragon's Lair came out (and woah! 50 a game?!), games were cool, but not THAT cool. Yeah, it was eye candy, but dammit it was a great experience.
Sure, in comparison to other games today (and even 12 years ago) it isn't that great. It is probably more nostalgic than anything else. I played the Amiga and PC CD-ROM (circa 1993?) versions, and yes, they sucked for the most part. However, I'll probably buy this version simply because this one isn't going to remove scenes to fit on 3.5" floppy disks or a MPEG-filled CD-ROM, but they actually ADDED scenes true to the original game.
LOAD "$",8 loads the directory from device 8 and then you use a LIST command to view it.
LOAD "*",8[,1] loads the default program on device 8, and if you specify ",1", the file is assumed to be a binary program. You may have to follow this with a RUN command to fire it up.
Heck, they even had an article with Joey Ramone one time, and they ported the tune "Slug" to the popular 8-bit machines of the time.
"Lyin' in my bed one summer's night, and everything was alright, then something started crawlin' on me, S-L-U-G"
On the Lisa, your documents had two filenames: one for the computer and one for the user. If you renamed your document (i.e. the icon now reads "List of pr0n sites to visit" instead of "Winnie the Pooh Fan Sites"), as far as the operating system and LisaWrite were concerned, it was still the same file. The example of "cruft" that the author gave was that your "recent documents" list would be inaccurate after the rename. This problem wouldn't have existed under the Lisa's mechanism.
I do have to admit that it has been about 15 years since I've last used a Lisa nonetheless SEEN one, but I do have to say that Lisa's user experience was far better thought out than what we have today. Everything was document oriented, not application oriented like todays Windows and Apple GUIs.
Despite the fact that I disagree with you, I'll at least point out that your statement introduces a double egded sword - if by some unbelievable turn of events we could possibly effect the income of the music publisher in question, it would only fuel their argument to the federal powers that be that P2P piracy has run rampant.. and THIS time they'd actually have the numbers to back up their statements!
I hate to think that there isn't much you can do about it.. we can only hope that Philips has some sort of licensing issue with the CD logo, and that it gets exposed wide-scale that BMG is screwing things up. Most consumers don't care. We can only hope that they do.
Great.. maybe now with the cars using less fuel, I'll get less emails from people telling me how I shouldn't buy gasoline from certain companies because they pump oil from the middle east..
Just a rant, and off-topic, but I had to respond to this one..
Guy comes over, wants to install NIC (but I insisted that I do it myself), and then he turns on the computer waiting for the Plug and Play dialog on Windows. I told him there was no Plug and Play on Windows NT (and if you argue otherwise, yes there /is/, but you've never enabled it and found WHY it isn't enabled by default!). The installer had NO idea about ANYTHING with WinNT.
Needless to say, he left without installing any software (thankfully, since I never installed Internet Explorer on that machine), but he had no idea of the network settings because he assumed DHCP would do all of it (another thing in NT that didn't quite work right in the early days of NT 4.0).
My advice: if you know half your ass about computers, you probably know more about what you're doing than most of the people that install DSL or cable modems for residential consumers. Yes, there ARE smart people out there, but they're usually reserved for the customers that didn't get successful installations the first time around.