I've always believed that the Sony Playstation/Playstaion 2 had the most comfortable and versatile controller available (though that's just my opinion). When the standard gamepad controller doesn't work (I cannot use it in fighting games), I have durable arcade-layout style joystick from ASCII (Unfortunately I'm not sure that the model is available anymore). That's why I got PSX->PC and PSX/PS2->GameCube controller adapters, and if I had an XBox I would certainly get a PSX/PS2->XBox controller adapter.
It's a well-known fact that the public at large is stupid. This is especially noticable to anyone who works retail, especially those who work in cities frequented by tourists.
If only she had killer robot insurance. Most insurance policies don't cover attacks by killer robots. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for food.
Only Old Glory offers complete killer robot coverage.
Robots are everywhere, and when they grab you with their big metal claws there's no secape, because they're made of metal. And robots are strong.
Note: People denying the existence of killer robots may be robots themselves.
I prefer flaying alive, pouring bleach over their exposed muscles and live immolation. That's for small-time spammers, I'll have to think of something really nasty for the hardcore ones.
You aren't far off. My first DVD purchases were made before I had a DVD player.
In my case I had been planning to build a PC with a DVD-ROM drive (and decoder card for future expansion), and as incentive to hurry up and gather the funds I purchased Contact, as I rather liked the movie and it was not available on VHS (except as a rental -- and then not in widescreen). I later purchased The Devil's Advocate when I heard that the first-run discs were recalled due to a copyright lawsuit.
Unfortunately, the RIAA can point to low CD sales and claim that it is a direct result of music piracy, thus obviously more stringent copy-protection schemes are needed -- in addition to nasty anti-consumer laws.
If you are "sitting" in front of DDR then you are not playing the game properly.
Sure, there are "hand-held" controllers for the game, but that really defeats the purpose of playing.
OTOH, I suspect that you actually have no idea how DDR works and instead you are spounting off garbage based on your ignorance rather than actually bothering to learn about the subject because doing so would actually require effort.
I play the game in a basement (that's where the big TV is located) where there are large windows but shades obscure anything that could be seen from the outside.
Playing DDR is the only thing that will cause me to wear shorts (I'm incredibly modest), and I make sure that no one will witness that event (except my boyfriend).
That's why you must practice. Play the game for an hour or so a day three days a week and you will learn to dance. Either that or you will have a heart attack and die.
DDR is definitely a workout -- at least when you're doing the 3 or higher level songs. It's also the only excercise in which I ever bother to engage. When I was working part-time and taking late afternoon classes I would play DDR for one hour a day three days a week. I lost weight (I'm not overweight, but I'm approaching an undesirable heaviness) and I noticed that I was getting significantly less winded when running from the parking lot to class.
Unfortunately I'm working full time now and my DDR playtime has dropped to zero. Recently some friends were over and the mat got pulled out and I found myself winded after just three songs.
I wasn't aware of that. Does anyone happen to have case law?
(BTW: To whomever modded my post as "Troll", fuck you. It was a legitimate offer based on my limited understanding of copyright law, not a troll. Go fuck yourself with shards of broken glass)
Really? I thought that it was well-established that "backup archival" copies of software was permissable despite software comanies attempting to dictacte otherwise.
My boyfriend was using a SCSI CD-ROM drive (he's since moved to IDE DVD-ROM drives because SCSI DVD-ROM drives are far and few in between) and he was able to run Safedisc protected games. He did get a performance hit on Black and White, but I'm not sure that he's had problems with any other games.
...maybe it's a big mirror in space. Or maybe the universe is much smaller than we previously thought and we're observing ourselves via the curvature of space.
Hey, someone has to come up with these crackpot ideas!
Long ago I managed to open up waaaaay too much with The Gimp and it clearly sucked up my system resources to the point where I could do nothing to kill it. I could log in remotely, but even from a remote shell I couldn't get the system to shut down except through a dirty "shutdown -f". I don't know if it's a similar problem or not. The article states that there was no means to kill X from the main box, but nothing was stated about going in remotely.
Perhaps by the third movie the machines have been weakened to the point where they have to render the world in a closed-source format that gives choppy, ugly, tiled visuals and times out frequently?
The scene in The Devil's Advocate was done on an early Sunday morning when that particular street isn't typically very busy anyway. Several streets were blocked off, though the distant scenery was added in (I'm not sure if it was digital or matted).
It's mentioned in the director's commentary on the DVD (I've got a first-run, I've got a first-run!)
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Well it was pretty obviously Sir Ian McKellen even without the grey garb. That much was clear to me, and I have poor eyesight.
I checked the dcemulation site...they reported that further testing showed that all DCs worked with CD-Rs.
Mine certainly has no problems with CD-R media (I've been using Verbatim).
I've always believed that the Sony Playstation/Playstaion 2 had the most comfortable and versatile controller available (though that's just my opinion). When the standard gamepad controller doesn't work (I cannot use it in fighting games), I have durable arcade-layout style joystick from ASCII (Unfortunately I'm not sure that the model is available anymore). That's why I got PSX->PC and PSX/PS2->GameCube controller adapters, and if I had an XBox I would certainly get a PSX/PS2->XBox controller adapter.
It's a well-known fact that the public at large is stupid. This is especially noticable to anyone who works retail, especially those who work in cities frequented by tourists.
If only she had killer robot insurance. Most insurance policies don't cover attacks by killer robots.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for food.
Only Old Glory offers complete killer robot coverage.
Robots are everywhere, and when they grab you with their big metal claws there's no secape, because they're made of metal. And robots are strong.
Note: People denying the existence of killer robots may be robots themselves.
I prefer flaying alive, pouring bleach over their exposed muscles and live immolation. That's for small-time spammers, I'll have to think of something really nasty for the hardcore ones.
...You should have labeled this as the sarcastic comment that it is. You should know by know how few Slashdot readers can correctly identify sarcasm.
You aren't far off. My first DVD purchases were made before I had a DVD player.
In my case I had been planning to build a PC with a DVD-ROM drive (and decoder card for future expansion), and as incentive to hurry up and gather the funds I purchased Contact, as I rather liked the movie and it was not available on VHS (except as a rental -- and then not in widescreen). I later purchased The Devil's Advocate when I heard that the first-run discs were recalled due to a copyright lawsuit.
Perhaps someone should bring up the Home Recording Act of 1992 at trial...
Unfortunately, the RIAA can point to low CD sales and claim that it is a direct result of music piracy, thus obviously more stringent copy-protection schemes are needed -- in addition to nasty anti-consumer laws.
If you are "sitting" in front of DDR then you are not playing the game properly.
Sure, there are "hand-held" controllers for the game, but that really defeats the purpose of playing.
OTOH, I suspect that you actually have no idea how DDR works and instead you are spounting off garbage based on your ignorance rather than actually bothering to learn about the subject because doing so would actually require effort.
I play the game in a basement (that's where the big TV is located) where there are large windows but shades obscure anything that could be seen from the outside.
Playing DDR is the only thing that will cause me to wear shorts (I'm incredibly modest), and I make sure that no one will witness that event (except my boyfriend).
*pant pant pant*. ..
Must...go...for...SS...in...Captain...Jack
*pant pant pant*
That happened last Friday. Captain Jack and Dynamite Rave.
That's why you must practice. Play the game for an hour or so a day three days a week and you will learn to dance. Either that or you will have a heart attack and die.
DDR is definitely a workout -- at least when you're doing the 3 or higher level songs. It's also the only excercise in which I ever bother to engage. When I was working part-time and taking late afternoon classes I would play DDR for one hour a day three days a week. I lost weight (I'm not overweight, but I'm approaching an undesirable heaviness) and I noticed that I was getting significantly less winded when running from the parking lot to class.
Unfortunately I'm working full time now and my DDR playtime has dropped to zero. Recently some friends were over and the mat got pulled out and I found myself winded after just three songs.
True. His comments are about as "insightful" as noticing that water is wet.
I wasn't aware of that. Does anyone happen to have case law?
(BTW: To whomever modded my post as "Troll", fuck you. It was a legitimate offer based on my limited understanding of copyright law, not a troll. Go fuck yourself with shards of broken glass)
Really? I thought that it was well-established that "backup archival" copies of software was permissable despite software comanies attempting to dictacte otherwise.
Of course IANAL, I'm just anal-retentive.
My boyfriend was using a SCSI CD-ROM drive (he's since moved to IDE DVD-ROM drives because SCSI DVD-ROM drives are far and few in between) and he was able to run Safedisc protected games. He did get a performance hit on Black and White, but I'm not sure that he's had problems with any other games.
Then we find the ones with intelligent life
I think that the sticking point will be here. I'm not yet convinced that even one such planet exists within the entire universe.
...maybe it's a big mirror in space. Or maybe the universe is much smaller than we previously thought and we're observing ourselves via the curvature of space.
Hey, someone has to come up with these crackpot ideas!
Long ago I managed to open up waaaaay too much with The Gimp and it clearly sucked up my system resources to the point where I could do nothing to kill it. I could log in remotely, but even from a remote shell I couldn't get the system to shut down except through a dirty "shutdown -f". I don't know if it's a similar problem or not. The article states that there was no means to kill X from the main box, but nothing was stated about going in remotely.
Perhaps by the third movie the machines have been weakened to the point where they have to render the world in a closed-source format that gives choppy, ugly, tiled visuals and times out frequently?
The scene in The Devil's Advocate was done on an early Sunday morning when that particular street isn't typically very busy anyway. Several streets were blocked off, though the distant scenery was added in (I'm not sure if it was digital or matted).
It's mentioned in the director's commentary on the DVD (I've got a first-run, I've got a first-run!)
Hrmm...they might be able to work something out if they can find a typically very slow day during a very slow time.
A smaller-scale shutdown of several New York city blocks was done on an early Sunday morning for The Devil's Advocate.
Still, dunno how easy it would be for an entire city on any day of the week -- even during a holiday.