This isn't the first time the Overclocked Remix guys have come together to make a tribute album for a Super Nintendo game.
Indeed, and that's why it's so strange this got a Slashdot story. ocremix.org/remix.overclocked.org has been hosting any number of similar projects for years now (since 2000 at least).
A story to the effect, "hey look, someone remixed an SNES soundtrack!" at this point seems a bit silly.
You'll also notice that, with reference to this little joke,
1) Scotty did not in fact just recently invent transparent aluminum. 2) Nor did Scotty invent transparent aluminum in The Voyage Home. 3) We are not presently living in the 1980s. 4) Scotty is a fictional character. 5) If we are indeed currently living in the 1980s, the Windows Key does not exist, nor does Windows 9X.
Nah, it was his doing. You just won't hear about it. And he didn't have trouble with the keyboard, either. It was a misinterpretation: he was later understood to have remarked,
It's worth noting that Nintendo also did this on the Super Famicom with the Satellaview, whose biggest claim to historical significance at present is its having been the platform on which the Chrono Trigger sequel (sort of) Radical Dreamers was produced.
This is hardly the end of the world for live Olympic viewers. I realise this is obvious, but the web's of course not the only way.
I recall during the last Olympics, at which NBC restricted viewing largely to taped events, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation observed a peculiar phenomenon: out of nowhere, they were popping up on American ratings charts. CBC Olympic coverage is, of course, live.
Americans who have access to international media will have access to live coverage. NBC can't take your TV signal away.
I touch-type in two different systems; my SO hunts and pecks at amazing speed. Both of us are the product of using computers for over 20 years (and, probably more importantly, MUDs and IM for over 10).
I have many times been told of people who can purportedly hunt and peck at amazing speed. But as a touch typer, subsequent to a recent wrist fracture which has left me hunting and pecking with one hand (the other in a cast), I have discovered the major downside of this method:
Typos - it means proofreading everything, everywhere, all the time just to see whether while staring at the keyboard hunting for keys, I have missed typing in a letter or typed one twice.
There is one good remedy for this problem. Salvation, thy name is
IBM Model M
My buckling spring IBM Model M, with its loud clicks and clacks, is the ONLY keyboard I can hunt and peck effectively on. Why? Because when I hear and feel that clack, I know I've hit the key.
Always was my favourite keyboard. But for hunt and peck, that tactile response is the only way to go.
I ran a full height (2 bay) 5'1/4" 5GB SCSI HD sitting outside an open case PC, on top of a couple books for six months. With no problems. Knocked it a few times. Dropped things on it. Still no problems. Ended up taking it apart and using the platters to decorate my room.
We are, after all, the country which conceived "The CCRAP" as a political party (Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party).
Subsequent to immediate expressions of concern regarding the acronym, it was of course fairly quickly changed, but the former members of that party will continue to live on in the hearts and minds of Canadians under their original title.
One theory has been replaced by another theory, but neither has been tested, and neither can be tested. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
A theory in theoretical physics being taken seriously for its own sake? Baloney, alright! I for one won't be taking all this talk about black holes seriously until I see this Hawking chap dropping something off the leaning tower of pisa or getting hit in the head by an apple.
I really don't understand the logic behind tablet PCs as they are currently being marketed. This is not to say there isn't any, but can someone very much in the market, very interested in buying, explain it?
I love my Ipaq, but I don't understand why I'd want a way bigger, way clunkier version with a desktop OS not intended for its purpose.
Largely, the main intended purpose of the Tablet PC seems to be to get WinXP (or an XP-a-like mod thereof) onto as small a form factor as possible.
So the question is, why do you want XP on a form factor the characteristics of which are inclined to diametrically oppose themselves to XP's own defining qualities? I'm not just trashing XP for its being an MS OS. PPC2003 doesn't really bother me as a handheld OS. But I am asking why an OS/GUI for a not at all comporable machine could ever be expected to function ideally as the OS for all form factors and functions no matter how different.
And why does a tablet PC need anything even remotely close to an AMD 2200+ processor? Are people intending to do high end CG renders on these things? Cinematic quality video-edits?
I guess if you wanted and absolutely would not settle for anything other than the most recent, bloated, processor-intensive desktop version of Office available under XP with all the bells and whistles turned on and for some extremely hard to discern reason wanted to use it on a tablet, you might need a 1GHz machine, but far more?
What's the rationale for this being a mass market device?
Indeed, and Geforce 4 MX owners and buyers should be aware: even though the game's supposed to run satisfactorily on a GF3, don't be surprised if it does NOT run satisfactorily on a GF4 MX series card. The GF4 MX does NOT provide hardware pixel and vertex shader support and has more in common with the Geforce 2 from a performance/features standpoint than the Geforce 3.
The surprising thing is that this individual provided bank account info.
This leaves the scammer far less anonymity than he would normally seek to have.
Especially given that this was a death threat, revealing account info of the sender or an associate of the sender on the first email seems not only out of character for scammers (who are increasingly protective of personal details recently) but downright stupid.
What I have noticed about online lecture notes where they are provided for the courses I have taken during my BA is that professors will usually make printed or online lecture content a contribution to - not by any means a complete summary of - lecture content in general. Video-taped lectures (which many veteran academics and lecturers oppose vehemently) are a separate phenomenon with separate implications. But with regard to online lecture notes, while each individual's experience will vary from institution to institution and lecturer to lecturer, mine has been one in which almost all instructors typically (probably for the most part intentionally) make online and print notes insofar as it is possible an element of course content which would be rendered by comparison completely inadequate on its own.
We have a case here where an honor student was seen taking a Motrin tablet for her PMS cramps and the school officials want to send her to an alternative school.
Why have a handheld device run Windows XP of all things? These are clearly distinguished from a full-fledged laptop, as they don't have a full keyboard usable for typing. And they're dependent on even more minimal battery resources than is a laptop. So why have them run the most bloated desktop operating system in existence?
That's insane. Especially because Pocket PCs already do all the things a portable like this could be useful for. If you NEED a desktop operating system capable of running on a portable, you can get a Linux PDA. I'm having a hard time thinking of reasons why Windows XP and ONLY Windows XP would be absolutely necessary to productivity on a business portable not suitable for typing.
For now, machines like this are for people who think running the most resource-hungry operating system possible on a platform for which it isn't customised is the best option.
I think this is moreso a matter of scale than a matter of journalistic subject matter.
What I mean by that is, while it may seem a bit farsical that a small town paper would write, as you joke,
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith had dinner at old widow Jackson's house Sunday after church meeting. Her leg is healing fine. They sat around and watched Andy Griffith reruns and ate collard greens n' such."
What the journalist covering this is doing on a "small town" scale isn't so different from what many publications do on a world scale.
If that were rendered
"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip had dinner at Buckham Palace Sunday with the French Ambassador after a service at Westminster Abbey. Buckingham Palace has said that the Queen is recovering from a flu, but was feeling well enough to attend the event."
It wouldn't seem so farsical. It's hard for me to comprehend life in my Grandmother's home town of Aneroid, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town of around 25 residents at any given time. But in a town of even significantly larger size, it's natural that there should be royalty in the social orders worth mentioning.
What I notice is that we are now reaching a stage where the 'elderly' are increasingly part of that generation which moreso than in the past views both occupational and academic learning as a necessarily life-long process. You cannot settle into a middle or upper-middle-class job where you know everything you will ever need to know in your career two years after finishing school in the present day, nor has that truly been possible for a while now.
Consequently, in short stints I have spent working at retirement homes, I have met increasingly large numbers of elderly persons who just haven't gotten themselves out of the habit of learning. It's second nature by old age. They spent the last couple decades before retirement keeping pace with technology and change, and now that they no longer truly have to, they do so anyway.
Does anyone else think it looks like a Sega Game Gear? Think it munches through batteries even faster with a HD inside? What was it, 3 hours of gameplay on like six batteries?
This thing doesn't look physically even remotely like a game gear. These dimensions and design don't bear any resemblance at all.
And as far as how we can expect it to look architecturally, making an analogy to the Game Gear would be even more retarded.
The Game Gear ran off a 3.58MHz Z80 while this presumably will be running off at minimum at 400MHz XScale or equivalent if it's going to play 704x480 30fps DIVX. The Game Gear was all solid state while this has a hard drive. The Game Gear had a 160 x 146 screen while this has a 704x480 screen.
The Game Gear's architecture was never MEANT to be portable. It was a Sega Master System stuck in a stylish black case with minor graphical (colour depth) improvement.
How the hell does a post saying this looks like a handheld console from years ago to which it bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever get modded 5 Insightful?
For my next act I guess I'll be responding to the next Linux article by saying
Doesn't this look like CP/M?
as a way of asserting that Linux should therefore function similarly. I mean, they don't bear any particular resemblance and are from vastly disparate eras, but I figure I'll get modded 5 Insightful.
Can I make a small correction? There is a lack of innovation in the mainstream
Exactly! The status quo is status quo! Dear god, how can this be? Since when is the mainstream restricted to mainstream music?
Next we'll be told by righteous and indignant proselytes of the indie music scene that modern pop music radio stations don't play indie punk and metal. Or that when MTV plays the Top 20, they only play the Top 20 and not more obscure musical achievements.
It's all extremely tautological. And I don't know how people can stand to types out tautological post after tautological post protesting that the mainstream is generic. The mainstream will always be generic, because that's what makes it the mainstream.
I find that when it comes to nostalgia, Slashdot is just about the worst source of opinion with which I ever have the misfortune of being afflicted. On technical topics, moderation more often than not serves to weed out inaccuracy. But on topics where most of us prefer to put on nostalgic blinders, it becomes Fox News and we're told what we want to hear: that the good old days were good and the present day is an artistic haulocaust of uncreativity. This applies to discussions on games as well, in which (if we're to believe the popularly moderated sentiment) we can assume the depth of Pac Man far exceeds that of, say, Knights of the Old Republic, and in general the new new pails before the old. We see it here again.
When nostalgia plays a part, I take a pass on Slashdot insight.
But aside from these celebs, you'll find video game voice actors succeeding in their own right. This is an older phenomenon in Japan, but rising to significance in the US as well.
Any player of Mafia will remember the voice of Don Salieri. In real life? George DiCenzo. Also playing Earnest Kelly in Vice City.
The character Ralph, played by Jeff Gurner, is also to be found in Max Payne and Manhunt.
John Doman, playing Don Morello, also did work in Manhunt and Midnight Club II.
Laura Maxwell, Michelle in Mafia, is also in Vice City, you'll see.
And that's just among the main characters. Most of the extras have acted in multiple games too.
Slashdot Mirror
It depends on whether there's a current running through it, in my experience. Very distinctive savour, at peak usage.
This isn't the first time the Overclocked Remix guys have come together to make a tribute album for a Super Nintendo game.
Indeed, and that's why it's so strange this got a Slashdot story. ocremix.org/remix.overclocked.org has been hosting any number of similar projects for years now (since 2000 at least).
A story to the effect, "hey look, someone remixed an SNES soundtrack!" at this point seems a bit silly.
You'll also notice that, with reference to this little joke,
1) Scotty did not in fact just recently invent transparent aluminum.
2) Nor did Scotty invent transparent aluminum in The Voyage Home.
3) We are not presently living in the 1980s.
4) Scotty is a fictional character.
5) If we are indeed currently living in the 1980s, the Windows Key does not exist, nor does Windows 9X.
and
6) Jokes are often based on fictional assertions.
Nah, it was his doing. You just won't hear about it. And he didn't have trouble with the keyboard, either. It was a misinterpretation: he was later understood to have remarked,
"A Windows Key. How quaint!"
It's worth noting that Nintendo also did this on the Super Famicom with the Satellaview, whose biggest claim to historical significance at present is its having been the platform on which the Chrono Trigger sequel (sort of) Radical Dreamers was produced.
This is hardly the end of the world for live Olympic viewers. I realise this is obvious, but the web's of course not the only way.
I recall during the last Olympics, at which NBC restricted viewing largely to taped events, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation observed a peculiar phenomenon: out of nowhere, they were popping up on American ratings charts. CBC Olympic coverage is, of course, live.
Americans who have access to international media will have access to live coverage. NBC can't take your TV signal away.
I touch-type in two different systems; my SO hunts and pecks at amazing speed. Both of us are the product of using computers for over 20 years (and, probably more importantly, MUDs and IM for over 10).
I have many times been told of people who can purportedly hunt and peck at amazing speed. But as a touch typer, subsequent to a recent wrist fracture which has left me hunting and pecking with one hand (the other in a cast), I have discovered the major downside of this method:
Typos - it means proofreading everything, everywhere, all the time just to see whether while staring at the keyboard hunting for keys, I have missed typing in a letter or typed one twice.
There is one good remedy for this problem. Salvation, thy name is
IBM
Model M
My buckling spring IBM Model M, with its loud clicks and clacks, is the ONLY keyboard I can hunt and peck effectively on. Why? Because when I hear and feel that clack, I know I've hit the key.
Always was my favourite keyboard. But for hunt and peck, that tactile response is the only way to go.
And thus begin the endless debates on whether IBM or SCO shot first.
In Imperial Mos Eisley, Rodian shoots you
I ran a full height (2 bay) 5'1/4" 5GB SCSI HD sitting outside an open case PC, on top of a couple books for six months. With no problems. Knocked it a few times. Dropped things on it. Still no problems. Ended up taking it apart and using the platters to decorate my room.
We are, after all, the country which conceived "The CCRAP" as a political party (Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party).
Subsequent to immediate expressions of concern regarding the acronym, it was of course fairly quickly changed, but the former members of that party will continue to live on in the hearts and minds of Canadians under their original title.
A walking monkey is not our biggest problem
(mirror)
One theory has been replaced by another theory, but neither has been tested, and neither can be tested. No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!
A theory in theoretical physics being taken seriously for its own sake? Baloney, alright! I for one won't be taking all this talk about black holes seriously until I see this Hawking chap dropping something off the leaning tower of pisa or getting hit in the head by an apple.
I really don't understand the logic behind tablet PCs as they are currently being marketed. This is not to say there isn't any, but can someone very much in the market, very interested in buying, explain it?
I love my Ipaq, but I don't understand why I'd want a way bigger, way clunkier version with a desktop OS not intended for its purpose.
Largely, the main intended purpose of the Tablet PC seems to be to get WinXP (or an XP-a-like mod thereof) onto as small a form factor as possible.
So the question is, why do you want XP on a form factor the characteristics of which are inclined to diametrically oppose themselves to XP's own defining qualities? I'm not just trashing XP for its being an MS OS. PPC2003 doesn't really bother me as a handheld OS. But I am asking why an OS/GUI for a not at all comporable machine could ever be expected to function ideally as the OS for all form factors and functions no matter how different.
And why does a tablet PC need anything even remotely close to an AMD 2200+ processor? Are people intending to do high end CG renders on these things? Cinematic quality video-edits?
I guess if you wanted and absolutely would not settle for anything other than the most recent, bloated, processor-intensive desktop version of Office available under XP with all the bells and whistles turned on and for some extremely hard to discern reason wanted to use it on a tablet, you might need a 1GHz machine, but far more?
What's the rationale for this being a mass market device?
Indeed, and Geforce 4 MX owners and buyers should be aware: even though the game's supposed to run satisfactorily on a GF3, don't be surprised if it does NOT run satisfactorily on a GF4 MX series card. The GF4 MX does NOT provide hardware pixel and vertex shader support and has more in common with the Geforce 2 from a performance/features standpoint than the Geforce 3.
The surprising thing is that this individual provided bank account info.
This leaves the scammer far less anonymity than he would normally seek to have.
Especially given that this was a death threat, revealing account info of the sender or an associate of the sender on the first email seems not only out of character for scammers (who are increasingly protective of personal details recently) but downright stupid.
What I have noticed about online lecture notes where they are provided for the courses I have taken during my BA is that professors will usually make printed or online lecture content a contribution to - not by any means a complete summary of - lecture content in general. Video-taped lectures (which many veteran academics and lecturers oppose vehemently) are a separate phenomenon with separate implications. But with regard to online lecture notes, while each individual's experience will vary from institution to institution and lecturer to lecturer, mine has been one in which almost all instructors typically (probably for the most part intentionally) make online and print notes insofar as it is possible an element of course content which would be rendered by comparison completely inadequate on its own.
We have a case here where an honor student was seen taking a Motrin tablet for her PMS cramps and the school officials want to send her to an alternative school.
Here's a link to that story for those interested.
Your name isn't... Inigo Montoya... is it..??
That...depends.
I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
Why have a handheld device run Windows XP of all things? These are clearly distinguished from a full-fledged laptop, as they don't have a full keyboard usable for typing. And they're dependent on even more minimal battery resources than is a laptop. So why have them run the most bloated desktop operating system in existence?
That's insane. Especially because Pocket PCs already do all the things a portable like this could be useful for. If you NEED a desktop operating system capable of running on a portable, you can get a Linux PDA. I'm having a hard time thinking of reasons why Windows XP and ONLY Windows XP would be absolutely necessary to productivity on a business portable not suitable for typing.
For now, machines like this are for people who think running the most resource-hungry operating system possible on a platform for which it isn't customised is the best option.
What I mean by that is, while it may seem a bit farsical that a small town paper would write, as you joke,
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith had dinner at old widow Jackson's house Sunday after church meeting. Her leg is healing fine. They sat around and watched Andy Griffith reruns and ate collard greens n' such."
What the journalist covering this is doing on a "small town" scale isn't so different from what many publications do on a world scale.
If that were rendered
"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip had dinner at Buckham Palace Sunday with the French Ambassador after a service at Westminster Abbey. Buckingham Palace has said that the Queen is recovering from a flu, but was feeling well enough to attend the event."
It wouldn't seem so farsical. It's hard for me to comprehend life in my Grandmother's home town of Aneroid, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town of around 25 residents at any given time. But in a town of even significantly larger size, it's natural that there should be royalty in the social orders worth mentioning.
What I notice is that we are now reaching a stage where the 'elderly' are increasingly part of that generation which moreso than in the past views both occupational and academic learning as a necessarily life-long process. You cannot settle into a middle or upper-middle-class job where you know everything you will ever need to know in your career two years after finishing school in the present day, nor has that truly been possible for a while now.
Consequently, in short stints I have spent working at retirement homes, I have met increasingly large numbers of elderly persons who just haven't gotten themselves out of the habit of learning. It's second nature by old age. They spent the last couple decades before retirement keeping pace with technology and change, and now that they no longer truly have to, they do so anyway.
Does anyone else think it looks like a Sega Game Gear? Think it munches through batteries even faster with a HD inside? What was it, 3 hours of gameplay on like six batteries?
This thing doesn't look physically even remotely like a game gear. These dimensions and design don't bear any resemblance at all.
And as far as how we can expect it to look architecturally, making an analogy to the Game Gear would be even more retarded.
The Game Gear ran off a 3.58MHz Z80 while this presumably will be running off at minimum at 400MHz XScale or equivalent if it's going to play 704x480 30fps DIVX. The Game Gear was all solid state while this has a hard drive. The Game Gear had a 160 x 146 screen while this has a 704x480 screen.
The Game Gear's architecture was never MEANT to be portable. It was a Sega Master System stuck in a stylish black case with minor graphical (colour depth) improvement.
How the hell does a post saying this looks like a handheld console from years ago to which it bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever get modded 5 Insightful?
For my next act I guess I'll be responding to the next Linux article by saying
Doesn't this look like CP/M?
as a way of asserting that Linux should therefore function similarly. I mean, they don't bear any particular resemblance and are from vastly disparate eras, but I figure I'll get modded 5 Insightful.
Can I make a small correction? There is a lack of innovation in the mainstream
Exactly! The status quo is status quo! Dear god, how can this be? Since when is the mainstream restricted to mainstream music?
Next we'll be told by righteous and indignant proselytes of the indie music scene that modern pop music radio stations don't play indie punk and metal. Or that when MTV plays the Top 20, they only play the Top 20 and not more obscure musical achievements.
It's all extremely tautological. And I don't know how people can stand to types out tautological post after tautological post protesting that the mainstream is generic. The mainstream will always be generic, because that's what makes it the mainstream.
I find that when it comes to nostalgia, Slashdot is just about the worst source of opinion with which I ever have the misfortune of being afflicted. On technical topics, moderation more often than not serves to weed out inaccuracy. But on topics where most of us prefer to put on nostalgic blinders, it becomes Fox News and we're told what we want to hear: that the good old days were good and the present day is an artistic haulocaust of uncreativity. This applies to discussions on games as well, in which (if we're to believe the popularly moderated sentiment) we can assume the depth of Pac Man far exceeds that of, say, Knights of the Old Republic, and in general the new new pails before the old. We see it here again.
When nostalgia plays a part, I take a pass on Slashdot insight.
And what do you do when people mistake you for a giant Aibo?
Have you PM mount their car and give the chassis a little dry-hump?
But aside from these celebs, you'll find video game voice actors succeeding in their own right. This is an older phenomenon in Japan, but rising to significance in the US as well.
Any player of Mafia will remember the voice of Don Salieri. In real life? George DiCenzo. Also playing Earnest Kelly in Vice City.
The character Ralph, played by Jeff Gurner, is also to be found in Max Payne and Manhunt.
John Doman, playing Don Morello, also did work in Manhunt and Midnight Club II.
Laura Maxwell, Michelle in Mafia, is also in Vice City, you'll see.
And that's just among the main characters. Most of the extras have acted in multiple games too.