The most dangerous video game of all time has to be Centipede. The edge of my hand would always get trapped between the trackball and the console. The ball had quite a bit of momentum to it too, so it could drag the skin pretty deep. Ouch!
I remember using DOSEmu back in 1994 and thinking that it was pretty good, even back then. It ran WordPerfect, allowed me to access the NetWare file server, and even let me run DOS commands through a telnet shell! This has got to be some kind of record for 'longest time to 1.0 for an open source project'.
Congratulations to the DOSEmu people and thanks for the many years of hard work!
One of its most interesting features is that the InterBase server scales all the way down to running on a Windows 95 machine. This is perfect for those who don't have neither the money for Windows NT nor the guts for Unix/Linux. Also, as I recall, the military was big into InterBase before the product was bought by Borland. So there are a lot of legacy
You might want to look into the Sony KL-W7000 and KL-W9000 monitors. They are rear-projection 16:9 monitors with RCA, S-video and VGA (up to 1376 x 768, but aliased down to 480 lines) inputs. The KL-W7000 is 37" and can be had for less than $1700. I'm very happy with mine.
If you're in Tenessee, you might be able to get to DragonCon for Robot Battles. This year's was the best we've had so far. Although I was a little disappointed that our robot, Stingray, didn't fare better.
I think that the new scoring system is working out very well, almost too well in fact. For some high-traffic discussions I'll turn up the threshold up to 2 or even 3 to weed out the worthless comments.
However, this has the undesirable effect of hiding many worthy comments. If a moderator were to set the same threshold, he or she would never see the lower-rated postings, and these postings could never be promoted to a higher score!
As a possible solution, I'd like to see a random sampling of the lower-rated articles appear alongside the more popular ones. So in a topic with 100 comments, I would see all 20 articles rated "2" or better, plus 5 or so articles from the -1..1 range.
David Brin suggested this method for filtering in the novel Earth.
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You just have to check it out via Gopher. You do remember Gopher, don't you? You can also access it through FTP.
The most dangerous video game of all time has to be Centipede. The edge of my hand would always get trapped between the trackball and the console. The ball had quite a bit of momentum to it too, so it could drag the skin pretty deep. Ouch!
Congratulations to the DOSEmu people and thanks for the many years of hard work!
One of its most interesting features is that the InterBase server scales all the way down to running on a Windows 95 machine. This is perfect for those who don't have neither the money for Windows NT nor the guts for Unix/Linux. Also, as I recall, the military was big into InterBase before the product was bought by Borland. So there are a lot of legacy
Duff's device
Human beings are just a slugbot's tool for making more slugbots.
Does anyone have a URL or a press release or ANY information on this?
You might want to look into the Sony KL-W7000 and KL-W9000 monitors. They are rear-projection 16:9 monitors with RCA, S-video and VGA (up to 1376 x 768, but aliased down to 480 lines) inputs. The KL-W7000 is 37" and can be had for less than $1700. I'm very happy with mine.
If you're in Tenessee, you might be able to get to DragonCon for Robot Battles. This year's was the best we've had so far. Although I was a little disappointed that our robot, Stingray, didn't fare better.
I think that the new scoring system is working out very well, almost too well in fact. For some high-traffic discussions I'll turn up the threshold up to 2 or even 3 to weed out the worthless comments.
However, this has the undesirable effect of hiding many worthy comments. If a moderator were to set the same threshold, he or she would never see the lower-rated postings, and these postings could never be promoted to a higher score!
As a possible solution, I'd like to see a random sampling of the lower-rated articles appear alongside the more popular ones. So in a topic with 100 comments, I would see all 20 articles rated "2" or better, plus 5 or so articles from the -1..1 range.
David Brin suggested this method for filtering in the novel Earth.