The scary thing is, I've seen games crash on the Dreamcast.
I work in a software store, and we have a demo system running near the register (so we can shoo away the "all day" demo'ers.) Every so often, a game would freeze. We've replaced the system and the games a few times.
Mind you it doesn't happen so much that it's a problem. Perhaps once in two weeks. After being on for a few hours.
Sigh. It makes me so mad to see that people can blame everything but the system. "Hey, not everybody is a maniac running around shooting people. What could have caused this person to go on a killing spree? Hmm." Then insert your usual scapegoat reason. TV, movies, video games.
Maybe it's because mommy and daddy didn't raise this individual correctly.
Exactly. I had added a nice splash page to a site I was working on. Took no time to load. My bossed liked it, the board members like it, and the initial reaction was great. Then, the user feedback came in...
"Why do we have to have another page to get where we want to go?" They said.
After reading a few comments from some more informed people than I, I doubt that the "glowing tree" will ever happen. However, I drool at the the idea and application of glowing plants. As a amature gardener, the first place I would run with glowing plants would be Disney. They are never at loss for lighting their parks. It would allow for some interesting lanscaping as well.
Glowing flowers, bushes. Kids would have a field day. Then again, so would most of the parents.
Please excuse my spelling. It's late, and I don't want to run a spell checker.
Ambrosia is very much alive and kicking. As a matter of fact, many, many new games are on the way out, including one really nifty one I can't talk about because of NDA's.
You're right as well. Operation Condor it is. As I stated in my reply above, I blame my lack of sleep. I need to use something other that stupidity, which I tend to use too much.:)
He also do use that para-flying machine in that movie. I'd really enjoy one of those as well.
He used it at the beginning of his movie "First Strike". If you haven't seen that movie, he uses the ZORB to escape some natives that are after him. He ends up rolling down either a mountain, or huge hill. Either way, it was amazing to watch.
Could this be a new extreme sport? Seeing who can roll down the highest point in a ZORB?
(offtopic) If you've seen "First Strike", then you've seen some of the cool toys Jackie plays with: The ZORB, the handheld scanner with printout, and the car with no doors. Does anyone know where I could find a car that has the door slide down like that one did?
I used to work at a Babbage's. Trust me. Babbage's is not in Bill Gates pocket. What you were dealing with was a Windows fanatic. Most of us dislike Microsoft for the fact that we end up doing tech support for the computer games we sell.
Speaking of "Microsoft has never made a bad product." Did you mention WebTV to him?
I've been saving up some money just to get a Palm Pilot. Now that the Visor's are coming out, and, less expensive than regular Palm's, I know where my money is going now.
I have one reason I want to keep anonymous posting around. It's the fact that we can get insiders from wherever (Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple, ect.) to post without implicating themselves. While the usual grain of salt applies with most AC's, I have seen plenty of anonymous posts that had to have been from people inside the industry. That kind of information can't be had any other way. Allowing AC's can keep us in the know.
Makes you wonder how many high and mighty people in the tech world are AC's here....
Exactly my thoughts. I live in central Texas, with no high speed connection in view for years. With cruddy telephone lines, to boot. Can't get a connection higher than 33.6k on my 56k modem, regardless of how I tweak my init strings.
Although, I admit, I feel fortunate that I don't have to pay for the net by the minute. I'd be even more broke!
From what I've read, cable has the ability to much slower at times, depending on the amount of people on at the same time. (ie : If you and your neighbor are on at the same time, your speeds are cut down)
Congrats to the English. I glad that at least one country is getting their act together as far as connectivity is concerned. ( almost alliteration, eh?)
Many of the men here who spend Friday and Saturday nights alone ``look and behave nothing like the now-married Bill Gates, nerd supreme,'' the report said.
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"Let me assure you that the only trouble would be the drop in productivity as all windows developers experienced simlutaneous spontaneous orgasms."
LOL
Okay, now that was funny.
The scary thing is, I've seen games crash on the Dreamcast.
I work in a software store, and we have a demo system running near the register (so we can shoo away the "all day" demo'ers.) Every so often, a game would freeze. We've replaced the system and the games a few times.
Mind you it doesn't happen so much that it's a problem. Perhaps once in two weeks. After being on for a few hours.
But still...
Not if you log out. It's the loophole that can't really be fixed.
Sigh. It makes me so mad to see that people can blame everything but the system. "Hey, not everybody is a maniac running around shooting people. What could have caused this person to go on a killing spree? Hmm." Then insert your usual scapegoat reason. TV, movies, video games.
Maybe it's because mommy and daddy didn't raise this individual correctly.
But, what does logic have to do with it?
Exactly. I had added a nice splash page to a site I was working on. Took no time to load. My bossed liked it, the board members like it, and the initial reaction was great. Then, the user feedback came in...
"Why do we have to have another page to get where we want to go?" They said.
I pulled the splash page the next day.
After reading a few comments from some more informed people than I, I doubt that the "glowing tree" will ever happen. However, I drool at the the idea and application of glowing plants. As a amature gardener, the first place I would run with glowing plants would be Disney. They are never at loss for lighting their parks. It would allow for some interesting lanscaping as well.
Glowing flowers, bushes. Kids would have a field day. Then again, so would most of the parents.
Please excuse my spelling. It's late, and I don't want to run a spell checker.
PS.. whatever happened to ambrosia?
Ambrosia is very much alive and kicking. As a matter of fact, many, many new games are on the way out, including one really nifty one I can't talk about because of NDA's.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/
You're right as well. Operation Condor it is. As I stated in my reply above, I blame my lack of sleep. I need to use something other that stupidity, which I tend to use too much. :)
He also do use that para-flying machine in that movie. I'd really enjoy one of those as well.
Ack! You're right! I blame my lack of sleep on that oversight. Operation Condor it is. I even own that movie!
Ack!
He used it at the beginning of his movie "First Strike". If you haven't seen that movie, he uses the ZORB to escape some natives that are after him. He ends up rolling down either a mountain, or huge hill. Either way, it was amazing to watch.
Could this be a new extreme sport? Seeing who can roll down the highest point in a ZORB?
(offtopic) If you've seen "First Strike", then you've seen some of the cool toys Jackie plays with: The ZORB, the handheld scanner with printout, and the car with no doors. Does anyone know where I could find a car that has the door slide down like that one did?
The problem is, this isn't japan. It's America. And that is anti-competative. And we have laws against that here.
Is this what we are looking at? If so...
nunnnahnaaa nunnnahnaa nunnnahnaa
(My cheap attempt at sound effects)
I concede. They bought out a failing company, that continues to do badly. I suppose that makes Microsoft that much smarter, right?
I used to work at a Babbage's. Trust me. Babbage's is not in Bill Gates pocket. What you were dealing with was a Windows fanatic. Most of us dislike Microsoft for the fact that we end up doing tech support for the computer games we sell.
Speaking of "Microsoft has never made a bad product." Did you mention WebTV to him?
I've been waiting a long time for a player like this! I've burned quite a few of my favorite songs to cdr's. (Off my own cd's, thank you.)
Mmmm.
Possible Birthday present.
I've been saving up some money just to get a Palm Pilot. Now that the Visor's are coming out, and, less expensive than regular Palm's, I know where my money is going now.
I have one reason I want to keep anonymous posting around. It's the fact that we can get insiders from wherever (Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple, ect.) to post without implicating themselves. While the usual grain of salt applies with most AC's, I have seen plenty of anonymous posts that had to have been from people inside the industry. That kind of information can't be had any other way. Allowing AC's can keep us in the know.
Makes you wonder how many high and mighty people in the tech world are AC's here....
Exactly my thoughts. I live in central Texas, with no high speed connection in view for years. With cruddy telephone lines, to boot. Can't get a connection higher than 33.6k on my 56k modem, regardless of how I tweak my init strings.
Although, I admit, I feel fortunate that I don't have to pay for the net by the minute. I'd be even more broke!
Hmm.
From what I've read, cable has the ability to much slower at times, depending on the amount of people on at the same time. (ie : If you and your neighbor are on at the same time, your speeds are cut down)
If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Congrats to the English. I glad that at least one country is getting their act together as far as connectivity is concerned. ( almost alliteration, eh?)
Time for America to step it up as well.
Then again, anyone remember HDTV?
Many of the men here who spend Friday and Saturday nights alone ``look and behave nothing like the now-married Bill Gates, nerd supreme,'' the report said.
I'm sorry, but...
hahahahahhahahahaah
a la Star Wars....
please.
Good Point. I just picked the two most prominate people on either side.
than Linus himself? I think it would be wonderful to have Bill on one side, and Linus on the other.
Then again, it does sound a bit like a celebrity deathmatch.