I can't wait to hear about the kid who grabs his mom's credit card and spends $50 million on a painting because "dude, that chick is like totally naked!" =^)
It's a really solid system that provides alot of flexibility...
It is? I thought it was an enormous cloud of vapor:) Seriously, I've heard very little solid info on Dolphin, and no hard specs whatsoever. Do you know something I don't? *curious*
Most people get finger info through a Web-based interface like this instead of through a command-line utility (since there isn't one in Win9x-- thanks Bill!:P)
The press release states that Connectix will be releasing two new versions of its Virtual PC (x86 emulator) software for Mac, one with Win2K preinstalled and one with Red Hat preinstalled. Nothing about software for Linux, nothing about VGS.
(To be fair, it took a couple of read-throughs to figure out what the hell they were trying to say...)
Apparently the DVD versions of the BTTF trilogy are finished and awaiting studio approval for release. They're being held up for "marketing" reasons (grrr)
Oh, the wonders of the Commodore Datasette... *heh*
My brother dug one of those and a copy of Apshai out of a trashcan once. I remember waiting for Apshai to load... and waiting... and waiting... I was young and impatient, so (needless to say) I didn't play it too often!
At the time, I was amazed that anything could be slower than a 1541:) but there was a certain hackish "Wow, cool" factor in being able to store computer data on an ordinary tape.
If you've tried cleaning the NES and it hasn't worked, the most likely problem is a loose cartridge slot (especially with the original front-loading NES). You can actually buy a replacement connector (no soldering needed, it just unplugs from the motherboard). Check your local game repair shop.
It absolutely blows my mind when I hear about things like that. Why does Hollywood waste its resources going after this sort of harmless, small-potatoes offense (and making themselves look like evil bastards in the process) when big-time pirates are turning out thousands of copies every day?
Yes it does. I read somewhere (Wired News, maybe?) that Gibson is a big Lou Reed fan. There are also some Velvet Underground refs in Neuromancer, but not being a VU fan, I'm damned if I can remember what they are:)
Ooo, shortwave noise... I remember having a shortwave radio when I was younger. I could never pick up any decent stations so I'd wind up listening to between-band noises and weird interferences. And WWV... I could listen to WWV for hours (weird, I know).
"At the tone... three hours, twenty-seven minutes Coordinated Universal Time. (beeeeeeeep!)"
I'd love a shoutcast station that played nothing but weird shortwave noises. That would rule. --
Those AI "issues" aren't bugs so much as side effects of the fact that writing good AI code is a bitch and a half.:) It's easy to make a computer opponent inhumanly good, but much harder to make it seem "human" and imperfect... --
I imagine it was the other way around -- the lawyers seeking out willing parents to join in the lawsuit. If, indeed, they need clients to represent... this is a class-action lawsuit, meaning that it's not filed on behalf of one person, but of an amorphous 'class' of wronged people. I'm not sure if they must have any specific individuals to represent. IANAL (and thank God for that!);)
Can anyone clarify? Can a class-action lawsuit be filed without clients? --
Large space stations orbiting the earth inhabited by everyday citizens, which supposedly would have happened 10 years ago.
colonies on the moon by today.
Travels to Jupiter in less than 2 years from now.
These predictions make more sense when you consider the background against which Clarke made them. In the 60s, the US space program was in full swing, we were shooting for the moon by 1970, and the sky was no longer the limit. If we had kept developing space technology at the rate we did then, we might be laughing now at the idea that it would actually take until 2001 to reach Jupiter... --
A lot of slashdot readers seem to be poor whiners, which seems odd when so many of them are in the IT/CS industry and should, by rights, be swimming in money.
The whining you hear is mostly coming from cash-strapped students like myself. They don't pay us to get a CS degree. (at least not at my school... should I transfer?):) --
Rumor has it that the GD-ROM format differs from an ordinary CD-ROM only in that it stores data where a regular CD-ROM has error-correction coding. I'm not sure if this is true, since it sounds like a really bad idea, but if it is then Sega should be able to have 'em made anywhere you can get CD-ROMs pressed. --
I just checked (very thoroughly, I might add) and the only reference to MS anywhere in my DC package is the 'compatible with WinCE' icon on the box. No MS license agreement. There is a EULA included with the web browser disc, but the licensor is Sega, not MS.
Now, I don't have any games yet (they won't come in 'til this afternoon... sigh), and if there was a CE EULA anywhere, that's where it would be -- there's no OS packaged in the DC unit itself. --
The (possibly apocryphal) story I always heard was that an engineer was working on a radar system when he noticed that the candy bar in his shirt pocket had melted from the microwave radiation. It always made me wonder -- would you really want to work around something like that? If it melts a candy bar, what will it do to your spleen? =^) --
MK-Ultra was a particularly nasty CIA experiment with 'mind control' through psychochemical means (involving such fun things as putting LSD in people's food and studying their reactions). Sounds like a paranoid fantasy, but it seems to be pretty well-documented. Good luck separating fact from ranting on this topic, though -- most web pages on the subject are of the tinfoil-in-the-hat variety. =^) --
Yes! Hail the IBM Model M! =^) These have to be the greatest keyboards ever made. Comfortable, full sized keys. Practically indestructible. I grabbed the one I'm currently using from a thrift store for $1 -- I think I burned all my good karma right there, and I've been paying for it ever since. *heh* --
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...and check out the article at James Gleick's personal site, around.com:
http://www.around.com/patent.html
WinChips are supposed to be 'optimized for Windows', hence the name. :P)
(Which means that this box will suck ass at Quake, natch.
I can't wait to hear about the kid who grabs his mom's credit card and spends $50 million on a painting because "dude, that chick is like totally naked!" =^)
It is? I thought it was an enormous cloud of vapor :)
Seriously, I've heard very little solid info on Dolphin, and no hard specs whatsoever. Do you know something I don't? *curious*
Most people get finger info through a Web-based interface like this instead of through a command-line utility (since there isn't one in Win9x-- thanks Bill! :P)
Nothing about software for Linux, nothing about VGS.
(To be fair, it took a couple of read-throughs to figure out what the hell they were trying to say...)
source: http://www.bttf.com/dvd/
My brother dug one of those and a copy of Apshai out of a trashcan once. I remember waiting for Apshai to load... and waiting... and waiting... I was young and impatient, so (needless to say) I didn't play it too often!
At the time, I was amazed that anything could be slower than a 1541 :) but there was a certain hackish "Wow, cool" factor in being able to store computer data on an ordinary tape.
If you've tried cleaning the NES and it hasn't worked, the most likely problem is a loose cartridge slot (especially with the original front-loading NES). You can actually buy a replacement connector (no soldering needed, it just unplugs from the motherboard). Check your local game repair shop.
It absolutely blows my mind when I hear about things like that. Why does Hollywood waste its resources going after this sort of harmless, small-potatoes offense (and making themselves look like evil bastards in the process) when big-time pirates are turning out thousands of copies every day?
Yes it does. I read somewhere (Wired News, maybe?) that Gibson is a big Lou Reed fan. There are also some Velvet Underground refs in Neuromancer, but not being a VU fan, I'm damned if I can remember what they are :)
Ah! But who controls the media? Some of those very same big corporations who are doing the smashing, that's who.
Can't make the boss look bad, now can we?
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"At the tone... three hours, twenty-seven minutes Coordinated Universal Time. (beeeeeeeep!)"
I'd love a shoutcast station that played nothing but weird shortwave noises. That would rule.
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Those AI "issues" aren't bugs so much as side effects of the fact that writing good AI code is a bitch and a half. :) It's easy to make a computer opponent inhumanly good, but much harder to make it seem "human" and imperfect...
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Can anyone clarify? Can a class-action lawsuit be filed without clients?
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These predictions make more sense when you consider the background against which Clarke made them. In the 60s, the US space program was in full swing, we were shooting for the moon by 1970, and the sky was no longer the limit. If we had kept developing space technology at the rate we did then, we might be laughing now at the idea that it would actually take until 2001 to reach Jupiter...
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The whining you hear is mostly coming from cash-strapped students like myself. They don't pay us to get a CS degree. (at least not at my school... should I transfer?) :)
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Rumor has it that the GD-ROM format differs from an ordinary CD-ROM only in that it stores data where a regular CD-ROM has error-correction coding. I'm not sure if this is true, since it sounds like a really bad idea, but if it is then Sega should be able to have 'em made anywhere you can get CD-ROMs pressed.
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Now, I don't have any games yet (they won't come in 'til this afternoon... sigh), and if there was a CE EULA anywhere, that's where it would be -- there's no OS packaged in the DC unit itself.
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http://world.std.com/~dpj/elliptic.html
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/george.barwood/ec_faq.htm
It seems that there are patents, not on ECC itself, but on certain methods of implementing it.
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The (possibly apocryphal) story I always heard was that an engineer was working on a radar system when he noticed that the candy bar in his shirt pocket had melted from the microwave radiation. It always made me wonder -- would you really want to work around something like that? If it melts a candy bar, what will it do to your spleen? =^)
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It wouldn't be an Amiga if the parent company didn't screw things up, now would it? =^P
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MK-Ultra was a particularly nasty CIA experiment with 'mind control' through psychochemical means (involving such fun things as putting LSD in people's food and studying their reactions). Sounds like a paranoid fantasy, but it seems to be pretty well-documented. Good luck separating fact from ranting on this topic, though -- most web pages on the subject are of the tinfoil-in-the-hat variety. =^)
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Yes! Hail the IBM Model M! =^) These have to be the greatest keyboards ever made. Comfortable, full sized keys. Practically indestructible. I grabbed the one I'm currently using from a thrift store for $1 -- I think I burned all my good karma right there, and I've been paying for it ever since. *heh*
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