well if your willing to pay out the a$$ for it you can have it. Get a Visor Prism to play 16 bit color games ($400), a Phone Springboard for wireless connectivity ($250). Use PalmVnc to run your X apps, and Pick up a MiniJam mp3 Springboard... Damn now where is that rice cooker Springboard I wanted for X-Mass
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While the msnbc link is no longer good, if I recall correctly it was the proposed naming system that was the catch. The email address was going to be related to your meatspace address in some way and in the.us TLD. Like JoeSchmoe@###yourstreet.yourtown.yourstate.us
Personaly, I would rather just buy my own domain and manage my email myself.
This is a trans ocieanic cable. While it would be nice to have the redundancy of a Sonnet ring setup. But to do it properly requires your cables be in two physicaly different locations. Not the sort of setup you are going to have under a 1000 ft or more of water.
It wouldnt really matter if they did have a redundant system. They would still be operating at 50% capacity. There is no way in hell that the backuplink was just sitting there unused. It was probably running under full capacity, just with the bandwith sold at a low priority dicount rate. (How do you tihnk all those 10-10-xxx numbers make money?)
This would not happen if playing these games honestly was as fun as it is supposed to be.
The problem with the entire RPG genre of on-line games is that it isn't really the fun that hooks people in, it is the basic stimulus-response instinct that keeps people up all night playing Everquest or a MUD. By making you do things to get rewards (levels, new items, etc.), and by dishing them out a little at a time (with a fair ammount of randomization), these games tap into the same psychological conditioning scheme that makes old ladies spend their retirement checks all day at slot machines and BINGO games.
Since the satisfaction one gets in these games is usually the reward of a more powerful character, the mind begins to make the association of "better character == more fun", and cheating, or power-leveling, or "twinking" becomes very attractive.
The draw of these games is that they sort of let you live life in fast-forward. In a few dozen hours of gaming, you go from being a pathetic babe in the woods to being a massive warrior or wizard. Cheating speeds this up even more. It's a logical extention of the persuit of the goals the game establishes, really.
You don't often see the kind of rampant cheating that prevailed in Diablo 1 or Ultima Online when you are playing the FPS games. It seems that the shooters have acquired a sort of sports culture. To cheat at Team Fortress would be a lot like cheating at a pick-up basketball game. Neither side has more fun as a result, because the rewards of player-vs-player gaming comes from the joys of testing your skills against other people. Cheating in such situations is boring for both the cheater and the victim, even among younger kids.
It seems to me that the challenge that lies before those who wish to write on-line RPG's is to get a little farther away from the "kill monster, get a treat" format that is so common to these games. Good storytelling is helpful; nobody cheats at games like Myst. Creating a social environment that facilitates less of a "who's got the biggest *" mindset would also reduce cheating dramatically.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the typical hack-and-slash, smash-and-grab RPG does not have its place. I wore out a mouse on the first Diablo, same as the next geek. All I am trying to say is that game designers ought to start thinking beyond it, now that the current technology allows them to explore a lot of new avenues.
Well thats one oppion, but the way I hear it is that "announcement" was reall just the aftermath from the out of court settlement about Quicktime.
Rember back a few years ago when MS released "MS Video for windows". Well I can't confirm this but it wouldn't surprize me. I've been told that MS VFW was at the time (95%) of the quicktime codec with a MS API wraped around it.
It would have been very embarrising for both companies, but the bottom line is MS got caught with there hand in the cookie jar. The $250 million and Office 98 was the settlement.
Yes yes, praise for the great satan of software, but the simple fact is links move. The reason that MS and Netscape both do this is to make sure that they are going to the right site for whatver reason. Sometimes domains change, some sites simply dont start at www.company.com/index.html.
Aside from this you can also yuse this kind of a redirection feature to do special deals for users of your products by dinging you to a special introductory page on a site first.
Use hasn't quadrupled, the number of individual accounts has. Thats a totaly different thing with all this Metallica garbage. I know ive recreated about 20 accounts in the last year alone.
If you want to count use, show me some numbers on how many MBs of mp3s are in the system.
Well lets see Radio is ok, but shoutcast isn't? hmm I always thought radio was just a differnt streaming medium. A single broadcast that anyone cas tuen into at any time.
I wonder when it will be illegal to do personal rendition streaming (AKA Singing...)
May I suggest that you get a copy of Computer Organization & Design by Patterson Hennessy. It takes a bottom down approach to teaching how a computer actually works using the MIPS as an example. It covers everything you need to know to write good asm programs including exception handling, pipelining and any other random thing you may encounter. Plus you can get the SPIM simulator to test your programs for free.
Let 'em look by next year it wont do any good, at least by then I plan on having one of those 17inch lcd flat panel displays. If only the govement would realize this. Id bet if they just droped the project, then they coudl afford to subidize and lcd screen.
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July 23, 2005: Significant amounts of sunlight can again penetrate the atmosphere.
September 9th 2083: Cockroaches discover fire, nuff said
So in other words it decompiles the instructions and recompiles them into its own native intruction set on the fly... Sounds like a dynamic recomplation emulator wired in hardware to me.
The version(s) that came out this year are regular games, not CCGs. Deluxe Edition is a remake of the orginal, and Y2k is just an exspansion deck with new groups.
Actually, I've had my copy of Deluxe Edition for about 7 months now. (was able to but my copy directly from Setve Jackson himself at JohnCon99, http://www.jhu.edu/~johncon/) Anyway this is just a shameless plug for "JohnCon1900, Ye old Millenium bug strikes again"
While it's still a long way off, JohnCon represents all things geek, yet without a computer.
Pre-register now and come play all kinds of geek games like Illuminati, Spammers, Cults Across America, Iron Dragon, Over the Edge, AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, GURPS and more!!!
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Because a 32bit machine only has so much address space. You by using main memory you are limited to about 4 gigs.
well if your willing to pay out the a$$ for it you can have it. Get a Visor Prism to play 16 bit color games ($400), a Phone Springboard for wireless connectivity ($250). Use PalmVnc to run your X apps, and Pick up a MiniJam mp3 Springboard... Damn now where is that rice cooker Springboard I wanted for X-Mass
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While the msnbc link is no longer good, if I recall correctly it was the proposed naming system that was the catch. The email address was going to be related to your meatspace address in some way and in the .us TLD. Like JoeSchmoe@###yourstreet.yourtown.yourstate.us
Personaly, I would rather just buy my own domain and manage my email myself.
Sadly, I think the lego idea is the most feasable ;(
This is a trans ocieanic cable. While it would be nice to have the redundancy of a Sonnet ring setup. But to do it properly requires your cables be in two physicaly different locations. Not the sort of setup you are going to have under a 1000 ft or more of water.
It wouldnt really matter if they did have a redundant system. They would still be operating at 50% capacity. There is no way in hell that the backuplink was just sitting there unused. It was probably running under full capacity, just with the bandwith sold at a low priority dicount rate. (How do you tihnk all those 10-10-xxx numbers make money?)
No no, I copied it from the original from the 25th independantly from the AC.
This would not happen if playing these games honestly was as fun as it is supposed to be.
The problem with the entire RPG genre of on-line games is that it isn't really the fun that hooks people in, it is the basic stimulus-response instinct that keeps people up all night playing Everquest or a MUD. By making you do things to get rewards (levels, new items, etc.), and by dishing them out a little at a time (with a fair ammount of randomization), these games tap into the same psychological conditioning scheme that makes old ladies spend their retirement checks all day at slot machines and BINGO games.
Since the satisfaction one gets in these games is usually the reward of a more powerful character, the mind begins to make the association of "better character == more fun", and cheating, or power-leveling, or "twinking" becomes very attractive.
The draw of these games is that they sort of let you live life in fast-forward. In a few dozen hours of gaming, you go from being a pathetic babe in the woods to being a massive warrior or wizard. Cheating speeds this up even more. It's a logical extention of the persuit of the goals the game establishes, really.
You don't often see the kind of rampant cheating that prevailed in Diablo 1 or Ultima Online when you are playing the FPS games. It seems that the shooters have acquired a sort of sports culture. To cheat at Team Fortress would be a lot like cheating at a pick-up basketball game. Neither side has more fun as a result, because the rewards of player-vs-player gaming comes from the joys of testing your skills against other people. Cheating in such situations is boring for both the cheater and the victim, even among younger kids.
It seems to me that the challenge that lies before those who wish to write on-line RPG's is to get a little farther away from the "kill monster, get a treat" format that is so common to these games. Good storytelling is helpful; nobody cheats at games like Myst. Creating a social environment that facilitates less of a "who's got the biggest *" mindset would also reduce cheating dramatically.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the typical hack-and-slash, smash-and-grab RPG does not have its place. I wore out a mouse on the first Diablo, same as the next geek. All I am trying to say is that game designers ought to start thinking beyond it, now that the current technology allows them to explore a lot of new avenues.
Well thats one oppion, but the way I hear it is that "announcement" was reall just the aftermath from the out of court settlement about Quicktime.
Rember back a few years ago when MS released "MS Video for windows". Well I can't confirm this but it wouldn't surprize me. I've been told that MS VFW was at the time (95%) of the quicktime codec with a MS API wraped around it.
It would have been very embarrising for both companies, but the bottom line is MS got caught with there hand in the cookie jar. The $250 million and Office 98 was the settlement.
"high-speed V-Link bus, as integrated six channel advanced audio, six USB ports, LPC bus, and integrated 10/100Mbps Ethernet and Home PNA."
Am I just out of the loop here? Or are these just new buzzwords form somthing renamed like IEE1394?
Yes yes, praise for the great satan of software, but the simple fact is links move. The reason that MS and Netscape both do this is to make sure that they are going to the right site for whatver reason. Sometimes domains change, some sites simply dont start at www.company.com/index.html.
Aside from this you can also yuse this kind of a redirection feature to do special deals for users of your products by dinging you to a special introductory page on a site first.
Use hasn't quadrupled, the number of individual accounts has. Thats a totaly different thing with all this Metallica garbage. I know ive recreated about 20 accounts in the last year alone.
If you want to count use, show me some numbers on how many MBs of mp3s are in the system.
Shoot, should have used
I'm not gonna say who you should vote for, think for yourself, rockthevote.com
Well lets see Radio is ok, but shoutcast isn't? hmm I always thought radio was just a differnt streaming medium. A single broadcast that anyone cas tuen into at any time.
I wonder when it will be illegal to do personal rendition streaming (AKA Singing...)
What does OVA stand for?
May I suggest that you get a copy of Computer Organization & Design by Patterson Hennessy. It takes a bottom down approach to teaching how a computer actually works using the MIPS as an example. It covers everything you need to know to write good asm programs including exception handling, pipelining and any other random thing you may encounter. Plus you can get the SPIM simulator to test your programs for free.
Let 'em look by next year it wont do any good, at least by then I plan on having one of those 17inch lcd flat panel displays. If only the govement would realize this. Id bet if they just droped the project, then they coudl afford to subidize and lcd screen.
Jan 1st, 2000: Some flaw in a major nuclear power's strategic weapon system causes a first strike scenario, and the ensuing massive nuclear holocaust kills off almost all life larger than a rat.
July 23, 2005: Significant amounts of sunlight can again penetrate the atmosphere.
September 9th 2083: Cockroaches discover fire, nuff said
So in other words it decompiles the instructions and recompiles them into its own native intruction set on the fly...
Sounds like a dynamic recomplation emulator wired in hardware to me.
The version(s) that came out this year are regular games, not CCGs. Deluxe Edition is a remake of the orginal, and Y2k is just an exspansion deck with new groups.
INWO is long since dead
Actually Eliza is no longer a card, some things have been removed to make way for new card like the Chineses campaign doners
While it's still a long way off, JohnCon represents all things geek, yet without a computer.
Pre-register now and come play all kinds of geek games like Illuminati, Spammers, Cults Across America, Iron Dragon, Over the Edge, AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, GURPS and more!!!