If you don't care WHY it happened, then it's obvious to me that to stop it happening again, you should paint your house blue. That's as likely as any other random action to stop something if you don't know why it happened.
Geez. One thing at a time, but the other way around.
(Having a general foreign policy that doesn't piss off so many people in other countries might be a good idea, off the top of my head. Next time it might be some island state that just had their country sunk by one of the worlds largest polluters.)
My Yamaha CRW-8424 has a horrible little 25mm fan in it that makes more noise than the rest of my PC together (partly thanks to QuietPC). I'm just waiting for Papst to actually have stock of their funky temperature sensitive quiet fans in 25mm... Apart from that, and no CD-TEXT support, it's a great little drive though.
Since Harrods closes at 7pm, it'd have to be an early dinner... not mention that it's a department store. (Although according to their website, they do have 19 eating/drinking establishments inside nowadays, rather than just the worlds most expensive cafe)
cool story, but how much base memory did she have left to do anything with after 666K of autoexec.bat has loaded it's TSRs and done it's work? And a boot-time measured in hours, I shouldn't wonder.
Uhm, actually CE runs on the Dreamcast, would be more accurate, and even then only if you want it to. The plan was that with DirectX and the Windows API available, more developers would port their PC games. Most (very nearly all) developers used the Kamui/Ninja libraries written by Sega, Hitachi and VideoLogic instead.
And, a lot of the tools that people use, including the VCD player (at least the ones I've seen) were built to those specs off of VB.
More likely Visual C++, since I don't think there is a cross-platform VB (DC uses Hitachi SH4 and ARM) AFAIK. The tools I use with my DC are GNU tools for the most part, anyway.
That would be Spy Hunter, currently in development for the Playstation 2. Old titles never die, they just get re-licensed.
Take a look at First Star, known for pretty much one game* - Boulderdash, written in 1983, which they are still re-licensing on new platforms, and still fairly vigorously 'protecting' from clone-writers.
Now, on the beach in a resort in some dirty third-world country, that's another story.
Pffft. Try the USA. Say, 30 miles east of Reno, NV (or most of the interstate through to Sacramento, IIRC). US cellular sucks ass for those of us used to 99% national coverage.
I downloaded the slickedit demo for windows after someone mentioned it on the dcdev mailing list. I had high hopes for it - the feature list is impressive! However it is the only editor I've used that I've mananged to crash within 20 minutes, doing ordinary tasks. So I switched back to EditPlus and XEmacs and gave it the heave-ho.
Editors, like OSes and X servers shouldn't crash. Ever. Particularly when they cost at least ten times (or infinitely) more than the editor they replace.
If minidiscs work in digital mode with these discs, then the game is over anyway. S/PDIF in is not that unusual on soundcards nowadays, and there you have your digital copy.
Side question: anyone know of a soundcard with S/PDIF or TOSLink out that can send the track markers that minidisc uses? I'd really like to be able to make minidisc compilations with the markers in them automatically... --
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Front 242's Tyranny For You has a similar thing for the last track. It's about 17 minutes long, composed of 'official last track', Soul Manager (4 mins), 7 mins of silence, then the extra track on the end - scares the hell our of you the first couple of times (it's loud and fast).
Another example of the short tracks is Children Of The Korn, from Korn, which starts on track 30 or so, after a bunch of silent tracks (my copy even has a sticker on the front to the effect: '15 minutes of silence from Korn'. If only they'd made it 80. --
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When I did, only one person had a copy of it. Now if that one person hadn't had it, I very well might have bought the cd. And maybe with copy protection, that one copy wouldn't have been out there.
Assuming the record company in question hasn't just decided not to publish that music anymore but just sit on it instead.
It's surprising how much stuff is out of print - in the RIAA-perfect world, you shouldn't buy from used record stores, or copy from a friend (or strangers) copy, so you only listen to what they decide to make/sell this week. Welcome to commercial-music-only land.
If I could buy an albums-worth of tracks for say $5-8 from a record companies' entire backcatalogue, rather than what is currently in the warehouse, I daresay I might buy some of those - lots, even. Especially if I didn't have to pay 4 layers of middlemen for the privelege. --
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But the point is, like "Microsoft Java" vs Sun, I believe Phillips[0] licenses the use of the CD logo on the packaging. In the same way that Sun chose to sue MS for calling their VM 'Java', Phillips could chose to withold the use of the CD logo on discs that aren't 'valid' CDs. Pretty much every CD I have has at least a tiny version of that logo on it...
[0] or the consortium that handles the technology - I don't remember if it's just Phillips, although looking through FOLDOC suggests it is. --
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
I was discussing this with a colleague yesterday, and an interesting question came up: are these new discs actually marked as CDs? Do they have the little Phillips' Compact Disc logo on them? If they are just relying on people assuming that the 5-inch silver disc is a 'real' compact disc, then what you should expect from this CD-like disc is your problem, at least to a greater degree.
Not that I am in favour of the 'protection', especially at the expense of the error correction - I too rip all my CDs straight after purchase. --
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Anyway, whadya mean the government? Which government? It's bad enough what your government does to you (and mine to me) without them meddling in each others stuff. --
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...that supposedly can handle 20,000 simultaneous 'Help Desk Requests.' Per the release not only can it handle complaints in normal prose (typed, not spoken), but also fix them.
The version that just takes complaints and doesn't fix them runs a whole lot quicker.
5 REM automated tech support, as used by Telewest
10 PRINT "My time is yours."
15 INPUT a$
20 PRINT "Oh dear - your ticket number is ";rand(300000)
30 GOTO 10
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Russia ALREADY HAS LOTS OF NUKES! Even if they had to build more, they would do it. They've done it before without worrying about the consequences to their economy
Well, not really... the Soviet Union did, which had a lot more resources and manpower to burn. --
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
One of the first things you mention is that you haven't played the games.
You can't make a multi-million dollar movie aimed only at fans of a game. With the sort of costs this movie must have, you must appeal to people who haven't played the game. The movie industry is in it for the money, after all. --
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No - my brain was broken. It's 5.5 lbs (== 2.4 kg). Divide, not multiply, innit?
Anyway, the point was, it's damn heavy. You could use it self-defence and then plug it back in and use it with a quick wipe down. --
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The 9th was a Sunday - the NYSE wasn't trading. Do you mean the 11th?
If you don't care WHY it happened, then it's obvious to me that to stop it happening again, you should paint your house blue. That's as likely as any other random action to stop something if you don't know why it happened.
Geez. One thing at a time, but the other way around.
(Having a general foreign policy that doesn't piss off so many people in other countries might be a good idea, off the top of my head. Next time it might be some island state that just had their country sunk by one of the worlds largest polluters.)
mainly antarctic and entirely in the southern hemisphere
Get a grip. If uptime were important, you wouldn't be running your application on a games console.
Me too!
My Yamaha CRW-8424 has a horrible little 25mm fan in it that makes more noise than the rest of my PC together (partly thanks to QuietPC). I'm just waiting for Papst to actually have stock of their funky temperature sensitive quiet fans in 25mm... Apart from that, and no CD-TEXT support, it's a great little drive though.
"...but We Are The Good Guys..."
bollocks. From the (perhaps just a little biased) view of a resident, perhaps, but not capital G good.
Since Harrods closes at 7pm, it'd have to be an early dinner... not mention that it's a department store. (Although according to their website, they do have 19 eating/drinking establishments inside nowadays, rather than just the worlds most expensive cafe)
cool story, but how much base memory did she have left to do anything with after 666K of autoexec.bat has loaded it's TSRs and done it's work? And a boot-time measured in hours, I shouldn't wonder.
Uhm, Sega Dreamcast runs off of Windows CE
Uhm, actually CE runs on the Dreamcast, would be more accurate, and even then only if you want it to. The plan was that with DirectX and the Windows API available, more developers would port their PC games. Most (very nearly all) developers used the Kamui/Ninja libraries written by Sega, Hitachi and VideoLogic instead.
And, a lot of the tools that people use, including the VCD player (at least the ones I've seen) were built to those specs off of VB.
More likely Visual C++, since I don't think there is a cross-platform VB (DC uses Hitachi SH4 and ARM) AFAIK. The tools I use with my DC are GNU tools for the most part, anyway.
But Spy Hunter?!
That would be Spy Hunter, currently in development for the Playstation 2. Old titles never die, they just get re-licensed.
Take a look at First Star, known for pretty much one game* - Boulderdash, written in 1983, which they are still re-licensing on new platforms, and still fairly vigorously 'protecting' from clone-writers.
* OK, Spy vs Spy too.
Did you get free ear defenders with that system?
Now, on the beach in a resort in some dirty third-world country, that's another story.
Pffft. Try the USA. Say, 30 miles east of Reno, NV (or most of the interstate through to Sacramento, IIRC). US cellular sucks ass for those of us used to 99% national coverage.
I downloaded the slickedit demo for windows after someone mentioned it on the dcdev mailing list. I had high hopes for it - the feature list is impressive! However it is the only editor I've used that I've mananged to crash within 20 minutes, doing ordinary tasks. So I switched back to EditPlus and XEmacs and gave it the heave-ho.
Editors, like OSes and X servers shouldn't crash. Ever. Particularly when they cost at least ten times (or infinitely) more than the editor they replace.
If minidiscs work in digital mode with these discs, then the game is over anyway. S/PDIF in is not that unusual on soundcards nowadays, and there you have your digital copy.
Side question: anyone know of a soundcard with S/PDIF or TOSLink out that can send the track markers that minidisc uses? I'd really like to be able to make minidisc compilations with the markers in them automatically...
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Front 242's Tyranny For You has a similar thing for the last track. It's about 17 minutes long, composed of 'official last track', Soul Manager (4 mins), 7 mins of silence, then the extra track on the end - scares the hell our of you the first couple of times (it's loud and fast).
Another example of the short tracks is Children Of The Korn, from Korn, which starts on track 30 or so, after a bunch of silent tracks (my copy even has a sticker on the front to the effect: '15 minutes of silence from Korn'. If only they'd made it 80.
--
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
When I did, only one person had a copy of it. Now if that one person hadn't had it, I very well might have bought the cd. And maybe with copy protection, that one copy wouldn't have been out there.
Assuming the record company in question hasn't just decided not to publish that music anymore but just sit on it instead.
It's surprising how much stuff is out of print - in the RIAA-perfect world, you shouldn't buy from used record stores, or copy from a friend (or strangers) copy, so you only listen to what they decide to make/sell this week. Welcome to commercial-music-only land.
If I could buy an albums-worth of tracks for say $5-8 from a record companies' entire backcatalogue, rather than what is currently in the warehouse, I daresay I might buy some of those - lots, even. Especially if I didn't have to pay 4 layers of middlemen for the privelege.
--
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
But the point is, like "Microsoft Java" vs Sun, I believe Phillips[0] licenses the use of the CD logo on the packaging. In the same way that Sun chose to sue MS for calling their VM 'Java', Phillips could chose to withold the use of the CD logo on discs that aren't 'valid' CDs. Pretty much every CD I have has at least a tiny version of that logo on it...
[0] or the consortium that handles the technology - I don't remember if it's just Phillips, although looking through FOLDOC suggests it is.
--
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
I was discussing this with a colleague yesterday, and an interesting question came up: are these new discs actually marked as CDs? Do they have the little Phillips' Compact Disc logo on them? If they are just relying on people assuming that the 5-inch silver disc is a 'real' compact disc, then what you should expect from this CD-like disc is your problem, at least to a greater degree.
Not that I am in favour of the 'protection', especially at the expense of the error correction - I too rip all my CDs straight after purchase.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Anyway, whadya mean the government? Which government? It's bad enough what your government does to you (and mine to me) without them meddling in each others stuff.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
...that supposedly can handle 20,000 simultaneous 'Help Desk Requests.' Per the release not only can it handle complaints in normal prose (typed, not spoken), but also fix them.
The version that just takes complaints and doesn't fix them runs a whole lot quicker.
5 REM automated tech support, as used by Telewest
10 PRINT "My time is yours."
15 INPUT a$
20 PRINT "Oh dear - your ticket number is ";rand(300000)
30 GOTO 10
--
the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
Russia ALREADY HAS LOTS OF NUKES! Even if they had to build more, they would do it. They've done it before without worrying about the consequences to their economy
Well, not really... the Soviet Union did, which had a lot more resources and manpower to burn.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
One of the first things you mention is that you haven't played the games.
You can't make a multi-million dollar movie aimed only at fans of a game. With the sort of costs this movie must have, you must appeal to people who haven't played the game. The movie industry is in it for the money, after all.
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when AOL gave their costumers access to the Internet it was the beginning of the end
Yeah, what with their taste for frilly shirts and fur coats...
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'lo Stuii :)
No - my brain was broken. It's 5.5 lbs (== 2.4 kg). Divide, not multiply, innit?
Anyway, the point was, it's damn heavy. You could use it self-defence and then plug it back in and use it with a quick wipe down.
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the telephone rings / problem between screen and chair / thoughts of homocide
If there was any way you could ship one or two to Reno, NV, (or direct to the UK) I'd be happy to take them off your hands - mail me!
slashdot@thingy.com
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