The telcos and cable companies just never understand what they have. Half of the traffic out there could stay localized on the cable company's network if they had internal servers for game servers, popular downloads, etc. RoadRunner used to do this (a little) in some markets but I think it was underutilized (read: poorly advertised).
Wouldn't you rather play DoD or whatever online with a 5 ping against users local to you? How much would it cost to hire some knuckleheads to admin game servers anyway?
" I wonder if having the actual ROM cartridge makes it legal to have on the computer? "
In a word, yes. That's the whole point to the MAME licensing requirement, that you own the actual hardware the game is released on, therefore your ownership rights are transferable to another platform. In a perfect world, I'd have arcade roms in a warehouse vault and that'd justify my ownership of my MAME cd collection.
I've tried both and AdvanceCD rocks. I jammed 4.5 gigs of roms onto a DVD...took forever to build the image but after I burned it, I get sweet gaming anywhere I can find a PC with a DVD-Rom. The exception is my laptop, which doesn't appreciate the modes for the display (framebuffer I guess).
Otherwise, AdvanceCD rocks. You should try it if you're considering trying something like this.
The market that the Control Stick all in one is targeted at is completely different than what we're discussing here. Nobody who wants to build a full size MAME cabinet and wire the damn controls is gonna look twice at stuff like this.
Secondly, what an earlier post said about contacting distributors/trademark holders is true. A boatload of these companies died long long ago.
My point is, if you're playing the games at home on your own MAME cabinet, and you're not charging your buddies money, who cares.
Actually, that's watchable on my laptop. Open a console up fullscreen (1680x1050 res), launch mplayer -vo aa (ascii lib rocks) and watch away. Always freaks people out, especially at that res because they can figure out what I'm watching.
In a word, yes. The policy has been pretty effective. Still, there are alot of morons in a state with a population of near 21 million, and guns are ubiquitous.
I'd quote some statistics but my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
That's right - you can trust the crab. The realtek 8139 is one of the most rock solid chipsets I've ever seen, and they're dirt cheap and supported by everything.
I imagine it IS a rare event for a gun-free country to have police deaths. Getting stabbed to death by a criminal is rare here as well. However, our police take no chances and wear kevlar with a square steel plate embedded in the center to protect against knife kills.
I don't know if Britain is any safer than the US. I've lived here my whole life and have never been a victim of a 'personal crime' where I've come face to face with a possible attacker. Then again, I'm a 6' 7", 235lb man who criminals may not feel comfortable approaching. From what I can gather, personal attacks are much more common in Britain than they are here. Here, you don't get robbed, your house or car do. I can only vouch for Dallas though, which is #1 in crime in the US for large cities. Half of the problem here is a huge illegal immigrant population.
Funny that you'd mention this. If everyone on a plane had a gun, the terrorists would never attempt to hijack any plane. In Singapore and other asian countries this is permitted and even encouraged.
I believe a Korean jet was once hijacked..it lasted about 5 minutes. A few passengers started shooting the terrorists and it was all over within seconds. Yeah, it's dangerous as hell to shoot guns in a pressurized cabin, but I believe they were on the ground at that time.
I don't see where your assumption that "...most Americans buy into the myth that Britain is a more violent society". Nobody said it was more violent, they simply stated that it's much harder to *legally* defend yourself there.
By the way, police getting shot and killed here IS a big deal. No criminal wants to be labelled a cop killer. In my state (Texas) any crimes with guns involved automatically get the maximum penalty by law, and there's nothing the judge, jury, or attorneys can do to change that. If you shoot a man to death, and it's ruled as wrongful, you'll most likely get the death penalty. There is no plea bargaining or any other recourse for defense in gun crime cases here.
Other states take a different view, but Texas has had alot of problems with gun related crimes, so the state legislature decided to take a hardline stance.
Don't make assumptions based on what you've read or seen on TV. It's better to open yourself to discussion with those that live in the country you're making assumptions about.
"A mugging might result in loosing more then an ipod, like your life or well being. or getting raped as well."
Getting raped? As a man I don't really fear for this, however, as someone a few posts up mentioned that they'd been mugged twice in San Francisco..in that town it may be a problem.
-1 Uninformed. When it comes to lawsuits in the US, when one entity files a claim (case) against another entity, they can request in their claim that the other party, upon losing the case, is responsible for any and all attorney fees, misc. costs associated with the filing, etc. Both parties do this. Therefore, both attorneys fight hard to get their money for themselves and their clients.
Some attorneys don't charge their clients any money at all. Their money comes solely from winning the case.
He had to rescale the online graphics to keep the bandwidth costs down. What this genius forgot is that the size he rescaled it to made the text unreadable. What should he have done? Why, make the text bigger and then rescale the charts! Imagine that.
Capitalization is the least of your worries with FAT. You've got a total lack of permissions, timestamping, etc. The filesystem doesn't support any of the features you'd consider modern that all Linux filesystems have.
Fat sucks, plain and simple, but it's the only go-between partition type if you have a dual boot system and each OS needs to share.
It's not even a piggyback ride. It's some alternachick in a black shirt with Megway printed on the front walking around with some knucklehead in a bicycle helmet following her. There's a completely stupid movie here just in case you really want to see what I'm talking about.
There are some ideas that just need to be killed in the crib. This is one of them.
Then you're a moron for not using any of a number of inexpensive UPS solutions. Every serious computer user should have one by now, and even some non-serious users should consider it.
Get a MO drive. The space is limited on the discs, they're expensive, and they require SCSI, but you can't argue with an archival lifespan of 100 years.
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The telcos and cable companies just never understand what they have. Half of the traffic out there could stay localized on the cable company's network if they had internal servers for game servers, popular downloads, etc. RoadRunner used to do this (a little) in some markets but I think it was underutilized (read: poorly advertised).
Wouldn't you rather play DoD or whatever online with a 5 ping against users local to you? How much would it cost to hire some knuckleheads to admin game servers anyway?
Am I the only one who read this as "Yahoo's Torture division" at first glance?
" I wonder if having the actual ROM cartridge makes it legal to have on the computer? "
In a word, yes. That's the whole point to the MAME licensing requirement, that you own the actual hardware the game is released on, therefore your ownership rights are transferable to another platform. In a perfect world, I'd have arcade roms in a warehouse vault and that'd justify my ownership of my MAME cd collection.
I've tried both and AdvanceCD rocks. I jammed 4.5 gigs of roms onto a DVD...took forever to build the image but after I burned it, I get sweet gaming anywhere I can find a PC with a DVD-Rom. The exception is my laptop, which doesn't appreciate the modes for the display (framebuffer I guess).
Otherwise, AdvanceCD rocks. You should try it if you're considering trying something like this.
Ok first off, mods are on crack yet again.
The market that the Control Stick all in one is targeted at is completely different than what we're discussing here. Nobody who wants to build a full size MAME cabinet and wire the damn controls is gonna look twice at stuff like this.
Secondly, what an earlier post said about contacting distributors/trademark holders is true. A boatload of these companies died long long ago.
My point is, if you're playing the games at home on your own MAME cabinet, and you're not charging your buddies money, who cares.
Actually, that's watchable on my laptop. Open a console up fullscreen (1680x1050 res), launch mplayer -vo aa (ascii lib rocks) and watch away. Always freaks people out, especially at that res because they can figure out what I'm watching.
I just tell them my DVD drive is broken.
In a word, yes. The policy has been pretty effective. Still, there are alot of morons in a state with a population of near 21 million, and guns are ubiquitous.
I'd quote some statistics but my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.
That's right - you can trust the crab. The realtek 8139 is one of the most rock solid chipsets I've ever seen, and they're dirt cheap and supported by everything.
Now we finally understand each other.
Despite the statistics to the contrary, most of us will never be a victim of violent crime, or witness a violent crime.
I imagine it IS a rare event for a gun-free country to have police deaths. Getting stabbed to death by a criminal is rare here as well. However, our police take no chances and wear kevlar with a square steel plate embedded in the center to protect against knife kills.
I don't know if Britain is any safer than the US. I've lived here my whole life and have never been a victim of a 'personal crime' where I've come face to face with a possible attacker. Then again, I'm a 6' 7", 235lb man who criminals may not feel comfortable approaching. From what I can gather, personal attacks are much more common in Britain than they are here. Here, you don't get robbed, your house or car do. I can only vouch for Dallas though, which is #1 in crime in the US for large cities. Half of the problem here is a huge illegal immigrant population.
England sounds awesome. Remind me to come visit sometime!
Nothing says Columbine louder than a pasty guy in a full length black trenchcoat.
Don't be surprised when the cops start bugging you daily.
Funny that you'd mention this. If everyone on a plane had a gun, the terrorists would never attempt to hijack any plane. In Singapore and other asian countries this is permitted and even encouraged.
I believe a Korean jet was once hijacked..it lasted about 5 minutes. A few passengers started shooting the terrorists and it was all over within seconds. Yeah, it's dangerous as hell to shoot guns in a pressurized cabin, but I believe they were on the ground at that time.
I don't see where your assumption that "...most Americans buy into the myth that Britain is a more violent society". Nobody said it was more violent, they simply stated that it's much harder to *legally* defend yourself there.
By the way, police getting shot and killed here IS a big deal. No criminal wants to be labelled a cop killer. In my state (Texas) any crimes with guns involved automatically get the maximum penalty by law, and there's nothing the judge, jury, or attorneys can do to change that. If you shoot a man to death, and it's ruled as wrongful, you'll most likely get the death penalty. There is no plea bargaining or any other recourse for defense in gun crime cases here.
Other states take a different view, but Texas has had alot of problems with gun related crimes, so the state legislature decided to take a hardline stance.
Don't make assumptions based on what you've read or seen on TV. It's better to open yourself to discussion with those that live in the country you're making assumptions about.
"A mugging might result in loosing more then an ipod, like your life or well being. or getting raped as well."
Getting raped? As a man I don't really fear for this, however, as someone a few posts up mentioned that they'd been mugged twice in San Francisco..in that town it may be a problem.
That's why 'slocate -u' should be in everyone's cron daily file.
-1 Uninformed. When it comes to lawsuits in the US, when one entity files a claim (case) against another entity, they can request in their claim that the other party, upon losing the case, is responsible for any and all attorney fees, misc. costs associated with the filing, etc. Both parties do this. Therefore, both attorneys fight hard to get their money for themselves and their clients.
Some attorneys don't charge their clients any money at all. Their money comes solely from winning the case.
"Gentoo is the bees knees as they say."
;)
Who is 'they' in this case? Your grandparents?
23 Skiddoo! You got moxie kid!
UT2k4 is linux native, jackass.
Warcraft runs under Winex.
Next!
One word:
Flash.
Some more words to burn time for the lameness filter. End transmission.
He had to rescale the online graphics to keep the bandwidth costs down. What this genius forgot is that the size he rescaled it to made the text unreadable. What should he have done? Why, make the text bigger and then rescale the charts! Imagine that.
Capitalization is the least of your worries with FAT. You've got a total lack of permissions, timestamping, etc. The filesystem doesn't support any of the features you'd consider modern that all Linux filesystems have.
Fat sucks, plain and simple, but it's the only go-between partition type if you have a dual boot system and each OS needs to share.
It's not even a piggyback ride. It's some alternachick in a black shirt with Megway printed on the front walking around with some knucklehead in a bicycle helmet following her. There's a completely stupid movie here just in case you really want to see what I'm talking about.
There are some ideas that just need to be killed in the crib. This is one of them.
Then you're a moron for not using any of a number of inexpensive UPS solutions. Every serious computer user should have one by now, and even some non-serious users should consider it.
Get a MO drive. The space is limited on the discs, they're expensive, and they require SCSI, but you can't argue with an archival lifespan of 100 years.