Depends on how big your rig is, doesn't it? The tiny Shuttle boxes can fit a nice fast AGP card inside and a flat screen monitor will travel well. Plus for the hardcore, there are rubber roll-up keyboards (I've seen them here in Dallas) to take on the road.
Yeah dude, the first portable I had was some crappy green-cased football game. You could go left and right, and up and down...and that was about it. It might have had one button to pass the ball.
Kids these days are so spoiled. Give them a portable Simon instead of a Gameboy SP.
You're right, the Saturn didn't sell very well because it was a piece of crap. There were a few stellar titles on it, but the 3d was terrible, it STILL lacked transparencies (unforgivable, considering that even the lowly SNES could do it), the controllers were jank, etc. etc. etc.
About the only thing I really liked about it was it's 2d abilities. It rocked for Street Fighter-style games because the 2d was fast and it had plenty of ram for all the frames of animation. Similar games on the PS1 sucked because it just didn't have enough ram; many games from Capcom at the time had dozens of animation frames removed. However, Castlevania on the PS1 has to be the best Castlevania ever.
I'll testify to the QC problems of the PS2. I got one nearly 3 months after it was released, and mine was unfortunately one of the dreaded 7%.
Best Buy employees and other chain store folks know about the 7%. That was the defect rate of DVD lenses/assemblies for the PS2. The PS2 at that time had a ridiculously short 90 day warranty. Hell, even old cassette walkmans had at least a year..but I digress.
Mine sorta died after 80 days. I lost the receipt. Called Sony for advice and they suggested my remote control peripheral from another company voided my warranty. WTF?!
Long story short: pawned the PS2 for a good deal of money (the normal cd read head still worked so it'd play regular PS1 games so I demo'ed that to the pawn shop guy) and never bought another PS2.
I really would like to see an alternative to the GBA though. I nearly bought one the other day but the lure of the Gamepark32 was in the back of my mind. The problem is the GBA just isn't that great, and the games for it suck for the most part. If they ported all their SNES games to it at least it'd have a decent library, but where the frogs is the headphone jack?
The Gameboy Advance sucked, the GBA SP is getting there, but I want choice. I really, really want a handheld that only does MAME or SNES games, or both.
According to your suppositions, Wile E. Coyote is most likely one of the key programmers at Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if the bugs in IE were designed to crash Roadrunner's browser.
Wake and bake eh... that's really not a bad idea and fully explains why Digimon could be considered 'kickass'.:)
Don't know if it's a great idea mentioning getting stoned before your kid gets up and watching cartoons with him when you have a link to your site presumably selling your professional services... oh well, whatever. I think it's good parenting personally. You'll be on the same level as your son after a fattie and will probably enjoy it as much if not more than he does.
Some of the older cartoons, particularly Warner Bros. cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. were targeted at all age groups. The writers were clever enough to include slapstick action for the kids and haughty real-world or old movie references that the adults could laugh at. There were frequent references to Casablanca, Mae West, Cary Grant, et al. There's really alot of depth and love crafted into those cartoons.
I just did some research and found this fascinating page. http://members.aol.com/EOCostello/ Read up on it and you'll discover alot of goodies packed into those old cartoons.
Just be careful. You may find yourself watching them again soon.
LOL! Even to this day I remember the cartoon about 'don't drown your food'. There was a salad guy that was getting completely hosed by salad dressing..and a few years later I learned that good lettuce doesn't need dressing. When I was a kid I'd put a gallon of Italian dressing on my salad. Now, not one drop of anything (unless I'm eating Italian food, then it gets some balsamic vinaigrette and oil) goes on my lettuce.
Depends on which woman putting on makeup in the gigantic SUV that just swung into your lane is driving. It's such a trivial, ancillary task that people just refuse to pay attention.
The people that deserve to burst into flames are the people looking down to dial cellphones, changing lanes doing 80 on the highway./rant
Personally I wouldn't say that it all boils down to chemical reactions in the brain. That may be the process responsible for thought, conciousness, and memory, but the neural paths must first be established in order for intelligent conclusions to be reached. Remember, the engine's oil is only a fraction of the engine's function. It's 'what's inside' that really matters. (ack, no pun intended)
Geekily enough, the main character in Ghost in the Shell pondered this same point after emerging from a dive.
Mad geniuses, IMHO, are just like the 'AI computers' that play chess. They tend to be very deficient at everyday tasks (hygiene, social skills, excercise, etc.) yet extremely proficient at a specific task. Once you strip away everything that makes you human, you can focus on one thing and become superhuman.
There are, of course, anomalies; people that are genii but continue to lead somewhat normal lives, but these people are rare. True genius comes at a cost, and that cost is high for most.
Your quick-connect would burst into flames, sending a spark back up into your tank, which would then explode, soaking you in burning gasoline and making your run around screaming 'why god why, why am I such a moron?'.
Then again it might not spark if it's soaking wet with gasoline. Wet things tend not to spark.
I was gonna mention this point too. With all the Beavis and Buttheads in this country, it'd never work out. In England, maybe, since every square inch of the island is wired for surveillance.
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Depends on how big your rig is, doesn't it? The tiny Shuttle boxes can fit a nice fast AGP card inside and a flat screen monitor will travel well. Plus for the hardcore, there are rubber roll-up keyboards (I've seen them here in Dallas) to take on the road.
I wanna know why they can't build tiny generators inside that recover some power every time you hit a button.
Play some old crappy game like Konami Olympics (the ultimate button masher) and you'll wear out before it does.
Yeah dude, the first portable I had was some crappy green-cased football game. You could go left and right, and up and down...and that was about it. It might have had one button to pass the ball.
Kids these days are so spoiled. Give them a portable Simon instead of a Gameboy SP.
Um, can you say 'cache to ram'? They've been doing this for years with portable cd players and the easy-to-implement anti-skip technology.
Also keep in mind that most games load parts of the program once in awhile, the disc keeps spinning to stream either audio or video.
You're right, the Saturn didn't sell very well because it was a piece of crap. There were a few stellar titles on it, but the 3d was terrible, it STILL lacked transparencies (unforgivable, considering that even the lowly SNES could do it), the controllers were jank, etc. etc. etc.
About the only thing I really liked about it was it's 2d abilities. It rocked for Street Fighter-style games because the 2d was fast and it had plenty of ram for all the frames of animation. Similar games on the PS1 sucked because it just didn't have enough ram; many games from Capcom at the time had dozens of animation frames removed. However, Castlevania on the PS1 has to be the best Castlevania ever.
I'll testify to the QC problems of the PS2. I got one nearly 3 months after it was released, and mine was unfortunately one of the dreaded 7%.
Best Buy employees and other chain store folks know about the 7%. That was the defect rate of DVD lenses/assemblies for the PS2. The PS2 at that time had a ridiculously short 90 day warranty. Hell, even old cassette walkmans had at least a year..but I digress.
Mine sorta died after 80 days. I lost the receipt. Called Sony for advice and they suggested my remote control peripheral from another company voided my warranty. WTF?!
Long story short: pawned the PS2 for a good deal of money (the normal cd read head still worked so it'd play regular PS1 games so I demo'ed that to the pawn shop guy) and never bought another PS2.
I really would like to see an alternative to the GBA though. I nearly bought one the other day but the lure of the Gamepark32 was in the back of my mind. The problem is the GBA just isn't that great, and the games for it suck for the most part. If they ported all their SNES games to it at least it'd have a decent library, but where the frogs is the headphone jack?
The Gameboy Advance sucked, the GBA SP is getting there, but I want choice. I really, really want a handheld that only does MAME or SNES games, or both.
According to your suppositions, Wile E. Coyote is most likely one of the key programmers at Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if the bugs in IE were designed to crash Roadrunner's browser.
Ooooh I hit a nerve!
The point is, kids don't need to get hopped up on coffee at 7am. That's for the big kids.
Don't forget to add WiFi to your wishlist also. Nothing better than throwing new audio/video to your car while it's parked in the garage.
Yeah, I believe Australia also drives on the right side as well. Maybe a big F U to the Brits that sent them there as prisoners originally?
Oh and Japan and most Asian countries drive like the British. There's something to be said for imperialism.
Wake and bake eh... that's really not a bad idea and fully explains why Digimon could be considered 'kickass'. :)
Don't know if it's a great idea mentioning getting stoned before your kid gets up and watching cartoons with him when you have a link to your site presumably selling your professional services... oh well, whatever. I think it's good parenting personally. You'll be on the same level as your son after a fattie and will probably enjoy it as much if not more than he does.
I beg to differ.
Some of the older cartoons, particularly Warner Bros. cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. were targeted at all age groups. The writers were clever enough to include slapstick action for the kids and haughty real-world or old movie references that the adults could laugh at. There were frequent references to Casablanca, Mae West, Cary Grant, et al. There's really alot of depth and love crafted into those cartoons.
I just did some research and found this fascinating page. http://members.aol.com/EOCostello/ Read up on it and you'll discover alot of goodies packed into those old cartoons.
Just be careful. You may find yourself watching them again soon.
I don't know if having your kids drinking coffee at 7am with a bunch of faeries is an improvement over saturday morning cartoons or not.
Let me know how it turns out.
LOL! Even to this day I remember the cartoon about 'don't drown your food'. There was a salad guy that was getting completely hosed by salad dressing..and a few years later I learned that good lettuce doesn't need dressing. When I was a kid I'd put a gallon of Italian dressing on my salad. Now, not one drop of anything (unless I'm eating Italian food, then it gets some balsamic vinaigrette and oil) goes on my lettuce.
OT, I know, but reminiscing is always on topic.
What are you getting at? That John Fogherty's days are numbered?
Minder music? Mind this beyaaaaatch! pow pow pow
note to the clueless>the preceding is a joke
Don't forget Point Break.
Yeah, nobody believed he was actually an FBI-agent-cum-surfer either. That movie was an example of "how to assemble a lame cast".
Personally I'd rather have seen Jonny Depp in Matrix instead. That'd be alot more interesting than Captain Whoa.
You must be a slow blinker. ;)
Depends on which woman putting on makeup in the gigantic SUV that just swung into your lane is driving. It's such a trivial, ancillary task that people just refuse to pay attention.
/rant
The people that deserve to burst into flames are the people looking down to dial cellphones, changing lanes doing 80 on the highway.
Great, so he pointed out the obvious, i.e. linux is good for some things while windows is good for others.
Such insight is worth $95...just for redundancy alone.
Personally I wouldn't say that it all boils down to chemical reactions in the brain. That may be the process responsible for thought, conciousness, and memory, but the neural paths must first be established in order for intelligent conclusions to be reached. Remember, the engine's oil is only a fraction of the engine's function. It's 'what's inside' that really matters. (ack, no pun intended)
Geekily enough, the main character in Ghost in the Shell pondered this same point after emerging from a dive.
Mad geniuses, IMHO, are just like the 'AI computers' that play chess. They tend to be very deficient at everyday tasks (hygiene, social skills, excercise, etc.) yet extremely proficient at a specific task. Once you strip away everything that makes you human, you can focus on one thing and become superhuman.
There are, of course, anomalies; people that are genii but continue to lead somewhat normal lives, but these people are rare. True genius comes at a cost, and that cost is high for most.
Your quick-connect would burst into flames, sending a spark back up into your tank, which would then explode, soaking you in burning gasoline and making your run around screaming 'why god why, why am I such a moron?'.
Then again it might not spark if it's soaking wet with gasoline. Wet things tend not to spark.
No, this is the entire Weapons of Mass Distraction arsenal that Saddam once owned, or didn't own, or still owns, depending on who you ask.
Too bad the server got shocked and awed by the militant clicking of Slashdot shock troopers.
Yeah, so are your wallets. :p
$3500 plus for a 14" 1ghz powermac? Naw.
I was gonna mention this point too. With all the Beavis and Buttheads in this country, it'd never work out. In England, maybe, since every square inch of the island is wired for surveillance.