I don't know why there's so much anti-Sidewinder sentiment on here. It makes me sad to see M$ stop supporting a key piece of hardware, and gives me yet another reason to never upgrade from Win98SE. I bought my Sidewinder gamepad about five years ago and it's still going strong. I use it for MAME, Fighter Kyodotai, MAME, emulators, and...oh yeah, MAME. I've never had problems, except that the pad isn't easy to make Dragon Punch motions with.
Matt Oppenheim: "We are not accessing anybody's "property," and we are certainly not violating anybody's personal rights. We are doing exactly the same thing that every other infringer is doing."
Um, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but is he saying that all us P2P infringers aren't taking RIAA's "property"?
I did indeed read the manual...after I suddenly discovered that the seamlessly installed and fully functional BitTorrent suddenly ate all my bandwidth. And pardon me, but dropping into a Windows console to download things that are hyperlinked is pretty unintuitive.
I just tried BitTorrent for the first time yesterday (to grab the Half-Life 2 trailer). On my campus work machine it saturated my network buffer to the point that I couldn't SSH to a box in the next room, and I got a little visit from the IT department later on. Whereas on my home box w/ cable modem it couldn't even pull a 1KBps download.
So I guess my question is: why is there no way to prevent complete 2.5/1.5 Mbps saturation when opening a.torrent link? Or more to the point: what are you doing to change this so that we have a usuable product?
Ico, of course. I played it almost straight through, and reaching the end at 2AM is not recommended.
Conker's Bad Fur Day. Although most of the game is based around being "adult", only the ending could really be called "mature". My jaw dropped...I had no idea Rare had it in them.
The Longest Journey. As far as I'm concerned, the last great adventure game. I bought this one to play "a little" and ended up beating it in a 23 hour marathon. There just wasn't any point where I wanted to stop.
ADAM is the reason I started programming at all. We had the little SmartBASIC tape, and it'd go whirr whirr whirr, and then I'd take my pudgy little kid fingers and painstakingly copy a game out of one of the books my dad had. Then I'd fool around with changing stuff, seeing what it all did.
Then (no kidding) I upgraded to my dad's TI-72. Those two old pieces of "junk" got me where I am today.
I'd just like to say that gerbils don't get acne. And I should know. Such a discovery would, of course, rock the scientific world to its frightened little core, but I don't believe it will happen in our lifetime.
I don't know about all you gee-whiz PDA users, but my number one game of ALL time on ANY system, the one I've spent the MOST time on in my 17 years of gaming, is ZTetris3.0 for the TI-85.
It has everything this article mentioned except wireless: portability, cheap graphics, multiplayer, and the air of dignity from my sleek black calc. It is also (IMO) the greatest version of Tetris ever made.
It has gotten me through the most boring classes and the longest waits. It doesn't eat batteries like some other TI games I could mention *coughbreakoutcough*, yet it is still endlessly fast and challenging. The two-player battle mode is perfectly balanced, with all sorts of different tactics my Chemistry buddies and I developed in high school. I would seriously consider teaching a class on Tetris Theory if someone would pay me.
So I'll leave my phone in my pocket, thank you. TI has me covered.
I smell the faint scent of troll, but it may be from that "hypocrisy" jab from the Israeli...
There is certainly no "legitmate" reason why anyone would come in at non-peak hours and reposition the monitor to a convienient viewing angle
You're right. Most people doing that at 3AM are playing games:P
Pray tell, why exactly is viewing porn considered an ethics violation at your lab?
Well, pr0n and mp3z and e-harassment etc. are against the university computer policy, especially if done on the public lab computers. Not my rules.
Face it, you're just another tech staffer who feels power in his belly and likes the taste of it too much.
Huh? I suppose technically I'm a "tech staffer", although my actual job is writing Java for geologists. I just heard about this story from friends who work the clusters here, and it amused me. And that feeling in my belly is probably steak.
Here at NDSU I heard a story about a habitual public lab pr0n offender. Seems that this character was known to the tech staff here: always coming in very early or very late, sitting in the corner, turning his screen so no one else could see...obviously a pr0n seeker. But nobody could quite prove it and remove him (a NEThics office would be quite useful here, as long as it didn't have that stupid name).
Until one day he slipped up. In the smaller side labs there's really no "corner" computers that nobody can see. So that would mean using the instructor's computer at the front of the room, which face the opposite direction. Unfortunately for Mr. Pr0n, a teacher had left the overhead projector on and attached to the computer. More unfortunately, Mr. Pr0n didn't notice...his attention was elsewhere. Eventually somebody in the lab stopped giggling and retrieved a cluster worker. The worker confronted Mr. Pr0n, who stoutly denied the accusation until the overhead screen was pointed out to him.
What would a sane pr0n addict do in this situation? Fess up? Stick to their lies? Well, this guy got reeealll red in the face, and then BOLTED out of the lab.
I just GOTTA disagree here. It's also excellent for cooking up hot dogs and bratwurst with a quickness. 5 minutes on the grill is plenty, during which time you:
1) Microwave a piece of white bread for 10 sec.
2) Place a Kraft Single on the white bread and let them sit until the brat is almost done.
3) Just before the brat is done, microwave the bread+cheese again for 10 sec.
4) Remove your makeshift bun and immediately wrap around brat.
5) Consume. w00t! Just can't beat the cheese and meat, baby!
For people like me who get sick from ramen, brat-on-bread is the best quick meal around. Unless your microwave (like mine) is powered by hydrogen fusion and can cook a 15-minute rice meal in 5 min;)
My friend and I took THREE DAYS off of work to wait in line. Fortunately Fargo is a bad place to wait for several months, so we were near the front. I agree with all the non-paid reviewers that believe this movie rocks, and I plan to see it again this afternoon...
And to all the naysayers out there: waiting in line with fellow SW geeks is almost as fun as sitting in a packed theater with them. My friend won an original 1970s Millenium Falcon toy, with box and instructions included. Sure, opened toys are worth less, but it's a KICKIN' centerpiece. Lightsaber duels happened almost hourly, and we had great fun mocking the people who drove by to mock us. The movie is that much more beautiful when sleep-deprived and living off of Doritos and pizza.
Can you tell me which is more pathetic...a person who can take three days off of their job with no one complaining to wait in line for a movie, or a person who goes out of their way three days in a row to drive by and yell "Homo" at those first people?
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Reminds of the local Media Play, a year ago. They actually had the good sense to have a demo computer running Linux. Caldera something-or-other. (Sorry, I'm not a big Linux guy. I prefer games;)
Of course, in this Win-centric world none of the Media Play employees thought to put a root password on it...
My friend gave it an rm -rf * and we left the store VERY QUICKLY.
In this version, Deckard reaches out to his dream unicorn and touches it, allowing a horned Tim Curry to begin his diabolical scheme to corrupt the Light forever. There's also a deleted scene where Rachael uses her Replicant powers to change into a very becoming dress and Deckard and Rachael get it on robot-style during a brief respite from the MCP's pursuit.
Why doesn't Blizzard provide facilities that enable these emulators to authenticate CD keys through Battle.net?
In order for us to keep our proprietary CD-key algorithms secure, we cannot allow outside servers to query for the validity of CD keys.
Now, I don't know how many people have tried this, but in at least SEVEN seperate instances, friends of mine (and me) have used Half-Life CDKeys to authenticate Starcraft and vice-versa. In fact, we've never seen a key for one that DOESN'T work on the other. Why not slap Valve with some DMCA threats, eh? Apparently they cracked your "proprietary CD-key algorithms" years ago...
And of course there will be three models...Wisdom (low-end consumer), Courage (high-end consumer), and Power (arcade). SLIing all three will open the door to the Holy Realm of Gaming Goodness.
And as long as it doesn't come with a #^*%(@#^$ Navi Office Helper, I'll put my money behind them.
"Link! It looks like you're working on a resume! Would you like to know their weakness? Look! Look!"
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Or how about pure "overlay" purple, so when digital cameras pick us up we become transparent? That would be awesome.
I don't know why there's so much anti-Sidewinder sentiment on here. It makes me sad to see M$ stop supporting a key piece of hardware, and gives me yet another reason to never upgrade from Win98SE. I bought my Sidewinder gamepad about five years ago and it's still going strong. I use it for MAME, Fighter Kyodotai, MAME, emulators, and...oh yeah, MAME. I've never had problems, except that the pad isn't easy to make Dragon Punch motions with.
Bistro Cupid: RPG restaurant dating sim? Sold. Wait, it's only in Japanese? Bummer.
Um, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but is he saying that all us P2P infringers aren't taking RIAA's "property"?
...playing Tetris hasn't helped my test scores any!
I did indeed read the manual...after I suddenly discovered that the seamlessly installed and fully functional BitTorrent suddenly ate all my bandwidth. And pardon me, but dropping into a Windows console to download things that are hyperlinked is pretty unintuitive.
So I guess my question is: why is there no way to prevent complete 2.5/1.5 Mbps saturation when opening a .torrent link? Or more to the point: what are you doing to change this so that we have a usuable product?
Conker's Bad Fur Day. Although most of the game is based around being "adult", only the ending could really be called "mature". My jaw dropped...I had no idea Rare had it in them.
The Longest Journey. As far as I'm concerned, the last great adventure game. I bought this one to play "a little" and ended up beating it in a 23 hour marathon. There just wasn't any point where I wanted to stop.
You mean like this?
Kidding, just kidding...
Can anyone hope to stop the Bezos juggernaut? Unprofitability and prior art sure can't...
ADAM is the reason I started programming at all. We had the little SmartBASIC tape, and it'd go whirr whirr whirr, and then I'd take my pudgy little kid fingers and painstakingly copy a game out of one of the books my dad had. Then I'd fool around with changing stuff, seeing what it all did.
Then (no kidding) I upgraded to my dad's TI-72. Those two old pieces of "junk" got me where I am today.
Ah, nostalgia, the great equalizer...
NOOO! NOT MILK AND NUTS!!
...wherein a technique to save memory on older computers resulted in a massive media panic twenty years later. Oh, and it caused a couple glitches
You should get Satan as your motor.
I'd just like to say that gerbils don't get acne. And I should know. Such a discovery would, of course, rock the scientific world to its frightened little core, but I don't believe it will happen in our lifetime.
It has everything this article mentioned except wireless: portability, cheap graphics, multiplayer, and the air of dignity from my sleek black calc. It is also (IMO) the greatest version of Tetris ever made.
It has gotten me through the most boring classes and the longest waits. It doesn't eat batteries like some other TI games I could mention *coughbreakoutcough*, yet it is still endlessly fast and challenging. The two-player battle mode is perfectly balanced, with all sorts of different tactics my Chemistry buddies and I developed in high school. I would seriously consider teaching a class on Tetris Theory if someone would pay me.
So I'll leave my phone in my pocket, thank you. TI has me covered.
There is certainly no "legitmate" reason why anyone would come in at non-peak hours and reposition the monitor to a convienient viewing angle
You're right. Most people doing that at 3AM are playing games :P
Pray tell, why exactly is viewing porn considered an ethics violation at your lab?
Well, pr0n and mp3z and e-harassment etc. are against the university computer policy, especially if done on the public lab computers. Not my rules.
Face it, you're just another tech staffer who feels power in his belly and likes the taste of it too much.
Huh? I suppose technically I'm a "tech staffer", although my actual job is writing Java for geologists. I just heard about this story from friends who work the clusters here, and it amused me. And that feeling in my belly is probably steak.
Until one day he slipped up. In the smaller side labs there's really no "corner" computers that nobody can see. So that would mean using the instructor's computer at the front of the room, which face the opposite direction. Unfortunately for Mr. Pr0n, a teacher had left the overhead projector on and attached to the computer. More unfortunately, Mr. Pr0n didn't notice...his attention was elsewhere. Eventually somebody in the lab stopped giggling and retrieved a cluster worker. The worker confronted Mr. Pr0n, who stoutly denied the accusation until the overhead screen was pointed out to him.
What would a sane pr0n addict do in this situation? Fess up? Stick to their lies? Well, this guy got reeealll red in the face, and then BOLTED out of the lab.
He's not welcome here any more.
1) Microwave a piece of white bread for 10 sec.
;)
2) Place a Kraft Single on the white bread and let them sit until the brat is almost done.
3) Just before the brat is done, microwave the bread+cheese again for 10 sec.
4) Remove your makeshift bun and immediately wrap around brat.
5) Consume. w00t! Just can't beat the cheese and meat, baby!
For people like me who get sick from ramen, brat-on-bread is the best quick meal around. Unless your microwave (like mine) is powered by hydrogen fusion and can cook a 15-minute rice meal in 5 min
And to all the naysayers out there: waiting in line with fellow SW geeks is almost as fun as sitting in a packed theater with them. My friend won an original 1970s Millenium Falcon toy, with box and instructions included. Sure, opened toys are worth less, but it's a KICKIN' centerpiece. Lightsaber duels happened almost hourly, and we had great fun mocking the people who drove by to mock us. The movie is that much more beautiful when sleep-deprived and living off of Doritos and pizza.
Can you tell me which is more pathetic...a person who can take three days off of their job with no one complaining to wait in line for a movie, or a person who goes out of their way three days in a row to drive by and yell "Homo" at those first people?
Of course, in this Win-centric world none of the Media Play employees thought to put a root password on it...
My friend gave it an rm -rf * and we left the store VERY QUICKLY.
Seriously, why not just make a sequel already?
Why doesn't Blizzard provide facilities that enable these emulators to authenticate CD keys through Battle.net?
In order for us to keep our proprietary CD-key algorithms secure, we cannot allow outside servers to query for the validity of CD keys.
Now, I don't know how many people have tried this, but in at least SEVEN seperate instances, friends of mine (and me) have used Half-Life CDKeys to authenticate Starcraft and vice-versa. In fact, we've never seen a key for one that DOESN'T work on the other. Why not slap Valve with some DMCA threats, eh? Apparently they cracked your "proprietary CD-key algorithms" years ago...
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And as long as it doesn't come with a #^*%(@#^$ Navi Office Helper, I'll put my money behind them.
"Link! It looks like you're working on a resume! Would you like to know their weakness? Look! Look!"
Ok, that was lame. But not as lame as this cheap shot at Nintendo.