I realized just now that tech companies are actually delaying the digital convergence, and the profit must be staggering.
"boys, if we can delay this convergence thing a couple of years, we can sell millions of cameras, mp3 players, ebook readers, flip HD cams, we'll get to the convergence later"
Dear Sir, I have read about your terminatoes with great interest and would like to procure a bushel or two immediately for the purpose of making some killer salsa. Asta La Vista, Baby
Hi there, I too lament the lack of classic pinballs. There is a skateboard shop on 11th street just off of first avenue that has a few classic pinballs if you are in the neighborhood, but nothing like the rows of machines we'd see in big arcades. On the plus side, the flippers are nice and strong. Nothing like walking up to a great pinball machine only to find out the bumpers are busted and the flippers barely flip.
Get those CPU's working and those 5 fans cranking and it makes a pretty attractive space heater. I know that my Macpro with dual 8800GT's is in a pretty fair matchup against my 5000 btu air conditioner.
Those are awesome! There are some games that I love that don't feel right without similar controls. Robotron 2084 and Foodfight are two of the dual joystick games that come to mind. In robotron you had to frequently move one direction while shooting the opposite direction , the joysticks made this managable.
Similarly, I can't imagine playing tempest without a spinny knob.....
Prince is actually kind of awesome. Besides being talented and extremely prolific, He gamed the record release system several times, resulting in top 10 albums. At one point he included an album sale in the price of a concert ticket, on the musicology tour. Instant platinum. They changed the rules just so it couldn't be done again after that. He has gotten sort of wierd religious lately, probably where all this is coming from.
There also seems to be another aspect you forgot (like many here). Nintendo only has its game production. They don't have software or hardware sales that the other competing companies have that can balance out loss they suffer from selling their systems at a loss.
For those that are not involved in the "homebrew" scene, it is fairly easy to load a hard drive up with hundreds of dvd images and run games from homebrew usb loader. Even for the nintendo DS, there are flash ram carts that you can put boatloads of rom images on. Nintendo is getting soaked. Microsoft has found a way around this by BANNING anyone from live that has mods. On nintendo platforms, there is no penalty. you can pirate and the main downside is you can't perform system updates as they are released (bugfixes at this point, there aren't many new features)
unless you have some kind of special phone that we don't know about, what is to keep your text messages from being logged elsewhere. every phone number that you call / calls you is routinely recorded as part of the billing process. These can be social engineered pretty easily. So you are only protecting yourself from the person that stole/finds your phone if you lost it.
I was a tender aged elementary school kid interested in computers in the late 70's and early 80's. Before my dad bought a trash 80, I would go to Lawrence Hall of Science and rent time by the hour on Commodore PET's and such. One day this all changed when a row of CDC Plato Terminals showed up.
These things were awesome, they were networked, there were social aspects, they had touch sensitive screens, and I was just a kid, I wasn't even getting into the higher functions. This was years before wizardry, and there were some great dungeon crawling games on the Plato network, One was called Mines of Moria, the other was called 0Krozair (I think many programs had a zero in the front for some CDC reason.) I was literally hooked on 0krozair, and even did my first cracking on there. I discovered some user was levelling up characters with the simple name of a string of x's. The password was always x.
I would try to steal a character every Saturday Morning.
Well, I was thinking about exactly this problem, and I think I have come up with a pretty good solution. When things get a little too salty, we can spray some sweetened water up there to sweeten things up a bit.
Then when things are sweet enough we can switch back to salt water again for a while. Makes sense.
Pfft. You'll be back. Just try digg or reddit for a month. The attention whores and perpetual 14 year olds will have you running for the door. You will soon learn to love our recycled jokes and memes and become one of us. one of us one of us one of us
This freaking sucks. A phone that is 2 years old is EOL? Apple is insane with the upgrade profits. Case in point minidisplay port on all new laptops that you can't use
your existing ACD with unless you buy a $29 converter. Lets just call that $1.00 of manufacturing costs, and $28 dollars of pure profit, times how many ACD's they have already sold. Oh yeah, they used to give adaptors away with laptops (these are premium price points, reminder). I estimate apple has made at least 10 million dollars from display adaptors alone.
I dislike the HAHA HEY DUDE tone of blogs masquerading as news sites. Why should any of us be surprised, there are no ethics on these psuedo journalism sites.
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"Then I saw those specs and just felt disgusted."
I realized just now that tech companies are actually delaying the digital convergence, and the profit must be staggering.
"boys, if we can delay this convergence thing a couple of years, we can sell millions of cameras, mp3 players, ebook readers, flip HD cams,
we'll get to the convergence later"
Somehow this is incredibly deep..
are they anything like terminatoes?
Dear Sir,
I have read about your terminatoes with
great interest and would like to procure a bushel
or two immediately for the purpose of making some
killer salsa.
Asta La Vista,
Baby
Hi there,
I too lament the lack of classic pinballs. There is a skateboard shop on 11th street just off of first avenue that has a few classic
pinballs if you are in the neighborhood, but nothing like the rows of machines we'd see in big arcades. On the plus side, the flippers
are nice and strong. Nothing like walking up to a great pinball machine only to find out the bumpers are busted and the flippers barely flip.
Stop reading all those 80's text files on that commodore 64 there buddy, or I'll blow 2600 hz on you.
The DSi Flash Carts contain an actual poriton of a copyrighted rom that contains an exploit.
How legit is that?
Get those CPU's working and those 5 fans cranking and it makes a pretty attractive space heater.
I know that my Macpro with dual 8800GT's is in a pretty fair matchup against my 5000 btu air conditioner.
Those are awesome! There are some games that I love that don't feel right without similar controls.
Robotron 2084 and Foodfight are two of the dual joystick games that come to mind. In robotron
you had to frequently move one direction while shooting the opposite direction , the joysticks made
this managable.
Similarly, I can't imagine playing tempest without a spinny knob.....
Prince is actually kind of awesome. Besides being talented and extremely prolific, He gamed the record release system several times, resulting in top 10 albums. At one point he included an album sale in the price of a concert ticket, on the musicology tour. Instant platinum. They changed the rules just so it couldn't be done again after that. He has gotten sort of wierd religious lately, probably where all this is coming from.
a way to explain difficult concepts in an easy way: a gift necessary in case the of Magento.
Sorry buddy, ya lost me right there.... what does that even mean?
There also seems to be another aspect you forgot (like many here). Nintendo only has its game production. They don't have software or hardware sales that the other competing companies have that can balance out loss they suffer from selling their systems at a loss.
For those that are not involved in the "homebrew" scene, it is fairly easy to load a hard drive up with hundreds of dvd images and run games from homebrew usb loader.
Even for the nintendo DS, there are flash ram carts that you can put boatloads of rom images on.
Nintendo is getting soaked. Microsoft has found a way around this by BANNING anyone from live that has mods.
On nintendo platforms, there is no penalty. you can pirate and the main downside is you can't perform system updates as they are released (bugfixes at this point, there aren't many new features)
Hence "the Sneaky" part of your name.....
unless you have some kind of special phone that we don't know about, what is to keep your text messages from being logged elsewhere. every phone number that you call / calls you is routinely recorded as part of the billing process.
These can be social engineered pretty easily. So you are only protecting yourself from the person that stole/finds your phone if you lost it.
Freaking mod this guy up for understanding how to lie with statistics!
They both also sport the flux capacitor requiring 1.21 gigawatts.
I was a tender aged elementary school kid interested in computers in the late 70's and early 80's.
Before my dad bought a trash 80, I would go to Lawrence Hall of Science and rent time by the
hour on Commodore PET's and such. One day this all changed when a row of CDC Plato Terminals showed up.
These things were awesome, they were networked, there were social aspects, they had touch sensitive screens,
and I was just a kid, I wasn't even getting into the higher functions. This was years before wizardry, and there were some great dungeon crawling games on the Plato network,
One was called Mines of Moria, the other was called 0Krozair (I think many programs had a zero in the front
for some CDC reason.) I was literally hooked on 0krozair, and even did my first cracking on there.
I discovered some user was levelling up characters with the simple name of a string of x's. The password was always x.
I would try to steal a character every Saturday Morning.
Yes, how can you NOT play once you see it?
Well, I was thinking about exactly this problem, and I think I have come up with a pretty good solution.
When things get a little too salty, we can spray some sweetened water up there to sweeten things up a bit.
Then when things are sweet enough we can switch back to salt water again for a while. Makes sense.
Pfft. You'll be back. Just try digg or reddit for a month. The attention whores and perpetual 14 year olds will
have you running for the door. You will soon learn to love our recycled jokes and memes and become one of us.
one of us
one of us
one of us
What if I don't want to travel 5,000 miles everyday to see how all my friends are?
Just use the transporter?
This freaking sucks. A phone that is 2 years old is EOL? Apple is insane with the upgrade profits. Case in point minidisplay port on all new laptops that you can't use
your existing ACD with unless you buy a $29 converter. Lets just call that $1.00 of manufacturing costs, and $28 dollars of pure profit, times how many ACD's they have
already sold. Oh yeah, they used to give adaptors away with laptops (these are premium price points, reminder). I estimate apple has made at least 10 million dollars
from display adaptors alone.
I dislike the HAHA HEY DUDE tone of blogs masquerading as news sites.
Why should any of us be surprised, there are no ethics on these psuedo
journalism sites.
Wait, this WASN'T a setup ?
dude, you are feeding a troll. stop.
Observe the following Young Jeezy Lyrics:
I used to get bored, count 20's for practice
Paper therapy, we let the money relax us