I refuse to buy from anyone that won't accept a money order. Even if it's something I really need, I'll wait until I come across someone who will accept other payments besides PayPal. I'll send a message to someone who doesn't have Paypal as an only option listed and ask them if money orders are ok. Usually, the seller cheerfully accepts the MO and will give me his snail mail address. But those that don't, I just tell them, "Your loss", and move on to a seller that will.
I was ripped off for $750 from Paypal seven years ago, and have been waiting for vindication ever since.
I hope this succeeds. I really do. Then they can roll out this idea in larger markets and really piss people off, and hasten their demise. Paypal needs to die.
In response to everything you've said here, I say... perhaps.
Perhaps, if you're one to buy into the marketing of said companies, and rely on that marketing to make your decisions about what you're going to buy.
The problem is, not many people are willing to think for themselves and actually do a little research before spending their money. They rely on cheap, warm and fuzzy ads. Not to mention, they also rely on their almost primal intuition to buy things to impress people that they hate, or to make up for their shortcomings as humans by propping themselves up with their image purchasing. To this day, I'll never understand how people fall for that crap... Apple ads included.
But then again, I'm thankful that people fall for that crap, as it's important to my livelihood. Ironic, eh?
"Nolan was part of the original video game collapse. It was partly his fault for letting the really dumb people run Atari."
On this point, I will disagree with you. Unless you think that selling the company to Warner in '77 and then Warner's management bringing in the MBAs that ruined the company is truly his fault. He was long gone by the time Kassar and his idiot marketing drones flushed the company and , by proxy, the entire industry, until Nintendo came along and revived it.
Nolan is founder and CEO of uWink. From their website:
"uWink, Inc. (OTCBB: UWNK) is a digital entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California that develops interactive entertainment software and platforms for restaurants, bars, and mobile devices. Led by entertainment and restaurant visionary Nolan Bushnell, founder and former CEO of Atari (NasdaqNM: ATAR) and Chuck E. Cheese (NYSE: CEC), uWink is currently building a new entertainment dining experience called uWink Bistro (working title) which leverages uWink's proprietary network and entertainment software, including the uWink Game Library.
uWink is currently building a new entertainment dining experience called uWink Bistro which leverages uWink's proprietary network and entertainment software, including the uWink Game Library."
There's a certain feel to every guitarist worth their salt. Every player has a certain way that they "attack" the instrument, and the way a person presses on the strings, bends notes, cranks on the neck, picks the notes, hammers and pulls off of strings, slides up and down the neck, etc.- all of these affect the feel of the playing. I don't think a robot would EVER be able to synthesize such feel. Take Stevie Ray Vaughn, for instance. I was fortunate to see him play when he was still alive. See him play three notes of a solo, look up, and then let out a yowl of attack before plunging into the rest of the solo, sent chills down my spine. I don't think Threepeo with a strat could EVER have that effect.
Perhaps the "typical" pop music listener, into such parts of the song as the vocals and the beat, might not care about such things (and believe me, I'm not trying to pass any judgement on musical tastes here), and it might be in this area that a geetar-pickin' robot might work well. But to someone who can listen to a song and grasp the feel of each part of it, there is no substitute for the real thing.
Disclaimer: if I sound like some kind of elitist musical snob, it is not my intention at all. Sorry.
If I happen to build an arcade cabinet witha control panel, and house a PC in it, and sell it on eBay...
THERE ISN'T ONE GODDAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. Just TRY to sue me and I'll own your company.
Have a nice day,
Kee
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Next Generation Magazine made many mentions of the Pippin. I could dig out my issues to find out exactly how many, but I do remember quite a few. Then it just sort of disappeared. Considering that it came out at a time that Michael Spindler was running the company, it's not surprising. The Pippin was just another sad example of poor marketing on Apple's part. I do find it interesting that none of the many books about Apple ever mention it...
Forensic Files is another great show. I guess these types of shows, while still entertaining, cater to those who prefer their gore with a little more grey matter:)
CSI isn't too bad, but compared to ogrish.com, "it ain't shit":)
Another great example of the brand-retaining travesty is Atari. Now tell me this: do you still feel the same warm and fuzzy feeling about Atari that you felt playing Tempest when you play something like SSX Tricky? Hell, the Atari name was soiled when the Tramiels bought the consumer division and rammed it right into the ground. I'm glad Atari Games (arcade division) still existed as a separate company and continued to put out some great original games.
Of course, looking at the picture of that cobbled together monster you called "The Ms. Gorf Development System", I can see how that could be difficult:)
The DVP642 won't read IDX + SUB subtitles either. Nor does it fast-forward or reverse to quickly (8x max). Other than these minor problems, I love my DVP642.
Have you tried a firmware update? I've been meaning to do this with my dvp642, but haven't gotten around to it yet (playing around with my "special" Xbox:) ). Maybe that will help with your divx4 problem. I think it would also fix the IDX + SUB problem.
Atari Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back Multigame
Tempest/Vortex/Aliens Multigame
Sega Vector Multigame (Star Trek, Space Fury, Tac/Scan, Eliminator, Zektor)
Williams Multigame (Robotron, Defender, Joust, Stargate, Splat!, Bubbles)
Q*Bert Multigame (Q*Bert, FHMC Q*Bert, Q*Bert's Qubes): http://www.multigame.com/KITS.HTM
There's a multi-Pacman PCB out there somewhere, but I'm not sure who makes them anymore. I know twobits.com used to sell one, as did multigame.com. But there was some legal problems with Namco that led to them disappearing.
The real Atari was Atari Games, which was the coin-op division spun off into a different company when Tramiel "bought" Atari Corporation (then ran it into the ground). Atari was started as a coin-op company, and they died as a coin-op company (in 1998). Everything else was, and is, bastardized crap.
The REAL Atari died in 2003 when Midway closed the Milpitas offices. The REAL Atari has ALWAYS been coinop. It started coinop, it died coinop. Infogrammes is just a software company using the brand to sell games.
You confuse the right of corporations to exist with Corporatism, which is the blending of state and corporate control of the people.
Corporations are public entities, formed by the people, and owned BY the people, to do the people's bidding. This changed when the courts decided that "corporations are people too" and gave them the same rights afforded to citizens. To add insult to injury, Reagan decided early in his first term to ignore the Sherman Antitrust Act. Merger Mania ensued, and the companies became monoliths that wield tremendous power with the assets they hold. They started buying off politicians, and one example of the result is the action taken today.
I have no problem with the rights of corporations to exist and make a profit. But they should NOT have the same rights as the citizens of this country. The effect of this travesty is the growing Corporatist influence in the government today. This is Fascism in its classical definition.
Nice strawman there, AC. Typical of someone with no refutation of the facts.
The cartels are doing just fine with their lawsuits against sharers. This move just shows that, with a few dollars in the right place, government can be bought. It's called Corporatism, or, in it's classical sense, Fascism.
I don't think the government should be doing the bidding of the movie and music cartels, especially since this is a civil matter . That's one sign of the emerging corporatist state that the US is slowly devolving into.
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I refuse to buy from anyone that won't accept a money order. Even if it's something I really need, I'll wait until I come across someone who will accept other payments besides PayPal. I'll send a message to someone who doesn't have Paypal as an only option listed and ask them if money orders are ok. Usually, the seller cheerfully accepts the MO and will give me his snail mail address. But those that don't, I just tell them, "Your loss", and move on to a seller that will.
I was ripped off for $750 from Paypal seven years ago, and have been waiting for vindication ever since.
I hope this succeeds. I really do. Then they can roll out this idea in larger markets and really piss people off, and hasten their demise. Paypal needs to die.
In response to everything you've said here, I say... perhaps.
Perhaps, if you're one to buy into the marketing of said companies, and rely on that marketing to make your decisions about what you're going to buy.
The problem is, not many people are willing to think for themselves and actually do a little research before spending their money. They rely on cheap, warm and fuzzy ads. Not to mention, they also rely on their almost primal intuition to buy things to impress people that they hate, or to make up for their shortcomings as humans by propping themselves up with their image purchasing. To this day, I'll never understand how people fall for that crap... Apple ads included.
But then again, I'm thankful that people fall for that crap, as it's important to my livelihood. Ironic, eh?
"Nolan was part of the original video game collapse. It was partly his fault for letting the really dumb people run Atari."
On this point, I will disagree with you. Unless you think that selling the company to Warner in '77 and then Warner's management bringing in the MBAs that ruined the company is truly his fault. He was long gone by the time Kassar and his idiot marketing drones flushed the company and , by proxy, the entire industry, until Nintendo came along and revived it.
Wow... bitter over loss of political power much?
Nolan is founder and CEO of uWink. From their website:
:)
"uWink, Inc. (OTCBB: UWNK) is a digital entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California that develops interactive entertainment software and platforms for restaurants, bars, and mobile devices. Led by entertainment and restaurant visionary Nolan Bushnell, founder and former CEO of Atari (NasdaqNM: ATAR) and Chuck E. Cheese (NYSE: CEC), uWink is currently building a new entertainment dining experience called uWink Bistro (working title) which leverages uWink's proprietary network and entertainment software, including the uWink Game Library.
uWink is currently building a new entertainment dining experience called uWink Bistro which leverages uWink's proprietary network and entertainment software, including the uWink Game Library."
Hope that helps
There's a certain feel to every guitarist worth their salt. Every player has a certain way that they "attack" the instrument, and the way a person presses on the strings, bends notes, cranks on the neck, picks the notes, hammers and pulls off of strings, slides up and down the neck, etc.- all of these affect the feel of the playing. I don't think a robot would EVER be able to synthesize such feel. Take Stevie Ray Vaughn, for instance. I was fortunate to see him play when he was still alive. See him play three notes of a solo, look up, and then let out a yowl of attack before plunging into the rest of the solo, sent chills down my spine. I don't think Threepeo with a strat could EVER have that effect.
Perhaps the "typical" pop music listener, into such parts of the song as the vocals and the beat, might not care about such things (and believe me, I'm not trying to pass any judgement on musical tastes here), and it might be in this area that a geetar-pickin' robot might work well. But to someone who can listen to a song and grasp the feel of each part of it, there is no substitute for the real thing.
Disclaimer: if I sound like some kind of elitist musical snob, it is not my intention at all. Sorry.
You forgot:
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"You're new here, aren't you?"
If I happen to build an arcade cabinet witha control panel, and house a PC in it, and sell it on eBay...
THERE ISN'T ONE GODDAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. Just TRY to sue me and I'll own your company.
Have a nice day,
Kee
Next Generation Magazine made many mentions of the Pippin. I could dig out my issues to find out exactly how many, but I do remember quite a few. Then it just sort of disappeared. Considering that it came out at a time that Michael Spindler was running the company, it's not surprising. The Pippin was just another sad example of poor marketing on Apple's part. I do find it interesting that none of the many books about Apple ever mention it...
Truly spoken like someone who has never experienced Sirius...
Forensic Files is another great show. I guess these types of shows, while still entertaining, cater to those who prefer their gore with a little more grey matter :)
:)
CSI isn't too bad, but compared to ogrish.com, "it ain't shit"
Good show, old sod.
Another great example of the brand-retaining travesty is Atari. Now tell me this: do you still feel the same warm and fuzzy feeling about Atari that you felt playing Tempest when you play something like SSX Tricky? Hell, the Atari name was soiled when the Tramiels bought the consumer division and rammed it right into the ground. I'm glad Atari Games (arcade division) still existed as a separate company and continued to put out some great original games.
Yes!
:)
Of course, looking at the picture of that cobbled together monster you called "The Ms. Gorf Development System", I can see how that could be difficult
...but they no longer accept Mastercard credit/debit cards. It's a shame, because I actually preferred them to Paypal.
The DVP642 won't read IDX + SUB subtitles either. Nor does it fast-forward or reverse to quickly (8x max). Other than these minor problems, I love my DVP642.
:) ). Maybe that will help with your divx4 problem. I think it would also fix the IDX + SUB problem.
Have you tried a firmware update? I've been meaning to do this with my dvp642, but haven't gotten around to it yet (playing around with my "special" Xbox
Zektor Vector Generator (a PCI board that plays vector arcade games through a real vector monitor): http://www.zektor.com/zvg/
Atari 2600 supercart, Colecovision hard drive controller: http://www.widel.com/
Double Donkey Kong: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?action =link&sku=DDKUP
. htm
Galaxian Multigame: http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.coates/multigame3
Atari Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back Multigame
Tempest/Vortex/Aliens Multigame
Sega Vector Multigame (Star Trek, Space Fury, Tac/Scan, Eliminator, Zektor)
Williams Multigame (Robotron, Defender, Joust, Stargate, Splat!, Bubbles)
Q*Bert Multigame (Q*Bert, FHMC Q*Bert, Q*Bert's Qubes): http://www.multigame.com/KITS.HTM
There's a multi-Pacman PCB out there somewhere, but I'm not sure who makes them anymore. I know twobits.com used to sell one, as did multigame.com. But there was some legal problems with Namco that led to them disappearing.
" Atari offically died when the Tramiel family killed it with the Jaguar..."
I disagree. Atari officially died in 1998, when Atari Games made their last arcade game (San Francisco Rush 2049).
The company called Atari Corporation was just a bastardized version of the original company. Atari Games, the coin-op spin-off, was the TRUE Atari.
Atari started as a coin-op company, and they died as such.
The real Atari was Atari Games, which was the coin-op division spun off into a different company when Tramiel "bought" Atari Corporation (then ran it into the ground). Atari was started as a coin-op company, and they died as a coin-op company (in 1998). Everything else was, and is, bastardized crap.
The REAL Atari died in 2003 when Midway closed the Milpitas offices. The REAL Atari has ALWAYS been coinop. It started coinop, it died coinop. Infogrammes is just a software company using the brand to sell games.
You confuse the right of corporations to exist with Corporatism, which is the blending of state and corporate control of the people.
Corporations are public entities, formed by the people, and owned BY the people, to do the people's bidding. This changed when the courts decided that "corporations are people too" and gave them the same rights afforded to citizens. To add insult to injury, Reagan decided early in his first term to ignore the Sherman Antitrust Act. Merger Mania ensued, and the companies became monoliths that wield tremendous power with the assets they hold. They started buying off politicians, and one example of the result is the action taken today.
I have no problem with the rights of corporations to exist and make a profit. But they should NOT have the same rights as the citizens of this country. The effect of this travesty is the growing Corporatist influence in the government today. This is Fascism in its classical definition.
Nice strawman there, AC. Typical of someone with no refutation of the facts. The cartels are doing just fine with their lawsuits against sharers. This move just shows that, with a few dollars in the right place, government can be bought. It's called Corporatism, or, in it's classical sense, Fascism.
I don't think the government should be doing the bidding of the movie and music cartels, especially since this is a civil matter . That's one sign of the emerging corporatist state that the US is slowly devolving into.
The DOJ should saty out of what is clearly a civil matter. Now we have the government doing the bidding of the music and movie cartels.
Corporatism is slowly taking over the USA. I just hope we still have time to stop its onslaught.
... like go after terrorists?