I agree wholeheartedly. It would be cool if they could build an RFID crown so that if WANT to be tracked when traveling to a foreign country (oh, maybe Iraq) they might be able to actually find where you are.... are RFID chips transmissive at all? Insurance companies could offer you better rates for having an implant even... it would be great...
Also.. If you could put more information in them... say about a 1gb worth, you could store copies of passports, credit-cards, etc. inside just in case your real-world paper copies got lost or stolen... hell, you could keep the serial numbers to travellers cheques in there... it COULD BE AWESOME!!!!
This might seem a bit incriminating, but... Many trackers are starting to go private because of leeching. (suprnova.org has started doing this on some.torrents).
Some trackers will auto-ban your IP if your over-all ratio is less that 1:1 or 2:1. In some cases users themselves can elect to have an IP banned if they find a leech.
This is good as far as the private tracker goes, because whatever group running it can keep file distribution among its members quite clean, and on topic. For example mp3's are o.k. but warez are bad. or mp3's are o.k. but only if they're 320Kbps/VBR.
I personally use bittorrent as my try-before-you-buy CD purchasing station. I get an album, if I listen to it, if I like it, I buy it. If I don't it gets deleted.
I don't really understand why people would want to download movies though, because image quality means a lot to me. I guess it has to do with either being cheap, or poor. Or possibly for the same reason I stated above.
The only time i've used bittorrent "legitimately" was to download redhat 9, and that sucked so bad I switched to FTP.
If you're getting crappy download speeds and a resonable number of people are connected to the same torrent, maybe you should check your firewall settings.
If you could make it print the characters in reverse it'd be awesome!
My first messages would be:
"Put Down The Phone And Drive" "Eat when you get home!" "I think you've eaten enough already" "Watch TV when you get home." "Nice stereo. Turn it down." "POLICE" "OMG WTF LOL"
Have your wife find a hobby. If she games also, great! Otherwise when you get home from work talk with her about her day If your wife cooks, help her. If that means loading up the dishes and she's cool with just that, fine. Play your game for a couple of hours per night. Not every night. Limit your time spent gaming, make a schedule. She might want to read a book, go for a walk, whatever.
It's not like you have to spend ALL your free time with her, but she'll still like to know that you're there and that you think about her.
You might not be get a great score in Unreal Tournament 2004, but you'll win at the game that really matters.
Xingtone is awesome. Here's how to upload your OWN TONES without paying for XINGTONE:
1. start XINGTONE. 2. have your pre-trimmed.wav or mp3 ready. 3. navigate to the xingtone app directory 4. overwrite a demo tone with your new sound (keep the name the same). 5. upload.
Congratulations. You are t3h winnar!
Now you can finally have the guitar intro to "Where is my mind" by the Pixies, instead of "In Da Club" by 50-Cent. Treknerds can make their phone sound like a tricorder, or get beamed up everytime their phone rings.. whoopee!
Why a freehack? -- The audio quality is crappier than 8-bit audio, you may also have normalization problems (too loud/soft). Their demo is just 3 canned sounds that are decompressed onto your hardrive when the app is started, and removed upon app-shutdown. The app is useful, but not worth $15. Not to mention the fact that many people have to pay additional $$ to their mobile service provider per byte/kb of data transferred...
scam.
Remember: We only use recordable devices because of human playback limitations.
makes me wonder though... Seems to open the door for a true broadcastable computer virus. I mean, if you can can get sound out, and it means something, why not put instruction-filled sound in, overriding currently queued instructions...
I've finally figured out how Cobra Commander is able to appear on ALL televisions at once before revealing his plans to take over the world!
I was in an accident when I was a early teen, lost 3 of my front teeth, I've been using a Partial-Plate since then (i'm 30 now).
I've researched having implants done, it's quite expensive, and also destructive to your mouth, the process requires filing/drilling of the bone in your mouth in order to insert titanium seats that will then be built-on and capped with false teeth. As someone who's been to the dentist a lot, this prospect is not the most desirable.
BUT, Since I've heard of the work being done with stem-cells, I've always wondered why they've not tried teeth! What's inspiring about this process is:
It's your OWN stem cells. Your Source-Code. No rejection.
It's 100% natural, The teeth will continue to behave like real teeth and will wear and change shape along with the rest in your mouth.
No more fooling with gooey-glop to keep your teeth in.
No longer afraid to smile "too big" for fear someone might notice that the some of the teeth in your grill don't quite match.
No fear of flying teeth when you laugh.
Not having to pull out your teeth when you through the metaldetector at the airport. (they got these metal wires in there)
Not having to excuse yourself from a restaraunt dinner table because some piece of herb is stuck between the roof of your mouth and your partial.
being able to taste the full-range of food flavors.
No more headaches (literally) caused by ill-fitting mouth-gear.
I would gladly volunteer for this. The promise of positive results is just too great.
Yeah, you're right, A.C. It's been awhile since i've played.:-) I may not have bought the game if i could have played a demo first... In the basement, with the X-Files games...
Allright. Fairlight has been around since C=64 days. The earliest Class release I can recall is Quake (it even had it's own installer with chip-tunes built in).
Is UCF dead too? how about RiSCiSO?
The crap thing really is going to be that all good the no-cd cracks/patches will be gone.
I still buy games from the store. And to be honest, I always install the game, then go searching for a patch/cracktool so I can put my originals back in the box, and on the shelf.
I paid for Windows XP Professional, but got a keygen anyway so i'd still have my original box/key packed away safely. Call me wierd.
If you lose your Everquest registration key, is EA going to give you a replacement so you can install? hell no, you've got to go buy a new copy, or download a keygen...
I actively search the $10 and under bins at Best Buy/Brandsmart for games that I wanted to play but just felt they cost to much. Case in Point --> Enter the Matrix. I bought ETM the day it came out. (The same day Reloaded came out in the Theatres). It cost me $50. 2 weeks later it was down to $39.99. 2 *MONTHS* later and it's a fucking $20 game!
HA HA HA HA. O.k. get this. I work for um "a company". This company fired 90% of it's California/North Carolina app-dev staff to outsource to India. After that happened, someone decided to consolidate all the outer-region data centers (one @ each location) to a centralized location in the mid-west. Now keep in mind, this company is absofuckinglutly nuts about security. and for every in & out point, switch & router, there is a firewall. and not just 1 firewall, you've got a firewall on BOTH SIDES of the router. So, Habeeb Haardtopronouncesurname wants to connect to the CVS machines to check in his code he's been busting out on his box in Hyderabad. Only it takes him HOURS. So, we decide hey, we'll buy VMware so that way they can keep both the development & production systems on the same network, speeding up transfer times and everything, right? WRONG. each developer decides that have to have all their regular DESKTOP apps inside the VM. Running Lotus Notes. In a VM. Over the INTERNET. Through a VPN connection. To INDIA.
BRAVE.
It seems that we wouldn't have had to go through ANY of this "Jazz". The company could have kept 50% or greater of it's u.s. dev staff, offered to relocate them to the midwest (still CHEAPER than EITHER coast) and saved so much effort.
daily 1.5hour long conference calls to India has GOT to be expensive.
anyway. American IT is fucked. When you trade your intelligence away for a quick buck, you'll lose your smart people, because they'll go somewhere where they're needed.
You are NOT a geek just because you own a computer.
You're less of a geek for owning a Mac. (shut up)
You are NOT a geek because you watch the Discovery channel, listen to NPR, or actually read books.
If you have to call yourself one, you probably aren't.
Nobody wants/should want to be a stereotype. Even if it connotes something "cool".
I remember watching the last Academy Awards pre-show runway fashion extrava-gahn-zah,(with my wife) and some stupid "interviewer" kept calling herself a "(insert lame t.v. show name here) - GEEK".
My wife (a mathemetician) and I turned to each other saying "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
Besides. XM beat the hell out of protracker mods. 1.).XM is 16-bit, 48Khz..mod is 8-bit. 2.).XM supports loop-panning, so that a loop can play forward and reverse. You could even set loop points in the sample so that you could repeat a section of a one shot loop for fade-out. 3.).XM supports volume-envelope & stereo panning controls in a sample. 4.) Stereo output from a single track. (old.mods only had 4-tracks, and stereo was separated) 5.) Programmable Stereo Panning effects -- you could make sounds do circles around your head! 6.) Retriggering, you could retrigger a snare-drum and make it sound like a high-voltage spark-emitter. 7.) 32 TRACKS!
I used to track mods on the Amiga (protracker) and PC (Fast Tracker2). It was a fairly common occurence for people to load text/image files into songs as a playable instrument within a music module. You could then transfer the module (which contains both the instrument samples & the pointers to the coded music (it's all addressed through HEX!)) and then extract the datafile (save instrument as...) then view it in your favorite image viewer or text editor....
FYI: Data files as instruments do not really sound as cool as you'd think though. If the file has header info, that's where you'd find the most variety and interesting sounds...
I always thought "Sparc" was a cool name. but it would be best as a middle name. When the kid decides to become some sort of actor, scientist, or rock star, he could abbreviate his name to V.Sparc or G.Sparc..
somehow naming your kid after a Microcontroller might be interesting... maybe HC11 or something.
Um. You must have owned an AMIGA also. What you're referring to was quite an issue on the AMIGA, either timing your graphics/music to it's CIA (complex interface adapter) chips or VBI (vertical blanking interval) timing in the FAT AGNUS animation co-processor.
There were always hacks for the Amiga that allowed you to alter the timing for things like graphics, or in most common cases, the playing of music modules (MODS).
The Motorola MC68000 was a comparitivly fast cpu amongst it's peers (IIRC the MAC LCII & the Atari ST had this too), HOWEVER, the CPU was much slower that what was needed in the Amiga, and why job-specific custom chips were created.. but I digress...
Later revisions of the Amiga 500 included a Motorola MC68010 cpu which was electrically compatible with the MC68k, and was a reasonable replacement.. It ran at something like 11Mhz...
So... You should be able to do that to the Megadrive/Genesis also, without any real problems.
I remember specifically playing Altered Beast, and each time you'd take on the 2nd level boss (the wierd octo-eye-puss thing) and it would get slow.. man that sucked.
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I agree wholeheartedly. It would be cool if they could build an RFID crown so that if WANT to be tracked when traveling to a foreign country (oh, maybe Iraq) they might be able to actually find where you are.... are RFID chips transmissive at all? Insurance companies could offer you better rates for having an implant even... it would be great...
Also.. If you could put more information in them... say about a 1gb worth, you could store copies of passports, credit-cards, etc. inside just in case your real-world paper copies got lost or stolen... hell, you could keep the serial numbers to travellers cheques in there... it COULD BE AWESOME!!!!
Am I the only one to read the headline as "Do You Thrive on Crack or Pressure?"
This might seem a bit incriminating, but... .torrents).
Many trackers are starting to go private because of leeching. (suprnova.org has started doing this on some
Some trackers will auto-ban your IP if your over-all ratio is less that 1:1 or 2:1. In some cases users themselves can elect to have an IP banned if they find a leech.
This is good as far as the private tracker goes, because whatever group running it can keep file distribution among its members quite clean, and on topic. For example mp3's are o.k. but warez are bad. or mp3's are o.k. but only if they're 320Kbps/VBR.
I personally use bittorrent as my try-before-you-buy CD purchasing station. I get an album, if I listen to it, if I like it, I buy it. If I don't it gets deleted.
I don't really understand why people would want to download movies though, because image quality means a lot to me. I guess it has to do with either being cheap, or poor. Or possibly for the same reason I stated above.
The only time i've used bittorrent "legitimately" was to download redhat 9, and that sucked so bad I switched to FTP.
If you're getting crappy download speeds and a resonable number of people are connected to the same torrent, maybe you should check your firewall settings.
how about TAR? CPIO?
actually, no. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic.
I think I've just got a case of "The Stupids".
Maybe I should read it again.
How the fuck do i get a "-1 Redundant" when i'm the first post-er to ask if the lead-in article was sarcasm or not?
Is this sarcasm?
I'll bite. However I'll prolly get killed for this one..
"Nigri-please?!"
If you could make it print the characters in reverse it'd be awesome!
My first messages would be:
"Put Down The Phone And Drive"
"Eat when you get home!"
"I think you've eaten enough already"
"Watch TV when you get home."
"Nice stereo. Turn it down."
"POLICE"
"OMG WTF LOL"
Have your wife find a hobby. If she games also, great! Otherwise when you get home from work talk with her about her day If your wife cooks, help her. If that means loading up the dishes and she's cool with just that, fine. Play your game for a couple of hours per night. Not every night. Limit your time spent gaming, make a schedule. She might want to read a book, go for a walk, whatever.
It's not like you have to spend ALL your free time with her, but she'll still like to know that you're there and that you think about her.
You might not be get a great score in Unreal Tournament 2004, but you'll win at the game that really matters.
[jrockway said:]There weren't really and HD-based MP3 players before the iPod
What are you? Nuts?
Archosanyone? Since I remember these coming out in mid 2000, so sorry, you lose. Thanks for playing.
Creative had already had their Nomad out before the iPOD as well. Everybody else was doing chip-based mp3.
NOT TROLLING -- I'M JUST SICK OF THE "MAC DID IT FIRST" CROWD.
You guys are worse than AMIGA fans.
Xingtone is awesome.
.wav or mp3 ready.
Here's how to upload your OWN TONES without paying for XINGTONE:
1. start XINGTONE.
2. have your pre-trimmed
3. navigate to the xingtone app directory
4. overwrite a demo tone with your new sound (keep the name the same).
5. upload.
Congratulations. You are t3h winnar!
Now you can finally have the guitar intro to "Where is my mind" by the Pixies, instead of "In Da Club" by 50-Cent. Treknerds can make their phone sound like a tricorder, or get beamed up everytime their phone rings.. whoopee!
Why a freehack? -- The audio quality is crappier than 8-bit audio, you may also have normalization problems (too loud/soft). Their demo is just 3 canned sounds that are decompressed onto your hardrive when the app is started, and removed upon app-shutdown. The app is useful, but not worth $15. Not to mention the fact that many people have to pay additional $$ to their mobile service provider per byte/kb of data transferred...
scam.
Remember: We only use recordable devices because of human playback limitations.
>brain pop
it's like Van Eck, only scarier.
makes me wonder though...
Seems to open the door for a true broadcastable computer virus.
I mean, if you can can get sound out, and it means something, why not put instruction-filled sound in, overriding currently queued instructions...
I've finally figured out how Cobra Commander is able to appear on ALL televisions at once before revealing his plans to take over the world!
I've researched having implants done, it's quite expensive, and also destructive to your mouth, the process requires filing/drilling of the bone in your mouth in order to insert titanium seats that will then be built-on and capped with false teeth. As someone who's been to the dentist a lot, this prospect is not the most desirable.
BUT, Since I've heard of the work being done with stem-cells, I've always wondered why they've not tried teeth! What's inspiring about this process is:
- It's your OWN stem cells. Your Source-Code. No rejection.
- It's 100% natural, The teeth will continue to behave like real teeth and will wear and change shape along with the rest in your mouth.
- No more fooling with gooey-glop to keep your teeth in.
- No longer afraid to smile "too big" for fear someone might notice that the some of the teeth in your grill don't quite match.
- No fear of flying teeth when you laugh.
- Not having to pull out your teeth when you through the metaldetector at the airport. (they got these metal wires in there)
- Not having to excuse yourself from a restaraunt dinner table because some piece of herb is stuck between the roof of your mouth and your partial.
- being able to taste the full-range of food flavors.
- No more headaches (literally) caused by ill-fitting mouth-gear.
I would gladly volunteer for this. The promise of positive results is just too great.Computers are *TOOLS* people, move along.
Yeah, you're right, A.C. It's been awhile since i've played. :-) I may not have bought the game if i could have played a demo first... In the basement, with the X-Files games...
--Phy.
Allright.
Fairlight has been around since C=64 days.
The earliest Class release I can recall is Quake (it even had it's own installer with chip-tunes built in).
Is UCF dead too? how about RiSCiSO?
The crap thing really is going to be that all good the no-cd cracks/patches will be gone.
I still buy games from the store. And to be honest, I always install the game, then go searching for a patch/cracktool so I can put my originals back in the box, and on the shelf.
I paid for Windows XP Professional, but got a keygen anyway so i'd still have my original box/key packed away safely. Call me wierd.
If you lose your Everquest registration key, is EA going to give you a replacement so you can install? hell no, you've got to go buy a new copy, or download a keygen...
I actively search the $10 and under bins at Best Buy/Brandsmart for games that I wanted to play but just felt they cost to much. Case in Point --> Enter the Matrix.
I bought ETM the day it came out. (The same day Reloaded came out in the Theatres). It cost me $50. 2 weeks later it was down to $39.99. 2 *MONTHS* later and it's a fucking $20 game!
HA HA HA HA.
O.k. get this.
I work for um "a company".
This company fired 90% of it's California/North Carolina app-dev staff to outsource to India.
After that happened, someone decided to consolidate all the outer-region data centers (one @ each location) to a centralized location in the mid-west.
Now keep in mind, this company is absofuckinglutly nuts about security. and for every in & out point, switch & router, there is a firewall. and not just 1 firewall, you've got a firewall on BOTH SIDES of the router. So, Habeeb Haardtopronouncesurname wants to connect to the CVS machines to check in his code he's been busting out on his box in Hyderabad.
Only it takes him HOURS. So, we decide hey, we'll buy VMware so that way they can keep both the development & production systems on the same network, speeding up transfer times and everything, right? WRONG. each developer decides that have to have all their regular DESKTOP apps inside the VM. Running Lotus Notes. In a VM. Over the INTERNET. Through a VPN connection. To INDIA.
BRAVE.
It seems that we wouldn't have had to go through ANY of this "Jazz". The company could have kept 50% or greater of it's u.s. dev staff, offered to relocate them to the midwest (still CHEAPER than EITHER coast) and saved so much effort.
daily 1.5hour long conference calls to India has GOT to be expensive.
anyway. American IT is fucked. When you trade your intelligence away for a quick buck, you'll lose your smart people, because they'll go somewhere where they're needed.
LISTEN UP!:
You are NOT a geek just because you own a computer.
You're less of a geek for owning a Mac. (shut up)
You are NOT a geek because you watch the Discovery channel, listen to NPR, or actually read books.
If you have to call yourself one, you probably aren't.
Nobody wants/should want to be a stereotype. Even if it connotes something "cool".
I remember watching the last Academy Awards pre-show runway fashion extrava-gahn-zah,(with my wife) and some stupid "interviewer" kept calling herself a "(insert lame t.v. show name here) - GEEK".
My wife (a mathemetician) and I turned to each other saying "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
We're all posers in my book.
Except for Stephen Hawking, he's hardcore, yo.
Besides. XM beat the hell out of protracker mods. .XM is 16-bit, 48Khz. .mod is 8-bit. .XM supports loop-panning, so that a loop can play forward and reverse. You could even set loop points in the sample so that you could repeat a section of a one shot loop for fade-out. .XM supports volume-envelope & stereo panning controls in a sample. .mods only had 4-tracks, and stereo was separated)
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.) Stereo output from a single track. (old
5.) Programmable Stereo Panning effects -- you could make sounds do circles around your head!
6.) Retriggering, you could retrigger a snare-drum and make it sound like a high-voltage spark-emitter.
7.) 32 TRACKS!
Shows how much you know :-)
Original.MOD format didn't even have file extensions!
(Amigas didn't need them!)
I used to track mods on the Amiga (protracker) and PC (Fast Tracker2). It was a fairly common occurence for people to load text/image files into songs as a playable instrument within a music module. You could then transfer the module (which contains both the instrument samples & the pointers to the coded music (it's all addressed through HEX!)) and then extract the datafile (save instrument as...) then view it in your favorite image viewer or text editor....
FYI:
Data files as instruments do not really sound as cool as you'd think though. If the file has header info, that's where you'd find the most variety and interesting sounds...
I always thought "Sparc" was a cool name.
but it would be best as a middle name.
When the kid decides to become some sort of actor, scientist, or rock star, he could abbreviate his name to V.Sparc or G.Sparc..
somehow naming your kid after a Microcontroller might be interesting... maybe HC11 or something.
555... 1541 (C-64 5.25" drive)...
hell, "one" is a pretty cool name too.
Uh, You must have meant " when Linux works with these drives ".
Another reason why open source is all-powerful.
There were always hacks for the Amiga that allowed you to alter the timing for things like graphics, or in most common cases, the playing of music modules (MODS).
The Motorola MC68000 was a comparitivly fast cpu amongst it's peers (IIRC the MAC LCII & the Atari ST had this too), HOWEVER, the CPU was much slower that what was needed in the Amiga, and why job-specific custom chips were created.. but I digress...
Later revisions of the Amiga 500 included a Motorola MC68010 cpu which was electrically compatible with the MC68k, and was a reasonable replacement.. It ran at something like 11Mhz...
So... You should be able to do that to the Megadrive/Genesis also, without any real problems. I remember specifically playing Altered Beast, and each time you'd take on the 2nd level boss (the wierd octo-eye-puss thing) and it would get slow.. man that sucked.