that isn't saying a whole lot. Zork was probly one of the best games ever made. The only games that were more fun to play were also in the IF catigory. However if this is about the Myst books it could be good, as those were pretty good (unlike the rotten DooM books . The video games were pretty bad, infact I think they started the standard that games don't have to be good to sell a crap load of copies.
Now I would love to see a movie/series made out of the Zork series (Beyond would be great to see a movie of) or maybe Lurking Horror. Honestly i don't see why they don't pick games like that.
No, very doubtful I would want Redhat Linux on my system at all. However, I would pay for StarOffice. To be honest I seriously doubt I would ever want to put a Linux distro on here at all, let alone Redhat. If i was to put a linux distro on here it would be SuSe, but the only *nix i let on here right now is FreeBSD. And yes, I am willing to pay for it too. The whole problem is you have to make a peice of software worth paying for or people won't pay for it. Also, don't ream your users in the ass like Microsoft does (not to mention the lack of product).
there are 1 gig dimms, but they are not cheap. biggest i think i have seen is either 4 or 8 gigs on a stick. Not sure where to get them, though, the local retailer around here won't carry them.
Why do they make mod chips in the first place? For playing copied games and movies and what not, but they say that they are to play stuff from other regions.. hah.
Why doesn't someone just make one that specifically doesn't let you play a copy, this is the logical step to to take as no one is going to try to pull you into court and sue you for play a non US game are they. Remember as long as they don't let you play copies they don't cirumvent the copyprotection. The DMCA specifically says that copyright circumvention devices are illegal, so why make them and try to say that you are using them for something else.
hopefully this will send out the message that censorship is bad. I don't know why governments feel that it is their place to censor content instead of the parents.
nothing usually agrivates me more than people who protest against violence. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the children become a focused military force. We should start training them while they are young like in Ender's Game.
<a HREF="http://www.lionlamb.org/Top_20_2001-2002.htm l_20_2001-2002.html">Here is the list for what they thing are best toys</a>
reading through it reminds me of the toys I DIDN'T want when i was young. I grew up with they kind of toys that are listed in the most dangerous toys list, and look at how i turned out. I wonder if her children hate her or not, or are they the same kind of mindless zombie she is.
Instead of puling this "We mustn't let kids know violence" attitude which does nothing, we should instead teach them how to use violence responsibly. It is just like those people who keep trying to say that we shouldn't drink beer ever in our lives or eat red meat or what ever the hell they like to protest these days.
I have to say I agree with this post. If they could find someway to standardize linux to the point of all distrobutions being the same then it might be a better product, until then you will have all kinds of problems with different library versions/locations. I have gotten fed up with the whole linux thing and switched from linux to windows 2000, and my life has gotten a lot simpler. No more having to upgrade everything, no more having to really worry about where something goes, no more compiling every thing just to install it. once linux obtains this level of simplicity i might go back to using it.
On the other hand I have been having almost no problems with my FreeBSD box because i haven't really had to update a whole lot (other than the security related updates). The linux world could stand to learn a lot from this.
also for further note, what annoys me most are the people who sit there and go through daily builds, updating their system everyday and go on to brag about how up to date they are. There should never be a need to use the most up to date thing, updating shouldn't need to be done more than once a month, if you do it more often than that you are wasting bandwidth that we all could be using to do fruitful things like look at porn or play network games.
I wonder if they realize that this is nothing new, I have been doing this since i got my NES powerglove and my 80486 computer, and I have it wired up so that I can do just this. This is great amazing news, so great and amazing that it still amazes people after such a long time. And yes I do have drivers and software that let me use it inplace of both my mouse and keyboard. All I do is write in the air and it translates it to words (like the PDAs do). Only problem is I have to rework a lot of things if I change resolutions not to mention what I have to do with my LCD shutter glasses. I sware life was much simpler at 640*480*256.
For those of you interested in actually hooking up a powerglove to a PC have fun, mine is done through an ISA card, though I don't see why you shouldn't be able to make another type of interface for it. I found it easiest to make a card that had a NES extentioncable coming out the back. And as always, if you build your own daughter boards you do risk messing up your computer and only you are to blame for doing it, but i can tell you that there are several great resources out there for you to get your information from as to how to build these.
Also, don't ask me for information on places to find this information or the drivers. I won't get involved in this myself, last time i did, someone messed up their project and blammed me. If you do build one, have fun they are a great toy and I wish that more powergloves were made because I am having a hard time finding a second one to put onto another computer so that I can have lightsaber duels.
heh, yeah the game cube is so huge it barely won't fit in my pocket, now the Xbox and PS2 those are the right size right?
(btw, I can carry a PS1 and a controller along with the cords in my pockets:) quite handy for those parties where all that is present at the place is just a TV)
This is not unique, SEGA did this with the Saturn in Japan, there were 2 or 3 different 3rd party saturns, one of which came with a VCD card in it (yes, this is what the expansion slot on the back of the US Saturn was for, but it never came over here to my knowlage). Though the Saturn failed over here, it did quite well in Japan. Prohaps this new Gamecube will come over here and help nintendo by usurping some of the money they lose everytime a console is sold over here (well, in theory they loose more if it isn't sold, but what I mean is that Nintendo won't have to produce as many Gamecubes)
every operating system should be given their fair chance to prove itself before you can call it utter crap. There should be a rule requiring you to have atleast used an operating system a few times to give it a chance before you completely bitch it out of existance. before i bitched about windows ME i gave it a chance, same with XP, 95, 98(fe/se), NT, linux, macOS, win2k, freeBSD, Amiga (what ever the hell it uses). Other wise i could just sit here and say beOS sucks for blah blah blah reasons and i don't even have to use it to know that. Personally this computer triple boots win2k/win9x (for a few games that won't run in 2k)/freeBSD (for all my *nix needs and occationally when i want to start up a render farm). I can bitch about the shortcomings of Linux because i have used it long enough to get intimate with it, however i won't bother as it would be pointless to right now.
Well, the cause of all suffering IS ignorance.
Although reading through here one might come to think that MicoSoft is the cause of all suffering or the MPAA or the RIAA is, but behold the real cause is ignorance. These groups just harbor a large amount of said ignorance and will not be acheiving nirvana this time around. (not like they had a chance at it to begin with)
if this catches on and CD sales drop afterwords (doesn't matter what reason it actually drops), the music industry will raise high hell and blame piracy and mp3s as the cause and we will see more attacks on our freedom to do what we want with the items that we own. For some reason the record companies have it in their head that they are loosing a lot of music sales because of mp3s. This I can tell you is not how it really works, I personally have bought 3 times as many CDs since i started listening to mp3s and won't buy a CD from a group i haven't listened to more than half a CD of, and I have friends who have gone throught the exact same process.
Greed right now is the worst thing that faces our society today. If it wasn't for greed we would have companies being a lot less paranoid about copy protection. So what if they temporarily loose imaginary money and then make more off of this temporary loss. I personally buy the CD that goes with most mp3s that I download. If i like the group I buy the CD if i don't, I usually delete the mp3 (there are a few rare cases where that is the only good song that the group has done and i refuse to pay 14-18 dollars for a CD that has only one good song). If they make it so that mp3s are harder to get I know for a fact that I will not be buying more CDs than I do now, infact I will buy less as I only get ones that I KNOW I will like, and if they bitch about it I have something useful for them to do for me.
At the end there should be a paragraph explaining how this study was done in a place of almost no meaning at all for message sending, and that study was funded by the Talabon and Usama ben Laden so that we can further throw you away from where we really are hiding our messages.
No, the FBI, NSA, CIA, ect should be following ANY possible leads. With any luck they will find a clue or two for 9/11's acts or possibly the acts of someone else. Keeping a good eye on things like this is a good idea. Leave no stone unturned no matter how unlikely it is that you will find what you want under it.
seems stupid that one would limit themselves to a simple thing like this. why not encrypt the message with a one time pad and put it into several images/documents/posts/whatever and put them out there on usenet or freenet or gnutella. If you do it this way there is no way in hell that you will get caught as there is so little of a chance anyone could find what exactly you posted it in and where it is to be found. The point of hiding is to stay hidden, so why not stay hidden the best way by having people delete all evidence of your existance (or atleast a part of two of it atleast) for you. And there is nothing saying which parts have to be found where as you can put a peice on usenet, a peice on freenet, a peice on a gnutella, a peice in a banner for a site such as slashdot, and a peice in an email. Hell, this is what i came up with in a few minutes, anyone who actually wants to stay hidden will do so with much more thought, your chances of finding someone like that is so very remote that it will NEVER happen. I don't care what you use for trying to trackdown someone who wants to keep their messages over the internet hidden from anyone but the target recipiant, you will NEVER find it (unless they are complete morons).
Where do you get that you can't uninstall direct-X (any version) I have done it here several times. some how i wound up with a beta directx with a expired time limit and had to uninstall it so i could put on an older version. and no despite what microsoft says, it comes out cleanly if you do it right.
As far as installing MS patches, i highly suggest putting them on a mini-network to test them away from the primary network. It is always wise to do a tape back up before you actually install any service pack incase something bad happens with it.
Also, I don't suggest using NT for a server (win2k isn't too hateful as a client though, but anything earlier should be scrapped and XP is not on my list of things that are useful), instead use a *nix operating system. There is, to the best of my knowlage, no real reason to ever use NT of a *nix anyways (unless you are lazy and don't have the knowlage of how it works, in which case I probly wouldn't allow you near my computer room)
Also, don't use IIS for a webserver, in my experience it is a little on the sad side, personally I would be using apache for a web server (if i even had one up right now, which i don't as I don't need it). I don't think I have tried other webservers out there, so I can't really comment on them.
I did just this, except I use FreeBSD instead of Linux. However, I still wind up booting back into windows 2000 (which is as far as i can tell the best version yet, considering after having tried all the others and still don't like any of them). Instead of complaining anonymously you all should just go out buy *nix packages, or if you can't seem to get them to work well for you, go get a mac. No one is twisting your arm to make you use XP, you can always format over the HDD if it comes with XP or just not install the thing. That is one of the great things about the free world we live in today, you can use your choice of operating system and aren't forced to actually use any one particular thing. And yes, their pricing scheme is very unfair.
Why don't we just nuke the world completely and get rid of all current terrorists and future ones by causing a nuclear winter. If we wipe the world of all human kind then there will be no one left to terrorize or be terorized, it is the ultimate solution. It solves so many problems at once. It stops hunger, causes world peace, oil will no longer be needed, terrorism will be at an end, no longer will communism be present, and many more benifits that aren't coming to mind. With all these advantages and only one disadvantage why should we not persue this solution to the current problem and end all suffering at once, plunging the world into an almost utopian state where everyone lives in peace, there is no hunger, no want, and most of all everyone is happy.
To do this would require either a lot of work or just go play Serious sam as it has the ability to mess with gravity to make levels like that (which is entertaining in death match for multiple reasons) I wish that more games did things like this because I personally would love to make that gig house thing with the stair cases going every where, or how about the castle at the end of Laberinth.
actually Bosch is one of my favorite artists, so i think it would be totally kick ass to play in one of this paintings. Also for painting quake can we get a feature that makes it like when Robin Williams is walking around in the painting world in "What dreams may come". Here is what we really need though GeigerQuake or BarkerQuake.
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you mean like we will all be illegal once this and the next round of RIAA/MPAA bills get passed
>I'd rather play Zork again.
that isn't saying a whole lot. Zork was probly one of the best games ever made. The only games that were more fun to play were also in the IF catigory. However if this is about the Myst books it could be good, as those were pretty good (unlike the rotten DooM books . The video games were pretty bad, infact I think they started the standard that games don't have to be good to sell a crap load of copies.
Now I would love to see a movie/series made out of the Zork series (Beyond would be great to see a movie of) or maybe Lurking Horror. Honestly i don't see why they don't pick games like that.
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No, very doubtful I would want Redhat Linux on my system at all. However, I would pay for StarOffice. To be honest I seriously doubt I would ever want to put a Linux distro on here at all, let alone Redhat. If i was to put a linux distro on here it would be SuSe, but the only *nix i let on here right now is FreeBSD. And yes, I am willing to pay for it too. The whole problem is you have to make a peice of software worth paying for or people won't pay for it. Also, don't ream your users in the ass like Microsoft does (not to mention the lack of product).
is this what is ment by an I/O stack?
there are 1 gig dimms, but they are not cheap. biggest i think i have seen is either 4 or 8 gigs on a stick. Not sure where to get them, though, the local retailer around here won't carry them.
Why do they make mod chips in the first place? For playing copied games and movies and what not, but they say that they are to play stuff from other regions .. hah.
Why doesn't someone just make one that specifically doesn't let you play a copy, this is the logical step to to take as no one is going to try to pull you into court and sue you for play a non US game are they. Remember as long as they don't let you play copies they don't cirumvent the copyprotection. The DMCA specifically says that copyright circumvention devices are illegal, so why make them and try to say that you are using them for something else.
hopefully this will send out the message that censorship is bad. I don't know why governments feel that it is their place to censor content instead of the parents.
why not take this to the obvious extreme and print the mobo on the cilia like whip. so that it whips around and cools itself.
nothing usually agrivates me more than people who protest against violence. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the children become a focused military force. We should start training them while they are young like in Ender's Game.m l_20_2001-2002.html">Here is the list for what they thing are best toys</a>
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reading through it reminds me of the toys I DIDN'T want when i was young. I grew up with they kind of toys that are listed in the most dangerous toys list, and look at how i turned out. I wonder if her children hate her or not, or are they the same kind of mindless zombie she is.
Instead of puling this "We mustn't let kids know violence" attitude which does nothing, we should instead teach them how to use violence responsibly. It is just like those people who keep trying to say that we shouldn't drink beer ever in our lives or eat red meat or what ever the hell they like to protest these days.
I have to say I agree with this post. If they could find someway to standardize linux to the point of all distrobutions being the same then it might be a better product, until then you will have all kinds of problems with different library versions/locations. I have gotten fed up with the whole linux thing and switched from linux to windows 2000, and my life has gotten a lot simpler. No more having to upgrade everything, no more having to really worry about where something goes, no more compiling every thing just to install it. once linux obtains this level of simplicity i might go back to using it.
On the other hand I have been having almost no problems with my FreeBSD box because i haven't really had to update a whole lot (other than the security related updates). The linux world could stand to learn a lot from this.
also for further note, what annoys me most are the people who sit there and go through daily builds, updating their system everyday and go on to brag about how up to date they are. There should never be a need to use the most up to date thing, updating shouldn't need to be done more than once a month, if you do it more often than that you are wasting bandwidth that we all could be using to do fruitful things like look at porn or play network games.
I wonder if they realize that this is nothing new, I have been doing this since i got my NES powerglove and my 80486 computer, and I have it wired up so that I can do just this. This is great amazing news, so great and amazing that it still amazes people after such a long time. And yes I do have drivers and software that let me use it inplace of both my mouse and keyboard. All I do is write in the air and it translates it to words (like the PDAs do). Only problem is I have to rework a lot of things if I change resolutions not to mention what I have to do with my LCD shutter glasses. I sware life was much simpler at 640*480*256.
For those of you interested in actually hooking up a powerglove to a PC have fun, mine is done through an ISA card, though I don't see why you shouldn't be able to make another type of interface for it. I found it easiest to make a card that had a NES extentioncable coming out the back. And as always, if you build your own daughter boards you do risk messing up your computer and only you are to blame for doing it, but i can tell you that there are several great resources out there for you to get your information from as to how to build these.
Also, don't ask me for information on places to find this information or the drivers. I won't get involved in this myself, last time i did, someone messed up their project and blammed me. If you do build one, have fun they are a great toy and I wish that more powergloves were made because I am having a hard time finding a second one to put onto another computer so that I can have lightsaber duels.
heh, yeah the game cube is so huge it barely won't fit in my pocket, now the Xbox and PS2 those are the right size right?
:) quite handy for those parties where all that is present at the place is just a TV)
(btw, I can carry a PS1 and a controller along with the cords in my pockets
This is not unique, SEGA did this with the Saturn in Japan, there were 2 or 3 different 3rd party saturns, one of which came with a VCD card in it (yes, this is what the expansion slot on the back of the US Saturn was for, but it never came over here to my knowlage). Though the Saturn failed over here, it did quite well in Japan. Prohaps this new Gamecube will come over here and help nintendo by usurping some of the money they lose everytime a console is sold over here (well, in theory they loose more if it isn't sold, but what I mean is that Nintendo won't have to produce as many Gamecubes)
every operating system should be given their fair chance to prove itself before you can call it utter crap. There should be a rule requiring you to have atleast used an operating system a few times to give it a chance before you completely bitch it out of existance. before i bitched about windows ME i gave it a chance, same with XP, 95, 98(fe/se), NT, linux, macOS, win2k, freeBSD, Amiga (what ever the hell it uses). Other wise i could just sit here and say beOS sucks for blah blah blah reasons and i don't even have to use it to know that. Personally this computer triple boots win2k/win9x (for a few games that won't run in 2k)/freeBSD (for all my *nix needs and occationally when i want to start up a render farm). I can bitch about the shortcomings of Linux because i have used it long enough to get intimate with it, however i won't bother as it would be pointless to right now.
Well, the cause of all suffering IS ignorance.
Although reading through here one might come to think that MicoSoft is the cause of all suffering or the MPAA or the RIAA is, but behold the real cause is ignorance. These groups just harbor a large amount of said ignorance and will not be acheiving nirvana this time around. (not like they had a chance at it to begin with)
if this catches on and CD sales drop afterwords (doesn't matter what reason it actually drops), the music industry will raise high hell and blame piracy and mp3s as the cause and we will see more attacks on our freedom to do what we want with the items that we own. For some reason the record companies have it in their head that they are loosing a lot of music sales because of mp3s. This I can tell you is not how it really works, I personally have bought 3 times as many CDs since i started listening to mp3s and won't buy a CD from a group i haven't listened to more than half a CD of, and I have friends who have gone throught the exact same process.
Greed right now is the worst thing that faces our society today. If it wasn't for greed we would have companies being a lot less paranoid about copy protection. So what if they temporarily loose imaginary money and then make more off of this temporary loss. I personally buy the CD that goes with most mp3s that I download. If i like the group I buy the CD if i don't, I usually delete the mp3 (there are a few rare cases where that is the only good song that the group has done and i refuse to pay 14-18 dollars for a CD that has only one good song). If they make it so that mp3s are harder to get I know for a fact that I will not be buying more CDs than I do now, infact I will buy less as I only get ones that I KNOW I will like, and if they bitch about it I have something useful for them to do for me.
At the end there should be a paragraph explaining how this study was done in a place of almost no meaning at all for message sending, and that study was funded by the Talabon and Usama ben Laden so that we can further throw you away from where we really are hiding our messages.
No, the FBI, NSA, CIA, ect should be following ANY possible leads. With any luck they will find a clue or two for 9/11's acts or possibly the acts of someone else. Keeping a good eye on things like this is a good idea. Leave no stone unturned no matter how unlikely it is that you will find what you want under it.
seems stupid that one would limit themselves to a simple thing like this. why not encrypt the message with a one time pad and put it into several images/documents/posts/whatever and put them out there on usenet or freenet or gnutella. If you do it this way there is no way in hell that you will get caught as there is so little of a chance anyone could find what exactly you posted it in and where it is to be found. The point of hiding is to stay hidden, so why not stay hidden the best way by having people delete all evidence of your existance (or atleast a part of two of it atleast) for you. And there is nothing saying which parts have to be found where as you can put a peice on usenet, a peice on freenet, a peice on a gnutella, a peice in a banner for a site such as slashdot, and a peice in an email. Hell, this is what i came up with in a few minutes, anyone who actually wants to stay hidden will do so with much more thought, your chances of finding someone like that is so very remote that it will NEVER happen. I don't care what you use for trying to trackdown someone who wants to keep their messages over the internet hidden from anyone but the target recipiant, you will NEVER find it (unless they are complete morons).
Where do you get that you can't uninstall direct-X (any version) I have done it here several times. some how i wound up with a beta directx with a expired time limit and had to uninstall it so i could put on an older version. and no despite what microsoft says, it comes out cleanly if you do it right.
As far as installing MS patches, i highly suggest putting them on a mini-network to test them away from the primary network. It is always wise to do a tape back up before you actually install any service pack incase something bad happens with it.
Also, I don't suggest using NT for a server (win2k isn't too hateful as a client though, but anything earlier should be scrapped and XP is not on my list of things that are useful), instead use a *nix operating system. There is, to the best of my knowlage, no real reason to ever use NT of a *nix anyways (unless you are lazy and don't have the knowlage of how it works, in which case I probly wouldn't allow you near my computer room)
Also, don't use IIS for a webserver, in my experience it is a little on the sad side, personally I would be using apache for a web server (if i even had one up right now, which i don't as I don't need it). I don't think I have tried other webservers out there, so I can't really comment on them.
I did just this, except I use FreeBSD instead of Linux. However, I still wind up booting back into windows 2000 (which is as far as i can tell the best version yet, considering after having tried all the others and still don't like any of them). Instead of complaining anonymously you all should just go out buy *nix packages, or if you can't seem to get them to work well for you, go get a mac. No one is twisting your arm to make you use XP, you can always format over the HDD if it comes with XP or just not install the thing. That is one of the great things about the free world we live in today, you can use your choice of operating system and aren't forced to actually use any one particular thing. And yes, their pricing scheme is very unfair.
Why don't we just nuke the world completely and get rid of all current terrorists and future ones by causing a nuclear winter. If we wipe the world of all human kind then there will be no one left to terrorize or be terorized, it is the ultimate solution. It solves so many problems at once. It stops hunger, causes world peace, oil will no longer be needed, terrorism will be at an end, no longer will communism be present, and many more benifits that aren't coming to mind. With all these advantages and only one disadvantage why should we not persue this solution to the current problem and end all suffering at once, plunging the world into an almost utopian state where everyone lives in peace, there is no hunger, no want, and most of all everyone is happy.
To do this would require either a lot of work or just go play Serious sam as it has the ability to mess with gravity to make levels like that (which is entertaining in death match for multiple reasons) I wish that more games did things like this because I personally would love to make that gig house thing with the stair cases going every where, or how about the castle at the end of Laberinth.
actually Bosch is one of my favorite artists, so i think it would be totally kick ass to play in one of this paintings. Also for painting quake can we get a feature that makes it like when Robin Williams is walking around in the painting world in "What dreams may come". Here is what we really need though GeigerQuake or BarkerQuake.