Those little sets are everywhere in a few coffee shops around here. Oddly enough with all the rinky-dink games they have(some feature nudity in them like Gals Panic), they never seem to be idle.
Of course, there's a Centipede machine at another coffee shop I know of that is never idle either.
I hope someday to see a MAME cabinet/cocktail at a coffeeshop so I could play alllll day long from a selection of 400+ games.
Reminds me of how the Infocom games were avaialble for the TI-994/A, and they were just as good as the Appple 2 versions, with that amazing text parser. Did Infocom have something like the Sierra thing?
the one career out of the list that stuck out in my head was "Gun repair". Sally Struthers advertising for GUN REPAIR careers? What about the childeren?
This isn't another cleverly disguised fashion show like we had in an earlier Slashdot article featuring Trinity-dressed like women?(Mind you the all-vinyl chick was pleasing to the eyes, but buy no means innovative)
I think the best photo-editing of the Jack Ruby assassination was one showing all the characters with instruments, and Lee Harvey Oswald on vocals. (anyone have a URL?)
I wouldn't say he did anything revolutionary in the photo editing department. I've seen better novice work. It looks like he just used Paint Shop Pro's "clone brush" a lot.
This is exactly how the Adventurevision worked. It had a row of LEDs and a rotating mirror thing. The result? A cheap display. As the mirror rotated, the LEds flashed to make the image, REALLY fast.
I bought the R2D2 set from Toys R Us since it was on sale for $50. It is by no means part of the official Lego mindstorms set. The scout core(just like on the ATAT) only has a light sensor, and 1 motor that can go forwards/backwards. I should have saved my $50 towards a real mindstorms setup. I do like the new 10 and 20 tooth gears though. Good for making new transmissions.
Robot Wars with Lister is SUCH a better show. IT isn't so ESPNlike with BattleBots. Also, it's an hour long with various competitions, not just 1 on 1. Mind you the house robots are nearly impossible to beat, but it makes the show much more enjoyable. The tug of war and king of the hill competitions are fun.
When I saw a quick snippet of it on the news, it looked no more interesting than those dogs you see in toy stores that flip around, etc. This is just a bit more advanced. It walked around a bit haphazardly and made all sorts of whining sounds from the stepper motors.
I'd rather spend $2000 on a beowulf cluster of Lego Mindstorms sets and make a 1/2 scale Dalek(hey, they even have a camera for Lego now!) and be my own Davros.
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"okay Gordon, put the Linux in the beam"
"There seems to be a descrepanc...naw, well within paramters.."
"Segmentation faulAAHHHHH!@H#H!@H#!@H#"
And do you know how many cars with busted taillights/underinflated tires/rusted out bodies I've seen on the road?
That skycar(on the main page) looks badass! Looks like something Speed Racer would fly.
just what the world needs.. Fly-by shootings.
We will have gang wars up in the air! It'll be just like Cowboy Bebop.
And I think 90% of them were SMB clones to some extent(run n jump)
Those little sets are everywhere in a few coffee shops around here. Oddly enough with all the rinky-dink games they have(some feature nudity in them like Gals Panic), they never seem to be idle.
Of course, there's a Centipede machine at another coffee shop I know of that is never idle either.
I hope someday to see a MAME cabinet/cocktail at a coffeeshop so I could play alllll day long from a selection of 400+ games.
"Why should we vote?" "Why does the universe exist?"
A lot of these articles seem to be questions that Bill Nye gets from 8-year old kids on his show. Must be a slow week.
Reminds me of how the Infocom games were avaialble for the TI-994/A, and they were just as good as the Appple 2 versions, with that amazing text parser. Did Infocom have something like the Sierra thing?
the one career out of the list that stuck out in my head was "Gun repair". Sally Struthers advertising for GUN REPAIR careers? What about the childeren?
Uh, why not just have a user-customized threshold of -1 for stories for the whiners in question?
You should join ICANN. No, wait, all they do is elections and voting. heh.
Is that like those Slashot articles on a paticular product actually being a cleverly disguised advertisement? Better tune my tinfoil hat. :)
Yes, new laws against those mean "hackers" and "Cybercrime" will definitely solve the problem! I mean, it sure as hell solved all those drug problems.
What? He's in town? OH my ghod! Instead of reading his posts on here, I can listen to him in a lecture hall for 4 hours! First class!
This isn't another cleverly disguised fashion show like we had in an earlier Slashdot article featuring Trinity-dressed like women?(Mind you the all-vinyl chick was pleasing to the eyes, but buy no means innovative)
Darn, I thought it was some multiplayer RPG involving Boba Fett.
I think the best photo-editing of the Jack Ruby assassination was one showing all the characters with instruments, and Lee Harvey Oswald on vocals. (anyone have a URL?)
I wouldn't say he did anything revolutionary in the photo editing department. I've seen better novice work. It looks like he just used Paint Shop Pro's "clone brush" a lot.
It became wayyy to e-commercy and less of a nice, free usenet reader. I mean, any search you do gives you a dumb link on shopping for it.
Example:
"Find great deals on KILLING YOUR PARENTS on deja.com!" Endless fun.
This is exactly how the Adventurevision worked. It had a row of LEDs and a rotating mirror thing. The result? A cheap display. As the mirror rotated, the LEds flashed to make the image, REALLY fast.
I bought the R2D2 set from Toys R Us since it was on sale for $50. It is by no means part of the official Lego mindstorms set. The scout core(just like on the ATAT) only has a light sensor, and 1 motor that can go forwards/backwards. I should have saved my $50 towards a real mindstorms setup. I do like the new 10 and 20 tooth gears though. Good for making new transmissions.
Robot Wars with Lister is SUCH a better show. IT isn't so ESPNlike with BattleBots. Also, it's an hour long with various competitions, not just 1 on 1. Mind you the house robots are nearly impossible to beat, but it makes the show much more enjoyable. The tug of war and king of the hill competitions are fun.
It's missing the Hello Kitty on the center of it!
When I saw a quick snippet of it on the news, it looked no more interesting than those dogs you see in toy stores that flip around, etc. This is just a bit more advanced. It walked around a bit haphazardly and made all sorts of whining sounds from the stepper motors.
I'd rather spend $2000 on a beowulf cluster of Lego Mindstorms sets and make a 1/2 scale Dalek(hey, they even have a camera for Lego now!) and be my own Davros.
Well I guess the URL of "linuxfanatic" is appropriate for you, isn't it? :)
Just plain evil. This is evil in a bad way not evil in the good way that we all like. This is just plain old fashion evil.