The first Jazz Jackrabbit had cheat codes, but, if you use them and complete the game, the game displayed picture of the main character playing poker with some of his enemies, one of them saying "I see yer cheatin!" or something like that...
Kinda a cool when I saw it
Actually, the Bell System had many hardened locations to provide service in case of nuclear war. Remember, the "modern" phone network was really built-out mostly during the Cold War.
Well then, my old school would have PLENTY of equipent to play it back on. We even had a 90 year old projector to play back any old Itchy and Scratchy films too!
Sorta. It means that now, instead of you and three neighbors "sharing" one Wifi connection (at $50), each one of those people will get their own connection (at $50 *each*).
So.... this tells me two things... first, that the government cannot force you to give up your PGP passphrase.... but possibly more important, the government (currently) cannot break PGP encryptopn.
Well, most people I know keep their blackberry in the holster when they are not talking on them... and if someone holsters it on their right side, its probably rotated forward so the top of the device faces forward. This means that the microphone is pointed toward the person's ass.
Are you sure you *really* want to hear what that microphone picks up? Especially *after* lunch?
Hmmm... on one of their pages it talks about the "spirit of personal freedom" and on another page they talk about how their portable media players come equipped with DRM....
I dunno how much they will be able to revive the spirit of the Commodore of old - Remember, when you bought the c64, EVERY port was documented in the back of the user manual, and if you had the programmers reference guide for the c64, it came with complete schematics!
Good luck getting that info for their new hardware...
However, the Space Shuttle still has parts that were designed in the late 60s-early 70s, manufactured in the mid-to-late 70s, and installed during the manufacture of the shuttle sometime in that time frame.
The same goes for airplanes, trains, and even nuclear plants... Most Amtrak hardware IIRC was bulit in the 70s, and most of the current US nuclear plants were built in that time frame as well. Amtrak etc never seem to have a problem getting parts.
Its not like your computer or car which is outdated after four years... Most major projects like that were designed to be in service for 40 years easily....
One last example? Look at the Hoover Dam... bult in the first part of the 20th century, and still generating plenty of power today!
Heh - any geek worth his keyboard has his pr0n backed up on write-once media...
Back in the 'day, my folks tried to wipe my... er... collection, several times. Of course, I had it all backed up on QIC-80 tape. Just had to wait till they were gone so they would not hear it running the restore routine.
Man, that tape drive was LOUD!
Of course if I was a kid these days I'd use some sort of "plasuable deniability" encryption system
...Just my "Please-insert-tape-number-2's worth" --RickTheWizKid
The interesting thing is that as far as I can recall, no Nintendo controller other than the "normal" controller got used very much.
Thinking back to the NES, there was a few innovative gadgets you could hook up, such as the ROB robot, the "Zapper" light gun and the "Power Pad" step-on mat (like DDR)... all very cool addons but only used by a couple of games. Since I got the NES for Christmas 1990 (if I remember correctly), the "fad" of having the power pad and Zapper was starting to fade. My mom said that she would have got me the power pad set but the saleskid at Toys R Us told her that it was discontinued. At the time I was in sixth grade and since I was no good at sports, my time was divided between playing Nintendo and playing with my Commodore 64.
Then came the Super NES, with its "Super Scope 6" - I've only seen one of them and from what the owner told me, there was only one game for it. Of course, there was a mouse for it, but the only two games I can think of that used it was the painting game that came with it, and the NES version of SimCity also used it. This came in, about 1992 (the system had in fact been released the year before so I am not sure if my memory is correct) and I did have a few cool games for it, such as the Donkey Kong series, and the Zelda and Mario titles of course. I did have a few other games, as well as my siblings (both younger) also had "their own" games to play as well. At the time I got it (Junior High) the computer was starting to become a tool to do homework on as well as to play games on. As time went on I ended up spending less time with my Nintendo and Super NES.
And, of course, the N64 - I was graduating high school when this system was released so I dont know that much about it. While I did enjoy the Mario game for it, and of course, the Zelda games, I never really paid much attention to the "other" controllers that were released. I did not in fact own one until 1999 or so, when I got it used at a local Funcoland. Of course I had played a few games on it, since when I was in college, a few of the dorm-mates had one. One day I stopped in the Funcoland on the way to a service call and decided to pick up a N64 and visit my friends Mario and Zelda again for old times' sake.
Now I have a GameCube, and while I do in fact have a wireless controller, it is, still, in fact, a "normal" controller. The fact that the GBA can be connected to the GameCube and become a "second" display as well as another controller is kinda cool. I've used that a few times, again, in Zelda and Animal Crossing. Other than that, (and the copy of Harry Potter and the something or other) those are the only games I own for the GC. It's kinda sad really but, there are not that many games I see that really interest me.
When I go to the mall with $50 in my hand, I look in the video stores to see if there are any games that interest me -- I can't say that I want to play many of the games I see. Most of the time, that $50 ends up going to the local Barnes and Noble or to the computer store.
I've often thought about why I don't play games as much as I used to - and the answer is that most of the games, at least to me, are the same. I mean, I see sports games (ESPN ${ATHLETE_NAME) ${SPORT_NAME} ${YEAR} series) the fighting games (like Mortal Kombat and the like), the racing/car driving games (like the Grand Theft Auto series), shooters (Doom, Quake, Halo, Dans-Mod, and most of the X-Box titles), and the RPGs (like Zelda, Ultima, Final Fantasy etc) When I used to play the NES games, every time I rented one at the video store, it was like nothing I had ever played before. Now, most games are the same.
My thought is that games are too focused on the "graphics" (look at this system - we can make blood spatter in seventeen different ways!") but in the "oldschool" systems, the focus was on gameplay - the graphics were nice, but the game designers could not rely on that to make people buy the game.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and again, this is coming from someone who is lucky to get an hour of video game time played per week. Feel free to disagree with me:)
Just my jump-here-to-get-a-1UP's worth... -RickTheWizKid (now 28!)
Dunno about the job, but the relationship sounds pretty "shitty" too......Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip the waitress
... like the one that keeps popping up about the fact that my MSN messenger is out of date - and that I can get a MSN Hotmail account for free.
What's next - clippy popping up from MSIE - "It looks like you're trying to find airline tickets..." and having it redirect me to an MSN branded site???...Just my click-here-for-a-free-pc's worth -RickTheWizKid
IIRC, 72-76 Mhz is used for low-power short-range communication systems such as hearing aids. Yes, that's right, hearing aids. Ever go to a movie theatre, church, auditorium, etc., that has signs up that tell hard-of-hearing people to "ask for a receiver?" - those systems usually run in the 72-76 band - I'm not sure of the exact channel frequencies - but they are very popular in schools where deaf or hard of hearing students are in school.
The great thing is, that these systems take the program audio - that is, the movie audio, the teacher's or preacher's voice, etc, directly to a set of headphones, or directly into the user's hearing aids via inductive loops, or direct audio connection, and allow the user to hear the audio without the background noise. Or, if one needed to, say, record a movie from the big-screen using a camcorder, one could take one of these receivers and connect it to the audio-in of the camera. (Of course, not for use to record copyrighted works:) )
Just my ask-for-a-receiver's-worth --RickTheWizKid
You know, I just looked at the clock on the wall, and it's one of those LCD radio-controlled clocks. Between my computers, PDAs, clock radios, cable box, oven, microwave, etc, I don't have a single analog clock in the house!
If any of these clocks break, I would imagine that they would just go blank - not stop on a particular time...
In my case, a broken clock is completely useless to me, at least as a clock. It might be very good however, as a source for spare parts.:)
Just my blinking 12:00's worth
-RickTheWizKid
Well... the root password COULD be "UP,. UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START" --- of course, any Nintendo player that grew up with the NES and SNES would know that since you have the L and R buttons , you would have to use them in place of the LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT or else your DS will self destruct....
Yes, I played WAY too many video games as a kid...
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The first Jazz Jackrabbit had cheat codes, but, if you use them and complete the game, the game displayed picture of the main character playing poker with some of his enemies, one of them saying "I see yer cheatin!" or something like that... Kinda a cool when I saw it
...from a company that was spun off of AT&T back in 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Phone_Services ...and yes, I still have one in my basement!
Actually, the Bell System had many hardened locations to provide service in case of nuclear war. Remember, the "modern" phone network was really built-out mostly during the Cold War.
Well then, my old school would have PLENTY of equipent to play it back on. We even had a 90 year old projector to play back any old Itchy and Scratchy films too!
Sorta. It means that now, instead of you and three neighbors "sharing" one Wifi connection (at $50), each one of those people will get their own connection (at $50 *each*).
I think this movie will give you some suggestions :)
Does this mean we'll see a 64 bit flash plugin for Firefox?
Sounds like a bad Futurama episode :)
So.... this tells me two things... first, that the government cannot force you to give up your PGP passphrase.... but possibly more important, the government (currently) cannot break PGP encryptopn.
Hmmm....
Well, most people I know keep their blackberry in the holster when they are not talking on them... and if someone holsters it on their right side, its probably rotated forward so the top of the device faces forward. This means that the microphone is pointed toward the person's ass.
Are you sure you *really* want to hear what that microphone picks up? Especially *after* lunch?
-Rick
http://www.ycdtotv.com/
'Nuff said
-Rick
(and yes, I really DID go to SlimeCon)
... and again feb/2007
Hmmm... on one of their pages it talks about the "spirit of personal freedom" and on another page they talk about how their portable media players come equipped with DRM....
I dunno how much they will be able to revive the spirit of the Commodore of old - Remember, when you bought the c64, EVERY port was documented in the back of the user manual, and if you had the programmers reference guide for the c64, it came with complete schematics!
Good luck getting that info for their new hardware...
Just my LOAD "*",8,1's worth...
--Rick
But a virgin is such a terrible thing to waste!
(Ironically, the catchpa for this message posting was "boners")
However, the Space Shuttle still has parts that were designed in the late 60s-early 70s, manufactured in the mid-to-late 70s, and installed during the manufacture of the shuttle sometime in that time frame.
The same goes for airplanes, trains, and even nuclear plants... Most Amtrak hardware IIRC was bulit in the 70s, and most of the current US nuclear plants were built in that time frame as well. Amtrak etc never seem to have a problem getting parts.
Its not like your computer or car which is outdated after four years... Most major projects like that were designed to be in service for 40 years easily....
One last example? Look at the Hoover Dam... bult in the first part of the 20th century, and still generating plenty of power today!
-Rick
Heh - any geek worth his keyboard has his pr0n backed up on write-once media...
...Just my "Please-insert-tape-number-2's worth"
Back in the 'day, my folks tried to wipe my... er... collection, several times. Of course, I had it all backed up on QIC-80 tape. Just had to wait till they were gone so they would not hear it running the restore routine.
Man, that tape drive was LOUD!
Of course if I was a kid these days I'd use some sort of "plasuable deniability" encryption system
--RickTheWizKid
Didn't anyone see the movie way back in the 80s, just after the Challenger exploded? Atlantis is the shuttle they "used" in the movie....
Just my T-minus-10-9-8's worth....
-RickTheWizKid
The interesting thing is that as far as I can recall, no Nintendo controller other than the "normal" controller got used very much.
:)
Thinking back to the NES, there was a few innovative gadgets you could hook up, such as the ROB robot, the "Zapper" light gun and the "Power Pad" step-on mat (like DDR)... all very cool addons but only used by a couple of games. Since I got the NES for Christmas 1990 (if I remember correctly), the "fad" of having the power pad and Zapper was starting to fade. My mom said that she would have got me the power pad set but the saleskid at Toys R Us told her that it was discontinued. At the time I was in sixth grade and since I was no good at sports, my time was divided between playing Nintendo and playing with my Commodore 64.
Then came the Super NES, with its "Super Scope 6" - I've only seen one of them and from what the owner told me, there was only one game for it. Of course, there was a mouse for it, but the only two games I can think of that used it was the painting game that came with it, and the NES version of SimCity also used it. This came in, about 1992 (the system had in fact been released the year before so I am not sure if my memory is correct) and I did have a few cool games for it, such as the Donkey Kong series, and the Zelda and Mario titles of course. I did have a few other games, as well as my siblings (both younger) also had "their own" games to play as well. At the time I got it (Junior High) the computer was starting to become a tool to do homework on as well as to play games on. As time went on I ended up spending less time with my Nintendo and Super NES.
And, of course, the N64 - I was graduating high school when this system was released so I dont know that much about it. While I did enjoy the Mario game for it, and of course, the Zelda games, I never really paid much attention to the "other" controllers that were released. I did not in fact own one until 1999 or so, when I got it used at a local Funcoland. Of course I had played a few games on it, since when I was in college, a few of the dorm-mates had one. One day I stopped in the Funcoland on the way to a service call and decided to pick up a N64 and visit my friends Mario and Zelda again for old times' sake.
Now I have a GameCube, and while I do in fact have a wireless controller, it is, still, in fact, a "normal" controller. The fact that the GBA can be connected to the GameCube and become a "second" display as well as another controller is kinda cool. I've used that a few times, again, in Zelda and Animal Crossing. Other than that, (and the copy of Harry Potter and the something or other) those are the only games I own for the GC. It's kinda sad really but, there are not that many games I see that really interest me.
When I go to the mall with $50 in my hand, I look in the video stores to see if there are any games that interest me -- I can't say that I want to play many of the games I see. Most of the time, that $50 ends up going to the local Barnes and Noble or to the computer store.
I've often thought about why I don't play games as much as I used to - and the answer is that most of the games, at least to me, are the same. I mean, I see sports games (ESPN ${ATHLETE_NAME) ${SPORT_NAME} ${YEAR} series) the fighting games (like Mortal Kombat and the like), the racing/car driving games (like the Grand Theft Auto series), shooters (Doom, Quake, Halo, Dans-Mod, and most of the X-Box titles), and the RPGs (like Zelda, Ultima, Final Fantasy etc) When I used to play the NES games, every time I rented one at the video store, it was like nothing I had ever played before. Now, most games are the same.
My thought is that games are too focused on the "graphics" (look at this system - we can make blood spatter in seventeen different ways!") but in the "oldschool" systems, the focus was on gameplay - the graphics were nice, but the game designers could not rely on that to make people buy the game.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and again, this is coming from someone who is lucky to get an hour of video game time played per week. Feel free to disagree with me
Just my jump-here-to-get-a-1UP's worth...
-RickTheWizKid (now 28!)
Dunno about the job, but the relationship sounds pretty "shitty" too... ...Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip the waitress
Just my "no-pun-intended's worth"
-RickTheWizKid
You are referring to "Bought it Up" , the parody by Bob Rivers - a very good song BTW ....
...Rick
Actually, I was using it as an intro in some computer workshops I was doing. (Yes, I did fade it down before the last line)
Just my 486-with-8-megs-ram's worth
... like the one that keeps popping up about the fact that my MSN messenger is out of date - and that I can get a MSN Hotmail account for free.
...Just my click-here-for-a-free-pc's worth
What's next - clippy popping up from MSIE - "It looks like you're trying to find airline tickets..." and having it redirect me to an MSN branded site???
-RickTheWizKid
IIRC, 72-76 Mhz is used for low-power short-range communication systems such as hearing aids. Yes, that's right, hearing aids. Ever go to a movie theatre, church, auditorium, etc., that has signs up that tell hard-of-hearing people to "ask for a receiver?" - those systems usually run in the 72-76 band - I'm not sure of the exact channel frequencies - but they are very popular in schools where deaf or hard of hearing students are in school.
:) )
The great thing is, that these systems take the program audio - that is, the movie audio, the teacher's or preacher's voice, etc, directly to a set of headphones, or directly into the user's hearing aids via inductive loops, or direct audio connection, and allow the user to hear the audio without the background noise. Or, if one needed to, say, record a movie from the big-screen using a camcorder, one could take one of these receivers and connect it to the audio-in of the camera. (Of course, not for use to record copyrighted works
Just my ask-for-a-receiver's-worth
--RickTheWizKid
You know, I just looked at the clock on the wall, and it's one of those LCD radio-controlled clocks. Between my computers, PDAs, clock radios, cable box, oven, microwave, etc, I don't have a single analog clock in the house! If any of these clocks break, I would imagine that they would just go blank - not stop on a particular time... In my case, a broken clock is completely useless to me, at least as a clock. It might be very good however, as a source for spare parts. :)
Just my blinking 12:00's worth
-RickTheWizKid
Just because it's Intel does not mean it's gonna be x86, does it?
Oh and BTW - First Post. I think...
Well... the root password COULD be "UP,. UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START" --- of course, any Nintendo player that grew up with the NES and SNES would know that since you have the L and R buttons , you would have to use them in place of the LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT or else your DS will self destruct....
Yes, I played WAY too many video games as a kid...
Just my Konami-Code's worth....
--RickTheWizKid