This is news? There was a program on this on either TLC or the Discovery channel a while back.
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Is DOS Gaming Dead?
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> DOSBox is great, and improving all the time, but it's a bit of a > nightmare to configure.
Have you used any of the GUI front ends they link to on the download page. They make DOSBox much simpler, but are available on Windows only, from what I saw. I prefer D-Fend.
Are you using nightly builds or the stable distributions? The same thing happened to me when I was using the nightly builds regularly, but when I switched to stable distributions, it worked flawlessly.
I've suggested getting a laser printer to lots of people and they buck in exactly the same way. Best approach? Two printers. Get the laser for black and white and keep around a color printer for those times when you absolutely MUST print color. You'll save money by the bucketful.
Interestingly, this is also true in the laser printer realm. I got sick of paying ~$35 every two months or so for an ink cartridge, so I started looking for a decent personal laser printer. I settled on the Lexmark e210 because it's fast, cheap, and uses USB. Though I don't have to replace the toner often, it's still expensive (about $70 a pop!) and I didn't feel like shouldering the expense. That's when I discovered that the Samsung ML1210 takes the EXACT SAME toner except for a minor difference. The Lexmark toner has tamper-proof screws; the Samsung doesn't. So, you make your slight modification to the printer, you buy one Samsung toner cartridge, and then dump toner in whenever you need more.
How about when Lois Lane falls from a building (accelerating at 9.2 m/s^2), and Superman zooms up (accelerating at, oh, let's say, -30 m/s^2 relative to Lois) and catches her, soaring off into the wild blue yonder. This leaves Lois instantaneously changing directions from +9.2 m/s^2 to -30 m/s^2, with a delta of -20.8 m/s^2.
Wouldn't she be better off just hitting the pavement?
but do you support the right of a ten year old playing this game?
What difference does it make to me? It's his or her parents responsibility to decide that. Not yours, not mine, and certainly not your or my government's.
All you need is a stereo that has an auxiliary jack. I have an Aiwa CDC X207 in my car, and that can be found on ebay for about $50, since it's about 2 years old. Plug your iPod or other sound-producing device into that. Blammo.
Anybody remember the whole Frank Abagnale story? This guy stole millions of dollars in fraudulent checks, but is now responsible for most of the security mechanisms that keep corporate checks (which can be taken to mean your and my pay) safe. He gets paid millions of dollars yearly to do this. How is it any different? I don't think anybody is worried about him going off and commiting fraud again.
But that's the thing: if you go out to buy a current CD, the costs are going to be closer to $20. When people can get DVDs for that much, why would they pay for a CD? The consumer has started to question the quality of the work they're shelling out (big time) for.
Recently I found myself at a barnes and noble and I scoffed with my girlfriend about the stack of AOL cds at the counter. The cashier says, "Hey, I use AOL!" I turn to him and say, "You do realize that you can get unlimited internet access with all of the perks of AOL for a third of the price from your public library, don't you? It's only a block down the street, flat rate of $100 per year." He says, "Yeah, I know, but then I'd have to get a new email address..."
And there it is. The email address is the drug that keeps the aol addicts on. They don't want to go to the hassle of switching because they like their email address and don't feel like telling everybody they're going to switch. That's ALL there is to it. Every user I've successfully freed from AOL agrees that they look back and wonder why they didn't quit sooner, yet people won't switch because of their EMAIL ADDRESS.
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Where do we get the Pak files? My Quake CD is long gone.
Are there any freely available Pak files that can be used as replacements to the originals?
This is news? There was a program on this on either TLC or the Discovery channel a while back.
> DOSBox is great, and improving all the time, but it's a bit of a
> nightmare to configure.
Have you used any of the GUI front ends they link to on the download page. They make DOSBox much simpler, but are available on Windows only, from what I saw. I prefer D-Fend.
Are you using nightly builds or the stable distributions? The same thing happened to me when I was using the nightly builds regularly, but when I switched to stable distributions, it worked flawlessly.
I've suggested getting a laser printer to lots of people and they buck in exactly the same way. Best approach? Two printers. Get the laser for black and white and keep around a color printer for those times when you absolutely MUST print color. You'll save money by the bucketful.
Interestingly, this is also true in the laser printer realm. I got sick of paying ~$35 every two months or so for an ink cartridge, so I started looking for a decent personal laser printer. I settled on the Lexmark e210 because it's fast, cheap, and uses USB. Though I don't have to replace the toner often, it's still expensive (about $70 a pop!) and I didn't feel like shouldering the expense. That's when I discovered that the Samsung ML1210 takes the EXACT SAME toner except for a minor difference. The Lexmark toner has tamper-proof screws; the Samsung doesn't. So, you make your slight modification to the printer, you buy one Samsung toner cartridge, and then dump toner in whenever you need more.
How about when Lois Lane falls from a building (accelerating at 9.2 m/s^2), and Superman zooms up (accelerating at, oh, let's say, -30 m/s^2 relative to Lois) and catches her, soaring off into the wild blue yonder. This leaves Lois instantaneously changing directions from +9.2 m/s^2 to -30 m/s^2, with a delta of -20.8 m/s^2.
Wouldn't she be better off just hitting the pavement?
The bill of rights protects United States citizens.
Silly me. Here, all this time, I thought those self-evident truths had been protecting all the men created equal.
but do you support the right of a ten year old playing this game?
What difference does it make to me? It's his or her parents responsibility to decide that. Not yours, not mine, and certainly not your or my government's.
128kbps mp3 encoding should be a crime If Hillary Rosen had anything to say about it, it would be a crime.
All you need is a stereo that has an auxiliary jack. I have an Aiwa CDC X207 in my car, and that can be found on ebay for about $50, since it's about 2 years old. Plug your iPod or other sound-producing device into that. Blammo.
Anybody remember the whole Frank Abagnale story? This guy stole millions of dollars in fraudulent checks, but is now responsible for most of the security mechanisms that keep corporate checks (which can be taken to mean your and my pay) safe. He gets paid millions of dollars yearly to do this. How is it any different? I don't think anybody is worried about him going off and commiting fraud again.
So I think $12.99 is more than fair. Even $14.99.
But that's the thing: if you go out to buy a current CD, the costs are going to be closer to $20. When people can get DVDs for that much, why would they pay for a CD? The consumer has started to question the quality of the work they're shelling out (big time) for.
You mean you like their grossly ultra-conservative bullshit?
BIND. Bind them.
Recently I found myself at a barnes and noble and I scoffed with my girlfriend about the stack of AOL cds at the counter. The cashier says, "Hey, I use AOL!" I turn to him and say, "You do realize that you can get unlimited internet access with all of the perks of AOL for a third of the price from your public library, don't you? It's only a block down the street, flat rate of $100 per year." He says, "Yeah, I know, but then I'd have to get a new email address..."
And there it is. The email address is the drug that keeps the aol addicts on. They don't want to go to the hassle of switching because they like their email address and don't feel like telling everybody they're going to switch. That's ALL there is to it. Every user I've successfully freed from AOL agrees that they look back and wonder why they didn't quit sooner, yet people won't switch because of their EMAIL ADDRESS.
WILLEM Defoe. WILLEM.
I did. They were a little confused.