No one seemed to have a problem back when Jobs poached several Xerox PARC engineers to recreate the tech he couldnt get the company to give him unrestricted access to everything he wanted for the Lisa and Macintosh products. Of course if crap like the DMCA were around in the 1970s Gates, Allen and Jobs would probably have died in prison and Ed Roberts and Gary Kildall would be billionaires.
Outdated legacy "news" outlet, now more correctly referred to as Carlos Slims Blog.
And the new york times is to news as Cheez-Wiz is to cheese. It's not "news" it's processed news product with a side of establishment boot-licking.
"Yeah Russia is a real nice country. They never invade other countries or shoot down airplanes...."
Yeah...good thing the US government never does anything like that. Oh...wait....
Demonizing Russia is sooooo 20th century. But I guess political party insiders conspiring with big legacy media outlets to cheat a popular candidate and his supporters in favor of a corrupt old hag who was convinced that it was "her turn(!)", well let's hope the rubes buy that Boris and Natasha "interfered" with the DNC's interference. Because Russia
Since I grew up in central Ohio during the 1970's, I think I can talk about the whole "Qube" experience. The remote was a big, honkin box with a 3 x 10 grid of buttons to change channels and 4 or 5 "response buttons" along the right hand side. Mostly these were only useful for playing poker with Flippo The Clown, Warner's big time celeb.
Later we found out that if you mashed down all of those buttons on the side all at once, you could watch any of the pay per view movies for free.
Bah! Those breast-fed IT guys never had it so easy. Try mining out 50 pair cable over a live local switch in an old Ameritech central office outside of the maint. window so you can take Friday night off. Now that's a rush!
Holy Shit....I just realized that I'm old enough to do a Grumpy Old Man rant on this issue(!):
Rebirth of the arcade....FLIBITTY FLOO! We didn't have any of these fancy, multi-story arcades with their realistic graphics and surround sound when I was kid. In my day, arcades were in run down strip malls where the roaches were big enough carry off the small tikes. You had to ask a human to give you some quarters in exchange for the five pounds of un-wrapped nicles and dimes we brought with us. Then we had to wait our turn to play a black and white game with a little dot and two lines on a screen and pretend they were a ball and ping pong paddles.
Then when we wanted to get all fancy we'd play a vector graphic game like Tempest. Then right when we were about to get the high score, the vector monitor would burst into flames and we'd all go "Ooooh, look at me...I'm running around on fire because because the X-Y monitor in the Tempest machine couldn't handle the strain!" and that's the way it was AND WE LIKED IT!
There is nothing like classic video games and pinballs. MAME is great, but still can't capture it completely. I am glad I got to grow up during the great era of arcades.
I've owned several of the old games. I thought I was really into the nostalgia until I met someone who used to put oragano on top of the transformer inside his Defender cabinet so it would smell more like the pizza shop he learned to play the game at when he was a kid.
Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, Omega Race... Rush N' Attack, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, P.O.W.... Ladybug, Tapper, Mappy... yeah, I know my roots.
Sure, today's games are far more advanced than the standards we grew up with, both for the home box and the arcade. But for all the new games have...the z-axis, texture-mapped razamataz with surround sound, they lack something that those old games had in spades...a soul.
There is a reason why these old games still have such a loyal following. With all of the bells and whistles the new games have, the gagillion polygon z-axis texture mapping ju-ju, they lack something that the old games had in spades....a soul. Sure, the new games are pretty. So was my ex-wife at one time. Both are severely lacking in the soul department.
My Compaq problem isn't nearly as close to as expensive as yours, it's frustrating as hell and I'm not sure if I should even try to get replacement parts from them.
My problem: The part of the hinges that hold the display up have worn out, so now I have the lid to my TI-92 calculator taped to the top of my Presario 700 to prop up the lid. I think I'll go stick a few more pins in my Carly voodoo doll!
I won't have anything to do with the rebate nonsesne either. If they want my business, then they'll give me the discount up front, othersise they can go get bent.
Here's what I'm looking for. I just bought a big monster HDTV for my rec room and I want to play TFC on my PC and use the HDTV for the monitor. Maybe even use it for everyday web browsing, too. It has a DVI input, but not the same one this card has. Does ATI or anyone else have a card that will do that?
I also had a Jaguar with the games you had. I really thought they had a chance when Alien vs Preditor came out. For the time, that game was pretty damn impressive. Sadly, the fucking nitwits that owned the company were more interested in suing other companies for patent infringement as part of their business plan than they were in trying to get 3rd parties to make more games as good as AvP.
I can't believe Ballmer was stupid enough to turn over source code to the Russian government! People who know or have had any dealings with Russian red-tape knows that Russian mob make the Yakuza look like a Brownie scouts. They are part and parcel of the government there. I give it 6 months, tops, before windows source is all over the warez croud. These guys will make sure it gets there just to screw with MS.
I have an old, Sanyo top-loader Beta that I bought with money from my first job in 1985 and it's still running. The picture quality on it is better than the five four-head, gee-whiz VHS turds that have died on me within a couple of years of ownership.
VHS won the format battle because of one thing...PORN! You could squeeze 7 hours of porn on a VHS tape, but only 4 on a beta.
Microsoft proved it...your stuff can be better and still fail commercially.
Actually, I remember seeing 3D cameras for sale in the early 80's at K-Mart. I forget who made them, but you didn't need 3D glasses to view them. It didn't go over very well. Sorta like that "holographic" arcade game that came out about 7 or 8 years ago...it would give you a headache if you looked at it for too long.
Sarcasm is scalpel, not a club...please don't wield things that you don't understand...leave that to the professionals.
The man was, in his own crotchity way, displaying a certain amount of humility. He's a little rough around the edges, but you will be too if you make it to the age when being regular for a week straight is something to talk about at the retirement home.
What do macrovision, divx (the failed product, not the codec) region encoded DVD's, copy protection in game consoles, cable boxes and DSS dishes all have in common? Anyone....? Anyone...? Bueller...?
We all know the answer. These were, in their day, the big boogie man of fair use and everyone rung their hands over. Well guess what? If the build it, we will hack it. And as far as running afoul of the laws that prohibit distribution of the tech or knowledge thereof, anyone smart enough to defeat these systems will be smart enough to do so on websites overseas, far from the reach of Jack Valenti and Senator Disney. What is the definition of DRM...? If you're ready the correct dictionary, it should translate into the word "challenge."
Get a grip! How many of us have a game console with a mod chip? How many people have an emulation rig hooked up the their dish? How many people have a test chip in their cable box? All the RIAA and MPAA are doing is raising the bar for us. Well see their DRM and raise them a flood of hacks.
There was a time that I thought that if I ever hit the lottery, I'd have to have my own Enterprise bridge simulator built, ala Star Trek 2....I wonder if anyone has ever tried?
Actually the stock holders have very little say when a company goes into chapter 11. They usually get creamed right after the employees because the holders of transferable bonds will get stock in the new company that emerges from chapter 11. The current stock will be "cancelled" by the courts and debt holders. The bond holders, debtors and holders of preferred stock come first, legally.
I'll go out on a limb and say that this one was "figured-out" by some people who played the game. Ye Gods! We were obsessive about those games. The famous "pattern" was a little on the complex side for the 80's, but it's nothing that couldn't be worked out with enough quarters.
[now, with my pants pulled up to my chest and as I shake my tee-handle cane at the kids...] "You young punks! I was the 9th key Shaolin master of PAC-MAN! In my day, I dominated the arcade. I'd walk in with $2 in quarters and by the time I left, my initials were at the top of all those machines! I was the top-dog, damnit!"
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. My teenage daughter got too embarrassed when I did that routine at Gameworks....I can't imagine why...
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No one seemed to have a problem back when Jobs poached several Xerox PARC engineers to recreate the tech he couldnt get the company to give him unrestricted access to everything he wanted for the Lisa and Macintosh products. Of course if crap like the DMCA were around in the 1970s Gates, Allen and Jobs would probably have died in prison and Ed Roberts and Gary Kildall would be billionaires.
Outdated legacy "news" outlet, now more correctly referred to as Carlos Slims Blog. And the new york times is to news as Cheez-Wiz is to cheese. It's not "news" it's processed news product with a side of establishment boot-licking.
"Yeah Russia is a real nice country. They never invade other countries or shoot down airplanes...." Yeah...good thing the US government never does anything like that. Oh...wait....
Demonizing Russia is sooooo 20th century. But I guess political party insiders conspiring with big legacy media outlets to cheat a popular candidate and his supporters in favor of a corrupt old hag who was convinced that it was "her turn(!)", well let's hope the rubes buy that Boris and Natasha "interfered" with the DNC's interference. Because Russia
Since I grew up in central Ohio during the 1970's, I think I can talk about the whole "Qube" experience. The remote was a big, honkin box with a 3 x 10 grid of buttons to change channels and 4 or 5 "response buttons" along the right hand side. Mostly these were only useful for playing poker with Flippo The Clown, Warner's big time celeb. Later we found out that if you mashed down all of those buttons on the side all at once, you could watch any of the pay per view movies for free.
Bah! Those breast-fed IT guys never had it so easy. Try mining out 50 pair cable over a live local switch in an old Ameritech central office outside of the maint. window so you can take Friday night off. Now that's a rush!
Rebirth of the arcade....FLIBITTY FLOO! We didn't have any of these fancy, multi-story arcades with their realistic graphics and surround sound when I was kid. In my day, arcades were in run down strip malls where the roaches were big enough carry off the small tikes. You had to ask a human to give you some quarters in exchange for the five pounds of un-wrapped nicles and dimes we brought with us. Then we had to wait our turn to play a black and white game with a little dot and two lines on a screen and pretend they were a ball and ping pong paddles.
Then when we wanted to get all fancy we'd play a vector graphic game like Tempest. Then right when we were about to get the high score, the vector monitor would burst into flames and we'd all go "Ooooh, look at me...I'm running around on fire because because the X-Y monitor in the Tempest machine couldn't handle the strain!" and that's the way it was AND WE LIKED IT!
I've owned several of the old games. I thought I was really into the nostalgia until I met someone who used to put oragano on top of the transformer inside his Defender cabinet so it would smell more like the pizza shop he learned to play the game at when he was a kid.
Sure, today's games are far more advanced than the standards we grew up with, both for the home box and the arcade. But for all the new games have...the z-axis, texture-mapped razamataz with surround sound, they lack something that those old games had in spades...a soul.
There is a reason why these old games still have such a loyal following. With all of the bells and whistles the new games have, the gagillion polygon z-axis texture mapping ju-ju, they lack something that the old games had in spades....a soul. Sure, the new games are pretty. So was my ex-wife at one time. Both are severely lacking in the soul department.
My Compaq problem isn't nearly as close to as expensive as yours, it's frustrating as hell and I'm not sure if I should even try to get replacement parts from them. My problem: The part of the hinges that hold the display up have worn out, so now I have the lid to my TI-92 calculator taped to the top of my Presario 700 to prop up the lid. I think I'll go stick a few more pins in my Carly voodoo doll!
I won't have anything to do with the rebate nonsesne either. If they want my business, then they'll give me the discount up front, othersise they can go get bent.
Here's what I'm looking for. I just bought a big monster HDTV for my rec room and I want to play TFC on my PC and use the HDTV for the monitor. Maybe even use it for everyday web browsing, too. It has a DVI input, but not the same one this card has. Does ATI or anyone else have a card that will do that?
Weightlifting. Ye Gods, the whole reason I spent the time and money on college was so I wouldn't have to pick up heavy things every day. ;)
Haven't these things been advertized in the back of magazines for years?
I also had a Jaguar with the games you had. I really thought they had a chance when Alien vs Preditor came out. For the time, that game was pretty damn impressive. Sadly, the fucking nitwits that owned the company were more interested in suing other companies for patent infringement as part of their business plan than they were in trying to get 3rd parties to make more games as good as AvP.
I can't believe Ballmer was stupid enough to turn over source code to the Russian government! People who know or have had any dealings with Russian red-tape knows that Russian mob make the Yakuza look like a Brownie scouts. They are part and parcel of the government there. I give it 6 months, tops, before windows source is all over the warez croud. These guys will make sure it gets there just to screw with MS.
I have an old, Sanyo top-loader Beta that I bought with money from my first job in 1985 and it's still running. The picture quality on it is better than the five four-head, gee-whiz VHS turds that have died on me within a couple of years of ownership. VHS won the format battle because of one thing...PORN! You could squeeze 7 hours of porn on a VHS tape, but only 4 on a beta. Microsoft proved it...your stuff can be better and still fail commercially.
Actually, I remember seeing 3D cameras for sale in the early 80's at K-Mart. I forget who made them, but you didn't need 3D glasses to view them. It didn't go over very well. Sorta like that "holographic" arcade game that came out about 7 or 8 years ago...it would give you a headache if you looked at it for too long.
Sarcasm is scalpel, not a club...please don't wield things that you don't understand...leave that to the professionals. The man was, in his own crotchity way, displaying a certain amount of humility. He's a little rough around the edges, but you will be too if you make it to the age when being regular for a week straight is something to talk about at the retirement home.
"Do we really want Al Gore for a vice predident?! Come on, his favorite movie is "TRON" for fucks sake!"
We all know the answer. These were, in their day, the big boogie man of fair use and everyone rung their hands over. Well guess what? If the build it, we will hack it. And as far as running afoul of the laws that prohibit distribution of the tech or knowledge thereof, anyone smart enough to defeat these systems will be smart enough to do so on websites overseas, far from the reach of Jack Valenti and Senator Disney. What is the definition of DRM...? If you're ready the correct dictionary, it should translate into the word "challenge."
Get a grip! How many of us have a game console with a mod chip? How many people have an emulation rig hooked up the their dish? How many people have a test chip in their cable box? All the RIAA and MPAA are doing is raising the bar for us. Well see their DRM and raise them a flood of hacks.
There was a time that I thought that if I ever hit the lottery, I'd have to have my own Enterprise bridge simulator built, ala Star Trek 2....I wonder if anyone has ever tried?
Actually the stock holders have very little say when a company goes into chapter 11. They usually get creamed right after the employees because the holders of transferable bonds will get stock in the new company that emerges from chapter 11. The current stock will be "cancelled" by the courts and debt holders. The bond holders, debtors and holders of preferred stock come first, legally.
[now, with my pants pulled up to my chest and as I shake my tee-handle cane at the kids...] "You young punks! I was the 9th key Shaolin master of PAC-MAN! In my day, I dominated the arcade. I'd walk in with $2 in quarters and by the time I left, my initials were at the top of all those machines! I was the top-dog, damnit!"
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. My teenage daughter got too embarrassed when I did that routine at Gameworks....I can't imagine why...