Man, Bravo's "The Restaurant" has the most obvious and offensive product placement I've ever seen. It's almost painful to watch. Whenever they have a beer delivery, the camera seems to go outside to watch the Coors Light truck pull up and slide the crisp, refreshing ice cold Coors Light into the restaurant, inside of which the Coors Light spokesmodel twins are happily enjoying a crisp, refreshing, ice cold Coors Light... You find a scene of it in every episode.
Then, there's Mitsubishi, which isn't *so* bad.. but it was never really explained why the restaurant recieved several new Mitsubishi superfancy motorscooters that always seem to be placed hipply in front of the place.. But it sure was useful when that waitress wanted to quit: "Come for a ride with me on the Vello (sp?), I know you'll stay with us" -- "Oh, you like the red one? It's yours!".
The least frequent, but most... horrifying was American Express, with their Open Account for small businesses. Every time they have a money issue (Can't get paychecks out, bills to pay, ect), they run to the computer and announce "Let's call American Express and have them extend a line of credit to our American Express Open Account to get us out of this hot water", and then show the *same clip* (in every episode that features AmEx) of them browsing the userfriendly and lifesaving American Express Open Account webpage.
[Note: I am using any Linux commands as examples from personal experience, I am not taking the effort to ensure that the linux terminology I'm using is perfectly correct, because it's supposed to be an example from the lay-perspective anyway, so, no nitpicking my mount points, 'cause I don't care]
Just because it's not quite there yet, more than anything. I don't think anyone is claiming that Linux will never, ever, EVER be suitable for the mass market, but, well, damnit, it isn't yet. The console commands are confusing to those without experience with them, and they aren't always perfectly documented from the layman's perspective (something like "-con350 will shift my R-variable? Why the hell would I want to do that? What IS that?").
From someone without computer experience, what the hell is "mounting" a hard drive?
Where do you put your pictures? Not in "C:\pictures", but in "/mnt/users/username/home/pictuers" or somesuch.
Hey, how about "How does someone with no Linux experience install things?" - They don't. "That program I downloaded doesn't have an install file!"
It's a good OS. I've got two flavors triple booting on my machine, so I can learn it. It's absolutely great for coding. It's got solid support for the basics I want to use my computer for, and, with effort, I can always get whatever else I need to work- With effort, because I'm new to Linux, and because, thank god it's possible because I'm computer literate enough to know damn well that it will work *somehow*.
If space or money are an issue, another obvious solution is simply dual booting to a FAT16 drive (Via a lovely program such as Partition Magic, which happens to be a lot more fun than most of the games coming out these days).
I regularly enjoy my DOS games in true DOS off this drive.. And, of course, whenever I need to pull something off the network to that drive, my Windows 3.11 install sure comes in handy =)
I have run into absolutely no conflicts or issues with this setup, once I got everything set up. Some old generic SB drivers will work with the majority of newer cards in DOS, and I've yet to have a video card complain about anything other than Relentless ("Twinson's Odyssey" in some markets), but I'd like to emphasise that I actually had an easier time getting it to work on my modern gear than I did Back In Tha' Day.
Because this is a civil rather than criminal case, they don't have to PROVE anything. All they need to do is convince the jury that it's more likely than not actually Michelle Branch's music.
Yes, the peoples of the site listed in the parent of this thread are working on a QFG2 remake, VGA and mouse operational!!! This makes me giddy. It's been a long time in the works, but, yeah, it's happening.
There's also a group working on QFG6, but, I haven't heard any news from them in a long time, and I can't seem to find their site anymore... so, they might not exist any longer (though it'd be nice if they did).
Just to let you know, the Doom cart is a fake. It don't be workin', it don't be doin' nothin', it don't be existing, so to speak.
However, on the subject of hi-res "games" on older hardware like the Intv and the 2600, there have been a couple carts released that feature a ridiculously pretty still image.
A similar test of the cable system was an early cable modem device that allowed subscribers to download a couple games each month from the cable company, which were rotated out on a monthly basis. Because these things were property of the cable companies (like many cable boxes), when this program tanked they were almost all recalled, making these one of the rarer items you can find for your Inty collection (As well as one of the most useless, of course, now that there's nowhere to stream the games from).
Curious about more this system has to offer? He's a Top 25 thread from Digitpress.com, one of the greatest retrogaming sites out there: Some other great INTV Games.
Just for the record though (Not that I'm expecting many impulse buys from you guys), the computer componant that was released only works with the Intellivision II (grey console).
The full keyboard componant was never released, true, but if you want to do some BASIC programing on it, please feel free to get the computer componant that was released, which includes a simple keyboard, and the ability to use a few carts that the basic one can't: Mr. BASIC Meets Bits And Bytes, Scooby Doo's Maze Chase, The Jetson's Fun With Words, and a few others, I think. It's a neat enough gadget, you can use it to design your own mazes in Scooby Doo's, which is plenty groovy for me. I quite enjoy mine (But, then, I have five Intellivisions).
How is the quality / speed of DivX replay on the Xbox? Does it genuinely look as good as on a fast computer? If so, oof, that is tempting, maybe I should pick one up... Also, you say you have plenty of storeage for games you copy over- Am I to understand one might not need a DVD writer to copy Xbox games (I rather love my little ol' Dreamcast for that fact)?
Hi. I have some connections to a reasonably large activist group in my region, with whom I used to broadcast pirate radio stuff. I'm flying clean and legal now, but would like very much to hook these people up with some information on the DMCA, and other "Tech injustices". The problem is, these are IN NO WAY computer people. Computers baffle them, and if they don't understand the issues, there's not going to be any way for them to fight the issues.
So, I was wondering if anyone had a link to a page, or a list of their own that might have a simple breakdown of exactly why the DMCA and similar laws are evil, and how one can go about participating in civil disobedience against them.
In my opinion, it's totally legal, though I'd like to see that stand up in court =P
As per the Home Audio Recording Act of 1992 (If I remember correctly), you are allowed to make infinite copies of a copyrighted material that you own the rights to for personal use, and, in that case, personal use INCLUDED giving copies to friends, as long as it wasn't for profit.
That's no different than Napster, if you ask me. I'm just giving copies to my friends, and I'm sure as hell not profitting from it.
I just wish I could talk to these people...
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I support going after the people breaking the laws rather than the P2P networks, definitely, however something just doesn't seem right to me about the way this is going. Sure, it can be just the big fishes now, but if they eventually start going after everyone with 10-20 gigs shared, well, that's a lot of people, and I'm one of them. It's not because I'm stealing music, I swear I'm not, it's just that I use mp3 to test out music I'm considering purchasing, or to discover bands I never would have dreamed of listening to otherwise. Seriously, with a 5 minute investment I can hear almost any band in the world by simply picking one I've never heard out of someone else's directory.
I can't even begin to imagine how much music and music related merchandise (Tickets and such) that I've purchased over the years because of things I heard on mp3. Literally, probably at least 60-75% of my collection of nearly 400 CDs. That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money that I didn't mind spending. Though, it's also a lot of money I'm not going to be spending anymore. I'm personally boycotting first run music stores if the album I want is on a label that is involved in supporting the RIAA. I just can't reconcile my love for music with my hatred of them blaming the fans, the customers, legitimate customers such as myself, for their slagging profits.
Cut the prices, guys. Just slash them heavily. THEN think about going after people who still share 500 gigs, but damnit, please don't blame the customers for your losses due to greedy price fixing, and backwards attitudes towards fair use.
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For this system to be workable, *everyone* doesn't need to contribute. Some people actually like supporting causes they believe in, regardless of whether they could block out the ads, or whatnot. I used to pay out of pocket for electricity on a local pirate radio rig that I used to broadcast off of (I'm clean now, away FCC, away!). Sure, I was paying for myself to work, but hell, I didn't mind.
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It's not the first time a lot of companies have delayed products rather than releasing broken crap, and personally, I'm thankful for it.
.... All of which were horribly, horribly delayed- With great results.
Who are the most notorious companies for ever extending release days? Blizzard, and to a lesser extent, Valve.
What are a small handful of the greatest wide release games of the latter half of the ninties?
Half Life
Diablo
Star Craft
Warcraft II
Well, the reason it was so obvious is largely that the only time I've seen it was during a marathon.. I watched 'em all in one sitting, hehe.
Man, Bravo's "The Restaurant" has the most obvious and offensive product placement I've ever seen. It's almost painful to watch. Whenever they have a beer delivery, the camera seems to go outside to watch the Coors Light truck pull up and slide the crisp, refreshing ice cold Coors Light into the restaurant, inside of which the Coors Light spokesmodel twins are happily enjoying a crisp, refreshing, ice cold Coors Light... You find a scene of it in every episode.
Then, there's Mitsubishi, which isn't *so* bad.. but it was never really explained why the restaurant recieved several new Mitsubishi superfancy motorscooters that always seem to be placed hipply in front of the place.. But it sure was useful when that waitress wanted to quit: "Come for a ride with me on the Vello (sp?), I know you'll stay with us" -- "Oh, you like the red one? It's yours!".
The least frequent, but most... horrifying was American Express, with their Open Account for small businesses. Every time they have a money issue (Can't get paychecks out, bills to pay, ect), they run to the computer and announce "Let's call American Express and have them extend a line of credit to our American Express Open Account to get us out of this hot water", and then show the *same clip* (in every episode that features AmEx) of them browsing the userfriendly and lifesaving American Express Open Account webpage.
Pfft.
It's good, but it doesn't shake a stick at Fallout 2.
All the precious Geek chic, for one.
Ppppbbtthhhh! (To the idea of Geek chic, not to parent)
[Note: I am using any Linux commands as examples from personal experience, I am not taking the effort to ensure that the linux terminology I'm using is perfectly correct, because it's supposed to be an example from the lay-perspective anyway, so, no nitpicking my mount points, 'cause I don't care]
Just because it's not quite there yet, more than anything. I don't think anyone is claiming that Linux will never, ever, EVER be suitable for the mass market, but, well, damnit, it isn't yet. The console commands are confusing to those without experience with them, and they aren't always perfectly documented from the layman's perspective (something like "-con350 will shift my R-variable? Why the hell would I want to do that? What IS that?").
From someone without computer experience, what the hell is "mounting" a hard drive?
Where do you put your pictures? Not in "C:\pictures", but in "/mnt/users/username/home/pictuers" or somesuch.
Hey, how about "How does someone with no Linux experience install things?" - They don't. "That program I downloaded doesn't have an install file!"
It's a good OS. I've got two flavors triple booting on my machine, so I can learn it. It's absolutely great for coding. It's got solid support for the basics I want to use my computer for, and, with effort, I can always get whatever else I need to work- With effort, because I'm new to Linux, and because, thank god it's possible because I'm computer literate enough to know damn well that it will work *somehow*.
Sure doesn't sound like much when you consider that my front lawn on a football day is worth $200 easy.
If space or money are an issue, another obvious solution is simply dual booting to a FAT16 drive (Via a lovely program such as Partition Magic, which happens to be a lot more fun than most of the games coming out these days).
I regularly enjoy my DOS games in true DOS off this drive.. And, of course, whenever I need to pull something off the network to that drive, my Windows 3.11 install sure comes in handy =)
I have run into absolutely no conflicts or issues with this setup, once I got everything set up. Some old generic SB drivers will work with the majority of newer cards in DOS, and I've yet to have a video card complain about anything other than Relentless ("Twinson's Odyssey" in some markets), but I'd like to emphasise that I actually had an easier time getting it to work on my modern gear than I did Back In Tha' Day.
Because this is a civil rather than criminal case, they don't have to PROVE anything. All they need to do is convince the jury that it's more likely than not actually Michelle Branch's music.
The problem with this is that they are not going after people who are downloading music.
I repeat: They don't care if you download music.
All of these names are being listed for SHARING music. Even if they own all of the CDs, they're still violating the copyright by sharing it.
Correction, here's that QFG6 URL: http://www.hero6.com/.
Yes, the peoples of the site listed in the parent of this thread are working on a QFG2 remake, VGA and mouse operational!!! This makes me giddy. It's been a long time in the works, but, yeah, it's happening.
There's also a group working on QFG6, but, I haven't heard any news from them in a long time, and I can't seem to find their site anymore... so, they might not exist any longer (though it'd be nice if they did).
Just to let you know, the Doom cart is a fake. It don't be workin', it don't be doin' nothin', it don't be existing, so to speak.
However, on the subject of hi-res "games" on older hardware like the Intv and the 2600, there have been a couple carts released that feature a ridiculously pretty still image.
A similar test of the cable system was an early cable modem device that allowed subscribers to download a couple games each month from the cable company, which were rotated out on a monthly basis. Because these things were property of the cable companies (like many cable boxes), when this program tanked they were almost all recalled, making these one of the rarer items you can find for your Inty collection (As well as one of the most useless, of course, now that there's nowhere to stream the games from).
Curious about more this system has to offer? He's a Top 25 thread from Digitpress.com, one of the greatest retrogaming sites out there: Some other great INTV Games.
You can still find them around eBay sometimes, and if I recall correctly, he's collecting orders for a new batch.
Just for the record though (Not that I'm expecting many impulse buys from you guys), the computer componant that was released only works with the Intellivision II (grey console).
The full keyboard componant was never released, true, but if you want to do some BASIC programing on it, please feel free to get the computer componant that was released, which includes a simple keyboard, and the ability to use a few carts that the basic one can't: Mr. BASIC Meets Bits And Bytes, Scooby Doo's Maze Chase, The Jetson's Fun With Words, and a few others, I think. It's a neat enough gadget, you can use it to design your own mazes in Scooby Doo's, which is plenty groovy for me. I quite enjoy mine (But, then, I have five Intellivisions).
Where are these available?
How is the quality / speed of DivX replay on the Xbox? Does it genuinely look as good as on a fast computer? If so, oof, that is tempting, maybe I should pick one up... Also, you say you have plenty of storeage for games you copy over- Am I to understand one might not need a DVD writer to copy Xbox games (I rather love my little ol' Dreamcast for that fact)?
Hehe, along with a lot of others, I think it's time to throw in my little nit-pick (c'mon, it's about an Atari game, I'm allowed, aren't I?)...
The yellow dragon isn't afraid of the yellow key. He's supposed to run away if you've got it, hehehe...
Don't get me wrong though, I'm just kidding- This is great. I support anything even on the subject =)
Check out www.digitpress.com for more classic gaming stuff.. I'm not affiliated with them or anything, but it's a great 'zine / site.
Hi. I have some connections to a reasonably large activist group in my region, with whom I used to broadcast pirate radio stuff. I'm flying clean and legal now, but would like very much to hook these people up with some information on the DMCA, and other "Tech injustices". The problem is, these are IN NO WAY computer people. Computers baffle them, and if they don't understand the issues, there's not going to be any way for them to fight the issues.
So, I was wondering if anyone had a link to a page, or a list of their own that might have a simple breakdown of exactly why the DMCA and similar laws are evil, and how one can go about participating in civil disobedience against them.
Thank you very much!
In my opinion, it's totally legal, though I'd like to see that stand up in court =P
As per the Home Audio Recording Act of 1992 (If I remember correctly), you are allowed to make infinite copies of a copyrighted material that you own the rights to for personal use, and, in that case, personal use INCLUDED giving copies to friends, as long as it wasn't for profit.
That's no different than Napster, if you ask me. I'm just giving copies to my friends, and I'm sure as hell not profitting from it.
I support going after the people breaking the laws rather than the P2P networks, definitely, however something just doesn't seem right to me about the way this is going. Sure, it can be just the big fishes now, but if they eventually start going after everyone with 10-20 gigs shared, well, that's a lot of people, and I'm one of them. It's not because I'm stealing music, I swear I'm not, it's just that I use mp3 to test out music I'm considering purchasing, or to discover bands I never would have dreamed of listening to otherwise. Seriously, with a 5 minute investment I can hear almost any band in the world by simply picking one I've never heard out of someone else's directory. I can't even begin to imagine how much music and music related merchandise (Tickets and such) that I've purchased over the years because of things I heard on mp3. Literally, probably at least 60-75% of my collection of nearly 400 CDs. That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money that I didn't mind spending. Though, it's also a lot of money I'm not going to be spending anymore. I'm personally boycotting first run music stores if the album I want is on a label that is involved in supporting the RIAA. I just can't reconcile my love for music with my hatred of them blaming the fans, the customers, legitimate customers such as myself, for their slagging profits. Cut the prices, guys. Just slash them heavily. THEN think about going after people who still share 500 gigs, but damnit, please don't blame the customers for your losses due to greedy price fixing, and backwards attitudes towards fair use.
For this system to be workable, *everyone* doesn't need to contribute. Some people actually like supporting causes they believe in, regardless of whether they could block out the ads, or whatnot. I used to pay out of pocket for electricity on a local pirate radio rig that I used to broadcast off of (I'm clean now, away FCC, away!). Sure, I was paying for myself to work, but hell, I didn't mind.