Yeah I remember all the repetitions going on at the local 'cade but I completely forgot about what the actual words were and went with the little bit that I remembered. I only half remember cause I'd usually be standing at a Neo Geo machine playing Samurai Showdown 1-4 or Last Blade 1 or 2.
To be honest, I'd say hardware is your #1 issue. I've got some pretty wacky and offbrand hardware in some of my machines and the don't have problems like that unless something is failing. I had one problem when installing Easyubuntu that gave me a weird versioning error with KDM but that was resolved in this last batch of updates. The only other problem I have is with my wireless card in my main desktop disconnecting after it's been idle for awhile. I'm apt to believe that it's the funky Broadcom chip in it or perhaps some config issue.
It's a Tahoe to be more accurate but I see your point. What I was mainly commenting on was the large difference in mileage, though. 300,000km may seem like a lot, but it's quite a bit less than 300,000 miles.
Converting to miles that brings it to about 220,000 miles. That's about right as far as I know for durability on current vehicle stocks. 300,000 miles converted would be the equivalent of 480,000km. Hummers are just pieces of crap though once you get out of the military versions so I wouldn't expect them to go much past 150-200,000 if they even get that far.
The last few BIOS updates I've done have been from windows-based flashing utilities. I think most of them are moving towards that because it's become easier and you don't have to make the user go out and buy a floppy drive for their computer that didn't come with one.
Well yeah that was an oversimplification. You could just as well apply it to changing spark plugs, changing your oil, checking the transmission fluid, etc. But the point still stands. I'm glad to see a distro of Linux focusing on end users rather than power users that isn't a mess. I'm going to be switching to Kubuntu myself soon.
Hot wiring a car only requires the ability to recognize colors and connect some wires together. But people don't expect me to know how to do that in order for me to operate my vehicle. Neither do they expect me to know how to fix it by crawling under the hood and figuring out what's wrong with the engine.
I know how to fix my own car just like I know how to operate Linux using a CLI, but do I expect others to? Nope. While it may be fairly simple, at least to us, it's very intimidating to the average user who would rather stick the keys in the ignition and "make it go" so they can get their work or play going.
You may get thrown out but I don't ever remembered getting notified of a lawsuit from a previous game host because Bob gave me Boardwalk for going to the corner store and getting him a soda.
There's plenty of sites out there that have been very successful in virtual transactions. IGE being one of the most often mentioned since it seems to have a hand in every popular MMO out there. The most I've seen any game publisher do about it is mass banning accounts that are suspicious, ticking off plenty of legit customers whose accounts are banned along with the farming ones. The more successful farming companies also appear to be mostly based in Asia so that could also attribute to their percieved invulnerability.
Really the publishers should be going after users directly since they are the ones who agreed to the TOS in the first place, not eBay. eBay is only acting as a middle man in these cases rather than being the ones holding an account with the actual money on it. But since it seems easier to sue a corporation like eBay for allowing these transactions to take place it's easier for them just to ban those transactions from happening. The RIAA and MPAA also have way more funds to throw away on individual lawsuits.
Looks like my original reply to your post got lost in the aether so here we go again. Most good HDMI supporting television's I've seen include digital optical outputs intended for use with your home theater system. The ones I've worked with before will switch the output depending on which HDMI input you're using so there's no worries about switching both the reciever input and television input when you want to change devices.
Optionally you could get yourself a receiver that does HDMI switching or possibly an HDMI switchbox (haven't seen those yet). But if you have a recent enough television none of that is needed unless you have tons of devices with HDMI.
Ditto. I'm just not feelin the new Googleized interface. The old interface seemed more user friendly since it was laid out similar to a typical office application.
Reminds me of some of the customers I get at work. Usually older gentlement trying to get a handle on computers who don't have quite the mental flexibility of others saying they were "born too early".
The funny part about that is the last customer who said that was talking to our Toshiba representative who's got a pretty good grip on current tech. When the rep asked when he was born in response and got something back that was around the 50's, the rep replied by saying he was born in the 20's. Just shows you that if you keep your mind fresh instead of just letting it sit there unchallenged you don't have to be left behind.
Might help if he did the same before saying the gaming industry isn't innovating and is starting to repeat itself. It always has, it just wasn't popular enough for everybody to know it yet. Blowing off a lot of the innovations of the past few years doesn't put this guy too high in my mind.
I probably didn't read enough of TFA (mainly because I think this guy's a loon) but from what I did read it looks like his "Storytronics" is a bad attempt at making LARPs (Live Action Role Playing) or your typical paper and pencil DnD session work on computer. That's great and all, but from my experience that does't work very well unless it's a decent group of friends.
I hadn't heard of XFire until a friend of mine pointed it out to me, and I'm a rather frequent online gamer. Basically it allows you to see what game and server your friends are playing on and by clicking their name then the join game button, allows you to immediately join their server. Also it has some minor voice chat if I remember correctly. But one of the best features is that the IM chat can be brought up as an overlay in the game you're playing by hitting a hotkey combo. You access everything with the keyboard when in a game, including which friends your talking to. Plus whenever you get a new message when your IM window is not activated, it pops up an alert box in the lower right corner of your screen.
Maybe it's cause since WindowsCE "powered" (meaning some functions had something vaguely to do with WCE even though it usually sat off by the wayside, almsot never used) that Dreamcast fans MUST be XBox fans.. you know.. Microsoft and all.
Personally, I love my Dreamcast and don't really care for either XBox. My friend left me his for a week and even modded and loaded up with videos and emulators and extra features, I touched it maybe three times that entire week. I usually either stuck with watching tv/dvd's on my TiVo or playing games on either my PC or GameCube.
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Yeah I remember all the repetitions going on at the local 'cade but I completely forgot about what the actual words were and went with the little bit that I remembered. I only half remember cause I'd usually be standing at a Neo Geo machine playing Samurai Showdown 1-4 or Last Blade 1 or 2.
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To be honest, I'd say hardware is your #1 issue. I've got some pretty wacky and offbrand hardware in some of my machines and the don't have problems like that unless something is failing. I had one problem when installing Easyubuntu that gave me a weird versioning error with KDM but that was resolved in this last batch of updates. The only other problem I have is with my wireless card in my main desktop disconnecting after it's been idle for awhile. I'm apt to believe that it's the funky Broadcom chip in it or perhaps some config issue.
It's a Tahoe to be more accurate but I see your point. What I was mainly commenting on was the large difference in mileage, though. 300,000km may seem like a lot, but it's quite a bit less than 300,000 miles.
Converting to miles that brings it to about 220,000 miles. That's about right as far as I know for durability on current vehicle stocks. 300,000 miles converted would be the equivalent of 480,000km. Hummers are just pieces of crap though once you get out of the military versions so I wouldn't expect them to go much past 150-200,000 if they even get that far.
But give us another Shalebridge Cradle
I thought the first rule of quantum computing is you may or may not be talking about quantum computing.
I'm not sure about boot CD's for most manufacturers but I've seen them available before, as well as floppy and USB pendrive based ones.
The last few BIOS updates I've done have been from windows-based flashing utilities. I think most of them are moving towards that because it's become easier and you don't have to make the user go out and buy a floppy drive for their computer that didn't come with one.
In South Korea, only violent old people film journalists!
Ok yeah that was bad
Pretty much the same stuff, just waterproofed and laying on the ocean floor.
Well yeah that was an oversimplification. You could just as well apply it to changing spark plugs, changing your oil, checking the transmission fluid, etc. But the point still stands. I'm glad to see a distro of Linux focusing on end users rather than power users that isn't a mess. I'm going to be switching to Kubuntu myself soon.
Hot wiring a car only requires the ability to recognize colors and connect some wires together. But people don't expect me to know how to do that in order for me to operate my vehicle. Neither do they expect me to know how to fix it by crawling under the hood and figuring out what's wrong with the engine.
I know how to fix my own car just like I know how to operate Linux using a CLI, but do I expect others to? Nope. While it may be fairly simple, at least to us, it's very intimidating to the average user who would rather stick the keys in the ignition and "make it go" so they can get their work or play going.
Oh how I wish I could play Rocket Jockey again. I'd love to see it released as OSS if there's enough support in the community to make it even better.
Yeah those guys over at Dotslash are ALWAYS posting all kinds of wild theories.
I was too busy tagging the story with "windtrap" and "dune" to get first post!
You may get thrown out but I don't ever remembered getting notified of a lawsuit from a previous game host because Bob gave me Boardwalk for going to the corner store and getting him a soda.
There's plenty of sites out there that have been very successful in virtual transactions. IGE being one of the most often mentioned since it seems to have a hand in every popular MMO out there. The most I've seen any game publisher do about it is mass banning accounts that are suspicious, ticking off plenty of legit customers whose accounts are banned along with the farming ones. The more successful farming companies also appear to be mostly based in Asia so that could also attribute to their percieved invulnerability.
Really the publishers should be going after users directly since they are the ones who agreed to the TOS in the first place, not eBay. eBay is only acting as a middle man in these cases rather than being the ones holding an account with the actual money on it. But since it seems easier to sue a corporation like eBay for allowing these transactions to take place it's easier for them just to ban those transactions from happening. The RIAA and MPAA also have way more funds to throw away on individual lawsuits.
Looks like my original reply to your post got lost in the aether so here we go again. Most good HDMI supporting television's I've seen include digital optical outputs intended for use with your home theater system. The ones I've worked with before will switch the output depending on which HDMI input you're using so there's no worries about switching both the reciever input and television input when you want to change devices.
Optionally you could get yourself a receiver that does HDMI switching or possibly an HDMI switchbox (haven't seen those yet). But if you have a recent enough television none of that is needed unless you have tons of devices with HDMI.
Ditto. I'm just not feelin the new Googleized interface. The old interface seemed more user friendly since it was laid out similar to a typical office application.
Reminds me of some of the customers I get at work. Usually older gentlement trying to get a handle on computers who don't have quite the mental flexibility of others saying they were "born too early".
The funny part about that is the last customer who said that was talking to our Toshiba representative who's got a pretty good grip on current tech. When the rep asked when he was born in response and got something back that was around the 50's, the rep replied by saying he was born in the 20's. Just shows you that if you keep your mind fresh instead of just letting it sit there unchallenged you don't have to be left behind.
Might help if he did the same before saying the gaming industry isn't innovating and is starting to repeat itself. It always has, it just wasn't popular enough for everybody to know it yet. Blowing off a lot of the innovations of the past few years doesn't put this guy too high in my mind.
I probably didn't read enough of TFA (mainly because I think this guy's a loon) but from what I did read it looks like his "Storytronics" is a bad attempt at making LARPs (Live Action Role Playing) or your typical paper and pencil DnD session work on computer. That's great and all, but from my experience that does't work very well unless it's a decent group of friends.
I hadn't heard of XFire until a friend of mine pointed it out to me, and I'm a rather frequent online gamer. Basically it allows you to see what game and server your friends are playing on and by clicking their name then the join game button, allows you to immediately join their server. Also it has some minor voice chat if I remember correctly. But one of the best features is that the IM chat can be brought up as an overlay in the game you're playing by hitting a hotkey combo. You access everything with the keyboard when in a game, including which friends your talking to. Plus whenever you get a new message when your IM window is not activated, it pops up an alert box in the lower right corner of your screen.
Personally, I love my Dreamcast and don't really care for either XBox. My friend left me his for a week and even modded and loaded up with videos and emulators and extra features, I touched it maybe three times that entire week. I usually either stuck with watching tv/dvd's on my TiVo or playing games on either my PC or GameCube.