MAN, SMBA is just mario 2 with a new name. Ask anyone and they will tell you that mario 2 had to be the worst mario ever. To top it off, Nintendo didn't even write mario 2! They bought the game from another company after it was released in japan and changed the graphics to Mario n' friends. This was done because the japanese mario 2 (lost levels in mario all stars) was deemed too hard for us american folk.
I rember that game! It showed up in many diffrent incarnations through the atari/commodore years. I played it when it sported the name 'Clown Balloon' but patence limited me to like 12 points.
The biggest difference is the voice over commentary made by harrison ford about events during the movie are completely removed, leaving the viewer trying to discover things for themselves instead of being told everything. Also the ending is left open a bit wider.
I too thought that the game dvd player was too good to be true. Later I spotted a dvd player on another site with identical features yet sporting a different (Shinco 868). It can be found at www.lik-sang.com by clicking on products -> dvd.
I have heard that lik-sang is a real company that does give you what you order, but no personal experience.
I think the problem with your marvel analogy is that a company like that wishing to be unscruplous could simply re-print a first release quietly and sell them anyways.
I belive that the reason you can only use 104 bits is because the encryption uses the mac address as part of the key (cannot remember where I read that, sorry).
I know that MS Bob was an Utter travesty of a program, but I have very little idea why it is. I have tried to look and see what this fabled MS Bob is but everything I found was just making jokes about BOB.
Yes, they think its a TOS error because any site that gets a SLASHDOT worth of traffic must obiously be warez. This is true because there is hardly any site on geocities worth the space it takes up.
I have their secret algorithim:
if( $high_traffic ) $luzer_page = $__WAREZ__;
The author of the review is wrong when he talks about the freestyle pro using gyroscopes! It uses a nifty little chip called an accelerometer made by analog.com that is found in many products like car alarms and the like. It is a very cool chip (I have some myself) and they will send you some samples if you want. The chip is called the ADXL202
What if you are connected to one of the many notoriously unreliable high-speed providers. Often times you can have outages ranging from a few minutes to weeks without notice. It cost money to not have outages.
Hey, quick solution to that:
Run port sentry for the first week on all ports.
Turn your machine into a black hole to anyone who trys and portscans your server (read: your isp) and then turn on all your own services and port sentry on the rest.
I work in the internet dept. of a car dealership. I have an office right off the show room floor with no door, where I work on my computer all day. I have to listen to bad 80's music blaring on a radio, and loud salesmen over the intercom or even worse right outside my office talking to me because there are no customers. They make me dress up too because I am right on the showroom.
Its bad enough I am looking for a new job.
Those were among the many vector based games that atari produced. The diffrence (I belive) is that a polygon is a surface, where the vector arcade machines where just lines connected to make shapes....
I rember when a couple people filed under the freedom of information act to get the forumla the IRS uses to select people for an audit. Naturally the IRS objected, and even after a court victory, they still refused to give out that information. What did they do? They ran to congres and asked them to make and exemption, which they did. Bastards. I can only guess what is going to happen here... again.
Why should I pay for you to ride the bus? Perhaps if you had to pay what it cost to ride the bus, I wouldn't have to give you money to ride it. 90% of the people in washington drive, yet that money goes to busses and ferries and other mass transportation. Vote for the new initiave that will put 90% of the money into the roads, where we all drive.
My soulution for when that gets out of hand (or when netscape just hangs) is to click the little stick of dynamite on my toolbar that executes one command... "killall -9 netscape"
They say their tape is alot like a SVHS tape except for two addtional holes... I wonder if I get out my drill I can make myself some DVHS tapes to work with the vcr... Just like in the olden days using a hole punch to make double-sided disks.
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MAN, SMBA is just mario 2 with a new name. Ask anyone and they will tell you that mario 2 had to be the worst mario ever. To top it off, Nintendo didn't even write mario 2! They bought the game from another company after it was released in japan and changed the graphics to Mario n' friends. This was done because the japanese mario 2 (lost levels in mario all stars) was deemed too hard for us american folk.
I rember that game! It showed up in many diffrent incarnations through the atari/commodore years. I played it when it sported the name 'Clown Balloon' but patence limited me to like 12 points.
The biggest difference is the voice over commentary made by harrison ford about events during the movie are completely removed, leaving the viewer trying to discover things for themselves instead of being told everything. Also the ending is left open a bit wider.
Yah, i rember reading that on slashdot not too long ago. Might of been lumped together with other stuff but I have seen it here before.
My favorite incredibly-long-and-stupid-pointless-name was:
(and i am not making this up, look at the thing in a store some time)
'Saitek Cyborg 3D USB Gold'.
I laughed so hard I about shat my pants when I saw an ad for it in pc gamer.
I mentioned before that you can find the so-called game dvd player at a more reputable site: http://www.lik-sang.com/ under the name Shinco 868.
You can read information about the pinball 2000 machines here http://www.pinball.wms.com/pinball2000/home.html.
They appear to be run off a standard PC so a ethernet hack shouldn't be too hard.
I too thought that the game dvd player was too good to be true. Later I spotted a dvd player on another site with identical features yet sporting a different (Shinco 868). It can be found at www.lik-sang.com by clicking on products -> dvd.
I have heard that lik-sang is a real company that does give you what you order, but no personal experience.
I think the problem with your marvel analogy is that a company like that wishing to be unscruplous could simply re-print a first release quietly and sell them anyways.
I belive that the reason you can only use 104 bits is because the encryption uses the mac address as part of the key (cannot remember where I read that, sorry).
I know that MS Bob was an Utter travesty of a program, but I have very little idea why it is. I have tried to look and see what this fabled MS Bob is but everything I found was just making jokes about BOB.
Thats easy man, just pickup and install aa-lib and when you compile the gimp (latest beta only) it will add that support automagically.
Yes, they think its a TOS error because any site that gets a SLASHDOT worth of traffic must obiously be warez. This is true because there is hardly any site on geocities worth the space it takes up.
I have their secret algorithim:
if( $high_traffic ) $luzer_page = $__WAREZ__;
The author of the review is wrong when he talks about the freestyle pro using gyroscopes! It uses a nifty little chip called an accelerometer made by analog.com that is found in many products like car alarms and the like. It is a very cool chip (I have some myself) and they will send you some samples if you want. The chip is called the ADXL202
What if you are connected to one of the many notoriously unreliable high-speed providers. Often times you can have outages ranging from a few minutes to weeks without notice. It cost money to not have outages.
Hey, quick solution to that: Run port sentry for the first week on all ports. Turn your machine into a black hole to anyone who trys and portscans your server (read: your isp) and then turn on all your own services and port sentry on the rest.
I work in the internet dept. of a car dealership. I have an office right off the show room floor with no door, where I work on my computer all day. I have to listen to bad 80's music blaring on a radio, and loud salesmen over the intercom or even worse right outside my office talking to me because there are no customers. They make me dress up too because I am right on the showroom.
Its bad enough I am looking for a new job.
Anyone want to hire the sole developer of SubaruParts.com and NissanParts.cc?
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Those were among the many vector based games that atari produced. The diffrence (I belive) is that a polygon is a surface, where the vector arcade machines where just lines connected to make shapes....
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I rember when a couple people filed under the freedom of information act to get the forumla the IRS uses to select people for an audit. Naturally the IRS objected, and even after a court victory, they still refused to give out that information. What did they do? They ran to congres and asked them to make and exemption, which they did. Bastards. I can only guess what is going to happen here... again.
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I wonder how the stickheads would feel about Stickdeath.com
(its pretty funny anyways.)
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I couldn't resist.
Why should I pay for you to ride the bus? Perhaps if you had to pay what it cost to ride the bus, I wouldn't have to give you money to ride it. 90% of the people in washington drive, yet that money goes to busses and ferries and other mass transportation. Vote for the new initiave that will put 90% of the money into the roads, where we all drive.
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My soulution for when that gets out of hand (or when netscape just hangs) is to click the little stick of dynamite on my toolbar that executes one command...
"killall -9 netscape"
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I looks to me like they are challenging the copyright microsoft is claiming.
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They say their tape is alot like a SVHS tape except for two addtional holes... I wonder if I get out my drill I can make myself some DVHS tapes to work with the vcr... Just like in the olden days using a hole punch to make double-sided disks.
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For sale, one collection of 80,000 music CDs featuring every band in existence. Only used once. $960,000/OBO
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