Rarely does gnu wondertool have the same exact features or interface or support as wondertool pro, which means that most business will still use wondertool pro. Besides that, a free alternative will only encourage company X to a better standard of fair use standards. Just look at Microsoft as an example: opening up the office xml format, creating a pseudo open source initiative, and supposedly a tabbed, more secure* web browser, which will be borrowing innovation from a gnu browser.
That, and imitation is the best form of flattery
*possible lie
There was never even a chuck e cheese 1.0
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most stores are still at chuck e cheese beta 0.5 or something in that ball park.
The company is completely paranoid about spending any extra money to buy up to date games. As a result, most stores are still working with skee ball lanes from the 80's (instead of skee ball 2's or the new ones with cool unnessecary moving parts that was revealed in vegas at the company's last management convention.) Granted, traditional skee ball lanes still hold about $3000-$4000 each in asset value, they were never designed to run as long as they have.
The only slightly modern game in the one around my house is a Club Kart game powered by the Sega NAOMI 2 hardware and a Daytona USA machine (powered by the SEGA Model 3 hardware.) Everything else still uses Z80 and MC68HC11 level technology. The animatronic puppets in most stores are quite old, still being tracked by a VHS cassette player, one channel of the audio containing motion data with a MOS6502 or 68HC11 controlling the puppets. The system has a whole 32K ram. A few stores have DVD based systems. Prior to the VHS systems, the stores used a reel-to-reel setup for puppet motion data.
Still, a chuck e cheese 0.6 or something like that (the upgrade would have included food that didn't suck) would've been nice.
This movie is bad. Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly bad it is. I mean, you may think that Battlefield Earth is a wrong choice for an evening rental, but that's just peanuts compared to this movie.
The beginning was good, but a lot of the dialogue got truncated before it got witty, and the additional stuff wasn't very funny.
I dunno, maybe I was expecting a rehash of the 1981 BBC version (which is better than OK) with better visuals.
"Oh noes! The computer isn't letting me play this game because my mom locked me out" isn't something I'd call bad. Granted, it might be silly to see some college student still living with their folks locked out.
That "Oh no, lazy parent" argument is complete horseshit as well. It's tough for parents to sometimes enforce healthy limits with regards to balancing acceptible entertaiment and disciplinary habits (especially when it comes to studying) in kids. I know if I had small children, I would not want them to play Half Life 2, nor would I want a teenager who's performing poorly in school to play either. Things like this are just another enforcement tool.
Even if something like this was mandated, people have the option of turning it off. The V-Chip hasn't reduced our media draconian levels, and something like this won't either.
I know that many younger people who visit slashdot might be angered by something like this, but tough shit, wait till you're 18.
After all, it's not like we're trying to run the latest 2.6 kernel on an amiga vic 20 or anything like that (though I'm sure somebody out there is trying.) Most boxes nowadays have plenty of memory so that even a nominally bloated app shouldn't be too much of a problem.
and it's pilot, name Max, who sounded a lot like Paul Reuben, sent me 8 years into the future; what an asshole.
But it was all good later, though, because I escaped from a government confine and listened to the song "Round Round Get Around I get Around" while flying around the world.
A theater is not realistically going to kick someone out for a camera on a cell phone, unless the theatre was looking to lose business. A theater is, realistically, going to charge somebody caught with a (in this case, not so) hidden camera trying to pirate the movie.
So you can all stop your bitching and whining and moaning. Thanks.
Most stores and movie theaters forbid the use of cameras on the premisis anyway. Besides, the store would have to press charges or care in order for this bill to have any effect on somebody; and I doubt that many stores would unless it was apparant that your intent was to pirate something, as it would generate bad publicity for the store.
because we all know that here in the US everybody is a very good driver. This device will definately cut down on grid locks and road rage and solve all of our problems with the streets, as the average driver can be trusted with one of these.
I think I'll give his house a visit, or 12, or 93490409. And when he finally buys my herbal viagra I'm gonna keep calling for 18 months because then I will have established a business relationship with him.
Well, some of the upper cable channels, such as FX can get away with words like "shit" now. If they made it a subscription channel, then they probably could get away with just about everything; hell, I'd pay to subscribe.
Lots of good things are based off of older software
For example, and I'm not trying to get off topic or anything, the Dragon Warrior Series of video games has kept the same exact gaming style since the 80's. And it currently kicks the ass of every other console RPG. I like to think of Linux in such a way too.
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That, and imitation is the best form of flattery
*possible lie
The company is completely paranoid about spending any extra money to buy up to date games. As a result, most stores are still working with skee ball lanes from the 80's (instead of skee ball 2's or the new ones with cool unnessecary moving parts that was revealed in vegas at the company's last management convention.) Granted, traditional skee ball lanes still hold about $3000-$4000 each in asset value, they were never designed to run as long as they have. The only slightly modern game in the one around my house is a Club Kart game powered by the Sega NAOMI 2 hardware and a Daytona USA machine (powered by the SEGA Model 3 hardware.) Everything else still uses Z80 and MC68HC11 level technology. The animatronic puppets in most stores are quite old, still being tracked by a VHS cassette player, one channel of the audio containing motion data with a MOS6502 or 68HC11 controlling the puppets. The system has a whole 32K ram. A few stores have DVD based systems. Prior to the VHS systems, the stores used a reel-to-reel setup for puppet motion data. Still, a chuck e cheese 0.6 or something like that (the upgrade would have included food that didn't suck) would've been nice.
The beginning was good, but a lot of the dialogue got truncated before it got witty, and the additional stuff wasn't very funny.
I dunno, maybe I was expecting a rehash of the 1981 BBC version (which is better than OK) with better visuals.
"Oh noes! The computer isn't letting me play this game because my mom locked me out" isn't something I'd call bad. Granted, it might be silly to see some college student still living with their folks locked out. That "Oh no, lazy parent" argument is complete horseshit as well. It's tough for parents to sometimes enforce healthy limits with regards to balancing acceptible entertaiment and disciplinary habits (especially when it comes to studying) in kids. I know if I had small children, I would not want them to play Half Life 2, nor would I want a teenager who's performing poorly in school to play either. Things like this are just another enforcement tool. Even if something like this was mandated, people have the option of turning it off. The V-Chip hasn't reduced our media draconian levels, and something like this won't either. I know that many younger people who visit slashdot might be angered by something like this, but tough shit, wait till you're 18.
they could call it "Geeks in Spa- oh wait, nevermind.
See spot run. See spot inhale fine sillicates pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisly .
Anybody who has been to asia in the the last few centuries knows that asia always had such things as pmps and hkrs.
They do nothing!
remember that it uses Internet Explorer, which contains more than some vulnerabilities
Because then I will have found my medium for global conquest.
the BSD daemon is dying.
is to order the pizza when you get off of work so that the delivery guy is in the driveway by the time you get home.
just to put some sort of governer in your teen's car? I'm sure it'd be far more accurate than some cell phone gps thingy.
After all, it's not like we're trying to run the latest 2.6 kernel on an amiga vic 20 or anything like that (though I'm sure somebody out there is trying.) Most boxes nowadays have plenty of memory so that even a nominally bloated app shouldn't be too much of a problem.
and it's pilot, name Max, who sounded a lot like Paul Reuben, sent me 8 years into the future; what an asshole. But it was all good later, though, because I escaped from a government confine and listened to the song "Round Round Get Around I get Around" while flying around the world.
as much as this is (probably) going to get modded down as flaimbait, I wholeheartedly concur.
A theater is not realistically going to kick someone out for a camera on a cell phone, unless the theatre was looking to lose business. A theater is, realistically, going to charge somebody caught with a (in this case, not so) hidden camera trying to pirate the movie. So you can all stop your bitching and whining and moaning. Thanks.
Most stores and movie theaters forbid the use of cameras on the premisis anyway. Besides, the store would have to press charges or care in order for this bill to have any effect on somebody; and I doubt that many stores would unless it was apparant that your intent was to pirate something, as it would generate bad publicity for the store.
because we all know that here in the US everybody is a very good driver. This device will definately cut down on grid locks and road rage and solve all of our problems with the streets, as the average driver can be trusted with one of these.
Since when has the us government been interested in millions of telemarketers in India and China losing their jobs?
I think I'll give his house a visit, or 12, or 93490409. And when he finally buys my herbal viagra I'm gonna keep calling for 18 months because then I will have established a business relationship with him.
Maybe they ate too much of that tasty chocolate cake
Well, some of the upper cable channels, such as FX can get away with words like "shit" now. If they made it a subscription channel, then they probably could get away with just about everything; hell, I'd pay to subscribe.
Lots of good things are based off of older software
For example, and I'm not trying to get off topic or anything, the Dragon Warrior Series of video games has kept the same exact gaming style since the 80's. And it currently kicks the ass of every other console RPG. I like to think of Linux in such a way too.
Super mario Brothers, Resident Evil, House of the Dead; these are all good reasons.