Yes, that's what we need. A audience-driven science fiction channel. I would gladly pay a monthly fee to get quality programming, in particular, wouldn't it be nice to have something like Firefly again?
The thing is, SF shows are EXPENSIVE and have a limited audience. My guess is that the only way we're going to get what we want is if we pay as we go. After all, it's not like we have much of a choice nowadays.
I think Oblivion could've even been better if it had had coop mode. My friend and I actually explored places together, playing parallel to each other. It would've been a LOT more fun if we could have been in the same world together. Just because you have multiplayer, doesn't mean it has to mean deathmatch.
They may be laughing now, but who knows what's coming next? Imagine the stuff they could have on Russia, or China! The truth is, no one knows, but it's telling that the Russian government is becoming concerned.
Pirating? Oh please! No one has stolen anything. COPIED, perhaps...
At what point does common sense enter into this? We're talking about abandoned items here, not heading into Border's and making copies of Glen Beck's Christmas Sweater...
Is this all about semantics? I mean, Project G is very clear about this: If a copyright holder makes a claim, they take the material down. I would think putting this stuff out there, rather than letting it rot is hardly a disservice to the authors/publishers.
I do, and there was a time where you could only find the carts at an actual Magnavox dealer (1978/9ish). I've always brought up the fact that games like Thunderball sold for $49.99 back then - around $170 today! Incredibly expensive - but that didn't stop us from managing to obtain about 30 games or so by 1982.
So yes, I would say even console games have become quite cheap in comparison - especially since you can now get many of them second hand.
What would be the difference between having a synth play this live, or simply a recording of a synth playing during a live performance? The one question I would ask is: Did replacing actual musicians make the ticket prices go down?
A few years back, I set some folks up with a computer running Linux Mint (basically Ubuntu with restricted extras). Last month, they decided to replace it and were surprised/dismayed that they simply could not go down to Best Buy and get a machine with that pre-installed. They rejected Windows because they were used to using Mint, and furthermore, all of their friends who have Windows seem to get infected by this virus or that spyware fairly often. In the two or so years they used Mint, they never had a problem with the OS and certainly no viruses.
Now these were people who had NO experience whatsoever with computers and maybe that's key. Maybe people are so ingrained with the way Windows works that anything else becomes a chore - no matter how easy it is.
I had to do this one year after Skype came out. Skype leeched all of our upstream bandwidth, and with no budget to afford the tools to control it in the dorms (our own machines were protected), I had no choice but to only allow HTTP and sites in the DB.
Yes, it sucked, but it was better than no access at all.
Actually, if you'd mentioned the Apple II, then I'd agree with you. But from Day One, the Macintosh was designed to be a closed system, not expandable, closed. It brooked no other OS, and hardware upgrades were very limited.
The idea that you could free your creativity and whatnot also has carried over to now. Watch the video where iWork on the iPad is explained. They tell you it's all about the creativity and allowing you to get more done.
What Apple is offering is a product that works more like an appliance. No viruses, anti-virus subscriptions, or spyware to worry about. An easy way to get books, video, music. To us techies out there, this is 'teh Evil', but to regular folks this will appeal.
OMG, this is the second article that's mentioned Action! in as many days! Just when I think I must've been the only one to have learned real programming skills on Action!, this post comes up...
My first attempt at something interesting on Action! was taken out of Byte magazine pseudo code. The article in question let you take a picture and apply anti-aliasing to it. It took me a while to translate the thing to Action!, but I did it. I also coded it in Atari Basic - just to see how much of a difference there was. In Atari Basic it took over three minutes to run one 192 resolution pic. In Action!, it took seven seconds. Action! was my first introduction to structured programming, and while I enjoyed the tremendous speed increase, I reveled in the joy of intelligent coding.
Meanwhile, I showed this program to a friend who was attending RPI. He took the magazine and coded the anti-alias routine on his Mindset's 6 MHz CPU. It ran in 50 miliseconds...
Oh, never heard of Mindset? Heh, I'm not surprised.:)
Ah... The good ol' days...
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I think any collection not mentioning 1987's amazing 'Dungeon Master' from FTL is incomplete. That game was well ahead of it's time. It was terrific on the Atari ST and Apple II GS, but it positively SHONE on the Amiga.
As if the gameplay weren't enough to get it into a list of this nature, the user interface itself should have.
"Sounding good" has nothing to do with the faithful reproduction of the source material. It is a perception...."
That much is true. With all the sampling of older material in music, why does 'quality' count anymore? This is especially true in 'bass-based' music. If you can still hear the guy Vocalizing over a distorted bass synth, you're good to go. I guess...
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Yes, that's what we need. A audience-driven science fiction channel. I would gladly pay a monthly fee to get quality programming, in particular, wouldn't it be nice to have something like Firefly again?
The thing is, SF shows are EXPENSIVE and have a limited audience. My guess is that the only way we're going to get what we want is if we pay as we go. After all, it's not like we have much of a choice nowadays.
...will be an iPhone 5...
...if the Floyd decided to release their albums... As ONE track? Ahahahaha!
I think Oblivion could've even been better if it had had coop mode. My friend and I actually explored places together, playing parallel to each other. It would've been a LOT more fun if we could have been in the same world together. Just because you have multiplayer, doesn't mean it has to mean deathmatch.
Get creative!
They may be laughing now, but who knows what's coming next? Imagine the stuff they could have on Russia, or China! The truth is, no one knows, but it's telling that the Russian government is becoming concerned.
Pirating? Oh please! No one has stolen anything. COPIED, perhaps...
At what point does common sense enter into this? We're talking about abandoned items here, not heading into Border's and making copies of Glen Beck's Christmas Sweater...
Is this all about semantics? I mean, Project G is very clear about this: If a copyright holder makes a claim, they take the material down. I would think putting this stuff out there, rather than letting it rot is hardly a disservice to the authors/publishers.
Who cares about the human cost as long as we can continue to get cheap electronics, right?
I do, and there was a time where you could only find the carts at an actual Magnavox dealer (1978/9ish). I've always brought up the fact that games like Thunderball sold for $49.99 back then - around $170 today! Incredibly expensive - but that didn't stop us from managing to obtain about 30 games or so by 1982.
So yes, I would say even console games have become quite cheap in comparison - especially since you can now get many of them second hand.
Cut your way into a military base with tin snips and I assure you, you'll figure it out.
Check out the box scans (scams?) here: http://www.the-nextlevel.com/odyssey2/media/boxscans.php#1
Note that almost every sentence in the description ends in an exclamation! Exciting! Thrilling! Death-defying!
Uh... Not so much.
And to think, my family paid $49.99 for some of these games back in the 70's! Now that IS worth an exclamation point!
Julian? Sure, he's the face of WL, but that would not stop the signal.
What would be the difference between having a synth play this live, or simply a recording of a synth playing during a live performance? The one question I would ask is: Did replacing actual musicians make the ticket prices go down?
A: Probably not. Profits will be up though!
Yeah... I'm not getting this...
A few years back, I set some folks up with a computer running Linux Mint (basically Ubuntu with restricted extras). Last month, they decided to replace it and were surprised/dismayed that they simply could not go down to Best Buy and get a machine with that pre-installed. They rejected Windows because they were used to using Mint, and furthermore, all of their friends who have Windows seem to get infected by this virus or that spyware fairly often. In the two or so years they used Mint, they never had a problem with the OS and certainly no viruses.
Now these were people who had NO experience whatsoever with computers and maybe that's key. Maybe people are so ingrained with the way Windows works that anything else becomes a chore - no matter how easy it is.
I had to do this one year after Skype came out. Skype leeched all of our upstream bandwidth, and with no budget to afford the tools to control it in the dorms (our own machines were protected), I had no choice but to only allow HTTP and sites in the DB.
Yes, it sucked, but it was better than no access at all.
Don't forget - for some reason Microsoft decided to grey out the 'Copy Profile' button in Windows 7. Can anyone explain why the hell they did that?
Way to troll on several things at once: 7.5
But I'll bite...
This single 'win' probably shut down .0001% of all spam traffic. In response, the price of hiring a botnet just went up .0001%. Yay. What a 'win'.
{yawn}
"You just KEEP missing the target!" ...Perhaps they no longer need to try... ;)
Actually, if you'd mentioned the Apple II, then I'd agree with you. But from Day One, the Macintosh was designed to be a closed system, not expandable, closed. It brooked no other OS, and hardware upgrades were very limited.
The idea that you could free your creativity and whatnot also has carried over to now. Watch the video where iWork on the iPad is explained. They tell you it's all about the creativity and allowing you to get more done.
What Apple is offering is a product that works more like an appliance. No viruses, anti-virus subscriptions, or spyware to worry about. An easy way to get books, video, music. To us techies out there, this is 'teh Evil', but to regular folks this will appeal.
Well, can we at least have some *NEW* music? By 'music', I mean more than simply sampling an 'America' tune, looping it, and warbling over it.
OMG, this is the second article that's mentioned Action! in as many days! Just when I think I must've been the only one to have learned real programming skills on Action!, this post comes up...
My first attempt at something interesting on Action! was taken out of Byte magazine pseudo code. The article in question let you take a picture and apply anti-aliasing to it. It took me a while to translate the thing to Action!, but I did it. I also coded it in Atari Basic - just to see how much of a difference there was. In Atari Basic it took over three minutes to run one 192 resolution pic. In Action!, it took seven seconds. Action! was my first introduction to structured programming, and while I enjoyed the tremendous speed increase, I reveled in the joy of intelligent coding.
Meanwhile, I showed this program to a friend who was attending RPI. He took the magazine and coded the anti-alias routine on his Mindset's 6 MHz CPU. It ran in 50 miliseconds...
Oh, never heard of Mindset? Heh, I'm not surprised. :)
Ah... The good ol' days...
I think any collection not mentioning 1987's amazing 'Dungeon Master' from FTL is incomplete. That game was well ahead of it's time. It was terrific on the Atari ST and Apple II GS, but it positively SHONE on the Amiga.
As if the gameplay weren't enough to get it into a list of this nature, the user interface itself should have.
B-b-b-b-but... It's not... LOUD enough! :)
I hear you bro...
"Sounding good" has nothing to do with the faithful reproduction of the source material. It is a perception...."
That much is true. With all the sampling of older material in music, why does 'quality' count anymore? This is especially true in 'bass-based' music. If you can still hear the guy Vocalizing over a distorted bass synth, you're good to go. I guess...
...just like yesterday. /Get on my knees and pray... ;)