As strange as this sounds, I actually found Super Pitfall to be one of the most enjoyable and challenging games I ever played for NES. The bugginess and randomness was actually fun to explore and figure out and added more to the game than the surface tasks.
I did win this game often and continued on to win a second quest with competely different hidden object locations and a few other variations if I remember correctly.
Here's a quick rundown of the results so far:
(green - good, yellow - caution, red - forget it)
New York Post (yellow)
Atlanta Journal (yellow)
USA Today (red)
Roger Ebert (red)
Houston Chronicle (yellow)
Seattle Times (yellow)
LA Times (green)
NY Times (green)
Spliced Online (yellow)
Boston Globe (yellow)
Miami Herald (yellow)
I know that early efforts at 3-d glasses resulted in serious depth perception problems (i.e. 15 minutes of play would take many hours of recovery time). This resulted in a large number of traffic accidents by the beta testers as they went home after testing. Any such problems with these reported? If not, how did they get around them?
Right, because we all know junk mail has killed regular mail. It's easier to hit the delete key every once in a while than it is to throw out the massive amount of coupon mailers I get in my physical mailbox every week. And yet, the mail system keeps functioning.
Slashdot rated your comment as funny. What makes it unfunny is the following:
First, the effort to "verify the identity of online buyers" is something that Verichipalso would like to do, but under your skin.
Second, lest you think that Microsoft and Verichip are unrelated, Microsoft and Digital Angel (another similar device owned by the same company, ADSX) have reached an agreement to use Microsoft MapPoint for GPS mapping.
Based on the previous pattern of Microsoft behavior in other unrelated markets, this is what I see: Microsoft is sidling up to an interesting technology and integrating its efforts in a pseudo-friendly way. Their real objective however is to determine the future marketability of the technology and if there is any, swallow it whole. Look for Microsoft Passport to be integrated with Verichip technology for the ultimate secure user verification, possibly offered exclusively in combination with Palladium.
How do you like them apples? Now, the question is, will Slashdot bury this post?
Slashdot recently rejected a post of mine which was sort of related to this subject. Maybe now it will get through.
I've noticed something even more insidious than failing to meet web standards. Some web sites appear to be intentionally crippling their pages for browsers other than IE. I specifically noticed this on Yahoo! Mail when I couldn't find my address book when using Opera. When I enquired to technical support about it, they responded that it just didn't work right with Opera and I should try using a supported browser. Funny thing is, when I configured Opera to identify itself as IE, the links reappeared and everything functioned just fine.
Now, maybe it's within the legal rights of companies to serve up what they want to whatever browsers they please, but it sure seems anti-competetive. Does Yahoo have some kind of deal with Microsoft? If not, what possible reason could they have to cripple features? Has anyone noticed anything else like this going on at other web sites? Is there any recourse?
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As strange as this sounds, I actually found Super Pitfall to be one of the most enjoyable and challenging games I ever played for NES. The bugginess and randomness was actually fun to explore and figure out and added more to the game than the surface tasks. I did win this game often and continued on to win a second quest with competely different hidden object locations and a few other variations if I remember correctly.
I usually see what boredmovies.com has to say.
Here's a quick rundown of the results so far: (green - good, yellow - caution, red - forget it)
New York Post (yellow)
Atlanta Journal (yellow)
USA Today (red)
Roger Ebert (red)
Houston Chronicle (yellow)
Seattle Times (yellow)
LA Times (green)
NY Times (green)
Spliced Online (yellow)
Boston Globe (yellow)
Miami Herald (yellow)
Whew... glad I read that wrong.
I know that early efforts at 3-d glasses resulted in serious depth perception problems (i.e. 15 minutes of play would take many hours of recovery time). This resulted in a large number of traffic accidents by the beta testers as they went home after testing. Any such problems with these reported? If not, how did they get around them?
Right, because we all know junk mail has killed regular mail. It's easier to hit the delete key every once in a while than it is to throw out the massive amount of coupon mailers I get in my physical mailbox every week. And yet, the mail system keeps functioning.
Hmm.. 6.1 is groovy, but I was actually hoping for a release of 7.0 (Presto) at the end of this month. Anyone know what happened to it?
Now will MS pull of the coup de gras and include DRM or .NET when they come out with a "security update"? Read those EULAs carefully, folks.
Slashdot rated your comment as funny. What makes it unfunny is the following:
First, the effort to "verify the identity of online buyers" is something that Verichipalso would like to do, but under your skin.
Second, lest you think that Microsoft and Verichip are unrelated, Microsoft and Digital Angel (another similar device owned by the same company, ADSX) have reached an agreement to use Microsoft MapPoint for GPS mapping.
Based on the previous pattern of Microsoft behavior in other unrelated markets, this is what I see: Microsoft is sidling up to an interesting technology and integrating its efforts in a pseudo-friendly way. Their real objective however is to determine the future marketability of the technology and if there is any, swallow it whole. Look for Microsoft Passport to be integrated with Verichip technology for the ultimate secure user verification, possibly offered exclusively in combination with Palladium.
How do you like them apples? Now, the question is, will Slashdot bury this post?
Slashdot recently rejected a post of mine which was sort of related to this subject. Maybe now it will get through.
I've noticed something even more insidious than failing to meet web standards. Some web sites appear to be intentionally crippling their pages for browsers other than IE. I specifically noticed this on Yahoo! Mail when I couldn't find my address book when using Opera. When I enquired to technical support about it, they responded that it just didn't work right with Opera and I should try using a supported browser. Funny thing is, when I configured Opera to identify itself as IE, the links reappeared and everything functioned just fine.
Now, maybe it's within the legal rights of companies to serve up what they want to whatever browsers they please, but it sure seems anti-competetive. Does Yahoo have some kind of deal with Microsoft? If not, what possible reason could they have to cripple features? Has anyone noticed anything else like this going on at other web sites? Is there any recourse?
Why can't TCPA interface libraries be created for Linux distributions? Then GPL software can just link to the libraries?