There's newer and more adult games from Hasbro. Besides, a lot of those pre-70's games are CLASSICS. And besides owning Milton Bradley AND Parker Brothers AND Kenner (IIRC they had a few board games), they also own Avalon Hill, AND Wizards of the Coast (which would also include TSR/SPI assets). Why they didn't pick up Pressman as well I'll never know.
They also act as publisher for some of those Eurogame companies in the US. It isn't Ravensburger that publishes Scotland Yard in the US, it is Hasbro.
You forgot to mention that the PS4 has TWO media players.
One is the standard media player, it is the one that does DLNA, Video and FLAC audio. It has a sucky interface.
The other is the USB Music Player, which only shows up when a USB drive is plugged in. It has a nicer interface, great for playing music while gaming...but it can't play FLAC.
Also in some ways the PS4's web browser is worse than the PS3's.
For example the PS3's web browser CAN upload certain files from and download certain files to the PS3. For example if you were writing a blog post on the PS3.you could actually upload the blog pictures FROM a PS3. Or if you found a link to an MP3, you could actually download it to the PS3's hard drive and play it. You could even buy songs from the Amazon MP3 store!
You can do none of that with the PS4's web browser.
or the second version of PS3, not that top loading third version.
Do you mean the slim? You don't want that one either, it has zero backwards compatibility with the PS2.
The one you want is the CECHA version, that's the Deluxe launch model with both of the PS2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer as well as WiFi, a card reader for MemoryStick, SD and CompactFlashcards and 4 USB ports.
The CECHB launch version has the same compatibility but has only 2 USB ports, no card reader for Compact flash, memory stick and SD cards and NO WiFi! Which means you cannot use Ad-hoc party to tu nnel PSP online games on a CECHB PS3.
After that the best choice is the CECHE model (Deluxe model with 4 usb ports, card reader) which is the only other model with any PS2 backwards compatibility. In this case the CECHE drops the Emotion Engine and only has a Graphics Synthesizer so the compatibility isn't quite as good.
CECHA, CECHB and CECHE models come with 60, 20 and 80GB hard drives respectively. You will want to upgrade them if they still have the original drive, the drives are user replaceable and you use standard 2.5" SATA drives including SSD's.
because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new
Call up Sony, probably bad solder on the thing. Causes the graphics chip to go all wacky. Sony will fix them for a fee I had to send mine in a couple of years back
One note, back up ALL your save data, including any PS2 or PSone save data. While you can back up PS3 SAVEDATA to PS+ or USB storage, you have to use USB storage for PS2 and PSone saves.
but I discovered that the DVD drive died.
Call up Sony and see if they still fix PS2's with DRE's. Also 50001 series PS2's are the most reliable. Damn things were built like tanks...and about as heavy with an HDD in them.
Do you have to install 50 GB of data to play PS4 games?
Depends on the game. I think the biggest I've seen is about 60GB, with MMO's being real space hogs. Even though the PS4 now supports playing games from external storage, don't buy a PS4 with less than 2TB of storage.
If you buy games on Disc, it installs the game to the HDD just like a PC would. (And essentially the PS4 is a FreeBSD PC with games other than Nethack to play) You still need the disc to start it up though, that's to prevent one guy from sharing his disc with all his friends.
PS4 games support a partial gameplay feature. Games will install the early parts of the game like tutorial and early levels first so you can start playing while the rest installs.
Yes but Migration patterns AFTER the war have now "southernized" West Virginia (and Kentucky).
Kentucky, a state that NEVER seceded and sent far more men to fight for the Union than the Confederacy has more Confederate monuments than Union. If you ask Kentuckians if they are Southerners, they now answer yes. But back during the war they would have said, No, having more in common with Indiana and Illnois. Now Kentucky is basically North Tennesse rather than "South Indiana"
Hell now Indiana is basically North Kentucky because of migration patterns.
Yeah, I've been wondering that too and have been edging more towards the legalize with controls mindset.
People shouldn't smoke the stuff though, that's the WORST way to imbibe it. They ought to put THC into patches or gum or powder you can mix with stuff.
As an aside they really ought to have a prescription Ensure supplement with a touch of THC for seniors/disabled folks with appetite/nutritional issues.
This "stupid liberal" lives in a small town in a rural county with only one hospital, in Illinois. The population of this town is a bit under 12000 and the county population of around 36000.... and there are only 3 pharmacies.
We also have strict rules on opiate prescriptions to prevent the kind of shit going down in WV. We are dealing with the problem with poor blue collar people and opiates...but addiction treatment is a covered service here. So it is nowhere near as bad as WV.
And nobody is looking at OTHER nearby towns that may not have pharmacies, or being this is the only town with a Hospital in that county.
I live in the county seat of a small county in Illinois, it has the only hospital in this county. The population of the county seat is a bit under 12000 and the county population of around 36000.... and there are only 3 pharmacies.
You are also ignoring WV's high opiate overdose rate.
You might need to work on your English phrasing and comprehension, Ivan. You used English in ways a native English speaker wouldn't.
It's kind of like how some guys in eastern europe actually think that "terribad" or "nothingburger" are real english words rather than meme-words made up by some people for whom english isn't their primary language.
Or how some misogynist "anti-feminist" AC's on slashdot use "the females" where a native english speaker would use "women"
that's an average of over 3 a month, maybe not quite once a week, but not infrequently.
But it only takes 1 post to inflame opinions which might lead to those people inflaming OTHER people.
Let me give you an example of an instance on Slashdot. I don't believe it was russian trolling but an example of how one person can inflame opinion.
There was a discussion of how tech had changed how EBT (Food stamps) operated. Someone, I can't remember if it was an AC or not mentioned that they'd seen someone getting cash back from an electronic benefit card. And some other AC reported someone buying some prohibited item with such a card. That led to a HUGE thread of Slashdot tech-bro-tarians complaining about their taxes going to welfair and how poor people were stupid and all sorts of alt-right anti-poor stuff.
But... the truth is that those EBT cards support multiple benefits. One card can have a cash benefit (like unemployment) AND a food stamp benefit. I pointed this out, but it got lost in the anti-poor rhetoric. NONE of the slashdot regulars I replied to said "oops my bad, I didn't know the cards did that."
So imagine those tech-bro-tarians talking about politics with other tech-bros at work, they might go on about how poor people are undeserving cheats and frauds thusly contributing to the misinformation problem.
All it takes is one AC Russian saying "I saw some black panthers outside my polling place" or "Antifa threw rocks at me when I was at a trump rally" to inflame opinions.
Would you likewise consider a video game console to be a user-programmable computer because "people who care enough" can start a game studio and buy a multi-thousand-dollar devkit?
What a silly rhetorical question, since I know that you know about the Net Yaroze for the PSone, the PS2 Linux kit, and the PS3's ability to run Linux.
I suppose now you'll bring up how Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft make it so HARD for aspiring developers like yourself to make a commercial game.
How many years have we had this discussion? You've had YEARS to fulfill your dream and you haven't done it. You've not produced a complete game, you haven't gone to work for an established dev. All you've done is WHINE about barriers to entry, which don't seem to stop other people who want to do games for non-PC platforms.
Look, computer science has been in school curriculum's since "I" was a kid, and that was back in the 80's. It was an ELECTIVE then and it is an ELECTIVE now.
Sure, they might do a quick code:blocks hour of code thing in math or science class in grade school, but the actual computer science class in high school will be an ELECTIVE.
On top of that you cannot share Prime with people at the same address so it is useless for families since sharing an account means you cannot use it for Christmas and birthdays.
Yes you can, go to Your Account, scroll down til you see "Shopping Programs & Rentals and then click Amazon Household
Sharing benefits through Amazon Household requires both adults to link their accounts in an Amazon Household and agree to share payment methods. Each adult keeps his or her personal account while sharing those benefits at no additional cost. To set up an Amazon Household, go to the Amazon Household main page.
A couple years ago I lauded the internet for being a place where people who otherwise felt they are the only person with a certain condition or handicap can actually go and find others who share it and make them feel like they're not alone in the world.
It still is, but we also have to deal with Conspiracy Crazies and Internet Fuckwads saying "Shitcock"
Yes the average slashdotter and early internet adopter is miles ahead of today's internet user.
[joke[Says the "early adopter" with a 7-digit UID?[/joke]
Waits for a 5 or 4 digit slashdotter to tell my 6-digit UID self to get off their lawn where they are going to put a statue of Natalie Portman with hot grits with their beowulf cluster of libraries of congress.
More seriously, I agree with your sentiment, to a certain extent.
Gmail defaults to loading external content and is very popular.
"Gmail" as a service doesn't actually do that... you are speaking of the web interface to it which you do not have to use. In fact, I always recommend using a proper e-mail client with gmail over IMAP on both desktop and mobile.
Amongst the advantages are:
1. No remote content unless you specifically want it. 2. No ads 3. The ability to use GPG or S/MIME.
By CATV I mean what was basically a giant antenna put up by a company so small towns could get the Chicago stations. Eventually they got upgraded to satellite dishes and more channels back sometime in the late 70's, early 80's.
Slashdot Mirror
There's newer and more adult games from Hasbro. Besides, a lot of those pre-70's games are CLASSICS. And besides owning Milton Bradley AND Parker Brothers AND Kenner (IIRC they had a few board games), they also own Avalon Hill, AND Wizards of the Coast (which would also include TSR/SPI assets). Why they didn't pick up Pressman as well I'll never know.
They also act as publisher for some of those Eurogame companies in the US. It isn't Ravensburger that publishes Scotland Yard in the US, it is Hasbro.
So yes, Hasbro is the big kahuna of boardgames.
Although at least the Cell CPU was manufactured at IBM's fab in Fishkill NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I heard that IBM actually manufactured a few early demo unit PS3's and devkits there as well.
You forgot to mention that the PS4 has TWO media players.
One is the standard media player, it is the one that does DLNA, Video and FLAC audio. It has a sucky interface.
The other is the USB Music Player, which only shows up when a USB drive is plugged in. It has a nicer interface, great for playing music while gaming...but it can't play FLAC.
Also in some ways the PS4's web browser is worse than the PS3's.
For example the PS3's web browser CAN upload certain files from and download certain files to the PS3. For example if you were writing a blog post on the PS3.you could actually upload the blog pictures FROM a PS3. Or if you found a link to an MP3, you could actually download it to the PS3's hard drive and play it. You could even buy songs from the Amazon MP3 store!
You can do none of that with the PS4's web browser.
No, he's right in that the PS4's DLNA capabilities are inferior to the PS3's.
or the second version of PS3, not that top loading third version.
Do you mean the slim? You don't want that one either, it has zero backwards compatibility with the PS2.
The one you want is the CECHA version, that's the Deluxe launch model with both of the PS2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer as well as WiFi, a card reader for MemoryStick, SD and CompactFlashcards and 4 USB ports.
The CECHB launch version has the same compatibility but has only 2 USB ports, no card reader for Compact flash, memory stick and SD cards and NO WiFi! Which means you cannot use Ad-hoc party to tu nnel PSP online games on a CECHB PS3.
After that the best choice is the CECHE model (Deluxe model with 4 usb ports, card reader) which is the only other model with any PS2 backwards compatibility. In this case the CECHE drops the Emotion Engine and only has a Graphics Synthesizer so the compatibility isn't quite as good.
CECHA, CECHB and CECHE models come with 60, 20 and 80GB hard drives respectively. You will want to upgrade them if they still have the original drive, the drives are user replaceable and you use standard 2.5" SATA drives including SSD's.
because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new
Call up Sony, probably bad solder on the thing. Causes the graphics chip to go all wacky. Sony will fix them for a fee I had to send mine in a couple of years back
One note, back up ALL your save data, including any PS2 or PSone save data. While you can back up PS3 SAVEDATA to PS+ or USB storage, you have to use USB storage for PS2 and PSone saves.
but I discovered that the DVD drive died.
Call up Sony and see if they still fix PS2's with DRE's. Also 50001 series PS2's are the most reliable. Damn things were built like tanks...and about as heavy with an HDD in them.
Do you have to install 50 GB of data to play PS4 games?
Depends on the game. I think the biggest I've seen is about 60GB, with MMO's being real space hogs. Even though the PS4 now supports playing games from external storage, don't buy a PS4 with less than 2TB of storage.
If you buy games on Disc, it installs the game to the HDD just like a PC would. (And essentially the PS4 is a FreeBSD PC with games other than Nethack to play) You still need the disc to start it up though, that's to prevent one guy from sharing his disc with all his friends.
PS4 games support a partial gameplay feature. Games will install the early parts of the game like tutorial and early levels first so you can start playing while the rest installs.
Yes but Migration patterns AFTER the war have now "southernized" West Virginia (and Kentucky).
Kentucky, a state that NEVER seceded and sent far more men to fight for the Union than the Confederacy has more Confederate monuments than Union. If you ask Kentuckians if they are Southerners, they now answer yes. But back during the war they would have said, No, having more in common with Indiana and Illnois. Now Kentucky is basically North Tennesse rather than "South Indiana"
Hell now Indiana is basically North Kentucky because of migration patterns.
It does make me wonder if legalizing weed
Yeah, I've been wondering that too and have been edging more towards the legalize with controls mindset.
People shouldn't smoke the stuff though, that's the WORST way to imbibe it. They ought to put THC into patches or gum or powder you can mix with stuff.
As an aside they really ought to have a prescription Ensure supplement with a touch of THC for seniors/disabled folks with appetite/nutritional issues.
This "stupid liberal" lives in a small town in a rural county with only one hospital, in Illinois. The population of this town is a bit under 12000 and the county population of around 36000 .... and there are only 3 pharmacies.
We also have strict rules on opiate prescriptions to prevent the kind of shit going down in WV. We are dealing with the problem with poor blue collar people and opiates...but addiction treatment is a covered service here. So it is nowhere near as bad as WV.
And nobody is looking at OTHER nearby towns that may not have pharmacies, or being this is the only town with a Hospital in that county.
I live in the county seat of a small county in Illinois, it has the only hospital in this county. The population of the county seat is a bit under 12000 and the county population of around 36000 .... and there are only 3 pharmacies.
You are also ignoring WV's high opiate overdose rate.
You might need to work on your English phrasing and comprehension, Ivan. You used English in ways a native English speaker wouldn't.
It's kind of like how some guys in eastern europe actually think that "terribad" or "nothingburger" are real english words rather than meme-words made up by some people for whom english isn't their primary language.
Or how some misogynist "anti-feminist" AC's on slashdot use "the females" where a native english speaker would use "women"
that's an average of over 3 a month, maybe not quite once a week, but not infrequently.
But it only takes 1 post to inflame opinions which might lead to those people inflaming OTHER people.
Let me give you an example of an instance on Slashdot. I don't believe it was russian trolling but an example of how one person can inflame opinion.
There was a discussion of how tech had changed how EBT (Food stamps) operated. Someone, I can't remember if it was an AC or not mentioned that they'd seen someone getting cash back from an electronic benefit card. And some other AC reported someone buying some prohibited item with such a card. That led to a HUGE thread of Slashdot tech-bro-tarians complaining about their taxes going to welfair and how poor people were stupid and all sorts of alt-right anti-poor stuff.
But... the truth is that those EBT cards support multiple benefits. One card can have a cash benefit (like unemployment) AND a food stamp benefit. I pointed this out, but it got lost in the anti-poor rhetoric. NONE of the slashdot regulars I replied to said "oops my bad, I didn't know the cards did that."
So imagine those tech-bro-tarians talking about politics with other tech-bros at work, they might go on about how poor people are undeserving cheats and frauds thusly contributing to the misinformation problem.
All it takes is one AC Russian saying "I saw some black panthers outside my polling place" or "Antifa threw rocks at me when I was at a trump rally" to inflame opinions.
Would you likewise consider a video game console to be a user-programmable computer because "people who care enough" can start a game studio and buy a multi-thousand-dollar devkit?
What a silly rhetorical question, since I know that you know about the Net Yaroze for the PSone, the PS2 Linux kit, and the PS3's ability to run Linux.
I suppose now you'll bring up how Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft make it so HARD for aspiring developers like yourself to make a commercial game.
How many years have we had this discussion? You've had YEARS to fulfill your dream and you haven't done it. You've not produced a complete game, you haven't gone to work for an established dev. All you've done is WHINE about barriers to entry, which don't seem to stop other people who want to do games for non-PC platforms.
You know about Axiom Verge, right?
http://www.axiomverge.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The game is on WiiU, Switch, Xbox One, PS4, Vita as well as Windows, MacOS and Linux.
ONE guy did that game.
If you want to do word processing, spreadsheets, or even explain in detail why the guy posting on your favorite forum is an idiot,
I'm not going to call you an idiot, but bluetooth keyboards and USB OTG have been a thing for years now.
"office" apps have also been a thing on tablets for years now, as well as Google Docs.
Look, computer science has been in school curriculum's since "I" was a kid, and that was back in the 80's. It was an ELECTIVE then and it is an ELECTIVE now.
Sure, they might do a quick code:blocks hour of code thing in math or science class in grade school, but the actual computer science class in high school will be an ELECTIVE.
Of course, the downside was that was the ONLY printer you could use.
There were two, you're forgetting the LaserWriter
But compare that setup with say Linux CUPS.
You may not be aware of this but modern versions of CUPS on Linux can and will set up your printer without you the user actually doing anything.
How does it benefit the public to make the tools for programming a computer sold to the public cost several times more than the computer itself?
Benefit the public? Why is that a consideration? the vast majority of the Public don't have the desire or knowledge to program that computer.
And those that DO tend to have the money and are WILLING to buy the tools.
Think about all those slashdot geeks who have mentioned using Borland C's compiler on their DOS machine.
On top of that you cannot share Prime with people at the same address so it is useless for families since sharing an account means you cannot use it for Christmas and birthdays.
Yes you can, go to Your Account, scroll down til you see "Shopping Programs & Rentals and then click Amazon Household
From the help page about it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help...
Sharing benefits through Amazon Household requires both adults to link their accounts in an Amazon Household and agree to share payment methods. Each adult keeps his or her personal account while sharing those benefits at no additional cost. To set up an Amazon Household, go to the Amazon Household main page.
https://www..amazon.com/myh/ma...
I'd be filled with happiness to find a dress with actual practical pockets! Amazing! What an idea!
They exist, try Lands End
https://www.landsend.com/produ...
3a. Don't forget CGA, EGA, and Hercules versions,
You forgot Tandy graphics. ;-)
A couple years ago I lauded the internet for being a place where people who otherwise felt they are the only person with a certain condition or handicap can actually go and find others who share it and make them feel like they're not alone in the world.
It still is, but we also have to deal with Conspiracy Crazies and Internet Fuckwads saying "Shitcock"
Yes the average slashdotter and early internet adopter is miles ahead of today's internet user.
[joke[Says the "early adopter" with a 7-digit UID?[/joke]
Waits for a 5 or 4 digit slashdotter to tell my 6-digit UID self to get off their lawn where they are going to put a statue of Natalie Portman with hot grits with their beowulf cluster of libraries of congress.
More seriously, I agree with your sentiment, to a certain extent.
Gmail defaults to loading external content and is very popular.
"Gmail" as a service doesn't actually do that... you are speaking of the web interface to it which you do not have to use. In fact, I always recommend using a proper e-mail client with gmail over IMAP on both desktop and mobile.
Amongst the advantages are:
1. No remote content unless you specifically want it.
2. No ads
3. The ability to use GPG or S/MIME.
By CATV I mean what was basically a giant antenna put up by a company so small towns could get the Chicago stations. Eventually they got upgraded to satellite dishes and more channels back sometime in the late 70's, early 80's.