My first computer was a used C128 found at a garage sale, with 2 1571's, 1902/a monitor, a few other gizmos, much software, including C128 specific stuff.
I had an electronic typewriter that survived all three C64s because instructors wouldn't accept print outs since wordprocessors turned students into lazy writers.
How could they tell the difference? Sure, they could tell the difference with a 9-pin printer in draft mode, but a 24 pin NLQ or daisywheel?
Heck, it's even possible to hook up a Deskjet or Laserjet to a C64, with a GeoCable. IIRC I once got a Deskjet to do text mode output from a C128 with a Xetec printer interface attached.
Naively, I assumed that there was just/dev/xxxxx entries for each port, and you could just redirect programs to them. XD
There probably are, but it isn't 1996 anymore and we don't (in general) access our audio devices that way on a user level, After all who wants to type "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1" all the time.
I do believe you can redirect on the command line with pactl or pacmd. Also try pasystray.
You are pretty much like the butt hurt rioters breaking shit and assaulting people.
No because I didn't riot or break things, I engaged in politcal discussion and engaged in political humor using a program. I did not say that Ivanka or her father should die, or that anything should happen to them. I did say she shouldn't work for him, that she is essentially a spoiled Celebutante and that Trump himself has been nationally known to be a self-aggrandizing lying asshole since the 80's....even earlier in NYC.
Ya. He's right. Kill yourself
Says the Anonymous coward internet tough guy, who is afraid to stand by their words.
Hey, I might have heard somewhere that Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot are basement dwelling gamergater fedora wearing aspies who jerk off to pre-pubescent girls in Japanese-animation. I don't know I heard it might be true, you tell me, you tell me. Anonymous Cowards are Fake Internet Smart guys who think that because they can write code they know everything about politics and think that their Trumpfenfuhrer will bring back the good old days when they could say sexist or racist things in their dudebro coder pen at work and get away with it. That he'll send all the Murkesh's and Samit's here on H1B's back to India That's what I've been hearing, you tell me, that's what people say, you tell me
You just wrote your code to be a complete fucking asshole.
Did I not freely admit I wrote the joke at Spoiled Princess Ivanka's expense? And is there not that much a difference between her life and that of other spoiled Celebutante's like Paris Hilton?
Kill yourself and spare us all the knowledge of your existence. Seriously.. Do it, you mother fucking cunt. No one cares about you anyway.
Okay, so I say Ivanka is spoiled and her dad is a bad person and I should kill myself? Overreacting much? Really...kill myself? And I'm the "cunt"? You know, maybe YOU are the evil person by being a misogynist by using "cunt" as an insult, and telling another human being to kill themselves and that one one cares about them.
The Switch is basically doing what the Vita + PS TV combo already did in 2013/2014. It isn't innovative at all, just copying Sony like Nintendo did with Motion controls. Remember, the Playstation Eyetoy predates the Wii by 3 years.
I've always imagined Nintendo's executives being something like this:
"Why do the Amerikaijin keep asking about features in regards to this In-ter-net. Baka gaijin, they are suppose to play our video games on the train and manga/gaming cafes with the other Otaku." Nintendo seems to be still have some of that "Great and Glorious Nippon is the center of the video gaming universe, who cares about the gaijin" attitude that has been around since the NES!
Nintendo certainly isn't like Microsoft who understood how integrating certain internet features would benefit gaming on console.
And they aren't even like Sony, SIEA (formerly SCEA) is basically in charge of Sony's gaming division (SIE) now, after Ken Kutaragi's mess with the PS3. The global CEO is Andrew House and it is based in Calfornia, not Japan. Gaijin run SIE now, and everyone knows it. And the head of Sony itself is Kaz Hirai, a former SCEA guy.
Sony is doing VERY well with the PS4 because they got rid of those "we design video game system to be challenge to develop for and documentation for gaijin is secondary. if you cannot figure out undocumented features you are baka gaijin" guys and replaced them with guys like Mark Cerny.
If understand correctly, you are both saying that since her "daddy" is rich
Him being rich isn't the problem.
you don't like her daddy
Him being a narcissistic self-aggrandizing asshole with no respect for facts is. And he's been that way since I first read articles about him in the 80's!
then anything she does is automatically invalid.
Nope, but considering all the things he's done as a father, husband, businessman and politician over the years, I believe that a honest empathic person would want to have nothing to do with him.
This is a man whose company engaged in racist housing practices. Who lied about who actually wrote his book Who filed bankruptcy to cheat employees. Who failed at the casino business which is a license to print money. Who claims to be a great businessman but keeps failing at it. Whose first wife was a model born in 1949 Whose second wife, a print model, was born in 1963 Whose third wife was a model born in 1970 Cheated on Ivanka's mother when Ivanka was still a child. Once said that if Ivanka was not related to him he'd want to sleep with her. "Grabbing pussy" Birtherism Bigotry
But she continues to work with him. Heck if my father had done HALF the stuff The Donald had done I'd have never spoken to him again and insisted he stay far away from me.
But she doesn't. What does she do after college? Spoiled Celebutante/model got a cushy job handed to her by her father, who ever since she was young treated her more like a trophy herself.
And now? A Job in the West Wing? And after years of Righ Wing outrage at Hillary because Bill Clinton had her work on healthcare (which was something she had expertise in from her actual education and work), nobody is saying a thing?
In fact, she's acting more like a "First Lady" than the actual First Lady is. Why isn't Melania taking this course herself and/or with 11 year old Barron? Heck why isn't the President HIMSELF doing it. President Obama did.
Ivanka is essentially lending support to the cause that Slashdot is constantly harping on. But because you don't like her "daddy", fuck her. Do I have that right?
No, I'm not saying to fuck her. But SHE shouldn't be doing this as a "member" of the Trump administration SHE or her brothers shouldn't be anywhere NEAR the White House. But hey, she's a spoiled princess who does what daddy wants because daddy holds the ultimate purse strings and she doesn't want what happened to Ivana, Marla and Tiffany to happen to her.
I just wrote my code to make a joke about how this is Slashdot, where nerds write actual silly working programs to make jokes. Which was at "Spoiled Princess Ivanka's" expense.
Look, neophytes say cringey things BECAUSE they're neophytes and that is okay.
I cringed when people said things like "Atari tapes" or "Nintendo tapes", but....they were plastic things that held computer programs....just like actual tapes once did. Heck most of the people using those terms probably had seen some CoCo, C64 or Atari machine hooked up to a tape drive. They used terminology familiar to them, not the terminology we nerds do.
But they can learn, and if we openly cringe at the neophytes..well they may be less willing to learn.
Now I'm all for giving 9 year-olds a taste of programming. Seymour Papert did wonderful work along those lines, including with children as young as the fifth grade
Have you looked at those "Hour of Code" things intended for young people? They're basically turtle graphics.
THIS.....IS.....SLASHDOT, you should have written one that actually works!
#/bin/python3 daddy_paying_will = input("Is Daddy paying me or has me in the will? Enter Yes or No.\n") if daddy_paying_will == "Yes":
print("LIES\nALTERNATIVE FACTS\nFAKE NEWS\nSO SAD\n") else:
print("I'm Fucked.")
Took me a few minutes to come up with that, and I know very little about programming. Hmm, since these hour of code things are mostly turtle graphics I wonder if I could do it with python's turtle graphics module....back to vim....
#/bin/python3 import turtle turtle.shape("turtle") daddy_paying_will = turtle.textinput("Answer Question", "Is Daddy paying me or has me in the will? Enter Yes or No.\n") if daddy_paying_will == "Yes":
turtle.write("LIES\nALTERNATIVE FACTS\nFAKE NEWS\nSO SAD\n\nClick window to exit.", align="center", font=("Comic Sans MS", 32,))
turtle.exitonclick() else:
turtle.write("I'm Fucked\n\nClick window to exit.", align="center", font=("Comic Sans MS", 32,))
turtle.exitonclick()
That took me a bit longer, had to figure out how to prompt for input IN the turtle window. turtle.textinput is Python3 only. I leave it as an excercise for the reader to figure out how to change the default turtle to an image of Trump himself.
Try finding a working PSone that isn't overpriced. Early model PS2's also tend to have dvd drive issues. 50001's and later tend to be okay though.
The PS3 is more convenient, especially if you can find a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE PS3 which can run PS2 games. (ALL PS3's can run PSone games) The virtual memory card thing alone is nice. The only issue that bugs me is that if you use the PS3 you lose non-USB PS2 and PSone peripheral support, so no using the PSone mouse or the giant dual analog stick with the PSone port of Mechwarrior 2.
Most of the later PS2 peripherals were USB, thank goodness.
Isn't back compat on a subscription model from sony these days?
On the PS4, mostly, yes. There are a few HD remasters and PS4 re-releases though.
Edit>Preferences>Advanced, then choose the General tab. Then uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available. You might also want or need to uncheck "use smooth scrolling" Then it should be back to normal.
Libreoffice:
Tools>Options>Libreoffice>View: Uncheck use hardware acceleration. Normally that works better than it does on Firefox so I leave that one checked.
Chrome:
Settings, scoll to the bottom and click advanced settings, then under System there should be "Use hardware acceleration when available" Again, this usually works fine enabled, it is Firefox that's given me trouble with it enabled.
You don't use the dropdown to select which will be the default, you use the "set as fallback" button in the "Output Devices" tab of pavucontrol.
Also check the Configuration tab and make sure that a proper output has been selected for the "fancy" audio card. For example, my video card's HDMI audio shows 6 selectable outputs but only 3 work. Digital stereo HDMI (2), Digital Surround HDMI 5.1 (2) and Off. The others show as "unplugged"
I changed my video card to one that had HDMI audio. If I want to use my fancy sound card, I need to prevent the system from defaulting to the HDMI interface.
Your video card can output higher quality audio than your "fancy" audio card can, really.
(Mint 18.1) fails to make the old interface available in any of its configuration options. Blacklist the HDMI module? Now I don't get any sound configuration interface at all. I fumbled around on the forums for days. Nobody had a solution that that worked, much less one that a noob could grok.
pavucontrol, run it. If pavucontrol is not installed, install it, it has more configuration options and is apparently NOT installed by default in Mint 18.1 It will show BOTH your "fancy" sound card and HDMI audio and you can switch between them on the fly. In fact you can choose which output an application uses on an individual level. For example you could have XMMS outputting to HDMI, while rhythmbox is sending output to your "fancy" sound card.
IMHO pavucontrol should ALWAYS be installed by default on pulseaudio using systems
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My first computer was a used C128 found at a garage sale, with 2 1571's, 1902/a monitor, a few other gizmos, much software, including C128 specific stuff.
I had an electronic typewriter that survived all three C64s because instructors wouldn't accept print outs since wordprocessors turned students into lazy writers.
How could they tell the difference? Sure, they could tell the difference with a 9-pin printer in draft mode, but a 24 pin NLQ or daisywheel?
Heck, it's even possible to hook up a Deskjet or Laserjet to a C64, with a GeoCable. IIRC I once got a Deskjet to do text mode output from a C128 with a Xetec printer interface attached.
Naively, I assumed that there was just /dev/xxxxx entries for each port, and you could just redirect programs to them. XD
There probably are, but it isn't 1996 anymore and we don't (in general) access our audio devices that way on a user level, After all who wants to type "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1" all the time.
I do believe you can redirect on the command line with pactl or pacmd. Also try pasystray.
That's no different from non-Indian CS guys, that attitude is universal. Read some open source project forums or visit some IRC channels.
Because Nintendo Fanboys think Nintendo can do no wrong and is the only innovator even when they do something after some other company does it first.
You are pretty much like the butt hurt rioters breaking shit and assaulting people.
No because I didn't riot or break things, I engaged in politcal discussion and engaged in political humor using a program. I did not say that Ivanka or her father should die, or that anything should happen to them. I did say she shouldn't work for him, that she is essentially a spoiled Celebutante and that Trump himself has been nationally known to be a self-aggrandizing lying asshole since the 80's....even earlier in NYC.
Ya. He's right. Kill yourself
Says the Anonymous coward internet tough guy, who is afraid to stand by their words.
Hey, I might have heard somewhere that Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot are basement dwelling gamergater fedora wearing aspies who jerk off to pre-pubescent girls in Japanese-animation. I don't know I heard it might be true, you tell me, you tell me. Anonymous Cowards are Fake Internet Smart guys who think that because they can write code they know everything about politics and think that their Trumpfenfuhrer will bring back the good old days when they could say sexist or racist things in their dudebro coder pen at work and get away with it. That he'll send all the Murkesh's and Samit's here on H1B's back to India That's what I've been hearing, you tell me, that's what people say, you tell me
You just wrote your code to be a complete fucking asshole.
Did I not freely admit I wrote the joke at Spoiled Princess Ivanka's expense? And is there not that much a difference between her life and that of other spoiled Celebutante's like Paris Hilton?
Kill yourself and spare us all the knowledge of your existence. Seriously.. Do it, you mother fucking cunt. No one cares about you anyway.
Okay, so I say Ivanka is spoiled and her dad is a bad person and I should kill myself? Overreacting much? Really...kill myself? And I'm the "cunt"? You know, maybe YOU are the evil person by being a misogynist by using "cunt" as an insult, and telling another human being to kill themselves and that one one cares about them.
* It's also portable.
The Switch is basically doing what the Vita + PS TV combo already did in 2013/2014. It isn't innovative at all, just copying Sony like Nintendo did with Motion controls. Remember, the Playstation Eyetoy predates the Wii by 3 years.
I've always imagined Nintendo's executives being something like this:
"Why do the Amerikaijin keep asking about features in regards to this In-ter-net. Baka gaijin, they are suppose to play our video games on the train and manga/gaming cafes with the other Otaku." Nintendo seems to be still have some of that "Great and Glorious Nippon is the center of the video gaming universe, who cares about the gaijin" attitude that has been around since the NES!
Nintendo certainly isn't like Microsoft who understood how integrating certain internet features would benefit gaming on console.
And they aren't even like Sony, SIEA (formerly SCEA) is basically in charge of Sony's gaming division (SIE) now, after Ken Kutaragi's mess with the PS3. The global CEO is Andrew House and it is based in Calfornia, not Japan. Gaijin run SIE now, and everyone knows it. And the head of Sony itself is Kaz Hirai, a former SCEA guy.
Sony is doing VERY well with the PS4 because they got rid of those "we design video game system to be challenge to develop for and documentation for gaijin is secondary. if you cannot figure out undocumented features you are baka gaijin" guys and replaced them with guys like Mark Cerny.
they are automatically backed up online for your "primary" PS4 system if you have auto upload enabled. Some people don't know they should do that:
http://manuals.playstation.net...
Then setup automatic uploads, if it is not already turned on:
http://manuals.playstation.net...
You can also upload manually or copy to USB storage:
http://manuals.playstation.net...
If understand correctly, you are both saying that since her "daddy" is rich
Him being rich isn't the problem.
you don't like her daddy
Him being a narcissistic self-aggrandizing asshole with no respect for facts is. And he's been that way since I first read articles about him in the 80's!
then anything she does is automatically invalid.
Nope, but considering all the things he's done as a father, husband, businessman and politician over the years, I believe that a honest empathic person would want to have nothing to do with him.
This is a man whose company engaged in racist housing practices.
Who lied about who actually wrote his book
Who filed bankruptcy to cheat employees.
Who failed at the casino business which is a license to print money.
Who claims to be a great businessman but keeps failing at it.
Whose first wife was a model born in 1949
Whose second wife, a print model, was born in 1963
Whose third wife was a model born in 1970
Cheated on Ivanka's mother when Ivanka was still a child.
Once said that if Ivanka was not related to him he'd want to sleep with her.
"Grabbing pussy"
Birtherism
Bigotry
But she continues to work with him. Heck if my father had done HALF the stuff The Donald had done I'd have never spoken to him again and insisted he stay far away from me.
But she doesn't. What does she do after college? Spoiled Celebutante/model got a cushy job handed to her by her father, who ever since she was young treated her more like a trophy herself.
And now? A Job in the West Wing? And after years of Righ Wing outrage at Hillary because Bill Clinton had her work on healthcare (which was something she had expertise in from her actual education and work), nobody is saying a thing?
In fact, she's acting more like a "First Lady" than the actual First Lady is. Why isn't Melania taking this course herself and/or with 11 year old Barron? Heck why isn't the President HIMSELF doing it. President Obama did.
Ivanka is essentially lending support to the cause that Slashdot is constantly harping on. But because you don't like her "daddy", fuck her. Do I have that right?
No, I'm not saying to fuck her. But SHE shouldn't be doing this as a "member" of the Trump administration SHE or her brothers shouldn't be anywhere NEAR the White House. But hey, she's a spoiled princess who does what daddy wants because daddy holds the ultimate purse strings and she doesn't want what happened to Ivana, Marla and Tiffany to happen to her.
I just wrote my code to make a joke about how this is Slashdot, where nerds write actual silly working programs to make jokes. Which was at "Spoiled Princess Ivanka's" expense.
Basically, Turtle graphics by dragging and dropping blocks of code.
https://hourofcode.com/frzn
Note that section 4 of the above starts teaching about the usefulness of loops.
And it is prime cringe material.
Look, neophytes say cringey things BECAUSE they're neophytes and that is okay.
I cringed when people said things like "Atari tapes" or "Nintendo tapes", but....they were plastic things that held computer programs....just like actual tapes once did. Heck most of the people using those terms probably had seen some CoCo, C64 or Atari machine hooked up to a tape drive. They used terminology familiar to them, not the terminology we nerds do.
But they can learn, and if we openly cringe at the neophytes..well they may be less willing to learn.
Now I'm all for giving 9 year-olds a taste of programming. Seymour Papert did wonderful work along those lines, including with children as young as the fifth grade
Have you looked at those "Hour of Code" things intended for young people? They're basically turtle graphics.
THIS.....IS.....SLASHDOT, you should have written one that actually works!
#/bin/python3
daddy_paying_will = input("Is Daddy paying me or has me in the will? Enter Yes or No.\n")
if daddy_paying_will == "Yes":
print("LIES\nALTERNATIVE FACTS\nFAKE NEWS\nSO SAD\n")
else:
print("I'm Fucked.")
Took me a few minutes to come up with that, and I know very little about programming. Hmm, since these hour of code things are mostly turtle graphics I wonder if I could do it with python's turtle graphics module....back to vim....
#/bin/python3
import turtle
turtle.shape("turtle")
daddy_paying_will = turtle.textinput("Answer Question", "Is Daddy paying me or has me in the will? Enter Yes or No.\n")
if daddy_paying_will == "Yes":
turtle.write("LIES\nALTERNATIVE FACTS\nFAKE NEWS\nSO SAD\n\nClick window to exit.", align="center", font=("Comic Sans MS", 32,))
turtle.exitonclick()
else:
turtle.write("I'm Fucked\n\nClick window to exit.", align="center", font=("Comic Sans MS", 32,))
turtle.exitonclick()
That took me a bit longer, had to figure out how to prompt for input IN the turtle window. turtle.textinput is Python3 only. I leave it as an excercise for the reader to figure out how to change the default turtle to an image of Trump himself.
Or do you mean PC prices have risen to match console?
Yes, there is no PC/Console price differential. Well not in North America. Retailers still might have one in PC Master Piracy Race land in Europe.
https://games.slashdot.org/com...
Doesn't matter because you can get a NEW GOTY edition for $20 at Amazon, which is still cheaper than the used one at Gamestop.
The key word being "monitor", try replacing that monitor with a TV.
So why not just buy a ps1? or even 2?
Try finding a working PSone that isn't overpriced. Early model PS2's also tend to have dvd drive issues. 50001's and later tend to be okay though.
The PS3 is more convenient, especially if you can find a CECHA/CECHB/CECHE PS3 which can run PS2 games. (ALL PS3's can run PSone games) The virtual memory card thing alone is nice. The only issue that bugs me is that if you use the PS3 you lose non-USB PS2 and PSone peripheral support, so no using the PSone mouse or the giant dual analog stick with the PSone port of Mechwarrior 2.
Most of the later PS2 peripherals were USB, thank goodness.
Isn't back compat on a subscription model from sony these days?
On the PS4, mostly, yes. There are a few HD remasters and PS4 re-releases though.
The prices are considerably lower to compensate for the lack of first sale.
Not anymore, go check prices, they're the same as the console prices.
I'm a little late with my response.
Firefox:
Edit>Preferences>Advanced, then choose the General tab. Then uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available. You might also want or need to uncheck "use smooth scrolling" Then it should be back to normal.
Libreoffice:
Tools>Options>Libreoffice>View: Uncheck use hardware acceleration. Normally that works better than it does on Firefox so I leave that one checked.
Chrome:
Settings, scoll to the bottom and click advanced settings, then under System there should be "Use hardware acceleration when available" Again, this usually works fine enabled, it is Firefox that's given me trouble with it enabled.
You don't use the dropdown to select which will be the default, you use the "set as fallback" button in the "Output Devices" tab of pavucontrol.
Also check the Configuration tab and make sure that a proper output has been selected for the "fancy" audio card. For example, my video card's HDMI audio shows 6 selectable outputs but only 3 work. Digital stereo HDMI (2), Digital Surround HDMI 5.1 (2) and Off. The others show as "unplugged"
True, but I highly doubt very many people are sending the output of a "fancy" audio card to a 5.1 system.
I changed my video card to one that had HDMI audio. If I want to use my fancy sound card, I need to prevent the system
from defaulting to the HDMI interface.
Your video card can output higher quality audio than your "fancy" audio card can, really.
(Mint 18.1) fails to make the old interface available in any of its configuration options. Blacklist the HDMI module? Now
I don't get any sound configuration interface at all. I fumbled around on the forums for days. Nobody had a solution that
that worked, much less one that a noob could grok.
pavucontrol, run it. If pavucontrol is not installed, install it, it has more configuration options and is apparently NOT installed by default in Mint 18.1 It will show BOTH your "fancy" sound card and HDMI audio and you can switch between them on the fly. In fact you can choose which output an application uses on an individual level. For example you could have XMMS outputting to HDMI, while rhythmbox is sending output to your "fancy" sound card.
IMHO pavucontrol should ALWAYS be installed by default on pulseaudio using systems
How do I fix the mouse wheel? Scrolling is incredibly slow in some apps and reasonably quick in others.
That's usually an application issue, not a system issue, involving hardware acceleration for scrolling. Turn it off.