Panzer Dragoon Saga (US Version) for Sega Saturn Steam Hearts (TurboDuo - Japanese) Arcade Card (TurboDuo) Kisado Adaptor (Not a game - a Jap/US adaptor for TurboDuo - pricey and rare as hell) Virtually any PC-FX game
and some pseudo-rarities Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (quickly replaced by regular 'Punch Out' after Mike became a rapist and lunatic) A whole slew of unofficial bible games for NES by some company (i forget now) that found a way around the NES' boot method.
I got a NeoGeo Pocket, and a Flashlink adaptor and 2 blank cartridges. I had tons of fun boxing day hacking homebrewed stuff, and whatnot. Though I pretty much had to spell out *exactly* what to get and where to get it for my wife.
I'd frankly rather let people surprise me with whatever. A far as the 'geek' stuff goes: computer parts, video games, etc, I know what I want better than anyone I know. It's less fun when you have to give people the exact part numbers of what you want.
It's better to give than to recieve, so this year I'm giving the geek gifts. I bought up a couple of abandoned 'barbie' pc cases for 6 bucks, fitted them with Shuttle FV25 flex-atx mainboards, 1.0A Celerons, a chunk of ram, some dvd players, and am giving each kid their own media PC. One painted up to look like Scooby's Mystery Machine (for the boy), the other upholstered in mock leapord-skin fur (for the girl).
a dvd player (or a ps2/xbox), one of the LCD displays for PS1 or Gamecube, and a DC-AC adaptor works great to keep kids quiet on long car trips. I just strap the screen to the back of the front seat, sit the PS2 between the kids, and you're all set.
A good mobile dvd player would no doubt be less prone to skipping, but if you aren't offroading (ie; highway driving) it's all good.
Be warned: many, if not most, children will get carsick trying to watch a movie or play video games while driving. Whether you spend 2000$ or 400$ on your car entertainment center won't make kids puke any less.
..about the anime block they have now. Maybe Cowboy Bebop could classify as adolescent, but the others don't seem any more 'adult' than Dragonball Z or Voltron.
Sunday's block I recognize as adult-themed, Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, Mission Hill, Home Movies - they all have mature themes and humor.
I've seen some stuff like Akira or Ghost in the Shell or Baoh - that comes off as adult. Inuyasha looks like Sailor Moon, though.
Are the japanese series' editted so much that they just come off as kids shows?
It seems they're just calling the saturday block 'adult' to get more 10-12 year olds to watch it.
Here's some more arson. These clowns had murder on their minds, luckily they didn't pull it off.
I guess flammible liquids and lighters are immoral.
There's also an alarming rise of roadrage incidents, with the overwhelming majority of perpetrators using their vehicles as weapons. I guess cars are immoral.
People just need common sense. And I'm only assuming that zealots on one side of the issure or the other are idiots.
I'm for liscensing of firearms, and ballistic fingerprinting. An out-and-out ban is unreasonable and a lost cause. The status quo of 'untracable guns for all' is unacceptable as well.
Most people dont commit murders, and those who decide they want to will find a way.
>> 4. There is one less place to buy parts for things used to kill other people.
like baseball bats, telephone cords, vehicles, ball peen hammers, axes?
I might agree with a campaign against handguns, but I have enough common sense to know that shotguns and rifles are a necessity to many people who don't have the luxury of living in an urban setting.
I myself have shot 2 rabid foxes in my life, and fired into the air to chase off a black bear who was rummaging around outside.
It's ridiculous everyone feels they need to boil the issue of gun control down to an all-or-nothing debate. It's bound to go nowhere, and just waste tons of cash and effort arguing for both extremes.
Hmm. If they have linux versions, why not make them available on their website? The video tools are freely available for Windows, so having the linux version floating around surely would only help further adoption of their tech.
I can understand why they wouldnt release source - but would sticking the client and encoders up hurt them?
1) Buy older/cheaper hardware and make it more useful. Ie, people with P3 Tualitans running at 1.8 ghz. That's a noticable boost.
2) People who want to be past the cutting edge. These are the ones who buy a new 3.06 and O/C it - just to be ahead of the curve. This could have real advantages. If you encoded a lot of video/audio, did a lot of rendering, other such CPU intensive tasks.
Mostly, though, 2 goes hand in hand with 3:
3) To show off.
Personally, I don't O/C CPUs. I'd rather have my new 2.53 cpu last for 5-10 years (like the P100 I'm using as a router) than have it run at 2.8ghz for a year or two.
If my board would allow me, I'd even underclock the fsb by 10mhz or so to run cooler and last longer.
That said, I'm squeezing the last bit of life out of my older 1st gen Radeon card with a 25% overclock (as per item #1)
W2K will support it too, last I read. TechTV was probably just putting a little advertising spin on it.
I watched about 5 minutes of the screensavers the other day where they gushed and ooed and awed over how cool XP Media Center edition is. And why it makes sense you cant get the OS seperate from the hardware - because its so complicated to put together a PC with VIVO ability that only bigtime oems can do it.
Heat spreaders do absolutely nothing but look good inside a windowed case. They run no cooler or hotter, and noone has gotten ram to perform any better with or without them.
Your DIMMs will actually run better with a little bit of a breeze moving stale air off of the chips than it would with a piece of aluminum stuck on with a length of sticky 'thermal' tape.
It's just something to sell to the 'eXTreMe l337 p00ter h4xorz!'
You only pay that if you just 'gotta have it' on release day. Within a month you can find new titles for 20 bucks or so, and if that fails you can find 'em used.
It's still much cheaper upfront. 199 for an (xbox/ngc/ps2) vs 2000$ for a PC thats been stickered 'gamers pc'.
Another big factor is the ability to go to blockbuster and rent the games. You just can't do that with PC games, and unless your hardcore into the scene, you pretty much take a 30$ crap shoot at Best Buy when you pick one out.
He spends the first half of the article ranting against MicroSoft and QualComm (which is why this no-shit submission is on slashdot), and then treats us to this:
Add the following lines to you AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
REM ---- Java Support ----
SET MIDP_HOME=C:\j2me\midp
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\j2sdk1.4.0_03\BIN;
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\j2sdk1.4.0_0 3\BIN;C:\j2me\midp\bin;%PATH%
Then force these variables to be reloaded by running
the batch file:
c:\> autoexec.bat
You'd think someone so anti-MSFT would have done his little programs under linux.
Or perhaps, linux just doesnt work for this task (no shock there).
I bet it compares poorly in real life, favorably in reviews.
Asus has lowered themselves to producing cheap hardware that looks fast on paper but performs poorly in the wild.
I know myself, having purchased a P4S8X fairly recently - boasting its onboard S-ATA RAID and 'unofficial' support for DDR400. It's unstable with a good stick of DDR333, and the RAID 0 is actually slower than with a single drive.
After an RMA, I got the same board back, with no changes.
The 'fix' for the memory issue was a bios update that runs your ram at sub DDR266 settings if you set it at 333 or higher. Benchmarks confirm this, as well as dozens of other disgruntled enthusiasts at asusboards.com. Obviously some regular guy who wouldnt bother to run a benchmark on the board, and would never know how much more he paid for less.
Oh, and I bought it based on a review from that paid infomercial website, toms hardware. All the review websites have lowered themselves to running thinly veiled advertisements, a la slashdot.
How else do they stay online?
Can we just have a From The-Corporate-Whore Dept tag on all the infomercials from now on?
For this incredible artform to realize its true zenith. The faustian undertones omnipresent in Anime, the razor wit, the breathtaking artwork. Not since Voltron has there been an Anime franchise as deeply motivating and skillfully executed.
>> I have no idea why they all use orange ones now, I guess they are cheaper? I think the orange ones are called "sodium vapor."
It's a big government plot so that you miss out on shit like this.
Oh, that and lasting forever and using half the power... I bet if you think hard, you'd remember seeing every 5th street light burned out. Something you hardly ever see.
If you dont like it, you could always get your ass into the car, drive for a half hour in any given direction, and watch your stars.
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Just 1 pc Reference board?
Or a bunch of other goodies, tools to play with the codemorph twiddly-winks, or whatnot?
I mean I get the difference between a reference/debug build of a machine vs a retail build, eg Debug X-box vs a Retail X-box.
You have to get more than a half-assed MicroATX board with a Linus(tm) CPU on it, right?
I'm trying to avoid the obvious 'bah i wont support blah blah' thing and understand exactly what you get for a g-note from these guys.
DONT MIX
Don't screw with nature. This is like trying to breed cats and dogs.
Panzer Dragoon Saga (US Version) for Sega Saturn
Steam Hearts (TurboDuo - Japanese)
Arcade Card (TurboDuo)
Kisado Adaptor (Not a game - a Jap/US adaptor for TurboDuo - pricey and rare as hell)
Virtually any PC-FX game
and some pseudo-rarities
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (quickly replaced by regular 'Punch Out' after Mike became a rapist and lunatic)
A whole slew of unofficial bible games for NES by some company (i forget now) that found a way around the NES' boot method.
I got a NeoGeo Pocket, and a Flashlink adaptor and 2 blank cartridges. I had tons of fun boxing day hacking homebrewed stuff, and whatnot. Though I pretty much had to spell out *exactly* what to get and where to get it for my wife.
I'd frankly rather let people surprise me with whatever. A far as the 'geek' stuff goes: computer parts, video games, etc, I know what I want better than anyone I know. It's less fun when you have to give people the exact part numbers of what you want.
It's better to give than to recieve, so this year I'm giving the geek gifts. I bought up a couple of abandoned 'barbie' pc cases for 6 bucks, fitted them with Shuttle FV25 flex-atx mainboards, 1.0A Celerons, a chunk of ram, some dvd players, and am giving each kid their own media PC. One painted up to look like Scooby's Mystery Machine (for the boy), the other upholstered in mock leapord-skin fur (for the girl).
a dvd player (or a ps2/xbox), one of the LCD displays for PS1 or Gamecube, and a DC-AC adaptor works great to keep kids quiet on long car trips. I just strap the screen to the back of the front seat, sit the PS2 between the kids, and you're all set.
A good mobile dvd player would no doubt be less prone to skipping, but if you aren't offroading (ie; highway driving) it's all good.
Be warned: many, if not most, children will get carsick trying to watch a movie or play video games while driving. Whether you spend 2000$ or 400$ on your car entertainment center won't make kids puke any less.
..about the anime block they have now. Maybe Cowboy Bebop could classify as adolescent, but the others don't seem any more 'adult' than Dragonball Z or Voltron.
Sunday's block I recognize as adult-themed, Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, Mission Hill, Home Movies - they all have mature themes and humor.
I've seen some stuff like Akira or Ghost in the Shell or Baoh - that comes off as adult. Inuyasha looks like Sailor Moon, though.
Are the japanese series' editted so much that they just come off as kids shows?
It seems they're just calling the saturday block 'adult' to get more 10-12 year olds to watch it.
blah blah blah blah Law Enforcement blah.
blah blah blah blah George Bush blah blah blah HomeSec blah blah DMCA! blah blah blah blah Gomer Pyle blah blah blah War on Terror!
+5 insightful!
How about drug dealers firebombing a wowans house and killing her and her 5 children?
Here's some more arson. These clowns had murder on their minds, luckily they didn't pull it off.
I guess flammible liquids and lighters are immoral.
There's also an alarming rise of roadrage incidents, with the overwhelming majority of perpetrators using their vehicles as weapons. I guess cars are immoral.
People just need common sense. And I'm only assuming that zealots on one side of the issure or the other are idiots.
I'm for liscensing of firearms, and ballistic fingerprinting. An out-and-out ban is unreasonable and a lost cause. The status quo of 'untracable guns for all' is unacceptable as well.
Most people dont commit murders, and those who decide they want to will find a way.
>> 4. There is one less place to buy parts for things used to kill other people.
like baseball bats, telephone cords, vehicles, ball peen hammers, axes?
I might agree with a campaign against handguns, but I have enough common sense to know that shotguns and rifles are a necessity to many people who don't have the luxury of living in an urban setting.
I myself have shot 2 rabid foxes in my life, and fired into the air to chase off a black bear who was rummaging around outside.
It's ridiculous everyone feels they need to boil the issue of gun control down to an all-or-nothing debate. It's bound to go nowhere, and just waste tons of cash and effort arguing for both extremes.
You notice it lists "3D Realms Duke Nukem Forever"
Makes me wonder what else on the list is imaginary.
And a follow up question:
RAD makes a ton of dough liscensing this stuff, it's used in thousands of games. The encoder is free, but the SDK is big bucks.
So why do they ask for paypal donations?
Anyone else find it just a little cheesy when a for-profit corporation is soliciting donations?
Hmm. If they have linux versions, why not make them available on their website? The video tools are freely available for Windows, so having the linux version floating around surely would only help further adoption of their tech.
I can understand why they wouldnt release source - but would sticking the client and encoders up hurt them?
I can think of 3 reasons to OC.
1) Buy older/cheaper hardware and make it more useful. Ie, people with P3 Tualitans running at 1.8 ghz. That's a noticable boost.
2) People who want to be past the cutting edge. These are the ones who buy a new 3.06 and O/C it - just to be ahead of the curve. This could have real advantages. If you encoded a lot of video/audio, did a lot of rendering, other such CPU intensive tasks.
Mostly, though, 2 goes hand in hand with 3:
3) To show off.
Personally, I don't O/C CPUs. I'd rather have my new 2.53 cpu last for 5-10 years (like the P100 I'm using as a router) than have it run at 2.8ghz for a year or two.
If my board would allow me, I'd even underclock the fsb by 10mhz or so to run cooler and last longer.
That said, I'm squeezing the last bit of life out of my older 1st gen Radeon card with a 25% overclock (as per item #1)
W2K will support it too, last I read. TechTV was probably just putting a little advertising spin on it.
I watched about 5 minutes of the screensavers the other day where they gushed and ooed and awed over how cool XP Media Center edition is. And why it makes sense you cant get the OS seperate from the hardware - because its so complicated to put together a PC with VIVO ability that only bigtime oems can do it.
Heat spreaders do absolutely nothing but look good inside a windowed case. They run no cooler or hotter, and noone has gotten ram to perform any better with or without them.
Your DIMMs will actually run better with a little bit of a breeze moving stale air off of the chips than it would with a piece of aluminum stuck on with a length of sticky 'thermal' tape.
It's just something to sell to the 'eXTreMe l337 p00ter h4xorz!'
You only pay that if you just 'gotta have it' on release day. Within a month you can find new titles for 20 bucks or so, and if that fails you can find 'em used.
It's still much cheaper upfront. 199 for an (xbox/ngc/ps2) vs 2000$ for a PC thats been stickered 'gamers pc'.
Another big factor is the ability to go to blockbuster and rent the games. You just can't do that with PC games, and unless your hardcore into the scene, you pretty much take a 30$ crap shoot at Best Buy when you pick one out.
You'd prefer maybe a news about a site with news about a guy who used linux for something?
He spends the first half of the article ranting against MicroSoft and QualComm (which is why this no-shit submission is on slashdot), and then treats us to this:
0 3\BIN;C:\j2me\midp\bin;%PATH%
Add the following lines to you AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
REM ---- Java Support ----
SET MIDP_HOME=C:\j2me\midp
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\j2sdk1.4.0_03\BIN;
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\j2sdk1.4.0_
Then force these variables to be reloaded by running
the batch file:
c:\> autoexec.bat
You'd think someone so anti-MSFT would have done his little programs under linux.
Or perhaps, linux just doesnt work for this task (no shock there).
I bet it compares poorly in real life, favorably in reviews.
Asus has lowered themselves to producing cheap hardware that looks fast on paper but performs poorly in the wild.
I know myself, having purchased a P4S8X fairly recently - boasting its onboard S-ATA RAID and 'unofficial' support for DDR400. It's unstable with a good stick of DDR333, and the RAID 0 is actually slower than with a single drive.
After an RMA, I got the same board back, with no changes.
The 'fix' for the memory issue was a bios update that runs your ram at sub DDR266 settings if you set it at 333 or higher. Benchmarks confirm this, as well as dozens of other disgruntled enthusiasts at asusboards.com. Obviously some regular guy who wouldnt bother to run a benchmark on the board, and would never know how much more he paid for less.
Oh, and I bought it based on a review from that paid infomercial website, toms hardware. All the review websites have lowered themselves to running thinly veiled advertisements, a la slashdot.
How else do they stay online?
Can we just have a From The-Corporate-Whore Dept tag on all the infomercials from now on?
Or get another multi-colored LED, with one of the colors blue.
LED replacement is pretty much a gomer mod. It's like a guy who changed a lightbulb calling himself a skilled home contractor.
That these cd-r speeds are ramping up so quickly.
After all, they are using CAV not CLV to determine it's maximum speed.
2.5 minutes is impressive until you realize that yesterdays cd-r burned in 2.51 minutes.
Besides, it's no good for me.. Playstation and Xbox games don't come out reliably if burned any higher than 4x.
For this incredible artform to realize its true zenith. The faustian undertones omnipresent in Anime, the razor wit, the breathtaking artwork. Not since Voltron has there been an Anime franchise as deeply motivating and skillfully executed.
>> I have no idea why they all use orange ones now, I guess they are cheaper? I think the orange ones are called "sodium vapor."
It's a big government plot so that you miss out on shit like this.
Oh, that and lasting forever and using half the power... I bet if you think hard, you'd remember seeing every 5th street light burned out. Something you hardly ever see.
If you dont like it, you could always get your ass into the car, drive for a half hour in any given direction, and watch your stars.
As an astromoner, I'm always pleasantly pleased when I see these proto planets raining down upon us from the heavens.
This particular shower comes to us all the way from Uranus, travelling across almost the entire galaxy just to reach earth.
It's awe-inspiring.
Thats very insightful
If, of course, that was what we were talking about.
But it's not.
We're talking about the DSL service, not the satellite 'broadband'.
You're understandably confused, so was the public - and thats a big reason its gone now.
That and employees who wasted their companies time screwing around on slashdot when they should have been helping their company turn a profit.