Once I rented about 6 SNES games and a bunch of shlockey horror movies for a weekend beer drinking/game playing/movie watching bender with a couple friends.
Lo and behold, there was a big "out of business" sign on the video store when I went back.
I kept the games and movies!
Thank you Blockbuster, for driving the little mom and pop stores into the dust and letting me pocket a few choice games!!!
The environmentalists dont want DEAD timber removed. They protest the forestry service constantly - stopping those who *know* what needs to be done and how to maintain the trees from doing their job.
It all started in the sixties, and we're paying the price now. 40 years of dead twigs piling up makes for a hell of a bonfire.
Every summer we sit and watch 3/4 of another state burn down to the ashes, because the forests have become giant tinder boxes.
These forest fires are a direct result of the tree-huggers preventing selective removal of deadwood. 3 cheers for people who self-reightous assholes who dont know what the fuck they're talking about.
But not by lucasarts, by whatever copyright they might step on.
New maps, more wookies, flying yodas, etc will probably be tolerated. How would they feel about Jedi Starfighter being turned into a Star Trek game?
But if someone did something like a total conversion mod, say about Dragonball Z or the such, and they gave it some name like Bid for Power, and it was really really cool - much better than any official DBZ game ever created - FUNimation would send out cease and decist orders.
This is a good step, but the modding communities options are still extremely limited.
Thats true, but the xbox doesn't read inside out, which is what we're talking about.
And it's a less relevant kludge on a DVD, seek time is lower on the inner edge, and throughput blows CDs away no matter where on the disk you are.. (The old CAV 8x at the inside, 48x at the outside doesnt apply nearly as much)
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>> And in a perfect world, they would have people assigned to this sort of thing, and enough of them to do something about it in a timeful manner.
In a perfect world, there would be no cranks or nutjobs who spend all day having the local cops run errands for them or otherwise bother them with trivial bullshit.
I'm not saying this guy is one, but we have a bitchy old crank down the street who calls the cops every time a kid cuts across her lawn on the way home from school.
I had the cops come to my door 5 nights a row at my old townhouse because the neighbour kept reporting my car as a 'suspicious vehicle parked out in front'. Luckily I work for a company that sells software to police, and my local county in particular, so the problem quickly went away.
Then there's the drunks who go out and pick a fight, get their asses kicked, then show up at the station wanting to 'see the guy locked up'.
And everyone who gets the short end of the stick on a business deal wants the cops to do something for them.
My point is, forget the fact that there's an overwhelming amount of crime for a cop to be able to deal with each incident in a timely manner.. Theres so much bullshit and whining, they never get to the real incidents. And when they do, their hands are so tied with beurocracy and paperwork and bullshit procedures that you aren't going to see your 'eye for an eye' instant gratification.
As I mentioned, I write and support software for the public safety industry. I can dial in to any one of hundreds of our CAD (Computer Automated Dispatching) systems and see the ratio of cranks/whines to actual incidents is literally 100:1.
In a case like this, if you have the evidence of who ripped you off and how, it's much better to get a lawyer and drag it into a civil court.
Disclaimer: Noone has more disrespect for cops than me, I work with 'em every day. There are many incompetent, arrogant, power-tripping douchebags with a gun and a badge out there. But they do have a pretty much impossible job to do. They write so many speeding/seatbelt tickets because thats all the system lets them do effectively.
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>> Just do a search for XBox emulation. It hasn't been done, and the primary reason is that the XBox game discs are written in reverse order from regular DVDs. This gives the advantage of speeding up read access because the data is read from the outside in, but also it prevents piracy
This is not true, but is a common rumor based on some early speculation by PS2 fanboys mostly (ie; "Don't get an xbox - you cant mod it - its games ar backwards. It is TEH SUCK").
Likewise untrue is the rumor that GameCube discs spin 'backwards' (I have one, I watched it spin, and they spin CW like any other).
IIRC, It uses a tweaked version of the UDF filesystem, and a non-standard packet format which is embedded into the firmware of its DVD-reader. A PC-DVD reader 'could' theoretically read an XBOX disk, but it would require some heavy-duty rewrite of the drives firmware.
The unified memory architecture could hurt emulation of certain titles, but I'm convinced few if any will make any sort of use of it. Most XBOX games are just half-assed ports, or cross developed for other systems (including PC).
There's some work being done - an XBE (xbox executable) can be translated to an EXE and some rudimentary linkage to appropriate kernel functions is happening.
At the very least, the PC will soon be a cool testbed for xbox hacking, if not playing warezed copies of Halo.
And ya just know he does no 'work' on his workstation, or even have a clue what it's capable of - because he somehow thinks he needs an Opteron on release day.
*Clue stick* Opteron is not going to make either of the 2 games for linux any faster.
The only tangible benefit to leather seats with built-in ass warmers is comfort oriented, and yet people pay a few thousand on top of the cost of a new vehicle to get 'em.
>> So if microsoft buys Borland, will they not be blocked from developing any of Borland's java products (read: JBuilder)?
If they bought Borland, they'd be buying Borlands liscenses as well, I'd guess.
I imagine Borland would continue to be Borland, and operate under MS as an umbrella corporation.
I don't think the fact that MS has/doesnt have a liscense would affect Borland in an arrangement like this.
I mean tech companies buy other companies for their technology, not just to knock em out of competition (though that's a nice side effect). Eg, bought 3DFX, and eventually incorporated 3DFX's patents and whatnot (stuff like their FSAA routines) into the nv30.
But then I don't really know. Would the purchase price of Borland be less than they lose to them via competition every year?
NOHIALSIRTMI (No one here is a lawyer so its redundant to mention it)
Once they bought up Borland they're no longer competing, what would they have to gain by throwing away all that mindshare - thats what they're buying. Thats the only value Borland has to offer.
They've always been like that, as soon as they switched from 720k's to 1.44's. Higher density = higher failure rate.
I still have crates of old 5.25 and 3.5 relatively low-density disks for my c64 which still work.
If I try to span something across a few 1.44s, like the NT setup disks, at least 1 in 4 always dies.
But it's the same whether a new shrinkwrapped disk, or the old shrinkwrapped box of disks I found in the storage closet (complete with a reciept dated 1997).
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Once I rented about 6 SNES games and a bunch of shlockey horror movies for a weekend beer drinking/game playing/movie watching bender with a couple friends.
Lo and behold, there was a big "out of business" sign on the video store when I went back.
I kept the games and movies!
Thank you Blockbuster, for driving the little mom and pop stores into the dust and letting me pocket a few choice games!!!
How dare you
linux has Tux Racer
and some ass-y pacman thing
it's going to put microsoft out of business any day now!
holy flurking shnit
'some shitty old strategy game isnt worth shit so it's going to be dumped on the compost heap that is the linux community
like a horde of dung beetles, linux zealots everywhere are scurrying to roll a piece of this turd onto their own desktops.'
goddamn. get a life. and an xbox. or at least install windows
Only microsoft can provide gaming funness
That oughta take my karma back down to regular levels
The environmentalists dont want DEAD timber removed. They protest the forestry service constantly - stopping those who *know* what needs to be done and how to maintain the trees from doing their job.
It all started in the sixties, and we're paying the price now. 40 years of dead twigs piling up makes for a hell of a bonfire.
Every summer we sit and watch 3/4 of another state burn down to the ashes, because the forests have become giant tinder boxes.
These forest fires are a direct result of the tree-huggers preventing selective removal of deadwood. 3 cheers for people who self-reightous assholes who dont know what the fuck they're talking about.
And if there's noone around to hear it, will it really make a sound?
But not by lucasarts, by whatever copyright they might step on.
New maps, more wookies, flying yodas, etc will probably be tolerated. How would they feel about Jedi Starfighter being turned into a Star Trek game?
But if someone did something like a total conversion mod, say about Dragonball Z or the such, and they gave it some name like Bid for Power, and it was really really cool - much better than any official DBZ game ever created - FUNimation would send out cease and decist orders.
This is a good step, but the modding communities options are still extremely limited.
Thats true, but the xbox doesn't read inside out, which is what we're talking about.
And it's a less relevant kludge on a DVD, seek time is lower on the inner edge, and throughput blows CDs away no matter where on the disk you are.. (The old CAV 8x at the inside, 48x at the outside doesnt apply nearly as much)
No, it does not read discs backwards, inside out, or back to front. Here is how a disc is layed out.
>> And in a perfect world, they would have people assigned to this sort of thing, and enough of them to do something about it in a timeful manner.
In a perfect world, there would be no cranks or nutjobs who spend all day having the local cops run errands for them or otherwise bother them with trivial bullshit.
I'm not saying this guy is one, but we have a bitchy old crank down the street who calls the cops every time a kid cuts across her lawn on the way home from school.
I had the cops come to my door 5 nights a row at my old townhouse because the neighbour kept reporting my car as a 'suspicious vehicle parked out in front'. Luckily I work for a company that sells software to police, and my local county in particular, so the problem quickly went away.
Then there's the drunks who go out and pick a fight, get their asses kicked, then show up at the station wanting to 'see the guy locked up'.
And everyone who gets the short end of the stick on a business deal wants the cops to do something for them.
My point is, forget the fact that there's an overwhelming amount of crime for a cop to be able to deal with each incident in a timely manner.. Theres so much bullshit and whining, they never get to the real incidents. And when they do, their hands are so tied with beurocracy and paperwork and bullshit procedures that you aren't going to see your 'eye for an eye' instant gratification.
As I mentioned, I write and support software for the public safety industry. I can dial in to any one of hundreds of our CAD (Computer Automated Dispatching) systems and see the ratio of cranks/whines to actual incidents is literally 100:1.
In a case like this, if you have the evidence of who ripped you off and how, it's much better to get a lawyer and drag it into a civil court.
Disclaimer: Noone has more disrespect for cops than me, I work with 'em every day. There are many incompetent, arrogant, power-tripping douchebags with a gun and a badge out there. But they do have a pretty much impossible job to do. They write so many speeding/seatbelt tickets because thats all the system lets them do effectively.
>> Just do a search for XBox emulation. It hasn't been done, and the primary reason is that the XBox game discs are written in reverse order from regular DVDs. This gives the advantage of speeding up read access because the data is read from the outside in, but also it prevents piracy
This is not true, but is a common rumor based on some early speculation by PS2 fanboys mostly (ie; "Don't get an xbox - you cant mod it - its games ar backwards. It is TEH SUCK").
Likewise untrue is the rumor that GameCube discs spin 'backwards' (I have one, I watched it spin, and they spin CW like any other).
IIRC, It uses a tweaked version of the UDF filesystem, and a non-standard packet format which is embedded into the firmware of its DVD-reader. A PC-DVD reader 'could' theoretically read an XBOX disk, but it would require some heavy-duty rewrite of the drives firmware.
The unified memory architecture could hurt emulation of certain titles, but I'm convinced few if any will make any sort of use of it. Most XBOX games are just half-assed ports, or cross developed for other systems (including PC).
There's some work being done - an XBE (xbox executable) can be translated to an EXE and some rudimentary linkage to appropriate kernel functions is happening.
At the very least, the PC will soon be a cool testbed for xbox hacking, if not playing warezed copies of Halo.
and so should you.
Hi please mod parent up
Oh wait, parent modded himself up
Then please tell me what the fuck parent is talking about.
Looks like an answer with no question to me. Are we playing Jeapordy? I'll take Hot Grits for 500$, Alex.
And ya just know he does no 'work' on his workstation, or even have a clue what it's capable of - because he somehow thinks he needs an Opteron on release day.
*Clue stick* Opteron is not going to make either of the 2 games for linux any faster.
A parody of Yakov Smirnov
A russian-american stand-up comedian whose entire act consisted of jokes like "In soviet russia, cars drive you!"
He also used to do a lot of cameos on Night Court, as Yakov the zany russian immigrant.
Then the iron curtain fell, and with it his entire act. *sniff* he hasn't been seen since.
The only tangible benefit to leather seats with built-in ass warmers is comfort oriented, and yet people pay a few thousand on top of the cost of a new vehicle to get 'em.
>> So if microsoft buys Borland, will they not be blocked from developing any of Borland's java products (read: JBuilder)?
If they bought Borland, they'd be buying Borlands liscenses as well, I'd guess.
I imagine Borland would continue to be Borland, and operate under MS as an umbrella corporation.
I don't think the fact that MS has/doesnt have a liscense would affect Borland in an arrangement like this.
I mean tech companies buy other companies for their technology, not just to knock em out of competition (though that's a nice side effect). Eg, bought 3DFX, and eventually incorporated 3DFX's patents and whatnot (stuff like their FSAA routines) into the nv30.
But then I don't really know. Would the purchase price of Borland be less than they lose to them via competition every year?
NOHIALSIRTMI (No one here is a lawyer so its redundant to mention it)
Why would it mean the end?
Once they bought up Borland they're no longer competing, what would they have to gain by throwing away all that mindshare - thats what they're buying. Thats the only value Borland has to offer.
pawn, hock, sell, hawk, pawn = sell ... whataya know. ya learn something new every day.
but time i got modded down.
these faggot mods keep giving me their faggy karma like I'm gonna want to date them and play their homo linux games.
They've always been like that, as soon as they switched from 720k's to 1.44's. Higher density = higher failure rate.
I still have crates of old 5.25 and 3.5 relatively low-density disks for my c64 which still work.
If I try to span something across a few 1.44s, like the NT setup disks, at least 1 in 4 always dies.
But it's the same whether a new shrinkwrapped disk, or the old shrinkwrapped box of disks I found in the storage closet (complete with a reciept dated 1997).
FDD always sucked.
This a pun (Tony Hawk), or do you just not know which word to use? (It's HOCK, btw)
>> what *is* the Russian word for Weenie anyway?
Yakov
TEH FAILURE is ME.
what a country
What's a bafoon?
Do you mean buffoon?
You are a spelling idiot. Self-fullfilling prophecy?
space station pays for you!
first "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" post
Shenmue
'nuff said.