There were three (?) Spy vs Spy games, I can only remember two of them distinctly though..
The 64 had plenty of kick ass games. Hmm, let me think..
Choplifter: First game I got, I had one of the first 64s shipped to canada, and had this on cart. Didn't get a disk drive for a couple years. Absolute classic title.
Archon, Archon II - Adept: Chess meets arena battles. Kicked ass.
Project Firestart: Ahead of it's time, IMO, a 4 disk scrolling adventure with a plot similar to "Alien".
Ghostbusters: I ain't fraid of no ghost!
Slap Shot Hockey: Not 'til the EA NHL games of the mid 90's did I play a more fun hockey title.
The Mucher eats Chewitz: Imagine if Rampage was really really freakin cool.
The Great Smurf Adventure: Hours of fun pressing the spacebar to make a white square sprite fall onto a smurf represented by a blue asterisk, only to have Papa Smurf, a red asterisk, raise the block using magic and reveal the crushed smurf who is henceforth represented by a red underscore. OK, maybe not a classic title but pretty good for something I wrote when I was 8.
Frankly, I didn't pay for C64 games then and I'm not about to start now. I'll just give Stew a couple blank floppies tomorrow at recess.
It need's to be in a Wico Command Control, or "the Boss" to truly recreate the experience.
Anyone remember those sticks? Solid steel shaft, heavy duty construction, bad-ass leaf switches inside. They were every bit as durable as an arcade stick, hell probably moreso.
Hell, I still have a Command Control that's going on 25 years old. Still as good as the day I got it.
Compare to those "arcade sticks" they sell for PS2/XBox, etc. Cheap plastic pieces of shit that are broken inside a couple weeks. Look inside and see the cheapest microswitches Radio Shack can offer.
I know there are a couple on the market that are made with real arcade components, but they cost a bundle.
So basically, it's got impossible mission and a bunch of shit.
Still a cool thing, though, I might get one for myself, even though I still have a closet full of 64s, 64-C's, 1541s, 1581s, 801s, 803s, and crates of games.
That can be done through a script put out on the network. Depends on the distro though. Either way, it's a hell of a lot easier than with Windows.
Think so? Ever use alteris or any big management suites? If anything it easier, but both ways require you to TEST THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
I mean, imagine your linux script is deploying a new kernel, and has to modify lilo/grub on every machine and reboot. Imagine you fuck up your edits to lilo.conf or grub.conf. And now, instead of pushing it out to the seven machines you want to test, you push it out to all of them because you messed up typing in the netmask
Voila, 60,000 borked boxes - and according to slashdot groupthink, it's all Linus' fault.
If you automatically roll out an update that kills 60,000 machines, it seems to me you should be fired.
This is slashdot though, and the submitter and editors didn't really read the article. They're just keen on blaming MS for something.
I'd love to see 60,000 linux machines be automatically upgraded to a new major kernel version , or a new major samba version, or OpenLDAP, etc, without issue.
If you fuck up upgrading your system, or format your harddrive, or delete that SYSTEM32 folder that wastes so much space on your hard drive, it's Microsoft's fault, not yours.
Here's an article idea. "emerge -u samba" broke every machine on my network when it automatically upgraded from 2.x to 3, and now it cant parse the smb.conf files. The same thing happened last time I tried to upgrade to KDE, etc.
Oh, wait, that's my fault for not planning ahead, right. Because in no way could OSS developers be held to task for needlessly changing the format of configuration files and providing no migration tools whatsoever.
In your scenario nothing really happens, MS drops it.
Now say MS doesn't believe X, and files suit based on JQJ's word. They then subpoena JQJ to go to court, or at least sign a deposition. JQJ is now up shits creek.
In reality, they probably wouldn't act until they had a few dozen reports about the same location, just to cover their own asses.
They can destroy it or keep it, if they offer you amnesty in writing they're tying their own hands.
And if John Q Jackass has his vendetta, he'll wind up spending more time behind bars than the PC store for slander, possible perjury, whatever the formal charge is for inciting a malicious prosecution, etc.
MS is no more or less warm or fuzzy than Apple, IBM, Nintendo or Gillette. Corporations are corporations, not people or cartoon characters. They all exist solely to seperate your wallet from its contents.
How about instead of guessing, you read the article?
The submission is completely misleading. They aren't giving amnesty to knowing pirates. They're giving amnesty to the people who buy a PC from some shady vendor who sells it with pirated software, or who bought a pirated copy at a computer fair, etc, thinking it was legit.
You have to send in proof of purchase, ie; your receipt, and MS goes after the bad guys.
Of course, any computer vendor is going to make sure every reciept reads "No OS installed", or something like that.
Then at a certain point, if MS pursues the 'victim' of the Joe job, then the people who turned them it could be subpoenad and would have to testify, under penalty of perjury.
I don't know for sure, but I think perjury and malicious prosecution charges can hurt you more than copyright infringement, as far as time in the clink goes.
People have said that about every CD or optical media console that there is. I've heard it about PSX (ya know, black discs = moon man technology!), XBox, PS2, Dreamcast..
Nintendo did not dump a billion dollars into inventing some magic new laser and disc recording technology just for gamecube.
It's fairly standard media, with a fairly nonstandard filesystem, just like XBox or PS2.
Apparently (I haven't taken mine apart) if you take off the top part, the sled that the laser travels on is full length, and it's been speculated that there could be a case mod that would allow you to use full sized discs.
It's a regular DVD assembly, just a funny shaped case.
And the discs do not spin backwards, that I know. How they're written to the disc would be irrelevant if a BIOS hack allowed you to read regular UDF filesystems.
You hear about guys who hold up banks, and write the ransom note on the back of their own cheque or deposit slip.
I read of a bank robber who demanded money, and the teller said "I'll need to see some ID", and he handed over the drivers license.
I read about a down-on-his-luck guy selling pot, couldn't find a buyer no matter what he did. Finally, he makes it to the beach, and the whole place is full of long-haired hippy/biker looking dudes! He was in heaven, he ran down to the first guy and showed him his stash, and told him he could get as much as they need. Turns out it was a police employee picnic - and everyone there was an undercover NARC.
Hell, I saw a guy outside a Phish concert with a sign saying "Weed, $40 for a half quarter".
It's not like the average criminal mind is all that sophisticated.
Intel's been talking about this for some time, and it's been posted on/. numerous occasions.
I guess we're trying to paint them with a bad brush, just because. I don't see anything quiet about it.
Do you mean quiet as in they aren't saturating the market with bullshit about how much more amazing the internet will be with 64 bit extensions and other nonsense claims designed to sucker the technically illiterate into upgrading for no reason?
I suppose it's not properly termed SLI, since that means scan line interleaving, which isn't what you describe.
If they put their thinking caps on, I'm sure they could come up with some funky card-to-card bus that would let each GPU access both cards video RAM as one contiguous unit.
Those guys are freaking insane. Actually, they're about an hour past insane. They really did bitch about Donkey Kong and it's been a running joke ever since. I'm trying to find a serious google article about it, but it's clogged with jokes/parodies.
Last thing from them I read was about how terrible it is for humans to enslave the noble honeybee. Apparently collecting all that surplus honey (read: the bees don't need it) and giving them a safe stable environment to live in is cruel.
There's no law behing movie ratings, they're completely voluntary just like the ESRB. In fact, the ESRB's system is much more complex and informative than "PG-13".
I see kids renting/buying R rated flicks at blockbuster all the time.
Video games are apparently different because they're interactive.
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There were three (?) Spy vs Spy games, I can only remember two of them distinctly though..
The 64 had plenty of kick ass games. Hmm, let me think..
Choplifter: First game I got, I had one of the first 64s shipped to canada, and had this on cart. Didn't get a disk drive for a couple years. Absolute classic title.
Archon, Archon II - Adept: Chess meets arena battles. Kicked ass.
Project Firestart: Ahead of it's time, IMO, a 4 disk scrolling adventure with a plot similar to "Alien".
Ghostbusters: I ain't fraid of no ghost!
Slap Shot Hockey: Not 'til the EA NHL games of the mid 90's did I play a more fun hockey title.
The Mucher eats Chewitz: Imagine if Rampage was really really freakin cool.
The Great Smurf Adventure: Hours of fun pressing the spacebar to make a white square sprite fall onto a smurf represented by a blue asterisk, only to have Papa Smurf, a red asterisk, raise the block using magic and reveal the crushed smurf who is henceforth represented by a red underscore. OK, maybe not a classic title but pretty good for something I wrote when I was 8.
Frankly, I didn't pay for C64 games then and I'm not about to start now. I'll just give Stew a couple blank floppies tomorrow at recess.
It need's to be in a Wico Command Control, or "the Boss" to truly recreate the experience.
Anyone remember those sticks? Solid steel shaft, heavy duty construction, bad-ass leaf switches inside. They were every bit as durable as an arcade stick, hell probably moreso.
Hell, I still have a Command Control that's going on 25 years old. Still as good as the day I got it.
Compare to those "arcade sticks" they sell for PS2/XBox, etc. Cheap plastic pieces of shit that are broken inside a couple weeks. Look inside and see the cheapest microswitches Radio Shack can offer.
I know there are a couple on the market that are made with real arcade components, but they cost a bundle.
So basically, it's got impossible mission and a bunch of shit.
Still a cool thing, though, I might get one for myself, even though I still have a closet full of 64s, 64-C's, 1541s, 1581s, 801s, 803s, and crates of games.
The orignal point was ridiculous. What dope actually thinks Linux has wider hardware support than Windows on x86 PCs?
No wonder they're having a hard time finding jobs in IT if they honestly believe that.
That can be done through a script put out on the network. Depends on the distro though. Either way, it's a hell of a lot easier than with Windows.
Think so? Ever use alteris or any big management suites? If anything it easier, but both ways require you to TEST THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
I mean, imagine your linux script is deploying a new kernel, and has to modify lilo/grub on every machine and reboot. Imagine you fuck up your edits to lilo.conf or grub.conf. And now, instead of pushing it out to the seven machines you want to test, you push it out to all of them because you messed up typing in the netmask
Voila, 60,000 borked boxes - and according to slashdot groupthink, it's all Linus' fault.
If you automatically roll out an update that kills 60,000 machines, it seems to me you should be fired.
This is slashdot though, and the submitter and editors didn't really read the article. They're just keen on blaming MS for something.
I'd love to see 60,000 linux machines be automatically upgraded to a new major kernel version , or a new major samba version, or OpenLDAP, etc, without issue.
I want you to upgrade 60,000 machines from samba 2.x to samba 3.0 and I want it done tomorrow, and they all better work.
Oh, the machines should auth against and become members of an AD Domain, too.
Whatever, the parent was completely right.
The Windows install ships with VASTLY more hardware support than any linux install, and everyone knows that.
Shut up, it's Microsofts fault, it's always Microsoft's fault.
If you fuck up upgrading your system, or format your harddrive, or delete that SYSTEM32 folder that wastes so much space on your hard drive, it's Microsoft's fault, not yours.
Here's an article idea. "emerge -u samba" broke every machine on my network when it automatically upgraded from 2.x to 3, and now it cant parse the smb.conf files. The same thing happened last time I tried to upgrade to KDE, etc.
Oh, wait, that's my fault for not planning ahead, right. Because in no way could OSS developers be held to task for needlessly changing the format of configuration files and providing no migration tools whatsoever.
We all have linux based routers/gateways at home and we all do traffic shaping on our egress traffic, so no slowdowns whatsoever.
Well, those of us who actually walk the walk do.
In your scenario nothing really happens, MS drops it.
Now say MS doesn't believe X, and files suit based on JQJ's word. They then subpoena JQJ to go to court, or at least sign a deposition. JQJ is now up shits creek.
In reality, they probably wouldn't act until they had a few dozen reports about the same location, just to cover their own asses.
They can destroy it or keep it, if they offer you amnesty in writing they're tying their own hands.
And if John Q Jackass has his vendetta, he'll wind up spending more time behind bars than the PC store for slander, possible perjury, whatever the formal charge is for inciting a malicious prosecution, etc.
MS is no more or less warm or fuzzy than Apple, IBM, Nintendo or Gillette. Corporations are corporations, not people or cartoon characters. They all exist solely to seperate your wallet from its contents.
They only call themselves editors.
There is absolutely no editing done at slashdot, everyone knows it, so there's no sense in bitching about it.
How about instead of guessing, you read the article?
The submission is completely misleading. They aren't giving amnesty to knowing pirates. They're giving amnesty to the people who buy a PC from some shady vendor who sells it with pirated software, or who bought a pirated copy at a computer fair, etc, thinking it was legit.
You have to send in proof of purchase, ie; your receipt, and MS goes after the bad guys.
Of course, any computer vendor is going to make sure every reciept reads "No OS installed", or something like that.
Then at a certain point, if MS pursues the 'victim' of the Joe job, then the people who turned them it could be subpoenad and would have to testify, under penalty of perjury.
I don't know for sure, but I think perjury and malicious prosecution charges can hurt you more than copyright infringement, as far as time in the clink goes.
No, they don't.
People have said that about every CD or optical media console that there is. I've heard it about PSX (ya know, black discs = moon man technology!), XBox, PS2, Dreamcast..
Nintendo did not dump a billion dollars into inventing some magic new laser and disc recording technology just for gamecube.
It's fairly standard media, with a fairly nonstandard filesystem, just like XBox or PS2.
Apparently (I haven't taken mine apart) if you take off the top part, the sled that the laser travels on is full length, and it's been speculated that there could be a case mod that would allow you to use full sized discs.
It's a regular DVD assembly, just a funny shaped case.
And the discs do not spin backwards, that I know. How they're written to the disc would be irrelevant if a BIOS hack allowed you to read regular UDF filesystems.
Yeah, I know, lots of criminals are idiots.
You hear about guys who hold up banks, and write the ransom note on the back of their own cheque or deposit slip.
I read of a bank robber who demanded money, and the teller said "I'll need to see some ID", and he handed over the drivers license.
I read about a down-on-his-luck guy selling pot, couldn't find a buyer no matter what he did. Finally, he makes it to the beach, and the whole place is full of long-haired hippy/biker looking dudes! He was in heaven, he ran down to the first guy and showed him his stash, and told him he could get as much as they need. Turns out it was a police employee picnic - and everyone there was an undercover NARC.
Hell, I saw a guy outside a Phish concert with a sign saying "Weed, $40 for a half quarter".
It's not like the average criminal mind is all that sophisticated.
Sure, there are plenty of them.
Here's the first google hit for "irc bot ai", there are plenty more.
I don't think they're useful, but they can be entertaining when some leghumping 15 year old kid gets into a fight with, or hits on one.
IRC is just a telnet hack, so everything's plaintext. They can easily sniff packets at the ISP level.
I'd think anyone planning crimes on IRC would be a complete moron, but then, many criminals tend to be complete morons.
Intel's been talking about this for some time, and it's been posted on /. numerous occasions.
I guess we're trying to paint them with a bad brush, just because. I don't see anything quiet about it.
Do you mean quiet as in they aren't saturating the market with bullshit about how much more amazing the internet will be with 64 bit extensions and other nonsense claims designed to sucker the technically illiterate into upgrading for no reason?
Seems to me that you all like to make mountains out of this molehill.
You still can, but tunneling sucks ass.
It still doesn't make sense, since 16 player matches on Halo 2 run fine, hell 32 player matches in Star Wars Battlefront run fine.
But any time I've been in a Halo/Halo 2 tunneled game, it's been laggy and shit with 3 or more boxes connected.
I didn't know it worked like that.
I suppose it's not properly termed SLI, since that means scan line interleaving, which isn't what you describe.
If they put their thinking caps on, I'm sure they could come up with some funky card-to-card bus that would let each GPU access both cards video RAM as one contiguous unit.
Yeah, PETA.ORG.
Those guys are freaking insane. Actually, they're about an hour past insane. They really did bitch about Donkey Kong and it's been a running joke ever since. I'm trying to find a serious google article about it, but it's clogged with jokes/parodies.
Last thing from them I read was about how terrible it is for humans to enslave the noble honeybee. Apparently collecting all that surplus honey (read: the bees don't need it) and giving them a safe stable environment to live in is cruel.
There's no law behing movie ratings, they're completely voluntary just like the ESRB. In fact, the ESRB's system is much more complex and informative than "PG-13".
I see kids renting/buying R rated flicks at blockbuster all the time.
Video games are apparently different because they're interactive.