No, it's not. Maybe some of the really old models, remember with the fake 70s wood veneer, fetch an extra couple of bucks, but 2600s aren't worth crap.
Atari produced them from like 1978 till 1992, or something ridiculous like that. There are literally more Atari 2600s out there than any other home console.
Video game collecting isn't something you do for financial rewards. I can list on one hand games that have increased in value due to rarity (Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn, or Dracula X for PCE/TG16), but those are extreme cases where the publisher screwed up and didnt make enough copies of an excellent game. Usually they flood the market with copies, and there's rarely a scarcity.
You buy a game 50 bucks new, and in 10 years, it'll be worth 50 cents. That's just the way it is. People like me collect the shit because we like video games.
Hell, this guy has a lot of stuff, but nothing remotely rare. He's definately not a collector. No NeoGeo, no Pippin, no Playdia, no PCFX, no SuperGrafx -- Hell, no TurboGrafx! No colecovision, Odyssey II..
What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..
All mainstream consoles and games. Like another poster said, this screams "my video game store went out of business".
So is the guy a friend of "Zonk", or did he pay to have his eBay auction advertised on slashdot?
3DO and Nomad "hard to find"? A 3DO will run you no more than 50 bucks (you're getting ripped off at 50 too), and Nomad's are all over the place.
A few weeks ago another dude had a collection of truly rare stuff, like Hi-Saturns, PC-FX's, tons of different "special edition" consoles, 1000s of games, and a dev kit for pretty much every console there is.
Every invention is obvious "after the fact". An internal combustion engine is so simple in concept, practically anyone could design and build one given the time and tools.
But, mankind went 2000 years without it.
Honeywells solution looks obvious to you in hindsight, but it's actually fairly novel.
The "obvious" solution to the brightness problem is brighter lightbulbs, not an array of lenses and other optics.
I can't remember the last time slashdot reviewed a tech book I could possibly be interested in. "Networking First-Steps" "Dummies Guide to Intarweb", "Learn PHP in 21 days", etc.
Has this site shifted to a newbie-oriented focus or something?
The reviews used to be of really in-depth books that might be interesting, or of hardcore SF. Now it's "Total Dummies Guide To Turning Your Computer On" and "Choose Your Own Adventure" titles.
If the regulations they want to avoid are public safety concerns (ie; a booster pod coming down and landing on my house), then by all means, launch somewhere else.
Spaceflight should be, at the very least, no less regulated than regular flight.
Any more asinine than forking any other major OSS projects or standards like XFree? There might be a good reason to fork in the future, maybe British/BBC politics will become a problem. What if the Free Open video standard includes something to make sure only the BBC can encode.
Even if it is asinine, why shouldn't people have the right to do it if they want to?
American's don't get the concept of a Crown corporation. They don't act like any other "rational business". They don't really have to make a profit, and the way most are run, making a profit is a secondary objective.
I remember the sucking money hole that was Air Canada before the government chopped it up and sold it off. All of a sudden it's a profitable business, turns out they didn't need to be sending 737s to Beaversnatch, Alberta thrice a day.
What the major difference with this codec is. Why is the BBC developing their own codec instead of, for instance, throwing a few bucks towards OGM or XVid, or $YOUR_FAVORITE_OSS_CODEC?
The FCC mandates a certain level of service and availability, it's been this way since the 50s- sort of a "we'll help build the infrastructure but these are the rules" type of thing.
If only the feds required the same reliability of our power grid, right now there's little incentive for the power companies to do anymore than the minimum amount of maintanance, which just leads to big problems like last years blackout.
There was a similar situation with the FA-18s, they kept smacking into mountains. The flight control systems were designed to keep it from turning or pitching at a rate at which the G forces could knock out the pilot. So if you were flying towards a mountain, and pulled up too late, the plane wouldn't let you.
In both cases, I wouldn't blame the design. It sounds like an error in not properly training the pilots. Why are they playing chicken with mountains anyways?
Because it is true. Dev boxes, and many modded retail boxes have 128 megs. It's really not that much of a pain to add the chips either, if you have proper equipment and training to solder SMT chips.
These campaigns aren't about altruism, they're about propoganda. MTV will go on and on about democracy and 'having your say', then air a bunch of Kerry commercials, and have one if it's veejays start talking about the poor people in Iraq, etc.
It goes both ways, every "registration drive" I've seen has some sort of agenda behind it.
Most eligible voters are not registered dems or republicans, these people swing elections. The pundits in the press give them derisive names like "the soccer moms" or "nascar dads", which is just some elitist bullshit.
Why? I'm sure they love OSS exchange clients. They don't have to support it, and the per-seat licensing revenue for Exchange server comes in either way. Businesses can superficially "switch" to linux on all the desktops, and they can still charge per-seat in the backend.
Why is this so? Because "IT" dopes are ass backwards. They put linux on the desktop and MS in the server room.
Agreed, but this is slashdot and can't pass by a chance to plug Apple, even if it's a completely uninteresting pedistrian "hack" like this (installing PearPC on a linux box - holey moley).
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No, it's not. Maybe some of the really old models, remember with the fake 70s wood veneer, fetch an extra couple of bucks, but 2600s aren't worth crap.
Atari produced them from like 1978 till 1992, or something ridiculous like that. There are literally more Atari 2600s out there than any other home console.
Video game collecting isn't something you do for financial rewards. I can list on one hand games that have increased in value due to rarity (Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn, or Dracula X for PCE/TG16), but those are extreme cases where the publisher screwed up and didnt make enough copies of an excellent game. Usually they flood the market with copies, and there's rarely a scarcity.
You buy a game 50 bucks new, and in 10 years, it'll be worth 50 cents. That's just the way it is. People like me collect the shit because we like video games.
Hell, this guy has a lot of stuff, but nothing remotely rare.
He's definately not a collector. No NeoGeo, no Pippin, no Playdia, no PCFX, no SuperGrafx -- Hell, no TurboGrafx! No colecovision, Odyssey II..
What kind of a "console collection" without TurboGrafx, ColecoVision, Atari 7200..
All mainstream consoles and games. Like another poster said, this screams "my video game store went out of business".
So is the guy a friend of "Zonk", or did he pay to have his eBay auction advertised on slashdot?
3DO and Nomad "hard to find"? A 3DO will run you no more than 50 bucks (you're getting ripped off at 50 too), and Nomad's are all over the place.
A few weeks ago another dude had a collection of truly rare stuff, like Hi-Saturns, PC-FX's, tons of different "special edition" consoles, 1000s of games, and a dev kit for pretty much every console there is.
They tacked in some verbage about "computers used in interstate commerce".
You can infect all the computers you want, just so long as they aren't networked across state lines.
Wow! The law goes into effect today! Before a Senate reading, and before the President signs it even!
This is one hell of a Congress, huh?
(Why don't you dish out legal advice after you've seen the "I'm just a Bill" SchoolHouse Rock cartoon?)
Everybody has to start somewhere, somewhere else. Devry.com or something, there are plenty of web forums for newbies.
A forum for guitarists and luthiers wouldn't insult its readership by presenting them a review of "Guitar for Beginners: The C Chord".
What ever happened to "news for nerds"?
Every invention is obvious "after the fact". An internal combustion engine is so simple in concept, practically anyone could design and build one given the time and tools.
But, mankind went 2000 years without it.
Honeywells solution looks obvious to you in hindsight, but it's actually fairly novel.
The "obvious" solution to the brightness problem is brighter lightbulbs, not an array of lenses and other optics.
How about all of Todd MacFarlane's "Completely Run Of The Mill Generic Demon Bullshit".
I can't remember the last time slashdot reviewed a tech book I could possibly be interested in. "Networking First-Steps" "Dummies Guide to Intarweb", "Learn PHP in 21 days", etc.
Has this site shifted to a newbie-oriented focus or something?
The reviews used to be of really in-depth books that might be interesting, or of hardcore SF. Now it's "Total Dummies Guide To Turning Your Computer On" and "Choose Your Own Adventure" titles.
If the regulations they want to avoid are public safety concerns (ie; a booster pod coming down and landing on my house), then by all means, launch somewhere else.
Spaceflight should be, at the very least, no less regulated than regular flight.
Any more asinine than forking any other major OSS projects or standards like XFree? There might be a good reason to fork in the future, maybe British/BBC politics will become a problem. What if the Free Open video standard includes something to make sure only the BBC can encode.
Even if it is asinine, why shouldn't people have the right to do it if they want to?
If the license disallowed forking then it wouldn't be an OSS license. It would be more like MSFT's "shared source".
Whats the use of source code you can't modify, and what would that accomplish?
American's don't get the concept of a Crown corporation. They don't act like any other "rational business". They don't really have to make a profit, and the way most are run, making a profit is a secondary objective.
I remember the sucking money hole that was Air Canada before the government chopped it up and sold it off. All of a sudden it's a profitable business, turns out they didn't need to be sending 737s to Beaversnatch, Alberta thrice a day.
What the major difference with this codec is. Why is the BBC developing their own codec instead of, for instance, throwing a few bucks towards OGM or XVid, or $YOUR_FAVORITE_OSS_CODEC?
The FCC mandates a certain level of service and availability, it's been this way since the 50s- sort of a "we'll help build the infrastructure but these are the rules" type of thing.
If only the feds required the same reliability of our power grid, right now there's little incentive for the power companies to do anymore than the minimum amount of maintanance, which just leads to big problems like last years blackout.
There was a similar situation with the FA-18s, they kept smacking into mountains. The flight control systems were designed to keep it from turning or pitching at a rate at which the G forces could knock out the pilot. So if you were flying towards a mountain, and pulled up too late, the plane wouldn't let you.
In both cases, I wouldn't blame the design. It sounds like an error in not properly training the pilots. Why are they playing chicken with mountains anyways?
Them grabbing googlegear or googlesucks makes sense, but why gbrowser? Maybe the GNOME people could use gbrowser.
Does everything with a letter g in front of it belong to google?
If I saw an ad for GDonuts I wouldn't think of google.
this finding could greatly help researchers understand ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
I already know all about ubiquifiton proto degraduation or whatever he said. This is total bullshit.
timothy, IT's prodigal douchebag, is kind enough to tell all the slashbots to copy and paste the link to get past the referrer problem.
The editors here truly don't care, even when someone goes out of the way to make it clear they don't appreciate the rubbernecker bandwidth.
Because it is true. Dev boxes, and many modded retail boxes have 128 megs. It's really not that much of a pain to add the chips either, if you have proper equipment and training to solder SMT chips.
Anyone with 350 bucks can have a 1.4ghz XBox with 128 megs of RAM.
For a mere 200 bucks you can get just the mainboard with 128 megs, and a 733 true P3.
For a mere 100 bucks you can get the RAM and video output upgrade.
And if you can't think of a use for doubling the RAM and CPU on a linux media workstation, you're a complete dope.
The MPAA. If you want a CSS license to sell DVD players, you have to include Macrovision and region locking, etc.
Hitachi can put whatever "features" they want in their TVs, the EFF is saying the government can't mandate what goes in and doesn't.
Ie; V-Chip is optional, TV and Movie ratings are all completely voluntary, there are no US laws that have to do with PG-13.
These campaigns aren't about altruism, they're about propoganda. MTV will go on and on about democracy and 'having your say', then air a bunch of Kerry commercials, and have one if it's veejays start talking about the poor people in Iraq, etc.
It goes both ways, every "registration drive" I've seen has some sort of agenda behind it.
Most eligible voters are not registered dems or republicans, these people swing elections. The pundits in the press give them derisive names like "the soccer moms" or "nascar dads", which is just some elitist bullshit.
Why? I'm sure they love OSS exchange clients. They don't have to support it, and the per-seat licensing revenue for Exchange server comes in either way. Businesses can superficially "switch" to linux on all the desktops, and they can still charge per-seat in the backend.
Why is this so? Because "IT" dopes are ass backwards. They put linux on the desktop and MS in the server room.
Agreed, but this is slashdot and can't pass by a chance to plug Apple, even if it's a completely uninteresting pedistrian "hack" like this (installing PearPC on a linux box - holey moley).
everyone buy a mac and an ipod now now now! buy buy buy!