You're playing video... and transmitting it over remote desktop? I really don't understand what you're doing.:P How does remote desktop work into this?
I'd post this as a link, but frickin' Windows won't let me change the keyboard layout, so I can't make those less-than-greater-than things. Sorry. Game number 88 of ~4500 on the-underdogs: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=88... It's been there a while
I'm not the only one with this problem? Wow. Great. So did using an old PCI sound correct the problem? This has caused me great anguish (gr...) but I wasn't sure it was the audio, because it still happened when I turned it off. I've got an AWE64 on a P2 upstairs...
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I almost hope that happens. Something like that would definately turn MANY semi-knowledgeable users as myself from Windows to Linux, and hopefully Linux would also improve. I'm currently not a Linux user, but I've tested Mandrake 9.1 briefly, and got it to do almost everything I could do in Windows; the only thing it lacked was the convenience and familiarity, so I'm sure I could switch if MS pulled a stunt like that.
Remote Desktop IS faster and simpler than VNC, yes. However, note that the "ask slashdot"-er is talking about fast user switching; he probably wants to have multiple persons using it at once. The Windows XP license does not allow this with remote desktop, and will not allow anyone to connect remotely if there is a person sitting at the computer, or someone is already connected. To have more people connected, you need to run Windows 2000 Terminal Server. Wonder if someone can hack Windows XP to allow multiple users. That'd be kewl. But obviously useless for most people, who only use it to access their own computer when they are away.
Oh, and by the way, there are also native Linux Windows Remote Desktop clients. My brother uses it at his job, and it's also bundled with probably multiple distros... I believe Mandrake 9.1 has it.
Slashdot linked to a guide for going to Japan and buying video games a while back, and it talked about getting old consoles and stuff. I think that going to Japan and getting a Famicom might be the easiest thing to do. I'm not sure what you mean by a "top-loading" variety, but I know that the Japanese one was different from the European one; more I don't remember. And the European NES cartridges looked like the American SNES cartridges. But I don't have that much clarity here, as much of this information comes from reading Nintendo Power (or Nintendomagasinet as it was known in Sweden) in the early '90's. I don't know how I'll be able to bring back all the stuff I want to bring back from Japan when I go there as an exchange student next year.
Bah. All my (PAL) NES games worked very well and the cartridges were much less fragile than current CDs. Never had a NES game break. We used our NES from '89 to '97-'98, and we never had a problem like that, though the main gamepad did start to become somewhat worn out by the end.
Then my frickin' brother borrowed it to someone and was never eager to get it back. I've never forgiven him for that. Oh well. We had about 30 games then, and I have 3 CDs full of ROMs (eh, including, like, 100 SMB hacks and multiple versions of each title), a gamepad and TV-out on my computer now, so, like, that almost works as well.
Erm, I doubt a cell phone jammer would prohibit someone from playing a game or taking a picture with his/her phone; it would only keep that person from making calls or send messages.
But then you're discriminating against people who don't have a phone. And it might be expensive for people living abroad from the country. For example, my brother has a DSL connection and uses his cell phone for all phone communication as he has no regular phone. Calling a company in the US from Europe on a cell phone to create an e-mail account might not be a very, eh, acceptable expense.
Yeah, that's a pretty good site; was going to mention it. Note that the site has mainly old games which have been "abandoned" by their developers and publishers. Still good for new freeware games, though. There are over 4500 games on the site, and most of them are avaiable for download.
Hm. Well, one reason for this is of course that they want to earn a truckload of money, which they are doing. Also, possibly, a GBA cart may not hold as much as a classic SNES cart, and this wouldn't even be possible. Anyone know?
It won't be that difficult to make it balanced. I think they opt for fun and balance rather than realism in this manner. I initially had much of the same reaction as you; if there's any bias, it's going to piss off many people, including me. But I believe the developers are Swedish, and they're politically very neutral. And if it IS balanced, it shouldn't piss off anyone.
I don't know what my living grandather (both were in concentration camps in WW2, one died three years ago this August) would say about my playing BF1942 either...
The real difference between World War II and the Vietnam war is that the US pulled out, and the country has lived on. Just about the only place where Communism has really succeeded, from my observation.
Minidiscs not popular? I don't know how it is in the states, but here in Norway, they're very popular. In my 10th grade class (15-16 year old kids) of 27 people, I believe 8 or 9 people have a minidisc player. They're pretty expensive, though; some people have paid up to 3000 NOK (~$400) for theirs, a lot considering I paid 550 NOK for my MP3CD player.
It's possible that the relatively low incomes that the working and middle classes in USA have, have lead to Minidisc players being too expensive for most people and their kids.
I agree with region encoding being stupid too. I believe it should be illegal to control what you say in that manner.
The Gameboy doesn't have different zones, by the way. Bought lots of games in other countries in America and some in Asia.
Eh... There are [url=http://www.zophar.net/n64.html]plenty[/url] of N64 emulators that work fine. Just a PSA. UltraHLE 2064, Project 64 and Nemu are the best ones. There are also a couple of open-source emulators out there.
Playstation and Nintendo 64 emulation is VERY easy. I managed to run Mario Kart 64 well enough to be playable on a machine with a Pentium 166, 32 MB of RAM and a Voodoo Banshee with UltraHLE in early '99...
Yep. They do NOT spin backwards. That's an idiotic claim. Anyone can pop the GC up while playing and see that it spins clockwise, just like regular CDs. Takes 5 seconds to find that out.
I think the human race, when proclaiming ourselves as masters of the world, pretty much made ourselves morally obligated not to mess up the world too badly. Whales and pandas are endangered species, and exterminating them doesn't seem like a very ethical thing to do. How important parts of the eco-system they are is not the deciding factor of whether we should kill them or not.
Has anyone ever tasted whale meat, by the way? I have, and it tastes like shit. Still, whales provide a lot of food per sentient being, so they're not a horrible waste in that manner.
As for insects, I try not to kill them. I'm strange that way.
I went to the trouble of going to the Bethesda Softworks site, finding out it's a piece of shit which doesn't work in Opera, and spending 5 minutes waiting for it to load in MSIE to verify this. Yes, it's true. Check it at http://www.bethsoft.com
May 14, 2003 (Rockville, MD) - Vir2L® Studios and Bethesda Softworks® today announced the release of The Elder Scrolls® Travels: Stormhold and Dawnstar, two mobile games based on Bethesda's award-winning role-playing series, The Elder Scrolls®. In 2002, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® won more than 60 awards, including Game of the Year and RPG of the Year for both PC and the Xboxâ. Now, prepare to see this same power harnessed as mobile gamers are pulled into the imaginative worlds of the two games, Stormhold and Dawnstar.
Experience the fun and excitement of this legendary franchise in the palm of your hand, complete with epic dungeons, fearsome monsters, and priceless treasures. Played in first-person perspective, this epic single-player game is presented with stunning graphics. As in the genre-defining worlds found in Morrowind, Daggerfall®, and Arenaâ, The Elder Scrolls Travels will be the definitive wireless RPG"
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I was just going to mod the original poster up, but when I went through all that trouble... Bleh.
I was 11 once, picking up abbreviations in Diablo Battle.net chat rooms. Yep, I thought it was cool at the time, but later realized it was lame. The only three persons I know who writes SMS messages with punctuation and correct spelling are my brother, father and mother; I come from a strange family.
My friends don't like me pointing out their errors for them; they see it as arrogant. Furthermore, my long rants about semicolons have become notorious in the classroom.
If anyone happens to be curious, I recently turned 16. I grew out of the "abbreviation phase" when I was 13-14.
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He was talking about the original Neverwinter Nights.
You're playing video... and transmitting it over remote desktop? I really don't understand what you're doing. :P How does remote desktop work into this?
I'd post this as a link, but frickin' Windows won't let me change the keyboard layout, so I can't make those less-than-greater-than things. Sorry. Game number 88 of ~4500 on the-underdogs: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=88 ... It's been there a while
Why use Remote Desktop for video? In my experience it's, uhm, useless... Why not stream the videos with SMB?
I'm not the only one with this problem? Wow. Great. So did using an old PCI sound correct the problem? This has caused me great anguish (gr...) but I wasn't sure it was the audio, because it still happened when I turned it off. I've got an AWE64 on a P2 upstairs...
Er... It's Slashdotted. Er... Anyone else noticing that? Anyone got a mirror?
I almost hope that happens. Something like that would definately turn MANY semi-knowledgeable users as myself from Windows to Linux, and hopefully Linux would also improve. I'm currently not a Linux user, but I've tested Mandrake 9.1 briefly, and got it to do almost everything I could do in Windows; the only thing it lacked was the convenience and familiarity, so I'm sure I could switch if MS pulled a stunt like that.
That doesn't work very well. At least not with hard drives.
Oh, and by the way, there are also native Linux Windows Remote Desktop clients. My brother uses it at his job, and it's also bundled with probably multiple distros... I believe Mandrake 9.1 has it.
Slashdot linked to a guide for going to Japan and buying video games a while back, and it talked about getting old consoles and stuff. I think that going to Japan and getting a Famicom might be the easiest thing to do. I'm not sure what you mean by a "top-loading" variety, but I know that the Japanese one was different from the European one; more I don't remember. And the European NES cartridges looked like the American SNES cartridges. But I don't have that much clarity here, as much of this information comes from reading Nintendo Power (or Nintendomagasinet as it was known in Sweden) in the early '90's. I don't know how I'll be able to bring back all the stuff I want to bring back from Japan when I go there as an exchange student next year.
Then my frickin' brother borrowed it to someone and was never eager to get it back. I've never forgiven him for that. Oh well. We had about 30 games then, and I have 3 CDs full of ROMs (eh, including, like, 100 SMB hacks and multiple versions of each title), a gamepad and TV-out on my computer now, so, like, that almost works as well.
Erm, I doubt a cell phone jammer would prohibit someone from playing a game or taking a picture with his/her phone; it would only keep that person from making calls or send messages.
But then you're discriminating against people who don't have a phone. And it might be expensive for people living abroad from the country. For example, my brother has a DSL connection and uses his cell phone for all phone communication as he has no regular phone. Calling a company in the US from Europe on a cell phone to create an e-mail account might not be a very, eh, acceptable expense.
Yeah, that's a pretty good site; was going to mention it. Note that the site has mainly old games which have been "abandoned" by their developers and publishers. Still good for new freeware games, though. There are over 4500 games on the site, and most of them are avaiable for download.
Nah. The webcam would just stop functioning.
Hm. Well, one reason for this is of course that they want to earn a truckload of money, which they are doing. Also, possibly, a GBA cart may not hold as much as a classic SNES cart, and this wouldn't even be possible. Anyone know?
It won't be that difficult to make it balanced. I think they opt for fun and balance rather than realism in this manner. I initially had much of the same reaction as you; if there's any bias, it's going to piss off many people, including me. But I believe the developers are Swedish, and they're politically very neutral. And if it IS balanced, it shouldn't piss off anyone.
I don't know what my living grandather (both were in concentration camps in WW2, one died three years ago this August) would say about my playing BF1942 either...
The real difference between World War II and the Vietnam war is that the US pulled out, and the country has lived on. Just about the only place where Communism has really succeeded, from my observation.
It's possible that the relatively low incomes that the working and middle classes in USA have, have lead to Minidisc players being too expensive for most people and their kids.
I agree with region encoding being stupid too. I believe it should be illegal to control what you say in that manner.
The Gameboy doesn't have different zones, by the way. Bought lots of games in other countries in America and some in Asia.
Playstation and Nintendo 64 emulation is VERY easy. I managed to run Mario Kart 64 well enough to be playable on a machine with a Pentium 166, 32 MB of RAM and a Voodoo Banshee with UltraHLE in early '99...
Yep. They do NOT spin backwards. That's an idiotic claim. Anyone can pop the GC up while playing and see that it spins clockwise, just like regular CDs. Takes 5 seconds to find that out.
Actually, "naive" should be "naÃve".
Has anyone ever tasted whale meat, by the way? I have, and it tastes like shit. Still, whales provide a lot of food per sentient being, so they're not a horrible waste in that manner.
As for insects, I try not to kill them. I'm strange that way.
As for the article: DUH. Sheesh. :P
Yes. My English teacher loves this "natural" evolution of an "organic" language. I am NOT kidding. He's a Canadian. I'll go to school now.
My friends don't like me pointing out their errors for them; they see it as arrogant. Furthermore, my long rants about semicolons have become notorious in the classroom.
If anyone happens to be curious, I recently turned 16. I grew out of the "abbreviation phase" when I was 13-14.