I've never cared for the Playstation controller. You can't rocker the d-pad because it's 4 buttons and not a true cross. I never liked the 'ergonomic' handles on it either.
You can buy a USB gravis game pad that is very similar for about $10 on eBay. I've got a couple of them laying around. 4 USB game pads and one copy of NHL 2001 makes for some fun.
Worst of all, in my opinion, was the system's mediocre performance. Games generally seemed to have less polygons than similar PlayStation titles and had terribly blurry textures and sub-SNES quality music. The hardware that had looked so hot in 1996 aged incredibly quickly, and many gamers noticed.
Play any title that's on both PSX and N64...tell me which is better. Tony Hawk for instance.
The Playstion is a horrid splash of bouncing, jaggie-filled, sparkling textures, and the N64 version is a smooth, antialiased, 3D world.
Arcade games were very difficult. Some had simple patterns and could be mastered, but your average player can't get past the third round in Q*Bert
NES games were pretty challenging. But when the SNES came out, games got real easy. Anyone remember beating Super Mario World the first night (or next morning) they brought their Super Nintendo home from the store?
Todays games also have too many codes, maps, cheats... In the days of the NES you might get a walkthrough of the first couple levels in Nintendo power but then it was up to you.
I'm sure in the future the games will just beat themselves.
A good firewall would mean setting up a Linux/BSD box, putting a couple NICs in it and setting it all up, right.
But 95% of the people who read a couple FAQs or books won't do it perfectly.
So the small appliances work great, as long as you can live with their limited functionality. If you just want 30 users to surf the web it'll be fine, but getting servers etc involved can be tricky with some models.
The worst thing is when they have poor security by default. We used to scan entire IP blocks, looking for open telnet ports, and we'd just use the default logins to get in. Anyone remember 'wradmin'?
You could telnet in, shut the DHCP off, or disable routing, telnet to other computers/printers inside their private networks, if it was an ISDN router you could change the dial out phone numbers...
Sucks when it's cool out, like 60 degrees, and it's night time. And you've forgotten your clear shield. (People who don't ride wouldn't understand why you'd forget it) So you're riding a hour home with the shield UP and you've got a nose full of snot and watery eyes on the way home.
When you go to a DRP seminar, they make the claim that the majority of business that are knocked out for longer than 48 hours go out of business within 1 year.
First thought? This class blows. I already know how to type. I'm a 15 year old 37337 hax0r!
It's a pain in the butt at first. With a typing program, you'll cheat. When you've got a instructur that's loony walking around the room, you stick to the program.
We used electric typewriters. Big solid CHUNK! CHUNK! CHUNK! when you type.
Don't look at the keys. Hit the right keys with the right fingers.
At first you work on 100% accuracy. The whole class says the letters out loud and types to a metronome. After a few weeks you speed it up. Accuracy is more important than speed.
Many letter patterns are learned, also. You don't just type cheesy stories, but things like:
(home row)
dads fads lads alfalfa sad dad had lag
(single finger)
frffvffrfvfrfrfrfvfvfrvrvrvrvvffrrff
(patterns)
a s d f g h j k k l ; q w e r t y u i o p
When you say the letters out loud and tap your feet, it burns it in to your brain.
Most people trade files, send those stupid picture joke emails, stream media, watch those stupid Flash cartoons...
If you're an IRC/email user, dial up is fine. But put someone on dial up and listen to them bitch about how slow it is. New users, especially, have NO patience for slow connections, becuase they're not geeks.
Let's say company A makes characters. Company B can either buy them or sub-contract them to create new characters for their games.
Therefore, letting the game company worry about the game itself. This is commonly done with sound effects and music. (outsourcing, more than licensing though)
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Right. Great way of showing the game.
I hate when they just show FMV scenes, or scenes not even from the game. Wow me with what the game actually looks like.
SSH brings down the house....again
I haven't noticed any scanning or anything going on here at work, but I'm disabling SSH for now...
Buy a 4-5 button mouse or trackball.
Or you can use a key on the keyboard and a mouse button. Not the best solution for say, games, but works for most everything else.
70 virgins? Why don't they just enroll in college?
You get virgins, alcohol, [b]and[/b] meth.
This article seems like a cool HOW-TO and an interesting hack, but the article is more about the "geek factor" than being a cost-savings device.
Hint: You're reading www.slashdot.org
I've never cared for the Playstation controller. You can't rocker the d-pad because it's 4 buttons and not a true cross. I never liked the 'ergonomic' handles on it either.
You can buy a USB gravis game pad that is very similar for about $10 on eBay. I've got a couple of them laying around. 4 USB game pads and one copy of NHL 2001 makes for some fun.
Anyone remember how fast the G3 and G4 chips were in SETI compared to Intel chips?
When you're young, you play Chutes and Ladders and Hi-ho-cherry-o
When you're older, you play them too. Many games are fun for couples, and nothing's better than Jenga+drunks
Give away the readers and sell the books. That's what they should do.
Ever hear of the N64 expansion pack?
Worst of all, in my opinion, was the system's mediocre performance. Games generally seemed to have less polygons than similar PlayStation titles and had terribly blurry textures and sub-SNES quality music. The hardware that had looked so hot in 1996 aged incredibly quickly, and many gamers noticed.
Play any title that's on both PSX and N64...tell me which is better. Tony Hawk for instance.
The Playstion is a horrid splash of bouncing, jaggie-filled, sparkling textures, and the N64 version is a smooth, antialiased, 3D world.
Screw the 'Nintendo is nice and neat' mantra.
Use STANDARD MEDIA! Cartridges, mini-DVD's...wtf, you'd figured they'd learn
Keep pumping out Mario/Zelda games.
I think whoever releases the next console will be the winners....As long as it is clearly a better product than what's out right now.
So we're going to have firewalls at:
ISP
Router
Windows XP built in firewall
How many more do we need?
Arcade games were very difficult. Some had simple patterns and could be mastered, but your average player can't get past the third round in Q*Bert
NES games were pretty challenging. But when the SNES came out, games got real easy. Anyone remember beating Super Mario World the first night (or next morning) they brought their Super Nintendo home from the store?
Todays games also have too many codes, maps, cheats... In the days of the NES you might get a walkthrough of the first couple levels in Nintendo power but then it was up to you.
I'm sure in the future the games will just beat themselves.
A good firewall would mean setting up a Linux/BSD box, putting a couple NICs in it and setting it all up, right.
But 95% of the people who read a couple FAQs or books won't do it perfectly.
So the small appliances work great, as long as you can live with their limited functionality. If you just want 30 users to surf the web it'll be fine, but getting servers etc involved can be tricky with some models.
The worst thing is when they have poor security by default. We used to scan entire IP blocks, looking for open telnet ports, and we'd just use the default logins to get in. Anyone remember 'wradmin'?
You could telnet in, shut the DHCP off, or disable routing, telnet to other computers/printers inside their private networks, if it was an ISDN router you could change the dial out phone numbers...
Flip it up.
Sucks when it's cool out, like 60 degrees, and it's night time. And you've forgotten your clear shield. (People who don't ride wouldn't understand why you'd forget it) So you're riding a hour home with the shield UP and you've got a nose full of snot and watery eyes on the way home.
to that damn girl that's in like 4 out of 5 web pop ups!
When you go to a DRP seminar, they make the claim that the majority of business that are knocked out for longer than 48 hours go out of business within 1 year.
I took half a semester of typing in high school.
First thought? This class blows. I already know how to type. I'm a 15 year old 37337 hax0r!
It's a pain in the butt at first. With a typing program, you'll cheat. When you've got a instructur that's loony walking around the room, you stick to the program.
We used electric typewriters. Big solid CHUNK! CHUNK! CHUNK! when you type.
Don't look at the keys. Hit the right keys with the right fingers.
At first you work on 100% accuracy. The whole class says the letters out loud and types to a metronome. After a few weeks you speed it up. Accuracy is more important than speed.
Many letter patterns are learned, also. You don't just type cheesy stories, but things like:
(home row)
dads fads lads alfalfa sad dad had lag
(single finger)
frffvffrfvfrfrfrfvfvfrvrvrvrvvffrrff
(patterns)
a s d f g h j k k l ; q w e r t y u i o p
When you say the letters out loud and tap your feet, it burns it in to your brain.
1. ?
2. ?
3. Profit!
Most people?
Most people trade files, send those stupid picture joke emails, stream media, watch those stupid Flash cartoons...
If you're an IRC/email user, dial up is fine. But put someone on dial up and listen to them bitch about how slow it is. New users, especially, have NO patience for slow connections, becuase they're not geeks.
Here's a link to the original article.
How about 3 day battery life with 6 hours talk time?
How about good, clear calls?
How about not magically losing signal when I walk in to another room?
They're lower than they were in the late 80's/early 90's. [b]Especially[/b] when you take inflation in to account.
Remember cartridge games, like Nintendo used? The new relases could be $70!
Most CD/DVD based games are $49.99 or so.
That's not what he means.
Let's say company A makes characters. Company B can either buy them or sub-contract them to create new characters for their games.
Therefore, letting the game company worry about the game itself. This is commonly done with sound effects and music. (outsourcing, more than licensing though)