The government has a satellite with a laser on it. They thinkg 9/11 would have been avoided had they 'blinded' the hijackers with lasers once they got control of the plane. They're testing the satellite out, and using this poor guy as a scapegoat.
The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building,
The SNES was gray with purple accents, and the controller had purple buttons. It sold pretty well.
Everyone hated how the XBox looked and how big it was. Sleek? Hah.
Basically, video games grew up in the late 90's. Blood, guts, naked volleyball players. Nintendo knows you don't have to have these things in a game to make it a good game, so for the most part they kept it out. I believe that should be left up to the game publisher, not the console company, and Sony will let you publish any hunk of crap you want for the Playstation. So you have a ton of mediocre games. That also lets Sony brag that they have '1,000' games in their library.
The other problem with Nintendo is their propreitary media formats. They were the last one to go to optical discs, and when they did, they used a non-standard format.
I remember back in the days of IE vs Netscape, magazines would often publish page loading/rendering times. I'm not talking loading Yahoo, and hitting REFRESH while watching a stopwatch, but a real benchmark suite like you'd use for Microsft Office or a graphics card.
I'd also like to say that the newest IE is a lot better than the old ones as far as pop ups go. Tabbed browsing keeps me on Firefox even though there are ways to do it in IE. I've noticed Firefox hangs up on pages that IE handles fine, and I'm not really sure Firefox is 'faster', although it seems like it on slower machines.
Most people think Firefox is faster because they've got so much spyware etc infested in Internet Explorer. IE has always been 'fast'. A fresh install, at least.
I'd suggest using the cafeteria. Plenty of electrical power, and you probably have tables in there already.
Go to Lowes/Home Depot, buy a box or two of CAT5 cable. Have some students make the ends. Get a couple of cheap switches. Small companies like mine throw them out all the time. In the last year I've thrown out 2 100MB hubs, 5 10MB hubs, and 2 100MB switches.
You're just running games so you're not going to saturate them.
We did this at a high school I previously worked at, and it went pretty well. We used all the old networking equipment the school used to run on, and now they just use it in the 'student lab' with old computers and other things for computer class kids to play with.
I had the Demo that came on 2-3 floppy disks. Amazing game. I had a 386SX/16 and I could only play it on the lowest of details. A friend had a 486/33 and he could turn on textures, sound...Great game.
However, two groups of shareholders have announced their opposition to the deal, and between them they represent around 28 per cent of the firm's stock - enough to prevent the acquisition from happening
I wonder if that 28 percent is employee-owned stock, and they're taking into consideration the recent EA/Employee scandals.
Some games are very frustrating, even if you use codes.
The best part of emulators is you can save the game state, then attempt the jump/kill the bad guy, and then die and start all over without having to play for an hour to get back where you were.
ZigBee supports mesh networking and claims to be 'wireless control that simply works.' They claim to be a solution to everything from wireless home automation to industrial control.
We'll see how this works. The last factory we worked in, we had to use fiber (10MB at that) because cables would have too much interference.
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Here's what my dad claims:
The government has a satellite with a laser on it. They thinkg 9/11 would have been avoided had they 'blinded' the hijackers with lasers once they got control of the plane. They're testing the satellite out, and using this poor guy as a scapegoat.
Take another look. The 2 is written over a 1.
The second one was it.
Thanks a million
"How to build a robot"
Steven Lindblom
Back in grade school, there was a cartoon-ish book about 'Building your own robot'
I can't remember exactly what it was called, this would have been in the 80's....I'd buy it if I could find a copy. Anyone have any ideas?
I'd guess it was "How to build a robot" or "Build your own robot"
Typing got cumbersome sometimes, but the later games where you could point/click were a great improvement.
Police Quest? Gold Rush?
Check out the older stuff here:
http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Sierra_On-Li
Even independent games like Hugo were a ton of fun.
The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building,
Lowe's should consider carrying that product.
The SNES was gray with purple accents, and the controller had purple buttons. It sold pretty well.
Everyone hated how the XBox looked and how big it was. Sleek? Hah.
Basically, video games grew up in the late 90's. Blood, guts, naked volleyball players. Nintendo knows you don't have to have these things in a game to make it a good game, so for the most part they kept it out. I believe that should be left up to the game publisher, not the console company, and Sony will let you publish any hunk of crap you want for the Playstation. So you have a ton of mediocre games. That also lets Sony brag that they have '1,000' games in their library.
The other problem with Nintendo is their propreitary media formats. They were the last one to go to optical discs, and when they did, they used a non-standard format.
You can't even run it on the lowest CPU's they tested.
Why not use GLQuake or even *gasp* software Quake?
When you bought the 487SX "co-processor" you were actually buying a fully functional 486DX that disabled the other CPU on the board.
Correct.
And for the 386, the 386SX was like a 386DX but it was crippled by a 16-bit bus instead of a 32-bit bus. Which made them the same speed as a fast 286.
Neither 386SX or 386DX had math-coprocessors. You had to add them on later.
Looks more like a space-marine theme.
I was hoping to see them go back to a gothic look like the original Quake or Heretic.
When I first read this, I thought Maxis was making a white trash Sim game. Get your cousin pregnant, work at Wal-Mart, buy a 1985 Trans Am...
No, they're all managers.
Does anyone do these anymore?
I remember back in the days of IE vs Netscape, magazines would often publish page loading/rendering times. I'm not talking loading Yahoo, and hitting REFRESH while watching a stopwatch, but a real benchmark suite like you'd use for Microsft Office or a graphics card.
I'd also like to say that the newest IE is a lot better than the old ones as far as pop ups go. Tabbed browsing keeps me on Firefox even though there are ways to do it in IE. I've noticed Firefox hangs up on pages that IE handles fine, and I'm not really sure Firefox is 'faster', although it seems like it on slower machines.
Most people think Firefox is faster because they've got so much spyware etc infested in Internet Explorer. IE has always been 'fast'. A fresh install, at least.
Jeri has stated she wanted this to be expandable by end users. Too bad all devices aren't created with that mantra.
Even better, score an old electric typewriter with a parallel port. They 'doubled' as printers.
I'd suggest using the cafeteria. Plenty of electrical power, and you probably have tables in there already.
Go to Lowes/Home Depot, buy a box or two of CAT5 cable. Have some students make the ends. Get a couple of cheap switches. Small companies like mine throw them out all the time. In the last year I've thrown out 2 100MB hubs, 5 10MB hubs, and 2 100MB switches.
You're just running games so you're not going to saturate them.
We did this at a high school I previously worked at, and it went pretty well. We used all the old networking equipment the school used to run on, and now they just use it in the 'student lab' with old computers and other things for computer class kids to play with.
She's turning up a ton of hits on Google
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Here she is at the XGamestation booth: http://www.xgamestation.com/view_media.php?id=109
Here's another article on her:
http://home.att.net/~rmestel/articles/on_road_ell
The only 'Doom clone' worth playing at the time.
The only thing even remotely close to Doom. And it took LucasArts to do it, instead of a couple guys working out of some rented office space in Texas.
I had the Demo that came on 2-3 floppy disks. Amazing game. I had a 386SX/16 and I could only play it on the lowest of details. A friend had a 486/33 and he could turn on textures, sound...Great game.
However, two groups of shareholders have announced their opposition to the deal, and between them they represent around 28 per cent of the firm's stock - enough to prevent the acquisition from happening
I wonder if that 28 percent is employee-owned stock, and they're taking into consideration the recent EA/Employee scandals.
I don't condone what they did, but 9 years is WAY too much when murderers are getting less
Not all murderers get less. All computer criminals have gotten less.
In most states, for most murders, you get 20 years to life.
Some games are very frustrating, even if you use codes.
The best part of emulators is you can save the game state, then attempt the jump/kill the bad guy, and then die and start all over without having to play for an hour to get back where you were.
*Applause*
ZigBee supports mesh networking and claims to be 'wireless control that simply works.' They claim to be a solution to everything from wireless home automation to industrial control.
We'll see how this works. The last factory we worked in, we had to use fiber (10MB at that) because cables would have too much interference.
And then they'll sue anyone who allows their traffic to come to their servers. Nothing but spame and WaRez comes from China.