Have you seen GA from the air? It's huge, and there's all sorts of nothing around it. They can expand along the lake front to add a whole assload of themed areas. And the recently added _huge_ Nitro ride sort of makes that moot.
I think it's because thats as large a ride as they could afford for that engineering firm to build for them at this time; while still getting that height/speed record.
Hands down. We were just there a few weeks ago, and I have to say it's really improved since when I used to live there (about when the Great American Scream Machine opened...)
Busch Gardens (Florida / Williamsburg) may have more charm, Disney World has more attractions, Coney Islands has the most history, but SF:GA has the best rides.
Oh, and we used Six Flags and Great Adventure interchangably. Six Flags because at the time, there were no other Six Flags parks in the area. Great Adventure because that was a specific moniker.
Hell, a posting mode on Slashdot that wrapped the comment in Mona font tags. Ooooooh boy, the GNAA would love it though, so I guess that'll never happen.
NO WAY!!! I'm gettin' all nostalgic/misty-eyed.
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I fondly remember back in the day when I first got my GAME GENIE at Christmas. I was trying all these codes on my new Super Mario 3. I figured out pretty quick that there was a pattern to the codes (warp to level X, where X changed the last digit in a code, with the letter sequence scrambled to make it less obvious).
I wrote down the letter->hex digit conversion map, and I was hacking away.
So I was playing with the warp-to-world codes and once you got beyond 8, you could get some CRAZY shit to come up.
They were like (what I later found to be) palette-swapped tile-happy acid trips of maps. Things that resembled dungeons, impossibly linked paths between pipes and levels. And of course you couldn't move anywhere. Things were flashing, colored in garish reds, purples and other such nonsense. Holy crap, it was like looking into the mind of a clown on speed.
I spent the rest of my vacation seeing how royally fucked up I could make my games by torturing them with Game Genie codes.
This is just a more refined and controlled version of this (the Game Genie could only rewrite 5 bytes in the program ROM, this type of art is not limited to this).
Asked Connolly for a proof of a "work for hire" contract? No dice. What it sounds like is that Connolly was asking him to tinker on his CMS. Whatever Erik took away from that experience is not owned by Connolly, especially if he didn't sign an agreement. That's like having a contractor come help you finish your deck, then preventing him from using similar designs on another job!
The key problem was Erik's off-hand comment he made in his email. What he thought would be taken as "facetious" was perceived as a threat or challenge by Connolly. And now we have this mess.
Perhaps Connolly did not know how relatively insignificant Erik's mutual functional change to both codebases was...
Is this the same slashdot where people bitch and moan and joke about Doom III and DNF and Final Fantasy XXX and Peter Molyineux and how there's no original games anymore?
I'll bet it's usb-audio + usb-hid device. It better damn well work on a PC or Mac. Reason being I wouldn't put it past Griffin to develop or pay for the development of a whole usb protocol and drivers that is hardened for precise timing required for realtime audio... the pre-existing standard and chipsets are the way to go... just have to write the application software that makes it easy to use. They'd use "buttons-n-dials" from usb-hid standard to control the tuner.
Side note: Why do Mac people insist on calling it "AIFF" when they mean PCM? AIFF is a container format, like WAV, but it only comes up when they mean PCM, which is exactly what the radio transmits to the computer (usb-audio standard, after all). I hear "WAV" format and cringe as well. Did you know you can have a WAV file that contains AAC encoded data, among other things? Yeah, I bet you didn't.
0x0000 WAVE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN 0x0001 WAVE_FORMAT_PCM Microsoft Corporation (the common one)... a whole shitload of other possibilities... 0x0180 WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG2AAC Fraunhofer IIS
Is it like, if it has the "i*" naming convention, then every Mac user and jealous PC user is flying out the door to buy it?
It's not like the radio tuners were hard to find; most TV cards come with one whether you know it or not. Trick is finding a service that gives you the radio schedule. But scheduled recording is real easy, (crontab and sox piping into lame, at the most barebones) especially if you have OSX, linux/FreeBSD, or a PC with the right user-land software (HINT: Not ATI).
And there has got to be radio time shifting projects on sourceforge. There's GOT to be. That's such a geek thing.
Get a 3200 939/90nm and save a hundred bucks or more. It's not worth the incremental jump in speed, and you may be able to easily overclock it back to the 3500 level.
They just pick the features that least number of people use to drop support for. Pity the customers left in the cold.
The solution there will be the same no matter which OS you based it on; you hire a consulting firm to implement an emulation layer or stop-gap measure.
That still bothers the FUCK out of me. I mean, it's easier to set the terminal speed of the real serial port in the firmware to a decent speed, and use that over a minicom session to a nearby linux box. Set your consoles to ttya, boys; never mind that extra $500 Radeon 7000. Christ on crutches!
Now I can play the game while I watch the game. The next step is to tie it into some kinda online fantasy football stuff online... not that I'm into that kinda thing or anything.
You klog once... and you have a ticket that gets kept around for two hours or so (destroyed at logout).
Any "Kerberos-ized" application on your network will let you in as long as your ticket is valid.
Most every Unix-type thing got kerberosized at some point a few years back, mostly because they were all OSS (FTP, HTTP-AUTH, TELNET, IMAP, XWindows, AFS).
It didn't work for propietary apps, but there weren't a lot of those that didn't rely on host OS security in the first place (you might have an X-Session into the machine with the application), so you would use Kerberos there.
How can the edge firewall detect what software is driving the ports on the user's desktop? I guess you had to install the Integrity Client on each user's machine as well.
Appropriately setting security permissions, or assigning users to the Users group. Also, try renaming ntuser.dat to ntuser.man (and of course remove write permission to the top of the user's profile).
That'll mean they can change their settings, but they'll be automatically reset at logout. You don't even need a domain server to do it. Of course, the users might get a little annoyed. The savvy ones will write.reg scripts that run at login time to reset the settings.;-)
Seriously, if you knew the first thing about how network protocols work, you wouldn't be such a huge ass.
Like Warez HTTP and FTP sites don't exist. Or people don't email each other software. Or you can't find it on USENET. Oh wait, should we ban all Internet traffic?
Oh wait, NO WE DON'T YOU FUCKING TWAT!!!
WE GO AFTER THE PEOPLE USING THE TECHNOLOGY INAPPROPRIATELY!
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Have you seen GA from the air? It's huge, and there's all sorts of nothing around it. They can expand along the lake front to add a whole assload of themed areas.
And the recently added _huge_ Nitro ride sort of makes that moot.
I think it's because thats as large a ride as they could afford for that engineering firm to build for them at this time; while still getting that height/speed record.
Hands down. We were just there a few weeks ago, and I have to say it's really improved since when I used to live there (about when the Great American Scream Machine opened...)
Busch Gardens (Florida / Williamsburg) may have more charm, Disney World has more attractions, Coney Islands has the most history, but SF:GA has the best rides.
Oh, and we used Six Flags and Great Adventure interchangably. Six Flags because at the time, there were no other Six Flags parks in the area. Great Adventure because that was a specific moniker.
A version of aalib that used the Mona font.
Hell, a posting mode on Slashdot that wrapped the comment in Mona font tags. Ooooooh boy, the GNAA would love it though, so I guess that'll never happen.
I fondly remember back in the day when I first got my GAME GENIE at Christmas. I was trying all these codes on my new Super Mario 3. I figured out pretty quick that there was a pattern to the codes (warp to level X, where X changed the last digit in a code, with the letter sequence scrambled to make it less obvious).
I wrote down the letter->hex digit conversion map, and I was hacking away.
So I was playing with the warp-to-world codes and once you got beyond 8, you could get some CRAZY shit to come up.
They were like (what I later found to be) palette-swapped tile-happy acid trips of maps. Things that resembled dungeons, impossibly linked paths between pipes and levels. And of course you couldn't move anywhere. Things were flashing, colored in garish reds, purples and other such nonsense. Holy crap, it was like looking into the mind of a clown on speed.
I spent the rest of my vacation seeing how royally fucked up I could make my games by torturing them with Game Genie codes.
This is just a more refined and controlled version of this (the Game Genie could only rewrite 5 bytes in the program ROM, this type of art is not limited to this).
I meant someone go SIGN UP for an HRiders email account... because that's the whole point; you've got to send mail to it to win the 1TB account.
Quick, someone post their hriders email address. We'll do our part.
I'll sign up for one when I get home if no one posts a reply.
This is win.
Newsforge is aware of this.
Asked Connolly for a proof of a "work for hire" contract? No dice.
What it sounds like is that Connolly was asking him to tinker on his CMS. Whatever Erik took away from that experience is not owned by Connolly, especially if he didn't sign an agreement.
That's like having a contractor come help you finish your deck, then preventing him from using similar designs on another job!
The key problem was Erik's off-hand comment he made in his email. What he thought would be taken as "facetious" was perceived as a threat or challenge by Connolly. And now we have this mess.
Perhaps Connolly did not know how relatively insignificant Erik's mutual functional change to both codebases was...
Is this the same slashdot where people bitch and moan and joke about Doom III and DNF and Final Fantasy XXX and Peter Molyineux and how there's no original games anymore?
I'll bet it's usb-audio + usb-hid device. It better damn well work on a PC or Mac. Reason being I wouldn't put it past Griffin to develop or pay for the development of a whole usb protocol and drivers that is hardened for precise timing required for realtime audio... the pre-existing standard and chipsets are the way to go... just have to write the application software that makes it easy to use. They'd use "buttons-n-dials" from usb-hid standard to control the tuner.
... a whole shitload of other possibilities...
Side note: Why do Mac people insist on calling it "AIFF" when they mean PCM? AIFF is a container format, like WAV, but it only comes up when they mean PCM, which is exactly what the radio transmits to the computer (usb-audio standard, after all).
I hear "WAV" format and cringe as well.
Did you know you can have a WAV file that contains AAC encoded data, among other things? Yeah, I bet you didn't.
0x0000 WAVE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN
0x0001 WAVE_FORMAT_PCM Microsoft Corporation (the common one)
0x0180 WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG2AAC Fraunhofer IIS
Yeah... there you go.
Is it like, if it has the "i*" naming convention, then every Mac user and jealous PC user is flying out the door to buy it?
It's not like the radio tuners were hard to find; most TV cards come with one whether you know it or not.
Trick is finding a service that gives you the radio schedule. But scheduled recording is real easy, (crontab and sox piping into lame, at the most barebones) especially if you have OSX, linux/FreeBSD, or a PC with the right user-land software (HINT: Not ATI).
And there has got to be radio time shifting projects on sourceforge. There's GOT to be. That's such a geek thing.
Get a 3200 939/90nm and save a hundred bucks or more.
It's not worth the incremental jump in speed, and you may be able to easily overclock it back to the 3500 level.
They just pick the features that least number of people use to drop support for. Pity the customers left in the cold.
The solution there will be the same no matter which OS you based it on; you hire a consulting firm to implement an emulation layer or stop-gap measure.
That still bothers the FUCK out of me.
I mean, it's easier to set the terminal speed of the real serial port in the firmware to a decent speed, and use that over a minicom session to a nearby linux box. Set your consoles to ttya, boys; never mind that extra $500 Radeon 7000.
Christ on crutches!
I mean, what's the downside to it... somebody care to explain?
Now I can play the game while I watch the game. The next step is to tie it into some kinda online fantasy football stuff online... not that I'm into that kinda thing or anything.
Which one???
You klog once... and you have a ticket that gets kept around for two hours or so (destroyed at logout).
Any "Kerberos-ized" application on your network will let you in as long as your ticket is valid.
Most every Unix-type thing got kerberosized at some point a few years back, mostly because they were all OSS (FTP, HTTP-AUTH, TELNET, IMAP, XWindows, AFS).
It didn't work for propietary apps, but there weren't a lot of those that didn't rely on host OS security in the first place (you might have an X-Session into the machine with the application), so you would use Kerberos there.
How can the edge firewall detect what software is driving the ports on the user's desktop? I guess you had to install the Integrity Client on each user's machine as well.
Appropriately setting security permissions, or assigning users to the Users group. Also, try renaming ntuser.dat to ntuser.man (and of course remove write permission to the top of the user's profile).
.reg scripts that run at login time to reset the settings. ;-)
That'll mean they can change their settings, but they'll be automatically reset at logout. You don't even need a domain server to do it.
Of course, the users might get a little annoyed. The savvy ones will write
Seriously, if you knew the first thing about how network protocols work, you wouldn't be such a huge ass.
Like Warez HTTP and FTP sites don't exist. Or people don't email each other software. Or you can't find it on USENET.
Oh wait, should we ban all Internet traffic?
Oh wait, NO WE DON'T YOU FUCKING TWAT!!!
WE GO AFTER THE PEOPLE USING THE TECHNOLOGY INAPPROPRIATELY!
Seriously, the operating system and car analogy is stretched way too thin to make any kind of non-trivial argument.
On the other hand, doing a comparison is quite illustrative about the current state of both industries.
I've got an HP Omibook 4150 that's almost 4 years old and I'm using it right now. Only issue is a section of the LCD is fading a bit.
Like anything else, it all depends. At least with Apple's laptops, you're pretty much guaranteed that any particular model is built to last.
But that doesn't mean you can't find a real robust PC laptop. Trick is to not rush out and by a new model right away.
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