I kind of like looking at the ads in Sonic Adventure 2. Heh. There are just some posters on some walls in some levels, which you can blow right past without even generally noticing. They're not "AND NOW A BLINKING ANIMATED MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS!!" things. And they were either real or made up ads for Sega things. (The only real one I can think of right now was some ISP or webpage service or something..) Grand Theft Auto 3, and Vice City, have ads in them - but they're all for made-up in-game things.
I know what you mean, though. I wouldn't want to be forced to sit through a real ad in a game.. I see enough awful, annoying, loud ads on TV. I guess that's the thing. Sonic Adventure 2 had mostly made-up ads as I recall, GTA had made-up ads. If they had actual billboards/posters all over for various actual brands/products, it'd be... a little unsettling somehow.
I should've quoted the parent post I was replying to, or something.:) T'was "You can also use / to get to the find bar. But then it's really annoying that you can't use n/N to step through the found instances..", thus I was responding about the Firefox find thingy.
As for history, I'm always using alt-left and alt-right to go forward/back. (It's even listed under the Go menu in Firefox.) And you are right.. In Windows, too, Firefox goes back with backspace, forward with shift-backspace.
I wonder if the Windows-"standard" enter/shift-enter steps forward or back in Firefox, in other operating systems? (I say Windows-"standard" because I've seen that in.. well.. who knows where. Just various Windows programs.)
Um.. I've never used DOSEmu. Well, I know DOSBox emulates.. pc speaker, adlib, sound blaster, gravis ultrasound, joysticks, um.. CGA, EGA, VGA, I think hercules mono.. Maybe we should take this to a journal rather than spamming up this article? *shrugs* http://slashdot.org/~yRabbit/journal/116601
If I understood that right.. well, you could use DOSBox to play the DOS Sopwith. In Linux. From Windows. Mac. Whatever. Then you could tweak the speed setting in DOSBox and pretend it's a 4.77MHz PC.;)
My keyboard doesn't even have a scroll lock light though it has the key. It has an "Office Lock" light in its place (but hey, it has like, two dozen hotkeys which I can use in media players. t'least in Windows)
But anyways, I can only recall ONE program that used scroll lock. If I'm not mistaken, it was the key to exit Sopwith.:D
Other than a single old DOS game, I can't think of anything..
Agreed, I play games for fun. Sly Cooper, Metal Gear Solid 2, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime/Super Metroid/Metroid, Mario, Unreal Tournament 2004, Morrowind.
Cel-shaded, realistic, Atari style, DOS, NES, whatever, as long as it's a fun game I'll play it. (But I find myself enjoying cel-shaded games for their more cartoonish look. Perhaps because they're more unique, at times it feels like there are too many 'realistic' games.)
(Arggh, one of these days I'm going to go play Kid Icarus past the first level.)
That was my thought, after seeing "And the data formats haven't changed that much since the days when Netscape was the dominant browser.". It's not like Firefox is open source or anything.</sarcasm>
From article: Firefox and Opera store information on typed URLs in a different file than IE does, and the files are somewhat tough to decipher, Lewis said. He showed his students--mostly law enforcement agents and private investigators--how to do it. Look at the source for the browser, silly.
"Each browser has its intricacies," he said. "You can find some details online, but often it is difficult." You have to wonder if they're talking about the same Firefox browser here.
Eh, not that I've poked around the source or would know what to do once I found the bit telling how it stores its cache or anything. But still..
I'll assume they mean for installing or uninstalling an extension or changing themes. Those are the only times I recall having to restart Firefox. That, and having to close it before installing a browser plugin. That's nowhere near "every time you change something".
I used to watch TechTV a fair amount, my parents used to watch it too. There were various watchable shows.
All I find worth watching on it now is.. um.. X-Play (except for the stupid sound effects/stupid things popping up onscreen/fake things they throw in (all of those thanks to G4 it seems)), and the show Icons. Other than that.. I can't think of anything. From the little of everything else I've watched the hosts/people are trying too hard to be "cool", too much of an edgy personality, they alienate any normal people from being able to view their shows.:)
(To note, I'm 21. I play games a lot. G4 is just.. terrible.)
I agree with the other posters (the ones I see currently that agree with you). The summary is simply a cheap jab at MS. Reading the article.. It's not about MS. He just happened to go there. It didn't say he spread it to anyone, just "may have exposed other persons to the disease". The article is pretty much about a case of measles in one guy in King County, Redmond, WA.
From the summary, "In fact, they had been back, working, and spreading the disease at Microsoft and other places in Redmond for at least four days prior to being discovered." It doesn't say he spread it, it says "have confirmed a case of measles in an adult exposed to the virus while traveling abroad." From the "other" article (linked from the first): "The infected person visited public areas in King County while contagious and may have exposed other persons to the disease." That is "may have exposed", not "did expose". The summary is jumping to conclusions. Oh, a single person that is either a MS employee or a frequent visitor to MS had measles, we'd better post this to SlashDot.
"'Microsoft Infected by Virus' ha ha I'm clever, also I am in no way jumping to conclusions by assuming that when the article doesn't say so at all!"
Actually, DOOM does have two representations of its main character. His face at the bottom of the screen, looking around, in pain when hurt, etc. Also, during multiplayer games, you can see the other players.
Anyways, I agree, they're two very different styles of games.. Hard to make comparisons, both look good in their own way and style.
Speaking of wireless, I have some wireless NES controllers in a box right next to me. "DOUBLE PLAYER" in big blue font, they have the Acclaim logo on them. Huh. (I haven't looked at them in a while.) Of course, they're the type that need a line of sight to the receiver, I'm sure, but still.. wireless. The page I linked to says "The technology was found by users to be highly unreliable." I don't remember. It's been a long long time.:)
Yes, and you don't browse the world wide web or read email or go outside by any highways or in any cities, or read the back pages of certain books. Advertising is... persistent.
Hmm, yes.. This will probably do WONDERS for this "prior art" thing I keep hearing so much about, if those with the prior art don't file a patent. So much for prior art, I guess.
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Maybe you have synesthesia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Personification , one of many types of it.
Thanks for the replies, you and AC. :)
I somehow forgot all about the soap shoes. And if I knew that about the Emerald Network, I forgot.
I can verify Duke Nukem Forever is coming out this December.
You've got to believe me; I'm the Easter Bunny!
It still exists for me. Maybe it was slashdotted...? ;)
http://www.3drealms.com/index.shtml
I kind of like looking at the ads in Sonic Adventure 2. Heh.
There are just some posters on some walls in some levels, which you can blow right past without even generally noticing.
They're not "AND NOW A BLINKING ANIMATED MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS!!" things. And they were either real or made up ads for Sega things. (The only real one I can think of right now was some ISP or webpage service or something..)
Grand Theft Auto 3, and Vice City, have ads in them - but they're all for made-up in-game things.
I know what you mean, though. I wouldn't want to be forced to sit through a real ad in a game.. I see enough awful, annoying, loud ads on TV.
I guess that's the thing. Sonic Adventure 2 had mostly made-up ads as I recall, GTA had made-up ads.
If they had actual billboards/posters all over for various actual brands/products, it'd be... a little unsettling somehow.
I should've quoted the parent post I was replying to, or something. :)
T'was "You can also use / to get to the find bar. But then it's really annoying that you can't use n/N to step through the found instances..", thus I was responding about the Firefox find thingy.
As for history, I'm always using alt-left and alt-right to go forward/back. (It's even listed under the Go menu in Firefox.)
And you are right.. In Windows, too, Firefox goes back with backspace, forward with shift-backspace.
I wonder if the Windows-"standard" enter/shift-enter steps forward or back in Firefox, in other operating systems?
(I say Windows-"standard" because I've seen that in.. well.. who knows where. Just various Windows programs.)
The adapters better carry *some* charge!
(Argh, apologies. ^^ That's the first thing that came to mind. Except it would be better if this was an article about batteries.)
Really? That sounds like the Archie Sonic comics to me.
p00rly dun hax0r sp33k r00-1nz 1t 3van m0hr!!11onetyonetwo
oar mispealing al ur werdz vary baldy lyk thiz
otr typignae liaeke theaois woauld praobaeylee scrawoo it auhp
Unless they can figure things out letter by letter...
Ah, then what you need is a camera/recorder, not a microphone. :)
Um.. I've never used DOSEmu.
Well, I know DOSBox emulates.. pc speaker, adlib, sound blaster, gravis ultrasound, joysticks, um.. CGA, EGA, VGA, I think hercules mono..
Maybe we should take this to a journal rather than spamming up this article? *shrugs*
http://slashdot.org/~yRabbit/journal/116601
You're welcome. ^^
;)
If I understood that right.. well, you could use DOSBox to play the DOS Sopwith. In Linux. From Windows. Mac. Whatever.
Then you could tweak the speed setting in DOSBox and pretend it's a 4.77MHz PC.
My keyboard doesn't even have a scroll lock light though it has the key. It has an "Office Lock" light in its place (but hey, it has like, two dozen hotkeys which I can use in media players. t'least in Windows)
:D
But anyways, I can only recall ONE program that used scroll lock. If I'm not mistaken, it was the key to exit Sopwith.
Other than a single old DOS game, I can't think of anything..
Agreed, I play games for fun.
Sly Cooper, Metal Gear Solid 2, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime/Super Metroid/Metroid, Mario, Unreal Tournament 2004, Morrowind.
Cel-shaded, realistic, Atari style, DOS, NES, whatever, as long as it's a fun game I'll play it.
(But I find myself enjoying cel-shaded games for their more cartoonish look. Perhaps because they're more unique, at times it feels like there are too many 'realistic' games.)
(Arggh, one of these days I'm going to go play Kid Icarus past the first level.)
I've never heard anyone pronounce SQL out loud, so I always think of it as pronounced like, well, the letters SQL.
School (sqool?) or "sekk-el" or even sickle would make more sense for SQL than "sequel". Or ess-kyoo-ill.
That was my thought, after seeing "And the data formats haven't changed that much since the days when Netscape was the dominant browser.".
It's not like Firefox is open source or anything.</sarcasm>
From article:
Firefox and Opera store information on typed URLs in a different file than IE does, and the files are somewhat tough to decipher, Lewis said. He showed his students--mostly law enforcement agents and private investigators--how to do it.
Look at the source for the browser, silly.
"Each browser has its intricacies," he said. "You can find some details online, but often it is difficult."
You have to wonder if they're talking about the same Firefox browser here.
Eh, not that I've poked around the source or would know what to do once I found the bit telling how it stores its cache or anything. But still..
I'll assume they mean for installing or uninstalling an extension or changing themes. Those are the only times I recall having to restart Firefox.
That, and having to close it before installing a browser plugin.
That's nowhere near "every time you change something".
I used to watch TechTV a fair amount, my parents used to watch it too. There were various watchable shows.
:)
All I find worth watching on it now is.. um.. X-Play (except for the stupid sound effects/stupid things popping up onscreen/fake things they throw in (all of those thanks to G4 it seems)), and the show Icons. Other than that.. I can't think of anything.
From the little of everything else I've watched the hosts/people are trying too hard to be "cool", too much of an edgy personality, they alienate any normal people from being able to view their shows.
(To note, I'm 21. I play games a lot. G4 is just.. terrible.)
I agree with the other posters (the ones I see currently that agree with you).
The summary is simply a cheap jab at MS. Reading the article.. It's not about MS. He just happened to go there. It didn't say he spread it to anyone, just "may have exposed other persons to the disease". The article is pretty much about a case of measles in one guy in King County, Redmond, WA.
From the summary, "In fact, they had been back, working, and spreading the disease at Microsoft and other places in Redmond for at least four days prior to being discovered."
It doesn't say he spread it, it says "have confirmed a case of measles in an adult exposed to the virus while traveling abroad."
From the "other" article (linked from the first):
"The infected person visited public areas in King County while contagious and may have exposed other persons to the disease."
That is "may have exposed", not "did expose". The summary is jumping to conclusions.
Oh, a single person that is either a MS employee or a frequent visitor to MS had measles, we'd better post this to SlashDot.
"'Microsoft Infected by Virus' ha ha I'm clever, also I am in no way jumping to conclusions by assuming that when the article doesn't say so at all!"
Actually, DOOM does have two representations of its main character. His face at the bottom of the screen, looking around, in pain when hurt, etc. Also, during multiplayer games, you can see the other players.
Anyways, I agree, they're two very different styles of games.. Hard to make comparisons, both look good in their own way and style.
Speaking of wireless, I have some wireless NES controllers in a box right next to me. "DOUBLE PLAYER" in big blue font, they have the Acclaim logo on them. Huh. (I haven't looked at them in a while.) :)
Of course, they're the type that need a line of sight to the receiver, I'm sure, but still.. wireless.
The page I linked to says "The technology was found by users to be highly unreliable." I don't remember. It's been a long long time.
And a NES can be modded to have stereo sound, so I've read.
Yes, and you don't browse the world wide web or read email or go outside by any highways or in any cities, or read the back pages of certain books. Advertising is... persistent.
Hmm, yes.. This will probably do WONDERS for this "prior art" thing I keep hearing so much about, if those with the prior art don't file a patent. So much for prior art, I guess.
That's the problem in the first place.. Operations that rely on email to do their marketing. :(