One of my favorites, if your ISP's connection drops or a daemon crashes and people ask what's wrong... "Yeah. The voltage to our flux capacitor temporarily dropped due to a discrepancy at the power company. As soon as we get
The problem is not that it lets you play SMS games. That's just emulation, and it's 100% legal no matter what the game company legal departments say. The problem is that they're selling unlicensed ROMS, too. If they were just selling the DVD player with no games but still the SMS emulator, I'd have no problem with it.
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i sadly do not have the luxury of having an extensive simpsons collection on tape.. and those 3 gigs were about 4 whole seasons plus some scattered episodes.
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Yes, you can still trade MP3s, but for me Scour's main draw was the incredible amount of video available. As far as I know, there exists no other large p2p community that shares video files (and no I don't count the barely-usable gnutella).
I downloaded over 3GB of Simpsons episodes from Scour in just one week. Try doing that on the web and all you'll do is run into 404 after 404.
Maybe it's because I'm biased towards English-speaking nations, but lately I've noticed that Australia is playing a more important role in internet politics and communcations. Or maybe it's just because there's a lot of great hardware geeks and hackers in Oz... but I'm glad to see anything that increases Australia's presence online.
Or maybe it's just those damned sexy female aussie accents.:)
in q3a on a pII-450 with a GeForce2 GTS 32mb at 1024x768, I get between 83 and 98 fps in most indoor areas. but as soon as I walk into a large outdoor area or a big room, that drops to around 65-75. If I was able to extract another 10 or 20 fps from my card, I would be able to ensure that I'd almost always get supra-72fps performance... unless I was standing directly in front of a mirror while pumping it full of machine gun bullets which I'd put money on being the single most fps-limiting thing you can do in quake3. (can you say 12fps?)
I find DZXC very condusive to added pinky functionality. my current rocket arena q3a config looks like:
Q = grenade launcher
W = bfg 10k
Caps Lock = railgun
A = plasma
S = shotgun
Shift = rocket launcher
Alt = lightning gun
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That right there is all the weapons I need quick-switching to, and they're all accessable without moving more than one finger off of the movement keys.
Okay, okay, I phrased that badly. Physical dependencies on any mind altering substances are bad. Your dihydrogen monoxide addiction shouldn't be a problem, unless you submerge yourself in it for excessive periods of time without a healthy dose of oxygen to freebase with while you're in there:)
Normally I don't argue with single-celled organisms, but I think I'll make the exception this time.
I didn't tell anyone what to do with their lives, now did I? I simply expressed my opinions on the possible damaging effects of pot. Last time I checked, opinions were non-invasive. So take your facism-cum-paranoia elsewhere. And pass the bong***.
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I have no idea why WASD became so popular. Since the doom days I've been a die-hard fan of DZXC... it doesn't roll off the tongue as well, and can't be screamed at the top of your lungs when you die *WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASD!* but it works better.
The way I see it, if you're using WASD, you're doing it with your left hand, presumably with the keyboard roughly centered on your body. Having the 'forward' key (w) tilted to the left goes against the natural angle of your left hand by positioning your hand pointing out away from your body with your elbow tucked in.
Conversely, DZXC puts your left hand pointing inwards, a more natural position, and also makes it less awkward for your pinky to access the keys on the leftmost side of the keyboard, especially TAB and tilde (~).
Maybe I'm just a purist, or a freak, but I've always liked DZXC. Every time I tried WASD, I kept hitting the E for 'forward' because my hands naturally tilt slightly inward when placed on a keybaord (especially when relying on armrests on a chair to cushion my war-worn elbows).
But yeah, as for the number of buttons, nine is not sufficient for any experienced player of any FPS except maybe doom. In quake3, I have every key on the left half of the keyboard bound to various actions (mostly direct access to weapons), and in Counterstrike I have tons tons more for weapon buying aliases, radio commands, etc... Just weapons alone would take up the 9 buttons in most games.
On top of that, any peripheral that asks you to set the keyboard aside will remove the social aspect of playing FPS online. There's nothing quite like shit-talking the guy who just killed you and calling his mother a whore. With the claw, you'd have to completely switch peripherals to do that. And that, my friends, is what it all boils down to: ease of shit-talking. And I believe the claw would get an F on that.
I think people take those studies that say marijuana is less damaging that alcohol, and interpret it to mean that marijuana is not damaging at all. Of course, if you smoke pot every day for years and years like many people I know, it's going to do something detrimental to your health. scratching your fingernail across your arm isn't immediately harmful, but do it once every second for an entire day,and you'll have an open wound on your arm. I have no problem with pot use as a recreational activity, like camping. One weekend, instead of saying "let's go camping" say "let's smoke up" and leave it at that. but when it becomes a daily habit, it's damaging. Both to your health and your lifestyle. Dependencies of any kind on physical substances are bad.
I name all my computers after rodents and marsupials. Chinchilla is my dual pII-450. Marmot is my PDA. Ferret is my laptop, Tarsier is my pII-266 linux box, and wombat is my ppro 180 shit comp:).
A friend of mine once picked up three old 486s and made them into NFS-boot linux boxen and I told him to name them Stop, Drop, and Roll. Shelter/Shut/Listen and Duck/Cover are also ideas for small clusters of computers.
The following is a US Patent proposal for an Oxygen Processing System, whereby a biological entity composed of atoms (patent pending) creates a pressure differential, drawing air from a common global depository into an expandable gas storage system.
From the storage system, intelligent agents use distributed technology to disseminate the Oxygen portion of the aggregate air collection to the network nodes of the biological entity. The Oxygen packet is processed by each network node (cell) and replaced with a Carbon Dioxide packet for redistribution via intelligent agents to the common global depository.
The implementation of these processes shall be known as Bio-Reactionary Expandable Air Transport Hub for the Internal Nonassemblage of Gasses (B.R.E.A.T.H.I.N.G).
Any unlicensed application of ToiletDuk Corp.'s proprietary B.R.E.A.T.H.I.N.G technology shall be interpreted as a violation of US Patent Law.
Is it just me, or does everybody except you seem to understand that top level domains go at the END of the domain name, not the beginning. wap.slashdot.org != www.slashdot.wap
John, if you had a ' in your code where it didn't belong...
Christ, I hate to be so petty, but after seeing your tirade about Mr. Carmack's incorrect apostrophe I must point out your grammatical mistake. Your sentence should read "if you had AN ' in your code." The ' would be pronounced "apostrophe" if you were reading it out loud, and therefore should be preceded by an "an" not an "a."
Ok I'm done. Now who's going to nitpick *MY* grammar?
Does anyone know much about the 'rogue' game they were discussing on the NET.games group? It sounds intriguing and I bet it would have just as much old-school text adventure kitsch and throwback camp as the old Infocom games. I'd be interested in finding somewhere to play this 'rogue' game. Anyone know if someone can set it up on an old vax that's still up or port it to something else so people can just telnet in and play? We could make a sid on slashdot for rogue discussion and score posting:)
What's even worse than that are the sites that use JavaScript to completely disable right-clicks within the browser window, under the guise of preventing people from "copying copyrighted graphics and text".
Nevermind that you can still do a printscreen to grab graphics, or view the source to grab text. Not to mention the fact that it completely removes all user-friendly enhancements from the browser. No right click to launch in a new window, or copy a URL, or anything useful like that.
I think that's already been done with an old macintosh. system and monitor were covered in new lego cases.
I'm glad they're doing bulk orders of the 2x2 smooth panels, cause that's what I needed to complete the keycaps of the LEGO keyboard I'm making (each key is being replaced by 2x2 LEGO bricks)
I usually consider easter eggs to require some sort of unobvious user intervention to trigger them. Watching the screen while waiting for a line of text to be spat out does not count as user intervention.
If you had to hold down the "G" key for five seconds while it was compiling to bring up a line of text, I'd consider that an easter egg.
Then again, that would probably just overflow the keyboard buffer and cause the computer to beep uncontrollably, which would NOT be an easter egg.
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I downloaded over 3GB of Simpsons episodes from Scour in just one week. Try doing that on the web and all you'll do is run into 404 after 404.
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Or maybe it's just those damned sexy female aussie accents. :)
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in q3a on a pII-450 with a GeForce2 GTS 32mb at 1024x768, I get between 83 and 98 fps in most indoor areas. but as soon as I walk into a large outdoor area or a big room, that drops to around 65-75. If I was able to extract another 10 or 20 fps from my card, I would be able to ensure that I'd almost always get supra-72fps performance... unless I was standing directly in front of a mirror while pumping it full of machine gun bullets which I'd put money on being the single most fps-limiting thing you can do in quake3. (can you say 12fps?)
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Q = grenade launcher
W = bfg 10k
Caps Lock = railgun
A = plasma
S = shotgun
Shift = rocket launcher
Alt = lightning gun
1 That right there is all the weapons I need quick-switching to, and they're all accessable without moving more than one finger off of the movement keys.
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I didn't tell anyone what to do with their lives, now did I? I simply expressed my opinions on the possible damaging effects of pot. Last time I checked, opinions were non-invasive. So take your facism-cum-paranoia elsewhere. And pass the bong***.
*** DISCLAIMER: The above post contained a joke as well as lilting sarcasm. Primordial creatures who may be disturbed or confused by this display of humor will be directed to stick their fingers in wall sockets.
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The way I see it, if you're using WASD, you're doing it with your left hand, presumably with the keyboard roughly centered on your body. Having the 'forward' key (w) tilted to the left goes against the natural angle of your left hand by positioning your hand pointing out away from your body with your elbow tucked in.
Conversely, DZXC puts your left hand pointing inwards, a more natural position, and also makes it less awkward for your pinky to access the keys on the leftmost side of the keyboard, especially TAB and tilde (~).
Maybe I'm just a purist, or a freak, but I've always liked DZXC. Every time I tried WASD, I kept hitting the E for 'forward' because my hands naturally tilt slightly inward when placed on a keybaord (especially when relying on armrests on a chair to cushion my war-worn elbows).
But yeah, as for the number of buttons, nine is not sufficient for any experienced player of any FPS except maybe doom. In quake3, I have every key on the left half of the keyboard bound to various actions (mostly direct access to weapons), and in Counterstrike I have tons tons more for weapon buying aliases, radio commands, etc... Just weapons alone would take up the 9 buttons in most games.
On top of that, any peripheral that asks you to set the keyboard aside will remove the social aspect of playing FPS online. There's nothing quite like shit-talking the guy who just killed you and calling his mother a whore. With the claw, you'd have to completely switch peripherals to do that. And that, my friends, is what it all boils down to: ease of shit-talking. And I believe the claw would get an F on that.
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A friend of mine once picked up three old 486s and made them into NFS-boot linux boxen and I told him to name them Stop, Drop, and Roll. Shelter/Shut/Listen and Duck/Cover are also ideas for small clusters of computers.
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From the storage system, intelligent agents use distributed technology to disseminate the Oxygen portion of the aggregate air collection to the network nodes of the biological entity. The Oxygen packet is processed by each network node (cell) and replaced with a Carbon Dioxide packet for redistribution via intelligent agents to the common global depository.
The implementation of these processes shall be known as Bio-Reactionary Expandable Air Transport Hub for the Internal Nonassemblage of Gasses (B.R.E.A.T.H.I.N.G).
Any unlicensed application of ToiletDuk Corp.'s proprietary B.R.E.A.T.H.I.N.G technology shall be interpreted as a violation of US Patent Law.
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Christ, I hate to be so petty, but after seeing your tirade about Mr. Carmack's incorrect apostrophe I must point out your grammatical mistake. Your sentence should read "if you had AN ' in your code." The ' would be pronounced "apostrophe" if you were reading it out loud, and therefore should be preceded by an "an" not an "a."
Ok I'm done. Now who's going to nitpick *MY* grammar?
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http://www.win.tue.nl/games/ roguelike/rogue/index.html
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Nevermind that you can still do a printscreen to grab graphics, or view the source to grab text. Not to mention the fact that it completely removes all user-friendly enhancements from the browser. No right click to launch in a new window, or copy a URL, or anything useful like that.
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I'm glad they're doing bulk orders of the 2x2 smooth panels, cause that's what I needed to complete the keycaps of the LEGO keyboard I'm making (each key is being replaced by 2x2 LEGO bricks)
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If you had to hold down the "G" key for five seconds while it was compiling to bring up a line of text, I'd consider that an easter egg.
Then again, that would probably just overflow the keyboard buffer and cause the computer to beep uncontrollably, which would NOT be an easter egg.
This is so confusing:)
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