If you buy Microsoft products, you get all that stuff connected, i.e. buying Microsoft hardware you are sure it will be supported flawlessly by Microsoft software.
And now I wonder if I get modded down for this as Troll or up as Funny:P
You're exagerrating. The game was very nice, the plot quite interesting (though slightly too linear, find 3 spiritual stones, 6 sages, 3 pieces of triforce, plus you couldn't even really choose which part you do first...), the subquests/games were nice, this was the only game I know where horse riding wasn't screwed up and was actually a fun thing to do, but the dungeons were plain boring at moments, sometimes you got stuck and wandered around aimlessly looking for a way to make the next step, dialogues were sometimes terribly slow (like the owl) and there were other things that were just spoiling a perfectly good game. Sorry, but Not Quite There.
There was no game that would really AFFECT me yet. There were ones that scared the shit out of me (Behind Jaggi Lines in the "Boo!" way and Feud in the "Creepy" way), there were ones that impressed me deeply (FF7, Amberstar), there were some I had emotional relationship with (AvP, Space Hulk) - but none really changed me.
Morrowind is NOT YET it. But if there is ever a game that would affect me, it will be along these lines. What's needed:
Morrowind lacks the last two. Nobody sits. There's no children. People stand or walk around all day and night. Dialogues repeat. There are gfx glitches. The gfx is very pretty but "not there yet". And damn thing crashes for no reason, you get stuck in walls, you scroll through miles of inventory, etc, etc. This game came short of being perfect - but it has a bit too many small glitches to get there.
And I'm still waiting for computers to get good enough to run smoothly games that would look like the "Mother Nature" part from 3DMark.
Try google search for "chording keyboard" and you'll come up with some really wild designs. Some of them home-made, some in mass trade. Personally, if I had some spare bucks, I'd give a try to CyKey, a neat wireless keyboard that whole fits in your palm (No desk required!)
Tested on 486dx80, 16MB RAM, mostly used by various demons.
[root@wolf Kurs]# date ; python -c "for x in range(1000000): pass" ; date
Sun Apr 20 23:43:17 CEST 2003
Sun Apr 20 23:45:05 CEST 2003
108s.
[root@wolf Kurs]# date ; python -c "for x in xrange(1000000): pass" ; date
Sun Apr 20 23:45:55 CEST 2003
Sun Apr 20 23:46:18 CEST 2003
23s.
[root@wolf Kurs]# date;perl -e "for(\$i=0;\$i1000000;\$i++){}" ; date
Sun Apr 20 23:49:04 CEST 2003
Sun Apr 20 23:49:19 CEST 2003
15s.:P
Ok, so I'll just hack it a bit, and all my websites will FINALLY make it to #1 in search engines on ANY keyword! Doh, I need to subscribe to a few click-to-pay banner sites...
Would you please repeat the benchmarks on a low-memory system that is forced to use swap memory? Make the numbers 100 times bigger - Performance is one thing, allocating memory for a million integers is another...
Apparently nobody was able to draw a decent minotaur before the deadline, and they decided the phoenix recolored to blue would make a decent logo for mailnews, just the module needed name change.
Opera has some really braindead idea of "fastest browser".
I've been recently developing a webpage that was supposed to have quite a few dynamic elements and had to be cross-browser. Moz, NS6+, MSIE5+ were all OK, but Opera was something we just had to negotiate with the employer as something "barely working". Reason?
When in DHTML in a normal browser you change a DOM element, all its contents change accordingly, plus if the change has any influence on neighbor elements, they change too, often modifying whole page layout. In Opera, only the concerned element changes, completely ignoring the rest. So, for example you have a table of width 100%, the first column defined as 40% width, the other will appear as 60%. Now resize the first column to 60%. Any normal browzer will squeeze down the other column to 40%, but Opera will just draw a square that overlaps the neighbour. Contents of the table other than the cell border won't change.:P
That's just one problem - there are others, like very obscure means of counting pixels. (put P{ margin-top: 15px;} in the style sheets, the paragraph will appear several pixels below the place where other browsers locate it, obviously further than 15px from the top), inability to use script src="..." format (all scripts had to be embedded in the webpage!), counting all "absolute" dimensions with the scrollbar etc.
The question is: Is O7.10 DOM fixed yet, or is it as badly broken as in 6.0 and 7.0 ?
Just please note, it's not quite the same as with LYNX etc, where if you just keep basic rules, everything works fine. Often workarounds to get things working on Opera break working solutions for other browsers. In our case, tha/js directory is empty, all scripts appear repeated on as many subpages as they were supposed to be included in the first place. Aligning text to the left of some odd gfx element made it go far right in other browsers because of stupid placement issues, etc, etc. For you, netsurfers, this may be nothing important, but we, web developers, lose money because of that! Before this project I had quite an openminded approach to Opera, thinking "it's not M$, it's not evil". Now, I'm Opera hater, claiming even M$IE is much better.
Well, it still misses the point. They replicated the game board. I think the ghosts should be automatic robots (I honestly expected it!) and the player (live person) should just run the maze (without crossing borders!) and pick up all the "dots" without getting caught. That would pretty much replicate the game itself...
I just wonder how much more of the market share Intel will lose to AMD again.
Tuning CPU speed is not always "for fun, for thrill". I run my box at default speed 95% of time, and it's enough. But I have a few emulators, where overclocking by 10% drastically changes performance (the sound stops pausing as the framerate doesn't keep up). I also plan to downclock it a safe 100MHZ down when I buy a new one and retire this one to become a 24/7 server.
Is this wrong?
BTW, this is not the first time they do something equally dumb. Do you remember the technical difference between SX and DX?:) It's just that back then they didn't have any serious competition.
First, right here, my voltage rarely reaches 200V, instead of nominal 230. Losses in power grid. Just think of data losses if power losses are so high. Then, so what, if they provide fast net access to every house, if there are no backend lines? Quite big cities that hang on 15Mbit lines, 1mbit here, 2mbit there, shared between 500, 1000, 2000 users...
The power grid is just the "last mile" solution and quite good at that, but it requires a really good backbone, and without it, it's worthless.
In my city the electricity provider was attempting that. They leased 2mbit line and installed a few end stations. The price, compared to local ISPs (that usually build a web of ethernet cables between houses:) wasn't competitive at all, and people knew the 2mbit is not just the "first test" line, but the target bandwidth, so really few got into it... And so, the idea died.
Installing powergrid internet in areas of our technology level, is like fitting a trabant with turbocompressor. Sorry.
Is it legal? No, plain and simple. Is it moral? I sent this letter. My points appeared valid enough, so I got that ROM (thanks). Okay, here goes the letter:
> Ya know.. Emulation is illegal... > I do have the Majora's Mask ROM, but I can't give it to you so easily... > Send me by e-mail at least TWO good reasons why I should give it to you and > I'll tell you where to get it, okay ?
Okay... First a few words against your reasons...
>- Because it's illegal, first... Unless you have the original copy, but if it >is the case, then it would be stupid because all you have to do is putting > your N64 on and play... Unless you want to take screenshots...
I don't have the original copy - and I can't have it in any near future. In Poland, N64 is a margin. Nobody sells it because nobody buys it - the roms aren't copy'able and 90% of the game market are copied games... Reasons? Well, the main reason is the cash. People earn here about 5 times less than in the west, while the softwar prices are about the same worldwide. Add to that high living cost (worse salary:living ratio) and you get that the game REALLY costs 5-10 times more than for an average US folk. People DO buy originals here - as expensive gifts, as sign of extreme devotion to some kind of game and respect to the authors, as something luxurious for show-off - but only the richest can run on originals only - and nobody buys a platform, for which no pirated games are available... so no N64 here. Illegal? For me, asking your whole salary for a game is thievery...:(
> - Personnally, I think it's far more interesting to play on a N64 and a TV > with a REAL controller, than playing on a computer screen and the keyboard...
Sure I agree. Take my bursary (quite high) is $100. With a lot of effort I can save $30 from that, the rest goes for stuff like books, food, internet access bills etc. Now how much is N64? Add insurance, packaging, shipping (overseas?), customs, tax, voltage adapter, NTSC/PAL converter, the game cartridge itself... How long would I have to save?
- And think about this : if you want to play Majora's Mask on your computer, you probably need a 3D Acceleration Card, right ? And I guess you paid for it, right ? So, if you've got enough money to buy a fast computer and a 3D Acceleration Card, then I don't know why you couldn't just buy a N64 and the cartridge to play on your TV...
The problem is, I've bought that PC with its card some 2 years ago, when my parents sold our 75 years old Mercedes, a really fine antique machine my Grandfather had owned - so I had a computer for working with my studies. I can't run MatLab, write projects in PHP, C and Perl, run networking emulations, write papers and all that stuff on N64. The gfx card is not wonderful. I preferred to buy more RAM and better CPU, the card was definitely of the "economy" class. Ocarina of Time on UltraHLE runs -almost- smoothly, when I overclock the CPU and the card seriously it almost never breaks the sound playback... I hope I will get it running smoothly on the computer students' council got at my school - not a tip-top box, but way better than mine. If I was to buy N64 today, I'd still buy probably extra 256M RAM and a new Athlon CPU for my computer instead, maybe a bigger harddisk (40M?)... and MAYBE some better gfx card (GForce2MX?)
Okay, for my reasons: 1) Ocarina of time is the only game I knew where horse riding wasn't screwed up and was actually a fun thing to do... And I heard Majora's Mask is the second. I'm a big fan of horse riding... $30 is about 8h of real-life horse riding, yet another reason not to buy Nintendo:) Well, show me yet another game, with the element of horse riding better than in Majora's Mask and I'll move my obsession somewhere else... for now:)
2) I promise: when I CAN afford buying a nintendo, without critical impact on my finances, I will - just to support the guys fo
Be nice if I could replace the std ink with a copper based and just print the layout.
Or replace the ink with the etching solution and print the PCB in inverse video on a copper-covered board? simpler but there's more risk for the printer...
Would it make sense (for strictly home use, no ultra-high precision required, just enough to attach normal surface-mounted chips) to build such a machine without step motors, just with manual dials, driven manually - so you follow a drawing on the board while etching, lift the drill manually, move the board by turning the dials etc?
I have to admit my etched circuits with tracks thinner than some 3mm were a complete failure, the paths either shorted or broken (or both).
Doh, if the smart displays had VNC support, they could be pretty cool tools. Cross-platform, with unices - non-blocking for the desktops, a neat thing to have in a company plus if the prices were lower - Welcome back old times of one big server plus multiple terminals:) A good way to miniaturise your box is to put everything you don't need to carry around on some shelf and connect the rest wirelessly:)
"She speculates that geothermal activity driven by volcanic heat may be causing the melting of subsurface ice"
What volcanic activity? I've heard Mars is dead cold inside. Only Earth and one of Jupiter's moons (Io?) has any volcanic activity in the Solar System. Could someone explain this?
Popups blocking was before 1.0 I think, selective (block from this site...) added about 1.1 I think and 1.3 has option of "exclusive" (allow only from...)
Spam blockers added to MailNews in 1.3.
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If you buy Microsoft products, you get all that stuff connected, i.e. buying Microsoft hardware you are sure it will be supported flawlessly by Microsoft software.
:P
And now I wonder if I get modded down for this as Troll or up as Funny
You're exagerrating. The game was very nice, the plot quite interesting (though slightly too linear, find 3 spiritual stones, 6 sages, 3 pieces of triforce, plus you couldn't even really choose which part you do first...), the subquests/games were nice, this was the only game I know where horse riding wasn't screwed up and was actually a fun thing to do, but the dungeons were plain boring at moments, sometimes you got stuck and wandered around aimlessly looking for a way to make the next step, dialogues were sometimes terribly slow (like the owl) and there were other things that were just spoiling a perfectly good game. Sorry, but Not Quite There.
There was no game that would really AFFECT me yet. There were ones that scared the shit out of me (Behind Jaggi Lines in the "Boo!" way and Feud in the "Creepy" way), there were ones that impressed me deeply (FF7, Amberstar), there were some I had emotional relationship with (AvP, Space Hulk) - but none really changed me.
Morrowind is NOT YET it. But if there is ever a game that would affect me, it will be along these lines. What's needed:
1) Complete freedom.
2) Detailed world
3) Amazing plotline
4) Original, pretty, impressive art design
5) Beautiful music, quality audio.
6) Realistic feeling
7) Flawless engine.
Morrowind lacks the last two. Nobody sits. There's no children. People stand or walk around all day and night. Dialogues repeat. There are gfx glitches. The gfx is very pretty but "not there yet". And damn thing crashes for no reason, you get stuck in walls, you scroll through miles of inventory, etc, etc. This game came short of being perfect - but it has a bit too many small glitches to get there.
And I'm still waiting for computers to get good enough to run smoothly games that would look like the "Mother Nature" part from 3DMark.
Errr, Tajga in Kazakhstan? Hello? Nice troll, nice, tasty rocks, trolls like eating rocks... :)
Try google search for "chording keyboard" and you'll come up with some really wild designs. Some of them home-made, some in mass trade. Personally, if I had some spare bucks, I'd give a try to CyKey, a neat wireless keyboard that whole fits in your palm (No desk required!)
All the good ones are taken...
Tested on 486dx80, 16MB RAM, mostly used by various demons. [root@wolf Kurs]# date ; python -c "for x in range(1000000): pass" ; date Sun Apr 20 23:43:17 CEST 2003 Sun Apr 20 23:45:05 CEST 2003 108s. [root@wolf Kurs]# date ; python -c "for x in xrange(1000000): pass" ; date Sun Apr 20 23:45:55 CEST 2003 Sun Apr 20 23:46:18 CEST 2003 23s. [root@wolf Kurs]# date;perl -e "for(\$i=0;\$i1000000;\$i++){}" ; date Sun Apr 20 23:49:04 CEST 2003 Sun Apr 20 23:49:19 CEST 2003 15s. :P
Ok, so I'll just hack it a bit, and all my websites will FINALLY make it to #1 in search engines on ANY keyword! Doh, I need to subscribe to a few click-to-pay banner sites...
They spend too much on hiring the best for marketing department to afford any decent programmers, so don't worry...
Would you please repeat the benchmarks on a low-memory system that is forced to use swap memory? Make the numbers 100 times bigger - Performance is one thing, allocating memory for a million integers is another...
Apparently nobody was able to draw a decent minotaur before the deadline, and they decided the phoenix recolored to blue would make a decent logo for mailnews, just the module needed name change.
Opera has some really braindead idea of "fastest browser".
:P
/js directory is empty, all scripts appear repeated on as many subpages as they were supposed to be included in the first place. Aligning text to the left of some odd gfx element made it go far right in other browsers because of stupid placement issues, etc, etc. For you, netsurfers, this may be nothing important, but we, web developers, lose money because of that! Before this project I had quite an openminded approach to Opera, thinking "it's not M$, it's not evil". Now, I'm Opera hater, claiming even M$IE is much better.
I've been recently developing a webpage that was supposed to have quite a few dynamic elements and had to be cross-browser. Moz, NS6+, MSIE5+ were all OK, but Opera was something we just had to negotiate with the employer as something "barely working". Reason?
When in DHTML in a normal browser you change a DOM element, all its contents change accordingly, plus if the change has any influence on neighbor elements, they change too, often modifying whole page layout. In Opera, only the concerned element changes, completely ignoring the rest. So, for example you have a table of width 100%, the first column defined as 40% width, the other will appear as 60%. Now resize the first column to 60%. Any normal browzer will squeeze down the other column to 40%, but Opera will just draw a square that overlaps the neighbour. Contents of the table other than the cell border won't change.
That's just one problem - there are others, like very obscure means of counting pixels. (put P{ margin-top: 15px;} in the style sheets, the paragraph will appear several pixels below the place where other browsers locate it, obviously further than 15px from the top), inability to use script src="..." format (all scripts had to be embedded in the webpage!), counting all "absolute" dimensions with the scrollbar etc.
The question is: Is O7.10 DOM fixed yet, or is it as badly broken as in 6.0 and 7.0 ?
Just please note, it's not quite the same as with LYNX etc, where if you just keep basic rules, everything works fine. Often workarounds to get things working on Opera break working solutions for other browsers. In our case, tha
Well, it still misses the point. They replicated the game board. I think the ghosts should be automatic robots (I honestly expected it!) and the player (live person) should just run the maze (without crossing borders!) and pick up all the "dots" without getting caught. That would pretty much replicate the game itself...
I just wonder how much more of the market share Intel will lose to AMD again. Tuning CPU speed is not always "for fun, for thrill". I run my box at default speed 95% of time, and it's enough. But I have a few emulators, where overclocking by 10% drastically changes performance (the sound stops pausing as the framerate doesn't keep up). I also plan to downclock it a safe 100MHZ down when I buy a new one and retire this one to become a 24/7 server. Is this wrong? BTW, this is not the first time they do something equally dumb. Do you remember the technical difference between SX and DX? :) It's just that back then they didn't have any serious competition.
Poland you say?
:) wasn't competitive at all, and people knew the 2mbit is not just the "first test" line, but the target bandwidth, so really few got into it... And so, the idea died.
Don't joke please.
First, right here, my voltage rarely reaches 200V, instead of nominal 230. Losses in power grid. Just think of data losses if power losses are so high. Then, so what, if they provide fast net access to every house, if there are no backend lines? Quite big cities that hang on 15Mbit lines, 1mbit here, 2mbit there, shared between 500, 1000, 2000 users...
The power grid is just the "last mile" solution and quite good at that, but it requires a really good backbone, and without it, it's worthless.
In my city the electricity provider was attempting that. They leased 2mbit line and installed a few end stations. The price, compared to local ISPs (that usually build a web of ethernet cables between houses
Installing powergrid internet in areas of our technology level, is like fitting a trabant with turbocompressor. Sorry.
Is it legal? No, plain and simple. Is it moral?
:(
:) :)
I sent this letter. My points appeared valid enough, so I got that ROM (thanks). Okay, here goes the letter:
> Ya know.. Emulation is illegal...
> I do have the Majora's Mask ROM, but I can't give it to you so easily...
> Send me by e-mail at least TWO good reasons why I should give it to you and
> I'll tell you where to get it, okay ?
Okay... First a few words against your reasons...
>- Because it's illegal, first... Unless you have the original copy, but if it
>is the case, then it would be stupid because all you have to do is putting
> your N64 on and play... Unless you want to take screenshots...
I don't have the original copy - and I can't have it in any near future. In Poland, N64 is a margin. Nobody sells it because nobody buys it - the roms aren't copy'able and 90% of the game market are copied games...
Reasons? Well, the main reason is the cash. People earn here about 5 times less than in the west, while the softwar prices are about the same worldwide. Add to that high living cost (worse salary:living ratio) and you get that the game REALLY costs 5-10 times more than for an average US folk. People DO buy originals here - as expensive gifts, as sign of extreme devotion to some kind of game and respect to the authors, as something luxurious for show-off - but only the richest can run on originals only - and nobody buys a platform, for which no pirated games are available... so no N64 here.
Illegal? For me, asking your whole salary for a game is thievery...
> - Personnally, I think it's far more interesting to play on a N64 and a TV
> with a REAL controller, than playing on a computer screen and the keyboard...
Sure I agree. Take my bursary (quite high) is $100. With a lot of effort I can save $30 from that, the rest goes for stuff like books, food, internet access bills etc. Now how much is N64? Add insurance, packaging, shipping (overseas?), customs, tax, voltage adapter, NTSC/PAL converter, the game cartridge itself...
How long would I have to save?
- And think about this : if you want to play Majora's Mask on your computer, you probably need a 3D Acceleration Card, right ? And I guess you paid for it, right ? So, if you've got enough money to buy a fast computer and a 3D Acceleration Card, then I don't know why you couldn't just buy a N64 and the cartridge to play on your TV...
The problem is, I've bought that PC with its card some 2 years ago, when my parents sold our 75 years old Mercedes, a really fine antique machine my Grandfather had owned - so I had a computer for working with my studies. I can't run MatLab, write projects in PHP, C and Perl, run networking emulations, write papers and all that stuff on N64. The gfx card is not wonderful. I preferred to buy more RAM and better CPU, the card was definitely of the "economy" class. Ocarina of Time on UltraHLE runs -almost- smoothly, when I overclock the CPU and the card seriously it almost never breaks the sound playback... I hope I will get it running smoothly on the computer students' council got at my school - not a tip-top box, but way better than mine.
If I was to buy N64 today, I'd still buy probably extra 256M RAM and a new Athlon CPU for my computer instead, maybe a bigger harddisk (40M?)... and MAYBE
some better gfx card (GForce2MX?)
Okay, for my reasons:
1) Ocarina of time is the only game I knew where horse riding wasn't screwed up and was actually a fun thing to do... And I heard Majora's Mask is the second. I'm a big fan of horse riding... $30 is about 8h of real-life horse riding, yet another reason not to buy Nintendo
Well, show me yet another game, with the element of horse riding better than in Majora's Mask and I'll move my obsession somewhere else... for now
2) I promise: when I CAN afford buying a nintendo, without critical impact on my finances, I will - just to support the guys fo
Or replace the ink with the etching solution and print the PCB in inverse video on a copper-covered board? simpler but there's more risk for the printer...
Would it make sense (for strictly home use, no ultra-high precision required, just enough to attach normal surface-mounted chips) to build such a machine without step motors, just with manual dials, driven manually - so you follow a drawing on the board while etching, lift the drill manually, move the board by turning the dials etc? I have to admit my etched circuits with tracks thinner than some 3mm were a complete failure, the paths either shorted or broken (or both).
Doh, if the smart displays had VNC support, they could be pretty cool tools. Cross-platform, with unices - non-blocking for the desktops, a neat thing to have in a company plus if the prices were lower - Welcome back old times of one big server plus multiple terminals :) A good way to miniaturise your box is to put everything you don't need to carry around on some shelf and connect the rest wirelessly :)
"She speculates that geothermal activity driven by volcanic heat may be causing the melting of subsurface ice"
What volcanic activity? I've heard Mars is dead cold inside. Only Earth and one of Jupiter's moons (Io?) has any volcanic activity in the Solar System. Could someone explain this?
Popups blocking was before 1.0 I think, selective (block from this site...) added about 1.1 I think and 1.3 has option of "exclusive" (allow only from...) Spam blockers added to MailNews in 1.3.
er, without closing tag.
Exactly this? Without closing tag? :)
Wow, that's some wrong HTML! Yay! We found another bug in MSIE!