You know, on second thought maybe Pacman isn't so original. Munching pills and thinking you see ghosts is probably pretty common to anyone doing acid.
Try this quote on for size...
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
I'd just rent time in one of those air combat games where you fly real planes. Or maybe just permanently hire pilots that will be housed at my private airstrip and fly my planes whenever I want to play.
I never understood how somebody who scratches records would be able to tell if the quality was poor enough to warrant trashing it.
You buy multiple copies, spend stupid amounts of money on expensive cartridges made especially for record sratching and frequently change your stylus, make sure your tonearm is properly balanced and take care of your records.
Besides that... there are records made specifically for scratching. These are called "breaks" or "battle" records. They have many short bits of sound on them for scratching, or beats to scratch/juggle/whatever.
The term "b-boy" or "breakdancer" comes from the fact that the first djs would repeat those drum breaks by repeatedly playing a record break over and over again w/ the same record on two turntables (beat juggling) and they'd dance to it.
Or for people who DJ like me... tracks/albums that are only on vinyl period.
Although vinyl has some big plusses for me.. like it's interactive tactile qualities... you can stop it with your hand.. spin it backwards.. scratch it.. tap it... break it in half and/or throw it if it sucks...
Some people (me included) think it sounds better... so nice and warm and the bass... it flows like molten lava. I don't even buy CDs. I buy all my stuff on vinyl and rip it to mp3 or download it.
I stopped by Ground Kontrol before work tonight... the high score the guy left on Asteroids is 22,222,220 points! There were also a few other interesting scores in between left by the same guy such as 16,666,660... I think the next closest person to him had somewhere around 160,000 points. Darn I wish I remembered his initials... CEB I think?
There was a sequel to Space Harrier at a local arcade... you could sit down in it and it could also be played w/ two players on the screen at the same time. They had different characters with items as weapons... such as an electric guitar. It had a lock on missile system too I think. Anyway... it was pretty fun and I wish I remembered the name of it.
This will make things quite a bit harder for news carriers that don't have big budgets behind them (read: alternative news). Then there are those information sites on various topics.
I work with a website dealing with the urban music scene back home in Hawaii. Right now we just pay everything out of pocket, but as our traffic is starting to increase quite a bit, we've been thinking about getting paid advertisers (nightclubs, record labels, clothing etc.) but the widespread use of this kind of software would kill that idea. Unless... we just find advertisers that are unaware of this happening.
I personally don't mind banners for the most part, it's the damn popups that I don't like. For the banners that irritate me (gator, doubleclick etc.), I just put thier adserver hostname in my hosts file directed to 127.0.0.1.
*BLAM!* as they slam that trackball as hard as they can. I'm surprised there aren't news stories about guys busting thier hands by punching through the glass in their drunken enthusiastic misfires.
I got a Diamond Stealth 64 2mb PCI video card in my PII 450. It also has some ISA 56k modem and is connected to a 15" IBM PS/1 monitor with my blazing fast state of the art $350 TEAC 6x SCSI-2 CD-R.
I also have an original 6-switch woodgrain Atari 2600 VCS console. I like old stuff... My computer is hooked up to a JVC DC-7 boombox for sound and it also serves as my record player. (Yes it has a automated slide-out turntable on this 30+ lb portable behemoth.
I see some gas station cash registers running OS/2 sometimes, I also know someone who was involved in migrating Washington Mutual workstations nationwide from OS/2 to WinXP earlier this year. As far as I know they scrapped the plan at the time... but they might be reorganizing the plan again.
FYI: www.freegeek.org has hundreds of 8" floppies donated with old hardware that they recycle. I'm sure they'd send you a few cases for your clients at the cost of shipping.;)
Article is/. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner.
...I own a gamecube. I just popped open the lid and checked. The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"...
Maybe it spins in different directions depending on what hemisphere you live in, kinda like water down the drain.
I would much rather see things like this done via the private market.
You know, I think you got something there... I'm sure we'd all find it very endearing to see a glorius coke bottle shaped rocket blasting off into space.
It's a nice start... I'll be hanging around this site. I like trying to remember obscure things AND I like video games as well as old technology. Sounds perfect for me.
Without Infinium Labs I would not have new ammo in my insult belt. "Hey man, don't believe that music industry hype, the album sucks! They're just trying to sell you 'Phantomware'."
Anyway, I hope they bring this to market because if it makes it, then there's a new console in town and I like games. I probably wouldn't touch this with a 100ft pole but I'd play someone else's.
If they tank... hopefully they'll have manufactured 10s of thousands of these cripped PCs and they'll end up on the market for pennies on the dollar. By then someone should have figured out how to install linux on it or at least turn it into some sorta generic net/media appliance.
I don't think anyone is going to put the Nintendo system back on the shelf because they have some kind of cross-promotion going on with AOL. Unless they force you to use AOL Broadband in order to have internet connectivity, but that would be stupid.
Well my first reaction was *groan* "I can't believe they'd partner up with such a retarded ISP."
But then I realized... "Oh, wait... I'm a net savvy slashdot reader... I'm not exactly the AOL target market."
Which would be families who like things easy and homogonized... kind of like AOL users. It's not like Nintendo is going to force people to use AOL. They might provide free coasters in their console boxes.
Either way, I think it helps Nintendo because it would give them in your face exposure to the millions of AOL users. Who knows maybe the cute goodness of Nintendo will bring a little more family fun into the home instead of bloody frag/crash/shoot fests. (Not that I'm apposed to that type of gaming fun... It's just not so appropriate for 12 year olds.)
If the government funded artists, would that mean that everyone could put out a crappy album and get paid for it? I supposed people would have to be payed based on the amount of downloads? That could start a market for download farms to boost ratings and make you money for a cut.
How would government funded music be marketed? Also there's protest music, music that promotes sexual inhibition or even killing cops and/or government officials! Oh, yeah the whole seperation of church and state thing too... even not counting overtly religious works... how about metaphors about God in music?
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You know, on second thought maybe Pacman isn't so original. Munching pills and thinking you see ghosts is probably pretty common to anyone doing acid.
Try this quote on for size...
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
Now go to a rave and look around.
Where's the World of Martial Arts MMORPG?
I'd just rent time in one of those air combat games where you fly real planes. Or maybe just permanently hire pilots that will be housed at my private airstrip and fly my planes whenever I want to play.
I never understood how somebody who scratches records would be able to tell if the quality was poor enough to warrant trashing it.
You buy multiple copies, spend stupid amounts of money on expensive cartridges made especially for record sratching and frequently change your stylus, make sure your tonearm is properly balanced and take care of your records.
Besides that... there are records made specifically for scratching. These are called "breaks" or "battle" records. They have many short bits of sound on them for scratching, or beats to scratch/juggle/whatever.
The term "b-boy" or "breakdancer" comes from the fact that the first djs would repeat those drum breaks by repeatedly playing a record break over and over again w/ the same record on two turntables (beat juggling) and they'd dance to it.
Or for people who DJ like me... tracks/albums that are only on vinyl period.
Although vinyl has some big plusses for me.. like it's interactive tactile qualities... you can stop it with your hand.. spin it backwards.. scratch it.. tap it... break it in half and/or throw it if it sucks...
Some people (me included) think it sounds better... so nice and warm and the bass... it flows like molten lava. I don't even buy CDs. I buy all my stuff on vinyl and rip it to mp3 or download it.
I stopped by Ground Kontrol before work tonight... the high score the guy left on Asteroids is 22,222,220 points! There were also a few other interesting scores in between left by the same guy such as 16,666,660... I think the next closest person to him had somewhere around 160,000 points. Darn I wish I remembered his initials... CEB I think?
"Red Storm". "Black Widow". All so masculine and male-centric. Couldn't you have "Project Doily" or "Operation Gingham Curtain"?
Doesn't the term "Black Widow" refer to either the poisonous female spider and/or a woman who marries and then kills men for financial gain?
There was a sequel to Space Harrier at a local arcade... you could sit down in it and it could also be played w/ two players on the screen at the same time. They had different characters with items as weapons... such as an electric guitar. It had a lock on missile system too I think. Anyway... it was pretty fun and I wish I remembered the name of it.
This will make things quite a bit harder for news carriers that don't have big budgets behind them (read: alternative news). Then there are those information sites on various topics.
I work with a website dealing with the urban music scene back home in Hawaii. Right now we just pay everything out of pocket, but as our traffic is starting to increase quite a bit, we've been thinking about getting paid advertisers (nightclubs, record labels, clothing etc.) but the widespread use of this kind of software would kill that idea. Unless... we just find advertisers that are unaware of this happening.
I personally don't mind banners for the most part, it's the damn popups that I don't like. For the banners that irritate me (gator, doubleclick etc.), I just put thier adserver hostname in my hosts file directed to 127.0.0.1.
*BLAM!* as they slam that trackball as hard as they can. I'm surprised there aren't news stories about guys busting thier hands by punching through the glass in their drunken enthusiastic misfires.
Geez... I can't believe that. I swear I was told this in some science class and saw it repeated time and time again on television.
This explains why I felt so dumb when I first enrolled into college, when I previously thought I was a genius.
If you want a good list of emulators with reviews try href="www.zophar.net/">Zophar's Domain, if I'm not mistaken he had a hand in making NESticle.
I got a Diamond Stealth 64 2mb PCI video card in my PII 450. It also has some ISA 56k modem and is connected to a 15" IBM PS/1 monitor with my blazing fast state of the art $350 TEAC 6x SCSI-2 CD-R.
I also have an original 6-switch woodgrain Atari 2600 VCS console. I like old stuff... My computer is hooked up to a JVC DC-7 boombox for sound and it also serves as my record player. (Yes it has a automated slide-out turntable on this 30+ lb portable behemoth.
I see some gas station cash registers running OS/2 sometimes, I also know someone who was involved in migrating Washington Mutual workstations nationwide from OS/2 to WinXP earlier this year. As far as I know they scrapped the plan at the time... but they might be reorganizing the plan again.
FYI: www.freegeek.org has hundreds of 8" floppies donated with old hardware that they recycle. I'm sure they'd send you a few cases for your clients at the cost of shipping. ;)
Article is /. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round. To make a Linux distro you are going to need a very special CD burner.
...I own a gamecube. I just popped open the lid and checked. The disc spins clockwise. I don't know if that is what you define to be "the wrong way around"...
Maybe it spins in different directions depending on what hemisphere you live in, kinda like water down the drain.
I would much rather see things like this done via the private market.
You know, I think you got something there... I'm sure we'd all find it very endearing to see a glorius coke bottle shaped rocket blasting off into space.
It's a nice start... I'll be hanging around this site. I like trying to remember obscure things AND I like video games as well as old technology. Sounds perfect for me.
The problem is a lot of people in this country can't afford to save $230 to give you.
I wonder... Do they have "phantom" developers working on the games too?
Without Infinium Labs I would not have new ammo in my insult belt. "Hey man, don't believe that music industry hype, the album sucks! They're just trying to sell you 'Phantomware'." Anyway, I hope they bring this to market because if it makes it, then there's a new console in town and I like games. I probably wouldn't touch this with a 100ft pole but I'd play someone else's. If they tank... hopefully they'll have manufactured 10s of thousands of these cripped PCs and they'll end up on the market for pennies on the dollar. By then someone should have figured out how to install linux on it or at least turn it into some sorta generic net/media appliance.
Since the Soylent Green branded soft drinks came out?
I don't think anyone is going to put the Nintendo system back on the shelf because they have some kind of cross-promotion going on with AOL. Unless they force you to use AOL Broadband in order to have internet connectivity, but that would be stupid.
Well my first reaction was *groan* "I can't believe they'd partner up with such a retarded ISP." But then I realized... "Oh, wait... I'm a net savvy slashdot reader... I'm not exactly the AOL target market." Which would be families who like things easy and homogonized... kind of like AOL users. It's not like Nintendo is going to force people to use AOL. They might provide free coasters in their console boxes. Either way, I think it helps Nintendo because it would give them in your face exposure to the millions of AOL users. Who knows maybe the cute goodness of Nintendo will bring a little more family fun into the home instead of bloody frag/crash/shoot fests. (Not that I'm apposed to that type of gaming fun... It's just not so appropriate for 12 year olds.)
If the government funded artists, would that mean that everyone could put out a crappy album and get paid for it? I supposed people would have to be payed based on the amount of downloads? That could start a market for download farms to boost ratings and make you money for a cut. How would government funded music be marketed? Also there's protest music, music that promotes sexual inhibition or even killing cops and/or government officials! Oh, yeah the whole seperation of church and state thing too... even not counting overtly religious works... how about metaphors about God in music?