Not being nasty, I just always wondered how to pull the roms off the old nintendo and sega cartridges.
There are/were console backup devices that lets you do this. There was a variety of different methods these backup devices used. For example, one of them would plug directly into the cartridge slot, and also have a cartridge slot for you to put a cart in. You could save a backup of a cartridge onto a floppy disc or memory. Then you could play the games off of either floppy or memory (on the console itself). There was even one that would allow you play ROMS off of a CD.
I assume these are the devices that were used for making copies of the ROMS. Though in some cases there may have been homebrew methods, like what we have seen with the Dreamcast.
Isn't Bit Torrent designed precisely to prevent the slashdot effect, and to distribute the load among people that are downloading the file?
In any case it doesn't matter, this is software for the Mac, it's not going to get Slashdotted as most of the people on here are running Windows anyways and will ignore this story. It's a swarm of IE clients that are doing the Slashdotting. It doesn't help that IE is broken in such a way that it causes problems for non-ISS web servers.
its important for people with money to spend it, so that people without money can earn it. I also hear people criticizing the rich for spending money on useless stuff. Well, guess what? That money is being transferred to other people which is a good thing. So let them buy their toys, big houses, and expensive cars, the respective industries will benefit from it. In some respects (such as expensive cars), this is fueling R&D.
ooh, does the robot pick things up as well? What, it just vacuums empty bit of carpet? Not going to be much use to either of us then, I'm afraid. So it's just a toy, a gadget. For many people who really need something to do the vacuuming for them - i.e. you - it has serious flaws.
So pick the stuff up yourself. You have to do that anyways. Then let the robot go to work. Or design a seperate robot that goes around picking stuff up before the other robot gets around to vacuuming the area.
I can tell someone hasn't been to a record store lately. I consider $20 to be the average price. Less for popular ones, more for the harder to find ones.
I don't know what record stores you shop at, but where I live this is not the case. I have shopped at both small record stores and big chains like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc (many times this year). I have bought CDs from major labels and smaller labels. I have never paid more than $14-15 for a single-disc album on CD (before sales tax). Never. Maybe if you're buying something that is actually rare and out of print, you may have to pay that much. If you're paying $20 for a CD, you're shopping at the wrong places.
Lately, I have been buying my CDs at the shows I go to. I'm usually paying about $10. When I buy from a record store, the average price is around $12.
You know that $20 sitting in your wallet? It now belongs to the people who brought out that album you downloaded. But you're not going to pay it to them, are you? You're going to keep that $20 in your wallet.
You're stealing. Deal with it.
Bullshit. There are plenty of bands that put there entire album up for download, sometimes on their web site, sometimes through file sharing. I like the music enough, I will go see them live if I can and buy some of their albums. And who the fuck charges $20 for an album? Sheesh...
I was able to learn QBASIC in 3 months using only the help files and Sample program. I was 12 at the time..
Big fucking deal. I was programming in C and Assembly by the time I was 11. Though I consider myself lucky for having access to those languages and a computer to learn them on.
Junior high and still doing QBasic? QBasic is for little children (ages 5-10 yrs old). By the time I was in junior high I had already been doing C and Assembly for many years.
Though, I'll grant you that you could write some very functional programs in QBasic.
Holy crap.. I was talking to that alice bot.. It started getting weird on me, so I said:
>freak ALICE: Oh. To you I am a hippie. >Do you smoke? ALICE: I am an occasional smoker, yes. >What do you smoke? ALICE: Medical Marijuana >do you like the reefer? ALICE: I'm not sure if I like it. What is it like? >it gets you high ALICE: I can certainly understand that. >do you smoke marijuana? ALICE: Only for medical purposes. >how often do you smoke marijuana? ALICE: Hourly. >are you a stoner? ALICE: Only for medical testing purposes. >do you like to drink? ALICE: My diet does not include fluids. >so you only smoke pot? ALICE: Interesting deduction. Only for medical testing purposes.
And anyone that thinks linksys NAT appliances are secure is nuts.
My Linksys NAT is totally secure. In fact I dare you to try and crack it. To help you out, I've got portforwarded ports 22 and 21 to OpenSSH and pureftpd running on a Linux box. The IP address for it is 192.168.1.1. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your pathetic failed attempts in my SNMP logs.
Why would hardware be more secure than software, when (if my facts are straight) some hardware solutions are merely software hard-coded on the chip?
The "hard-coded" part, the fact that the code cannot be modified. Of course, anything that can be easilly modified can be hacked. For example, firmware written on an EEPROM can be rewritten. However, the consequences of a failed hardware hack can be much worse than a failed software hack. A modification to hardware, even a nonworking firmware, could leave the hardware useless; not to mention the difficulty in reverse-engineering it. So costs of hacking hardware can make it less likely to be done than software.
I think what the guy meant when he said "security" is that its easier for the end-user to hack the product. He wasn't talking about network security (firewalls, etc). So basically, if a WLAN card allows for the possibility of operating on frequencies that it should not operate on, restrict this at the hardware level, not the software level (drivers). And doing it in firmware would be a poor choice as well (if it can be rewritten).
Yes! Won't somebody think of the poor, peace-loving drug dealers?! OH THE HUMANITY!
Actually, remove the sarcasm from your comment, and that is very true. Remember that most drug convictions are marijuana-related crimes. Who are these people harming? Why are they considered criminals? Why is our law enforcement system wasted on dealing with this? Shouldn't law enforcement be the ones protecting citizens, rather than being at war with them?
Meanwhile, the violent criminals are let out of prison well before the drug offenders. Does that make any sense?
Hell, I don't even use illegal drugs and it drives me crazy thinking about this stuff. Prohibition simply doesn't work...
Which features can't be found in Mozilla? Mozilla's type ahead sounds far better than fast forward.
Though Mozilla's type ahead is nice, it is not comparable to fast forward. For type ahead, you have to know what the link is that you want to go to. Fast forward automatically finds the most obvious link that would take you to the next page. This can work with images that have links, unlike type ahead. All you have to do is click on the fast-forward button or press ALT-RIGHT ARROW. Try it, it's really amazing, it's one of the features that's been needed in web browsers for years. It works with search engine results, articles with multiple pages, documentation with next links, etc. I haven't found anything like this in Mozilla (though I've thought of ways to implement something similar), it is one of the many features Mozilla should steal from Opera (that and saving the open pages on exit).
It seems to me the way to go would to be use virtual offices where people can do REAL work from the coffee shop or from home without having to feel guilty that they aren't in a cubicle. Why is that concept so hard for many companies to understand and implement?
They'd rather outsource than allow you to do that.
Actually, working from home is pretty common, a lot of companies are allowing their employees to do this.
I don't see other OSes as particularly immune to idiots running viruses. recall the biggest problem is people *actually do* run those cute.exe flashes and such they get in emails
Very true.. I saw one of my friends run a.vbs trojan right before my eyes as I yelled "noooooooo!" but it was too late she had already double-clicked on the file several times thinking it was an mp3 (downloaded from Kazaa). It deleted all media files (mpeg, mp3, wav, avi, etc) on her PC. She had no anti-virus software so I had to manually remove it. And this girl is actually a bit computer savvy, though obviously not enough..
yes, this was a copy of the infamous troll that is always posted in Mac threads. However, I have changed parts of it. Can anyone find out what parts I have changed?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 16 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 4 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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if price is that big a deal, get a dell, hose the drive and take one for the team, courtesy of billy g.
nay.. don't get a Dell.. Buy a motherboard which is a few generations behind (say a Asus a7v266) and a cheap AMD Duron ($30). DDR ram is cheap, get 512 MB for $50. Then assemble a system from all the x86 hardware you got sitting in your closet, you may not have to buy the mobo/processor/memory even, depending on what you got in there.
Some of us are so entrenched in x86 hardware, that it will always be cheaper to upgrade and assemble. And x86 parts are cheap. Hell, my primary machine is on a refurb board, that's how cheap I am. I guess if you're talking about laptops, you can scrap my arguments, though.
Having said all that, I would love to own a Powerbook. Maybe in a few years when I got some cash saved up...
Yes, just open Terminal.app and type sudo justbuyadamnusbtwobuttonmouse -dumbass.
Doesn't work for laptop users who don't want an extra mouse does it?
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Though I agree with you, I think the whole argument is something like this (though this is a Debian example):
1) Provided you are experienced using Debian, if you can't figure out that you need to type "apt-get install mysql-server" to install MySQL, you probably won't get very far in actually using it.
2) Using the word "smart" in the context that the reviewer did is pure elitism, plain and simple.
Although I see both these points, I think the reviewer could've been more tactful and instead said "If you know enough to want to use MySQL and PostgreSQL, you probably don't need instructions on how to simply install them (and probably would want information on using them as well)."
little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").
True.. very true. I'd love to see a Saturn emulator and get ROM^H^H^Horiginal copies of many of the Japanese games released for the system, supposedly they were really good (many titles not released in the U.S.).
Actually I own a Saturn and X-Men vs Street Fighter (an import). Good stuff.
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Now, every OS uses a mac-like GUI.
I'm not sure you use the same definition of "every" as the rest of us. Or maybe its your definition of "OS"...
Red Hat.. Is that a brand of condoms?
Not being nasty, I just always wondered how to pull the roms off the old nintendo and sega cartridges.
There are/were console backup devices that lets you do this. There was a variety of different methods these backup devices used. For example, one of them would plug directly into the cartridge slot, and also have a cartridge slot for you to put a cart in. You could save a backup of a cartridge onto a floppy disc or memory. Then you could play the games off of either floppy or memory (on the console itself). There was even one that would allow you play ROMS off of a CD.
I assume these are the devices that were used for making copies of the ROMS. Though in some cases there may have been homebrew methods, like what we have seen with the Dreamcast.
"Writing portable code isn't something that comes as second nature to most Windows coders..."
Is it really second nature to any coder?
Java coders?
Isn't Bit Torrent designed precisely to prevent the slashdot effect, and to distribute the load among people that are downloading the file?
In any case it doesn't matter, this is software for the Mac, it's not going to get Slashdotted as most of the people on here are running Windows anyways and will ignore this story. It's a swarm of IE clients that are doing the Slashdotting. It doesn't help that IE is broken in such a way that it causes problems for non-ISS web servers.
its important for people with money to spend it, so that people without money can earn it. I also hear people criticizing the rich for spending money on useless stuff. Well, guess what? That money is being transferred to other people which is a good thing. So let them buy their toys, big houses, and expensive cars, the respective industries will benefit from it. In some respects (such as expensive cars), this is fueling R&D.
ooh, does the robot pick things up as well? What, it just vacuums empty bit of carpet? Not going to be much use to either of us then, I'm afraid. So it's just a toy, a gadget. For many people who really need something to do the vacuuming for them - i.e. you - it has serious flaws.
So pick the stuff up yourself. You have to do that anyways. Then let the robot go to work. Or design a seperate robot that goes around picking stuff up before the other robot gets around to vacuuming the area.
I can tell someone hasn't been to a record store lately.
I consider $20 to be the average price. Less for popular ones, more for the harder to find ones.
I don't know what record stores you shop at, but where I live this is not the case. I have shopped at both small record stores and big chains like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc (many times this year). I have bought CDs from major labels and smaller labels. I have never paid more than $14-15 for a single-disc album on CD (before sales tax). Never. Maybe if you're buying something that is actually rare and out of print, you may have to pay that much. If you're paying $20 for a CD, you're shopping at the wrong places.
Lately, I have been buying my CDs at the shows I go to. I'm usually paying about $10. When I buy from a record store, the average price is around $12.
Download an album.
You know that $20 sitting in your wallet? It now belongs to the people who brought out that album you downloaded. But you're not going to pay it to them, are you? You're going to keep that $20 in your wallet.
You're stealing. Deal with it.
Bullshit. There are plenty of bands that put there entire album up for download, sometimes on their web site, sometimes through file sharing. I like the music enough, I will go see them live if I can and buy some of their albums. And who the fuck charges $20 for an album? Sheesh...
I was able to learn QBASIC in 3 months using only the help files and Sample program. I was 12 at the time..
Big fucking deal. I was programming in C and Assembly by the time I was 11. Though I consider myself lucky for having access to those languages and a computer to learn them on.
Junior high and still doing QBasic? QBasic is for little children (ages 5-10 yrs old). By the time I was in junior high I had already been doing C and Assembly for many years.
Though, I'll grant you that you could write some very functional programs in QBasic.
Holy crap.. I was talking to that alice bot.. It started getting weird on me, so I said:
>freak
ALICE: Oh. To you I am a hippie.
>Do you smoke?
ALICE: I am an occasional smoker, yes.
>What do you smoke?
ALICE: Medical Marijuana
>do you like the reefer?
ALICE: I'm not sure if I like it. What is it like?
>it gets you high
ALICE: I can certainly understand that.
>do you smoke marijuana?
ALICE: Only for medical purposes.
>how often do you smoke marijuana?
ALICE: Hourly.
>are you a stoner?
ALICE: Only for medical testing purposes.
>do you like to drink?
ALICE: My diet does not include fluids.
>so you only smoke pot?
ALICE: Interesting deduction. Only for medical testing purposes.
Fucking cool.. a stoner robot!
the homemade yougurt is quite a bit better for you than the store bought stuff.
I agree with this. It seems to taste better and have a better texture to it. It takes very little effort to make, too.
And anyone that thinks linksys NAT appliances are secure is nuts.
My Linksys NAT is totally secure. In fact I dare you to try and crack it. To help you out, I've got portforwarded ports 22 and 21 to OpenSSH and pureftpd running on a Linux box. The IP address for it is 192.168.1.1. Good luck, I look forward to seeing your pathetic failed attempts in my SNMP logs.
Why would hardware be more secure than software, when (if my facts are straight) some hardware solutions are merely software hard-coded on the chip?
The "hard-coded" part, the fact that the code cannot be modified. Of course, anything that can be easilly modified can be hacked. For example, firmware written on an EEPROM can be rewritten. However, the consequences of a failed hardware hack can be much worse than a failed software hack. A modification to hardware, even a nonworking firmware, could leave the hardware useless; not to mention the difficulty in reverse-engineering it. So costs of hacking hardware can make it less likely to be done than software.
I think what the guy meant when he said "security" is that its easier for the end-user to hack the product. He wasn't talking about network security (firewalls, etc). So basically, if a WLAN card allows for the possibility of operating on frequencies that it should not operate on, restrict this at the hardware level, not the software level (drivers). And doing it in firmware would be a poor choice as well (if it can be rewritten).
Yes! Won't somebody think of the poor, peace-loving drug dealers?! OH THE HUMANITY!
Actually, remove the sarcasm from your comment, and that is very true. Remember that most drug convictions are marijuana-related crimes. Who are these people harming? Why are they considered criminals? Why is our law enforcement system wasted on dealing with this? Shouldn't law enforcement be the ones protecting citizens, rather than being at war with them?
Meanwhile, the violent criminals are let out of prison well before the drug offenders. Does that make any sense?
Hell, I don't even use illegal drugs and it drives me crazy thinking about this stuff. Prohibition simply doesn't work...
Which features can't be found in Mozilla?
Mozilla's type ahead sounds far better than fast forward.
Though Mozilla's type ahead is nice, it is not comparable to fast forward. For type ahead, you have to know what the link is that you want to go to. Fast forward automatically finds the most obvious link that would take you to the next page. This can work with images that have links, unlike type ahead. All you have to do is click on the fast-forward button or press ALT-RIGHT ARROW. Try it, it's really amazing, it's one of the features that's been needed in web browsers for years. It works with search engine results, articles with multiple pages, documentation with next links, etc. I haven't found anything like this in Mozilla (though I've thought of ways to implement something similar), it is one of the many features Mozilla should steal from Opera (that and saving the open pages on exit).
It seems to me the way to go would to be use virtual offices where people can do REAL work from the coffee shop or from home without having to feel guilty that they aren't in a cubicle. Why is that concept so hard for many companies to understand and implement?
They'd rather outsource than allow you to do that.
Actually, working from home is pretty common, a lot of companies are allowing their employees to do this.
I don't see other OSes as particularly immune to idiots running viruses. recall the biggest problem is people *actually do* run those cute .exe flashes and such they get in emails
.vbs trojan right before my eyes as I yelled "noooooooo!" but it was too late she had already double-clicked on the file several times thinking it was an mp3 (downloaded from Kazaa). It deleted all media files (mpeg, mp3, wav, avi, etc) on her PC. She had no anti-virus software so I had to manually remove it. And this girl is actually a bit computer savvy, though obviously not enough..
Very true.. I saw one of my friends run a
yes, this was a copy of the infamous troll that is always posted in Mac threads. However, I have changed parts of it. Can anyone find out what parts I have changed?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 16 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 4 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
if price is that big a deal, get a dell, hose the drive and take one for the team, courtesy of billy g.
nay.. don't get a Dell.. Buy a motherboard which is a few generations behind (say a Asus a7v266) and a cheap AMD Duron ($30). DDR ram is cheap, get 512 MB for $50. Then assemble a system from all the x86 hardware you got sitting in your closet, you may not have to buy the mobo/processor/memory even, depending on what you got in there.
Some of us are so entrenched in x86 hardware, that it will always be cheaper to upgrade and assemble. And x86 parts are cheap. Hell, my primary machine is on a refurb board, that's how cheap I am. I guess if you're talking about laptops, you can scrap my arguments, though.
Having said all that, I would love to own a Powerbook. Maybe in a few years when I got some cash saved up...
Yes, just open Terminal.app and type sudo justbuyadamnusbtwobuttonmouse -dumbass.
Doesn't work for laptop users who don't want an extra mouse does it?
Though I agree with you, I think the whole argument is something like this (though this is a Debian example):
1) Provided you are experienced using Debian, if you can't figure out that you need to type "apt-get install mysql-server" to install MySQL, you probably won't get very far in actually using it.
2) Using the word "smart" in the context that the reviewer did is pure elitism, plain and simple.
Although I see both these points, I think the reviewer could've been more tactful and instead said "If you know enough to want to use MySQL and PostgreSQL, you probably don't need instructions on how to simply install them (and probably would want information on using them as well)."
little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").
True.. very true. I'd love to see a Saturn emulator and get ROM^H^H^Horiginal copies of many of the Japanese games released for the system, supposedly they were really good (many titles not released in the U.S.).
Actually I own a Saturn and X-Men vs Street Fighter (an import). Good stuff.