If I'm not mistaken, the emulator being used here can be put directly on one of the GBA flash cartridges you can buy, which have considerably more space than this version. I think it can also support saving. Try Zophar.net to find out about the emulator itself, they link to virtually every emulator project site on the internet.
I'm sure its there. Somebody needs to make an equally obsessive index of locations for the map, though, since it's a pain to find anything. It took people like a half hour to find Moe's.
Yes, cities change, but no city changes on the scale that Springfield does. Entire sections of the city shift by as much as a few miles on a weekly basis. Sometimes, several major changes occur within a single day. Also, refering to Moe's and the saxaphone shop, the buildings may change, but the saxaphone shop still exists. It appears once in a while. Its just not always aligned with Moe's. Sometime's its next door, sometimes accross the street. I'm pretty sure it was next door to both the Hemp store (when the giant log from Lisa Land rolled through) and the Swordfish store when Homer was the king in that one parade.
If you're under GM insurance, one of the two ambulance services used by Covenant Health Care won't provide certain services to you. Had it happen to my father when he fell and broke his leg early one morning. They're required to perform any life-or-death stuff, but they won't do a lot of basic checking, they just shovel you into the ambulance and drop you off at the hospital.
Also, the Saginaw (city, township, and county) Police Departments have this habit of not responding to vandalism committed around the open-campus high schools. My senior year, they were averaging six window breakings a week around Arthur Hill, and the police wouldn't investigate them (also made for pains with some people's homeowner's insurance, who wouldn't treat it as malicious damage without a police report, so the people ended up with a rate hike).
But I don't spend $80,000 a month, so I never got that stuff. I was specifically replying to your "plain old user" sentence. Half the vulnerabilities in Windows I can think of off hand, I'd never heard about until the patch for them came out. Most of the rest I heard about from non-Microsoft sources.
GBA ram size, probably. It only has 256k of RAM. Take off 196k (maximum ROM size), and you're left with 60k for the emulator, which is smaller than the high-accuracy emulators, but not much different than some of the old versions of Loopy.
Actually, I believe Springfield is a network of interconnecting plates which levitate. These plates reconfigure themselves into whatever layout is funniest at any given time, and the whole assembly moves to new locations, which is why Springfield is within an afternoon drive of every major traffic location in the US and Canada, including Hawaii. This does, however, raise questions as to why the Simpsons flew to Australia and Japan.
Although the Simsons' live adjacent to the Nuke plant in one episode, they have a picket fence (not a chain-link and barbed wire fence) accross their back yard with another row of houses behind it in another. In one episode, there's an air view of the area in which the Simspons' discover that everybody in Springfield has a pool except them, but in other episodes, shots of the Flanders' back yard reveals no pool.
In one episode, Moe's is less than a block from the Simpson's house, but at the end of the Flaming Moe's episode, there's a panning shot revealing several blocks of Flaming Moe ripoffs in both directions from Moe's. Sometime's, Moe's is on a corner, sometimes its next to the music store where Lisa got her saxaphone, and in the episode where they hit oil under the school, it was sandwitched between the nuke plant and the school, with nothing else around but a thin chemical haze from the drill site.
All this can easily be explained by the levitating plate theory, since the superior intelligence controlling Springfield simply reconfigures the city into a more amusing and/or ironic layout. I can only assume that Shelbyville, and possibly Capitol City, are also on the plate construct, as they are the only cities at a fixed distance from Springf field, and probably experience the same phenomena.
As for the episode where Homer becomes sanitation director and destroys the city, I believe that the plate design originally included some comparatively pristine wilderness area, which became Springfield Site B when they moved the city.
Yes, I watch WAY too much Simpson's. Yes, I'm also the same person who went equally in-depth explaining plot inconsistencies in all five Star Trek series and Farscape. No, I don't have a girlfriend, if you have to ask.
It's redundant, but it's also ass-covering for when people start to whine. Remember: In a world where you get called a liar for saying you had a taco for lunch when it was technically a burrito, it's good to be excessively redundant.
Don't feel too bad about that mistake. When you consider just how many games are based on the Quake engines, its very easy to mistakenly assign games to that category. (I thought Thief 1 was based on the Quake 2 engine too, heh)
He's obviously not talking about SP2, becaue he said it installed correctly, and implies he was able to reboot thereafter. I've never gotten both those things to happen at the same time with SP2.
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Speaking of Beagle, Genesis and Beagle were both designed in part by the same guy.
If anything, they're thinking of a GBA port, which is begged for by fanboys to the extent that one guy on GameFAQs claimed to have offered to personally service every member of the comittee that gave the green light to such a port. A PS2 port is meaningless, since there's a PS1 port. I'm almost willing to bet there will be a PSP port at some point. A GameCube port isn't out of the question, since Square and Nintendo are friends again, but even that will likely be no different than the PSX port. A Wonderswan port is marginally possible, since they did port a few early FF games, but now that their back in bed with Nintendo, I think Square will focus on the GBA since its much more popular. An Xbox port is the least likely of all of these, but I don't think out of the question completely. Square's made their money from Chrono Trigger, and it's already been developed. Microsoft hands Square a big fat check, Square does a quickie port (or hell, just sticks the PSX version on a CD and rigs up an emulator to run it) and sells it. They won't make much on it, but it isn't like they'll lose anything. It'd be nothing on Square's part, and stupid on Microsoft's part is the only thing. It might sell a bit in the US, but in Japan, a port of a game available for the Playstation and with a faint glimmer of hope for a GBA port isn't going to be a selling game for an unpopular console. Microsoft would be much better off handing Square one of those really big checks you see on gameshows and telling them to imagine a realy big number, write it down, and then develop an original, Xbox exclusive RPG.
Or you can just lock up the computers like my college does. As I said in another thread, to stop people from plugging in extra drives (which wouldn't get automatically scanned on open by the half-assed antivirus software), they basically screw on a bracket that only lets you access the headphone jack.
Better yet, you can go the litigious bastard route and just sue the employee when they pull stupid shit. But even so, if they pull stupid shit that it is entirely within your power to prevent, the fault lies with you, trust or no.
We did have a closed network. At the time, broadband in my area was horridly expensive, and most small businesses were squeezing through a 56k modem, which meant one, maybe two computers had interent access. As for the rest of your questions:
Plugging a laptop into the ethernet port: Couldn't add stuff to the network like that. It wasn't just closed, but it was also annoying to work with, since if you plug something new in, it wouldn't be recognized without the manager (who, oddly enough for a manager, was actually quite skilled in the matter) did something which he wouldn't explain to the rest of us. Same would apply to a network printer or storage device.
Adding extra harddrives: Small office, no partitions. Everybody was in clear view of at least three other people and probably the customers comming in too, so you couldn't just crack your case open over cofee break.
Of course, what we did at this place was take other people's computers apart and fix/upgrade/etc them, so I imagine it would be easy to take apart one of the office computers and just say, "Yeah, this is that one the guy dropped off yesterday. Gotta get it finished quick, he's comming in for it at 3." But then, this wasn't exactly a cutting edge R&D sorta place. There was nothing in the computers worth stealing. Which, of course, brings us to the question of WHY they locked down the network so much. I can't even begin to guess.
You use quotes when, for example, we want to talk about how I "helped" this "woman" review her "top secret memos." Figures of speech, if you know what I mean.
(Submitter got it wrong, yeah, should have just quoted directly, but I felt like making a dirty joke)
Don't bother trying to make sense of it. The Department of the Treasury siezed all the property of a pizza shop near my college where I eat with some friends every Thursday. When we got there last week, and were told "No pizza," by a 400 pound gentleman with a clipboard, we asked what it was about, and were directed to a few forms to submit, because seizures are public knowledge, but he doesn't get paid to chat with pedestrians (he gets paid to sit on the curb eating pizzas - paid for by customers just before the seizure began - hot out of the newly reposessed oven). My friend did this just to piss the guy off, and got back a nice letter that he was not intitled to know why the place was shut down because it was a matter of grave national security.
I'll admit that what those people tried to pass for Canadian bacon was a crime against food, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a grave matter of anything.
When the article was talking about companies doing multiple studies and only publishing the best one, though, they were talking about this sort of thing. The companies weren't changing the experiment to make it work. Doing that would raise red flags - maybe not so obvious as creative methods for patient recruiting, but something that other doctors would likely catch. They're just doing the studies several times and publishing the best one (or just doing one big study and only using part of the data set for publishing). Doing a pre-run study as you suggest would help their odds, but would nowhere near assure them good resuls in the second, registered study.
Quake and Doom were more important for id as showcases for their engines. Ever wondered how they survive releasing maybe a game every two or four years? A pretty impressive chunk of the FPS genre is based on id engines.
Quite a bit, actually. Last place I worked, the only way you could get files off the computers was either a USB or parallel port drive. Everything else was transfered accross the network, and was backed up to removable media only in the back room closet by the guy who owned the shop.
SP2 only seems to have one feature on my computer, which bans me from booting. This is a good option, IMO. My college, and even the high school I went to, had horrible problems with people bringing in viruses on their own media. The high school had an antivirus program that would scan anything you put in A: or D:, but when people would plug something into the LPT port and load their stuff off there, all bets were off. I've seen in the public computers labs at my college where they litterally have a metal plate screwed on the back to physically block you from accessing the ports to do this sort of stuff.
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If I'm not mistaken, the emulator being used here can be put directly on one of the GBA flash cartridges you can buy, which have considerably more space than this version. I think it can also support saving. Try Zophar.net to find out about the emulator itself, they link to virtually every emulator project site on the internet.
I think you just killed Schrodinger's Cat.
That's not your password...
I'm sure its there. Somebody needs to make an equally obsessive index of locations for the map, though, since it's a pain to find anything. It took people like a half hour to find Moe's.
Yes, cities change, but no city changes on the scale that Springfield does. Entire sections of the city shift by as much as a few miles on a weekly basis. Sometimes, several major changes occur within a single day. Also, refering to Moe's and the saxaphone shop, the buildings may change, but the saxaphone shop still exists. It appears once in a while. Its just not always aligned with Moe's. Sometime's its next door, sometimes accross the street. I'm pretty sure it was next door to both the Hemp store (when the giant log from Lisa Land rolled through) and the Swordfish store when Homer was the king in that one parade.
For three grand, I would hope they include a change of clothing in the package.
If you're under GM insurance, one of the two ambulance services used by Covenant Health Care won't provide certain services to you. Had it happen to my father when he fell and broke his leg early one morning. They're required to perform any life-or-death stuff, but they won't do a lot of basic checking, they just shovel you into the ambulance and drop you off at the hospital. Also, the Saginaw (city, township, and county) Police Departments have this habit of not responding to vandalism committed around the open-campus high schools. My senior year, they were averaging six window breakings a week around Arthur Hill, and the police wouldn't investigate them (also made for pains with some people's homeowner's insurance, who wouldn't treat it as malicious damage without a police report, so the people ended up with a rate hike).
But I don't spend $80,000 a month, so I never got that stuff. I was specifically replying to your "plain old user" sentence. Half the vulnerabilities in Windows I can think of off hand, I'd never heard about until the patch for them came out. Most of the rest I heard about from non-Microsoft sources.
GBA ram size, probably. It only has 256k of RAM. Take off 196k (maximum ROM size), and you're left with 60k for the emulator, which is smaller than the high-accuracy emulators, but not much different than some of the old versions of Loopy.
The plain old user side of me doesn't see anything that will affect him.
Exactly. It's not like they were telling us about the holes in a timely manner before.
(it must exist in a higher-dimensional space)
Actually, I believe Springfield is a network of interconnecting plates which levitate. These plates reconfigure themselves into whatever layout is funniest at any given time, and the whole assembly moves to new locations, which is why Springfield is within an afternoon drive of every major traffic location in the US and Canada, including Hawaii. This does, however, raise questions as to why the Simpsons flew to Australia and Japan.
Although the Simsons' live adjacent to the Nuke plant in one episode, they have a picket fence (not a chain-link and barbed wire fence) accross their back yard with another row of houses behind it in another. In one episode, there's an air view of the area in which the Simspons' discover that everybody in Springfield has a pool except them, but in other episodes, shots of the Flanders' back yard reveals no pool.
In one episode, Moe's is less than a block from the Simpson's house, but at the end of the Flaming Moe's episode, there's a panning shot revealing several blocks of Flaming Moe ripoffs in both directions from Moe's. Sometime's, Moe's is on a corner, sometimes its next to the music store where Lisa got her saxaphone, and in the episode where they hit oil under the school, it was sandwitched between the nuke plant and the school, with nothing else around but a thin chemical haze from the drill site.
All this can easily be explained by the levitating plate theory, since the superior intelligence controlling Springfield simply reconfigures the city into a more amusing and/or ironic layout. I can only assume that Shelbyville, and possibly Capitol City, are also on the plate construct, as they are the only cities at a fixed distance from Springf field, and probably experience the same phenomena.
As for the episode where Homer becomes sanitation director and destroys the city, I believe that the plate design originally included some comparatively pristine wilderness area, which became Springfield Site B when they moved the city.
Yes, I watch WAY too much Simpson's. Yes, I'm also the same person who went equally in-depth explaining plot inconsistencies in all five Star Trek series and Farscape. No, I don't have a girlfriend, if you have to ask.
It's redundant, but it's also ass-covering for when people start to whine. Remember: In a world where you get called a liar for saying you had a taco for lunch when it was technically a burrito, it's good to be excessively redundant.
Don't feel too bad about that mistake. When you consider just how many games are based on the Quake engines, its very easy to mistakenly assign games to that category. (I thought Thief 1 was based on the Quake 2 engine too, heh)
He's obviously not talking about SP2, becaue he said it installed correctly, and implies he was able to reboot thereafter. I've never gotten both those things to happen at the same time with SP2.
Speaking of Beagle, Genesis and Beagle were both designed in part by the same guy.
If anything, they're thinking of a GBA port, which is begged for by fanboys to the extent that one guy on GameFAQs claimed to have offered to personally service every member of the comittee that gave the green light to such a port. A PS2 port is meaningless, since there's a PS1 port. I'm almost willing to bet there will be a PSP port at some point. A GameCube port isn't out of the question, since Square and Nintendo are friends again, but even that will likely be no different than the PSX port. A Wonderswan port is marginally possible, since they did port a few early FF games, but now that their back in bed with Nintendo, I think Square will focus on the GBA since its much more popular. An Xbox port is the least likely of all of these, but I don't think out of the question completely. Square's made their money from Chrono Trigger, and it's already been developed. Microsoft hands Square a big fat check, Square does a quickie port (or hell, just sticks the PSX version on a CD and rigs up an emulator to run it) and sells it. They won't make much on it, but it isn't like they'll lose anything. It'd be nothing on Square's part, and stupid on Microsoft's part is the only thing. It might sell a bit in the US, but in Japan, a port of a game available for the Playstation and with a faint glimmer of hope for a GBA port isn't going to be a selling game for an unpopular console. Microsoft would be much better off handing Square one of those really big checks you see on gameshows and telling them to imagine a realy big number, write it down, and then develop an original, Xbox exclusive RPG.
Or you can just lock up the computers like my college does. As I said in another thread, to stop people from plugging in extra drives (which wouldn't get automatically scanned on open by the half-assed antivirus software), they basically screw on a bracket that only lets you access the headphone jack.
Better yet, you can go the litigious bastard route and just sue the employee when they pull stupid shit. But even so, if they pull stupid shit that it is entirely within your power to prevent, the fault lies with you, trust or no.
Yeah, kinda like what he did with Daikatana?
We did have a closed network. At the time, broadband in my area was horridly expensive, and most small businesses were squeezing through a 56k modem, which meant one, maybe two computers had interent access. As for the rest of your questions:
Plugging a laptop into the ethernet port: Couldn't add stuff to the network like that. It wasn't just closed, but it was also annoying to work with, since if you plug something new in, it wouldn't be recognized without the manager (who, oddly enough for a manager, was actually quite skilled in the matter) did something which he wouldn't explain to the rest of us. Same would apply to a network printer or storage device.
Adding extra harddrives: Small office, no partitions. Everybody was in clear view of at least three other people and probably the customers comming in too, so you couldn't just crack your case open over cofee break.
Of course, what we did at this place was take other people's computers apart and fix/upgrade/etc them, so I imagine it would be easy to take apart one of the office computers and just say, "Yeah, this is that one the guy dropped off yesterday. Gotta get it finished quick, he's comming in for it at 3." But then, this wasn't exactly a cutting edge R&D sorta place. There was nothing in the computers worth stealing. Which, of course, brings us to the question of WHY they locked down the network so much. I can't even begin to guess.
You use quotes when, for example, we want to talk about how I "helped" this "woman" review her "top secret memos." Figures of speech, if you know what I mean. (Submitter got it wrong, yeah, should have just quoted directly, but I felt like making a dirty joke)
Don't bother trying to make sense of it. The Department of the Treasury siezed all the property of a pizza shop near my college where I eat with some friends every Thursday. When we got there last week, and were told "No pizza," by a 400 pound gentleman with a clipboard, we asked what it was about, and were directed to a few forms to submit, because seizures are public knowledge, but he doesn't get paid to chat with pedestrians (he gets paid to sit on the curb eating pizzas - paid for by customers just before the seizure began - hot out of the newly reposessed oven). My friend did this just to piss the guy off, and got back a nice letter that he was not intitled to know why the place was shut down because it was a matter of grave national security.
I'll admit that what those people tried to pass for Canadian bacon was a crime against food, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a grave matter of anything.
When the article was talking about companies doing multiple studies and only publishing the best one, though, they were talking about this sort of thing. The companies weren't changing the experiment to make it work. Doing that would raise red flags - maybe not so obvious as creative methods for patient recruiting, but something that other doctors would likely catch. They're just doing the studies several times and publishing the best one (or just doing one big study and only using part of the data set for publishing). Doing a pre-run study as you suggest would help their odds, but would nowhere near assure them good resuls in the second, registered study.
Quake and Doom were more important for id as showcases for their engines. Ever wondered how they survive releasing maybe a game every two or four years? A pretty impressive chunk of the FPS genre is based on id engines.
Quite a bit, actually. Last place I worked, the only way you could get files off the computers was either a USB or parallel port drive. Everything else was transfered accross the network, and was backed up to removable media only in the back room closet by the guy who owned the shop.
SP2 only seems to have one feature on my computer, which bans me from booting. This is a good option, IMO. My college, and even the high school I went to, had horrible problems with people bringing in viruses on their own media. The high school had an antivirus program that would scan anything you put in A: or D:, but when people would plug something into the LPT port and load their stuff off there, all bets were off. I've seen in the public computers labs at my college where they litterally have a metal plate screwed on the back to physically block you from accessing the ports to do this sort of stuff.