We all loved the wild and crazy Sega, but its reckless ways put the worst of fears into its loved ones about Sega suddenly not being with us anymore. Still, while we're happy Sega is still with us, some wish it would just through caution to the wind and start doing the drugs again.
What about Ulrich Schnauss? I've seen him perform twice, once for free, and once for where I paid a ticket. All he really does is sit at a table, but I enjoyed his performance just as much if not more that bands with guitars. His music is that good, and he always has interesting visuals. In fact most of what he had on the projector was exactly the same both times. This is coming from someone who really doesn't like much non guitar music. On top of that I doubt I would have heard of Ulrich Schnauss, nor would he be having as much success as he is having, without all the p2p buzz. I would also be equally interested in any other similar performer I liked that much where they don't do much on stage. Kraftwerk is another example. I am only a mild fan of theirs, but their performance at Coachella was phenomenal, even though they aren't singing or dancing or doing much else besides standing behind their keyboards.
I donated too him too, and even registered Republican lat year. I never voted for a Republican before. I thought he would be the best protest vote against the war, and he seemed to be more electable than Kucinich and all of the other democrats besides Obama and Clinton, and the rest of the Republican candidates are such a joke. I wasn't interested in Obama at first because I was afraid he couldn't compete with Clinton, and I wasn't entirely convinced he would have not voted for the Iraq invasion - although I realize now that he was very vocal in speaking out against the war before we invaded. I'm very impressed with how it looks like he will end up beating Clinton with the popular vote and pledged delegates. The only way she can win right now is if the super delegates fuck over the people, and don't nominate who the Democratic voters actually voted for. I switched my registration back to Democratic in time to vote for Obama, and donate everything I can even though I don't have any extra money to spend right now. I would hope anyone else that initially supported Paul primarily for his foreign policy views will also side with Obama right now. He will be leaps and bounds better than Clinton or McCain and I don't think we will have this close of a chance to have a President this great in my lifetime.
All I have right now is a 24" 480i 4:3 Sony Wega, which has S-Video as the nicest input. I don't have a home theater system. I don't even have a DVD player other than my PS2. I'm still happy playing my Dreamcast or PS2 and very rarely watching a DVD. Not only am I just not really into movies, but I might as well watch them on my laptop since it will actually look better on its LCD.
I haven't jumped on the DVD or satellite/digital cable bandwagon yet because I'm too cheap to get all the TV and sound upgrades, and then pay the hefty subscription or rental fees just for content. I have basic analog cable basically just for watching football. I'd get DirecTV, but it's like $500 a year at minimum just to get Sunday Ticket. It would be the same price as my analog cable if I could just pay for four months of football, but they make you subscribe for at least a year. All other TV is just painful to watch it's so bad. I'd rather just play on the internet.
The only thing that has me excited right now is the Wii, because it will work just fine on my current TV, which was an awesome TV when I bought it in 2000. Once I can find a Wii, I'll have a system that comes with plenty of free games to start out for only $250 plus tax. And for very few extra bucks, I can play a fuckton of old games on the system legally. It can play all the old games I care about that my Dreamcast can't easily emulate like N64, TG-16, Genesis, and SNES. And it plays Gamecube games.
I couldn't care less about watching crappy prime time TV shows in HDTV, or movies in 1080p. All the old movies I like probably weren't even shot in 1080p to begin with. Hell, my favorite director, Kubrick, shot all his stuff in 4:3.
I think DVD and CD are going to be the last popular tangible formats for music and movies. They are not going to die like cassette tapes and VHS. 10-20 years from now I bet that nothing has replaced the CD. Whenever I buy my CD's I just rip it immediately to mp3 and then huck it in a box, but I don't want that to change. I don't want to download it in a wacky iTunes or Amazon or Radiohead format. I still like having the actual CD even though I don't use it much. HDDVD/BR might replace DVD for new movies, but it will take a long, long time if it ever happens.
I absolutely guarantee that this will be the last music purchase I make from any RIAA backed artist unless they start recognizing fair use.
Too bad there is nothing but crap on the independent labels. Who wants to listen to bands singing about spatulas with out of tune instruments?
Nobody is going to care about Pavement 20 years from now. The good stuff that people buy because it's actually good like Nickelback will still be selling lots of records through the RIAA because the top mega labels will always get the most talented artists.
It's not so much to do with Japan being more gadget oriented or having better Phones. People in Japan just use their phones for web browsing and email because it's cheaper and more convenient. Sprint's network is comparable to au/KDDI Japan's 2nd largest provider, although although EV-DO was rolled out years before Sprint did. I'm pretty sure some of our Smartphones, Treos, Blackberrys, and iPhones are similarly adequate at browsing the web the way they do. A lot Japanese websites are also much easier to navigate from a cell phone. Look at the massively popular site 2chan.net for example. All of the content is so small that it would fit conveniently in an instant messenger chat box.
I actually tried to adopt to Vista early as I figured just like you mentioned that eventually everyone will move to it and like it as much as any other Windows, so I might as well get started early. It was so frustrating I gave up on it after only a weekend. I seriously had a much happier time with Windows Me. While it's true there wasn't much of a reason to upgrade to XP, there wasn't really any reason not to in my opinion. It was not that bloated and it was basically the same as windows 2000 after a couple settings tweaks. Vista is not a nicer XP in any sense.
my mom put this update on my ipod but she has no idea how smart i am i just carry the dock around with me and plug my headphones straight into the line out
1. I rarely leave the house, so I notice the phone ringing a lot. 2. I have no friends and nobody calls me for legitimate reasons. 3. I live with my parents who order stuff from catalogs, and I order stuff online. This is the number one demo for telemarketers you know.. old people who might actually buy stupid stuff.
More like the troll wakes up and pulls a long nasty knife out of his shabby clothes.
He points the knife in your direction as he hisses, "Gold! Give me your
gold!"
The cyclops spits out a horrible assortment of syllables that you barely decipher as a demand for all your valuables. Am I right?
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I think that might get/.'ed for real. I was the original AC, but this link expains it more like when I first saw it. Some help desk guy really got called because someone's computer had a snake in it.
Well, it'd be nice if there were lots emus for preserving the rare consoles, but unfortunately the best ones are only for the most popular consoles. The NES is like my least favorite console, yet there are about 30 near perfect emus for it. If frustrates me too. There are just not enough fans of the rare hardware for people to work on the program, and not enough fans of the system in general to appreciate it.
I've had my GB Player for a month now. I couldn't wait. =P But if Nintendo didn't make it, or I didn't already have a use for a Gamecube, I'd try the Xbox method.
I actually agree with what you said about GBA roms. The carts are so cheap and there's no region protection, so I don't understand why people need to pirate the roms. Especially after the Afterburner light, GBA SP, and now the GB Player.
I could see a real use for this PSX emu for Xbox. I had a blast playing Symphony of the Night again on Epsxe with improved graphics and fast load times. I'd love to do that again on with my bigger display TV and Xbox.
The idea of a Dreamcast emulator just bores me right now. It would be nice to see how it comes a long, but how practical would it be right now? The PSX games look much better when emulated on PC and Dreamcast, but most computers right now would struggle to play Dreamcast games even at a decent speed, let alone play them better in any way than the Dreamcast can already do by itself.
It might not be legal to use the Xbox dev kit without approval, but it's just too hard for people to sit around and wait for someone to develop there own bios and dev kit. Who knows how long it would take, and how far they will get with it. The way it's going, nobody will ever do it since it's so convenient just to use the MS utilities. I'm sure the people who port the open source emus to Xbox feel a little bad about it too, but it's just too tempting when the Xbox is a cheap bundle of good, TV-ready, PC-based gaming hardware, and the only easy way to access it is with illegal proprietary code.
I can relate to much of what he was saying, but it's not really fair to generalize the newest generation of the emulation scene as pirates. Many of them have just much respect for the game developers and buy the majority of their games, they just don't care so about stupid trivial stuff like whether their Xbox apps were created with authorized code or not.
Watch the emu community now, this "preservation of hardware" stuff, which used to be the driving mission, is now mostly lip service. Lots of work emulating popular stuff like GBA or PSX, little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").
That's not entirely fair. The reason no one writes good emulators for Jaguar or Saturn is because those consoles failed miserably and not enough people care about them. Sure there's a bunch of good Japanese Saturn games, but who wants to play a game in a language you can't even understand? Not me. Dreamcasts are still very cheap and easy to find, and there's not going to be any improvement with the graphics for like 10-15 years, if ever. PSX emulation on Xbox has the potential for you to play PSX games on your TV with much better graphics, like with Bleem! for Dreamcast. I dumped my own Castlevania COTM cart just to play the game backlit with Visual Boy Advance. GBA emulation on Xbox will let you play games on your TV with a nice backlight, and bigger display. You still can't do this, unless you import the expensive Gameboy Player for Gamecube, or use a crappy TV out setup from a video card.
Even though it would be nice to respect the open source community, it's not really worth it to reinvent the wheel to port these things to the Xbox legally. This stuff does have the potential to be very useful, and not all of the new kids in the emulation scene are in it for piracy. Most of them probably buy many more games than your average video gamer.
Yeah, I knew he got 2 right, but I think that is the lowest score possible still. Here's the scores (200 and 200), and
here's the number right on each section. So getting 2 right on math, and 0 right on verbal means you get a 200 for each? I think 200 is the lowest you can get on each test, and I've always heard talk of how you get 400 total points just for filling out your name and stuff correctly. So I guess you can afford to get a few right so long as you get enough wrong? You're right, he did fail to do what he had set out to do by not answering every single question incorrectly. For that he does deserve a big YOU FAIL IT!
If you have an 1st generation Sony WEGA, or a 24" or 20", you can enjoy the same "enhanced widescreen mode for DVD's" that is available on the newer models. Just enter the service mode by hitting DISPLAY, 5, VOL+, POWER ON. 1 and 4 on your remote changes the menu items up and down. 3 and 6 changes the values up and down. Hit 1 until you see the JPSW item. Then hit 3 to change this from 0 to 1. Then hit MUTE, ENTER to save the setting to memory. Then power off and back on to exit service mode. To get back to the old format you just change JPSW back to 0. Changing the VUSN option seems to do the same thing as changing JPSW. I have no idea why.
It's not really 480p, but it does look much better when your TV concentrates all of it's pixels into the letterboxed area.
It works for all the DVD's I've tried with the exception of my bootleg Star Wars Trilogy set.
It also works for most every Xbox game so long as you enable widescreen via the dashboard. DOA3 looks way better in this mode.
For PS2 the only games I had that were supposed to work in 16:9 mode were GT3 and GTA3. GT3 looked awesome, but I couldn't get GTA3 to work. I think you have to enable it in the game for PS2 games.. that's how I got GT3 to work. If you're using a PS2 as your DVD player, you have to enable 16:9 mode via the DVD menu - the one that you access by hitting select while the movie is paused, NOT the menu when the PS2 starts up.
There's a small list for what game support widescreen mode here
I was really pleased to find this egg for my 1st generation 24" WEGA. The only thing that kind of sucks with this is while it works for most movies, and a lot of video games, many times the rest of the menus, game intros, movie trailers, and other DVD extras are squashed and don't look right.
That game is my most favorite too. Sad thing is no one has even heard of it.
The PS2 version is no longer in production and now it starts at $65.00 at > . I had it on my wishlist for 2002, and then after the holiday season, it must have sold out. The price started going up from $50.00. This game might become kind of rare, at least for the PS2. I like the PS2 version better than the not so rare Dreamcast version. It seems to have a better frame rate, and I like the dual vibration with the dual shock 2. (Vibration is a big part of this game's experience)
If any of you are into any kind of drugs at all, than you will LOVE this game. If you liked the movie Tron, than you will LOVE this game. I heard the developers guy got a lot of inspiration for this game from that movie.
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We all loved the wild and crazy Sega, but its reckless ways put the worst of fears into its loved ones about Sega suddenly not being with us anymore. Still, while we're happy Sega is still with us, some wish it would just through caution to the wind and start doing the drugs again.
What about Ulrich Schnauss? I've seen him perform twice, once for free, and once for where I paid a ticket. All he really does is sit at a table, but I enjoyed his performance just as much if not more that bands with guitars. His music is that good, and he always has interesting visuals. In fact most of what he had on the projector was exactly the same both times. This is coming from someone who really doesn't like much non guitar music. On top of that I doubt I would have heard of Ulrich Schnauss, nor would he be having as much success as he is having, without all the p2p buzz. I would also be equally interested in any other similar performer I liked that much where they don't do much on stage. Kraftwerk is another example. I am only a mild fan of theirs, but their performance at Coachella was phenomenal, even though they aren't singing or dancing or doing much else besides standing behind their keyboards.
I donated too him too, and even registered Republican lat year. I never voted for a Republican before. I thought he would be the best protest vote against the war, and he seemed to be more electable than Kucinich and all of the other democrats besides Obama and Clinton, and the rest of the Republican candidates are such a joke. I wasn't interested in Obama at first because I was afraid he couldn't compete with Clinton, and I wasn't entirely convinced he would have not voted for the Iraq invasion - although I realize now that he was very vocal in speaking out against the war before we invaded. I'm very impressed with how it looks like he will end up beating Clinton with the popular vote and pledged delegates. The only way she can win right now is if the super delegates fuck over the people, and don't nominate who the Democratic voters actually voted for. I switched my registration back to Democratic in time to vote for Obama, and donate everything I can even though I don't have any extra money to spend right now. I would hope anyone else that initially supported Paul primarily for his foreign policy views will also side with Obama right now. He will be leaps and bounds better than Clinton or McCain and I don't think we will have this close of a chance to have a President this great in my lifetime.
Ron Paul is about as anti-semitic as Jon Stewart, Noam Chomsky, and Russ Feingold.
All I have right now is a 24" 480i 4:3 Sony Wega, which has S-Video as the nicest input. I don't have a home theater system. I don't even have a DVD player other than my PS2. I'm still happy playing my Dreamcast or PS2 and very rarely watching a DVD. Not only am I just not really into movies, but I might as well watch them on my laptop since it will actually look better on its LCD.
I haven't jumped on the DVD or satellite/digital cable bandwagon yet because I'm too cheap to get all the TV and sound upgrades, and then pay the hefty subscription or rental fees just for content. I have basic analog cable basically just for watching football. I'd get DirecTV, but it's like $500 a year at minimum just to get Sunday Ticket. It would be the same price as my analog cable if I could just pay for four months of football, but they make you subscribe for at least a year. All other TV is just painful to watch it's so bad. I'd rather just play on the internet.
The only thing that has me excited right now is the Wii, because it will work just fine on my current TV, which was an awesome TV when I bought it in 2000. Once I can find a Wii, I'll have a system that comes with plenty of free games to start out for only $250 plus tax. And for very few extra bucks, I can play a fuckton of old games on the system legally. It can play all the old games I care about that my Dreamcast can't easily emulate like N64, TG-16, Genesis, and SNES. And it plays Gamecube games.
I couldn't care less about watching crappy prime time TV shows in HDTV, or movies in 1080p. All the old movies I like probably weren't even shot in 1080p to begin with. Hell, my favorite director, Kubrick, shot all his stuff in 4:3.
I think DVD and CD are going to be the last popular tangible formats for music and movies. They are not going to die like cassette tapes and VHS. 10-20 years from now I bet that nothing has replaced the CD. Whenever I buy my CD's I just rip it immediately to mp3 and then huck it in a box, but I don't want that to change. I don't want to download it in a wacky iTunes or Amazon or Radiohead format. I still like having the actual CD even though I don't use it much. HDDVD/BR might replace DVD for new movies, but it will take a long, long time if it ever happens.
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Too bad there is nothing but crap on the independent labels. Who wants to listen to bands singing about spatulas with out of tune instruments?
Nobody is going to care about Pavement 20 years from now. The good stuff that people buy because it's actually good like Nickelback will still be selling lots of records through the RIAA because the top mega labels will always get the most talented artists.
It's not so much to do with Japan being more gadget oriented or having better Phones. People in Japan just use their phones for web browsing and email because it's cheaper and more convenient. Sprint's network is comparable to au/KDDI Japan's 2nd largest provider, although although EV-DO was rolled out years before Sprint did. I'm pretty sure some of our Smartphones, Treos, Blackberrys, and iPhones are similarly adequate at browsing the web the way they do. A lot Japanese websites are also much easier to navigate from a cell phone. Look at the massively popular site 2chan.net for example. All of the content is so small that it would fit conveniently in an instant messenger chat box.
Everyone knows Chevy trucks are the most dependable longest lasting trucks on the road.
As for basic computing the ONLY big requirement of Vista is 512mb of RAM to run as fast as XP.
I have 2 gigs of ram in my laptop, and Vista was nowhere near as fast as XP on the same machine.
I actually tried to adopt to Vista early as I figured just like you mentioned that eventually everyone will move to it and like it as much as any other Windows, so I might as well get started early. It was so frustrating I gave up on it after only a weekend. I seriously had a much happier time with Windows Me. While it's true there wasn't much of a reason to upgrade to XP, there wasn't really any reason not to in my opinion. It was not that bloated and it was basically the same as windows 2000 after a couple settings tweaks. Vista is not a nicer XP in any sense.
my mom put this update on my ipod but she has no idea how smart i am i just carry the dock around with me and plug my headphones straight into the line out
your on the spoke?
This upsets me too because:
1. I rarely leave the house, so I notice the phone ringing a lot.
2. I have no friends and nobody calls me for legitimate reasons.
3. I live with my parents who order stuff from catalogs, and I order stuff online. This is the number one demo for telemarketers you know.. old people who might actually buy stupid stuff.
More like the troll wakes up and pulls a long nasty knife out of his shabby clothes. He points the knife in your direction as he hisses, "Gold! Give me your gold!" The cyclops spits out a horrible assortment of syllables that you barely decipher as a demand for all your valuables. Am I right?
I think that might get /.'ed for real. I was the original AC, but this link expains it more like when I first saw it. Some help desk guy really got called because someone's computer had a snake in it.
I'll never get karma. =(
I've had my GB Player for a month now. I couldn't wait. =P But if Nintendo didn't make it, or I didn't already have a use for a Gamecube, I'd try the Xbox method.
I actually agree with what you said about GBA roms. The carts are so cheap and there's no region protection, so I don't understand why people need to pirate the roms. Especially after the Afterburner light, GBA SP, and now the GB Player.
I could see a real use for this PSX emu for Xbox. I had a blast playing Symphony of the Night again on Epsxe with improved graphics and fast load times. I'd love to do that again on with my bigger display TV and Xbox.
The idea of a Dreamcast emulator just bores me right now. It would be nice to see how it comes a long, but how practical would it be right now? The PSX games look much better when emulated on PC and Dreamcast, but most computers right now would struggle to play Dreamcast games even at a decent speed, let alone play them better in any way than the Dreamcast can already do by itself.
It might not be legal to use the Xbox dev kit without approval, but it's just too hard for people to sit around and wait for someone to develop there own bios and dev kit. Who knows how long it would take, and how far they will get with it. The way it's going, nobody will ever do it since it's so convenient just to use the MS utilities. I'm sure the people who port the open source emus to Xbox feel a little bad about it too, but it's just too tempting when the Xbox is a cheap bundle of good, TV-ready, PC-based gaming hardware, and the only easy way to access it is with illegal proprietary code.
I can relate to much of what he was saying, but it's not really fair to generalize the newest generation of the emulation scene as pirates. Many of them have just much respect for the game developers and buy the majority of their games, they just don't care so about stupid trivial stuff like whether their Xbox apps were created with authorized code or not.
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That's not entirely fair. The reason no one writes good emulators for Jaguar or Saturn is because those consoles failed miserably and not enough people care about them. Sure there's a bunch of good Japanese Saturn games, but who wants to play a game in a language you can't even understand? Not me. Dreamcasts are still very cheap and easy to find, and there's not going to be any improvement with the graphics for like 10-15 years, if ever. PSX emulation on Xbox has the potential for you to play PSX games on your TV with much better graphics, like with Bleem! for Dreamcast. I dumped my own Castlevania COTM cart just to play the game backlit with Visual Boy Advance. GBA emulation on Xbox will let you play games on your TV with a nice backlight, and bigger display. You still can't do this, unless you import the expensive Gameboy Player for Gamecube, or use a crappy TV out setup from a video card.
Even though it would be nice to respect the open source community, it's not really worth it to reinvent the wheel to port these things to the Xbox legally. This stuff does have the potential to be very useful, and not all of the new kids in the emulation scene are in it for piracy. Most of them probably buy many more games than your average video gamer.
Yeah, I knew he got 2 right, but I think that is the lowest score possible still. Here's the scores (200 and 200), and here's the number right on each section. So getting 2 right on math, and 0 right on verbal means you get a 200 for each? I think 200 is the lowest you can get on each test, and I've always heard talk of how you get 400 total points just for filling out your name and stuff correctly. So I guess you can afford to get a few right so long as you get enough wrong? You're right, he did fail to do what he had set out to do by not answering every single question incorrectly. For that he does deserve a big YOU FAIL IT!
Should be more like YOU DID IT! since he successfully passed with the lowest score possible.
There's a little more about service mode for Sony TV's here: http://209.145.176.7/~090/awh/sonyadj.html
It's not really 480p, but it does look much better when your TV concentrates all of it's pixels into the letterboxed area.
It works for all the DVD's I've tried with the exception of my bootleg Star Wars Trilogy set.
It also works for most every Xbox game so long as you enable widescreen via the dashboard. DOA3 looks way better in this mode.
For PS2 the only games I had that were supposed to work in 16:9 mode were GT3 and GTA3. GT3 looked awesome, but I couldn't get GTA3 to work. I think you have to enable it in the game for PS2 games.. that's how I got GT3 to work. If you're using a PS2 as your DVD player, you have to enable 16:9 mode via the DVD menu - the one that you access by hitting select while the movie is paused, NOT the menu when the PS2 starts up.
There's a small list for what game support widescreen mode here
I was really pleased to find this egg for my 1st generation 24" WEGA. The only thing that kind of sucks with this is while it works for most movies, and a lot of video games, many times the rest of the menus, game intros, movie trailers, and other DVD extras are squashed and don't look right.
I rip all my DVDs to WMV so none of you linux lusers can watch it.
The PS2 version is no longer in production and now it starts at $65.00 at > . I had it on my wishlist for 2002, and then after the holiday season, it must have sold out. The price started going up from $50.00. This game might become kind of rare, at least for the PS2. I like the PS2 version better than the not so rare Dreamcast version. It seems to have a better frame rate, and I like the dual vibration with the dual shock 2. (Vibration is a big part of this game's experience)
If any of you are into any kind of drugs at all, than you will LOVE this game. If you liked the movie Tron, than you will LOVE this game. I heard the developers guy got a lot of inspiration for this game from that movie.
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"Who's like us?"
"Damn few."
"And they're alll dead."